September | 2014 | Problems worthy

This month I received:

Abolish Work: “Abolish Restaurants” plus “Work, Community, Politics, War,” by prole.info, co-published with Thought Crime Ink. prole.info’s stuff is probably best summed up as accessible, intense class theory with starkly beautiful illustrations. Even when I don’t agree with their analysis, I’m always impressed with what they put out. I’m not a huge fan of Abolish Restaurants, but I’m glad that the discussion is happening.
Blood Lake, by Kenneth Wishnia. This is the fifth, and as of yet, final book in his Filomena Buscarsela mystery series, though I am holding out hope for more. If the previous books are anything to go on, this will almost having me wishing that my commute was longer so that I could keep reading.
Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk, 1980- 1984, by Ian Glasper. This book is split into chapters by region, and then within each chapter, broken down by individual bands. It is long and the print is tiny.
Who’s Afraid of the Black Blocs?: Anarchy in Action Around the World, by Francis Dupis-Déri, translated by Lazer Lederhendler. Originally published as Les Black Blocs. La liberté st l’égalité se manifestent by Montréal’s Lux Éditeur in 2007, with the first English language edition coming from Between the Lines in Toronto last year. This is currently the definitive book on looking past the “smashy smashy” and into the theory and history of the black bloc.

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Last month I received:

Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective, second edition, by Scott Crow, with forewords by Kathleen Cleaver and John P. Clark (the latter is new to the second edition). Here is a written review of the first edition from Center for a Stateless Society and a promo video for the first edition.
Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, The Early Years, by Alex Ogg, with artwork by Winston Smith and photographs by Ruby Ray.
The System, by Peter Kuper, with an introduction by Calvin Reid. This book is gourgeous. not just the art inside, but the book itself. I have already “read” (since there are no words) some of it, and it is exactly the kind of story about people in a city and the world that I have come to expect from Kuper. Even the blurb from Luc Sante on the back is amazing.
Turning Money into Rebellion: The Unlikely Story of Denmark’s Revolutionary Bank Robbers, edited and translated by Gabriel Kuhn. Original German by Klaus Viehmann. Co-published with Kersplebedeb. This book is about the Blekingegade Group and includes historical documents and interviews with two of the groups long-time members.

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Problems worthy