Bookshop

 Over the past few months I've taken a few steps forward into the world of publishing, mainly translation and non-fiction work. This page is essentially a storefront, with samples and links to the works. Any income generated from these goes into a fund I have for purchasing out of print books for scanning and transcription. Sadly, the prices have been creeping up over the years, and I'm no longer in a position to fund acquiring them out of my wages.

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On Offence and Defence: A Speech on War & Revolution

 A translation of a speech by Wilhelm Liebknecht a prominent Socialist leader in 19th century Germany. The contents of the speech are an attack on nationalism, militarism and capitalist morality and an appeal for international brotherhood and social revolution. It covers and criticizes early industrial capitalism and Bourgeois society for its failures to solve social issues and argues coherently that on the contrary they are often the root causes of these problems, from poverty to political violence.

e-book link

 Online version.

Milicianas, Soldaderas, Petroleuses and the Yellow Mimosa: A Brief History of Female Revolutionaries

 A short introduction to the exploits of several women who took up arms to defend their communities and build a better world for all. Covers some key individual women, including the Communard Louise Michel and the Ortega sisters. Covers women participating in combat in many struggles from the French Revolution to the Cold War conflicts in Central America in the 1980s.

E-book link 

 Also, available in paperback

Is Socialism Being Built in the Soviet Union?: A debate between three revolutionaries

 

English translation of Ĉu socialismo konstruiĝas en soveto? by Eugene Lanti and his comrade M. Ivon. The text is an early exploration of the still young Stalin regime and the development of the Soviet economy and society eighteen years after the Revolution. The work was based on Lanti's own experiences with the Soviet Union and its government as well as over a decade of correspondence with hundreds of Soviet citizens who had contacted him to discuss events and support his work in international solidarity as the head of the World Anational Association (Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda) a workers association that uses Esperanto to communicate and link workers all over the world.

Originally published in 1935 this is one of the early works to bring attention to some alarming features of Soviet rule and its experiments in building a "socialist" society. It covers many topics and had some predictions for the future and the approaching international conflicts. 

e-book link

Also, available in paperback

 Online version.

 

The Forerunners of Anarchism

  

An English translation of the French Individual Anarchist Emile Armand's Les précurseurs de l’anarchisme a philosophical history of Anarchist thought from the philosophers of Antiquity to the thinkers of the Industrial Revolution.

The book traces the evolution of thought and belief in liberty from Ancient Greek philosophers through dissident Christian movements and Enlightenment thinkers and the impact of the 18th century revolutions in France and America.

 e-book link 

Online version.

 

 

Darker Phases of the South

 Darker Phases of the South was Frank Tannenbaum's attempt to grapple with the totality of Southern society from its roots. It tackles the rise of the KKK and explains how such an institution could exist and thrive into the 20th century, the economic foundations of the South from cotton crops to land ownership and working conditions in its many Mill towns, and also the deplorable state of its prisons and shocking treatment of its prison populations. Finally, Tannenbaum attempts to promote a way forward for the South that would end these injustices and build if not a Utopia than a better society with less racial and social friction.

 e-book link

Also available in paperback

Note, this book is a re-issuing of a public domain and increasingly rare text and is only available in territories where the copyright has expired. 

 

The Pyramid of Tyranny

e-book link, also available in paperback
Online version.

 

An English translation of F. Domela Nieuwenhuis's essay De piramide der tirannie (The Pyramid of Tyranny). The essay is an early attempt to grapple with and expose the systems of power within class society and how the people might one day disrupt and overcome this system of oppression. Though written over a hundred years ago, the society it critiques and attacks is still very much with us today. This means that aside from some cultural references, the work remains fresh and revealing.

The Libertarian Society: A translation from the French Workers Movement

 

e-book link, also available in paperback.

Online version.

Translation of the 1926 pamphlet advocating for a new society based on the principles of Libertarian Communism. The original author George Bastien was a lifelong union militant and Anarchist activist who spent many years fighting the class struggle in France and abroad. Libertarian Society was his answer to the sceptics who accused revolutionaries of being nothing more than violent destroyers and shows us how a potential new society could be built on the principles of solidarity, equality, liberty and mutual aid.

 

 

The labor movement: its conservative functions and social consequences

 e-book link, also available in paperback.

Frank Tannenbaum's examination of the labor movement and its social-political impact. Weighs up the strengths and weaknesses of the Socialist Party, the American Federation of Labor and the Industrial Workers of the World methods of organising and the impact they have on the working class and wider society.

 

Robert Owen, Idealist

 

E-book link,

An introduction and evaluation of the Socialist and Co-operative ideas of Robert Owen, possibly the most influential of Britain's 19th century reformers and political advocates.  Written by C.E.M. Joad for the Fabian Society in 1917.