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PDX Forum COURAGE or COMPLICITY 9/17/26 - The public forum “Federal Workers’ Fight Against Privatization and Union Busting”Held on Thursday, September 17, 2026, from 6:30–8:30 PM at Tabor Space in Portland, Oregon. Event Summary & Core:Book Launch & Focus: The forum served to highlight a new book by prominent labor activists and journalists Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early, titled “Courage or Complicity? […]
Courage or Complicity? How Veterans are Responding to the Assault on Democracy: A Review - By Matt Witt World Wide Work September 6th, 2026 Courage or Complicity by Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon (PM). Military veterans are often used as political props even as corporate profiteers push for privatization of the VA, increased spending for military contracts, and war and genocide abroad. This highly informative book shines a light on […]
Anarchist Militants in Latin America: Biographies, Historiographies, and Transnational Lives - Edited by Amparo Sánchez Cobos, María Migueláñez Martínez, and Kirwin Shaffer. PM Press, November 3, 2026. By Tom Goyens September 15th, 2026 From the Publisher: For the first time, the transnational lives of influential Latin American anarchists are brought together in a single, illuminating volume. Spanning the late nineteenth century through the late twentieth, this […]
Paper Bullets: 120 Years of Political Stickers from Around the World— A Publishers Weekly Review - By Publishers Weekly December 2026 Gallery director Tedford debuts with a colorful “people’s history archive” of leftist political sticker art. She begins at the dawn of the 20th century, as the Industrial Workers of the World promoted union action with red-and-black “stickerettes” stamped with catchy slogans. In later decades, antiwar protestors sold stickers mocking Nixon, […]
Silicon States Episode 1: Territories of Exception—Raymond Craib on Montez Press Radio - https://radio.montezpress.com/#/show/4076 What if you could opt out of a country and start your own? What if you could create your own rules and regulations? What if you could run a country like a business? This 3-part audio series investigates the rise of semi-autonomous city projects controlled and managed by corporations. Where cities stop acting as […]
Celebrating Raoul Vaneigem - Bibliocracyradio Thursday, September 3 at 2:30 PM on KPFK 90.7 FM: My guest this week is PM Press founding publisher Ramsey Kanaan, who joins me to remember, discuss, and celebrate the late Raoul Vaneigem (1934-2026), one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. A co-founder of the influential Situationist International, he wrote dozens […]
Elia Vs. Ian Brennan, August 20, 2026 - By Ian Brennan Mixcloud Elia Einhorn is known for hosting music radio, podcasts and TV; producing records; and releasing his own acclaimed songs. On Elia vs ?, our host is joined by a who’s who of music legends, underground geniuses, and the folks behind your favorite record labels and cultural institutions for a deep dive […]
Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It’s Hard—A Review - By Ian Allinson rs21 September 7th, 2026 Activist and author Ian Allinson recommends the latest book from Labor Notes. Author Ellen David Friedman has packed it full of good advice for organising at work and elsewhere. Ellen David Friedman will be speaking at an online book launch hosted by rs21 at 7pm (British time) on […]
The Twisted Truth of Ishmael Reed’s Civil War America - By Rob Jacobs Originally published in Counterpunch September 4th, 2026 Ishmael Reed understands the United States and its history better than most of its residents and certainly better than many of its politicians and the historians they read and listen to. Where Ken Burns and Broadway see an abolitionist named Alexander Hamilton and proceed to […]
These Tech Utopians Want to Build a City for the Post-A.I. World - After a sprawling world tour, Praxis, a New York-based, crypto-backed “digital nation,” has signed a deal to build a physical city in Uruguay. By Emma Bubola NYT The American tech utopians had spent years scouring the globe for a place to build their city of the future. The founders of Praxis — a company and […]
