We are really excited for people to see the new books that we are carrying and to engage with the ideas within. We would also like to express our solidarity with the Student Occupation events that are happening around California. We have expressed our solidarity by hosting one of the many websites around the occupation and publishing a collection of inspiring articles and commentary around them.

After the Fall

Website – After the Fall Communiques from Occupied California

We are offering you the paper itself for free (just the cost of postage)

Only at Little Black Cart

Willful Disobedience: The Collection – by Wolfi Landstreicher – From Ardent Press

During the ten years of publication, Willful Disobedience wove together a web of ideas situation in the following threads: an anarchism based in Stirner-influenced egoism; an insurrectionary approach that sees individual insurrection to be as important as social insurrection; a non-primitivist critique of civilization that provides no program or model for a future society…

The Time Has Come To Say Things Without Mincing Words
LBC – Willful Disobedience

Anarchy Works – by Peter Gelderloos – From Ardent Press

A book taking 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 well documented to be strictly mythology, and too expansive to be strictly anthropology, this is an inspiring answer to the people who say that anarchists are utopian: a point-by-point introduction to how anarchy can and has actually worked.

Still Available

• Nihilist Communism – by Monsieur Dupont
• Letters #3
• Species Being – by Frere Dupont

New to Little Black Cart

Fire to the Prisons #8 – From Fire to the Prisons

The most consistent Insurrectionary magazine in North America this fierce publication is a must read when your spirits are low.

LBC – Fire to the Prisons

Fifth Estate #382 – From Fifth Estate

A Tribute to the Radical Imagination of Ursula K. Le Guin. This alone is enough to convince most readers to take a look at this long(est) running anti-authoritarian (cough) publication out of TN, MI, and the world!

LBC – Fifth Estate

Flood – From Max Cafard

…a biting send-up to the follies brought on New Orleans after Katrina in 2005, lavishly illustrated, written by Max Cafard, a lifelong inhabitant of the Island of New Orleans, the author of The Surre(gion)alist Manifesto and Other Writings (Exquisite Corpse, 2004) and many other works

LBC – Flood Book

A Voyage to New Orleans – From Elisee Reclus

Élisée Reclus (March 15, 1830 – July 4, 1905), also known as Jean Jacques Élisée Reclus, was a renowned French geographer, writer and anarchist. His Voyage to New Orleans remained untranslated into English, and little-known for almost a century and a half. This volume presents the first English translation, as well as a brief introduction to his life and work, a translation of his letters from Louisiana, and a short survey of his later social and political ideas.

LBC – A Voyage to New Orleans

Errata

• A new portal and affiliation of sites that we are sure will entertain and amuse you.
• Til the Clock Stops – crime, opacity, insurrection
• The Anvil – a site and paper of reviews and intelligent discussion
• much, much more

Stay True

We are heading to the East Coast later this month for the NAASN conference. If you are in the area (Hartford CT) you should swing by and say hello.

Thanks to everyone!

Only at Little Black Cart

Nihilist Communism
From Ardent Press
Originally self-published in 2003, now edited and designed by Ardent Press, still one of the most hard-nosed books to call the left to account — with scathing, thoughtful rebuttals to those who continue to believe that the revolution is just a matter of consciousness-raising and recruitment, or that identity politics has anything to do with Marxist thought.

Letters #3
From Letters Journal
An anti-state communist political journal, this publication includes the most recent writings of frere Dupont (author of species being and co-author of Nihilist Communism), among others.

Blackbird Raum
From Black Powder Press
Anarchist folk punk band Blackbird Raum’s spanking new cd with songs about ravens, ned kelly, the barricades and the conquest of bread.
Downloadable version too

Species Being
From Ardent Press
In this small and rich text, one of the authors of Nihilist Communism introduces an anti-political perspective in the form of letters, essays, and dialogs.

New to Little Black Cart

Slingshot organizer
From Slingshot
Your favorite pocket-sized calendar is here to ease your way into the new year.
With lots of interesting and possibly useful information, including tips on dealing with the police… in case you have friends who might need it.

Communicating Vessels #21
From Communicating Vessels
This surrealist-inspired anti-state communist journal gets better and better, as the producer gains skill and confidence in his press technique. This issue includes the enviable letters section, a tribute to recently deceased surrealist Franklin Rosemont, the excellent Bestiary by Kenneth Rexroth, the beginning of a series of pieces on surrealism in the Arab world (Egypt, for this issue), and reviews of books.

Politics is not a Banana
From Institute for Experimental Freedom
The Journal of Vulgar Discourse Here is the latest from the high design, fuck-friendly insurrectionaries at the Institute for Experimental Freedom. This issue is more like a small book than a zine, with spot color (pink, to be exact) throughout.

