Putting together the definitive Poison Girls CD box-set — out now - By Rich Cross The Hippies Now Wear Black March 30th, 2026 With the new Poison Girls retrospective CD box set now released — a joint project by PM Press, Cooking Vinyl, Active Distribution and Free Dirt — co-executive producer Rich Cross shares with The Hippies Now Wear Black the story of how the project came […]
EXCERPT – Courage or Complicity? How Veterans Are Responding to the Attack on Democracy - Written by SP Editor Social Policy June 2026 “Silence is No Longer an Option”: How Federal Workers Found Their Voice By Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon During the first few months of 2025, life and work in federal office buildings in Washington, DC, was often interrupted by a new lunchtime ritual. Officials and staffers of […]
Football and Revolution: Argentina, 2001 - By Football Heritage Podcast May 2026 115. Football and Revolution: Argentina, 2001 We’re joined by author, anti-fascist and dedicated anarchist Tomas Rothaus to talk about the 2001 uprising in Argentina and Racing Club’s fist title in 35 years – all which happened within three days of each other. In Tomas’ words, these few days contained […]
Ellen David Friedman & Carlos Perez on Labor Notes Podcast - Labor Notes Podcast June 2026 What do you do when you work at a public school in a “right-to-work state” that also bars public employees from collective bargaining? And what happens, when your school district exploits its leverage over employees to snatch raises owed to workers? Members of the Durham Association of Educators in North […]
I Gotta Go: The Sardonic Wit of Ian Shoales - And his newest collection, Veni Vidi Venti By Jack Boulware June 9th, 2026 Ian Shoales is a social commentator, performer, lyricist, writer, humorist, and imaginary human being organized and manifested by Merle Kessler. He was a founding member of the legendary comedy troupe Duck’s Breath Mystery Theatre, a columnist for Salon.com, a frequent contributor to […]
Raymond Craib – Adventure Capitalism on Essential Dissent - Essential Dissent Podcast June 18th, 2026 A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age Imagine a capitalist paradise. An island utopia governed solely by the rules of the market and inspired by the fictions of Ayn Rand and Robinson Crusoe. Sound far-fetched? It may not be. The past half […]
The Networked Colonization of Everyday Life with Ian Alan Paul - By Firestorm Author Ian Alan Paul and Andrew Culp discuss the networked reorganization of capitalist society, the diverse ways digital technologies have invaded and imposed their shape upon everyday life from ride- hailing apps to counterinsurgency warfare, and what it might look like to pursue a life that is not reducible to the network form. […]
Not So Comic Criminalization - By Paul Buhle Fifth Estate Graphic novels (GNs) and anthologies very often effect personal experiences, and for that matter, the non-fiction shelf is comparatively thin. The GN treatment of homeless and semi-homeless people, even amidst the world-wide explosion of that hard-hit slice of humanity, remains almost invisible. Down By Law is a collaborative graphic novel […]
Memoir by AFL-CIO Official Traces Unusual Career Path - By Steve Early BeyondChron June 22, 2026 Review of Three Roads: Labor, Music, Ecology, by Joe Uehlein. Any book bearing blurbs by Billy Bragg, Steve Earle, and Tom Morello, with a foreword by Si Kahn, is pretty solid evidence that the author has music world friends of the right sort! According to Bragg, a rock poet from […]- Resist digital hegemony!— on Countervortex - By Bill Weinberg Countervortex June 21st, 2026 Voices from within the academy are now raising the alarm about the decline of literacy under the relentless assault of totalized digital immersion—finally catching up to what CounterVortex blogger and ranter Bill Weinberg has been saying for years (although sneering denialism about the problem remains fashionable). Worldwide, the humanities are being abandoned in favor of STEM, […]
Susan Simensky Bietila’s Art as Social Activism - Artist-activist Susan Simensky Bietila has been using media like posters, comics, photography, street puppetry and more to amplify the people’s power for decades. by Ben Slowey Shepherd Express Art as a means of social and political activism has the power to change history. Here in Milwaukee, artist-activist Susan Simensky Bietila has been using media like […]
State workers lose key job protections as Morrisey pushes to ‘streamline’ West Virginia government - The changes eliminate civil service and grievance protections for employees across multiple agencies, limiting their ability to challenge personnel decisions and unjust firings. by Tre Spencer Mountain State Spotlight June 21st, 2026 After nearly 30 years working for the state, Dawn Knight plans to retire this September. She said spending more time with her grandsons […]- Who Owns Argentine Football? - By Nicolás Campisi Public Books June 11th, 2026 he 1978 World Cup stands as perhaps the most controversial tournament in football history. Argentina hosted and won it, even while a bloody dictatorship tortured, murdered, and disappeared more than 30,000 people. Critics still dispute the tournament’s legitimacy.1 Four years later, Argentina fought and lost the Malvinas/Falklands […]
Peter Kuper on the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast - New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Cartoonist, Peter Kuper joins us on the podcast this week.Peter is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker, is the current cartoonist for Spy Vs Spy in MAD magazine and was nominated for a Pulitzer prize this last year. We talk with him about his career, his recent books, […]
Publishing Talks: Ramsey Kanaan of PM Press - By David Wilke Writerscast June 15th, 2026 Publishing Talks started as a series of conversations with book industry professionals and others involved in media and technology, mostly talking about the future of publishing, books, and culture. It has been an ongoing education talking with people in the book industry about the evolution of publishing in […]
A Life on the Front Lines: Susan Simensky Bietila’s Life of Resistance - By Michael Carriere Shepherd June 3rd, 2026 A vibrant mash-up of memoir, art and activism, Front Lines positions Simensky Bietila on the “front lines” of the most important political movements of the past 60 years. Protest movements in the United States are often ephemeral. On the one hand, this is because of the reactive nature […]
A Möbius Strip of Anarchy - The following talk was presented thirty years ago at an Earth Day 20 program at Loyola University New Orleans entitled "Earth Day 1990: Launching A New Environmental Decade."- Flock Off! Ithaca - Essential Dissent Podcast This episode is “Flock Off! Ithaca – Organizing Against Mass Surveillance”, which is a panel from the 2026 Upstate Anarchist Book Fair, held May 2nd and 3rd in Binghamton, NY. Flock Off! Ithaca is a group of Ithaca, NY residents who successfully pressured the Ithaca City Council to terminate its contract with […]
New Anthology Highlights Stories of Trans and Nonbinary Pregnancy - Mombian November 19, 2025 Out just in time for Trans Awareness Week, but bound to be a long-treasured resource, is an insightful, powerful, and necessary anthology that brings together essays, interviews, and roundtable discussions by and with 18 trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive birthing people, who share their experiences with conception, pregnancy, fertility treatment, birth, loss, […]
Eric King on The Connect with Johnny Mitchell - The Connect: With Johnny Mitchell June 1st, 2026
This is a Message to Persons Unknown in Punk & Post-Punk Journal - By Frankie Mastrangelo Punk & Post-Punk Journal In This is a Message to Persons Unknown: The Story of Poison Girls, Rich Cross highlights a 1982 debate organized by Johnny Waller and Winston Smith, journalists from the 1970–91 weekly music magazine Sounds. Centred around the question of ‘Is Punk Dead?’, the panel brought together Poison Girls’ […]
The Tongue I Dream In— Starred Review in Publishers Weekly - Publishers Weekly The 36th installment of the publisher’s Outspoken Authors series (after Ian Shoales’s Veni Vidi Venti) showcases the many extraordinary talents of World Fantasy Award winner Thomas (editor of Africa Risen) across nine poems, seven stories, a critical essay, and the keynote speech she delivered at 2022’s Afrofuturism Gala. Exploring the relevance of Afrofuturism […]
Don’t Breed on Me: A Short History of Abortion in Publishers Weekly - Publishers Weekly In this illuminating and feisty debut history, public health scholar Quasebarth seeks to “resurrect a nuanced understanding of abortion” as an “integral aspect of our shared human experience.” Drawing on records dating back to the ancient world, she highlights how periods in which abortions were stigmatized have been balanced or even outweighed by […]
