Get Your Gift in Time— 2023 USPS Shipping Deadlines - We will do our best to get you your package in time, however with almost all 2023 developments much of it is out of our hands. Below are the best dates we have from the USPS to try to get you your packages on time. We want to be very clear that these dates are *our […]
The Green New Deal and the Politics of the Possible - By Jeremy Brecher, Senior Strategic Advisor, LNS Co-Founder The previous Commentaries in this series have examined many aspects of the Green New Deal that is emerging from below. This Commentary tells how the Green New Deal at the local state, and regional levels is transforming the limits of what people believe to be possible. The […]
Irish fascism is not a reaction to immigration or poverty. It’s not even new. - It is grossly unfair to inner city communities to stigmatise them as the sources of a shameful night in Dublin/ By Phil Meyler As the physical debris of a shameful night in Dublin is cleared from the streets of the inner city, perhaps we can also begin to clear the mental debris. One chunk of analytic wreckage […]
How the labor movement can fight back against Capitalism in the U.S. - America’s Work Force Union Podcast Emeritus professor of economics and the founding director of the Center for Study of Working Class Life at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Michael Zweig, joined the America’s Work Force Union Podcast to discuss his book “Class, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of […]
Back to the Future - The Return of the Ultraliberal Right in Argentina By Tomas Rothaus @batallonbakunin Crimethinc November 26th, 2023 Last week, the extreme right won electoral victories in the Netherlands and Argentina. The global reactionary wave that brought Donald Trump to power did not subside with his electoral loss in 2020, nor with the defeat of Jair Bolsonaro […]
Challenging Capitalist Modernity IV: We Want Our World Back! Resist, Reclaim, and Rebuild - Booker Prize laureate James Kelman was the keynote speaker at the opening night of the conference “Challenging Capitalist Modernity IV: We Want Our World Back! Resist, Reclaim, and Rebuild” in Hamburg, 6 April 2023.
Leon Rosselson, Where Are the Elephants?– a review - By Penny Stone Peace NewsOctober 1st, 2023 ‘A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when it lands there, it looks out and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation […]- Class, Race, and Gender with Michael Zweig - People’s Forum NYC Join us for a book talk on Class, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism with author Michael Zweig and organizers Jamel Coy Hudson, Juliet Ucelli, and Darinel Velasquez. Bringing forth the basic operations of capitalist economies, it reveals what is driving many of today’s most urgent and vexing […]
The Bootleg Coal Rebellion reviewed in Journal of Appalachian Studies 29.2 - By Lou Martin Journal of Appalachian Studies 29.2 In The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925–1942, Mitch Troutman recovers the hidden history of miners who, facing mine shutdowns and growing unemployment, continued to illegally mine and sell coal using improvised methods. The book openswith a foreword by the late Staughton […]
Liberty Elsewhere: Exiting Elites against the Messy Multitudes - By Megan Black Diplomatic History Within the long history of U.S. territorial ambition, a largely overlooked cadre of plotters—libertarians—dreamed of breaking new conceptual ground. Like many expansionists before them, whose antics have frequently been detailed across the pages of Diplomatic History, proponents of “libertarian exit” sought to embolden capitalist profit-seeking overseas. But unlike many before, […]- CITY LIGHTS LIVE! James Kelman in conversation with Alan Black - By City Lights July 9th, 2022 Booker Prize-winning novelist James Kelman in conversation with Alan Black discussing Kelman’s new novel “God’s Teeth and Other Phenomena” published by PM Press Visit link to purchase: https://citylights.com/gods-teeth-oth… James Kelman was born in Glasgow, June 1946, and left school in 1961. He travelled and worked various jobs, and while […]
- Zweig on “Class, Race, and Gender”; Who “Oppenheimer” left out - By Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant Labor Heritage Power Hour Broadcast on November 9, 2023 “Class is about power,” says professor Michael Zweig, whose new book, “Class, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism” will be out later this month. He’ll be at the Shirlington Busboys and Poets on Sunday, November 12 […]
A New Album of Old Labor Songs Revives a Forgotten Era of Class Struggle - By Annie Levin Jacobin On the anniversary of songwriter and union organizer Joe Hill’s execution by firing squad, a new album revives early 20th-century labor movement songs, capturing the original spirit of loud, raucous brass bands. One hundred and eight years ago today, the great songwriter and union organizer Joe Hill was executed by firing […]
THE NEW ZAPATISTA AUTONOMY - by Uri Gordon, Freedom Countervortex Freedom Last week the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) released a declaration, setting out a new decentralized structure for the autonomous indigenous communities in Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas. To get more insight into this change and its significance, Freedom spoke to Bill Weinberg, a longtime journalist and anarchist in […]
“Working It”: A Review in Affilia - By Doris Murphy Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work With the current interest in peer-led and community-engaged research and writing, Bickers,Breshears, and Luna’s (2023) edited collection of sex workers’ writing and images is an importantand timely anthology. Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex is an edited collection of creativewriting and artwork by […]
Out of State, Out of Mind - By Mitch Troutman The Baffler November 14th, 2023 New York makes its waste Pennsylvania’s problem They were up there grinning, cradling trophies, covered head to toe in human shit. I was in the West End of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, for an off-road race. Nothing but homemade trucks and bragging rights, the track woven through vast […]
The Workers’ Way to Freedom and Other Council Communist Writings, Ed. Robyn K. Winters - By Comrade Jimbo Slice Libcom November 12, 2023 The Western Left is searching for answers. “Read more theory” is a demand many of us have probably heard, in the hopes that we might find a blueprint for revolution in past analyses of then-current affairs. Robyn K. Winters’ new collection of the writings of Anton Pannekoek […]- Michael Zweig talks about “Class, Race and Gender” on ADVOCATING FOR JUSTICE - By Arthur Schwartz Advocating for Justice on WBAI Praise “Michael Zweig has produced an important educational resource for young labor, racial justice, and environmental activists by providing a clearly written, well documented account of the economic, political, and historical forces driving social events. His explanation of the interrelationships of class and race is especially welcome.”—Bill […]
The Influence of NoMeansNo with John Wright - By Unscripted Moments: A Podcast about Propagandhi- The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner with James Kelman - By Unburied Books October 31st, 2023 Author James Kelman joins us to discuss James Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, originally published in 1824. It tells the story of a staunch Calvininst who is lured into a killing spree by a mysterious, shapeshifting being. We discuss the novel’s unusual structure, moral […]
“Empty Cribs”: “What’s all the Fuss over Low Fertility?” - By John Barker In the ‘Old Testament Bible with its resentful, authoritarian and distinctly masculine God, the character Lot escapes Sodom and ends up in a totally isolated a cave with his two daughters They have seen their town, their world destroyed, and in their in their abrupt isolation come to believe that for lack […]
From Ivy League to Assembly Line: An Organizer’s Story - by Ella Teevan Democratic Socialists of America October 21st, 2023 This year, young militants have sent shock waves through the labor landscape by unionizing under the nose of corporate America, at brand-name juggernauts from Starbucks to Amazon to Chipotle and beyond. If you’ve been reading Democratic Left, you know that DSA believes that if we’re […]
Of sowings and reapings by Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés - October, 2023 Almost 15 years ago, in our words, the nightmare was forwarned. It was during a Semillero and it was through the voice of the deceased SupMarcos that we spoke. Here it goes: Of sowings and reapings(January 2009) Maybe, what I am about to say has nothing to do with the main theme of […]
Thinking Was for Later; Movement Was for Now: On the Vortex Group’s “George Floyd Uprising” - By Jamie Peck Los Angeles Review of Books IN THE FINAL shots of Jordan Peele’s horror film Us (2019), a cavalcade of ghouls join hands across a burning landscape in a gesture inspired by the Reagan-era charity stunt Hands Across America. This scene comes as the denouement of a story in which a mistreated underclass […]
Reading Adam Shatz on the war in Gaza - by Matthew N. Lyons Three Way Fight How do we forcefully make the case to defend the Palestinian people in Gaza against Israel’s increasingly genocidal assault, and also honor the conflict’s heartbreaking contradictions? This is a question I’ve been grappling with for the past month. Adam Shatz’s essay “Vengeful Pathologies” gets at the challenge better […]
Leon Rosselson – Chronicling the Times – a review - By Adam Sear TradfolkOctober 17th, 2023 Explore Leon Rosselson’s protest-driven folk music journey in this compelling compilation album featuring collaborations with iconic artists. Release Date: 27 October 2023 Leon Rosselson’s compilation album offers a retrospective of his lifelong protest-driven career. Collaborating with legends like Martin Carthy, Billy Bragg and Frankie Armstrong, Rosselson’s thought-provoking songs tackle […]
