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Peace, love and anarchy,
The Bastard Collective.

Published by See Sharp Press

30 Pages – English

Originally published in 1949 by Haldeman-Julius as a Little Blue Book.

Arguably the best of McCabe’s attacks on Christianity, the ex-Priest goes into detail on the background of the Catholic attitude to contraception, its roots and what role it will play on a planet with a ‘finite carrying capacity’ if Armageddon doesn’t come and whisk us all to heaven.

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Published by Cat@alyst.

567 pages – English

Originally Published circa 2005.

Michael <predator> Carlton was an activist, scientist, hacker, explorer, coder and general outlier from Sydney. He may be remembered globally as the coder who wrote the majority of the original Indymedia site, used as an independant media clearing house at the watershed summit protest in Seattle in 1999. Indymedia, in turn, may be seen as the precursor to both the independant media ‘blogosphere’ and Wikileaks, and the Seattle summit protest as the forerunner to the present Occupy movement.

This text contains several of <predator>’s writings, including parody, articles on drain exploration, biology, molecular genetics, the work-in-progress of his PhD thesis. The key work included, however, is the online journal he kept throughout his battle with terminal cancer, taking the reader on a tour through Sydney’s ’00s activist, anarchist and underground scene. The work is far more moving and profound than can be summed up here.

Highly recommended reading.

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The Prison Industrial Complex and the Global Economy

Published by Kersplebedeb

25 Pages – English

Originally Published in 1998.

An introduction to the interaction between prisons and the world economy, both as a place for incarcerating resistors and drug users and in supplying cheap labour and as a massive privatised services industry.

Printing copy – 150dpi, first-last landscape layout, 13MB.

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Published by See Sharp Press

13 Pages – English

Originally Published in 1943 by Haldeman-Julius as a Little Blue Book.

Ex-priest McCabe tackles the history of Christianity and explains the pre-existence of almost every well-known part of the New Testament in pre-Christian mythologies and the events that lead to the foundation of the Christian church as we know it today.

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Published by Oxford University Press

125 Pages / 3hrs 7min – English

Originally published in 2004

British author and anarchist Colin Ward introduces anarchism for Oxford’s popular AVSI series. An easy to read introduction to anarchism for the novice, also interesting for the experienced anarchist as Ward never generalises but always gives his own honest interpretation.

Audiobook and Reading Copy (mp3 & sequential portrait pdf), 112MB zip.

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Published by the Committee to End The Marion Lockdown

36 Pages – English

Originally Published circa 1992(?)

A history of Marion, the super maximum security prison in Illinois, built to replace the infamous Alcatraz. At the time of writing, Marion had been in lock down for eight years (it remained so for over a quarter of a century) so prisoners were in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day. Amnesty International described it as ‘inhumane’ and the emergency practice of ‘control unit’ prison eventually became a design feature in later US prisons, such as ADX Florence, also discussed here.

Printing Copy – 150dpi, first-last landscape layout, 23MB

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53 Minutes – English

Originally released in 2000.

The story of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army overthrowing Rio Tinto’s control of the island by destroying Panguna copper mine and defeating the blockade by the PNG government by using the weapons taken from mercenaries, the island’s natural resources for food and building materials and processing coconut oil for fuel. Winner of the Amnesty International Award for Best Documentary.

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1hr 13mins – English

Originally Released in 2003

The world’s most famous anarchist, Noam Chomsky is generally revered as a public treasure and conscience of the academic and intellectual world. This documentary follows him on tour and gives a brief glimpse into both his ideas and opinions and his life as a ” rockstar intellectual”, lecturing to sellout crowds around the globe.

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Published by the Refugee Embassy

48 Pages – English

Originally Published in 2002.

This booklet discusses the difficulties of the refugees detained in Woomera Detention Centre in the early 00s – the ones who remained or were recaptured after the breakout, which the authors participated in, until its closure in 2003. It contains both the background stories of the refugees and the experiences they had in Australia’s most notorious mandatory detention centre while waiting for a visa.

Printing copy – 200dpi, first-last landscape layout, 40MB.

Reading copy – 200dpi, sequential portrait layout, 42MB.