Some of the New titles for activists from Anarres Books - an anarchist mailorder book service based in Melbourne. http://www.anarres.org.au Vernon Richards, Colin Ward, Nicolas Walter George Orwell at Home (and amoung the anarchists) Freedom Press, 76pp, $24.40 George Orwell was one of the most important British socialist writers of the twentieth century. He produced novels, books of reportage, booklets, essays, articles, broardcasts and reviews, but above all he is remembered for the satires Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, which have been read by millions of people all over the world. He fought in the Spanish Civil War and sympathised with the anarcho-syndicalists in the Spanish Revolution, and had friendships with several prominent British anarchists until his death in 1950. Here for the first time is a full collection of photographs taken by Vernon Richards and his companion Marie Louise Berneri in 1946, showing George Orwell at home. Also included is the obituary which Vernon Richards wrote in 1950, a series of articles on anarchism which Colin Ward wrote in 1955, and a long account by Nicolas Walter of Orwell's relations with anarchism and the anarchists taking into account the material published in The Complete Works of George Orwell in 1998. Dolgoff, Sam Cuban Revolution: a critical Perspective Black Rose Books 199pp $13.50 History Sam Dolgoff takes us through the history of Cuba drawing forth an analysis of the revolution from a libertarian perspective. This book makes a powerful statement against leninism and the militarisation of Cuban society, railroading the social revolution into the Castro dictatorship. Dyson, Rose Mind Abuse. Media Violence in an Information Age Black Rose Books 240pp $25.50 Political Systems The major concern of this book is the mushrooming problem of media violence. It is defined in terms of programming content and the more subtle, systemic forms of violence as expressed through growing media ownership concentration. This book is the first broad, comprehensive, critical history and analysis; it is both timely and urgent. Herman, Edward S. Triumph of the Market. Essays on Economics, Politics and the Media. Black Rose Books 276pp $25.50 Political Economy Brilliant analysis of the linkages between U.S. and global economics, politics and media. This book demystifies the many ways that giant global corporations have worked to replace democratic and community values with market exchange. A disturbing warning about the dangers to democracy, economic rationality, national sovereignty, global economic stability and progress, and international peace. Schecter, Tanya Race, Class, Women and the State. The Case of Domestic Labour. Black Rose Books 204pp $32.20 Sexuality & Gender The role of the State is analysed in setting policies that allow women to increase their participation in the public shere, while at the same time keeping the public-private divide and its attendant value structure in tact: domestic labour and child care remain women's responsibility and are valued less than work performed in the public shere. It shows how women are overwelmingly forced to work a double day. Bookchin, Murray Anarchism, Marxism and the Future of the Left. AK Press 349pp $35.90 Anarchism/ Marxism This expansive collection ranges over, amongst others, Bookchin's account of his teenage years as a young Communist during the Great Depression; his experiences of the 1960s and reflections on that decade's lessons; his vision of a libertarian communist society; libertarian politics; the future of anarchism; and the unity of theory and practice. He goes on to assess the crisis of radicalism today and defends the need for a revolutionary Left. Finally he states what is to be valued in both anarchism and Marxism in building such a Left, and offers guidelines for forming a new revolutionary social movement. Christie, Stuart We the Anarchists! A study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) 1927-1937 Jura Media 136pp $20.00 History The Spanish revolution was the first successful insurrection in a modern industrial setting. Some might call it the only industrial revolution. If you are interested in the practice of anarchist revolution, without the romantic gloss that some accounts give it, then you will be interested in this book. Co-published by Jura Media associated with Jura Books, an anarchist bookshop in Sydney which first opened in 1977. Vaucher, Gee Crass Art and other Pre-Postmodern Monsters AK Press 112pp $44.90 Arts Much of punk's early radicalism has now found its way into the mainstream - three chord thrash has become acceptable MTV material, while punk ''fashion'' is strutted on the catwalks of London, Paris and New York. However, less easily exploited aspects have been largely ignored. Chief amongst them, the anarchist band Crass, who while selling hundreds of thousands of records through noncommercial channels, played a huge role in revitalizing both the peace and anarchist movements in the late '70s and early '80s. Vaucher's work with Crass is seminal to the "protest art" of the '80s. Seeing her art as a tool for social change, the extensive work that she did with Crass is perhaps the most obvious example of her agit-prop approach, but if her more recent works are superficially less confronting, it is only because the subject under attack is less immediately obvious. Crass Art & Other Pre-Postmodernist Monsters offers an opportunity to view Vaucher's work from its art-school origins to the present day. Offering 112 pages of full-colour plates, and a text detailing the historical context of the work. Ward, Colin Social Policy: an anarchist response. Freedom Press 89pp $17.60 Housing & Planning In 1995-96, Colin Ward was the visiting Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics. This volume collects all the talks he gave during his tenure. Topics covered include on Housing, Water, Welfare Reform as well as his views on Anarchism in the 21st Century. One of the most accessible and entertaining Anarchist writers. Yates, John September Commando. AK Press 93pp $21.50 Arts 'September Commando: Gestures Of Futility And Frustration' is the second installment of politically charged satire, scrutiny and social commentary from John Yates' Stealworks graphics compound. Featuring over 100 of Yates' designs, 'September Commando' is a visual assault on all things bad. From our benevolent leaders on Capitol(ist) Hill to Twenty First Century Cops, from his "own" apathy-embracing (de)Generation X to the selling of Corporate American ignorance (and purchase thereof) to the (pocket) enlightened m(asses). 'September Commando' picks up where 'Stealworks' left off and from there on out it's a trilateral social injustice kill spree. To the barricades, and don't spare the hors d'oeuvre! 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