Meeting Niillas Somby and Margarita Emelianova in Sápmi! - By Gabriel Kuhn June 9th, 2026 On June 2, during a research trip in the North Calotte, I had the honor to visit Niillas Somby, author of In the Hour of the Wolf, and his wife and the book’s translator, Margarita Emelianova, in Tana Bru/Deanušaldi, where they live. I have known Niillas for seven years, […]- Eric King on Crime Talk 369 - Crime Talk 369 May 25th, 2026
Gender Terrorism? Surviving MAGA’s War on Trans People - By Firestorm Coop The Heritage Foundation—author of Project 2025—is lobbying to label and target transgender people as domestic terrorists. Eric King, Josh Davidson, and Zane McNeill put the current federal attack on trans rights in historical perspective—connecting it to repression during the Red Scale, the Lavender Scare, Black Liberation and Gay Rights Movements, the Green […]
The VA Is a Model for Public Health Care. We Need to Protect It. - For 161 years, America has taken care of veterans. It should stay that way. By Suzanne Gordon Barn Raiser May 25th, 2026 This is the first story in a series of articles on the Veterans Administration and its importance to rural veterans and rural health care systems Bruce Carruthers is a Vietnam veteran who served […]
Ben Morea in Exarchia - A Eulogy and Paean to Freedom By CrimethInc Ben Morea has passed away. Known for his participation in Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, the self-styled “street gang with an analysis” active in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the late 1960s, he withdrew from the city and pursued a path into revolutionary animism. In […]- Eric King Survived Prison, Now He is Working to Abolish Them: Party Girls Podcast - Party Girl Podcast May 16th, 2026 Sam is joined by Eric King, an anarchist writer, antifascist organizer, and former federal prisoner whose new memoir, A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon, offers a firsthand account of incarceration inside some of the most restrictive prisons in the United States, including ADX Florence, […]
- Eric King’s Ethics of Revolt - By Jarrod Shanahan Hard Crackers “These jellyfish deserve no respect,” writes Eric King, “and you won’t give them any. You know they will hold you down seven-on-one and have a party while they beat you up. You know that your possessions will be destroyed. That your skin will be burned, that your body will be […]
Militant Anarchist Experiences in the Antiglobalization Era with Tomas Rothaus and CrimethInc. - By Firestorm Coop Tomas Rothaus, author of the memoir “Another War Is Possible,” is joined by a comrade from CrimethInc. to reflect on the heady days of the movement against corporate globalization, hard won lessons, and what it means to stay in the struggle over a lifetime. ABOUT THE BOOK —- In “Another War Is […]- Gordon Simmons and Mutiny in the Mountains on the New Book Network - New Book Network Former chief steward and union organizer Gordon Simmons joins Michael Stauch to discuss his new book on the history of labor struggles by public sector workers in West Virginia since 1969. With an emphasis on rank-and-file rebellion expressed through wildcat strikes and other job actions, Simmons provides a sweeping account of the […]
Cultural Capital Doesn’t Pay the Rent on Under the Tree Podcast - Under the Tree Podcast May 2026 Anarchy is community gardens and potluck dinners, playgrounds and art classes, friends and family in the foreground, and dancing wildly on the ruins of a system that was killing us. Anarchy is spontaneous cooperation without coercion, mutuality and reciprocity, tolerance for confusion, contingency, improvisation, dialogue and debate, experimentation, spontaneity, […]
Ellen David Friedman on Essential Dissent Podcast - Essential Dissent Podcast May 2026 This episode is a talk from the 2026 Upstate Anarchist Book Fair, held May 2nd and 3rd in Binghamton, NY. It features C.S. Soong, who previously co-hosted the well known radio show Against the Grain, in conversation with Ellen David Friedman, author of “Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When […]
“Friends Also Make Time to Relax Together”: Jim Feast Reads Barbara Henning’s Celebration of Women’s Friendships in Poetic Prose Girlfriend - By Jim Feast Heavy Feather Those who know something of Barbara Henning’s life history through the reading of her other works, such as Ferne (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022) and Just Like That (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018) will recognize she has followed an unusual trajectory. Coming from a working-class background and suffering an early blow in the death […]
Dispatch #13: Unions as the Frontline against Authoritarian Attacks - By Christopher Robé April 28th, 2026 Greetings from the Swamp. Florida has been the bellwether for the past five years regarding attacks against public education and public sector unions. Course curricula have been attacked, subject matter censored, and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives defunded by reactionary state legislators who view anything challenging their narrow worldview in […]
Baddawi and the Visual Politics of Memory: A Conversation with Leila Abdelrazaq - By Bryant Louis Scott The Comics Grid Abstract This interview with Palestinian American comics artist Leila Abdelrazaq explores her acclaimed graphic novel Baddawi (2015) and her broader creative practice as a visual storyteller of diasporic and intergenerational memory. The conversation examines how Abdelrazaq’s minimalist drawing style and fragmentary narration work to represent inherited memory and […]- Building Queer Community - New books share stories of LGBTQ+ solidarity, its challenges, and its essential rewards. By Samantha Puc Publishers Weekly Apr 10, 2026 Historically, queer and trans people have survived and even thrived amid significant oppression by forming community and redefining safety, both physical and emotional. PW spoke with authors whose forthcoming works of nonfiction and historical […]
Radical Palestinian Women in the Struggle for Liberation - By Ron Jacobs Counterpunch May 1st, 2026 Almost three years into an unprecedented slaughter of Palestinians with mostly US- provided weapons wielded by a military that insists on its morality while its conscripts post videos showing the murder of children and the defiling of their homes and families, the Palestinian resistance hangs on. Although one […]- Eric King’s Ethics of Revolt - By Jarrod Shanahan Hard Crackers May 7th, 2026 “These jellyfish deserve no respect,” writes Eric King, “and you won’t give them any. You know they will hold you down seven-on-one and have a party while they beat you up. You know that your possessions will be destroyed. That your skin will be burned, that your […]
Star of David - By Simone Zelitch March 9th, 2023 Last December, I was at a science fiction convention, hoping to spark interest in the paperback of my alternative history, Judenstaat. I lingered by my copies in the dealer’s room, and got to talking with Laurie Edison, a photographer and jewelry designer. Her stuff was gorgeous and intense, and […]
The Future of Democracy Requires an End to Fossil-Fueled Fascism - The fossil fuel industry is aligning itself with fascist forces to remain profitable. To survive, it is prepared to take the whole planet, as well as liberal democracy, down with it. By Cynthia Kaufman Common Dreams Apr 29, 2026 The fossil fuel industry is the most powerful and destructive industry in the history of the […]- Dispatch #12: Authoritarian Pre-Compliance and the Warping of Public Higher Education - By Christopher Robé February 19th, 2026 Greetings from the Swamp. Ever since Florida became ground zero for the attacks against public higher education roughly five years ago, many misconceptions circulate regarding how academic freedom functions down here and the ways in which it is being compromised. A recent job candidate confided to a search committee […]
Visuals Help Expose the Realities of Mass Incarceration to a Wider Audience - A Brooklyn exhibition in collaboration with Mariame Kaba features paintings about prisons, incarceration, and abolition. By James Kilgore & Vic Liu Truthout April 19, 2026 During my incarceration in the U.S., since I had little else to do, I focused on reading, on becoming an expert on the prison-industrial complex in which I lived. People […]
Out of the Lab, Into the Streets on KPFA’s Bibliocracy - By Andrew T Tonkovich Bibliocracy April 16th, 2026 Thursday, April 16 at 2:30 PM on KPFK 90.7 FM: I feature two guests this week, in a second show dedicated to celebrating a landmark book and the union victory it documents. New from PM Press, Out of the Lab, Into the Streets, tells the story — […]
“Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help” with Jarrod Shanahan and Eman Abdelhadi - By Firestorm Coop April 28th, 2026 Chicago-based author and agitator Jarrod Shanahan is joined in conversation by public intellectual Eman Abdelhadi to explore his 2025 essay collection, “Ever Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help: A Decade of Rebellion, Reaction, and Morbid Symptoms”. Together they discuss the trajectory of liberatory struggle from Occupy Wall Street […]- Affordability, Authoritarianism, and the Climate Crisis: The Fight in California - By Cynthia Kaufman Common Dreams February 8th, 2026 There are real challenges that must be addressed to transition to a clean energy economy while maintaining affordability. And there are difficulties that are intentionally caused by the fossil fuel industry’s insistence on fighting a transition away from dependence on its products. In California, as in the […]
Congratulations Peter Kuper on being a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Illustrated Reporting and Commentary - The 2026 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Illustrated Reporting and Commentary For a portfolio of vibrant and wordless political cartoons on the climate crisis, politics and emerging technology rendered with a fresh perspective and a unique approach to visual storytelling. Peter Kuper’s illustrations and comics have appeared in publications around the world including The New Yorker, […]- First-Ever Bargaining Compact Unites Higher Ed Unions Across Northeastern US - By Eleanor J. Bader Truthout May 2, 2026 The compact goes beyond just maintaining the status quo, says professor and union leader Marissa Johnson Valenzuela. When East Coast members of Higher Education Labor United (HELU) got together in January, they set their sights on developing a national plan to improve working conditions for university and […]
Nicola Griffith and She is Here in Project Censored - Project Censored Featuring Nicola Griffith, Liam Syed, and Nikki Morse May 4, 2026 Narratives of History and Israel’s Policing of Activists In the first segment, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with author Nicola Griffith to talk about her recent book release, She is Here. Nicola digs into her work on understanding history as stories, not hard, […]
Reviewing “Courage or Complicity: How Veterans are Responding to the Assault on Democracy” - By Les Leopold A new book by Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon Back in the 1960s, Cold War liberals and anti-war activists debated whether the United States was an imperial power or a global force for peace. Each side had its arguments, but for many that debate ended with the Vietnam War as the U.S. […]- Will the Death of the VA Nurse After the Twin Cities Strike Became Tipping Point Against Trump? - By Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early The Veteren On Veterans Day last Fall, President Trump traveled to Arlington Cemetery to reprise his bashing of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on the campaign trail a year before and the DOGE-led assault on VA staffing levels throughout 2025. “We fired thousands of people who didn’t take […]
- Lockdown - By Simone Zelitch October 12th, 2015 The incident occurred last Tuesday, October 6th while I was in my office preparing materials for my remedial composition class. I’d taken a risk: it would be a semester of James Baldwin. We’d already plowed through the dense and paradoxical “My Dungeon Shook”, Baldwin’s 1962 letter to his nephew […]
- 10 Art Books for Your Spring Reading List— Front Lines in Hyperallergic - By Lisa Yin Zhang, Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Hakim Bishara, Hrag Vartanian, Sophia Stewart, Nageen Shaikh Hyperallergic April 1st, 2026 Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s first catalog in 25 years, Molly Crabapple chronicles the Jewish Bund, a photographer captures a Black Southern waterway, and more April showers bring unread book towers … and we’re here to add […]
J.G. Ballard’s surreal fiction continues to resonate through the century - Christopher Priest’s sympathetic biography, completed by his wife after his premature death, will enlighten new readers and maintain Ballard’s reputation By Michael Moorcock The Spectator In 1951, when J.G. Ballard was 20, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman premiered in London. Directed by Albert Lewin and starring James Mason, Ava Gardner and a solid cast of […]
Southern Poverty Law Center tries to avoid angering MAGA but still gets targeted - By Matthew N. Lyons Three Way Fight April 22nd, 2026 For decades the Southern Poverty Law Center was a mixed bag. On the plus side, it produced valuable research reports about the far right and brought lawsuits that helped shut down several important white supremacist groups, including United Klans of America, White Aryan Resistance, and […]- Keep Going: Illustrating Labor - by Fernando Martí Just Seeds April 9, 2026 I was honored to be asked to create a series of images for the Labor Notes publication, Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It’s Hard, by Ellen David Friedman, chair of the Labor Notes board and a facilitator of the United Caucuses of Rank and File […]
- Interview with Jessica Lawless by James Tracy - By James Tracy Razorcake April 9th, 2026 We Won’t Get There If We Stop. Cultural Capital Doesn’t Pay the Rent: A Queer Memoir Jessica Lawless is an artist and one of the co-founders of the self-defense collective Home Alive, founded as a response to the murder of Mia Zapata of The Gits. Her artwork has […]
Left behind - By Martin Hanni Salto April 17, 2026 Author Gabriel Kuhn researches the left in South Tyrol and is writing a book on the subject. His political football book has just been published in Italian. On the far left, whether in sports, politics, or society: in this issue of Doppelpunkt, SALTO introduces author and activist Gabriel […]- Front Lines: A Lifetime of Drawing Resistance: A Comics Grinder Review - By Paul Buhle Comics Grinder March 8th, 2026 A nineteenth century reviewer, now long forgotten, wrote about a new work: “This is no book, THIS IS A LIFE!” And so we can say for Front Lines. Actually, it is a lovely book, both charming and moving. Bietila’s art can be called “comics” and has been […]
- Steve Early on Left Reckoning Podcast - Left Reckoning Podcast
- Report Details Inhumane Conditions Inside U.S. Prisons - By Claire TaggartDavis VanguardApril 7, 2026 FLORENCE, Colo. — Incarcerated individuals face inhumane and oppressive conditions at the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Fremont County, Colorado, and New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, New Jersey, according to recent reporting by Inquest and the Prison Journalism Project. From NJSP’s 200-year-old West Compound building to […]
2026 Nobel Peace Prize Nomination: IPRA and Matt Meyer - Introductory Summary Since its foundation in 1964, the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) has arrangedpeace and peace research congresses annually: a single, biennial global gathering and fiveregionally conferences biannually in alternating years. In between these conferences, IPRA hasbeen working continuously to create the theoretical basis for sustainable peace, promoting peaceproposals for ongoing conflicts, and developing […]- When the Author Builds Herself a World - By Beth Kanell Kingdom Books March 4th, 2026 Last July I mentioned Nicola Griffith, whose lush noir crime fiction can be a slow-read delight. At that point, her Aud Torvingen trilogy, featuring a Norwegian-born detective, was just being reissued, and is now easy to grab for American readers: The Blue Place; Stay; and Always. Griffith […]
- A Möbius Strip of Anarchy - The following talk was presented thirty years ago at an Earth Day 20 program at Loyola University New Orleans entitled "Earth Day 1990: Launching A New Environmental Decade."
Get Back Up Again by A.M. Gittlitz - Intro to Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help: A Decade of Rebellion, Reaction, and Morbid Symptoms The title of this book references the song “Give the Anarchist a Cigarette” by the Yorkshire “anarchist pop group” Chumbawamba. The track, from their 1994 album Anarchy, comments on a bit of dialogue from D.A. Pennebaker’s documentary […]
A People’s Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice -A Review in the Journal of Community Justice - By Russ Immarigeon Journal of Community Justice “As long as the carceral state exists,” writes independent researcher Katie Tastrom: It will always use health and disablement as weapons—from who gets access to vaccines, to the ways government neglect leads to “underlying conditions” that make COVID-19 more likely to be deadly, to being forced into congregate […]
History of the Anarchist Red Cross - By Kathy E. Ferguson Fifth Estate We respond with mutual aid and solidarity From Cop City to the Dakota pipelines and Jane’s Revenge to numerous struggles worldwide, anarchist organizers are relentlessly targeted by the state today as they have been for over a century. Russian immigrant and revolutionary Boris Yelensky wrote this moving account of […]- Throwing Molotovs at Government Buildings with Eric King - Today on The Gobcast, we sit down with political prisoner and anarchist Eric King to discuss his beliefs as an anarchist, how he stands up for those beliefs, and his time in supermax alongside prolific prisoners such as El Chapo and The Unabomber… Enjoy!
