Monthly Archives: February 2014

What’s New from LBC – Winter 2014

By Little Black Cart | Published: February 19, 2014

As this year begins–our third of publishing at least a book a month–we think we have found an answer to the pernicious question: what is the task for committed rabble-rousers when nothing else is going on? The answer is to recuperate, review, and prepare. Our way of approaching each of these is to Publish Books. […]

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Endnotes 3: Gender, Race, Class and Other Misfortunes

By casper | Published: February 8, 2014

Endnotes 3: Gender, Race, Class and Other Misfortunes This issue of Endnotes has been a long time coming. Its publication was delayed due to experiences and conversations that compelled us to clarify our analyses, and at times to wholly rework them. Many of the articles in this issue are the products of years of discussion. […]

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Seven Years Buried Alive & Other Writings

By casper | Published: February 8, 2014

Seven Years Buried Alive & Other Writings by Bifilo Panclasta Based on sources from 1910 to 1940, this Seattle publication of the writings of Biófilo Panclasta is beautifully produced and nicely sized. Panclasta was an anarchist who told Kropotkin that he wasn’t one, because he had no cause but his own. Influenced by Nietzsche and […]

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Fra Contadini

By casper | Published: February 8, 2014

Fra Contadini by Errico Malatesta These words mark the maximum point of Malatesta’s analyses contained in the present pamphlet. The individual arguments faced, the various theoretical questions take on a different meaning and perspective in the light of this phrase. Taken individually, problems such as production, machinery, work, planning, price mechanisms, Government, the State, the […]

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Endnotes 3: Gender, Race, Class and Other Misfortunes

By casper | Published: February 8, 2014

Endnotes 3: Gender, Race, Class and Other Misfortunes This issue of Endnotes has been a long time coming. Its publication was delayed due to experiences and conversations that compelled us to clarify our analyses, and at times to wholly rework them. Many of the articles in this issue are the products of years of discussion. […]

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Egoism

By casper | Published: February 5, 2014

The project of self-realisation is born of the passion for creation, in the moment when subjectivity wells up and aspires to reign universally. The project of communication is born of the passion of love, whenever people discover that they share the same desire for amorous conquest. The project of participation is born of the passion […]

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2013 LBC Books Review

By casper | Published: February 5, 2014

Anarchists have had to make do with the fact that even as we succeed we rarely get credit for it, while we always get the blame for our failures and lack of success. As a publisher in this family of ideas we measure our own success partly by our own continued interest in our broad […]

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To the Indomitable Hearts

By casper | Published: February 5, 2014

To the Indomitable Hearts by Luciano “Tortuga” Pitronella Luciano “Tortuga” Pitronella sits in prison (house arrest) convicted of the attempted bombing of a bank in Santiago, Chile in 2011. After being slandered and disrespected by the press and disowned by many of his own comrades, six years later he is still fighting for his freedom. […]

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The Collected Communiques of Individualists Tending Toward the Wild

By casper | Published: February 5, 2014

The Collected Communiques of Individualists Tending Toward the Wild Notorious for their extreme actions, including bombing nano-tech institutions, here are their collected communiques. World powers are getting ready for biochemical and nuclear wars. To finish completely with their politico-diplomatic enemies they have made available new technology with the ability to become intelligent and cause irreparable […]

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Conspiracy of Cells of Fire: Chronology of Actions

By casper | Published: February 5, 2014

A time line of actions and communiques from 2011 and 2012.
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Illegalist Trial Statements

By casper | Published: February 5, 2014

A small and very pretty publication compiling statements made at their trials by illegalist icons like Ravachol, Maurice Jacobs, Raymond Callemin, Emile Henry, Clement Duval, and August Vaillant.
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On The Run

By casper | Published: February 5, 2014

On The Run by Anonymous A nicely produced little booklet including writings by and about Felicity Ryder, Diego Rios, Gabriela Curilem and about being underground. For people to take action seriously, requires serious consideration of what to do when the reaction hits. This booklet joins Incognito in exploring the realities of going underground. “The refusal […]

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Land and Freedom: An Open Invitation

By casper | Published: February 4, 2014

Land and Freedom: An Open Invitation by Seaweed Drawing from histories of rebellion, Seaweed begins a conversation with fellow anarchists about struggle, strategy, subsistenence, or past, and our future. What kind of communities do we need to exist to support long-term rebellion against Capitalism? What would it mean to create insurrectionary movements for subsistence? What […]

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Scratching The Tiger’s Belly

By casper | Published: February 4, 2014

Scratching The Tiger’s Belly by Ron Sakolsky A radical mixtape of hidden histories, rebel poems, prickly rants, black humor, intoxicating adventures, razor sharp polemics, slyly subversive stories, provocative parables and ideas-in-action. Food for thought, ready to be washed down with the heady grog of mutiny! “Right from the start of this gorgeously designed book, you […]

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The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring to Occupy

By casper | Published: February 4, 2014

The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring to Occupy by Peter Gelgerloos From the Arab Spring to the plaza occupation movement in Spain, the student movement in the UK and Occupy in the US, many new social movements have started peacefully, only to adopt a diversity of tactics as they grew in strength and […]

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Anarchy Works

By casper | Published: February 4, 2014

Anarchy Works by Peter Gelderloos This book takes examples from around the world, picking through history and anthropology, showing that people have, in different ways and at different times, demonstrated mutual aid, self-organization, autonomy, horizontal decision making, and so forth–the principles that anarchy is founded on–regardless of whether they called themselves anarchists or not. Too […]

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Occupy Everything: Anarchists in the Occupy Movement 2009-2011

By casper | Published: February 4, 2014

Anarchists in the Occupy Movement 2009-2011 Anarchists have been part of Occupy since before it was even clearly a movement. This is a book where anarchists, in their own words, express how and why they engaged in Occupy, what methods they used, and how to evaluate the success of Occupy on anarchist terms. It also […]

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Whitherburo

By casper | Published: February 4, 2014

Whitherburo by Anonymous That America and its way of life are ending, there is not the slightest doubt. But for what reason, and in what manner, and what can possibly come next? What happens in the gap between two worlds, when the new is only dimly glimpsed like a far shore in the night, and […]

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Theory of Bloom

By casper | Published: February 4, 2014

Theory of Bloom by Tiqqun, translated by Robert Hurley The Theory of Bloom is the theory of the isolated subject of the modern era. The Bloom is forced to fixate on certain social roles in order to survive. Worker, housewife, professional, student, citizen, all of the roles are but masks, donned and rarely removed. The […]

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Novatore

By casper | Published: February 4, 2014

Novatore, translated by Wolfi Landstreicher Renzo Novatore is the pen-name of Abele Rizieri Ferrari who was born in Arcola, Italy (a village of La Spezia) on May 12, 1890 to a poor peasant family. Unwilling to adapt to scholastic discipline, he only attended a few months of the first grade of grammar school and then […]

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