A few titles recommended by Camas Collective volunteers.
Books
Against His-tory, Against Leviathan by Fredy Perlman.
-His major work, this title is a vast study of the rise of civilization and totalitarian lifestyles and a profound affirmation of the struggle to reassert human values. One of the most significant and influential anarchic texts of the last few decades.
Ndreas by Andrea Dorea
This amazing document chronicles, as its subtitle says, "One woman's fight to die her own way." Andrea was involved with Os Cangaceiros, a group of social rebels who refused the slavery of work and mercilessly attacked the prison system of France in the 1980s and 90s. In 1985, she learned that she had cancer. She underwent surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatment. Then in 1990, she walked out of the medical world for good to grasp her life and her death as her own.
A Problem of Memory by Taylor Sparrow
A Problem of Memory makes history immediately useful to struggles for liberation.
Rooted in coversations with students, educators, organizers and historians, this book connects the “transportation” of Irish people to the New World with the Haitian revolution, John Brown’s resistance against slavery, and present day struggles to end racial disparities. A central focal point of the book is Frederick Douglass High School, an all-black (and officially "failing") school in the now infamous 9th Ward of New Orleans.
Zines
Armed Joy by Alfredo Bonanno
"This book was written in 1977 in the momentum of the revolutionary struggles taking place in Italy at the time, and that should be borne in mind when reading it today. ... This book has become topical again, but in a different way. Not as a critique of a heavy monopolising structure that no longer exists, but because it can point out the potent capabilities of the individual on his or her road, with joy, to the destruction of all that which oppresses and regulates them.
Before ending I should mention that the book was ordered to be destroyed in Italy. The Italian Supreme Court ordered it to be burned. All the libraries who had a copy received a circular from the Home Ministry ordering its incineration. More than one librarian refused to burn the book, considering such a practice to be worthy of the Nazis or the Inquisition, but by law the volume cannot be consulted. For the same reason the book cannot be distributed legally in Italy and many comrades had copies confiscated during a vast wave of raids carried out for that purpose. I was sentenced to eighteen months' prison for writing this book."
Alfredo M. Bonanno Catania, 14 July 1993 --from the introduction
325 - Issue #5 - An Insurgent magazine of Social War & Anarchy.
Topics include: Indigenous Resistance in BC, European Anarchist Movements, Direct Action Updates, Prison Abolition, Prisoner Updates, etc..... A must read!
Anti-Semitism & the Beruit Pogrom by Fredy Perlman
- A passionate critique of Zionism, the modern pogromists, and the civilized "cheerleaders of the death-squads."
The Trial Statement of Nikos Maziotis - Greek Anarchist Intervention in Social Struggles
-Very inspirational and passionate anti-authoritarian speech made to the Greek courts by Maziotis upon his sentencing for planting a bomb at the Greek Ministry of Industry, and the solidarity of Greek Anarchist fighting for his release.