- Vets in Oregon need a strong VA, not the illusion of choice - By Fernando Gapasin and Suzanne Gordon The Rogue Valley Times March 30th, 2026 The Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, D.C., has taken a lot of heat for its recent job cuts. During the past year, VA Secretary Doug Collins has left 30,000 staff positions vacant and limited new hiring at facilities across the country, […]
The Greentech Revolution: A New Strike! Series - By Shelter and Solidarity Unexpected breakthroughs are making energy produced from sun, wind, and water cheaper, safer, and more efficient than energy produced from fossil fuels. This is already transforming the way the world produces and uses energy and it will further transform economics, politics, and society. This is the first in a series of […]- Not So Comic Criminalization - By Paul Buhle Fifth Estate a review ofDown By Law: Criminalization, Solidarity and Survival in Europe Edited by the CrimScapes Research Group. PM Press/Kairos, 2025 Graphic novels (GNs) and anthologies very often effect personal experiences, and for that matter, the non-fiction shelf is comparatively thin. The GN treatment of homeless and semi-homeless people, even amidst […]
- Inside America’s Most Secretive Supermax Prison - By Eric King Inquest Magazine Colorado’s ADX is designed to hold people under conditions of the most extreme deprivation. Despite this, the men imprisoned there continue to fight for their rights and freedom. In 1994 the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) opened United States Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum Facility—better known as ADX—a prison in Colorado that […]
- More veterans are being sent to private doctors instead of the VA. Will their care suffer? - By Kyle McKinnon KUNC April 2nd, 2026 The walls inside the Veterans of Foreign Wars post in downtown Denver are lined with more than a century’s worth of military memorabilia, artifacts, and photos. “Colorado is actually significant because we’re one of the founding states of the VFW — VFW Post One,” said Navy veteran Jesse […]
Hot words for cold nights: New books by Nicola Griffith, Matthew Bamberg, an Audre Lorde reprint & more - By Gregg Shapiro Bay Area Reporter Stuck inside during the great bomb cyclone of 2026? Watched “Heated Rivalry” more times than you’d care to admit? Looking for some literary distractions? Here are some suggestions. “She Is Here” (PM Press) by lesbian writer Nicola Griffith is a variety pack in a slim volume, part of the Outspoken Authors […]- She is Here in Locus - By Gary K. Wolfe Locus Regular readers of this column are aware of my admiration for PM Press’s Outspoken Authors series, founded by the late Terry Bisson in 2009 and now under the capable editorial hands of Nisi Shawl and Nick Mamatas. Nicola Griffith’s She Is Here is the 34th volume in the series (five […]
‘Birth Strike’ in Science & Society - By Ann Holder Science & Society Jenny Brown’s provocative Birth Strike examines the gulf in the United States between popular support for women’s rights to reproductive control and the increasing hostility of state institutions — including as of Fall 2020 a 6–3 anti-abortion majority on the Supreme Court. Brown asks why this is happening. If […]- Book review: History of the Anarchist Red Cross - By SoraLX Freedom News UK May 27th, 2026 Yelensky’s Shadows in the Struggle for Equality is a masterful exploration of his lifetime supporting political prisoners ~ SoraLX ~ During the current crescendo of authoritarianism, and daily reports of students and activists branded “political enemies” being hustled into unmarked vans, it seems especially pertinent to consider […]
- “Keep Going” with Ellen David Friedman - Labor Radio, KBOO Legendary labor organizer, Ellen David Friedman, chair of the Labor Notes board and coordinator of the United Caucuses of Rank-and-File Educators (UCORE) has just released her first book: “Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It’s Hard”. In this interview Friedman shares basic principles and strategies for staying in the struggle for […]
Mini-Review: Jeremy Brecher’s Strike! - Fire with Fire Of all the sweeping US labor histories out there, Jeremy Brecher’s Strike! is the best one I’ve read. It balances dramatic story-telling with political analysis in exactly the right proportion. It carries you through all of the major periods of mass strikes, including the late 19th century insurrectionary strikes, the post-World War I and II […]
Mandatory Conscription Makes War Easier, Not Harder to Fight - Young men registering for conscription during World War I, New York City, June 5, 1917 – Public Domain
Two takes on radical strategy in the time of Trump - By Matthew N Lyons Three Way Fight Fourteen months into Donald Trump’s second presidential administration, the political situation in the United States of America looks both more horrifying and more hopeful than it did, say, last summer. Since returning to the White House, Trump has pursued a drive toward dictatorship with a speed, scope, and […]- Watch now: PDA’s Progressive Town Hall from Sunday, March 8, 2026 with guests Rev. Rodney Sadler, Hanieh Jodat, and Suzanne Gordon
- A Different Kind of Tension by Jonathan Lethem - By Jim Feast North of Oxford Let’s begin looking at Jonathan Lethem’s wonderful new collection of short stories, A Different Kind of Tension, by quoting one of the blurbs, first a blurb and then a goat. The Chicago Tribune copy on the book reads in part, “comparisons might be drawn to writers ranging from Jorge […]
Where Did Ian Shoales Go? - By Nick Mamatas Oakland Review of Books March 13th, 2026 The fast-talking commentator was once everywhere: TV, radio, the internet. Then he was hardly anywhere at all. Then he was almost dead. Ian Shoales was everywhere, once. The fast-talking commentator and alter ego of Merle Kessler, born from an egg laid by comedy troupe Duck’s […]
UCORE: School Struggle and Strikes in the US - An interview with veteran rank-and-file labour organiser Ellen David Friedman. By Ellen David Friedman Notes From Below March 13th, 2026 Can you tell us about what UCORE is and how it came into being? The acronym UCORE stands for the United Caucuses of Rank-and-File Educators. It took us about two years to build the network […]
#39: Communitarian Anarchism with John Clark - Woodbine February 20th, 2026 The Woodbine Podcast returns with a new episode featuring John Clark, author of The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism (2013) and Between Earth and Empire: From the Necrocene to the Beloved Community (2019). We discuss why anarchist movements have trailed religious communities, or have relied on disasters, to build deep communal […]
OPB documentary revisits a racially motivated 1988 murder in Portland as white supremacy surges today - By Dan Evans (OPB) and Nora Colie (OPB) OPB February 18th, 2026 The murder of Ethiopian immigrant Mulugeta Seraw by neo-Nazi skinheads shocked Portland, but white supremacist violence had been roiling the city’s counterculture for years before the killing. Nearly 40 years ago, news broke that shattered Portland’s image as a liberal city. In the […]- When Workplace Organizing Gets Tough, Here’s How to Keep Going - By Steve Early Beyond Chron March 16th, 2026 Review of Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It’s Hard., by Ellen David Friedman. (PM Press, 2026.) Six years ago, Labor Notes ran a contribution to its popular “Steward’s Corner” column by Ellen David-Friedman, a long-time labor educator and former organizer for the National Education Association […]
Union Coordination Is Essential to Organizing Amazon - By Peter Olney and Rand Wilson Jacobin February 12, 2026 Unions have the resources to organize Amazon and are already working to do so. Building Amazon “labor tables” in key metro areas — regular meetings where unions agree to coordinate their efforts — will be crucial to advancing organizing efforts further. The tentacles of the […]
Interview with Nick Soulsby—author of new Centro Iberico history - By Forrest Gaddis Dying Scene March 9th, 2026 At one time, anarchy and punk rock went hand in hand, taking the side that we should be a society without rulers, government, or established authority. While a good number of punk rock bands still believe in these principles, somewhere along the line, the idea of no […]- VA Rolls Out Risky Consolidation Scheme - By Suzanne Gordon American Prospect March 2nd, 2026 The proposal to reorganize the Veterans Health Administration would centralize power at the top and cause a multitude of problems, critics argue On Wednesday, February 11, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), the ranking member on the Military Construction and VA Appropriations subcommittee, was a guest at a […]
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We Should Not Take Sides - By Bas Umali No question about it: China and the United States are already in open rivalry.Unfortunately, the Philippines is being dragged along in this epic struggle between theworld’s fastest-growing economy and the world’s largest, together with the might of theirrespective military forces. China’s aggressive assertion of its dominion over the West Philippine Sea will […]- Dynamics of Polycrisis 2.0 - By Shelter and Solidarity March 3rd, 2026 The year since Donald Trump’s accession to power has seen an intense augmentation of the global polycrisis. It has also seen a few shifts in its basic dynamics. This commentary reviews fifteen continuing dynamics of the polycrisis and examines how they have changed over the past year. A […]
On the roots of America First foreign policy - By Matthew N Lyons Three Way Fight March 7th, 2026 March 7, 2026 American First Committee, anti-interventionism, Antifascist, Donald Trump, MAGA movement, militarism Balancing war and peace has long been integral to Donald Trump’s popular image. Making America Great Again has always included making America militarily dominant and feared again, a longing that accords well […]- Susan Simensky Bietila and the People’s Water Board Coalilition - By Paul Buhle Comics Grinder March 8th, 2026 Front Lines: A Lifetime of Drawing Resistance. Susan Simensky Bietila. Oakland:PM Press. 213pp. $21.95. Review by Paul Buhle A nineteenth century reviewer, now long forgotten, wrote about a new work: “This is no book, THIS IS A LIFE!” And so we can say for Front Lines. Actually, […]
