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The Freedom Shop is a not-for-profit anarchist bookshop and info-centre. Our aim is to spread radica We have are located in the front of Book Haven Bookshop.

The Freedom Shop is a not-for-profit anarchist bookshop and info-centre based in Wellington, New Zealand. We stock radical zines and pamphlets, music, badges, patches and t-shirts, alongside a collection of local and international radical books. If you think we should stock a certain book or you would like us to order one for you, let us know.The shop is run by a collective of volunteers who are d

edicated to non-hierarchical consensus-based decision-making. You can send mail to us at P.O. Box 9263, Te Aro, Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand

04/07/2025

Limited copies of this just in, a direct import from the Burma border. Invisible Yet Invincible - Narratives of Women Fighting Dictatorship in Burma/Myanmar by Ma Khin Mar Mar Kyi. They are winning too, which makes a nice change...

01/07/2025

"Anarchists have much to learn from Indigenous struggles for decolonization. [A] thought-provoking collection"
Lesley J. Wood, Professor, York University, Toronto

"Vigorously affirming anarchism's plurality, the authors make a powerful case for the reconfiguration ofanticolonial struggle"
Ruth Kinna, Professor, Loughborough University

As early as the end of the nineteenth century, anarchists such as Peter Kropotkin and Élisée Reclus became interested in Indigenous peoples, many of whom they saw as societies without a state or private property, living a form of communism. Thinkers such as David Graeber and John Holloway have continuedthis tradition of engagement with the practices of Indigenous
societies, while Indigenous activists coined the term 'anarcho-ndigenism', in reference to a long history of (often imperfect) collaboration between anarchists and Indigenous activists, over land rights and environmental issues, including recent high profile anti-pipeline campaigns.

Anarcho-Indigenism is a dialogue between anarchism and Indigenous politics. In interviews, the contributors reveal what Indigenous thought and traditions and anarchism have in common, without denying the scars left by colonialism They ultimately offer a vision of the world that combines anti-colonialism, feminism, ecology, anti-capitalism and anti-statism.

Francis Dupuis-Déri is a Professor of Political Science and a member of the Institut de Recherches et d'Études Féministes at the Université du Québec à Montréal. He is the author of several books such as Who's Afraid of the Black Blocs?. Benjamin Pillet is a translator and community organizer, with a PhD in Political Thought from the Université du Québec à Montréal.

30/06/2025

The Freedom Shop did a wee stall at the Kneecap film fundraiser for Palestine tonight. An event organised by Teachers for Palestine and the Wellington Socialist Society.

27/06/2025

This is the first critical, in-depth study of the anarchist movement in Cuba in the three decades after the republic's independence from Spain in 1898. Kirwin Shaffer shows that anarchists played significant role among Cuban leftists in shaping issues of health, education, immigration, the environment, and working-class internationalism. They also criticized the state of racial politics, cultural practices, and the conditions of children and women on the island.

In the chaotic new country, members of the anarchist movement reinterpreted the War for Independence and the revolutionary ideas of patriot José Marti, embarking
on a nationwide debate with the larger Cuban establishment about what it meant to be "Cuban." To counter the dominant culture, the anarchists created their own initiatives-schools, health institutes, vegetarian restaurants, theater and fiction writing groups, and occasional calls for nudism-and as a result they challenged both the existing elite and the occupying U.S.military forces.

Shaffer also focuses on what anarchists did to prepare the masses for a social revolution. While many of the Cuban anarchists' ideals flowed from Europe, their programs, criticisms, and literature reflected the specifics of Cuban reality and appealed to Cuba's popular classes. Using theories of working-class inter nationalism, countercultures, popular culture, and social movements, Shaffer analyzes archival records,
pamphlets, newspapers, and novels, showing how the anarchist movement in republican Cuba helped shape the country's early leftist revolutionary agenda.

Shaffer's portrait of the conflict between anarchists and their enemies illuminates the multiple forces that pervaded life on the island in the twentieth century, until the rise of the Gerardo Machado dictatorship in the 1920s. This important book places anarchism in its rightful historical role as a vital current within Cuban radical political culture.

22/06/2025

Launched at Book Haven last month, Harry Walker's 'A Voice for the Silenced' is getting plenty of air time!
Harry will be in conversation with RNZ's Mihingarangi Forbes next month (5 July). He'll be presenting his book at St Peter's Hall, Paekākāriki, in September (14 Sept). He'll also be doing a Lunchtime Gig at Unity Books Wellington (date tbc).
Harry was also personally selling his important, timely, book at Featherston Booktown's Karukatea in May.
Why important? Because Harry has given voice to the incarcerated: "the marginalised and oppressed" from inside and outside of prisons in Aotearoa New Zealand.
We have signed copies - hand-delivered by Harry - in store now!
Ngā mihi kia koe, Harry.

18/06/2025

"Theoretically sophisticated, historically precise, and politically urgent"
-Max Haiven

Finance was at the centre of every stage of the colonisation of Aotearoa, from the sale of Mãori lands and the emigration of early colonists to the founding of settler nationhood and the enforcement of colonial governance.

