Red Emma’s

He moved swiftly from peasant youth to prisoner to revolutionary anarchist leader, narrowly escaping Bolshevik Ukraine for Paris. This book also chronicles the friends and enemies he made along the way: Lenin, Trotsky, Kropotkin, Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman, Ida Mett, and others.

NO HARMLESS POWER is the first text to fully delve into Makhno’s sympathy for the downtrodden, the trap of personal heroism, his improbable victories, unlikely friendships, and his alarming lack of gun safety in meetings. Makhno and the movement he began are seldom mentioned in most mainstream histories—Western or Russian—mostly on the grounds that acknowledging anarchist polities calls into question the inevitability and desirability of the nation-state and unjust hierarchies.

With illustrations by N.O. Bonzo and Kevin Matthews, this is a fresh, humorous, and necessary look at an under examined corner of history as well as a deep exploration of the meaning—and value, if any—of heroism as history.

Charlie Allison has more titles than he’d like: tutor, groundskeeper, tour-guide, editor. Most of his days are spent in freelance editing, agitating, and writing if he’s not at the local infoshop.

He has written blogs for PM PRESS, alternate history speculation at Sea Lion Press, short fantasy fiction at Pickman’s Press, Podcastle and The Stone Coast Review.

His first book, NO HARMLESS POWER: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE UKRAINIAN ANARCHIST NESTOR MAKHNO was published by PM Press in 2023.

Jeff Waxman (he/him) has spent half his life working in books and magazines. The rest of the time, he organizes Philadelphia's mutual aid communities around access to the books, food, and dual power structures.