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Jura Books

Locality: Sydney, Australia

Phone: +61 2 9550 9931

Address: 440 Parramatta Road 2049 Sydney, NSW, Australia

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25.01.2022 We're open til 7 today and we've got some hecking revolutionary books for you.

24.01.2022 Just what is this anarchism thing anyway? (from Black Powder Press via Margaret Killjoy)

24.01.2022 Todays book of the day is Us Women, Our Ways, Our World edited by Darlene Oxenham, Jeannie Herbert, Jill Milroy, & Pat Dudgeon. This collection engages with questions such as: What makes Aboriginal women strong? Why are grandmothers so important (even ones never met)? How is the connection to country different for Aboriginal people compared to non-Aboriginal peoples love of nature or sense of belonging to an area? What is Aboriginal spirituality? $34 pop into the shop Saturdays 125 or DM for mail order.

24.01.2022 We have zero faith in the colonial regime's capacity to deliver justice for Kumanjayi Walker and his family, but we hope like hell they'll prove us wrong.

22.01.2022 Today's book of the day is Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis. This short, accessible argument for prison abolition points out that the prison-industrial-complex has had little or no effect on crime, and disproportionately incarcerates poor people, Black people, and people of colour, while generating obscene profits. $18 visit the shop Saturdays 125 or DM for mail order.

22.01.2022 Sad to lose such an amazing thinker, author and anarchist too soon. Rest in power comrade.

22.01.2022 Marquis Bey, author of Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Towards a Black Anarchism: "anarchism commits to engendering a world in which the state is abolished; no one has authority over others, which is to say that we are all in non-hierarchized relation to one another; and any and all rules or ethics that might affect someone ought to be decided upon in conversation with that person."

21.01.2022 Today's book of the day is Chicago Seven: Testimony from the 1968 Conspiracy Trial. If you've watched the Sorkin film on Netflix (and even if you haven't) here is a more historically-accurate version of events. $19 pop into the shop Saturdays 125, Fridays 27, or DM us for mail order.

20.01.2022 Today's book of the day is The Feminist and The Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence by Judith Levine and Erica R. Meiners. A powerful feminist case for accountability without punishment and sexual safety and pleasure without injustice. Is it possible to confront the culture of abuse? Is it possible to hold harm-doers accountable without recourse to a criminal justice system that redoubles injuries, fails survivors, and retrenches the conditions that m...ade such abuse possible? Drawing on interviews, extensive research, reportage, and history, The Feminist and the Sex Offender develops an intersectional feminist approach to ending sexual violence. It maps with considerable detail the unjust sex offender regime while highlighting the alternatives we urgently need. $38 visit the shop Saturdays 125 or DM for mail order.

19.01.2022 Gut-wrenching interview about being gay and Aboriginal in prison. The prison-industrial-complex is a tool of colonisation there's no justice without prison abolition.

19.01.2022 Today's book of the day is Woman From No Where by Hazel McKellar. Born in the Depression, sent out to work at 11, married at 16, a mother at 17 and on the track as a drover's wife, Hazel McKellar soon became a drover herself in charge of 5,000 head of cattle. After the Cunnumulla 'riot' she became a consultant and sat on a number of committees and co-operatives fighting for equality and social justice for Indigenous people. In 1981, Hazel won the Woman of the Year Award. $18 visit the shop Saturdays 125 or DM for mail order

19.01.2022 Today's book of the day is Black Liberation and Palestine Solidarity by Lenni Brenner and Matthew Quest. This collection of essays discusses the historical response of African American freedom movements to the colonial settler state of Israel and its role in American Imperialism in the Middle East. Brenner and Quest offer concise portraits of the Palestine freedom movement, the meanings of Zionism, and Black-Jewish disputes about ethnic pluralism in the United States. Through nuanced discussions of racism, capitalism, imperialism, and state power, their work helps to clarify one of the most controversial legacies of the Black Power movement. $23 pop into the shop Saturdays 125, Fridays 27, or DM us for mail order.

18.01.2022 Shana tova to all our Jewish comrades! Here are some of our favourite books on Jewish culture, history, and politics: That Precious Strand of Jewishness That Challenges Authority by Leon Rosselson $8 Refugee: a Kind of Jewish Childhood by Joe Rich $23... Hope into Practice: Jewish Women Choosing Justice Despite our Fears by Penny Rosenwasser $33 Judenstaat: the Novel of a Jewish State in Germany by Simone Zelitch $26 Jewish Noir: Contemporary Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds edited by Kenneth Wishnia $23 Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism by Alain Brossat and Sylvia Klingberg $18 The Anti-Jewish Riots in Oslo by Eirik Eiglad $23 Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto by Bernard Goldstein $29 Justice, Justice Shall You Pursue: A History of New Jewish Agenda by Ezra Berkley Nepon $20 Anarchists Against the Wall: Direct Action and Solidarity with the Palestinian Popular Struggle by Uri Gordon and Ohal Grietzer $16

18.01.2022 Fundraiser for the family of Shiralee Tilberoo (Aunty Sherry Fisher), who died in police custody on September 10 #AboriginalLivesMatter

18.01.2022 Liberation won't come from electing the lesser evil, it comes from collective struggle and working class solidarity.

