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Partisanas: Women in the Armed Resistance to Fascism and German Occupation (1936–1945) - Paul Sharkey (Translator), Martha A. Ackelsberg (Introduction by), and Ingrid Strobl
Common perception of women during wartime relegates them to the sidelines of history—working in munitions factories, or waiting for their men to return. The truth is that much of the resistance to fascism should be chalked up to the people whom official accounts have nothing to say. Partisanas excavates the history of women who planted bombs, shouldered guns, and were among the most active parti...
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Move Into the Light: Postscript to a Turbulent 2007 - Turbulence Collective
Whether it's the G8 summit at Heiligendamm or experiments in Latin
America, the politics of climate change or uprisings in the French
banlieues, questions of visibility and illumination crop up again and again. But our experiences create their own luminosity, and their own areas of darkness. How can we overcome our night-blindness once we move beyond the familiar?
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Behind The Mask: The Story Of The People Who Risk Everything To Save Animals - Steven Best (Contributor), Ingrid Newkirk (Contributor), Shannon Keith (Director), Ramy Hassan (Producer), Sandra Mohr (Editor), and Rod Coronado (Contributor)
Animal Rights activist lawyer goes "behind the mask" in this fascinating documentary, exploring the history, and current activities of the Animal Liberation Front, and associated illegal animal liberation activities. She mixes never-before-seen underground footage of liberation, with interviews with the likes of Keith Mann, Rod Coronado, John Feldmann, John Curtin, Ingrid Newkirk, Kevin Jonas, Melanie Arnol...
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Upping The Anti: A Journal Of Theory And Action
An excellent attempt to engage, address, and discuss the unresolved questions and dynamics within the struggles of anti-capitalism, anti-oppression, and anti-imperialism - while moving beyond the party building of the sectarian left, and the dead end of social democracy. The debut issue comes out strong, with lengthy interviews with Grace Lee Boggs and Ward Churchill; an extended essay on autonomist Marxism;...
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Young, Jewish and Left - Konnie Chameides (Director) and Irit Reinheimer (Director)
A celebration of diversity, Young Jewish and Left weaves queer culture, Jewish Arab history, secular Yiddishkeit, antiracist analysis, and religious/spiritual traditions into a multilayered tapestry of Leftist politics. Personal experiences from many of today's leading Jewish activists reframe the possibilities of Jewish identity. It presents a fresh and constructive take on race, spirituality, Zionis...
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Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village - William Hinton and Fred Magdoff (Preface by)
More than forty years after its initial publication, Fanshen remains the essential volume for those interested in China's revolutionary process of rural reform and social change. William Hinton's pioneering work is a marvelous and revealing look into life in the Chinese countryside, where tradition and modernity have had both a complementary and caustic relationship since the Chinese Communist Party f...
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Bakunin: The Creative Passion - Mark Leier
"The passion for destruction is a creative passion," wrote the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin in 1842. Since then, the popular image of anarchism has been one of violence and terror. But this picture is wildly misleading, and the media has done more to obscure anarchism than to explain it. Focusing on the street fighting and confrontations with police, mainstream commentators are unable to understand what anarchi...
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The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Strike of 1914–1915: Espionage, Labor Conflict, and New South Industrial Relations - Gary M. Fink
Mill operatives walked off their jobs at Atlanta's Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills complex in the spring of 1914, initiating a strike that involved not only the class conflict inherent in a labor-management dispute, but also ethnic confrontation, gender divisions, social and economic reforms, regional and sectional differences, and the textile industry's rendition of the gospel of efficiency.

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A Tale of Three Cities: Labor Organization and Protest in Paterson, Passaic, and Lawrence, 1916–1921 - David Goldberg
"A substantial contribution to our knowledge of American labor history... Goldberg graphically illuminates the failure of industrial unionism in the textile industry." -Victor Green, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

A Tale of Three Cities traces the efforts of textile workers in Paterson and Passaic, New Jersey, and Lawrence, Massachusetts, to organize a permanent industrial union during the...
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Mostly True: The Story Of Bozo Texino - Bill Daniel
It's possible Bill Daniel is the most inspiring filmmaker of our day. With
an impressive filmography that includes work on Craig Baldwin's Sonic Outlaws and Spectres Of The Spectrum and as Vanessa Renwick's long-time collaborator, Daniel has crafted a remarkable first feature with his twenty-years-in-the-making Who Is Bozo Texino? a documentary about modern day hoboes, rail workers an...
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