This rich collection of writings by artists, scholars and revolutionaries draws on almost two centuries of intertwined traditions of cultural and political subversion. Shelley, Keats and Byron. The Paris Commune. Peter Lamborn Wilson on the all-but-forgotten Bavarian Council Republic of 1919. Surrealism. Peter Marshall on William Blake. Walter Benjamin and Herbert Marcuse. William Morris. Daniel Blanchard on his youthful friendship with Guy Debord. Lessons of the past recaptured for the benefit of the struggles of today and tomorrow.