Operation Imperial Fury - By Ron Jacobs Counterpunch Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain Is it Donald Trump who’s afraid of peace, or is it the political establishment of Washington, D.C. that’s afraid of peace? Recent negotiations between Washington and Tehran seemed to be making some progress towards a situation in Iran that did not involve death […]- How the Rev. Jesse Jackson helped shape Vermont’s progressive moment - The civil rights icon, who died Tuesday at 84, campaigned for president in Vermont at a key turning point for the state’s progressive movement. By Erin Petenko Vermont Digger February 18th, 2026 “We are nothing, here in Vermont, if not tenacious.” So began a letter to the Rev. Jesse Jackson from Ellen David Friedman, then-committee […]
- The Demented Empire - By Ron Jacobs Washington is out of control. It sanctions nations and people, ultimately intimidating the governments of most non-sanctioned nations afraid to raise its anger by ignoring those sanctions. These governments know US sanctions have no legal standing and that they are merely pronouncements by the US government that it doesn’t agree with another […]
VA Is Cutting Critical Jobs and Crippling Care at SF VA Medical Center - By Suzanne Gordon BeyondChron January 20th, 2026 Most VA doctors and nurses don’t spend their lunch hours attending rallies in front of their hospital or clinic. They’re too busy charting, catching up on research, or reaching out to patients. On Wednesday January 15th, however, about 50 nurses, physicians, and other employees at a protest in […]
Remembering Chip Berlet - Three Way FightFebruary 15th, 2026 Three Way Fight mourns antifascist researcher, writer, and organizer Chip Berlet, who died on January 30th. For some fifty years, Chip was a dedicated opponent of both far right politics and state repression. As a paralegal with the National Lawyers Guild in the 1970s, he helped force the U.S. government […]- Interview with Rich Cross – author of the new book on Poison Girls - By Rich CrossThe Hippies Now Wear BlackFebruary 14th, 2026 Writer of This is a Message to Persons Unknown: The History of Poison Girls, Rich Cross, shares with The Hippies Now Wear Black the story of how the book came to fruition, the story of the band that he and his collaborators were keen to explore, […]
- Interview with Nick Soulsby—author of new Centro Iberico history - AUTHOR OF A new book on the ‘Anarcho-Punk Lives of the Centro Iberico, 1971-1983’, Nick Soulsby talks to The Hippies Now Wear Black about the research and writing of Born of Struggle, Living in Hope, the origins of the building as a base for anarchist émigrés from post-Civil War Spain, and the venue’s intersection with […]
Reflections on a Lifetime of Organizing - ELLEN DAVID FRIEDMAN, WITH LONG-HAUL EDITORIAL COLLECTIVE By Long Haul Collective Ellen David Friedman is a 50-year veteran of the US labor movement with especially deep experience in the K–12 sector. She currently serves as chair of the board of Labor Notes. Her new book, Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It’s Hard, will […]
How Vets in Labor Have Joined the Fight Against Trump - By Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon Labor Notes January 12th, 2026 The U.S. is home to 17 million military veterans. About 1.3 million of them currently work in union jobs, with women and people of color making up the fastest-growing cohorts. Veterans are more likely to join a union than non-veterans, according to the AFL-CIO. […]- Susan Simensky Bietila and the People’s Water Board Coalilition - People’s Water Board Coalition October 14th, 2024 The Water Wednesday team talked with Susan Simensky Bietila, the 2024 Water Warrior of the Year recipient and lifelong artist-activist, about the proposed metallic sulfide mine along the shore of Lake Superior. It is a great show with lots of information. You can watch, listen, and share it […]
- Suzanne Gordon Speaking About Alex Pretti’s Death - By Suzanne Gordon January 28th, 2026 Suzanne Gordon Speaking About Alex Pretti’s Death by Suzanne Gordon I hope you can share this widely Read on Substack
THE HISTORIC 2026 MINNEAPOLIS GENERAL STRIKE AGAINST FASCISM – WORKING CLASS POWER DEMONSTRATED! - Today the Minneapolis AFL-CIO led a massive General Strike in Minneapolis in order to resist the armed federal occupation of their city and to combat rising fascism throughout America. Over 700 Minneapolis workplaces were shutdown and more then 100,000 workers marched in the streets. The massive demonstrations were further supported by widespread acts of civil […]- Susan Simensky Bietila: ACLU Gallery Night 2013 - ACLU of Wisconsin Join the ACLU of Wisconsin on Friday, April 19 and Saturday, April 20 for “Picturing Liberty,” a Gallery Night exhibit featuring work by Susan Simensky Bietila and Overpass Light Brigade. More information here: https://aclu-wi.org/event/join-us-our... Susan Simensky Bietila has been making art in collaboration with progressive social movements since the mid-1960s. She works […]
Trump and Infantino: FIFA Sinking to New Lows - By Gabriel Kuhn This text was published in Italian as a teaser for the Italian edition of “Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics”. We are all familiar with the mantra of “not mixing sports and politics.” It is usually employed by the people in power who want to ensure that no sector […]
Dear Reader… - Dear Reader, My debut memoir, Cultural Capital Doesn’t Pay the Rent arrives as I enter menopause, an arrival in the middle of an ending that feels like the perfect place to be when the unknown continues to reign. As a femme crone, I’ve watched individualism and collectivity pull on each other through the decades, a […]- Susan Simensky Bietila on Working People Podcast - Working People April 6th, 2022 Holy cow, this is Working People’s 200th episode! Thank you to everyone who has listened to and supported us over the past five seasons—and, of course, thank you to every guest who has ever come on the show to share their story. To commemorate our 200th regular-season episode, we have […]
We’re hiring— in Binghamton, NY - Warehouse Job Description Independent, radical publisher PM Press is looking to fill a full-time salaried position to work on-site in our 18,000-square-foot warehouse located in Binghamton, NY. We are seeking a person who will grow with the company and our warehouse and ideally commit to at least two years at this position. Qualifications: An ideal […]- Trump’s Venezuelan Coup: Criminal Attacks by a Criminal Empire - By Ron Jacobs CounterPunch January 3rd, 2026 There is only one word to describe the US attacks on Venezuela. That word is criminal. It is the only word that describes the act of invading another nation and kidnapping its president. Of course, it is also a word that describes the essential nature of the US […]
Cory Doctorow on The Daily Show - Rescuing the Internet From “Enshittification” Daily Show December 9th, 2025- Former Prisoner’s New Book Offers Rare Look Into Nation’s Most Secretive Prison - By Zane McNeill Truthout October 18, 2025 Eric King has seen what hell looks like during his time in federal custody. While incarcerated, he was increasingly targeted for his anarchist political beliefs, often denied family visits, and restricted from receiving mail. In 2018, at FCI Florence, a lieutenant took him to a mop closet, where […]
Global Music Isn’t New, It’s Always Been - By Ian Brennan Furious Though the current hype may lean otherwise, international music’s intermittently seizing the popular imagination is far from a new phenomenon. In fact, the first major recording star ever was Italian Opera tenor Enrico Caruso, who helped drive the marketing of records as a source of household music. His 1902 release “Vesti […]- Incarceration & Paganism: A Personal Experience ft. Eric King on Seeking Witchcraft Podcast - Ashley sits down with Eric King, author of A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon. Eric is an anarchist who spent years locked inside a federal maximum security prison. In this episode, he offers a raw and powerful look into his experience in the prison system and the reality of surviving […]
Ramsey Kanaan interviewed on Punk Playground - Ramsey Kanaan, founder and publisher of PM Press, discusses the upcoming Poison Girls releases including: This Is a Message to Persons Unknown: The Story of Poison Girls Poison Girls – Persons Unknown The Complete Recorded History 7 CD box set- 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025: Anarchy in the Big Easy - The following talk was presented thirty years ago at an Earth Day 20 program at Loyola University New Orleans entitled "Earth Day 1990: Launching A New Environmental Decade."
What Is a Repertoire?— An Afterword from the forthcoming The Reticular Society - Ill Will Ian Alan Paul’s The Reticular Society offers a situationist-inspired critique of how the logic of optimized computation and networked calculation has expanded and deepened the capitalist project of exploitation and domination. As Paul shows, the more that human experience becomes integrated, the more captured, isolated, and impoverished it becomes. In anticipation of its […]
Social Strikes: Endgames - By Shelter and Solidarity December 1st, 2025 Social strikes represent the withdrawal of cooperation and acquiescence by a whole society, manifested for example in general strikes and mass popular “people power” uprisings. Previous commentaries in this series have examined the historic role of social strikes in overcoming tyranny worldwide; social strikes in the US; using […]
This Rancid Mill: A Review on Razorcake - Razorcake December 2nd, 2025 In Charles Willeford’s classic New Hope for the Dead, detective Hoke Mosley sits at a bar as the song “London Calling” by The Clash plays. The ever-frustrated Hoke struggles with the lyrics to the song and finds it completely unenjoyable. “The whole song made no sense to him,” Willeford writes as […]