17.01.2022 Today's book of the day is What do we want? A political history of Aboriginal land rights in New South Wales by Heidi Norman. The 1978 land rights inquiry and the subsequent land rights laws brought Aboriginal people and the state into new and different relationships of power. Thirty years later, and with more than a billion dollars in land assets, a near billion-dollar investment fund, and with more than 115 local Aboriginal land councils, the resultant network of councils... is the largest Aboriginal representative body in the country. What do we want? is a story full of possibility, tensions and difficult entanglement as Aboriginal people, taking up the political demand of self-determination have worked to address their community disadvantage and grappled with the expectations of government and accountability. $39 visit the shop Saturdays 125 or DM for mail order.

16.01.2022 Lizzy Dizzy got some new merchandise for you all.. $30 shirts with all proceeds going towards the funding of a fully independent black bus for black business. ... Inbox for payment and pickup options pls. THANK YOU to Peter Strong Vectorpunk for printing for me!! And thanks to my deadly Gumbaynggirr warriors for modelling Timothy Jarrett, and my lil black duck #StopBlackDeathsInCustody #BlackLivesMatter #BlackLandMatters #Love See more

15.01.2022 The rise in police and fascist violence had made trauma first aid a necessary skill for protesters.

15.01.2022 Today's book of the day is Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America by Kristian Williams. Every year, tens of thousands are framed, blackmailed, beaten, sexually assaulted, or killed by cops. Individual lives, families, and communities are destroyed. In this extensively revised and updated edition of his seminal study of policing in the United States, Kristian Williams shows that police brutality isn't an anomaly, but is built into the very meaning of law enforcement.... From antebellum slave patrols to today's unarmed youth being gunned down in the streets, "peace keepers" have always used force to shape behaviour, repress dissent, and defend the powerful. Our Enemies in Blue is a well-researched page-turner that both makes historical sense of this legalised social pathology and maps out possible alternatives. $33 visit the shop Saturdays 125 or DM for mail order.

14.01.2022 Todays book of the day is False Claims of Colonial Thieves by Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella a challenging and unapologetic tete-a-tete. Papertalk Green and Kinsella call into question what we think we know about this country, colonisation, land and identity. Each poem is part of a striking conversation that surrounds topics such as childhood, history, life, love, mining, death, respect and cultural diversity. This extraordinary publication weaves two differing lives and experiences together and rarely pauses for breath. Papertalk Green and Kinsellas words traverse this land and reflect back to us all, our identity and how we got here. $24 pop into the shop Saturdays 125 or DM for mail order.

14.01.2022 Power to the workers

13.01.2022 Todays book of the day is Classic Writings in Anarchist Criminology: A Historical Dismantling of Punishment and Domination edited by Anthony J. Nocella II, Mark Seis, and Jeff Shantz. Anarchists were among the earliest modern thinkers to offer a systemic critique of criminal justice, and among the first to directly criticise academic criminology while formulating a critical criminology. They identified the sources of social problems in social structures and relations of ineq...uality and recognised that the institutions preferred by mainstream criminologists as would-be solutions to social problems were actually the causes or enablers of those harms in the first place. This volume collects critical writings on criminology from radicals and thinkers like William Godwin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mikahil Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Lucy Parsons, Emma Goldman, and many others. $34 pop into the shop Saturdays 125 or DM for mail order

13.01.2022 Queer liberation, not pinkwashing!

13.01.2022 Todays book of the day is This Is How We Survive: Revolutionary Mothering, War, and Exile in the 21st Century by Maia Williams. This is a story about mothers who are doing the work of deep social transformation by creating the networks of care that sustain movements and revolutions. Williams shares her experiences working in conflict zones and with liberatory resistance communities as a journalist, human rights worker, and midwife in Palestine, Egypt, Chiapas, Berlin, and the US, while mothering her young daughter Aza. This is a story about mothers who are doing the work of deep social transformation by creating the networks of care that sustain movements and revolutions. This Is How We Survive illuminates how mothering is a practice essential to the work of revolution. $23 pop into the shop Saturdays 125 or DM for mail order.

