Much to his own disappointment Tariq Ali's Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties is now a staple on bookstore over stock piles after its recent re-publication two years ago.

It's one of those works that confirms history is easier to digest if people can hinge events on individual characters, Germany had Dutschke, Paris Cohn-Bendit so here Ali consciously stands himself in as that token foreigner who through a few waves of a well educated Oxford finger summoned a mass movement into being against imperialism abroad.

Whatever about those that hoot for the progress of history as if some grand design were at work, the working class of the nineteenth century were more than aware of what had been lost with the onset of the industrial revolution. As someone who had lived through some of the rougher years of hunger in 1840's Manchester - albeit removed from discomfort - Mary Gaskell produced her novel Mary Barton as a reaction, capturing a world with direct memories of the "pleasant mysteries" of a romanticised rural life abandoned for the urban where, as Engel's had it "the rapid extension of manufacture demanded hands."

You won't get any Starbucks coffee at Exile Info- shop, Ottawa's first anarchist bookstore. And don't try to pay with your capitalist credit cards, either.

Chapters, this is not.

The new Ottawa bookstore opened this week to "provide access to alternative media and resources."

Read on..

The Irish based Workers' Solidarity Movement has just published the 13 edition of their theoretical journal Red and Black Revolution.

Common Cause comrades might be able to pass on copies to those interested.

The first article to be published online is on Prospects for the left in Turkey

Interesting to see that Wayne Price of NEFAC NYC has a new Book coming out called The Abolition of the State: Anarchist & Marxist Perspectives.

Many might be familiar with Wayne's writings from his monthly columns at Anarkismo and according to promotional material floating around the net his new book covers