BOOKCHIN, Murray
Social Anarchism Or Lifestyle Anarchism

£5.95
pb.1 873176 83 X.96
An Unbridgable Chasm?
anarchism/politics
December 95

This book asks - and attempts to answer - several basic questions that affect all Leftists today. Will anarchism remain a revolutionary social movement or become a chic boutique lifestyle subculture? Will its primary goals be the complete transformation of a hierarchical, class, and irrational society into a libertarian communist one? Or will it become an ideology focused on personal well-being, spiritual redemption, and self-realisation within the existing society?

In an era of privatism, kicks, introversion, and postmodernist nihilism, Murray Bookchin forcefully examines the growing nihilsitic trends that threaten to undermine the revolutionary tradition of anarchism and co-opt its fragments into a harmless personalistic, yuppie ideology of social accomodation that presents no threat to the existing powers-that-be. This small book, tightly reasoned and documented, should be of interest to all radicals in the "postmodern age" - socialists as well as anarchists, for whom the Left seems in hopeless dissaray.


BIEHL, Janet & STAUDENMAIER, Peter
Eco-Fascism

£4.95
pb.1 873176 73 2.80
Lessons from the German Experience
ecology/fascism/history/politics
December 95

Eco-Fascism: Lessons from the German Experience brings together two essays: 'Fascist Ideology: The Green Wing of the Nazi Party and its Historical Antecendents' by Peter Staudenmaier and 'Ecology and the Modernization of Fascism in the German Ultra-Right' by Janet Biehl.

"Taken together, these essays examine aspects of German fascism, past and present, in order to draw lessons from them for ecology movements both in Germany and elsewhere."

From the Introduction

Janet Biehl is a social ecology activist and the author of Rethinking Eco-feminist Politics.
Peter Staudenmaier is a green activist.



EHRILICH, Howard (ed)
Re-inventing Anarchy, Again

£17.95
pb.1 873176 88 0.432
anarchism/politics
December 95

An updated and expanded edition with a new introduction by the editor. Re-Inventing Anarchy, Again is an anthology of contemporary anarchism, both theory and practice.

Themes covered include: Contributors include amongst others:



MELTZER, Albert
I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels

£13.95
pb.1 873176 93 7.400
autobiography/anarchism/history
b/w photographs & woodcuts
January 1996

Albert Meltzer (born 1920) has been actively involved in class struggle as a convinced anarchist since the age of 15. In telling the story of an ordinary person involved in the class struggle, he has inevitably told the story of the contemporary development of anarchism in Britain and other countries where he was involved, notably Spain.

Respected by many for his indefatigable commitment to the fight for a free society, he has never concealed his contempt for dogmatic Marxists or trendy pseudo-anarchists. His story tells of many struggles including the full story for the first time of the Anglo-Spanish co-operation in the post-Civil War struggle against Franco, and provides interesting sidelights on the miners' and printers' strikes, the so-called Angry Brigade activities, the Cairo Mutiny and wartime German anti-Nazi resistance, all of which have crowded out not only his story, but his life too.

"Albert Meltzer has been described variously, in books ranging from a biography of the actor Sir Lawrence Olivier to that of Buenaventura Durruti, as a 'trade union official', 'boxer', 'professor', and 'auto-destructive artist'. Could anyone believe all to be the same man? As a matter of fact they aren't..."

Anarchist Press Review

"A self-educated and arrogant person who thinks he knows more than I do"

George Woodcock "The doyen of the British anarchist movement"

Special Branch


"A young hooligan. A rascal who knows nothing of anarchism or syndicalism"

Emma Goldman


"An unreliable soldier to have in camp. A barrack room lawyer"

Stakehill Military Detention report to unit


"A gentle and generous soul who is one of the leading figures in British anarchism"

Duncan Campbell


HOME, Stewart (ed)
What Is Situationism?

£9.95
pb . 1 873176 13 9 . 208
A Reader
Situationism/politics/art
February 1996

The first critical anthology of essays about the Situationist International.

Contributors include among others:

Sadie Plant - author of The Most Radical Gesture: The Situaltionist International in a Post-modern Age.

Chris Grey - member of the British section of the Situationist International and editor of Leaving the Twentieth Century.

Bob Black - anarchist and author of The Abolition of Work.

Alistair Bonnett - lecturer at Newcastle University, writing about situationism and geography.

Stewart Home - novelist and author of The Assault on Culture: Utopian Currents from Lettrisme to Class War and Neoism, Plagiarism & Praxis.

Jean Barrot - French ultra-leftist.

George Robertson - writing on the influence of situationism on British culture.


CHOMSKY, Noam
Class War.

£11.99
CD . 1 873176 27 9
60 minutes
The Attack on Working People
labour/current affairs
February 1996

Recorded live at MIT on May 9th 1995 Class War is a lecture by Noam Chomsky and includes questions and answers on the Oklahoma bombing.

Class War is a searing expose of the very real class war that has always been going on in America, and is waged quite openly by those in power.

"In countries where unions are weak, like ours, we tend to find what's called 'tough love', as they call it these days, which means love for the privileged and tough for anybody else. We find what we might call, if we were honest, the really existing doctrine of free markets, that means market discipline for the poor and the defenceless, but plenty of protection and subsidy for those who really need it, the rich and the powerful."

"People overwhelmingly believe that working people ought to have more influence, that they don't have enough, that the government ought to help poor people. That's its job. People are overwhelmingly opposed to things like budget balancing if, for example, its going to cut down educational or health expenditures... It doesn't matter. It's irrelevant to policy because they do what they like. But it's a situation in which the opportunities for organising and rebuilding a democratic culture are very very high. It can be done, but it's certainly not going to happen by itself. It's going to take the same kind of energy and activism that it's taken to lift us out of feudalism and slavery and every other horror in the past".

(From the lecture.)