12.01.2022 Justice for Aunty Sherry https://au.gofundme.com/f/24wajv0eeo

11.01.2022 Today's book of the day is The Sydney Language by Dr Jakelin Troy. Written to revive interest in the Aboriginal language of the Sydney district, this book makes readily available the small amount of surviving information from historical records. Author Jakelin Troy a Ngarigu woman from the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales refers to the language as the Sydney Language because there was no name given for the language in historical records until late in the nineteenth ce...ntury when it was referred to as Dharug. This language is now called by its many clan names, including Gadigal in the Sydney city area and Dharug in Western Sydney. The word for Aboriginal person in this language is yura, this word been used to help identify the language, with the most common spellings being Iyora and Eora. This book is for anyone interested in learning more about the language and culture of the Aboriginal owners of what is now called Sydney. $34 visit the shop Saturdays 125 or DM for mail order.

10.01.2022 Great video of Silvia Federici author of Caliban and the Witch; Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons; Witches, Witchhunting and Women; and Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism.

10.01.2022 Solidarity with locked-out Coles warehouse workers

10.01.2022 Today's book of the day is Kick the Tin by Doris Kartinyeri. When Doris was a month old, her mother died. The family gathered to mourn their loss and welcome the new baby home. But Doris never arrived to live with her family she was stolen from the hospital and placed in Colebrook Home, where she stayed for the next fourteen years. The legacy of being a member of the Stolen Generations continued for Doris as she was placed in white homes as a virtual slave, struggled through relationships and suffered with anxiety and mental illness. This is the compelling and sometimes witty memoir of a courageous journey, a journey into the soul of an individual to find meaning and substance after the loss of everything the rest of us take for granted. $19 visit the shop Saturdays 125 or DM for mail order

10.01.2022 Today's book of the day is Imperiled Life: Revolution Against Climate Catastrophe by Javier Sethness-Castro. This collection of reflections on the phenomenon of catastrophe climatological, political, social as well as on the possibilities of overcoming disaster. Sethness-Castro presents the grim news from contemporary climatologists while providing a reconstructive vision inspired by anarchist intellectual traditions and promoting critical thought as a means of changing our historical trajectory. $19 visit the shop Saturdays 125 or DM for mail order

09.01.2022 Shop and library open til 5 today - come say hi!

09.01.2022 The boundless cruelty of the Australian colonial regime...

09.01.2022 Todays book of the day is The Meaning of Freedom And Other Difficult Dialogues by Angela Y. Davis. In this collection of twelve searing, previously unpublished speeches, Davis confronts the interconnected issues of power, race, gender, class, incarceration, conservatism, and the ongoing need for social change. With her characteristic brilliance, historical insight, and penetrating analysis, Davis addresses examples of institutional injustice and explores the radical notion of freedom as a collective striving for real democracy - not something granted or guaranteed through laws, proclamations, or policies, but something that grows from a participatory social process that demands new ways of thinking and being. $25 pop into the shop Saturdays 125 or DM for mail order.

09.01.2022 Today's book of the day is Save the Humans? Common Preservation in Action by Jeremy Brecher. For half a century Brecher has been studying and participating in social movements that have created new forms of common preservation. Through entertaining storytelling and personal narrative, Save the Humans? traces a path that leads from the sitdown strikes on the pyramids of ancient Egypt to todays battles against climate change, and shows how we can construct a human survival movement. $26 visit the shop Saturdays 125 or DM for mail order

08.01.2022 If you miss live shows as much as we do, please enjoy this diverse range of protest music from our comrades at Monster Mouse Studios.

08.01.2022 Todays book of the day is The Little Red Yellow Black Book: An introduction to Indigenous Australia (Fourth Edition) by Bruce Pascoe. This is a great starting point for those who want to learn about the diverse, dynamic and continuing cultures of this continents First Peoples. Written from an Indigenous perspective, this highly illustrated and accessible introduction covers a range of topics from history, culture and the Arts, through to activism and reconciliation. Readers will also learn about some of the key concepts that underpin Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander worldviews including concepts such as the Dreaming, the significance of Ancestral Heroes and Country. $20 pop into the shop Saturdays 125 or DM for mail order.

07.01.2022 Todays book of the day is After Australia edited by Michael Mohammed Ahmad. In this unflinching new anthology, twelve of Australias most daring Indigenous writers and writers of colour provide a glimpse of Australia as we head toward the year 2050: climate catastrophe, police brutality, white genocide, totalitarian rule and the erasure of Black history provide the backdrop for stories of love, courage and hope. Featuring Ambelin Kwaymullina, Claire G. Coleman, Omar Sakr, Future D. Fidel, Karen Wyld, Khalid Warsame, Kaya Ortiz, Roanna Gonsalves, Sarah Ross, Zoya Patel, Michelle Law and Hannah Donnelly. $25 pop into the shop Saturdays 125 or DM for mail order.

