NONFICTION BOOKS
Nonfiction Books:
Alerta! Alerta! Snapshots of Europe's Anti-Fascist Struggle - AK Press - November 2018
The Marauders - Melville House - February 2022
You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave: Refugees, Fascism, and Bloodshed in Greece - Melville House - April 2025
You Can kill each other after I leave
Refugees, Fascism, and Bloodshed in Greece
"Veteran journalist Patrick Strickland provides a rigorous, thrillingly written look at how Greece became Europe's ground zero for resurgent fascism — and at the activists fighting back." — Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood
"The number of forcibly displaced people globally is currently at record highs and yet we too rarely hear their stories and challenges. This startling book could not be timelier as the far right surges in popularity from Austria to Germany and Sweden to Greece. Star investigative journalist and chronicler Patrick Strickland goes deep into today's Greece and finds an ugly core, an emboldened fascism that provides inspiration to Europe's anti-refugee alliances. This book is a warning that we'd be foolish to ignore." — Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory
"You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave offers a disturbing exploration of the trajectory of the anti-immigrant movement in Greece and beyond. An authoritative book on the dark events that led to the present political calamities across the West." — Creede Newton, Investigative Reporter, Southern Poverty Law Center
"You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave tells the story of the global rise of the far right by centering the reader in the Greek experience. The book weaves together a story that rests both on the heartbreaking reality of racism's violent rise across Europe, and the inspiring commitment of the communities who have fought back. Strickland prose is incisive and poetic, lending incredible warmth to the struggle against the politics of fear and division. This is one of the best books written about our current political crisis, and it never loses sight of the real struggle for justice happening on the border and in the streets." - Shane Burley, author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It and Safety through Solidarity
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
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