Gabriel San Roman talks Days of Dissent on Bibliocracy Radio - By Bibliocracyradio May 7th, 2026 Thursday, May 7 at 2:30 PM on KPFK 90.7 FM: This week I invite you to SUPPORT KPFK and celebrate one of our own. Journalist, historian, and one-time KPFK programmer Gabriel San Román is out with a new book inspired by his popular daily “Subversive Historian” radio feature. Published by […]
“Don’t Breed On Me” with Madeline Quasebarth and Lee Hasselbacher - By Firestorm Coop
Ben Fletcher and Local 8: the Mural and the Marker - By Peter Cole LAWCHA June 19th, 2026 Ben Fletcher might be the most important African American labor leader you’ve never heard about. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Fletcher led 4,000 dockworkers out on strike in 1913 and shut down one of the country’s busiest ports for two weeks. Amidst their victorious strike, Local 8 of […]
Three Roads: Labor, Music, Ecology A Book Report Review - By Suzanne Miller People often ask me what I’m reading these days, and I always have to shamefully explain that I’m not reading anything and that in fact, I haven’t finished a book in a long time. It recently occurred to me that I am actually reading all the time, but only in the capacity […]
THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE - By Daniel Baryon | Anark
America’s Future: Fossil Fuel Island in a Greentech World? - By Jeremy Brecher, Senior Strategic Advisor, LNS Co-Founder September 15th, 2026 What does the global Greentech revolution mean for the American people? It could open new vistas of a Greentech New Deal. But as long as the US opposes rather than joining the Greentech revolution, it portends not only climate catastrophe, but economic catastrophe as […]
Suzanne Gordon on saving the VA— on Grass is Greener WXRW-FM - By Grass is Greener on WXRW-FM Suzanne Gordon on saving the VA Our guest is an expert and activist on veterans’ issues whose most recent book details the recent struggles and activism of veterans. We talk mostly about the Veterans Health Administration as a model of public health care with extensive utility to average Americans, […]
Front Lines: A Lifetime of Drawing Resistance: A Comics Grinder Review - By Alex Dueben The Comics Journal September 3rd, 2026 Susan Simensky Bietila is a member of the World War 3 Illustrated collective, and her comics and art have appeared in books like Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World and magazines like The Nation. She was one of the editors of […]
Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It’s Hard—A Review - By Matt Witt World Wide Work September 6th, 2026 Keep Going by Ellen David Friedman ((PM). A lifelong organizer provides insightful, readable advice, with stories that illustrate the points she makes. While the book is primarily about workplace organizing, much of it would be helpful to organizers on other issues as well.
Wade’s World: Union Tips. Ellen David Friedman. - “Against the seemingly limitless power of corporations and billionaires, and the cruelty of a government turning against its own people, there are workers everywhere standing up and fighting back. I’ve known Ellen David Friedman for many years. She knows what it takes to organize and give people real hope. This book contains that experience and […]
Labor Day Lessons: Can CIO Best Practices Aid Union Organizing Today? - By Steve Early Counterpunch September 4th, 2026 Industrial union building in the 1930s has long been the lodestar for the post-New Deal labor left. If organized labor in the U.S. could go from historic membership lows in the 1920s to an early 1950s peak union density of nearly one-third of all private sector workers, maybe […]
Anti-Imperialism and the Left in 2026 - Young men registering for conscription during World War I, New York City, June 5, 1917 – Public Domain
This is Wisconsin’s Wolf River— Front Lines: A Lifetime of Drawing Resistance Excerpt - By The Internationalist Susan (Sue) Simensky Bietila (born 1947) is a Milwaukee-based artist whose protest art includes art and illustration for underground newspapers (including RAT and The Guardian) as well as giant street puppets. She has also worked in puppet-making, constructing giant puppets for demonstrations related to Latin American Solidarity. As an illustrator and designer, Bietila […]
Gabriel San Roman talks Days of Dissent at Firestorm - Firestorm Coop Back to Gabriel San Román’s Author Page
