Pm Press imprint: 345 books
The Struggle Within
Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
An accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer, The Struggle Within discusses how mass imprisonment has been a state-sponsered tool of repression deployed against diverse, left-wing social movements over the last 50 years. Author Dan Berger goes on to examine some of the most dynamic social movements...
The Explosion Of Deferred Dreams
Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco, 1965-1975
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
As the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love floods the media with debates and celebrations of music, political movements, 'flower power', 'acid rock' and 'hippies'; The Explosion of Deferred Dreams offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco...
by Barry Graham
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
A dark Latino legend of the Southwest's urban badlands, the kid is spoken of in whispers in dive bars near closing time. Some claim to have met him, and others say he doesn't exist-a phantom blamed for every unsolved act of violence, a ghost who haunts every blood-splattered crime scene. In reality,...
by John King
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
John King, best-selling author of The Football Factory, chronicles the struggle between rich and poor in this strong defence of socialised medicine. Ruby James lives life to the full, the state-run hospital where she works as a nurse a microcosm of the community in which she was born and bred. While...
One Chord Wonders
Power and Meaning in Punk Rock
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Originally published in 1985, One Chord Wonders was the first full-length study of the glory years of British punk. The book argues that one of punk’s most significant political achievements was to expose the operations of power in the British entertainment industries as they were thrown into confusion...
Pistoleros!: The Chronicles of Farquhar McHarg
Volume 1: 1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
In Farquhar McHarg’s autobiography, a young boy from Glasgow finds himself in the middle of Barcelona’s revolutionary underworld at the tail end of World War I. Volume One chronicles McHarg’s liaisons between the British Secret Service Bureau and the Spanish anarchists. McHarg tells of a corrupt...
To Defend the Revolution Is to Defend Culture
The Cultural Policy of the Cuban Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Based on a four-year research project, which included five months in Havana, this book documents the approaches to culture that evolved out of the 1959 Cuban Revolution. Deploying micro and macro perspectives, it introduces all the main protagonists to the debate and follows the polemical twists and...
Arena Two
Noir Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Tapping into the rich seam of anarchist and libertarian currents in noir fiction, this collection of essays explores fictional atmospheres that are dark and sinister-but not without hope. The protagonists of these works are often profoundly flawed but have something of the romantic optimist...
by Gilles Dauvé
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Rising out of the radical Marxist French millieu and events of 1968 to criticize global capitalism and encourage revolution in theory and practice, From Crisis to Communisation places libertarian communist theory in historical and contemporary context. Communisation means something quite straightforward:...
Outrage
An Anarchist Memoir of the Penal Colony
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This memoir of Clément Duval, a famed 19th-century French anarchist and criminal, details his sentence and eventual escape from the dry guillotine” of the French penal colonies on Devil’s Island. In this remarkable story of survival by self-determination, courage, conviction, and hope, Duval...
by Turbulence Collective
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Connecting some of the more remarkable events of the last decade-including the rioting in Oaxaca and in the outskirts of Paris and the modern crises of neoliberalism-this critical analysis suggests new strategies for the progressive Left and that forward-moving change is possible. It examines the...
In Letters of Blood and Fire
Work, Machines, and the Crisis of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Although information technology, immaterial production, financialization, and globalization have been trumpeted as inaugurating a new phase of capitalism that transcends its violent origins, this collection of essays by autonomist Marxist George Caffentzis argues that instead of being in a period...
Anthropocene or Capitalocene?
Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The Earth has reached a tipping point. Runaway climate change, the sixth great extinction of planetary life, the acidification of the oceans—all point toward an era of unprecedented turbulence in humanity's relationship within the web of life. But just what is that relationship, and how do we make...
by John King
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
A rare novel set against a punk-rock background that works as a cultural document—punk and politics: a way of life. A film based on the novel is in currently in development.
For 15-year-old Joe Martin, growing up on the outskirts of West London, the summer of 1977 means punk rock, busy pubs,...