Poems of Voltairine de Cleyre by Voltairine de Cleyre – Rostie Publishing
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912)Born April 12, 1866, Leslie, Michigan, USADied June 20, 1912, Chicago, Illinois, USA (due to kidney failure)Anarchist essayist, orator, poet, and leading figure in American individualist and non-sectarian anarchism.Thomas Paine, Henry David Thoreau, Mary Wollstonecraft, and the Haymarket Affair.Voltairine de Cleyre was one of the most eloquent and influential thinkers in the…
And Fellow Members: A History of the Garland Street Literary Club of Flint, Michigan, 1888–1988 by Alice Lethbridge – Flint Book of the Week
This historical account traces the Garland Street Literary Club, one of Flint, Michigan’s oldest continuous women’s organizations, from its founding in 1888 through its first 100 years. The book recounts how seven women—wives of prominent local figures—began meeting in a home on Garland Street with the goal of intellectual self-improvement, research, and discussion rather than…
Headlight Flashes Along the Grand Trunk Railway: Flint, Michigan – Rostie Publishing
Headlight Flashes Along the Grand Trunk Railway: Flint, Michigan (1896) is a promotional and descriptive booklet produced by the Grand Trunk Railway as part of its late-19th-century publicity series highlighting communities served by the line. The Flint installment presents the city as a rapidly developing industrial and commercial center, emphasizing its strategic importance within Michigan…
Poems of Voltairine de Cleyre by Voltairine de Cleyre – Rostie Publishing
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912)Born April 12, 1866, Leslie, Michigan, USADied June 20, 1912, Chicago, Illinois, USA (due to kidney failure)Anarchist essayist, orator, poet, and leading figure in American individualist and…
Keep readingThoughts on the Education of Daughters by Mary Wollstonecraft – Rostie Publishing
Thoughts on the Education of Daughters is Mary Wollstonecraft’s early instructional treatise offering practical advice on how young women should be raised. Written before her major political works, the book…
Keep readingRecalcitrance Volume 9: Little Screw by Nikolai Yakovlevich Agnivtsev – Recalcitrance Publishing
Nikolai Yakovlevich Agnivtsev (Николай Яковлевич Агнивцев, 1888–1932) was a Russian poet, playwright, and satirist known for his wit, elegance, and nostalgic evocations of pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg. Born in Moscow, he…
Keep readingAmalgamation by Jay Fox – Rostie Publishing
“Amalgamation” argues that the principal weakness of the American labor movement is its fragmentation by craft (trade) unions, which limits the workers’ collective power. Fox contends that the path forward…
Keep readingWorld Builders: Studies in Modern Feminism by Floyd Dell – Rostie Publishing
World Builders: Studies in Modern Feminism is a collection of essays written by journalist and literary critic Floyd Dell, exploring early 20th-century feminist thought and the cultural shifts it inspired.…
Keep readingDeportation Its Meaning and Menace: Last Message to the People of America by Alexander Berkman & Emma Goldman – Rostie Publishing
The year is 1919, and the United States has traded the Great War for the escalating domestic conflict of the First Red Scare. In this atmosphere of political hysteria, the…
Keep readingThe Anarchist Revolution by George Barrett – Rostie Publishing
A British Anarchist and Propagandist, George Barrett (born George Powell Ballard, 1888–1917) was a brilliant and tragically short-lived English anarchist writer, speaker, and organizer of the 1910s.Though he trained as…
Keep readingDiary of a Sitdowner by Francis L O’Rourke – Rostie Publishing
The Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936-1937 was a landmark labor protest that fundamentally changed industrial relations in the United States.The strike was organized by the fledgling United Auto Workers (UAW)…
Keep readingWHY WE ARE ANARCHISTS by Max Nettlau – Rostie Publishing
Originally a pamphlet signed by Max Nettlau, published in 1894 by the Commonweal Anarchist Group in London. It is a declaration of beliefs: setting out why anarchists hold the views…
Keep readingPoetry from The Masses 1911 – Rostie Publishing
With selections from TM Becker, Herbert Everett, Isaac Goldberg, Wilby Heard, Varl Holiday, Emanuel Julius, James C McNally, Reginald Wright Kauffman, and Horace Traubel.The Masses was a socialist magazine published…
Keep readingPoetry from The Liberator Vol 1, No 1, March 1918 – Rostie Publishing
The Masses was a socialist magazine published in America from 1911-19147. Its demise was brought on when the federal government brought charges against it for conspiring to obstruct conscription during…
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Ramblings of an Old Coot 