Ian Brennan: Off Grid, On Record - Grammy-winning producer Ian Brennan shares recollections from Glitterbeat’s Hidden Musics series By Ian Brennan Songlines August 20th, 2026 In 2014, Chris Eckman, the co-founder of Glitterbeat Records, reached out to me about a new series called Hidden Musics for his label which had started up the previous year. I’d just returned from recording Vietnamese war […]
Three Roads: Labor, Music, Ecology: A Review - By Matt Witt World Wide Work September 6th, 2026 Three Roads by Joe Uehlein (PM). In this plain-talk memoir, Uehlein describes his evolution from labor leader to climate activist. He grew up in a union family in Ohio and got industrial and construction jobs, including helping to build the Three Mile Island nuclear plant. Later, […]
Courage or Complicity? How Veterans are Responding to the Assault on Democracy: A Review - By John Braxton Labor Notes September 1st, 2026 U.S. military veterans are drilled by their commanders to obey their superior officers. Many still believe it is their duty to support the commander-in-chief even after their tour of duty. But at a time when Donald Trump is undermining the Veterans Administration, attacking unions and other democratic […]
The Ghosts of 9–1–1 - Reflections on History, Justice and Roosting Chickens By Ward Churchill As ye sow, so shall ye reap.—Galatians, 6:7 September 11, 2001, will now and forever be emblazoned in the shorthand of popular consciousness as a correlation to the emergency dialing sequence, “9–1–1.” On that date, a rapid but tremendous series of assaults were carried out […]
Exclusive Interview: “Veni Vidi Venti” Author Ian Shoales - By Paul Semel August 26th, 20206 Long before anyone could go on the Internet and vent, Ian Shoales was going on comedic and illuminating rants about our world and culture, including on ABC’s late night news show, Nightline. But he was always more than just an insightful observer. Now Shoales is back with Veni Vidi […]
Land, Food, and Freedom: Building Power Outside the State | Cooperation Tulsa 2025 - By Daniel Baryon | Anark
Authoritarian Leftism Only Achieves Capitalism: Anark Responds to ‪@SocialismForAll‬ and ‪@BadEmpanada - By Daniel Baryon | Anark
Keep Going: A Labor Studies Journal Review - Labor Studies Journal August 2026 Reviewed by: Rebecca Tarlau, Associate Professor of Education, StanfordUniversity, Stanford, CA, USADOI: 10.1177/0160449X261469641 For many workers, from West Virginia teachers to Buffalo hospital workers, Vermont paraprofessionals to UC Santa Cruz grad workers, Ellen David Friedman has been a constant companion, jumping on one-on-one phone calls and organizing small-group discussions about […]
Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It’s Hard in Publishers Weekly - Publishers Weekly September 2026 For this heartening debut guide to workplace unionizing, Labor Notes board chair Friedman gathers tips drawn from her five decades of organizing experience “to help you get started, help you keep going, and help you get unstuck.” She begins with four core principles to use as guideposts: cultivate respect, organize democratically, […]
“Working-class males feel they are treated like scum by those in power” – John King Interviewed - By Tariq GoddardThe QuietusFebruary 2026 The author of Human Punk and The Football Factory trilogy speaks to Tariq Goddard about class, Greek prisons and his new novella Peekaboo Bosh The author of Human Punk and The Football Factory trilogy speaks to Tariq Goddard about class, Greek prisons and his new novella Peekaboo Bosh John’s King’s […]
Ellen David Friedman on Against the Grain - Against the Grain August 11th, 2026 Workers want and deserve decent, dignified, and democratic workplaces. But better wages and working conditions can be elusive in the face of management inertia and intransigence. Veteran organizer and Labor Notes board chair Ellen David Friedman talks about how to win workplace demands while building workers’ collective power. Ellen […]
The Outspoken and the Incendiary— A Review - ztscrpt.net These are the subjects of *The Outspoken and the Incendiary: Interviews with Radical Speculative Fiction Writers* (PM Press)—a collection of conversations conducted by science fiction author and activist Terry Bisson (1942–2024) with writers who were often friends and kindred spirits, sharing similar literary interests and forms while maintaining a commitment to political engagement. The […]
