Paper Bullets: 110 Years of Political Stickers from Around the World

Stickers don’t ask permission. They’re slapped up under cover of night, hitching rides on lampposts and bathroom walls, whispering—or shouting—messages meant to question authority and disrupt the ordinary flow of power. Cheap, fast, anonymous, and at times illegal, political stickers have long been among the most agile tools of resistance. This book tells their story.

From early twentieth-century anarchist stickers and labor “stickerettes” to their later use in struggles against war, fascis...