Christiebooks: 245 books
WE WERE THE REBELS, WE WERE THE MARAUDERS
Fragments of an Outlaw Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
This is the story of Belgrado Pedrini, a self-educated 18-year-old who, in the early 1930s, threw himself into the revolutionary struggle at the height of Italian fascism’s hold on the state. It is about an anarchist who took up arms against fascism long before 1943, the year of the Anglo-American...
by David Poole
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
"Práxedis G. Guerrero, anarchist, militant, propagandist, poet and secretary to the ‘Junta Organizadora del Partido Liberal Mexicano’ was the first Mexican anarchist to give his life for Land and Liberty, when he was killed, at the early age of only 28, during an attack on the town...
by William Archer, David Poole
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2014
Francisco Ferrer y Guardia (1859 –1909), anarchist, internationally renowned educationalist and founder of the rationalist ‘Modern School’ (La Escuela Moderna), was arrested in September 1909 in the wake of the popular and violent protests in Catalonia against Spain’s highly unpopular war...
Franco’s Prisoner
Anarchists in the struggle against the dictatorship
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Miguel García García was born in Barcelona in 1908, the seventh of nine children. He became a newspaper-seller at the age of nine, and an apprentice printer at twelve; he was a lifelong member of the CNT, the anarcho-syndicalist trade union in Spain. Miguel García García...
The Man Who Killed Durruti
With a postscript on Buenaventura Durruti by Stuart Christie
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Just after midday on 19 November 1936, Buenaventura Durruti – the revolutionary and Spanish Civil War leader – set out for the Clinical Hospital in Madrid, the scene of serious fighting with Franco’s Moorish troops. Besides his driver Julio Graves, he was accompanied by three other men: Miguel...
¡Pistoleros! The Chronicles of Farquhar McHarg
Books I-III: 1918-1924 (and 1976-1977).
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2019
“¡PISTOLEROS! is the story of twentieth century anarchism as witnessed by McHarg, a Glaswegian anarchist engineer who became embroiled in Spanish revolutionary politics at the end of the First World War. Curiously echoing the editor Christie’s own life fifty years later, the youthful and naïve...
Franco me hizo terrorista
Memorias del anarquista que intentó matar al dictator
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 16, 2014
De las calles de Glasgow a las cárceles de la España fascista, es éste el fascinante testimonio personal de un hombre que se enfrenta a los dilemas de una vida dedicada a la libertad. NOAM CHOMSKY
En el verano de 1964 y con dieciocho años recién cumplidos,...
by Sara Berenguer Laosa
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Todas las "Mujeres de Temple" merecen nuestra admiración y nuestro respeto. Mas, para mí, el gran mérito de este libro es el de haber dado la palabra a mujeres, que sin él, nunca habrían podido hablar de sus vivencias y transmitirlas, y confieso que los...
LUCIO URTUBIA
THE INDOMITABLE ANARCHIST.
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
The biography of Lucio Urtubia, a Paris-based Navarese anarchist who was a friend and protégé of the enigmatic Spanish urban guerrilla ‘El Quico’, and the friend of, among others. André Breton and Albert Camus. Lucio played his part in the network of anarchist action and illegalist...
ALEXANDER BERKMAN, ANARCHIST
Life, Work, Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
As a young student in Russia, Alexander Berkman claims to have heard the bomb explode which killed Tsar Alexander II in 1881. He emigrated to America and, inspired by the Haymarket martyrs, became active in Jewish anarchist circles. When Henry Clay Frick of Carnegie Steel sent in armed Pinkertons...
by Nigel Pennick
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
The extraordinary story of Croatian engineer Nikola Tesla
by Ricardo Mella
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 15, 2015
A la gran superstición política del derecho divino de los reyes, dice Spencer, ha sucedido la gran superstición política del derecho divino de los parlamentos. "El óleo santo — añade — parece haber pasado inadvertidamente de la cabeza de uno a las...
THE UNKNOWN REVOLUTION
The Russian Revolution Betrayed
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2015
One of the most coherent and comprehensive personal accounts of the Russian Revolution, of the nature of the Bolshevik State from its birth in 1917 through to its suppression of both the Kronstadt uprising of 1921 and of the Makkhnovist peasant movement in the Ukraine between 1918 and 1921. The present...
AN ANTI-STATIST COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
with a profile of Joseph Lane
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Joseph Lane defended liberty, equality and solidarity — what would now be called libertarian socialism. He attacked authority, whether religious or political, and declared himself both atheist and anti-statist neither God nor master! He avoided the word anarchist, preferring to call himself a revolutionary...