Pm Press: 346 books
Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, And Real Cool Cats
Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats is the first comprehensive account of how the rise of postwar youth culture was depicted in mass-market pulp fiction. As the young created new styles in music, fashion, and culture, pulp fiction shadowed their every move, hyping and exploiting their behaviour,...
Pacifism As Pathology
Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America, third edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Pacifism as Pathology is a dissident classic. Originally written during the '80s, the seminal essay 'Pacifism as Pathology' was prompted by Ward Churchill's frustration with what he diagnosed as a growing - and deliberately self-neutralising - 'hegemony of nonviolence' on the North American left....
Barred for Life
How Black Flag's Iconic Logo Became Punk Rock's Secret Handshake
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Cataloging the legacy of the American punk rock pioneers Black Flag, this photo documentary uses stark, contrasting portraits to share the stories of the die-hard fans who wear the iconic four-barred logo tattooed on their skin. From doctors to homeless punks, stories range from the intensely personal...
Left of the Dial
Conversations with Punk Icons
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Featuring interviews with leading figures of the punk underground, including Ian MacKaye, from Minor Threat and Fugazi; Jello Biafra, from Dead Kennedys; and Dave Dictor, from MDC, this book probes the legacy of punk's sometimes fuzzy political ideology, its homegrown traditions, and its rupturing...
Spitboy Rule
Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Though not a riot grrl band, Spitboy blazed trails for women musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, but it wasn't easy. Misogyny, sexism, abusive fans, class and color blindness, and all-out racism were foes, especially for Gonzales, a Chicana and the only person of color in the band....
Signal: 01
A Journal of International Political Graphics & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Dedicated to documenting the compelling graphics, art projects, and cultural movements of international resistance and liberation struggles, this unique resource serves as an active discussion of the role of art in revolution. Introducing the artists and cultural workers who have been at the center...
Capital and Its Discontents
Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Unraveling the complicated details surrounding the world’s present economic and political climate, this collection of interviews addresses the faulty underpinnings of capitalism and discusses why the future must be economically founded otherwise. Probing into the roots of the global economic crisis,...
For All the People
Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Seeking to reclaim a history that has remained largely ignored by historians, this dramatic and stirring account examines each of the definitive American cooperative movements for social change-farmer, union, consumer, and communalist-that have been all but erased from collective memory. With an expansive...
by Jeremy Brecher
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Since its original publication in 1972, no book has done as much as Jeremy Brecher’s Strike! to bring American labor history to a wide audience. Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America and tells this exciting hidden...
by Staughton Lynd, Daniel Gross
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Legendary legal scholar Staughton Lynd teams up with influential labor organizer Daniel Gross in this exposition on solidarity unionism, the do-it-yourself workplace organizing system that is rapidly gaining prominence around the country and around the world. Lynd and Gross make the audacious argument...
Punk Rock
An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Vibrant and volatile, the punk scene left an extraordinary legacy of music and cultural change, and this work talks to those who cultivated the movement, weaving together their accounts to create a raw and unprecedented oral history of punk in the United Kingdom. From the Clash, Crass, Henry Rollins,...
by Derrick Weston Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
This debut poetry collection reveals the ongoing internal and external reconstruction of an artist's life and environment, as told through a litany of forms and myriad voices. The poems represent the quintessence of urban DC life and redefine personal relationships, masculinity, race, and history....
by Derrick Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
These stories are not about mythical creatures; here, the creatures speak for themselves. There's an orc who hates Tolkien, a young demon awash in teenage angst, an angel abandoned by Jesus who finds the Fates. Jensen creates a world both delicately dreamlike and all too real, where the villain is sometimes the victim and evil is not always what we thought.
by Jacinta Bunnell, Julie Novak
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Truly fun for all ages, this unique coloring book subversively and playfully examines the female gender stereotypes that pervade daily life. A diverse group of pictures reinforce positive gender roles throughout the book and show that girls are thinkers, creators, fighters, and healers. Some of the...