Ithaca’s Hidden Gem: Autumn Leaves Books - By Kate LaGatta Cornell Sun December 4th, 2025 There is nothing in this world comparable to a used bookstore: stacks of aged books with vintage covers, shelves bursting as you try to widdle out the copy you actually want, fluorescent lighting overhead softly whirring, back rooms and basements with rarities you ogle at in the […]- A Clean Hell: A Bisexual Bookshelf Review - Goodreads: Ailey | Bisexual Bookshelf December 2nd, 2025 it was amazing bookshelves: abolition, anticapitalism, anti-fascism, anti-imperialism, anti-queerphobia, antiracism, anti-white-supremacy, anti-surveillance, anti-transphobia, arc, class-consciousness, community-care, memoir, nonfiction, pro-palestine-author, ptsd-representation, sober-living-representation, substance-abuse-representation, therapy-representation, top-read-of-2025, trauma-and-healing, all-time-fave Thank you to Stephanie at PM Press for the gifted ARC! This book will be published in the US on January […]
Boff Whalley of Chumbawamba on Book Tour - Firestorm Coop Boff Whalley, a founding member of the anarcho-punk / folk band Chumbawamba, on tour with his new book “BUT: Life Isn’t Like That, Is It?” It’s a book about stories, and a book of stories, in which Boff explores how the tales we encounter in films, novels, and plays aren’t the same as […]
Video Premiere— “Keep Your Grubby Little Hands Off of Mars” - Welcome to the video premiere of “Keep Your Grubby Little Hands Off of Mars“ Billionaires like Bezos and Musk don’t just see Mars as an opportunity for exploration and a desire to live out their fantasies about space travel, but as an opportunity for exploitation. The western mentality of settler colonialism hasn’t changed in 500 […]
Book by Book, Brick by Brick: Celebrating 20 Years of Radical Publishing—Help Us Build the Future - PM Press launched in 2007, on the eve of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. The urgency and audacity of starting a radical publishing house amid a collapsing book trade, endless wars, economic freefall, and global social unraveling struck a deep chord with those who still believed both that ideas matter and that […]
Eric King in Bellingham, WA (Duck & Cover x Alternative Library) - October 30th, 2025 A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon By Eric King Foreword by Raymond Luc Levasseur Edited by Josh Davidson “Eric King spent ten years in some of the worst prisons the world has ever seen. And lived to tell the story. A Clean Hell is a haunting, harrowing […]
WCH E112: Radical Reads – Be Gay, Do Crime - Working Class History October 8th, 2025 As part of our Radical Reads series, we speak about our latest book, Be Gay, Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance and Rebellion, with editors Zane McNeill, Blu Buchanan and Riley Clare Valentine. Radical Reads is one of our Patreon-only exclusive series, where we discuss texts – both old and […]
A Literary Guide to the Oscars - By Joumana Khatib New York Times February 21st, 2019 Let your favorite movies of 2018 guide your next reading choices. With the Oscars coming up on Sunday, you may be revisiting films that are up for awards this year. Some, like “If Beale Street Could Talk” and “Black Panther,” were adapted from books, while others, […]
From Hash Rebels to Urban Guerrillas: A Review - By James Hogg Twentieth Century Communism: a journal of international history Roman Danyluk and Gabriel Kuhn’s From Hash Rebels to Urban Guerrillas is the first English academic resource on West Berlin’s 2nd of June Movement, a leftist militia that terrorised West Berlin in the 1960sand 1970s. During the 1970s, the Movement robbed banks, bombed political […]
Queer View Mirror: Be Gay, Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance & Rebellion - Queer View Mirror∙ By Sam Elkin Queer View Mirror’s Sam Elkin is joined by co-editors Zane McNeil and Riley Clare Valentine about Be Gay, Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance and Rebellion, a new book out now with PM Press. Zane McNeill is the editor of Y’all Means All: The Emerging Voices Queering Appalachia […]
On free speech and the harms of conversion therapy - By Adrian Shanker Los Angeles Blade October 16th, 2025 Debunked practice causes significant damage to youth The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in Chiles v Salazar, regarding Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy practices. Media reports suggest that the conservative Supreme Court majority is inclined to strike down Colorado’s law. This would have a profound […]
Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Dark Money w/ Jarrod Shanahan - Pod Damn America Jarrod Shanahan returns to the show to talk about his new book, Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help. But first, we are owed dark money where is our dark money Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help collects a decade of reflections on recent US struggles—Occupy Wall Street, […]- ‘A soul-sucking, desolate hell’: How I survived America’s most secretive supermax prison - “You are not provided any joy, any stimulation—you got to find that yourself… I didn’t understand what weeks and months of silence can do to someone’s psyche. That can tear people apart if you’re not conscious of what’s happening to you.” by Mansa Musa The Real News October 6, 2025 Eric King is a father, […]
Richard Modiano reviews The Giveaway: The Clay Blackburn Story by Owen Hill - By Michele McDannold The Literary Underground Poet, Sleuth, and Scout: The Noir World of Clay Blackburn Owen Hill’s The Giveaway: The Clay Blackburn Story brings together three novels and a short story featuring the poet-sleuth-book scout Clay Blackburn—a singular character navigating the margins of Berkeley, California, where radical politics, literary ephemera, and existential mystery intertwine. […]
Charlie Kirk & Donald Trump’s War on the First Amendment & the Trans Community - Out FM September 22nd, 2025 On this show, Out-FM’s Bob Lederer and transgender activist Pauline Park spoke with Matthew Lyons, a longtime researcher of the far-right and racist organizations, about the aftermath of the assassination of Christian nationalist Charlie Kirk. They discussed the Trump administration’s use of it as a pretext to pursue suppression of freedom […]
Social Strikes vs. MAGA Tyranny - By Jeremy Brecher October 1st, 2025 What if MAGA rule so dismantles the institutions of representative democracy that normal institutional processes are insufficient to overcome tyranny? Around the world, general strikes, “people power” uprisings, and other forms of “social strikes” have overthrown violent, armed dictatorships. What conditions might put social strikes on the agenda in […]
Eating at the Margins - By J.J. Amaworo Wilson Anarchist Review of Books In the 1890s, Brazil was forging its path as a republic when word got out that an anti-government uprising was brewing in the northeast. The would-be revolutionaries, in truth a band of half-starved former itinerants, were led by a charismatic wandering preacher called Antônio Conselheiro. The government […]- Doing Politics the Right Way w/ Lake Effect - This Wreckage by Sean KB and AP Andy Episode notes A conversation with Chicago’s Lake Effect Collective about the pro-Palestine University Occupations, the Chicago DNCs of 2024 and 1968, the current struggles against ICE, and their experience forming an organization. Lake Effect’s texts: UChicago Occupation: https://lakeeffect.noblogs.org/post/2024/08/01/reflections-on-the-uchicago-popular-university-for-gaza-encampment/ DNC: https://lakeeffect.noblogs.org/post/2024/09/07/seattle-is-never-coming-back/ ICE: https://lakeeffect.noblogs.org/files/2025/03/previoustactics_FINALREAD.pdf On organizing: https://lakeeffect.noblogs.org/post/2025/05/29/bring-the-ruckus-2008-notebook-on-cadre-revolutionary-organization/ Jarrod […]
Social Strikes in American History - By Jeremy Brecher September 16th, 2025 What can we do if MAGA authoritarianism so undermines democratic governance that it cannot be successfully challenged by conventional means? In many other countries, tyrannies have been overthrown by nonviolent mass popular uprisings. This commentary scours US history for examples of “social strikes” – mass strikes, general strikes, and […]
Feats of Clay - By Nick Mamatas Anarchist Review of Books What would an anarchist private eye even look like? Well, no license, for one thing. As likely to be a criminal as stop a crime as anything else. And perhaps preoccupied with poetry, the hothouse of Berkeley’s leftist scene, and hooking up with clients and criminals of any […]- Protest, Pop Culture and the Alt-Right: Jarrod Shanahan on a Decade of Upheaval - We join Jarrod Shanahan as he reflects on a decade of struggle, and shares his experiences with and analysis of Trumpism and the alt-right. Cosmonaut September 23rd, 2025 On this episode of Cosmopod, Isaac and Jack talk with Jarrod Shanahan about his new book, Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help: A Decade […]
- A Comics Artist Draws the Experiences of Palestinian Refugees and Immigrants - By Sarah Rose Sharp HyperallergicJanuary 5, 2017 Leila Abdelrazaq elaborates on her representation of the Palestinian diaspora and the ability for comics to convey dense issues in a more easily digestible format. For artist and organizer Leila Abdelrazaq, comics are a means of communication as much as a beautiful mode of self-expression. In her solo show, […]
Palestinian cartoonist chronicles incarceration in “White and Black” - By John Stang Seattle Globalist May 15, 2017 To Mohammad Sabaaneh, being a political prisoner wasn’t heroic or glamorous. It was being being human, yearning for family, scared, hungry, isolated. For five months in 2013 in a detention center in Israel, he approached his sentence as a journalistic assignment, stealing paper to sketch ideas about […]
Laila Abdel Razzak: Asylum in comics - By Ibtisam Benez Alarby May 16th, 2017 The Palestinian artist and comics artist القصص المصوَّرةLeila Abdel Razzak does not sign up her work, but her fingerprint is evident in those works, despite their difference and the diversity of their style. Abdul Razzaq takes the art of comics to express the concerns it concerns, especially with […]- A Clean Hell: Winter/Spring 2026 Indies Introduce Featured title - Bookweb September 10th, 2025 ABA is proud to announce the titles selected for the Winter/Spring 2026 Indies Introduce program. Each year, the Indies Introduce program brings booksellers together from across the US for conversation and connection centered around exciting upcoming debut adult, middle grade, and young adult titles. “This is a challenging, fun, and satisfying […]
