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POLITICAL HISTORY
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500 Years of Indigenous Resistance(.PDF) - Colonization, Political History, Native History, Native Peoples, America, Kwakiuti, First Peoples, Genocide, Christopher Colombus, Land, European Settlements, United States, Manifest Destiny, Indian Wars, Canada, Civil War, Slavery
1798 Rebellion in Ireland, The(.pdf) - Andrew Flood - 1998 - Religion, Ireland, England, United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, The Troubles, History, Catholicism, Protestantism, Protest, Uprising, Peace, Britain, Europe, Nationalism, Dissent, Catholic Church, United Irishmen
The A-Zone & A Decade of Anarchy in Chicago (.PDF) - Anarchist History
Adios Catalonia! In the Aftermath of the Spanish Civil War(.PDF) - History, Spain
Afrikan Anarchism - The History of a Movement(.PDF) - Anarchism, Black History, Activism
Against the God Emperor - The Anarchist Treason Trials in Japan(.PDF) - (Stefan Anarkowic) Court, Trials, Japan, Political History, Asia, Anarchism, Treason, High Crime
Antisemitism - Its History and Causes(.PDF) - History, Jewish Culture, Anti-Semitism
Atamansha - The Life of Maria Nikiforova(.PDF) - Russian Revolution, Anarchism, History, Feminism, Ukraine
Bash the Fash (.PDF) - Antifa, Antifascism, ARA, Anti-Racist Action, Fascism, Racism, White Supremacy, Nazis, History
Beating the Fascists - The Untold Story of Anti-Fascist Action(.pdf BOOK) (by Sean Birchall) Fascism, Racism, History, Antifa, ARA, Nationalism, White Supremacy, Nazis, Resistance, Activism
A Brief History of the 23rd Precinct(.PDF) - Policing, Law Enforcement, New York City, NYPD, History, Police Brutality
Chronology of the Chilean Workers Movement(.pdf) - (1983) Chile, South America, Latin America, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Capitalism, Anarchosyndicalism, IWW, Union, Organizing, Labor History
The Civil War in Venezuela(.pdf) South America, Socialism, History, War, Capitalism, Anarchism, Resistance, Statism
Claim No Easy Victories: A History and Analysis of Anti-Racist Action(.PDF) - Racism, Resistance, History, Activism, Protest
Class Struggle During the Gulf War(.PDF) Iraq, Class, Mid East, War, Religion, Political History, Kuwait, Labor, Strikes, Workers, 1991 Gulf Massacre, Communism, Capitalism, Islam, Anti-War Movement
Class Struggle in Italy 1960s to 70s(.pdf) Italy, History, Europe, Capitalism, Work, Economy, Cities, Class Struggle, Factories, Unions, Unionism, Hot Autumn, Fiat, Labor Organizing, Strikes, Protest, Corso Traiano
Cleaners! UK Struggles 1970's to Now(.pdf) Unions, Organizing, Workplace, Service Industry, UK, England, Britain, Cleaning, Work, Labor, Workers, Rights, Class Struggle, Capitalism
Crossroad - A New Afrikan Captured Combatant Newsletter Vol. 4, #1(.PDF) - Black Cuture, Black History, Legal System, Crime, Policing, Law Enforcement, Cops, Prisons
Digger Tracts 1649-50(.PDF) - Peasants, Diggers, Europe, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Organizing, Resistance, Labor History
Dispatches From Charlottesville(.PDF) - Riots, Racism, ANTIFA, Alt-Right, Activism, Protest, Resistance, History
The Everett Massacre(.PDF) - (Scott Wilson) Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, IWW, Wobblies, Organizing, Activism, Anarchism, Labor History, Massachusetts, Everett, Industrial Revolution, Logging, Timber, Resistance, Capitalism
France - The General Strike of 1968(.PDF) - Labor History, Situationism, Anarchism, Strike, France, Europe, Labor Movement, Workers, Resistance, Organizing
Handsome Testimonial, A - The Life & Times of James Scott (1829-1912)(.PDF) (Gill Chrenshaw - 2023) - Disability, Deafness, Hearing, Textiles, Workers, Yorkshire, England, Deaf, Victorian Era, Disabled Mill Workers, Unions, Labor
The Hilltop Boys(.pdf) Gangs, Crips, Los Angeles, History, LA, California, Cops, Police, Law Enforcement
A History of Anti-Black Racism on Long Island(.pdf) (by Iliana Luther) - Racism, Long Island, Black History, Culture, Race, Prejudice, Privilege, New York, White Supremacy, Bigotry
In the Spirit of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark(.PDF) - Protest, Resistance, Black History, Liberation, Activism
The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day(.PDF) - (Peter Linebaugh) Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Labor History, Haymarket, Strike
Jane - Documents from Chicago's Clandestine Abortion Service 1968-1973(.pdf) - Firestarter Press - 2004 - Reproductive Rights, Abortion, Pro-Choice, Roe v Wade, Health, Pregnancy, Right to Choose, Feminism, Illinois, Chicago, Clinics, Women, Politics
Joe Hill IWW Songwriter(.PDF) - Joe Hill, Biography, Music, Songs, IWW, Unions, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Labor History, Wobblies
Learning From Ferguson(.PDF) - Riots, Mike Brown, Cops, Police Brutality, Policing, Law Enforcement, Protest, Resistance, Activism
