This booklet analyzes the tactics and strategies employed by the Zapatistas, and in particular Marcos, to court the diverse sectors which constitute Mexican civil society and to maximize their international profile. The Zapatistas have shown us how the dangerous tiger that is the media can in fact be to some extent tamed, mounted and ridden in the direction one wants, by a highly astute left-wing guerilla movement. How have the Zapatistas, as opposed to some of the 30 other armed struggle indigenous groups in Mexico, managed to consistently grab the media spotlight, and become a worldwide symbol of opposition to Neo-Liberalism and the spread of global capitalism.

Broadening The Struggle And Winning The Media War: 'Marcos Mystique,' Guerilla Chic, And Zapatista PR

History

Nicholas Henck

Military

Kersplebedeb

Reprint of the classic collection of liberation articles for kids. From theory, to motherhood, to school, to resistance, and beyond. A vital introduction to a largely ignored topic.

As Soon As You're Born They Make You Feel Small: Self Determination For Children

Parenting & Relationships

ANONYMOUS

Parenting

A groundbreaking introduction (first published in 1975) to anarchism, feminism, the women's movement, and how they are, and ought to be, intertwined. Includes a brief bibliography of anarcho-feminist writings.

Anarchism: The Feminist Connection

Politics & Social Sciences

Peggy Kornegger

Politics & Government

A collection of essays, most from the 80s, but with one 'post-Iraq', looking at how, in a man's world, women can make revolutionary change. "Now in this exploration, we are moving onto the ground of meta-politics. Wild, vast and more primal than the little fenced-in suburban plots of what amerikkka calls 'politics'. From the rape bordellos of the Balkans to the mass murder by AIDS in Afrika, women are being pushed to understand men's society and, most importantly, ourselves, in a different way. The longest Amazon journey begins today."

The Military Strategy of Women and Children

Lee, Butch

Sociology

Sixteen postcards featuring artwork by Zolo Agona Azania, a New Afrikan political prisoner who has spent 23 years on death row, and this despite having forced the State to admit to racist improprieties in his trial and and having his sentence overturned not once but twice - despite a judge ruling in May 2005 that the State should not be allowed to pursue the death penalty a third time as this would constitute a clear violation of Azania's rights, the prosecution is appealing, shamelessly pulling out all the stops to kill this man! As well as containing sixteen postcards by Azania, this booklet includes information about his case and current situation. Funds from the sale of this booklet are used for his support campaign.

Hope Breathing Life: Postcards for Liberation

Zolo Agona Azania

Social Sciences

In 1970 a small group of West German revolutionaries decided to go underground, to set up safe houses, and learn the skills of the urban guerilla. They were the Red Army Faction. Seven years later, almost all of the original combatants were in prison or dead, yet, through their example, they had inspired a militant and illegal support movement, comrades willing to take up arms in defense of the prisoners. 1977 was to be a year of reckoning. Through daring attacks and devastating errors, the West German guerilla brought their society to the brink, mounting one of the most desperate and incredible campaigns of asymmetrical warfare ever waged in postwar Europe. That they failed is no excuse to not learn their story, to see who they were and what they fought for – and, most tragically, to bear witness to the lengths the state would go to silence them. This pamphlet is our very modest introduction to this story.

Daring to Struggle, Failing to Win: The Red Army Faction's 1977 Campaign of Desperation (PM Pamphlet)

Smith, J.

Moncourt, André

Europe

The first in a two-volume series, as part of a co-publishing project between PM Press and Kersplebedeb, is by far the most in-depth political history of the Red Army Faction ever made available in English. Projectiles for the People starts its story in the days following World War II, showing how American imperialism worked hand in glove with the old pro-Nazi ruling class, shaping West Germany into an authoritarian anti-communist bulwark and launching pad for its aggression against Third World nations. The volume also recounts the opposition that emerged from intellectuals, communists, independent leftists, and then – explosively – the radical student movement and countercultural revolt of the 1960s. It was from this revolt that the Red Army Faction emerged, an underground organization devoted to carrying out armed attacks within the Federal Republic of Germany, in the view of establishing a tradition of illegal, guerilla resistance to imperialism and state repression. Through its bombs and manifestos the RAF confronted the state with opposition at a level many activists today might find difficult to imagine. For the first time ever in English, this volume presents all of the manifestos and communiqués issued by the RAF between 1970 and 1977, from Andreas Baader’s prison break, through the 1972 May Offensive and the 1974 hostage-taking in Stockholm, to the desperate, and tragic, events of the “German Autumn” of 1977. The RAF’s three main manifestos – The Urban Guerilla Concept, Serve the People, and Black September – are included, as are important interviews with Spiegel and le Monde Diplomatique, and a number of communiqués and court statements explaining their actions. Providing the background information that readers will require to understand the context in which these events occurred, separate thematic sections deal with the 1976 murder of Ulrike Meinhof in prison, the 1977 Stammheim murders, the extensive use of psychological operations and false-flag attacks to discredit the guerilla, the state’s use of sensory deprivation torture and isolation wings, and the prisoners’ resistance to this, through which they inspired their own supporters and others on the left to take the plunge into revolutionary action. Drawing on both mainstream and movement sources, this book is intended as a contribution to the comrades of today – and to the comrades of tomorrow – both as testimony to those who struggled before and as an explanation as to how they saw the world, why they made the choices they made, and the price they were made to pay for having done so. With a preface by North American class war prisoner Bill Dunne, a revolutionary captured in 1979 following a shoot out with police in Seattle, Washington.

The Red Army Faction, a Documentary History: Volume 1: Projectiles for the People (1) (Kerseplebedeb)

J. Smith

Andre Moncourt

An interview with J Sakai, author of Settlers: The Mythology Of the White Proletariat, together with 'The Continuing Appeal Of Anti-Imperialism' by the late New Afrikan anarchist Kuwasi Balagoon.

When Race Burns Class: Settlers Revisited

J. Sakai

80 pages of crucial revisionist history, firmly rerooting Harriet Tubman in the context of patriarchy, race, class, and armed struggle. A fascinating, and much needed examination of the woman and her times. Her juxtaposition vis a vis the pro-American patriarch John Brown in particular is a great read. At a time when violence against women of color is at the center of world politics, uncovering the censored story of one Amazon points to answers that have nothing to do with government programs, police, or patriarchal politics.

Jailbreak Out of History: The Re-Biography of Harriet Tubman

Biographies & Memoirs

Butch Lee

Community & Culture

'This exercise is about more than our desire to read and understand Wretched (as if it were about some abstract world, and not our own); it's about more than our need to understand (the failures of) the anti-colonial struggles on the African continent. This exercise is also about us, and about some of the things that We need to understand and to change in ourselves and our world.'-James Yaki Sayles One of those who eagerly picked up Fanon in the 60s, who carried out armed expropriations and violence against white settlers, Sayles reveals how, behind the image of Fanon as race thinker, there is an underlying reality of antiracist communist thought.

Meditations on Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth

Literature & Fiction

James Yaki Sayles

History & Criticism

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