Countercuisine: The Counterculture of the Diggers & Food Co-ops - By Margaret Killjoy Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff In this reverse episode, author Wren Awry teaches Margaret about the 60s & 70s radicals who changed the way we relate to food in the US. Sources: Appetite for Change by Warren Belasco The Theater is in the Street by Bradford D. Martin “Digger Meets Panther” […]
The Left Can Win a Moral Revival - By Burt Cohen Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen The corporate powers in the late sixties were seriously freaked out by the powerful momentum of the left. So along came the 1971 Powell Memo, which was a battle plan to retake power. And it worked. On this show, economist professor Michael Zweig talks about his […]
Book Review: Signal:08 A Journal of International Political Graphics & Culture - Reviewed by A. Iwasa Trial and Error Collective November 6th, 2023 Signal is an ongoing book series dedicated to the political graphics, creative projects, and cultural production of international resistance and liberation struggles. Edited by Josh MacPhee and Alec Dunn, this issue of Signal delves into international Black Power publishing, 1960s anarchist and antimilitarist illustrations […]
Denied Bail But The Fight Continues - Greetings! We have an important and disappointing update to share with you about the federal case against Peppy and Krystal. We received the devastating news on Thursday, October 26th that the judge rejected an appeal regarding Peppy’s pre-trial incarceration. This means that Peppy is likely to remain locked up indefinitely, as the legal team prepares for trial. […]
Revisiting Sex and Class - By Gilles Dauvé On a gender-fluid childhood, May 68, women’s lib, radical gays and Lesbians, identity, #MeToo, and a bit more: an interview with Lola Miesseroff This year PM Press is publishing Fag Hag, by Lola Miesseroff (b. 1947), a story of troubled rebellious times. In the following interview, begun in 2017 and completed in […]
It’s A Hope We Keep Alive In The Corner Of Our Being - Freedom Highway Nick Panken We listen to the brand new album Chronicling The Times, a career retrospective assembled by political songwriter Leon Rosselson, with additional background on a few songs as published in his new memoir Where Are The Elephants? from PM Press. Song of the Old Communist | Leon Rosselson | Chronicling The Times […]
Publishers for Palestine: Statement of Solidarity - November 3rd, 2023 We invite publishers, editors, and writers around the world who stand for justice, freedom of expression, and the power of the written word, to sign this letter and join our global solidarity collective, Publishers for Palestine. We honour the courage, creativity, and resistance of Palestinians, their profound love of their historic lands, […]- Hierarchy & Capital, A Snug Fit, A Smug and Shitty Couple - By John Barker Hierarchy(ies) of gender, class, race and species existed before Capitalism while the Hierarchy of species only becomes one towards the whole planet with the violent victories of colonialism and Capitalism. Since then they have been a shitty, mostly snug and compact pair to whom the very idea of Equality is an affront […]
The Palestinian Youth Movement in a Time of War: An Interview with Kaleem Hawa - By Susie Day “If this isn’t enough for you to adopt solidarity with Palestine, nothing ever was going to be”: Kaleem Hawa and the Palestinian Youth Movement Kaleem Hawa is a young Palestinian writer who has contributed eloquent pieces on art and film to such publications as The New York Review of Books and Artforum. […]
Green New Deal Justice—from Below - By Jeremy Brecher Oct 21 Almost by definition Green New Deal projects simultaneously address climate protection, worker empowerment, and justice. This Commentary will look at Green New Deal projects and networks that emerged from discriminated-against communities and put issues of justice front and center. While the Green New Deal is often thought of as a […]
NoMeansNo on New Books Network - By New Books Network They were unlike any other band in the punk scene they called home. NoMeansNo started in the basement of the family home of brothers Rob and John Wright in 1979. For the next three decades, they would add and then replace a guitar player, sign a record deal with Alternative Tentacles […]
Surveil and Conquer - The state spies upon and infiltrates social movements to keep people on guard, afraid, and second-guessing their every move. An excerpt from Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Activism and State Repression by Chris Robe Inquest October 5th, 2023 St. Paul, Minnesota, police received $50 million from the federal government to spend on security for the 2008 […]
Charlie Allison talking Nestor Makhno on D Listers of History - D Listers of History He was more than a hero, he was a (anarchist) union man! Read Charlie Allison’s book No Harmless Power: The Life and Times of Nestor Makhno ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ www.DListersofHistory.com Instagram: @DListersofHistory https://www.patreon.com/DListersOfHistory https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/160877847-fayge-horesh- Local radio host pens book about legendary Victoria punk band NoMeansNo - By Curtis Blandy Victoria Buzz NoMeansNo is a world renowned punk band that was born in a basement in Victoria back in 1979. They were a little known band by choice — never wanting to ‘sell out’ and because of that, they are held in the highest regard among those who know of them. The […]
In Solidarity | Abolitionist Law Center’s Statement on Palestine - Posted on October 23, 2023 by connease Warren The Abolitionist Law Center is committed to building collective resistance to the genocide in Palestine and the ongoing suppression of the Palestinian right of self-determination. We call on people within the United States to commit to calling for an immediate ceasefire, ending U.S. military aid to Israel, […]- This 1960s Anarchist Group Believed Food Should Be Free - For the Diggers of San Francisco, stew was subversive. By Wren Awery Atlas Obsura In 1968, the poet Diane di Prima moved from New York to San Francisco. She wanted to work with the Diggers, self-identified community anarchists who performed street theater and organized mutual aid projects, from free stores to free housing to the […]
Unscripted Moments: A Podcast About Propagandhi - A Public Dis-Service Announcement from Shell (EP 101) By Unscripted Moments 00:00-7:10: Introduction 7:10-10:00: Matt Milkowski and Ollie Hobson coer 13:10-1:03:50: Ramsey Kanaan interview 1:03:50-1:05:50: Freakingsnap cover 1:05:50-1:26:30: Less Talk More Rock top 5’s discussion 1:26:30-END: A Public Dis-Service Announcement from Shell conversation. 
THE RADICAL SF BUNDLE - The Radical SF Bundle – Curated by Nick Mamatas Science fiction is the genre of change. There can be any number of SF plots, and a dizzying array of SF themes, and plenty of themes, but the genre is almost definitionally about the status quo collapsing and something new taking its place. History will never […]
Ben Fletcher and IWW Dockworkers- Interview with Dr. Peter Cole on Labor Jawn - By Labor Jawn In this interview episode, Sam and Gabe sit down with Dr. Peter Cole, author of “Ben Fletcher: life and times of a Black Wobbly” and “Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia.”- On not being afraid to try something new - By J. Bennett The Creative Independent October 9th, 2023 Author and radio host Jason Lamb discusses learning as you go along, asking for what you want, and living in the present. Jason Lamb is an author, radio show host and former stand-up comedian. He is the co-host of Dylan & Jason in the Morning on […]
- Professor emeritus Michael Zweig on why he wrote “Class, Race and Gender” - By Hazel Kahan Michael Zweig, Stonybrook professor emeritus, labor scholar and activist, talks about his new bookClass, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism and why he wrote this book for young activists and leaders. Professor Zweig is founding director of the Center for Study of Working Class Life at the State […]
- Documenting the Little Abuses - An excerpt from Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Activism and State Repression Public Seminar October 11th, 2023 Sunset Park is a little more than half a square mile, located on the south-west side of Brooklyn and is most readily accessible by the D train from lower Manhattan. In the 1980s and 1990s it was consumed by […]
Just Transition for Auto Workers: The Answer to Auto’s Race to the Bottom - By Jeremy Brecher October 6th, 2023 The strike by the UAW against the Big Three auto companies has brought together autoworkers and climate advocates around the demand for a just transition to a climate-safe auto industry. But why is a just transition necessary, and how could a just transition for auto workers be achieved? Organized […]
John Womack Jr., joins Tavis to discuss the latest developments in the UAW strike and its potential expansion - Tavis Smiley As the United Auto Workers’ strike enters its fifth day, there remains a threat from UAW to expand their targeted strike if there is no substantive progress by Friday. And although President Biden said during speech last Friday that he would be sending his advisers to Detroit as the administration’s “go-between” in the […]- Class, Race, and Gender in Red Pepper - By Gerry Hart Red Pepper Marxism and anarchism have often been at odds as revolutionary tendencies, but there also exists a shared history of solidarity and cooperation. In this book Michael Lowry and Oliver Besancenot piece together a complex history of Marxists and anarchists who joined forces, offering a blueprint for future shared struggles.
