★Rab-Rab Press
Look at K (Book)
The anti-fascist alliterative text, precursor to Oulipo, by Olavi Laiho, written in 1944 in Oulu prison just before his execution for high treason.
Finland and Socialism (Book)
Translated into English for the first time, Alexandra Kollontai's gripping account of the early years of the socialist movement in Finland, originally published in 1906 and banned the following year with an arrest warrant issued for Kollontai: a first-hand report and political analysis of the organisation of workers against tsarist autocracy and capitalist oppression.
Kollontaï's writings give an overview of the early years of socialist history in Finland, in which she played an active role, and…
A Shot in the Factory (Book)
This book explores the theme of workers' struggles at the heart of Finnish director Erkko Kivikoski's 1973 film, drawing on a seminal report by writer Marja-Leena Mikkola on female industrial workers and placing both works in the broader context of the history of the Finnish labour movement.
A Shot in the Factory: Workers into the Frame is based on the 1973 Finnish film directed by Erkko Kivikoski. Set at the dawn of the neoliberal era, the film A Shot in the Factory [Laukaus Tehtaalla] tells th…
Optically Suspicious (Book)
Edited, designed, and printed by Matrijaršija, this riso-printed book, which inaugurates the Tehnika series, is based on research conducted on the left-wing union of typographers and printers active in Yugoslavia in the 1920s and 1930s.
Optically Suspicious is a publication by Matrijaršija on the life, work, and cultural and artistic activities of the Union of Graphic and Typographic Workers of Yugoslavia. The book is the result of research in the Union's archives in the Printed Material Collect…
Dramatic Depiction of the German Peasants' War of 1525 (Book)
First English edition of the visionary play by German playwright and communist activist Berta Lask (1878–1967).
Elles sont de sortie #99 – Dead Dogs Vaginas (Book)
Luxurious reproduction of a sketchbook by Bruno Richard dating from 1987. This enormous ESDS opus includes numerous drawings in a raw, dirty and neo-primitive style. A type of drawing by Bruno Richard that would later be featured in the anthology Nègres Vulves Noires Bites. Preface by Gary Panter. Bruno Richard (born in 1956 in Curepipe, Mauritius) is an artist, illustrator and graphic designer. Co-founder with Pascal Doury of the magazine Elles sont de sortie in 1977, one of the first French gr…
A Journal of Militant Sound Inquiry – Vol. 1 – Naming the Moment
For their thirtieth anniversary, Ultra-Red, the international sound art and popular education collective is releasing the first volume of Ulta-red: A Journal of Militant Sound Inquiry, investigating movement-based listening practices that take the forms of militant inquiry and political education. In the words of Ultra-red, "No movement without listening!"The initial issue of Ulta-red examines "conjunctural analysis," or "naming the moment," as a practice of collective inquiry. The issue begins …
Free Jazz Communism (4th Reprint Silver Cover, Book)
Actualising the concert of Archie Shepp–Bill Dixon Quartet at the 8th World Festival of Youth and Students in Helsinki 1962, Free Jazz Communism contextualizes the politics of free jazz music in light of global decolonisation movements, anti-war activism, structures of racial capitalism, and forms of avant-garde music.
From Scratch – Albanian Summer Picaresque (Book)
An account of an album about Albania by British experimental musicians made in the eighties. Also involving stories about the Albanian Society, William Bland, A. L. lloyd, RCPB ML, and Cornelius Cardew.