07.01.2022 Today's book of the day is Unflattering Photos of Fascists Authoritarianism in Trump's America edited by Christopher Ketcham. Welcome to a nightmare landscape that is peculiarly American. Alt Righters. Neo-nazis. Boogaloo Bois. White nationalists. Western chauvinists. These creatures roam the streets, often indistinguishable from their wider kin, the Trumpenvolk. These motley groups come together occasionally to threaten, bully, and assault others, seeking safe space for their hate. They are pathetic. And these photos show it. $27 pop into the shop Saturdays 125, Fridays 27, or DM us for mail order.

06.01.2022 Our annual end-of-year sale begins this Friday! 1050% off everything, plus a bunch of secondhand books for $1 each. Come visit us Fridays 27 or Saturdays 125

06.01.2022 Mark Bray, author of Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook, debunks some common media misconceptions about antifa.

05.01.2022 Now back in stock: crowd favourite Soccer vs the State on football and radical politics.

04.01.2022 Today's book of the day is Against Native Title by Dr Eve Vincent. This book is about a divisive native title claim in the town of Ceduna where the claims process has thoroughly reorganised local Aboriginal identities over the course of the past decade. The central character in this story is senior Aboriginal woman Sue Haseldine, whose extended family have experienced native title as an unwelcome imposition: something that has emanated from the state and out of which they gai...ned only enemies. Through the twice-yearly event called 'rockhole recovery' (trips that involve numerous days of four-wheel drive travel to a series of permanent water sources and Dreaming sites) Haseldine and her family continue to care for and maintain connections to country, outside of the native title process. $34 visit the shop Saturdays 125 or DM for mail order.

04.01.2022 Lovely day for a visit to your local anarchist bookshop! Open till 5 this arvo xx

04.01.2022 Next Sydney Anarcho-Communist reading group 6pm Wednesday November 25 at Monster Mouse Studios.

03.01.2022 Todays book of the day is How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community by Mia Birdsong. In this provocative, groundbreaking work, Mia Birdsong shows that what separates us isn't only the ever-present injustices built around race, class, gender, values, and beliefs, but also our denial of our interdependence and need for belonging. Through research, interviews, and stories of lived experience, How We Show Up returns us to our inherent connectedness where we find strength, safety, and support in vulnerability and generosity, in asking for help, and in being accountable. Showing up literally and figuratively points us toward the promise of our collective vitality and leads us to the liberated well-being we all want. $14 pop into the shop Saturdays 125 or DM for mail order.

03.01.2022 Today's book of the day is Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Maia Williams. Inspired by the legacy of radical and queer Black feminists of the 1970s and 80s, Revolutionary Mothering places marginalised mothers of colour at the centre of a world of necessary transformation. The challenges we face as movements working for racial, economic, reproductive, gender, and food justice, as well as anti-violence, anti-im...perialist, and queer liberation are the same challenges that many mothers face every day. Oppressed mothers create a generous space for life in the face of life-threatening limits, activate a powerful vision of the future while navigating tangible concerns in the present, move beyond individual narratives of choice toward collective solutions, live for more than ourselves, and remain accountable to a future that we cannot always see. Revolutionary Mothering is a movement-shifting anthology committed to birthing new worlds, full of faith and hope for what we can raise up together. $23 visit the shop Saturdays 125 or DM for mail order.

02.01.2022 Todays book of the day is Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook by Mark Bray. Born out of resistance to Mussolini and Hitler in Europe during the 1920s and 30s, the antifa movement has suddenly burst into the headlines amidst opposition to the Trump administration and the alt-right. Simply, antifa aims to deny fascists the opportunity to promote their oppressive politics by any means necessary. This smart and gripping investigation provides a one-of-a-kind look inside the mov...ement, including a detailed survey of its history from its origins to the present day the first transnational history of postwar anti-fascism in English. Based on interviews with anti-fascists from around the world, Antifa details the tactics of the movement and the philosophy behind it, offering insight into the growing but little understood resistance fighting back against the alt-right. $26 pop into the shop Saturdays 125 or DM for mail order.

02.01.2022 Congratulations to Naarm-based anarchist poet PiO, winner of the 2020 Judith Wright Calanthe Award.

02.01.2022 Workers on strike for the planet is more relevant today than ever. If you’ve never seen this awesome film, definitely check out this online screening - with the filmmaker. The film beautifully captures the inspiring tale of the world-famous, Sydney-based, workers-controlled union: the BLF. Pioneers of Green Bans movement. Free event but you need to register. https://fb.me/e/Bd2vLw0C

01.01.2022 Today's book of the day is Blakwork by Alison Whittaker a stunning mix of memoir, reportage, fiction, satire, and critique composed by a powerful new voice in poetry. Blakwork is an original and unapologetic collection from which two things emerge; an incomprehensible loss, and the poets fearless examination of the present. Whittaker is unsparing in the interrogation of familiar ideas identifying and dissolving them with idiosyncratic imagery, layering them to form new connections, and reinterpreting what we know. $24 visit the shop Saturdays 125 or DM for mail order.