Anarchism in The Books Store

Anarchism reemerged on the world stage at the end of 1999 on the streets of Seattle, when the World Trade Organization was brought close to -collapse. Anarchist groups shared pavement space with environmen-talists, pacifists and a host of others. These new oppositional voices, broadly anticapitalist and antiglobalist, can be seen as a post-Cold War development, a rejection of the terms of the old debate between capitalism and Soviet-style communism.

Seán M. Sheehan provides an engaging introduction to what anarchism means, describing its development in political thought, the history of ideas, philosophy, theories of education and ecology, as well as film and literary criticism.

Seán M. Sheehan is a writer of history and travel books and the author of a guide to Wittgenstein.

A detailed, scholarly study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI), a group of twentieth-century militants dedicated to keeping Spain's largest labor union, the CNT, on a revolutionary, anarcho-syndicalist path. Stuart Christie's analysis covers the history of Spanish anarchism and the Spanish Civil War, and provides lessons relevant to today's largely neutered labor movement. A gripping and informative tale!

Stuart Christie is the co-founder of Anarchist Black Cross and Cienfuegos Press, and the author of Granny Made Me an Anarchist. He was imprisoned in 1964 for attempting to assassinate Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.

This exhaustive volume, the first of two, seeks to provide answers for the curious and critical about anarchist theory, history, and practice. More a reference volume than a primer, the FAQ eschews curt answers and engages with questions in a thorough, matter-of-fact style. Educational and fascinating, An Anarchist FAQ will be referenced again and again.

Iain McKay is former editor of Black Flag magazine and is a frequent contributor to Anarcho-Syndicalist Review. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland.