This library page is a list of recommendations of various media (books, films, music etc) that are at least loosely linked to Anarchism. I’ll only link stuff I’ve actually personally reviewed.
Special mention also to The Anarchist Library – go there if you want to read and learn for free 🙂
Something missing from the library? Drop me a note!
Books
Title
Author
Comment
The conquest of bread
Peter Kropotkin
The book that got me into anarcho-communism
Mutual aid: A factor of evolution
Peter Kropotkin
More scientific than The Bread Book but fascinating counter to the misunderstood principle of ‘survival of the fittest’.
Fields, factories and workshops
Peter Kropotkin
Harder to read than the first two of the series primarily due to the now outdated economic specifics.
Natives: Race & class in the ruins of empire
Akala
Akala’s specialism is tackling areas of Britain’s history that is rarely talked about openly or taught in schools. Great read
Down and out in Paris and London
George Orwell
Fascinating insight into working life in Paris and unemployment in London.
The day of the sardine
Sid Chaplin
Great little coming of age story about working class life in 1960s Newcastle
The lion and the unicorn: Socialism and the English genius
George Orwell
Invisible women: Data bias in a world desgined for men
Caroline Criado Perez
From crash test dummies to transport routes. Understanding how data drives modern society can be fascinating anyway – but even more so as we realise it’s nearly only done by considering men.
The ABC of Anarchism
Alexander Berkman
Antifa: the anti-facist handbook
Mark Bray
Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race
Reni Eddo-Lodge
On anarchism
Noam Chomsky
Anarchy
Errico Malatesta
Anarcho-syndicalism
Rudolf Rocker
No one is too small to make a difference
Greta Thunberg
Chavs: the demonization of the working class
Owen Jones
The Establishment: and how they get away with it
Owen Jones
Talking to my daughter about the economy: A brief history of capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis
The road to Wigan Pier
George Orwell
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
The ragged trousered philanthropists
Robert Tressell
1984
George Orwell
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Farenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Films
Title
Director
Comment
The trial of the Chicago 7
Aaron Sorkin
Film about the trial of 7 anti-Vietnam war protesters in Chicago
13th
Ava DuVernay
US Documentary about how slavery was never really abandoned and was only replaced by mass-incarceration
