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SchNews at Ten
SchNews
Publisher: SchNews
Paperback: 320 pages
ISBN-10: 0952974886
ISBN-13: 9780952974888
Price: £5.00 in the UK. Go
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SchNEWS has been publishing continuous weekly newsheets full of radical get-off-your-arse direct action politics from Britain and across the world for the last thirteen years. This book brings together some of the key stories - from the big roads protests and anti-Criminal Justice Act movement in the nineties through to the global anti-capitalist movement and opposition to the war in Iraq. From Newbury to Seattle, Liverpool Dockers to the Zapatistas - with a lot of the less well known, but equally important moments in between.
Direct Action
Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla
Ann Hansen
Publisher: AK Press
Paperback: 512 pages
ISBN-10: 1902593480
ISBN-13: 9781902593487
Price: £16.00 in the UK. Go
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From its origins in the Canadian anarchist and counter-cultural milieu of the late 70s/early 80s; to going underground into a clandestine life of arms drills, explosive practice, stealing cars, and (failed) armored car heists; to the massive reaction and surveillance of a State that felt (understandably) very much under attack; to the subsequent "trial by media" of those involved—this is very real, incredible revolutionary "true-crime" tale of unrepentant action.
Four hundred and eighty pages of fast-paced narrative are topped off with Communiqués issued for all the actions and Ann Hansen's "Statement To The Court Before Sentencing."
A triumph of storytelling, history, and a very real debate about movement tactics, goals, and vision.
The Way the Wind Blew
A History of the Weather Underground
Ron Jacobs
Publisher: Verso
Paperback: 216 pages
ISBN-10: 1859841678
ISBN-13: 9781859841679
Price: £11.00 in the UK. Go
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Bombing its way into the headlines of the early 1970s the Weather Underground was one of the most dramatic symbols of the anger felt by young Americans opposed to the US presence in Vietnam. Mauled in street battles with the Chicago police during the Days of Rage demonstrations, Weather concluded that traditional political protest was insufficient to end the war. They turned instead to underground guerrilla combat.
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