This book tells the story of the financial
instruments and imperatives that drove the British colonial project in the nineteenth century.
This is a history of the joint-stock company, a speculative London property market that romanticised the distant lands of indigenous peoples, and the calculated use of credit and taxation by the British to dispossess Mãori of their land and subject them to colonial rule.
By illuminating the centrality of finance in the colonisation of Aotearoa, this book not only reframes our understanding of this country's history, but also the stakes of anti-colonial struggle today.

14/06/2025

THE ESSENTIAL BOOK ON THE
MYTHS AND REALITy-BEHiND
THE STATE OF ISRAEL
In this groundbreaking book, the outspoken Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel. This edition has been updated with a new preface covering the 2023 invasion of Gaza
THE MYTHS
1.Palestine was an empty land

2. The Jews were a People without a land

3. Zionism is Judaism

4. Zionism is not colonialism

5. The Palestinians voluntarily left their homelands in 1948

6. The June 1967 War was a war of "no choice"

7. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East

8. The myths about the Oslo Agreement

9.The lies we tell about Gaza

I0. The two-state solution is the only way forward

" Along with Edward Said, Ilan Pappe is the most eloquent writer of Palestinian history.
NEW STATESMAN

07/06/2025

More than a decade has passed since the revolutionary process began in Rojava, later evolving into the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES). Guided by Abdullah Öcalan's theory of democratic confederalism, a philosophical and political project aimed at building an ecological, nonhierarchical society, the people of Rojava struggle to construct alternative, directly democratic institutions capable of transcending the capitalist nation-state.
Rojava in Focus advances a discussion about the revolution, assessing the achievements, contradictions, and various shortcomings, and grapples with the gap between aspirations and reality through constructive criticism. Essays by activists associated with the Kurdish Freedom Moyement and sympathetic critics expand our understanding of the vast changes taking place in the region, the challenges ahead, and connections to other movements around the globe. As well, they point to where the movement may head next.

Contributors include Azize Aslan, Debbie Bookchin, Kamal Chomani, Matt Broomfield, Sixtine van Outryve d'Ydewalle, Anna Rebri, and Berivan Omar, among others. The book also features interviews with members of the Rojava leadership, such as Foza Yusif, Îlham
Ehmed, Salih Muslim, and activists of the DAANES.expand our understanding of the vast changes taking place in the region, the challenges ahead, and connections to other movements around the globe. As well, they point to where the movement may head next.

Contributors include Azize Aslan, Debbie Bookchin, Kamal Chomani, Matt Broomfield, Sixtine van Outryve d'Ydewalle, Anna Rebri, and Berivan Omar, among others. The book also features interviews with members of the Rojava leadership, such as Foza Yusif, Îlham
Ehmed, Salih Muslim, and activists of the DAANES.

05/06/2025

Pōneke whānau, join us on Friday 13th June from 12PM for a rally outside the Corrections National Office on The Terrace with speeches followed by a hīkoi to Parliament in opposition to the Government's expansion of Waikeria and Christchurch Men’s Prisons.

Accessibility: nearest elevator access to The Terrace from Lambton Quay is via 142 Lambton Quay, or ramp access via Farmers Lane. Protest marshals will be on hand if assistance is required. https://www.facebook.com/events/2254596811657088/

Image description: Picture of a poster with three protesters, with one protestor being masked and using a megaphone, a second protestor having their tamariki on their shoulders holding a tino rangatiratanga flag and a third protestor holding a "Care Not Cages" placard with the following text on top:

"People Against Prisons Aotearoa

Stop the Megaprisons!

Rally against prison expansions at Waikeria and Christchurch.

Speeches followed by hīkoi to Parliament Lawn.

Friday, 13 June, 12PM
Outside the Department of Corrections
44/52 The Terrace"

Poster by and on Instagram

09/03/2025

Sista, Stanap Strong! is an anthology of new writing from Vanuatu by three generations of women - and the first of its kind. With poetry, fiction, essay, memoir and song, its narrative arc stretches from the days of blackbirding to Independence in 1980 Vanuatu's coming of age
In 2020. Most of these witers are ni-Vanuatu living in Vanuatu. Some have set down roots in New Zealand, Fiji, the Solomon Islands and Canada. Some were born overseas and have made Vanuatu their home, One is just twenty; another is an octogenarian.

The writers in this anthology have chosen to harness the coloniser's language, English, for their own purposes.
They are writing against racism, colonialism, misogyny and sexism. Writing across bloodlines and linguistic boundaries. Professing their love for ancestors, offspring and language - Bislama, vernacular and English what these writers also have in common is a sharp eye for detail, a love of words, a deep connection to Vanuatu, and a willingness to share a glimpse of their world.
Includes a foreword by Viran Molisa Trief.

Address

160 Riddiford Street, Newtown
Wellington

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Monday	10am - 5pm
Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm
Sunday	10am - 5pm

Website

http://freedomshopaotearoa.blogspot.co.nz/

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