Terry Bisson’s History of the Future - For more than two decades, one of pulp sci-fi’s masters has delivered headlines from a time line defined by the absurd. By Margret Grebowicz New Yorker October 7, 2023 Sometime in 1989, Terry Bisson was driving his daughter to college in upstate New York when an idea for a short story came to him. Glancing […]
Chalie Allison on InnerViews talks about No Harmless Power - 
Hear stunning music recorded inside Mississippi’s infamous Parchman prison - By Graeme Thomso BBC September 13th, 2023 Earlier this year, award-winning producer Ian Brennan visited the notorious Mississippi State Penitentiary, aka Parchman Farm, to record inmates singing. Graeme Thomson reports on the remarkable results. “Oh listen you men, I don’t mean no harm / Oh listen you men, I don’t mean no harm / If […]- Does U.S. Labor Need a New Strategy? A Review of Labor Power and Strategy - By Stas Margaronis RBTUS August 29th, 2023 A new book, authored by historian John Womack, “Labor Power and Strategy” edited by Peter Olney and Glen Perusek, focuses on the need for U.S. workers to organize unions in strategic industries and discusses wins and losses experienced by union organizers. Two union organizers discuss issues impacting workers […]
Korean-Chicagoan shoegaze band Precocious Neophyte celebrates LP release - Ham Jee-hye of Precious Neophyte performs during the vinyl release show for “Home in the Desert” at Chicago’s Sleeping Village, Sept. 1 (local time). Courtesy of Kyle Decker By Kyle Decker The Korea Times By Kyle Decker CHICAGO ― Chicago is a great city for music. That’s just a fact. And, honestly, the best stuff […]
Autumn Leaves Used Books: The Literary Sanctuary of Ithaca - By Asli Cihangir Cornell Sun September 19th, 2023 Stepping into the Autumn Leaves Used Books is like being transported into a world of literary nostalgia. Thousands of books — new and old — are stacked on top of each other, comfortable couches invite customers to sit and read and literary works can be found for […]
Fag Hag reviewed in The New York Journal of Books - By David Rosen New York Journal of Books “‘Some girls fancy sailors, others fancy soldiers. But you, my dear, are a fag hag!’” If you want to take a short trip to France and revisit the radical uprising of the 1960s, read Lola Miesseroff’s Fag Hag. This is s a provocatively revealing memoir by a […]- “Labor Power and Strategy” - CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies By CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies This episode tackles the big labor organizing questions of the day: What is the relative strategic importance of organizing workers at the commanding heights of the 21st century economy, like the docks for example, versus organizing workers whose solidarity is […]
“Shout Your Abortion” billboards send a bold message along I-55 - By Amelia Bonow, SYA cofounder By Chris Carter Kait8 September 28th, 2023 JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) – In a bold move, the organization “Shout Your Abortion” has erected several eye-catching billboards along Interstate 55, delivering a powerful message to thousands of drivers in the region: “Shout Your Abortion.” Originally, six of the billboards were placed along […]
Mr. Block: The Subversive Comics and Writings of Ernest Riebe - By Hank Kennedy The Comics Journal October 3, 2023 “Oh, Mr. Block,you were born by mistake,You take the cake.You make me ache.Tie a rock to your blockand jump in the lake.Kindly do that for Liberty’s sake.”-Joe Hill, “Mr. Block” (1913) * * * Eugene Debs, who knew a thing or two about union activism and […]- ‘It’s a charged place’: Parchman Farm, the Mississippi prison with a remarkable musical history - By Sheldon Pearce Guardian UK Wed 20 Sep 2023 Inmates at this bucolic but brutal prison have long been singing the blues to sustain themselves, and a new compilation of gospel songs continues the legacy In 1940, the Mississippi singer Bukka White released the song Parchman Farm Blues as a testament of the two years […]
- Organizing, Militant Unionism, & the Class War: The Fighting (Life &) Times of Jon Melrod - Guerrilla History In this outstanding episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Jon Melrod to discuss his new book Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War (use code FIGHTING to get 40% off)! In this episode, we discuss the life and times of Jon, who in many ways is a real […]
The Mysterious Afterlife of Revolutionary Events: Jim Feast’s Karl Marx, Private Eye - By Jerome Sala Big Other Jim Feast’s Karl Marx, Private Eye is a remarkable book. On one level, it’s a wildly entertaining detective novel, offering satiric humor, an absorbing plot, and a cast of colorful characters. On another, the book registers the impact of a specific historical event, both on its social milieu and the […]- In Search of Worker Strategy - Seams, Chokepoints, and Organization By Kim Moody New Politics Summer 2023 “Wherever things connect, that’s where they’re materially weakest…. It’s hard to tear fabric woven whole, like Christ’s cloak, all of one piece; it’s much easier to tear it where there’s a seam,” argues John Womack Jr. in Labor Power and Strategy. And so it […]
The Commons and Communism— Peter Linebaugh on Against the Grain - Against the Grain What is the relationship between things held in Common — from rivers and forests, to traditions of sharing and mutual aid — and communism? How should we understand the connection between the Commons within class society and life after capitalism? Historian Peter Linebaugh weighs in on the history of the idea of […]
Say Sue Me brings Korean indie rock to Chicago - By Kyle Decker The Korea Times CHICAGO ― Busan band Say Sue Me brought their unique brand of shoegazy surf rock (surfgaze?) back to Chicago on July 20. It was the second-to-last stop on their seven-city North American tour, the night after playing K-Indie Music Night in New York with Crying Nut. This was not […]
Building Community Defense: It Did Happen Here - By Firestorm Coop What does it take to keep fascists and white nationalist organizations out of our communities? Contributors to “It Did Happen Here,” a new oral history of successful anti-racist organizing in Portland, reflect on the hard-won lessons from the Pacific Northwest in the 1980s and 90s. It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People’s […]
How Samuel R. Delany Reimagined Sci-Fi, Sex, and the City - A visionary novelist and a revolutionary chronicler of gay life, he’s taken American letters to uncharted realms. By Julian Lucas New Yorker July 3, 2023 In September, 2021, while working at his desk in Philadelphia, Samuel R. Delany experienced a mysterious episode that he calls “the big drop.” His vision faded for about three minutes, and he […]
Fascism and the Ku Klux Klan in Bill Campbell and Bizhan Khobabandeh’s “The Day the Klan Came to Town” - By Matthew Teutsch As I reread Bill Campbell and Bizhan Khobabandeh’s The Day the Klan Came to Town (2021) recently, my mind kept coming back to another book I have been reading at the moment, Robert O. Paxton’s The Anatomy of Fascism (2005). Campbell and Khodabandeh’s graphic novel tells the story of individuals in Carnegie, […]
What is Marxism? - By Howard Moss Socialist Standard July 9th, 2023 Book Review from the July 2023 issue of the Socialist Standard Critique of the Gotha Programme (translated and annotated by Kevin B. Anderson and Karel Ludenhoff, with a new introduction by Peter Hudis and an afterword by Peter Linebaugh, PM Books, 2023) References to Marxists and Marxism […]
The Green New Deal from Below and the Future of Work - By Jeremy Brecher, Senior Strategic Advisor, LNS Co-Founder While protecting the climate will require millions of jobs, there is no guarantee that those jobs will be good jobs. The local and state Green New Deals that have sprung up around the country are not only creating new jobs, they are also addressing low wages, lack […]
The Radical Imagination of Sex Workers - By Firestorm Coop April 20th, 2023 Editor Matilda Bickers is joined by Camille and Monty Monster Slayer, two contributors to “Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex”—a fiercely intelligent, fantastically transgressive portrait of the lives of sex workers—to discuss the industry, the impacts of criminalization, sex worker art, workplace organizing, and the challenge […]
Anti-Racist Action in Minneapolis on Working Class History Podcast - Working Class History Rerelease of the Working Class History podcast Episode 49 about Anti-Racist Action in Minneapolis as featured in We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action (PM Press / Working Class History 2023). About the book: Based on extensive interviews with dozens of ARA participants, We Go Where They Go tells […]
Why We Need Mass Movement Climate Justice Politics - By David Camfield Midnight Sun Magazine Midnight Sun is excited to present this excerpt from David Camfield’s new book Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change. Reprinted with permission of PM Press and Fernwood Publishing. Why do mass movements matter so much at this time in history? First, they are crucial for defensive […]
RUIN: A Review - By Andrew Andrews True Review RUIN is an existential collection of stories about, at times, the hopelessness of living in a time of chaotic change. The title story is about James Day, an ideal subject of a painting, a myth, an irresistible model, somebody at once real to a woman, yet out of reach. She’s […]