Modesto Anarcho #12 – the time for dialog is over
From Modesto Anarcho
The latest edition of this local-oriented journal has a color cover. Heavier on the class struggle than the insurrectionary anarchism.

Ker-Bloom! #80
From Ker-Bloom
Our letterpress heroine explains the difference between straightedge and alcohol-free, ponders esoteric and arcane distinctions, tells xxx jokes, and waxes philosophic in general.

Towards a Gay Communism
From Pink and Black
One of the remarkable aspects of this pamphlet is that it contains an excellent and relevant critique of capitalism and social control from an explicitly queer perspective, something that is rare even these days…

Pink and Black Attack #3
From Pink and Black
An interview with Terence Kissack, the author of the excellent book Free Comrades: Anarchism and Homosexuality in the United States 1895-1917, along with an excerpt from that book, an excellent read.
We also emphasize the legal troubles being faced by many of our comrades, including those targeted by the Alliance Defense Fund lawsuit after the Lansing church action, and Ariel Attack, a comrade (and contributor to this fine publication) from Denver who was arrested recently.

Fire to the Prisons #7 – For Nothing Against Everything
From A Longing for Collapse
Your favorite East Coast Insurrectionary quarterly brings you another fiery issue. “Contrary to what has been repeated to us since childhood, intelligence doesn’t mean knowing how to adapt; or if that is a kind of intelligence, it’s the intelligence of slaves.”

Prolegomena – to a study of the return of the repressed in history
From Black Powder Press
A collection of quotations from assorted anarchists, outlaws, and ne’er-do-wells, as well as a few enemies thereof.

Tech stuff and errata

LBC Has a blog &
an RSS feed for new items and announcements

LBC Downloads include all three albums from Blackbird Raum

1. Under the Starling Host
2. Swidden
3. purse-seine

Upcoming

• Willful Disobedience: the book!
• Til the Clock Stops – beginning texts for the constitution of a war-machine
• Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed double issue – Spring 2010
• much, much more

Finally we’re getting some of the titles that we picked up in Seattle onto the site. Particularly noteworthy to me is the pamphlet “Towards a Gay Communism,” partly because the title is so evocative (so many ideologies need to be shaken up and mixed with fruit!), and partly because of the blerb on the back: “A demonstration/of the extra-parliamentary left/is in crisis/a group of homosexuals/crazy with love for communism/have managed to get close/perhaps too close/to the comrades/these are now very red/but this time with embarrassment/their hands on their arses/they arent’ even able/to consult mao/to settle the dispute”

Fun!

Ker-Bloom #80 – LBC

Also up recently is the latest of the Ker-Bloom! series, issue 80 and probably my favorite so far, talking about the difference between being straightedge and not using drugs (specifically alcohol).

Modesto Anarcho – LBC

The latest edition of this local-oriented journal has a color cover, correspondence from prisoners; a report on the Firehouse 51 (billed as “Modesto’s newest proletarian hangout”); a piece reporting on police brutality and surveillance, a report by the Central Valley Immigrant Rights Network, info about the Bad Date Sheet (a list for sexworkers of dangerous men posing as clients) and — in a statement about the flow of information in this world — a report via libcom (a Britain-based website) on an action by homeless folks in Sacramento (the capital of California).
Heavier on the class struggle than the insurrectionary.

Anarchist folk punk band Blackbird Raum’s spanking new cd, with the songs turning away, catherine’s wheel, lucasville, all turning backs in the meadow and wait while bones are thrown, to the barricades!, william, the helm of ned kelly, crumbs, snare, old one eye, conquest of bread, a rat in my dream, and path of raven.
(also, we got an influx of their teeshirts, so get ‘em while they’re here.)

This surrealist-inspired anti-state communist journal gets better and better, as the producer gains skill and confidence in his press technique. Someone once described him as an old man, and while chronologically that is not correct, it does accurately describe the appeal to old fashioned values that he describes, eschewing email and telephone for a slower pace.
This issue includes the enviable letters section (necessarily more robust, since it is the only way to communicate with the publication), a tribute to recently deceased surrealist Franklin Rosemont, the excellent Bestiary by Kenneth Rexroth, the beginning of a series of pieces on surrealism in the Arab world (Egypt, for this issue), reviews of books including Kent Winslow’s Landmarks in the Desert and Bock’s The Principle of Hope, among other things.

Politics is Not a Banana:What are You Doing After…
the Orgy or Insurrection or Whatever?
Author:
Various

The Journal of Vulgar Discourse Here is the latest from the high design, fuck-friendly insurrectionaries at the Institute for Experimental Freedom.

This issue is more like a small book than a zine (following in the footsteps of recent journals Endnotes and Letters 3, although that might be the only similarity), with spot color (pink, to be exact) throughout.