- Seahorses: Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender-Expansive Pregnancy in Publishers Weekly - Publishers Weekly Knaphus, a trans dad and attorney, presents a frank and moving collection of personal histories about pregnancy and family building from trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people. The 17 contributors reflect intimately on a range of issues, including how pregnancy changed their bodies and at times exacerbated gender dysphoria, the experience of being misgendered […]
A Mine Wars Graphic Novel, Storytelling And W.Va. Life, Inside Appalachia - Bill Lynch, Mason Adams, Kelley Libby, Abby Neff, Margaret McLeod Leef, Capri Cafaro Published Inside Appalachia August 29, 2025 – 6:00 pm We speak with the author of a new graphic novel about the West Virginia Mine Wars. The labor struggle culminated in the largest armed uprising since the Civil War. Also, professional storyteller James […]
What Charlie Kirk’s Life and Death Can Tell Us About the U.S. Right in the Age of Trump - By Matthew N Lyons Three Way Fight September 16th, 2025 Charlie Kirk’s life and death offer a microcosm of the MAGA movement’s shift to the right over the past decade—and of the dynamic factional interplay that has fueled that shift. Regardless of why Kirk was targeted, the right is using his killing as an opportunity […]- Illustrating Mass Incarceration: A Conversation with James Kilgore and Vic Liu - By Iván Pérez Chicago Review of Books October 31, 2024 An interview with the creators of “The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration.” How many for-profit prisons are operating in the United States? Where are previously incarcerated people finding opportunities to rebuild their lives after getting free? Are they getting free at all? The […]
Stitching Out a Life in Graphic Memoir - With “Baddawi,” Leila Abdelrazaq joins women cartoonists engaged in life writing. Not just Satrapi, but Alison Bechdel, Lynda Barry, and Phoebe Gloeckner. By Alex Mangles LA Review of Books June 8th, 2015 LEILA ABDELRAZAQ, a young Palestinian-American cartoonist, has released her debut graphic narrative Baddawi, the story of her father Ahmad, a Palestinian refugee, brought up […]
Militant Anarchist Experiences in the Antiglobalization Era - Revisiting the Movement against Capitalist Globalization from Our Dystopian Present The Final Straw Radio August 31st, 2025 This week we’re sharing an interview with Tomas Rothaus, author of the recently publish memoir, Another War Is Possible: Militant Anarchist Experiences in the Antiglobalization Era, out this year from PM Press. We speak about the anti-globalization movement […]
Kevin A. Young at the Binghamton Upstate Anarchist Book Fair - Essential Dissent Kevin Young is a history professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he is active in labor and climate organizing. He spoke at the 2025 Upstate Anarchist Book Fair, held May 3rd and 4th in Binghamton, NY. The event was sponsored and hosted by PM Press: https://pmpress.org How we can muster the […]
Defying Back to Work Order, Air Canada Flight Attendants Secure Tentative Agreement - By Jenny Brown Labor Notes! August 25th, 2025 Flight attendants with Air Canada and subsidiary Air Canada Rouge walked out early August 17. As expected, the Liberal government ordered them back to work 12 hours later, declaring their strike unlawful. In a bold move with wide implications, the 10,000 striking flight attendants defied the order. […]- Raymond Tyler – Radical Comics - Essential Dissent Raymond Tyler spoke at the 2025 Upstate Anarchist Book Fair, held May 3rd and 4th in Binghamton, NY. The event was sponsored and hosted by PM Press: https://pmpress.org Raymond Tyler is a comics writer from Appalachian Georgia currently residing in Nyack, NY. He’s a longtime social justice and labor activist, bridging “history from […]
- Anarchy in the Big Easy: A History of Revolt, Rebellion, and Resurgence - The following talk was presented thirty years ago at an Earth Day 20 program at Loyola University New Orleans entitled "Earth Day 1990: Launching A New Environmental Decade."
- Far Right Exploits Children’s Deaths in Minneapolis to Target Trans People - Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has decried those using the tragedy “as an opportunity to villainize our trans community.” By Zane McNeil Truthout August 28th, 2025 Trump supporters are exploiting the mass shooting in Minneapolis on Wednesday — in which two children were killed and 17 people were injured — to escalate their broader attacks on […]
‘This is occupation, not conflict: it’s black and white.’ - By Rebecca Stead Middle East Monitor Mohammad Sabaaneh was released from an Israeli prison four years ago. He had been incarcerated for five months, spending almost two weeks in solitary confinement. Israeli forces held Mohammad in administrative detention, meaning they needed no charge and did not send him to trial. During one of his interrogation […]- Be Gay, Do Crime in Publishers Weekly - Publishers Weekly In this far-reaching foray into LGBTQ+ history, activists and academics McNeill, Valentine, and Buchanan fill every day of the year with factoids highlighting people and moments that have shaped the fight for queer liberation. Running from January 1 to December 31, each day features the anniversary of at least one historical event related […]
Uncover How Your Employer’s Power Flows - By Jenny Brown Labor Notes August 19, 2025 Review of What the Boss Doesn’t Want Us to Know: Discovering Power and Winning Campaigns by Tom Juravich, Olivia Geho, and Andrew Gorry (PM Press, 2025) When workers at one company started researching their employer, says a union leader in What the Boss Doesn’t Want Us to […]
Palestine In Black and White: Book Discussion - Mosaic Rooms 8/18/2022 Caricaturist Mohammad Sabaaneh talks to Guardian cartoonist Martin Rowson about his recent book Palestine in Black and White, a hard-hitting portrayal of life under occupation. Mohammad Sabaaneh has gained worldwide renown for his black and white sketches. His stark geometric figures and landscapes are rich with Palestinian visual traditions and symbols, while […]
Make the Fossil Fuel Powers Stranded Assets - By Jeremy Brecher August 18th, 2025 As Donald Trump is trying to stamp out everything that might power the world without fossil fuels, a “Greentech” revolution is making renewable energy and everything designed to run on it not only better for the climate and environment, but also far cheaper. Trump’s energy policies will make the […]- Library Startup Briet Wants to Revolutionize E-Book Sales, Not Licensing - By Nathalie op de Beeck Publishers Weekly July 30, 2025 With publishers and libraries at odds over e-book licensing’s long-term expense, hold times, and ethical concerns, a new platform called Briet is pursuing an open-access approach. Briet invites publishers to sell their e-books to libraries outright, providing universal, perpetual access. Several independent publishers including PM […]
An Audio Documentary on Colin Ward: Clear Spot – A Span of Autonomy - An audio documentary about Colin Ward which tells the story of anarchy in the UK through his life and work, and an alternative history of the 20th century seen from an anarchist perspective. Featuring interviews with friends, family, former colleagues and fellow anarchists including Ruth Kinna, David Goodway, Sophie Scott-Brown, Eileen Adams, Ken Worpole, Sol […]- Radical history & revolutionary predecessors: What queer youth should know about their ancestors - It’s time to steal back what is ours, to reappropriate the many scraps of our bottom-up legacies of good troublemaking. By Cindy Barukh Milstein LGBTQ Nation August 21sts, 2025 The following is an adapted excerpt from “Be Gay, Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Queer Rebellion,” edited by Riley Clare Valentine, Blu Buchanan, and LGBTQ Nation […]
Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues: Selected Writings on Popular Culture— A Review - By Ryan Bunnell Freedom News UK August 15th, 2025 The Chicago Surrealist Franklin Rosemont tapped the subversive energy of popular culture Since its inception, Surrealism has been attractive to anarchists. Its methods and principles speak to us. In surrealism, many anarchists recognise our own hatred of boredom, disdain for the tyranny of positivist rationalism, and […]- Drawing for justice: Mohammad Sabaaneh on Palestine, art, and hope - By Lucy Duncan American Friends Service Committee May 25, 2017 My homeland lives in my heart Image by Mohammad Sabaaneh, photo by Lucy Duncan / Just World Books Mohammad Sabaaneh is a Palestinian cartoonist, whose book “White and Black: Political Cartoons from Palestine” was recently published by Just World Books. Mohammad was born in Kuwait […]
- New Graphic Novel Explores What It’s Really Like To Be A Palestinian Refugee - By Beenish Ahmed Thinkprogress Apr 24, 2015 Leila Abdelrazaq is 22 years old and the author of a new graphic novel. If the lanky and freckled recent college graduate is unfazed by her success it’s because she never dreamed of writing a book — much less one set to incisive black and white ink images. As a […]
- Trump’s war on harm reduction will cost LGBTQ+ lives - By Adrian Shanker The Advocate August 14th, 2025 Opinion: By dismantling proven HIV prevention and overdose reduction programs, the Trump administration is replacing science with politics — and putting already vulnerable LGBTQ+ communities in greater danger. The Trump administration is wrong about a lot of things when it comes to LGBTQ+ health and well-being. They […]
- Jarrod Shanahan and Zhana Kurti of Hard Crackers discuss the critical conditions of America’s mass-carceral society - States of Incarceration Red May TV 2023