Virtual Conversation w/ Jim Ruland, Daniel Weizmann, and Kyle Decker (hosted by Jeremy Kitchen) - Hosted by Jeremy Kitchen. Chicago Public Librarian and author of Mr Crabby, You Have Died. https://firsttoknock.com/…/mr-crabb…. Jim Ruland is the author of the LA Times bestseller Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise & Fall of SST Records, the award-winning novel Forest of Fortune and the short story collection Big Lonesome. He is the co-author of Do […]
Stop Militarism in Our Schools! The Protest Art of Peg Averill - by Alec DunnJust SeedsJuly 6, 2023 There’s a lovely remembrance of the political artist Peg Averill written by ChloeBuergenthal, over on the War Resisters League blog, as part of the 100 year anniversary/celebration of this essential organization. Peg Averill’s expressive and loose drawing style was synonymous with anti-militarist activism when I was a teenager in […]- ‘The Day the Klan Came to Town’: Carnegie Carnegie marks a somber centennial - By Walker Evans Trib Live July 16, 2023 At the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, there’s one word that best summarizes our values, our goals, and the purpose of our work. If you’ve read my Signal-Item columns in the past, you’ll have seen me use it countless times. In fact, it appears in […]
Remembering Jen Angel, 1975-2023 - The senseless death of a friend & comrade by Ryan Fletcher Fifth Estate # 413, Spring, 2023 Beloved long-time social justice activist, anarchist, and owner of the Oakland, Calif. Angel Cakes bakery, Jen Angel, died on Feb. 9. Jen passed on after three days on life support following critical injuries suffered in a robbery outside […]
Confronting anti-Indigenous Racism – stories from Ontario’s “Fishing Wars” - We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action was published in January 2023. Based largely on interviews with past participants, the book documents and analyses the history of Anti-Racist Action (ARA), a youth-based network of groups and individuals, from the late 1980s until the early 2000s. Among the interviewees was David McLaren, a […]- A Good Day in Our Movement: Organizers Debate in ‘Labor Power and Strategy’ - By Bill Fletcher Jr. , Jane McAlevey , Peter Olney , and Stephanie Luce Convergence Mag September 4, 2023 Strategic locations, key occupations, networked relations—all bring workers power. “Labor Power and Strategy” offers an extended conversation among veteran organizers on how these modes operate and relate, and how best to deploy them. The book Labor […]
Spaces of Exception: An Interview - By Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny, for Lundi Matin Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny, who co-edited The Mohawk Warrior Society: A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival, directed the feature-length documentary film Spaces of Exception, which will have its North American Theatrical Premiere at New York’s Anthology Film Archives this October 27-31. Spaces of Exception features […]
A conversation with Alex Knight - By Charlie Allison(Land And Freedom, Blue Panther Games, 2023) (This interview has been edited for clarity and length). Charlie: Anyway, lets talk about your work! Your game (Land and Freedom) is delightful, I can’tshut up about it with friends and comrades. You caught lightning in a bottle here bud. Alsocongratulations on its recent translation into […]- No Harmless Power: The Life and Times of the Ukrainian Anarchist Nestor Makhno in Publishers Weekly - Publishers Weekly Historian and activist Allison debuts with an energetic and admiring chronicle of 20th-century Ukrainian rebel Nestor Makhno (1888–1934), who organized peasant uprisings and led armed raids against both Imperial Russia’s forces and the Bolsheviks, and who has been called a “hero, revolutionary, small god of anarchism, demonic force inflamed by the fires of […]
- Imagining Karl Marx as a Private Eye - By Ed Rampell Covert Action Magazine August 29, 2023 What If the Co-Author of The Communist Manifesto Would Have Become a Gumshoe? Novelist Jim Feast’s sly alternate history Karl Marx Private Eye (PM Press) somehow manages to bring Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, Karl Marx and his youngest daughter together at Karlsbad, Bohemia, in 1875. The author […]
- Jim Feast reviews No Harmless Power: The Life and Times of the Ukrainian Anarchist Nestor Makhno - By Jim Feast Goodreads No Harmless Power by Charlie Allison is both stirring and depressing. It tells the story of Unranian anarchist Nestor Makhno who during the time of the Russian Revolution, generalled a small army, one that expanded and contracted according to the fortunes of war. This force was fighting the white armies of […]
- Jon Melrod on Madness Cafe talking about Fighting Times - Madness Cafe In this week’s episode, Raquel and Jennifer speak with union organizer, activist, and author Jon Melrod. In his book Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War, Jon chronicles his life and experience as part of the Black Liberation Movement, the Labor Movement, and the Feminist Movement. This is conversation […]
- Memories of Klan violence still echo in Carnegie today - By Bob Podurgiel Gazette Carnegie’s 3rd Street is a charming place to take a stroll. Two art galleries – the 3rd Street Gallery, featuring the artwork of Philip Salvato, and Double Dog Studios, highlighting the work of artist Dave Klug – welcome visitors to explore the visual arts, with musical concerts, play readings, and dance […]
- SLC Punkcast Episode 311— Bad Chemicals - Episode 311, featuring tracks from JFA, Uphill Avenue, Clayface, Peacefull, ZULU, Small Town Sindrome, Bite Back, Bad Chemicals, Hunting Lions, Iron Maiden, and Fun Lovin’ Criminals. We play a lot of new music, discuss live shows, discuss a project based on a band that disappeared in the early 80s, and wrap up the show with […]
Gabriel Kuhn Author of Liberating Sapmi on Under the Pavement - By Under the Pavement We have an interview with Gabriel Kuhn.Gabriel is the author of a number of books on a variety of radical topics and talks about his latest publication, Liberating Sapmi out now at PM Press. https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?feed=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2FUTPRadio2023b%2F24th-august-2023-gabriel-kuhn-author-of-liberating-sapmi%2F&hide_cover=1 William Shatner -Common People Boom Boom Raccoon -All Cops Are Breakfast Inflatable Boy Claws -Skeletons Water […]- Titles for Troublemakers in 4 Reading Lists— All 40% Off! - Use the coupon code: List until 10/1/23 Starting Fires Reading List Burning Planet Reading List Books AI would ban Occult Classics Reading List
Anarchists and Marxists— A Review of Revolutionary Affinities on Anticapitalist Resistance - By Ian ParkerAnticapitalistResistanceAugust 25th, 2023 Anarchism is a tricky subject for many Marxists. We know that anarchists should be our allies, but there is bad blood between us and them; blood, anarchists would say, that is mainly theirs. This book Revolutionary Affinities: Towards a Marxist-Anarchist Solidarity (2023, PM Press) by two Marxists, Michael Löwy and Olivier Besancenot, […]
ARMED LOVE 7 – Mohawk Warrior Society w/ Philippe Blouin, Matt Peterson, Malek Rasamny - Armed Love Welcome to the seventh episode of Armed Loved, the Antifada sideproject about the revolutionary countercultures of the 60s and.. Let’s just say early 70s to make it easier on me. Today we’re talking about the subject of the new book from PM Press: The Mohawk Warrior Society: A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival […]
The Political Legacy of Lyndon LaRouche (w/ Matthew N Lyons) on The Final Straw Radio - By The Final Straw Radio This week, we’re sharing an interview with Matthew N Lyons of Three Way Fight blog about the political legacy of Lyndon LaRouche, cultic leftist turned fascist US political figure from the 1970’s through his death in 2019. For the hour, Matthew and I talk about the network of organizations and […]
Akilah Richards – On Unschooling from ‘Schoolishness’ - The Rooted Global Village About the author(s): Akilah Richards Akilah is a mother, partner, and liberation worker who helps people unlearn the barriers to being our real selves together, in our homes and all the other ways we connect, work, and serve. In July of 2016, Richards published the first episode of Fare of the […]- Comic Creator Bill Campbell Revisits 1923’s KKK Riot in Carnegie, PA - Fanbase Press Fanbase Press’ Paul Pakler talks with comic creator and writer Bill Campbell (SUNSHINE PATRIOTS, MY BOOTY NOVEL, KOONTOWN KILLING KAPER) about his Kickstarter campaign for THE DAY THE KLAN CAME TO TOWN, a fictionalized, graphic retelling of a KKK riot that occurred in Carnegie, PA in 1923 and the resistance to it. Campbell […]
Review of “The Rise of Ecofascism” by Sam Moore and Alex Roberts - By Matthew N Lyons Threewayfight August, 20th, 2023 Sam Moore and Alex Roberts, The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far RightCambridge, UK: Polity, 2022160 pages; paperback $19.95, ISBN 9781509545384; hardback $59.95, ISBN 9781509545377 How are far rightists responding to the global climate crisis? Denial of climate change has long been an ingrained reflex among rightists […]- Jon Melrod with Steve Early and Francisco Herrera: May Day Panel celebrating Fighting Times - GreenAppleBooks Jon Melrod is joined by fellow labor activists Steve Early and Francisco Herrera for a May Day panel in honor of his book, Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War. Recorded live at Green Apple Books on the Park on May 1, 2023.
