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Where Next For the Left? with Greg Albo, Stephen Maher, and Sasha Lilley at Autumn Leaves in Ithaca, NY

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Where Next For the Left? Amidst mounting crises and challenges, socialists are at a
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Where Next For the Left?
Amidst mounting crises and challenges, socialists are at a crossroads: are we moving on, or starting over?
Sat, Apr 26th from 6pm to 7:30pm in-person at Autumn Leaves Books at 115 E State St, Ithaca, NY 14850. Learn more here.
About the event
With authors Greg Albo and Stephen Maher, co-editors of the Socialist Register, in conversation with Sasha Lilley co-founder of Against the Grain and editor of PM’s Spectre Series.
We are clearly facing a transitional political moment, as Donald Trump returns to the presidency, capitalist states fail to take action on climate change, and neoliberal policies become ever more incoherent and delegitimized. Meanwhile, the ‘democratic socialist’ conjuncture – marked by the sudden emergence of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn on the political stage, following the new socialist parties, Syriza, Bloco, and Podemos – now appears to have closed. Thus amidst mounting crises and challenges, socialists are at a crossroads: are we moving on, or starting over?
Greg Albo is a leading figure on the international left who has published widely on global capitalism, the state, and contemporary politics. He teaches political economy in the Department of Political Science at York University in Toronto.
Stephen Maher is an Assistant Professor of Economics at SUNY Cortland, and co-author of The Fall and Rise of American Finance: From J.P. Morgan to Blackrock (with Scott Aquanno) as well as author of Corporate Capitalism and the Integral State: General Electric and a Century of American Power.
Sasha Lilley is a writer and radio broadcaster. She’s the co-founder and host of the critically acclaimed program of radical ideas, Against the Grain. While program director of KPFA Radio, the flagship station of the Pacifica Network, she headed up such award-winning national broadcasts as “Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan.”
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may

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Is the Trump administration Fascist? with Author Matthew N. Lyons, coeditor of Three Way Fight:
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Is the Trump administration Fascist? with Author Matthew N. Lyons, coeditor of Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism (2024) and author of Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire (2018).
This talk will explore how Trump’s politics have evolved over the past decade, and what it all means for liberatory resistance strategy.
Sunday, May 4, 2025, 6pm to 8pm at Autumn Leaves Books at 115 E State St, Ithaca, NY 14850. Learn more here.
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Since Donald Trump entered the presidential race ten years ago, activists and scholars have been debating whether to call his political project fascist. Trump’s second administration has already gone far beyond the first one in its unprecedented efforts to grab power and suppress dissent, making the “Trump = fascism” case stronger than ever before. This talk will explore some of what’s at stake in this discussion: what it tells us about the regime and the concept of fascism, how Trump’s politics have evolved over the past decade, and what it all means for liberatory resistance strategy.
Matthew N. Lyons has been writing about right-wing politics for over 30 years. He is co-editor of Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism (2024) and author of Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire (2018). He writes regularly for the radical antifascist website Three Way Fight, and his work has also appeared in a number of other leftist and mainstream publications.
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31mayAll DayInsurgent Labor with David van Deusen in Brattleboro, VTAuthor Events:David Van Deusen

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Insurgent Labor: The Vermont AFL-CIO 2017–2023 with David van Deusen Saturday May 31st, 2025 - 6:30 PM 69a Elliot Street, Brattleboro, VT Co-presented with Everyone's Books Lean more here
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Insurgent Labor: The Vermont AFL-CIO 2017–2023 with David van Deusen
Saturday May 31st, 2025 – 6:30 PM
69a Elliot Street, Brattleboro, VT
Co-presented with Everyone’s Books
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Insurgent Labor tracks the trials and tribulations of bringing a formerly stagnant labor council into national relevance with an unapologetically left-wing agenda.
David Van Deusen charts the rise of the UNITED! slate to create a progressive and militant labor organization. He chronicles the many victories throughout his tenure including expanding union democracy into the rank and file, moving power away from single individuals and into democratic structures, supporting farm workers, supporting Black self-determination, and providing solidarity with the Revolution in Rojava.
The boldest step undertaken by the Vermont AFL-CIO—and marker of years of steady progress in labor organizing and raising of political consciousness in Vermont—was authorizing a call for a general strike throughout Vermont as a possible response to the November 2020 coup threat by then US President Donald Trump.
This book should be of interest to anyone, whether they have merely thought of joining a union or are an old union hand. Most importantly, Insurgent Labor offers a blueprint for militant labor’s advances in an era of capitalist polycrisis and offers hope for a brighter future based around equality, justice, and true democracy.
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june

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Join Owen Hill for the book launch of The Giveaway: The Clay Blackburn Story in Oakland, CA on Thursday, June 5th at Tally Ho! Books,
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Join Owen Hill for the book launch of The Giveaway: The Clay Blackburn Story in Oakland, CA on Thursday, June 5th at Tally Ho! Books, Oakland’s newest queer and women owned independent bookstore. Learn more here.
About the book
Clay Blackburn—poet, book scout, and sometimes detective—cruises the mean, and sometimes not so mean, streets of Berkeley. With his accomplices, a soldier of fortune, a “defrocked” FBI agent, and a smooth and sexy con man, he lives a life of bisexual sensation with a little crime solving on the side. As such, Blackburn is a sly, witty, and more or less reliable raconteur of the last thirty something years of the Bay Area’s radical bohemia and bookselling. And in the tradition of Ian Rankin’s Edinburgh, and Jean-Claude Izzo’s Marseilles, bears uncomfortable witness to Berkeley’s descent from countercultural paradise to neoliberal inferno.
This omnibus collection collects the novels The Chandler Apartments (2002), The Incredible Double (2010), and the previously unpublished Mayakovsky’s Bugatti (2025), and includes the Blackburn short story “Righteous Kill” (2021).
“Yet the more we get to know him, the more we’re persuaded Blackburn is a Pure Product of Berkeley. He’s not only queer, but a queer sort of all else he declares himself to be: a queer sort of detective, a queer sort of Communist or Anarchist, and beyond—a queer sort of gourmet, ethical thinker, cat owner, and—for certain—a queer sort of narrator.” —Jonathan Lethem, from the Introduction
Owen Hill is the author of three crime novels, two books of short fiction, and many collections of poetry. He coannotated and edited The Annotated Big Sleep (Vintage Crime), and coedited Berkeley Noir (Akashic Books). He was a buyer at a secondhand bookstore for many years, and now is a union organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World. He lives in Oakland.
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