[Wamvan] Fwd: [Spartacus-supporters] Spartacus Books May Newsletter !

[Tami Starlight]

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Date: Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:01 PMSubject: [Spartacus-supporters] Spartacus
Books May Newsletter !
To: spartacus-supporters at lists.resist.ca


MAY ! Finally ! The daffodils are out and the everything is less wet.
Except that the orange wave got followed by a blue wave - its a year
full of waves (the wave of middle-east revolutions was refreshing -
watering down the american control in the region). But yeah, with this
kind of Prime Minister and majority, we'll have to do quite a bit of
"political draining" to not get drowned like rats. Good news, we have
books about that ! (and also, its your store ; so just drop by if we
forgot one new book we should have ordered !)

Yours in social insurgency until total freedom, Spartacus Books !

Oppose and Propose - Andrew Cornell - 13
Where do the tactics, strategies, and lifestyles of today's activists
come from? Many ways of doing radical politics pioneered by Movement for
a New Society in the 1970s and 1980s have become central to
anti-authoritarian social movements: consensus decision making,
spokescouncils, communal living, unlearning oppressive behavior, and
co-operatively owned businesses. Andrew Cornell's important contribution
to US political history uses this story to raise crucial questions for
activists today. 'Oppose and Propose' is an engaging and accessible
study, every page offers new insights.

Provo: Amsterdam Anarchist Revolt - Richard Kempton - 15
Provo staged political and cultural interventions into the symbolic and
everyday spaces of Holland from 1962–1967. In this first book-length
English-language study of their history, Richard Kempton narrates the
rise and fall of Provo from early Dutch “happenings” staged in 1962 to
the “Death of Provo” in 1967. He chronicles Robert Jasper Grootveld’s
anarchist anti-cancer campaign, the riots against Princess Beatrix’s
marriage to an ex-Nazi, and the famous White Bicycle program. He also
comments on parallel contemporary and near-contemporary movements
(including Dada and Situationism), Amsterdam’s previous anarchist
traditions, the spread of Provo through Holland and the development of
the Kabouter party, and ends by offering an existentialist critique of
Provo and other anarchist movements of the 1960s.

Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther - Marshall
“Eddie” Conway - Dominique Stevenson - 17
...is an important book of history and humanity in the face of
extremity. The book is testimony to a political history that has largely
been erased, a prologue to a history of Baltimore that has yet to be
written, and an extraordinary bearing of witness by a man denied due
process who has spent more than 40 years in Maryland’s prisons. If we
are to take a full measure of what we are as a city and as a country,
then Marshall Law is a narrative to which we must pay attention.

When Miners March - Williams C. Blizzard - 22
...is the definitive history of the coal miners of West Virginia.
William C. Blizzard wrote the text in the early 1950s while his father,
miner's hero Fearless Bill Blizzard, was still alive and able to
comment.  Political realities kept the book in a box for more than half
a century--unavailable to either scholars writing their own accounts of
the mine wars or Union families seeking to pass on their own proud heritage.

Uses of a Whirlwind - Team Color Collective - 12
Chris Carlsson writes eloquently about the necessity of radical
patience, or the idea that organizers must exercise self-care among a
variety of strategies to cope with a protracted struggle. Like him, many
others in Uses of A Whirlwind: Movement, Movements and Contemporary
Radical Currents in the United States explore methods for functioning in
the world. Some are politically sharp. Others are more organic. However,
answers to the greatest questions remain elusive.

Paradoxes of Utopia - Juan Suriano - 19
An engaging historical look at fin de siécle Buenos Aires that brings to
life the vibrant culture behind one of the world’s largest anarchist
movements: the radical schools, newspapers, theaters, and social clubs
that made revolution a way of life. Cultural history in the best sense,
Paradoxes of Utopia explores how a revolutionary ideology was woven into
the ordinary lives of tens of thousands of people, creating a complex
tapestry of symbols, rituals, and daily practices that supported—and
indeed created the possibility of—the Argentine labor movement.

Real Utopias - Chris Spannos - 18
What if we had direct control over our daily lives? What if society's
defining institutions-those encompassing economics, politics, kinship,
culture, community, and ecology-were based not on competition,
individual ownership, and coercion, but on self-management, equity,
solidarity, and diversity? Real Utopia identifies and obliterates the
barriers to an egalitarian, bottom-up society, while convincingly
outlining how to build it.

The Stuffed and The Starved - Raj Patel - 15
In plain but passionate word, Raj Patel proves that 'free' trade - free
of any ethical limits, that is - is the last solution we should look to
in the struggle to feed the world. He then reveals better 'ways of being
free', showing why 'strong local food systems first!' is a rallying cry
as much for Zambia as for Canada, as much for India as for the United
States. Can we eat healthier, tastier food and give the world's poorest
the power to feed themselves? We can, and Patel will help us write the
recipe.

Palestinian Village Histories - Geographies of the Displaced - Rochelle
A. Davis - 25
Throughout modern-day Israel, over four hundred Palestinian villages
were depopulated in the 1947-1949 war. With houses mostly destroyed,
mosques and churches put to other uses, and cemeteries plowed under,
Palestinian communities were left geographically dispossessed.
Palestinians have since carried their village names, memories, and
possessions with them into the diaspora, transforming their lost past
into local histories in the form of "village memorial books". Numbering
more than 100 volumes in print, these books recount family histories,
cultural traditions, and the details of village life, revealing
Palestinian history through the eyes of Palestinians.

Life Under the Jolly Roger - Gabriel Kuhn - 20
In Life Under the Jolly Roger (PM Press 2009), Gabriel Kuhn takes on the
far flung sources regarding golden age piracy (primarily in the
Caribbean at the end of the 17th century and beginning of the 18th) not
in order to establish a definitive truth about them but to dispel myths,
clarify what we can know for sure about the pirates and what realistic
questions remain, and to elucidate what the pirate legacy might mean for
people today who also see themselves as excluded by or at war with the
developing global order.
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