Press Release: Inaugural Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant Memorializes the Legacy of Oakland Baker and Social Justice Activist Killed Earlier This Year - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAugust 15, 2023 Contact: Lilias Adie, Agency Program [email protected] Inaugural Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant Memorializes the Legacy of Oakland Baker and Social Justice Activist Killed Earlier This Year In New Initiative, Agency Partners with Institute for Anarchist Studies to Make Anarchist Ideas Accessible Through Media-Focused Grants WASHINGTON, DC — Agency, the anarchist public relations […]
THE FIGHT TO NOT CONFORM: Kavan Stafford on James Kelman’s ‘God’s Teeth and Other Phenomena’ - By Kevan Stafford The Glasgow Review of Books August 19th, 2023 Today, in a new essay for The Glasgow Review of Books, Kevan Stafford looks at the way Kelman uses his latest novel as a vehicle to talk to us, his readers, about a range of important matters, not the least of which being – […]- Marx’s Communism Before Marxism - Against the Grain State-ownership of the means of production and a planned economy appear to be the hallmarks of Marxist thought, along with the notion that revolution necessitates passing through socialist and communist stages. But, as Peter Hudis points out, these ideas don’t originate with Marx. He discusses his Critique of the Gotha Program, in […]
The Best Comics on African History - By Sophie Roell Fivebooks.com recommended by Trevor Getz Graphic narratives can be a great way to learn history but they need to be both good history and good comics. That’s a combination that can be hard to find. Trevor Getz, a professor of history at San Francisco State University, picks out his top comic books […]- Labour Power and Strategy: How to Read Womack - By Jane McAlevey The Commons Introduction The 2023 book Labour Power and Strategy, edited by Peter Olney and Glenn Perušek, is centred around a lengthy interview with labour organiser and historian John Womack Jr in which he argues for the importance of ‘strategic workplace organising’. During the discussion he contends: No matter what workers are […]
- Book Review: The Bootleg Coal Rebellion The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry - By Mitchell K. Jones Midwestern Marx July 6th, 2023 Modern “Coal Bootleggers” in Schuylkill County”. Postcard circa 1945. A bootleg mine shaft near Ashland, Pennsylvania.[1] A headline in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania newspaper the Daily Item reads, “Man Charged with Stealing 3,000 Tons of Coal.”[2] According to the article, “The surveyor told police when he conducted […]
- Ben Fletcher + the IWW w/ Peter Cole - By Africa World Now Report The IWW was born in 1905. On January 2, 1905, several dozen people identifying as “industrial unionists” met in Chicago and issued a call to form a new labor union. That June several hundred people belonging to more than 40 unions and radical organizations returned to Chicago, where they founded […]
Revolutionary Arts with Signal Journal + Abolition with Mwalimu Shakur - By The Final Straw Radio Josh MacPhee & Alec Dunn on Signal 08 First up, Ian interviews Josh MacPhee and Alec Dunn, co-editors of Signal, about the recently published eighth volume of the Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture. They discuss their motivations and experiences producing Signal for over a decade, designing print media […]
Michael Zweig Occupy Wall Street Speech: who will put a limit on the power of capital? - Part 1 Michael Zweig, author of the forthcoming book Class, Race and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism, speaks to Occupy Wall Street protestors on November 14th, 2011. Class, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism is for those who want to understand the underlying connections among today’s social justice […]
Testing Ground - The total war on trans bodies in Missouri By Scott Branson The Baffler August 3rd, 2023 In the nationwide attack on trans rights, Missouri has become something of a testing ground. This spring, the state’s attorney general Andrew Bailey, purporting a desire to “protect children,” filed an “emergency” rule severely restricting access to gender-affirming medical […]
Michael Moorcock returns to his MULTIVERSE! - Forbidden Planet TV May 5th, 2023 The legendary Michael Moorcock returns to Forbidden Planet TV to celebrate Titan Comics’ upcoming re-release of his MULTIVERSE comics series, originally published in twelve parts by DC’s Helix imprint in 1997 and now being re-published by Titan as two high-quality archive editions (with the first edition landing in August […]
John Clark’s Possible Community - The impossible becomes possible when we define our own reality by Eric Laursen Fifth Estate Hurricane Katrina, the disaster that hit New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in 2005, was “the most devastating experience I have lived through, but also the most uplifting and inspiring,” writes NOLA native John P. Clark, whose family goes back […]- Confronting anti-Indigenous Racism – stories from Ontario’s “Fishing Wars” - We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action was published in January 2023. Based largely on interviews with past participants, the book documents and analyses the history of Anti-Racist Action (ARA), a youth-based network of groups and individuals, from the late 1980s until the early 2000s. Among the interviewees was David McLaren, a […]
- “Where are the Elephants” on Philosophy Football - Philosophy Football Leon Rosselson Where Are the Elephants? One of the founders of folk as protest Leon Rosselson weaves his own musical and political journey into an extraordinarily powerful account of how with acoustic guitar and a good tune while we may not be able dance to it the spectacle of how and why we […]
My Cross-Country, Low-Carbon Road Trip - Climate activists need vacations too By Cynthia Kaufman Sierra Magazine August 9th, 2023 I am a climate activist committed to serious policy change, but I also wanted a vacation. I had a big chunk of time off work, and I wanted to go snorkeling. I just didn’t want to fly to some tropical place from the […]- Matilda Bickers on Sex Work + Updates from Chiapas - The Final Straw Radio We’re happy to share our recent chat with Matilda Bickers, co-editor and contributor to the recent PM Press collection Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex. For the hour we talk about labor organizing in the erotic industries, Matilda’s past experiences in publishing, hangups around sex work in radical […]
- Organization and Immunity - Hundreds of angry miners crowded around the machine, several attacking it with hammers and axes. Finally, fifteen sticks of dynamite were placed under the motor, and a firing wire and exploders attached. A few minutes later there was a terrific blast and the shovel was reduced to a tangled mass of wreckage. By Mitch Troutman […]
- AEWCH 228: SCOTT BRANSON on HOW TO SEE WITH ANARCHISM - Against Everyone With Conner Habib I talk with author and teacher Scott Branson about the kaleidoscope of anarchism and how to change the entire world for the better.
- “Smashing the Surveillance State” ft. Chris Robé on Coffee with Comrades - Coffee with Comrades On today’s episode of Coffee with Comrades, I am pleased to be joined by Chris Robé, a professor of film and media studies at Florida Atlantic University and the author of the new book Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Activism and State Repression.
What are we going to do now? - by William R. Boyer (Bill Boyer) Fifth Estate # 413, Spring, 2023 A review of The Clash: All the Albums, All the Songs by Martin Popoff. PM Press, 2022 Prolific Canadian music journalist Martin Popoff has written a remarkably exhaustive, song-by-song exhumation of the Clash, the astonishing rock and roll group (1976-1986) once popularly dubbed, […]- The enduring appeal of remote Pacific islands for rich apocalypse preppers - By Kelsey Ables Washington Post July 26th, 2023 Whether it’s space, the ocean’s darkest depths or everlasting life, uberwealthy tech leaders are infamous for grandiose visions of where their deep pockets might take them. Among these is the dream of getting away from taxes, governments and even the apocalypse by escaping to some remote place […]
- We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action in Razorcake - By A. Iwasa Razorcake We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist ActionBy Shannon Clay, Lady, Kristin Schwartz and Michael Staudenmaier Largely based on interviews with ex-participants, this book is a wild ride from the 1980s through the early 2000s of militant anti-Fascist organizing in the United States and Canada. The book doesn’t just […]
Fighting Times with Jon Melrod on Trillbilly Worker’s Party Podcast - Activist, lawyer, author, and former autoworker Jon Melrod joins us this week to discuss his new book Fighting Times, and the militant union movement in the 1970s Buy Jon’s book here: pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1289 Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty Outro music: hollybodyhollybody.bandcamp.com/track/pos…-pressureIntro music: in-house
Dangerous Visions and New Worlds in Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) Review - by Mark Scroggins SFRA Review Andrew Nette and Iain McIntyre’s essay collection Dangerous Visions and New Worlds, as its title indicates, focuses in the first case on the 1960s ‘New Wave’ in science fiction, a movement whose key moments include Michael Moorcock’s editorship of New Worlds (from 1964) and Harlan Ellison’s 1967 anthology Dangerous Visions. […]
World-Ecology and the Capitalocene w/ Jason Moore on Guerrilla History - By Guerrilla History In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on a good friend and comrade of ours, Professor Jason W. Moore! In this fabulous conversation, we discuss world-ecology, the capitalocene, and how to view/analyze history through these lenses. We intend on getting into much further discussion with Jason in a couple of upcoming […]