The table of contents go likes this:
Editorial, Notes on the State of Exception, Public Sex and Social War, I am a Bulging Tangle I am a Stringy Mass, I want 2.0 Fuck, O.K., Taking Communion at the End of History, The Revelation of Saint Narcissus, etc.

Here are the ongoing adventures of Baudrillard and the Swingerettes, still working on how inspirational porn is the revolutionary catechism.

The newest offering from the estimable Kate Sharpley Library, this is a 2007 article by Anatoly Dubovik, “The Anarchist Underground in the Ukraine in the 1920s and 1930s: outlines of history”; and “The Story of a Leaflet and the Fate of Anarchist Varshavkiy (from the History of Anarchist Resistance to Totalitarianism)”.

Nester Makhno, the great Ukrainian anarchist peasant rebel, escaped over the border to Romania in August 1921 and never returned. But the struggle between Makhnovists and Bolsheviks continued into the mid 1920s.

Here is new research that shows the extent of the anarchist opposition to Bolshevik rule in the Ukraine during the ’20s and ’30s.

Your favorite pocket-sized calendar is here to ease your way into the new year.

With lots of interesting and possibly useful information, including tips on dealing with the police… in case you have friends who might need it.

Loads of fun colors (pictured is “beet it”, commemorating the passing of a pop icon) – so specify what color family you’d like (dark, light, somber, bright, blue, green, purple, revolutionary )and we’ll do our best. We can’t promise specific colors but the slingshot page doesn’t really show the colors that accurately anyway – so categories of color (and/or multiple options) is better than otherwise.

This fall we plan on heading out to book events in the Northwest, the East Coast, and perhaps the South. We look forward to meeting with you if we are in the neighborhood and finding ways that we can work together to bring ideas to life and make the anarchist project exciting and successful.

New to Little Black Cart

Nihilist Communism is out, updated and with new commentary by one of the authors.

Originally self-published in 2003, now edited and published by Ardent Press, still one of the most hard-nosed books to call the left to account — with scathing, thoughtful rebuttals to those who continue to believe that the revolution is just a matter of consciousness-raising and recruitment, or that identity politics has anything to do with Marxist thought.

Many will reject the materialism inherent in this analysis, but must appreciate the logical consistency (and the occasional brilliance of writing) of Monsieur Dupont; so refreshing in a world in which people withdraw to muddle-headedness in incoherent attempts to fit all topics into some kind of grab bag, attempts seemingly designed to avoid offense rather than to follow ideas through to their logical (or even illogical) conclusions.

Nihilist Communism – Published by Ardent Press

Radical Mycology

A new zine from the Spore Liberation Front exploring the numerous uses for mushrooms and their implications for ecoactivists and other Earth friendly folk. From food to medicine to paper and dyes to the amazing new field of myco-rememdiation (the use of mushrooms to clean up oil spills and restore damaged habitats), this zine gives a thorough overview of the greater fungi with a novel, radical perspective.

Radical Mycology – Published by the SLF

Letters #3 – An Anti-Political Communist Journal

This journal wishes to understand and analyze capitalism and crisis, attack the Left, critically engage with our own ideas and practices, and develop a more dynamic transgression from the political. We do not call ourselves communists in an effort to breathe life into corpses but as an acknowledgement that we are not theoretical fils du vent. This journal is not the expression of a political party or organization and seeks no adherents or official line. Our aim is to bring maximum disorder to habitual perspectives.

Letters Journal

Revolutionary Solidarity

Originally published by Elephant Editions, here are writings by Aldo Perego, Alfredo Bonanno, Massimo Passamani, and Pierleone Porcu on the meaning of solidarity, a topic with on-going relevance.

Revolutionary Solidarity – From Black Powder Press

LBC Music

Little Black Cart is working with anarchist (and anti-political) musicians who are looking for distribution that parallels their values. We are starting with a few titles but will be lining up more music over time. New music includes hip-hop from the Thought Crime Collective and the Dandelion Junk Queens

LBC Music

And now, let us draw your attention to other books and explosive ideas

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Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed #60

The folks at AJODA just found another box of this formerly sold-out issue of Anarchy, so now you can have your very own. This is the Democracy Bites issue – being articles and arguments about why democratic processes are not what anarchists ought to be striving for. This issue also continues the history of the magazine that was started in issue 59, and has reviews of Recipes for Disaster, Action Reaction, Gruesome Acts of Capitalism, etc.

Upcoming

Over the next few weeks and months we have exciting things coming in that we want to make sure you are aware of

• Willful Disobedience: the book!
• untitled book of new French translations
• AJODA double issue
• much, much more

Until next time,
Little Black Cart