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NONFICTION BOOKS

My Nonfiction Books:

Alerta! Alerta! Snapshots of Europe's Anti-Fascist Struggle - AK Press - November 2018

The Marauders - Melville House - January 2022

You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave: Refugees, Fascism, and Bloodshed in Greece - Melville House - Spring/Summer 2024

Standing Up to Vigilantes in the American Borderlands

The Marauders is a blistering book, a hard-ass stare into the voracious mouth of the US-Mexico border. Patrick Strickland has done a fine piece of reporting from places we don’t dare to tread.” — Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Hummingbird’s Daughter

“Revealing and worthy reading for anyone with an interest in border and immigration issues.” — Kirkus Reviews

“Courageous, crucial reporting on the paranoid fantasies and brutal violence of the nativist far right, through the eyes of its victims.” — Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood

“Strickland crosses the desert of simplistic, hopeless border narratives and finds an oasis: communities resistant to the disease of militant right-wing extremism ravaging the country. An important antidote to the cartoonish border stories that make ‘news.’” — Roberto Lovato, author of Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas

“This vivid, character-driven report spotlights one Arizona town’s efforts to fight back against ‘a flood of extremely dangerous, virulently racist, and heavily armed outsiders’ who have flocked to the US border with Mexico in recent years . . . A fascinating and often harrowing portrait of a community in the crosshairs.” — Publishers Weekly

Updates and corrections to The Marauders

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Snapshots of Europe’s Anti-Fascist Struggle

“Patrick Strickland is an incisive and relentless journalist who has spent years immersed in the global currents of rebellion, and in Alerta! Alerta! he provides a clear eyed portrait of Europe's anti-fascist resistance that is utterly essential in the era of Trump.”—Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood

"As a fascist darkness descends over Europe, Patrick Strickland uncovers the bars, squats, fight clubs, and street corners where resistance burns brightest. Each page of his journey breathes with the tumultuous struggles of brave anti-fascists who risk imprisonment, assault, and even death to take a stand. Though struggles differ from Germany to Greece, from Slovakia to Italy, all anti-fascists agree that ‘never again’ means sounding the alarm of anti-fascism before it's too late—Alerta! Alerta!"—Mark Bray, author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook

“As much a warning as it is a report, Patrick Strickland’s Alerta! Alerta! is recommended reading for all those who understand that fascists, white supremacists and Nazis need to be actively opposed, not ignored. In fact, it might be even more important that it is read by those who think Nazis should be ignored.”—Ron Jacobs, author of Daydream Sunset: Sixties Counterculture in the Seventies