Philippe Blouin on the book “The Mohawk Warrior Society A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival”—Free City Radio - An interview with author and activist Philippe Blouin who was a co-editor of the important collection “The Mohawk Warrior Society: A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival.” The project is described this way: “The first collection of its kind, this anthology by members of the Mohawk Warrior Society uncovers a hidden history and paints a bold […]
The Subhumans & Punk Historiography with Ian Glasper on Minor Compositions - Minor Compositions Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 12: The Subhumans & Punk Historiography with Ian Glasper For this episode we talk with Ian Glasper about his book Silence Is No Reaction: Forty Years of Subhumans. In the conversation we cover broader issues of ‘punk historiography’ and documenting more marginal musical, artistic, and political milieus that one […]
Food Activists and Street Kitchens: Cooking Revolutions in the Popular Pot - By Virginia Tognola Contents Introduction Across the globe grassroots food activists work to end hunger, strengthen communities, challenge inequality, and create sustainable social and environmental alternatives. Nourishing Resistance: Stories of Food, Protest, and Mutual Aid is a collection of essays, articles, poems, and stories from 23 cooks, farmers, writers, organizers, academics, and dreamers who demonstrate […]- The Bootleg Coal Rebellion— A World Wide Work Review - By Matt Witt World Wide Work July 2023 The Bootleg Coal Rebellion by Mitch Troutman (PM Press). Based on interviews with participants, this is a heartening story of communities that organized themselves to meet economic needs when big corporations failed to do so. When big companies closed coal mines in eastern Pennsylvania during the Great […]
- Raymond Craib and Adventure Capitalism on The Dissenter - The Dissenter RECORDED ON MARCH 14th 2023. Dr. Raymond Craib is Marie Underhill Noll Professor of History at Cornell University. His research and teaching interests revolve around the intersections of space, politics, and everyday practice. He is the author of Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital […]
- Interview with Harry- We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action - December 13, 2019 We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action was published in January 2023. Basedlargely on interviews with past participants, the book documents and analyses the history ofAnti-Racist Action (ARA), a youth-based network of groups and individuals, from the late 1980suntil the early 2000s. At its height, the ARA network included […]
The Daily Practice of Abolition - Surviving the future means questioning the very institutions that betray us. by Scott Branson, Raven Hudson, Bry Reed The Progressive The pieces of this book meet at the intersection of many seemingly endless cycles, some that have been repeating for years, some that promise to continue into a never-ending future: a pandemic, mishandled to deadly […]- Hindu nationalism in the United States: Challenging racial subordination from the far right? - By Matthew N Lyons Three Way Fight Sunday, July 09, 2023 A growing U.S. network of Modi supporters mixes Hindu supremacism with MAGA politics. The result could stretch the boundaries of who is white. by Matthew N. Lyons Even mainstream media noted the disconnect when Joe Biden lavishly welcomed Narendra Modi to Washington after claiming the […]
- This Rancid Mill: A Review on Heavy Feather - By Zachary Kocanda Heavy Feather The main character of Kyle Decker’s novel This Rancid Mill doesn’t fit the bill of a typical detective. Maybe it’s the three-inch-high blue mohawk. Or the Dead Kennedys patch on his leather jacket. Or the one-liners like: “It took me the span of a Dee Dee Ramone count-off to decide she […]
What Does It Take to Win a Strike? Historian John Womack: Unions Need to Exploit “Choke Points” in Economy to Grow Working-Class Power - Democracy Now! July 18th, 2023 As Hollywood actors enter their fifth day on the picket lines and some 340,000 Teamsters working at UPS prepare to carry out one of the largest single-employer strikes in U.S. history, we speak with historian and labor organizer John Womack Jr. about his new book, Labor Power and Strategy, focused […]
Scott Branson on System Fail #24 Pride and Prejudice - By sub.Media As corporate celebrations of pride seek to commodify queer culture into consumer markets, the far right has began to fight back against these ruthless pride-based advertising campaigns; by pushing the erasure of LGBTQ people from the public life! Threatened by a perceived challenge to their dubious “traditional morality” conservatives have taken to the […]- Anarchist Gatherings and Global Justice - By Gabriel KuhnJuly 24, 2023 Yesterday, on July 23, one of the biggest anarchist gatherings of the 21st century ended in St. Imier, Switzerland. It was held (with a one-year delay due to Covid) at the 150th anniversary of Mikhail Bakunin and comrades founding a “Black International” there after they had been expelled from the […]
Spotify playlists for The Fascist Groove Thing - By Hugh Hodges Spotify playlists by Hugh Hodges for The Fascist Groove Thing:Long Fascist Groove Thing playlist Short Fascist Groove Thing playlist and one of songs about the Falklands War and one about the Miners Strike and one about The Troubles and one about the police and unemployment and nukes and crappy jobs
It Did Happen Here: Fighting White Supremacy in the Pacific NW - By Anarres Project for Alternative Futures After the brutal murder of an Ethiopian immigrant in Portland, Oregon in the late 1980s, anti-racist organizers created a vibrant network of groups that brought down one of the most virulent white supremacist organizations in the US. A new book, “It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People’s History” (PM […]- What Does It Take to Win a Strike? - John Womack’s Labor Power and Strategy makes the case that by targeting strategic industries, workers can not only win power for themselves but also for labor generally. By David Bacon The Nation Half a century ago, long before the Internet, I got a job in a huge semiconductor plant. In Silicon Valley’s factories, we tried […]
The Cargo Rebellion: Those Who Chose Freedom on New Books in Asian Studies - New Books in Asian Studies The Cargo Rebellion: Those Who Chose Freedom (PM Press, 2022) tells a true story of mutiny on the high seas in which four hundred indentured Chinese men overthrew their captor, the Connecticut businessman and slave trader Leslie Bryson, taking a stand against an exploitative global enterprise. The laborers learned that […]- For a Tranarchist Feminism: Transition as Care and Struggle - By Scott Branson Coils of the Serpent Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power Transgender Contagion I am writing this essay from a place of dissatisfaction with anarchist discourse, from a place of frustration with trans discourse, from a place of frustration with feminist discourse. I am writing as a trans anarchist feminist, to try […]
Marie Goldsmith: Scientific Luminary, Anarchist Militant - By Søren Hough Black Flag July 14, 2023 All the articles published in this issue of Black Flag were translated as a part of the Marie Goldsmith Project, led by Søren Hough (with significant contributions from Christopher Coquard). We are an independent research initiative established to bring this remarkable – but largely forgotten – anarchist […]- Special Guest: Hugh Hodges, Author of The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher’s Britain in 21 Mixtapes - By Frontmatter Special Guest: Hugh Hodges is the author of The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher’s Britain in 21 Mixtapes. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Hugh about his background, his book, and his experience writing and publishing a book with an independent press. This interview was recorded on January […]
- “Working It” Says the Quiet Parts Out Loud About Sex Work - By Raechel Anne Jolie Autostraddle July 3, 2023 “This is not something I would say publicly—because SWERFs*— but….” is a phrase I’ve uttered more than once since starting sex work a bit over a year ago. The end of that sentence has included quiet admissions about some of the most difficult aspects of the job […]
The Green New Deal in the Cities – Part 1: Boston - By Jeremy Brecher June 1st, 2023 While the Green New Deal started as a proposed national program, some of the most impressive implementations of its principles and policies are occurring at a municipal level. Part 1 of “The Green New Deal in the Cities” provides an extended account of the Boston Green New Deal, perhaps […]
Mutual Aid – A Factor of Evolution – A Radical Audiobook - By Jason Bayless A Radical Guide We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our new project: “A Radical Audiobook Series.” We aim to bring seminal works of radical thought into your living rooms, cars, or wherever you need a dose of revolutionary ideas. Our inaugural title in this series is “A Radical Audiobook: Mutual Aid […]
The Daily Heller: Integrating Message and Method - By Steven Heller PrintMag July 7th, 2023 Signal flew under my radar. I have seen one or two issues but hadn’t realized until the latest edition (edited by Alec Dunn and Josh MacPhee) how exceptional it is as a gateway to little and unknown polemical graphic material. “From the beginning of Signal, we have maintained […]
Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies - Firestorm Coop Editor Scott Branson is joined by contributors to “Surviving the Future,” a new collection of the most current ideas in radical queer movement work and revolutionary queer theory. Panelists include E Ornelas, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, and Yasmin Nair. Beset by a new pandemic, fanning the flames of global uprising, these queers cast off […]- Revolutionary Anti-Fascism: the Role of Anarchism in Anti-Racist Action - By Spencer Beswick Institute for Anarchist Studies July 4, 2023 Anti-fascism exploded into the public spotlight after Donald Trump’s electoral victory in 2016. Spectacular street battles between fascists and anti-fascists in the heart of liberal cities including Berkeley and Portland led to antifa becoming a widely discussed phenomenon and a new bogeyman of the right. […]