Review of Days of Dissent by Gabriel San Roman - By Kevin Brown The Turned Page Days of Dissent, Gabriel San Roman’s second book (following Victor Jara and the New Chilean Song Movement) offers 365 short vignettes – one for every day of the year – about the ways people throughout the world, and throughout history, have pushed back against repression, exploitation, and racial, gender, […]
Making Us Conscious of the Things We Don’t See - By Ron Jacobs Counter Punch June 26th, 2026 FacebookTwitterRedditBlueskyEmail In his 1962 essay titled “The Creative Dilemma,” James Baldwin wrote, “The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.” Baldwin goes on to […]
Courage or Complicity: Which Vets on the Ballot Are Defending VA Care? - By Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early Counterpunch July 17th, 2026 In this crucial mid-term election year, men and women who served in the military are wooing voters by presenting themselves as tougher, more effective foes of MAGA incumbents and even long-serving Democrats. In Massachusetts, a 50-year old former Marine captain, whose career has inspired other […]
Absurdism vs Nihilism: The Rebellion Against Meaninglessness - By Daniel Baryon | Anark
Women, don’t waste your voice… or your vote - Remembering those who came before us and continuing their work as we mark Women’s Month 70 years since the 1956 march is a national duty for those who enjoy the fruits of our democracy By Shanthini Naidoo Sunday Times August 2nd, 2026 Remembering those who came before us and continuing their work as we mark […]
The Vet-to-Cop Pipeline - Encourage veterans, including those with PTSD and brain injuries, to join law enforcement after they leave the military. What could go wrong? By Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early Washington Monthly August 3rd, 2026 he media spent a lot of time this summer examining whether a certain Maine oysterman and Marine veteran seeking federal employment should […]
No Way Home: An Anarchist Ex-Prisoner’s Response to Fire Ant Movement Defense - Crimethinc 7/11/2026 In response to the statement we published from Fire Ant Movement Defense,1 we received the following submission from Eric King, an anarchist and former political prisoner who spent nearly a decade behind bars. Nonconsensually providing information to police, prosecutors, or others involved in the criminal justice industry is one of the most damaging […]
Cuba at the Crossroads - By Peter Marshall I have written two books on Cuba as I was interested in a socialist experiment which stood up against the USA and at first seemed independent. One was called Cuba Libre: Breaking the Chains? And with the photographer Barry Lewis, the second was called Into Cuba which involved travelling to different regions […]
Not Every Veteran Candidate Is a Champion for Veterans - By Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early As hundreds of former service members run for Congress, their records reveal deep divisions over VA privatization, workers’ rights and public health care. In this crucial midterm election year, men and women who served in the military are wooing voters by presenting themselves as tougher, more effective foes of […]
365 Days of Dissent— A Conversation with Gabriel San Román - Back to Gabriel San Román’s Author Page
Endless Fest gathers 26 bands across three generations of NYC hardcore to benefit ABC No Rio - Idioteq July 10th, 2026 Endless Fest lands at TV Eye in Brooklyn on June 12, 13 and 14 with twenty-six bands playing for free across three nights to raise money for ABC No Rio. The Lower East Side community centre is months away from finishing the building it has been working towards since its old […]
Don’t Breed on Me: A Short History of Abortion in Ms. Magazine - Ms. Magazine For the whole of human existence, abortion has been a reality. The practice has been known by a variety of terms, has undergone medical and technological changes, and has experienced fluctuations in acceptance, but it’s always been there. In this fascinating and accessible volume, Quasebarth explores abortion around the world, from 1550 BCE […]
Silvia Federici discusses Gossip on NPR’s Word of the Week - NPR’s Word of the Week Gossip’ had godly origins. Here’s how it gained its sinful reputation We’ve all engaged in a little ‘gossip.’ But did you know its origins were tied to family and friendship?