Making History: Documenting and Preserving Drag King Culture(.pdf) - LGTBQA+, Drag Performances, Queer, History, Lesbianism, Scrapbooking, Journaling, Archiving, Queer Experience, DIY Guide, Blogging, Drag Shows, Stars, Interviewing
Malcolm X - The Man and His Ideas(.PDF) - Black History, Liberation, Biography, Resistance
Marsha(.pdf) Minizine, Marsha B. Thompson, Stonewall, Riots, LGBTQA+, Queer, History, Pride, Transgender
Militant Flamboyance(.pdf) Resistance, Timeline, Stonewall, Riots, LGBTQA+, Queer, History, Pride
Night(.PDF) - Collage, Art, History, Jews, Holocaust, Budapest, Fascism, Concentration Camps, Nazis, Violence, Story, Prose, WWII, Resistance, War
No Justice, No Peace(.PDF) - LA Riots, Cops, Police Brutality, Policing, Law Enforcement, Protest, Resistance, History
One Four Seven(.PDF) - Cops, Police Brutality, Policing, Law Enforcement, Protest, Resistance, History, Durham
Out of the Closets and Into the Libraries(.pdf) - Radical Queer, LGBTQA+, Vanguard, Lavender Panthers, Queer History, Lesbian Avengers, Queer Liberation Army, Pink Panthers, Prisoner Correspondence, Bash Back!, Stonewall, Gay Shame, Homocore, ACT UP, Comptom Cafeteria Riot, George Jackson Brigade
A Plea For Captain John Brown(.PDF) - History, Slavery, Violence, Abolition, Protest, Resistance, Activism, DIY Guide
Puerto Rico: US Colony in the Caribbean(.PDF) (José G. Pérez - 1987) - Colonialism, Imperialism, United States, Independence, Oppression, Unemployment, Socialism, Political History
Queer and Trans Fat Activist Timeline, A(.PDF) (Charlotte Cooper - 2011) - Zines, Feminism, Body Positivity, Fat Activism, LGBTQA+, Queer, Culture, Archives, Political Theory
Raider Nation #1(.PDF) - Police Brutality, Policing, Law Enforcement, Legal System, Cops, Protest, Resistance, Activism, Oakland, History
The Real Resistance to Slavery in North America(.PDF) - History, Slavery, Violence, Abolition, Protest, Resistance, Activism
The Seattle General Strike of 1919(.PDF) - Strike, Work Stoppage, Industrial Revolution, Unions, Labor History, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Seattle, Washington
Slavery is Alive, Well and Thriving in the U.S.A.(.PDF) (Scott Smith - 2022) Abolition, Prison, Jail, Prison Labor, Prisoners, Japanese, Authority
Song of the United Front(.PDF)(by C. Fish) - Minizine, Spanish Civil War, WWII, Song, Lyrics, Bertolt Brecht, Anti-Fascism, Antifa, Leftism, Workers' Movement, Music
Spanish Civil War - Anarchism in Action(.pdf) (Eddie Conlon - June 2001) Spain, History, Anarchism, CNT-FAI, Antifascism, Resistance, Europe, Workers, Class Struggle, Strikes
Speech to the IWW in 1905(.PDF) - (Lucy Parsons) Unions, IWW, Wobblies, Labor History, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Organizing, Women
A Stockade Stood Burning - Rebellion and the Convict Lease in Tennessee's Coalfields 181-1895(.PDF) - Coal miners, Prison Labor, Labor History, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Sabotage, Organizing, Resistance, Tennessee
Stolen Land(.pdf) (Bertita Martinez) - Chicano History, California, Education, Schooling, Manifest Destiny, Indigenous, Mexico, Fascism, America, Latin Culture, Eurocentrism, Whites, US History, Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago, Gold Rush, Texas
Straight Outta Kansas City - True Stories of Police Violence in MO//KS(.PDF) - Police Brutality, Policing, Law Enforcement, Legal System, Cops, Protest, Resistance, Activism, Kansas, History, Missouri
Trans Artists and Activists Throughout History(.PDF) - (London Watterson) Trans, LGBTQA+, History, Marsha P. Johnson, Artists, Activism, Stonewall, Resistance, Trans Visibility, Trans Joy
Trans Folks Fight Back!(.pdf) (Skip Teauxmelou, Alyx Trouble) -Queer, LGBTQA+, Resistance, Stonewall, Activism, Queer History, Cooper's Donuts, Dewey's, Comptom's Cafeteria, Vanguard, Rioting, Riots, S.T.A.R., Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, Marsha P. Johnson, Storme Delaverie, Houston, Texas
Total Domination(.PDF) - Collage, Art, Fascism, Totalitarianism, Political Ideology, History, Nazis, Europe, Concentration Camps
A Tribute to John Brown(.PDF) - Biography, History, Slavery, Violence, Abolition, Protest, Resistance, Activism
"We're Trying to Destroy the World" - Anti-Blackness and Police Violence After Ferguson(.PDF) - Police Brutality, Policing, Law Enforcement, Legal System, Cops, Protest, Resistance, Activism, Ferguson, History, Mike Brown, Racism
Whitewashing Black History(.PDF) - Black History, Education, Information, Whiteness, Racism, Privilege, Identity, Schooling
You Can't Shoot Us All!(.PDF) - Oscar Grant, California, Police Brutality, Policing, Law Enforcement, Legal System, Cops, Protest, Resistance, Activism, History, Racism
Your Goose is Cooked, Sucka(.PDF) - Police Brutality, Policing, Law Enforcement, Legal System, Cops, Protest, Resistance, Activism, New Orleans, NOLA, History, Riots, Racism