‘Freedom is a constant meeting’: An interview with Kali Akuno - By Frances Madeson Facing South June 30, 2023 July 1 looms. It’s the day SB 2343 becomes Mississippi law. Unless a court intervenes to block its implementation, the law will significantly expand the powers of the state-controlled Capitol Police force throughout Jackson, the state’s majority-Black capital city. A Republican supermajority has extended the force’s jurisdiction […]
Defending Drowning Mona - By Kyle Decker July 3rd, 2023 Drowning Mona is a largely forgotten comedy crime film from the year 2000. It was poorly received by critics at the time and bombed with audiences as well. Most lambasted it as overly quirky and dry. The consensus was that its offbeatness was just off. Personally, I have always […]
The Green New Deal in the Cities – Part 1: Boston - By Jeremy Brecher While the Green New Deal started as a proposed national program, some of the most impressive implementations of its principles and policies are occurring at a municipal level. Part 1 of “The Green New Deal in the Cities” provides an extended account of the Boston Green New Deal, perhaps the most comprehensive […]
Free Peppy and Krystal! Free Em All! - In the early hours of May 19th, heavily armed agents raided the home of two long-term Pittsburgh activists, Brian “Peppy” DiPippa and Krystal DiPippa. Nearly a month and a half later they were both federally indicted on charges stemming from a demonstration against a University of Pittsburgh sanctioned event promoting transphobic hate speech. On June […]- Waxing Full Moon Enthuso Anarcho— Charles Allison talks Nestor Makhno - By Caroline Casey Visionary Activist Show June 29, 2023 Waxing Full Moon enthuso anarcho woofing with Charles Allison biographer of Ukrainian anarchist leader Nestor Makhno, that we tease the dedicated vision, and myriad befoiblements of anarchist revolution into guiding pertinence, with special honoring of Kropotkin and “Mutual Aid” in resonating relevance. Charlie Allison is an […]
- What the Rebellion Taught Us - For a moment, the George Floyd uprising made the white supremacist power structure tremble.Let’s hold on to that with all we’ve got. By David Campbell Inquest Magazine June 29th, 2023 I kind of missed the George Floyd uprising. I was in the United States, but in jail at the time, so I don’t have firsthand […]
- Celebrating Jewish Literature: Two mysteries and a thriller - By Rabbi Rachel Esserman The Reporter Group Confession time: the only Jewish character in this mystery is Karl Marx, who considered himself an atheist. That would make his daughter, Eleanor, another character in the novel, Jewish by patrilineal descent. Since nothing connected to Judaism happens in Jim Feast’s “Karl Marx, Private Eye” (PM Press), why […]
Save the Date and Spread the Word! - The PM Press Warehouse at 21 Emma Street in Binghamton, NY will be hosting the First Annual Upstate Anarchist Book Fair on May 4th, 2024. We’ll be working out details over the next 10 months, booking performers, vendors, speakers, workshops, etc. so please reach out to us via email at [email protected] or fill out our […]
What’s Crazy In Health Care Today - By Michael Fine What’s Crazy In Health Care Today By Michael Fine © 2023 by Michael Fine In the United States, we have a health care market, not a health care system that provides the same set of essential services to all Americans. We’ve all gotten used to that – it makes for health care that […]
A conversation with Matt Hongoltz-Hetling - By Charlie Allison Matt Hongoltz-Hetling’s new book If It Sounds Like A Quack came out earlier this year and can be purchased here. It talks about the rise of the medical freedom movement in American, the corporate take over of the medical industry and the ascendancy of what he calls One True Cures—treatments that range […]- The Fascist Groove Thing - By Christopher Schobert The Film Stage June 26th, 2023 The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher’s Britain in 21 Mixtapes by Hugh Hodges (PM Press) Here’s a brilliant concept: a collection of 21 mixtapes centered on the horrors of Margaret Thatcher’s Britain, along with analysis of the songs, the performers, and the meaning of […]
Visions of Queer Futurity— Scott Branson on Coffee with Comrades - Coffee with Comrades June 20th, 2023 This week, I was joined once again by Scott Branson to discuss the new anthology they helped edit for PM Press, Surviving the Future: Queer Abolitionist Strategies. Scott and I had a lovely conversation about queerness, futurity, healthcare, academia, and everything in between.
The Radical Imagination of Sex Workers - By Firestorm Collective April 20th, 2023 Editor Matilda Bickers is joined by Camille and Monty Monster Slayer, two contributors to “Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex”—a fiercely intelligent, fantastically transgressive portrait of the lives of sex workers—to discuss the industry, the impacts of criminalization, sex worker art, workplace organizing, and the challenge […]
Zane McNeill on Read Appalachia - By Kendra Winchester Read Appalachia In this month’s episode, we’re talking about books for Pride Month! Host Kendra Winchester is joined by special guests Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. and Zane McNeill. Things Mentioned Books Mentioned Guest Info Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. is an advocate, Kentucky Teacher of the Year, and the author of […]
Just do it - God’s Teeth reviewed on The Prisma James Kelman horrified the literary establishment when he won a major award for his fourth novel, “How late it was, how late” in 1994. By Sean Sheehan The Prisma A novel about an ex-con losing his sight as the result of a beating by the police and then coming […]- Anarchism, Queers, and Mutual Aid f/ Scott Branson on Sad Francisco - Sad Francisco Jun 22, 2023 A book club episode with Scott Branson, co-editor of the new anthology “Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies,” and author of “Practical Anarchism.” Scott: sjbranson.com | Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies: pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1296 | Practical Anarchism: plutobooks.com/9780745344928/practical-anarchism | Remembering Jen Angel, 1975-2023 (The Agency): anarchistagency.com/commentary/remembering-jen-angel-1975-2023 | SF Food Not Bombs: sffnb.org | “Times Square Red, Times […]
The Estate of Jen Angel Responds to Arrest of Suspect in Death of Oakland Baker and Activist - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 23, 2023 Contact: For further information and all media inquiries, please fill out this form and someone will get back to you: http://bit.ly/jenangelpress Statement Calls for No Incarceration, Policing, State Violence, and Perpetuating Cycles of Harm in Jen Angel’s Name; Asserts a Resounding Yes to Community Responsibility, Accountability, and Mutual Aid […]- This Rancid Mill: An Interview with Kyle Decker in bROKe in Korea - By Jon Twitch bROKe During IT’S A FEST! 2019, I had a digital copy of an early draft of “This Rancid Mill” by Kyle Decker with me, and at one point I was sitting in Jeff’s chair next to the stage reading it. Someone came over and remarked on me reading while at a punk […]
Obituary: Yanna Momina (1947-2023) - Photo © Marilena Umuhoza Delli By Ian Brennan Songlines June 20th, 2023 Afar singer Yanna Momina has passed away, just one month before she was set to perform outside of Djibouti for the first time ever We are saddened to announce the death of Yanna Momina Abass at age 76. Momina had been scheduled to […]- On John Clark’s The Impossible Community - The impossible becomes possible when we define our own reality by Eric Laursen Fifth Estate Hurricane Katrina, the disaster that hit New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in 2005, was “the most devastating experience I have lived through, but also the most uplifting and inspiring,” writes NOLA native John P. Clark, whose family goes back […]
Sex workers’ rights expressed through the arts - By Beatriz Baleeiro Hamilton Spectator ‘Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex,’ just launched in March, and includes first-person essays, interviews, poetry, drawings, mixed media collage and photographs. Imagine opening your own business. You have full control over your hours, freedom to choose what services are offered, determine the prices, and select customers. […]
Discussion: “Labor Power and Strategy” - Sally Hayati and Eric Dirnbach host a discussion of the book “Labor Power and Strategy” with John Womack, Jr., Peter Olney, Melissa Shetler, and Gene Bruskin. From PM Press: “What would it take to topple Amazon? To change how health care works in America? To break up the media monopolies that have taken hold of […]- It Did Happen Here hosts and producers talk about their project and event on Tuesday, June 6th, 7pm - KBOO Hosted by: Mic Crenshaw, Celina Flores Produced by: KBOO Program:: It Did Happen Here, Special Programming: Public Affairs Air date: Mon, 06/05/2023 – 7:00pm to 8:00pm More Images: Tonight, join Mic Crenshaw, Celina Flores, Moe Bowstern and Jonathan Mozzochi in Studio 2, as they talk about It Did Happen Here, the book, the podcast and their upcoming event on […]
- A History of Anti-Racist Action with Shannon Clay on The Final Straw Radio - By The Final Straw Radio Here’s our interview with Shannon Clay, co-author of We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action. For this episode, Shannon and I walk through the book, covering some of the history of the network, how it evolved, challenges it faced, and invitations to discuss current day anti-fascist and […]
Fighting Times with Jon Melrod on Under the Tree Podcast - Unchecked, the US juggernaut is headed for catastrophe, either a new and friendly-looking American fascism, or some other form of extreme social disintegration. Another world is surely coming—greater equality, participatory democracy, socialism, and peace are all within our reach, but nuclear war, complete capitalist climate collapse, work camps and slavery are also looming possibilities. There […]
Relief from ADHD medication withdrawal… with Sudafed - by the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective How to offset ADHD med withdrawal with over the counter medicines.
