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Along with talking to people, much of the information, history & ideas presented on this site was found through reading books, journals, newssheets & etcetera. So, scroll on down & check out some of this fine literature listed below. There's books on the UK (right below), more good books on radical politics & culture in general, as well as good places to find them all. Be sure also to check out our index page for even more (yes, even more) stuff to read.

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Some Good Books on Radical Politics & Culture in the UK:

  • Copse: The Cartoon Book of Tree Protesting
    Kate Evans (London: Orange Dog Productions, 1998)

  • DiY Culture: Party & Protest in Nineties Britain
    George McKay, ed. (London: Verso, 1998)

  • Do or Die - Voices of the Ecological Resistance
    Issue #8 (current) & #9 (out soon) are both either £5 inside the UK or £6 anywhere else post-paid. Send pounds sterling only, please. Postal Orders, International Money Orders, & checks made out to 'Do or Die'. See their address
    here.

  • Gathering Force
    Elaine Brass & Sophie Poklewski Koziell
    (London: Big Issue, 1999)

  • Not For Rent: Conversations with Creative Activists in the UK
    Stacey Wakefield & Grrrt
    (Seattle: Evil Twin Productions, 1995)

  • SchNews Annuals
    SchNews puts out annual collections of their newsletter, & they're well worth seeing.
    Order them direct from their website

  • Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance Since the Sixties
    George McKay (London: Verso, 1996)

  • Squaring Up to the Square Mile
    Corporate Watch and London RTS
    (London: J18 Publications UK, 1999)

  • This Land is Our Land: The Struggle for Britain's Countryside
    Marion Shoard (London: Gaia Books, 1997)

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Even More Good Books (it's all related...):

  • Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature & Knowledge
    Vandana Shiva (Boston: South End Press, 1997)
  • Dark Victory: The U.S. & Global Poverty (2nd ed.)
    Walden Bello (San Francisco, CA: Food First Books, 1999)
  • Earth First Direct Action Manual
    DAM Collective (Eugene, OR: Feral Press, 1997)
  • Globalization of Poverty: Impacts of IMF & World Bank Reforms
    Michel Chossudovsky (London: Zed Books, 1995)
  • Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968
    George Katsiaficas (MA: South End Press, 1987)
  • Political Protest & Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1970s & 1980s
    Barbara Epstein (CA: University of CA, 1991)
  • Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
    Vandana Shiva (Boston: South End, 1999)
  • Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Movements & the Decolonization of Everyday Life
    George Katsiaficas (NJ: Humanities, 1997)

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Good Places to Get Books & more info:
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Left Bank Books Collective
92 Pike Street
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 622-0195
email:
leftbank@leftbankbooks.com

Wooden Shoe Books & Records
508 South 5th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19147
(215) 413-0999
email:
woodenshoe@rocketmail.com

Reading Frenzy
921 Southwest Oak St.
Portland, OR 97205
(503) 274-1449
email:
general@readingfrenzy.com

Food for Thought Books
106 North Pleasant St.
Amherst, MA 01002
(413) 253-5432
email:
info@foodforthoughtbooks.com

Bound Together Books
1369 Haight St.
San Francisco, CA 94117
(510) 893-4648
(no website or email - here's some info on the
anarchist bookfair they sponsor every year)

Freedom Press
84b Whitechapel High Street
London W1 UK
email:
freedom@ecn.org

Autonomedia
PO Box 568 Williamsburgh Station
Brooklyn, NY 11211-0568
(718) 968-2603
email:
info@autonomedia.org

South End Press
7 Brookline St. #1
Cambridge, MA 02139-4146
(617) 547-4002
email:
southend@igc.org

Zed Books

Verso Books

Food First Books

Pluto Books

 

 

 

 

 

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