Thomas Linzey on NPR’s ClimateOne: Beyond the Rights of Nature: Land that Owns Itself - ClimateOne July 10th, 2026 Western ways of thinking tend to maximize using natural resources for human profit. “Our communities are treated as things. They’re resource colonies where corporations and industry generally come down, suck the marrow out of those communities, and then move on,” says environmental lawyer Thomas Linzey, senior legal counsel for the Center […]
I’m Sorry. I Cannot Do That: Why I won’t be using A.I. in my classroom. - By Kyle Decker July 21st, 2026 Technological progress is often sold to the masses by comparing it to classic science fiction stories. What these Big Tech companies and their cheerleaders fail to realize is that these stories are, more often than not, cautionary tales. This has been especially true of A.I. Don’t get me wrong, […]
A Letter to Carlo Giuliani - On the 25-Year Anniversary of the Battle of Genoa By Crimethinc July 20th, 2026 On July 20, 2001, at the peak of the movement against capitalist globalization, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Genoa, Italy to oppose the summit of the eight most powerful governments in the world—the G8. During the massive demonstrations that […]
Swiss National Council invests with Peter Thiel in private city state - By Priscilla Imboden Republik July 16th, 2026 FDP National Councillor Simon Michel is involved with prominent Silicon Valley investors in the private city of Próspera in the Caribbean. Democracy should be overcome. Próspera – that’s the name of the dream of the US tech bros. There they create a private city-state according to their imagination: […]
A Powerful Account of Veterans’ Resistance - By Randy Shaw Hollywood Progressive July 14th, 2026 How veterans are resisting Trump’s push to privatize VA health care, weaken unions, politicize the military, and undermine democracy. Veterans are among the many constituencies harmed by the Trump Administration. Yet the negative impact of Trump policies on vets has not gotten enough attention. Trump’s team talks […]
KYLE DECKER: NOIR LIK PUNK CONSTITUTES THE CORRUPTION OF POWER - Singer of The Head Caution and teacher in immigrant schools, the American author by explaining how and why he’s his first punk noir novel, “We Will Sow Devastation,” which is just being released by Erma Publications. “Old punks never die. It’s just that at concerts we stand at the back of the room. Besides, the […]
New Book Highlights Veterans’ Fighting Back - By Randy Shaw BeyondChron July 13, 2026 A Powerful Account of Veterans’ Resistance Veterans are among the many constituencies harmed by the Trump Administration. Yet the negative impact of Trump policies on vets has not gotten enough attention. Trump’s team talks about helping vets while doing the opposite.This has led to vets fighting back against […]
Who Owns Argentine Football? - By Nicolás Campisi Public Books June 11th, 2026 The 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 […]
DS Book Club: Spanish Punk: Screaming for Democracy in a Postdictatorial State by David Vila Diéguez - By Forrest Gaddis Dying Scene December 8th, 2025 While the history of punk rock scenes in places like the United States and the United Kingdom is well documented, it would be ignorant to assume these are the only places where punk rock made an impact. Throughout punk rock’s existence, it seeped into other countries and […]
Jarrod Shanahan – Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help on Essential Dissent Podcast - By Essential Dissent Podcast A decade of American society coming apart. Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help collects a decade of reflections on recent US struggles—Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and the George Floyd Rebellion—alongside accounts of the rise of Trumpism, the alt-right, an apocalyptic shift in popular culture, to paint a […]
Demonizing Antifa: Federal Prosecutions Target Radical Organizers - By Matthew N. Lyons Three Way Fight With the court cases against the Prairieland ICE protesters and the Minnesota 15, the Trump administration has ratcheted up its authoritarian power drive. The regime is trying to criminalize radical politics and grassroots organizing, as a cornerstone of its campaign to suppress all political dissent. In the Prairieland […]
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 […]
DAVID VILA DIÉGUEZ Decodes Political Defiance in ‘Spanish Punk’ - That Epic Alper December 19th, 2025 What does democracy sound like when it’s shouted through a distortion pedal? This is the central question of David Vila Diéguez’s groundbreaking new study, Spanish Punk: Screaming for Democracy in a Postdictatorial State, released today, December 19, 2025. Emerging from the long shadow of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship in 1975, […]
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 […]
Former inmate describes life behind bars at ADX Florence | Colorado Conversations - Fox31 Denver
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. […]
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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. […]