What Would They Play: Alexander Kerensky’s EDH Deck - What Would They Play? • Commanders HearldMay 30th, 2023 Welcome to What Would They Play? I’m Charlie, I’m a storyteller, creative writer, and author; I handle the historical sections of the articles. And I’m Dan, a Commander player who is obsessed with building thematic decks. I connect the stories to Magic cards to create decks that reflect the […]- Cooperation Jackson: Updates on a citizen-led struggle to transform a city of injustice - Collection of pieces looking at the campaign for a Black-led new municipalism in Jackson, Mississippi by Miles Hadfield Coop News Jackson Rising Redux: Lessons on building the future in Mississippi, ed Kali Akuno and Matt Meyer (PM Press) Cooperation Jackson, a radical campaign to set up a Black-led, solidarity-based new municipalism, was born out of […]
Ballet Hispánico Presents Instituto Coreográfico: Showcasing Mark Travis Rivera - By City Life Org June 11th, 2023 Mark Travis Rivera. Photo by Merilyn Garcia Ballet Hispánico presents Instituto Coreográfico: Showcasing Mark Travis Rivera on Thursday, June 29, 2023 at 6:30pm at Studio 10 at the Arnold Center, 167 W. 89th Street, NYC. This free event offers a peek into the process of the creation of a new work! Doors […]
Labor Power & Strategy: A Review - By Matt Witt World Wide Work Labor Power and Strategy by John Womack Jr., edited by Peter Olney and Glenn Perusek (PM Press). Some labor strategists argue that unions should concentrate organizing resources on choke points in the economy – shipping or information technology, for example — to force corporations and politicians to allow workers […]- Double podcast episode about Ben Fletcher—on Working Class History - By Working Class History Double podcast episode about Ben Fletcher, a very important but little-known dock worker and labour organiser in the US with the Industrial Workers of the World union. In these episodes, we speak with historian Peter Cole, author and editor of Ben Fletcher: The Life And Times Of A Black Wobbly. We […]
Interview with Nafisa Ferdous - by SignalSignal: Dispatches June 2nd, 2023 Our tenth Dispatch finds us in discussion with Nafisa Ferdous (IG:__petni, website:nafisaferdous.com), an illustrator, political artist, and activist who lives in New York City. You can find all of our previous Signal:Dispatches here. Will you tell us a little about yourself? Who are you? Where do you live? My name is Nafisa Ferdous (She/Her), […]
Bodies and Barriers: Queer Activists on Health— Health Equity Book Club - The Health Equity Book Club seeks to enhance awareness of systematic racism, inequality and misinformation within the medical community. This is achieved through research and reading, followed by honest and transparent conversations about complex topics. At Karmanos, we are committed to delivering outstanding and equitable medical care to every patient, their caregivers, and family member. […]- How illegal Great Depression-era Pennsylvania coal miners fought cops, banks, and bosses to unionize - The radical history of the Pennsylvania coal region is the subject of a new book ‘The Bootleg Coal Rebellion.’ By Maximillian Alvarez The Real News June 1, 2023 The onset of the Great Depression brought devastation to Pennsylvania’s coal region. Suddenly rendered unemployed, coal miners with no other way to make a living turned to […]
Plan B+ by the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective - If you have unprotected contact with someone, pregnancy is one concern, but HIV is another. If you take Plan B as directed, it is rendered ineffectual if you take antiretrovirals to minimize the risk of contracting HIV. However…..you can dose it in a different way, and take it alongside PeP. Here’s how: How to take emergency […]
A Radical Podcast Ep 6: Liberation: From Theory to Practice - By Jason Bayless A Radical Guide May 22nd, 2023 In this episode of A Radical Podcast, titled “Liberation: From Theory to Practice,” we delve into the intricate concept of liberation, tracing its roots across diverse religious, political, and social contexts. We shed light on Liberation Pedagogy, explore the intersection of anarchist thought with liberation theology […]
Organizing Despite the Churn - By Jenny Brown Labor Notes May 22, 2023 When the Amazon Labor Union first submitted union authorization cards, “we had to withdraw and file again,” recalled organizing committee member Justine Medina, “because Amazon challenged over 1,000 of our signatures saying they no longer worked there.” The sky-high turnover at the 8,000-worker fulfillment center on New […]
Jim Feast interviews Jerome Sala in Rain Taxi - A Wild Vitality: An Interview with Jerome Sala by Jim Feast Rain Taxi I met Jerome Sala in a college class in Chicago in 1970. We became fast friends and, always being hipper than me, he introduced me to many strange byways in poetry, art, and music. I moved to New York City while he […]- Structure and Solidarity - By Leo Casey Dissent Magazine Spring 2023 Lasting labor victories depend on coordinating diverse strategies and building the relationships to sustain them. Labor Power and Strategyby John Womack Jr., ed. by Peter Olney and Glenn PerušekPM Press, 2023, 208 pp. Two strikes serve as bookends for the heyday of the twentieth-century American labor movement: the […]
It Did Happen Here with Mic Crenshaw and Moe Bowstern on The Final Straw Radio - The Final Straw Radio April 30th, 2023 This week, we’re sharing an interview with 2 contributors an amazing history of anti-racist organizing in the late 1980’s through the mid 1990’s in Portland, Oregon, and with ripples across the so-called USA & beyond. In 2020 KBOO radio released a serialized podcast which became the basis for […]- SM28 Dissolves: A Balance Sheet - sm28.org SM28 formed in the fall of 2021. We knew we were behind the curve. We formed SM28 hoping to cohere a faction of the Party of George Floyd, i.e., all those who fought in the uprising, did jail or medical support, or who rallied around the uprising in any way. It had been over […]
- Anti-Racist Action on The Brief Podcast - By The Brief Podcast January 11th, 2023 Anti-Racist Action was unified behind a basic principle: “We go where they go. Whenever fascists are organizing or active in public, we’re there.” What began as street fighting in the punk scene soon developed into a militant direct action network with chapters across the US and Canada. Authors, […]
Indigenous resistance—Gord Hill on The Brief Podcast - The Brief Podcast January 20th, 2022 GORD HILL joins us to discuss colonization and resistance in the Americas on the occasion of the release of his revised and expanded The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book. Episode: 023 Indigenous resistanceDate: 20 January 2022 | Length: 55:01 Back to Gord Hill’s Author Page
70 works of Canadian nonfiction to check out in spring 2023 - CBC Books May 08, 2023 Check out the great Canadian memoirs, biographies, sports books and more coming out in the first half of 2023 we can’t wait to read. This anthology explores the hidden history of Kanien’kehá:ka survival and self-defense. The book provides documentation, context and analysis, including writing and artwork by visual artist and polemicist […]- Structure and Solidarity - Lasting labor victories depend on coordinating diverse strategies and building the relationships to sustain them By Leo Casey Dissent Spring 2023 Labor Power and Strategyby John Womack Jr., ed. by Peter Olney and Glenn PerušekPM Press, 2023, 208 pp. Two strikes serve as bookends for the heyday of the twentieth-century American labor movement: the 1936–37 […]
John Clark’s Possible Community - 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."- The Bootleg Coal Rebellion— A True Review - By Andrew Andrews True Review My parents grew up in what sounded to me, when we visited, like “the cold regions” on our hours-long drive many weekends up Rt. 61 to the towns of Shenandoah and Sheppton in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. My dad’s immediate family consisted of bootleg coal miners. I remember many discussions about […]
- Future on Fire: mass movements in the climate crisis - By Taisie Tsikas RS21April 24th, 2023 David Camfield’s Future on Fire argues that only mass movements can build the power needed to confront the climate crisis and win a just transition. Taisie Tsikas reviews. Future on Fire opens with an excellent overview of the realities of climate breakdown, and emphasises a key point: ‘How a society […]
- Jon Melrod with Steve Early and Francisco Herrera: May Day Panel celebrating Fighting Times - GreenAppleBooks Jon Melrod is joined by fellow labor activists Steve Early and Francisco Herrera for a May Day panel in honor of his book, Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War. Recorded live at Green Apple Books on the Park on May 1, 2023.
Peace Is War - By Gilles Dauvé Copy to a new draft “Small countries, such as Belgium, should be well-advised to rally to the side of the strong if they wished to retain their independence.” (Kaiser Wilhelm II to Belgian King Albert, November 1913) “It may even be true that none of the States concerned ‘wanted’ war: it is […]
Care Work in a Wageless World - By Emily Callaci Boston Review Selma James’s work with the Wages for Housework movement shows that we ignore the labor of care at our own peril. Two years ago this month, activists from the Global Women’s Strike convened a virtual conference. Selma James, then nearing her ninetieth birthday, was one of several speakers. “We are […]