Bodies and Barriers: Summer Reads to Boost Your Brain - McGill Discover curated eBooks from The Neuro’s Patient Resource Centre to support your health and well-being this summer. Did you know that the Neuro Patient Resource Centre offers a collection of eBooks? Hosted on the platform OverDrive, the collection includes books on topics beyond just medicine and neurology. To enhance your summer reading, explore the […]
Straight Edge and Radical Sobriety: A Book Review - By Jochem van der Steen Heavystone (Dutch) August 4th, 2025 (Originally published in Dutch, In English thanks to Google Translate) Hey, Last week I took it pretty easy on the shows and interviews. I did write a few reviews and visited Nerf Herder in the Altstadt. Next week is going to be a busy one, […]- Anti-Capitalist Road Trip - By Rob Jacobs Counterpunch August 5th, 2025 It seems so long ago, but the movement against global capitalism that featured mass protests against meetings of capital’s biggest criminals and powerbrokers (usually one and the same) had center stage a mere twenty-five years ago. For those who participated, it was an exhilarating time filled with confrontation, […]
- What the Boss Doesn’t You To Know. . .and NAFTA-USMCA Renegotiation: Where Is Trade Justice? - Heartland Labor Forum In an age of Amazon, Starbucks and Google it may seem impossible for workers to win a union. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll talk with Olivia Geho, one of the authors of “What the Boss Doesn’t Want Us to Know: Discovering Power and Winning Campaigns” about what it takes […]
- The Graphic Novel ‘Baddawi’ Looks Back at Life in a Palestinian Refugee Camp - By Tasbeeh Herwees VICE December 5, 2015 Leila Abdelrazaq was only a freshman at DePaul University in Chicago when she began turning anecdotes from her father’s life inside a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon into a webcomic. Four years later, Baddawi has evolved into a 128-page graphic novel told from the perspective of a young […]
- Black Coal and Red Bandanas: A Review in TCJ - Red-Haired Ash Reads July 26th, 2025 “There is never peace in West Virginia because there is never justice.” Mother Jones This was a beautifully illustrated history of the West Virginia mine wars. I really loved the black inking with only red coloring on the bandanas, blood, and torches. It just helped emphasize the scenes. “No capitalist […]
- Palestine in Black and White - By Ramona Wadi Middle East Monitor Beyond the accessible narratives in the form of reports and news briefs which run the risk of normalising decades of colonial violence against Palestinians, art manages to impart the dimensions that can easily be lost or given less importance within mainstream media. Mohammad Sabaaneh’s book, “Palestine in Black and […]
Decades in the Struggle – Interview with Ramsey Kanaan - This interview was conducted by Philip Zura on 25 July 2025 as part of the “Decades in the Struggle” project. Audio and video were edited by Nathan Jun. “Decades in the Struggle” aims to collect, preserve, and disseminate the stories of older anarchist and anarchist-adjacent thinkers, writers, and activists in the United States, Canada, the […]- Three-Way Fight: An Interview w/ Matthew N. Lyons and Xtn on Antifascism in 2025 - Two veteran antifascist organizers and theorists discuss how antifascism is being reconsidered with Trump’s second Presidency and the rise of right-wing governments. By Shane Burley Maiesh Review While time has only seemed to accelerate over the past quarter century, the past six months have cracked off at lightning speed. The shifts in global politics that […]
- A Reading List on the Palestinian Experience in the Face of Oppression - By Hala Alyan & Talal Alyan ElectricLit June 11th, 2021 Books about Palestinians and the struggle for Palestinian liberation What can memory endure? A story, we know, can be told and retold for generations, find its way centuries later in the mouth of a descendant. What then of a memory expunged—so thoroughly and violently that […]
- Kay Gabriel reviews Captives in The Nation: - The Island A history of Rikers. By Kay Gabriel The Nation May 19th, 2022 esperation, decay, and violence are far from exceptional for Rikers. The island—which hosts eight of New York City’s jails and the nearly 6,000 people caged in them—has become synonymous with ruinously brutal carceral practices and inhumane facilities. But by the summer […]
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How a Movement-Based Opposition Defeated the First Trump Coup - On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., was attacked by a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump in an attempted self-coup, two months after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. Photo credit: Tyler Merbler, Wikimedia Commons, CC by 2.0. By Jeremy Brecher August 2nd, 2025 A little-known alliance of […]- Black Coal and Red Bandanas: A Review in TCJ - By Hank Kennedy The Comics Journal July 31st, 2025 “Just like a mule A goddamn fool Will scab until he dies” — Coal miner’s song, quoted in The Labor Wars: From the Molly Maguires to the Sit Downs by Sidney Lens Political cartoonist Art Young’s response to the 1913 West Virginia coal miner’s strike almost […]
Ian Brennan and Gaelynn Lea Talk the Americans with Disabilities Act, 35 Years Later - Plus, Gaelyn’s Music From Macbeth, her forthcoming memoir, and more. By Ian Brennan Talkhouse July 22nd, 2025 Ian Brennan is a GRAMMY-winning producer and the author of nine books; Gaelynn Lea is a violinist, singer-songwriter, disability advocate, and author from Minnesota, whose memoir, It Wasn’t Meant to Be Perfect, will be published in 2026. Gaelynn’s […]
‘Til Death Do Us Part: Murder By Death Plays Final Chicago Shows - By Kyle Decker In the Loop July 18th, 2025 Murder by Death has been a crucial band for me for more than half my life. They were first brought to my attention in late 2003. It was my freshman year of college and I was home for winter break. My friend picked me up and […]- Disability in Library and Information Services - By Nicola Griffith July 16th, 2025 Last month I discovered there’s a new journal in town: Disability in Libraries and Information Studies (DisLIS) is an open access, multimedia journal run by information professionals who work in various types of information-oriented jobs. All members of the Editorial Board either have disabilities or have extensive experience with disability-centered […]
- Jarrod Shanahan discusses Captives with Natasha Lennard for Bookforum - A Season in Hell: Bookforum talks with Jarrod Shanahan about the history of Rikers Island By Natasha Lennard Bookforum August 10, 2022 So far this year, seven people have died while in custody at New York’s Rikers Island jail complex. During ever more regular heat waves, reports spread of incarcerated people gasping for breath under […]
- Welcome to our solar system, Ammonite! - By Nicola Griffith I imagine many of you have already heard this but just in case you might think I need to be notified by email or social media, yes, I know. And, yes, it’s very cool! The Subaru telescope located at the Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawai’i has “found a new world within our […]
New York, the prisoners of the City Time - By Gilles Dauvé DDT21 June 2025 The prison has its mythology. The one we’re going to talk about, Rikers, is in TV series and movies like Carlito’s Way Brian De Palma (1993). For a few tens of euros, we can even, online, try to avoid this (a game for children under 10 years of age). […]
Three-Way Fight: An Interview w/ Matthew N. Lyons and Xtn on Antifascism in 2025 - Two veteran antifascist organizers and theorists discuss how antifascism is being reconsidered with Trump’s second Presidency and the rise of right-wing governments. By Shane Burley Maisesh Review July 10th, 2025 While time has only seemed to accelerate over the past quarter century, the past six months have cracked off at lightning speed. The shifts in […]
Positive Force at 40: Looking at the Activist Group’s Past, Present, and Future - From June 19 through 22, Positive Force held a series of concerts, rallies, and panel discussions to revisit the punk collective’s history and support today’s social justice causes. By Steve Kiviat Washington City Paper July 1st, 2025 Positive Force, the D.C. volunteer activist collective founded by Kevin Mattson and Mark Andersen in 1985, celebrated its […]
It All Began With a Rebellion | The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum - By Creepalachia In this special donation episode, Mackenzie New-Walker and Shaun Slifer from the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum sit down with J.D. to talk about how a group of passionate volunteers turned a small idea in Matewan into one of the most important grassroots history museums in Appalachia. They share the story of how […]
Black Coal and Red Bandanas: A Review - By Meredith The Rest is Just Exposition If you’ve been here with me for long enough, you know that I am really interested in the West Virginia Mine Wars that took place in the beginning of the 20th century. I’m always excited when a new book is published about them. So, when I saw the […]- Be Gay, Do Crime in Organise! - By Peter Ó Máille Organise! Magazine July 4th, 2025 This review will be short. The original reviewer ran up against life and was needed elsewhere. Normal we’d just leave it be and have it sat there until they had time, however, when I post this in the morning, Be Gay Do Crime, will have around […]
Revolution in 35mm in CulturMag (German) - By Alf Mayer CulturMag Geschrieben am 1. Juni 2025 von Alf Mayer für Crimemag, CrimeMag Juni 2025, News Reading Ahead (28): »Revolution in 35mm«. Ein Filmbuch über das Widerstandskino der 1960er bis 1990er Alf Mayer über das Filmbuch von Samm Deighan, Andrew Nette (Hg.): Revolution in 35mm. Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the […]
Environmental Protection Agency Workers Investigated for Defending Its Mission - By Jenny Brown Labor Notes July 10th, 2025 After signing a critical letter to their boss, 139 EPA workers were put under investigation and on a 2-week paid administrative leave July 3. The workers wrote to EPA administrator Lee Zeldin that the mission of their agency is being undermined by the Trump administration’s actions and […]
