Christiebooks: 245 books
THE POLITICS OF OBEDIENCE.
The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Étienne de la Boétie (1530-1563) wrote the following essay on the ultimate source and nature of political power in the early 1550s, while still a law student at the University of Orleans. In it he considers the origins of dictatorship and the means by which people can prevent political...
by Peter Kropotkin
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2016
Peter Kropotkin’s (1842-1921) account of his journey from privileged childhood, through military service and two years in prison to anarchist thinker and activist was originally serialised in The Atlantic Monthly from September 1898 to September 1899. It provides a fascinating account of his intellectual...
Building Utopia
The Spanish Revolution 1936-1937
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Within the Spanish anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist movements there were three distinct points of view on the question of war and revolution. The first, probably the majority view, was that the war would be over in a matter of weeks, after all, a few days had been enough to rout the army in Barcelona...
Edward Heath Made Me Angry
(The later memoirs of a West of Scotland ‘baby-boomer’)
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Stuart Christie was released from a Spanish prison in September 1967, having served over three years of a 20-year sentence for his part in an anarchist plot to assassinate General Franco, the last of the Axis dictators. He came back to a world of social and industrial turbulence, growing anger at...
BARRICADES IN BARCELONA
The CNT from the victory of July 1936 to the necessary defeat of May 1937
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
BARRICADES IN BARCELONA focuses on Barcelona in 1936-1937; it provides an account of the street battles and victory of July 1936, examines the defence and neighborhood committees that defeated the uprising in the city, and addresses the arbitrary decision of the CNT-FAI superior committees to collaborate...
by Antonio Téllez
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The guerrilla struggle against Francoism arose in the days following the army revolt against the Spanish Republic on 18 July 1936. In areas which fell immediately to the mutinous army the principal leader of which was Lieutenant-General Jose Sanjurjo y Sacanell (then a refugee in Portugal) with General...
THE POVERTY OF STATISM
Anarchism versus Marxism A debate with Nikolai Bukharin, Luigi Fabbri and Rudolf Rocker (Introduced by Albert Meltzer)
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Anarchist response to Nikolai Bukharin’s ‘Anarchy and Scientific Communism’; a libertarian critique of the proletarian state, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the organisation of production, etc., by two of Bukharin’s anarchist contemporaries. Includes Rocker’s essay ‘Marx and Anarchism’....
by Raymond Dronne
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
Captain Raymond Dronne's memoir of the regular army unit he commanded from the summer of 1943 to the spring of 1945, No. 9 Company of the Chad March Regiment, also known as 'La Nueve', a company made up almost entirely of Spanish veterans of the civil war and social revolution of 1936-1939 — anarchists,...
by Paul Avrich
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2017
Paul Avrich’s The Russian Anarchists records the history and ideas of Russian anarchism from the 19th century through to its brutal suppression by the Bolsheviks in the 1920s. All the major personalities are discussed in detail: Bakunin, Kropotkin, Baron, Rogdaev, Chernyi, Makhno, Volin, Shapiro,...
by Louise Michel, Peter Kropotkin, Nicolas Walter
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2015
This publication consists of three separate articles which were first published in Kropotkin’s paper Le Revolte for the anniversaries of the Paris Commune in March 1880, March 1881, and March 1882. They were put together to form a single chapter of Kropotkin’s first political book (‘La...
by Sergei Mikhailovich Kravchinskii Stepniak
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Anyone interested in or wishing to understand the roots of Putin’s ultra-nationalist Russia (and his territorial ambitions!) woild do well to read Ukranian nihilist Sergei Stepniak’s compelling study of The Russian Peasantry. Written over 120 years ago it helps explain not only the social plight...
FEUDAL SOCIETY Vol. I
The Growth of Ties of Dependence
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
Feudal Society is a great work of historical synthesis in the finest French tradition. The author treats feudalism as a living and vitalising force in the society of Western Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth century. After surveying the social and intellectual conditions in which feudalism developed,...
SPARTACUS
The Leader of the Roman Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Marxist historian F. A. Ridley’s account of the revolt led by, among others, Thracian gladiator Spartacus, one of the prominent escaped slave leaders of the Third Servile War against the Roman Republic. Ridley places Spartacus and the uprising in the context of the social systems of antiquity; the...
THE SPANISH COCKPIT
An Eye-Witness Account of the Political and Social Conflicts of the Spanish Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Austrian sociologist and disillusioned former Comintern official Franz Borkenau visited Republican Spain between August and September 1936, and again in January-February 1937. The account of his first-hand experiences as an independent socialist observer in revolutionary Spain,‘The Spanish Cockpit’,...