Book Reviews
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Suffled How It Gush: A North American Anarchist in the Balkans
Suffled How It Gush is so beautiful it may as well be a novel. The confident, fast-paced prose is history, politics, memoir, travel guide, and a call to action all in one—and all seeping with deep humanity. Shon Meckfessel takes us along on his trips backpacking through the Balkans and ex-Yugoslavia one country at a time, from Slovenia and Croatia through Romania and Albania. As...
Bicycle Diaries
"David Byrne: singer, artist, composer, director, Talking Head." I'm quoting the bartender Moe Szyslak from "The Simpsons" here, from an episode in which Byrne appeared. One could also add photographer, author, designer and, since the early 1980s, serious bicyclist. At first he just rode in downtown Manhattan, but as his career has taken him around the world he's packed his full-size folding...
Durruti in the Spanish Revolution
First up, this is one big book, albeit slightly misleading in its title, as the section detailing Durruti's involvement in the Revolution proper (from July 1936) takes up less than half the book - although one could equally argue that he spent his entire adult life fighting for the revolution in Spain (and elsewhere.) The story of the various editions of this book is covered in detail in the...
Granny Made Me An Anarchist: General Franco, The Angry Brigade and Me by Stuart Christie
“Anarchists don’t seek political power, only moral authority. Nor do they plot to bring down democratic governments through aimless acts of malicious, visceral hatred; but they do seek to sideline them as much as possible by empowering people through education, example, and by fashioning events wherever possible to promote the general principles of mutual aid and...
George Orwell At Home (and Among the Anarchists)
"If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the anarchists."(Extract letter, October 1937 written by George Orwell to his friend Jack Common). "Spanish anarchism shaded off into Utopianism at one end and sheer banditry at the other."(Observer 10th Nov 1946). George Orwell (nee Eric Blair) is best known for his seminal works, Animal Farm and...
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