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BOOKS

Here's a by-no-means-exhaustive selection of books (and some films) which SchNEWS writers have reviewed: so therefore the opinions are those of the individual reviewer only. If you'd like us to review your book then send a copy to the address below.

THE GUANTANAMO FILES - The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison - by Andy Worthington

DO IT YOURSELF - A Handbook For Changing The World - edited by the Trapese Collective.

THE STORY OF CRASS by George Berger

FROM DUSK TIL DAWN An inside account of the animal liberation movement by Keith Mann

PANTHER by Melvin Van Peebles

NINE MILES 'two winters of anti-roads protest’ – by Jim Hindle

A MOVEMENT OF MOVEMENTS Is another world really possible? Edited by Tom Merte

A LITTLE MATTER OF GENOCIDE Holocaust and denial in the America's by Ward Churchill

OUTLAWS OF AMERICA The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity by Dan Bergen

THE 43 GROUP - by Morris Beckman

SINCE PREDATOR CAME - Notes from the struggle for American Indian liberation

THE BRISTLE BOOK - colour book of subverts, billboards, graffiti, stencils from Bristol

THE NEXT GULF WAR London, Washington and the Oil Conflict in Nigeria

ECO-WARRIOR - BATTLE FOR MOTHER EARTH by "Disco" Dave Dragonetti - Rosedog Books

RECIPES FOR DISASTER an anarchist cookbook by the Crimethinc Collective

RIP-OFF The Scandalous inside story of the management consulting money machine by David Craig

CHOMSKY ON ANARCHISM Noam Chomsky/edited by Barry Pateman

INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND ITS FUTURE by THE UNABOMBER aka: Theodore Kaczynski

V FOR VENDETTA DC comics/Vertigo, 1988, Alan Moore/David Lloyd

BATMAN V's ANARCHY Titan Books, Alan Grant

AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH Public discourse in the age of show business, Neil Postman

LOVE ALL THE PEOPLE letters, lyrics and routines of Bill Hicks

CRIMETHINK:  DAYS OF WAR NIGHTS OF LOVE Crimethink Collective

AGAINST THE CORPSE MACHINE - Defining A Post-Left Critique Of Violence by Ashen Ruins

SUBVERSION OF POLITICS European Autonomous Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life George Katsiaficas Humanity books/Prometheus books

TERRORISTS OR FREEDOM FIGHTERS Reflections on the Liberation of Animals edited by Steve Best & Anthony J. Nocella foreword by Ward Curchill

THE TAO OF POOH / THE TE OF PIGLET Benjamin Hoff

THE CORPORATION The pathological pursuit of profit and power by Joel Bakan

STONEHENGE Celebration and Subversion by Andy Worthington

LIQUID GOLD - Carol Steinfeld

ECOLOGICAL DEBT - THE HEALTH OF THE PLANET AND THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Andrew Simms

THE FINAL ENERGY CRISIS Edited by Andrew McKillop & Sheila Newman

THE SPORT SECTION

MY FATHER AND OTHER WORKING CLASS FOOTBALL HEROES by Gary Imlach

THE BEAUTIFUL GAME? SEARCHING FOR THE SOUL OF FOOTBALL by David Conn

WHAT'S MY NAME, FOOL? - SPORTS AND RESISTANCE IN THE UNITED STATES Dave Zirin

WHEN SATURDAY COMES

FILMS

CHILDREN OF MEN - directed by Alfonso Cuarón, screenplay by Alfonso Cuarón and Timothy J Sexton, based on the novel by PD James, 2006

THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY PARTS 1 & 2 written and directed by Jamie Uys 1980/1989

Availability: For those of you in Brighton, a lot of these books are available in The Cowley Club on London Rd. For mail order across the UK, and abroad contact AK Press and Green Books, who distribute a lot of these and similar titles.

 
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