Obituaries – The Hippies Now Wear Black

Category: Obituaries

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Why We Fight: An Interview with Shane Burley April 21, 2021
We’re very excited to have just released Shane Burley’s Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse, an essential book for mapping the past, present, and future of resistance in this country. We asked Shane a few questions about the book (and beyond). See what he has to say, and then get […]
Armed Agitation! An excerpt from “Salvador Puig Antich: Collected Writings on Repression and Resistance in Franco’s Spain” February 24, 2021
We recently published Salvador Puig Antich: Collected Writings on Repression and Resistance in Franco’s Spain, a book we’re very proud to have helped bring into the world. It uses the life and writings of Salvador Puig Antich as a doorway into an entire forgotten history of resistance to the authoritarian state. This uncovering in itself—the […]
Building Strength through Movement and Afrofuturism February 8, 2021
Over on her Instagram page, Ruby Smith Díaz suggested that her dialogue with Nora Samaran in Turn This World Inside Out would be a good read for Black History Month. She’s right! So we’ve excerpted it below. As Ruby puts it: the exchange is about “Blackness, Afro-futurism and reclaiming autonomy over our bodies through movement […]
INSURRECTION: The Bloody Events of May 1937 in Barcelona (Excerpts) November 18, 2020
Our latest book by Agustín Guillamón is out: Insurrection: The Bloody Events of May 1937 in Barcelona. Like all of Agustín’s books, it is based on a ton of documentary evidence, including interviews and letters with some of the main players. And, again like previous books, it forces us to reconsider and rethink some of our […]
Excerpt and Table of Contents from A COMMUNISM OF LOVE, by Richard Gilman-Opalsky November 10, 2020
Richard Gilman-Opalsky’s new book, The Communism of Love: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Exchange Value, is nearing it’s release date. Below is an excerpt, followed by the table of contents. You can also order a copy (at 25% off) here. INTRODUCTION This book is about the communism of love. It is, in other words, […]

The Hippies Now Wear Black

The anarcho-punk movement in the UK, 1977-1984

Category: Obituaries

Dave King, designer of the “Crass symbol”, 1948-2019

Lance d’Boyle (1940-2017): “The war isn’t over yet”

Vi Subversa and Poison Girls: an appreciation