PB | ISBN: 9781604868265 | $12.95

Songs of Freedom is a celebration of the life and work of James Connolly, the Irish revolutionary socialist martyred by the British government for his role in the Easter Rising of 1916. It is at once a collection of stirring revolutionary songs and a vital historical document. For the first time in a hundred years, readers will find Connolly's original Songs of Freedom as well as the 1919 Connolly Souvenir program published in Dublin for a concert commemorating Connolly's birth. Both are reproduced exactly as they originally appeared, providing a fascinating glimpse of the workers' struggle at the beginning of the last century. To complete the picture is included the James Connolly Songbook of 1972, which contains not only the most complete selection of Connolly's lyrics, but also historical background essential to understanding the context in which the songs were written and performed.

Also available is the Songs of Freedom CD of Connolly's songs performed by The James Connolly Songs of Freedom Band. Songs of Freedom accomplishes the difficult task of making contemporary music out of old revolutionary songs. Giving expression to Connolly's internationalism, musical influences ranging from traditional Irish airs to American rhythm and blues are combined here in refreshing creativity.

by Iain McIntyre with forewords by Andrew Hansen and Josh MacPhee

PB | ISBN: 9781604865950 | $24.95

This book reveals Australia's radical past through more than 500 tales of Indigenous resistance, convict revolts and escapes, picket line hijinks, student occupations, creative direct action, street art, media pranks, urban interventions, squatting, blockades, banner drops, guerilla theatre, and billboard liberation. Twelve key Australian activists and pranksters are interviewed regarding their opposition to racism, nuclear power, war, economic exploitation, and religious conservatism via humor and creativity. Featuring more than 300 spectacular images How to Make Trouble and Influence People is an inspiring, and at times hilarious, record of resistance that will appeal to readers everywhere.

by Norman Nawrocki

PB | ISBN: 9781604863154 | $18.00

Cazzarola! is an epic novel spanning 130 years in the life of the Discordias, a fictional family of Italian anarchists. It details the family's heroic, multigenerational resistance to fascism in Italy and their ongoing involvement in the anarchist movement. From early 20th-century factory strikes and occupations, armed anarchist militias, and attempts on Mussolini's life, to postwar student and labor protest, and confronting the newest wave of contemporary neofascist violence sweeping Europe, the Discordias navigate the decades of political, economic, and social turmoil. Against this historical backdrop, Antonio falls in love with Cinka, a proud but poverty-stricken Romani refugee from the "unwanted people," without a country or home, forced to flee again and again searching for peace. Theirs becomes a life-changing and forbidden relationship. Both are forced to reevaluate their lives and contend with cultural taboos, xenophobia, and the violent persecution of Romani refugees in Italy today.

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The common strategy of these early essays----which extends throughout Federici's work----is one of accounting: by recasting all the social activities women perform as "work," Federici economizes them to the point of logical extremity. The point isn't actually to put a price on perfunctory marital sex, or to max out categories of value so that their utility disintegrates; it's to illuminate how supposedly noncapitalist activities shore up the economic system that structures and controls so much of our lives.

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Through judicious footnoting and brief contextual overviews at the beginning of each section, All Power to the Councils! deftly conveys the complex, and often overlapping political allegiances that characterized post-war radicalism in Germany. Its stress on the multiple strands of political dissent that defined the radical terrain in Germany is an important challenge to the dominant historical treatments, and it makes an important contribution by making the words of those involved in the Revolution available in English for the first time.

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The book's real strength comes from author Stevie Chick's use of research and his ability to place Black Flag's story in a wider context. Whether he's writing about surf culture, skate culture, or the history of garage rock, Chick does so with authority, and he braids these loose asides beautifully into the "facts" of Black Flag's history. It seems obvious that a writer should do this, but too many don't, and Chick deserves praise for pulling it off so well.

SF Zine Fest is a free, annual two-day conference for independent and underground publishing. Exhibitors come from all over the West Coast, and while the focus is on zines, all walks of DIY life are represented: comics, arts and crafts, literary presses, and more.

Join Peter Kuper for a month-long show at the Society of Illustrators Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Gallery between September 3rd and October 5th, with reception on September 25th, to celebrate his new PM Press release Drawn to New York: An Illustrated Chronicle of Three Decades in New York City.

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The Victoria Anarchist Bookfair is for anarchists and non-anarchists, with participants from all over North America and beyond and includes workshops on a wide range of topics. Our theme this year is Eco-Defense. We aim to highlight various environmental threats and the resistance movements that have formed against them.

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Join PM Press at the 16th Annual Petaluma Progressive Festival, a free event that provides the opportunity to meet representatives from many social justice, environmental, labor, and other community organizations. Co-hosted by The Petaluma Progressives and Occupy Petaluma.

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