US vs. China - By Jeremy Brecher In barely a decade the US and China have moved from tacit alignment to existential rivalry. Impacted by and impacting the other dynamics of the convergence of crises that compose the “polycrisis,” the US and China are openly preparing for war – a war that could all too easily escalate into World […]
John Barker and The Angry Brigade on Working Class History Podcast - By Working Class History Double podcast about the Angry Brigade, Britain’s first home-grown urban guerrilla group, in the 1960s and 70s, in conversation with John Barker, who was put on trial as part of the group. Our podcast is brought to you by our patreon supporters. Our supporters fund our work, and in return get […]
Excerpt: The City and the Commons: A Story for Our Time - By Peter Linebaugh First of the Month December 2nd, 2023 The essay posted below is the one that brought Peter Linebaugh’s Stop, Thief! home to your editor (who morphed into a “New York City man” many years ago). Linebaugh’s case for “commonizing” the city seemed fresh and audacious, though he almost lost me when he […]
John Wright (NoMeansNo, The Hanson Brothers, Dead Bob) on Rad Dads Podcast - Rad Dads Podcast March 21st, 2024
“Not everything that is faced can be changed” – Jimmy Baldwin at 100 - James Baldwin was born one hundred years ago, in August 1924. He was a beacon in dark times. James Baldwin was the conscience of the United States. He took a cold, hard look at his nation and called out its injustices in writing that was cadenced, even-handed, and true. He was a great novelist and, […]
Signing OFF!: Punk Supergroup Bids Farewell To Chicago With A Sold-Out Show At Lincoln Hall As Part Of Final Tour - By Kyle Decker In the Loop It will be hard to discuss this show without acknowledging upfront that Chicago’s own Shellac was originally scheduled to open before their frontman, the legendary musician and audio engineer Steve Albini, died on May 7th. I’d say “passed away” but the man was never one for euphemisms. Rest In […]
Pedaling Parsimoniously – A Book & Cog Review, Sort Of. - By Andrew Major Bike Mag Jul 25, 2024 It may surprise you that Sam Tracy’s book ‘Riding More with Less – A Future for Bike Repair’ is not (just) about converting every bike to a single-speed. It ranges in topics from how to tighten a quick release, to disc brake pad materials, the history of […]
Interview with Anouk - by Signal Signal Dispatches July 22nd, 2024 We are back with our eleventh Dispatch. This edition finds us in discussion with Anouk (IG:anouk_kuona_), a political printmaker from Germany. 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? Hi everyone out there, my Name is Anouk and […]
Against Fascism, Against the State— - Firestorm Books Writers Xtn Alexander and Matthew Lyons share their new edited volume on the “three way fight” approach to antifascism. They offer reflections on the dangers we face from the ruling class and the far right, explore various uses of the term “Fascism” by the Left, and discuss the legacy of the 1979 Greensboro […]- The Gaza War: The Glory of the Polycrisis - By Jeremy Brecher August 2nd, 2024 Listen to the audio version >> This commentary, the fifth in a series on “The Polycrisis and the Global Green New Deal,”takes the war that began in Gaza and is spreading throughout the Middle East as a laboratory for dissecting the dynamics of the concatenation of crises now being […]
The Paperback Show— Ep 19 Holloway House and the Rise of Black Pulp Fiction. Special Guest: Gary Phillips - The Paperback Show I’ve been working on this podcast for years now. Since I first saw the lurid cover of Iceberg Slim’s Pimp in the “Black Fiction” section of a bookstore, I have studied, read, and obsessed with the publisher Holloway House. And, of course, my friend Gary Phillips is the only person I wanted […]
Homestead Steel Mill—the Final Ten Years: USWA Local 1397 and the Fight for Union Democracy reviewed on Mid-Willamette Valley Labor Solidarity Alerts - By Bob Rossi Mid-Willamette Valley Labor Solidarity Alerts Homestead Steel Mill—the Final Ten Years: USWA Local 1397 and the Fight for Union DemocracyAuthor: Mike Stout • Introduction: JoAnn Wypijewski • Afterword: Staughton LyndPublisher: PM PressISBN: 9781629637914/9781629638553Published: 6/2020Format: Paperback/HardcoverPage count: 352 “For a short period, the rank-and-file movement at Homestead was an experiment in democracy like […]
US ‘K-goth’ band collaborates on trilingual song, dreams of touring Korea - By Kyle Decker and Fleurette Estes The Korea Times Much has been written about the “K-wave.” And Korean popular culture has indeed seen an explosion of exposure in the United States. K-pop bands sell out stadiums, Korean artists collaborate with Western artists and U.S.-based streaming services like Netflix not only have entire sections dedicated to […]
A new mural celebrates Wobblies union leader Ben Fletcher, a rare Black labor official in his time - The mural is located on the Delaware River waterfront where Fletcher fought not just for wages but for fairness and justice. By Jeff Gammage and Michelle Myers The Philadelphia Inquirer The memory of Philadelphia union leader Ben Fletcher rose anew on Saturday, celebrated on the waterfront where he enabled others to envision and attain a […]
‘You can’t forget that it’s still hell inside,’ say the authors of a new visual book on mass incarceration - By Nate File The Philadelphia Inquirer July 19th, 2024 A Q&A with James Kilgore and Vic Liu, who are coming to Philly to discuss their book, “The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration,” on July 23. Numbers can’t always capture the full story, especially with a subject holding as much deeply rooted history, conflict, […]- Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism (with Xtn Alexander and Matthew Lyons) on The Final Straw Radio - The Final Straw Radio June 30th, 2024 This week, we’re sharing a conversation I had with Matthew Lyons and Xtn Alexander, editors and contributors to the book Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism, out this year from Kersplebedeb Books and PM Press. We talked about the development of the political tendency which troubles the […]
- NoMeansNo Review on Trust - By Dolf Trust The author spoke to over 300 (!!!) persons who are in a way linked to NoMeansNo. With all ever in the band playing persons, family, record company worker, manager, technicians, friends, fans and beyond. Over 250 persons are quoted in this history of the band in chronically order to form a exhaustive […]
Prison Innovations - By James Kilgore and Vic Liu The Nation Writer James Kilgore and information artist Vic Liu demonstrate the improvisations and ingenuities that allow incarcerated people to experience some small human comforts. Writer James Kilgore and information artist Vic Liu demonstrate the improvisations and ingenuities that allow incarcerated people to experience some small human comforts. This […]
ABC No Rio, a Home for Anarchist Artists, Rises Again on the Lower East Side - Years after its demolition, ABC No Rio will get a new energy-efficient headquarters on the same site of its famous Rivington Street artists’ hub. by Melanie Marich The City July 16, 2024 Eighteen years ago, the people of ABC No Rio bought their building from the city for a dollar. A decade later, it was […]- Black Labor Leader Ben Fletcher Honored with New Mural - By Keshler Thibert Hidden City May 16th, 2024 The new Ben Fletcher mural at 301 S. Columbus Boulevard will be dedicated on Saturday, May 18. | Rendering courtesy of Mural Arts On Saturday, May 18, a dedication and celebration of a new mural honoring Black labor leader Ben Fletcher will take place on the Delaware […]
David Van Deusen’s Insurgent Labor: The Vermont AFL-CIO 2017–2023 on Mid-Willamette Valley Labor Solidarity Alerts - By Bob Rossi Mid-Willamette Valley Labor Solidarity Alerts David Van Deusen’s Insurgent Labor: The Vermont AFL-CIO 2017–2023 is part labor history, part memoir, and part polemic. It may also serve as a guide for union activists who are seeking to influence their regional labor councils and labor chapters and American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial […]
The End Is Nigh: Seminal Punk Band X, Plays Chicagoland On Their Farewell Tour - By Kyle Decker In the Loop July 16th, 2024 X is not a band that should need an introduction. But at 39, I was one of the younger people in the audience when they played at FitzGerald’s in Berwyn, Illinois. So, I guess I shouldn’t make assumptions. Part of the first wave of LA punk, […]
Fall 2024 Preview: Adult Comics & Graphic Novels - By Meg Lemke Publishers Weekly Jul 12, 2024 Black Coal and Red Bandanas: An Illustrated History of the West Virginia Mine Wars Raymond Tyler and Summer McClinton. PM, Oct. 1 ($17.95 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-88744-059-0) In 1910s Appalachia, activist Mary Harris “Mother” Jones persuades mine workers to unionize, leading to uprisings and violent reprisals by […]- Author Event: The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration - By Ben R. Free Library The Free Library will help Philadelphians visualize mass incarceration this summer in connection to a vital new book, The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration. Philadelphia has the highest incarceration rate of any city in Pennsylvania, and the most locked-up census tracts in North Philadelphia have 17 times as […]
- Every Nomeansno album Ranked from Worst to Best - By Nigel Powers The Hard Times July 9, 2024 Canadian National Treasure, pioneers in the marketing of microbrews to microgenres, leaders in the field of musical robotics (check out Compressorhead), and loveable hoser weirdos Nomeansno are the very definition of a band that transcended genre, while still remaining true to their punk ethos. A stellar […]
Black Metal Rainbows on Cave Dweller Music - Cave Dweller Music James sits down with editors Daniel Lukes and Stanimir Panayotov, as well as designer Jaci Raia, of Black Metal Rainbows. They discuss the project’s book by the same name, published by PM Press, as well as its accompanying compilation. They have an in-depth discussion about black metal’s culture, aesthetic and sonic evolution. […]- The Threat of Democracy on Campus at UMass - The Nation By Kevin A. Young May 21st, 2024 The real danger posed by the Gaza solidarity encampments is their attack on unfettered autocratic governance by university administrations and wealthy benefactors. Before arriving at UMass Amherst last fall, Chancellor Javier Reyes was already notorious for his cavalier approach to critics. But few foresaw what he […]
Orstralia: A Comprehensive Guide To Australian Punk History - Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie July 16th, 2024 Handmade collage by B. Titled after a track on The Saints’ classic second album Eternally Yours, Naarm/ Melbourne author and musician, Tristan Clark’s books: Orstralia: A Punk History 1974–1989 and Orstralia: A Punk History 1990–1999 narrate the evolution of Australian punk from its underground inception in the ’70s and […]
Silvia Federici interviewed in Italian by Okta Film - Okta Film Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda sit down with the Italian feminist theorist and activist Silvia Federici to discuss her work on feminism, critique of Marx(ism), primitive accumulation, contemporary feminism, wars, and many other things. You can listen to our podcast here: https://anchor.fm/crisisandcritique If you like this and other episodes, please consider subscribing and […]- ‘You can’t forget that it’s still hell inside,’ say the authors of a new visual book on mass incarceration - By Nate File Philadelphia Inquirer Published July 19, 2024 A Q&A with James Kilgore and Vic Liu, who are coming to Philly to discuss their book, “The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration,” on July 23. Numbers can’t always capture the full story, especially with a subject holding as much deeply rooted history, conflict, and […]
Book Review: FIGHTING TIMES: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War by Jon Melrod - By Bob Rossi Mid-Willamette Valley Labor Alerts July 17th, 2024 The PM Press blurb describing writer-activist Jon Melroad reads as follows:Born into the political and cultural quiescence of the 1950s, Jon Melrod grew up in apartheid-like Washington DC. Active in the student movement that opposed the Vietnam War and a supporter of black liberation, Jon […]
Chicago’s Own: Precocious Neophyte’s Latest EP, Stony, Hits Like A Dream Pop Avalanche - By Kyle Decker In the Loop July 9th, 2024 For the unfortunately uninitiated, Precocious Neophyte is the project of Korean Chicago transplant Ham Jeehye (or Jeehye Ham, if you want to go with the Western naming sequence). A veteran of South Korea’s indie music scene, Ham earned her stripes in the shoegaze/post-rock band Vidulgi OoyoO […]
Is the U.S. addicted to war? So says Joel Andreas in comic book form - By Hank Kennedy People’s World July 12, 2024 $2.5 trillion dollars. That’s the amount the United States currently spends on war, per a recent mailer I received from the War Resisters League. This number, is an increase of over $200 billion since last year, despite the end of the long-running war in Afghanistan and the […]
Monthly Labor Report — Edition #11 — The De-regulated State - Monthly Labor Report with Richard HillWPKN 89.5 FM July 2nd, 2024 Economist Michael Zweig and labor activist Bill Fletcher Jr. analyze two momentous recent Supreme Court rulings that effectively curtail federal regulation of corporate activity and place the president of the United States above the law.
Crossroads: I Live Where I Like reviewed in the Canadian Journal of African Studies - By Trevor R. Getz Canadian Journal of African Studies Crossroads: I Live Where I Like, by Koni Benson, André Trantraal, Nathan Trantraaland Ashley E. Marais, Foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley, Oakland, PM Press, 2022, 145 pp. One day in Cape Town in 2010, historian Koni Benson placed a call to local artist André Trantraal. […]
The New Hot Wars - By Jeremy Brecher Listen to the audio version >> “Polycrisis” is a word being used to describe the current confluence of military, geopolitical, economic, political, climate, and other crises. This series of commentaries on “The Polycrisis and the Global Green New Deal,” probes the dynamics of the polycrisis and what alternatives there might be to […]- The Warehouse — Excerpt in Welcome to Hell - By Luke O’Neil Welcome to Hellworld The largest system of incarceration in human history Today an excerpt from the new book The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration (PM Press) by anti-carceral author and activist James Kilgore and illustrator Vic Liu. The book is a clear and concise overview and granular look at the […]
- NoMeansNo Review - By Mike Dunn Today I’m reviewing “NoMeansNo: From Obscurity to Oblivion: An Oral History,” by Jason Lamb, with Paul Prescott, published this past January, by PM Press. Definitely one of the best band histories I’ve ever read. It is told through short interview clips of band members, friends, associates, and fans, interspersed with tons of […]
Interview with the Vampire’s Jacob Anderson and Rolin Jones Wanted to ‘Achieve Vampire Grace’ for Louis- inspiration includes Black Metal Rainbows - By Allison Picurro TV Guide Anderson and Jones discuss the cathartic, ‘elegant’ Season 2 finale [Warning: The following contains spoilers for the Interview with the Vampire Season 2 finale, “And That’s the End of It. There’s Nothing Else.”] In the first episode of Interview with the Vampire, Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) asked Louis de Pointe […]- Black economic boycotts of the civil rights era still offer lessons on how to achieve a just society - The Conversation By Kevin A. Young Signed into law nearly 60 years ago, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination in the U.S. based on “race, color, sex, religion, or national origin.” Yet, as a historian who studies social movements and political change, I think the law’s most important lesson for today’s movements is […]
David Van Deusen on Insurgent Labor on Norwegian Social Revolution - Voice of the People: Radio By and For the 99% Our word of the week is another in a series: the Norwegian Social Revolution. We hear an interview of Former President of the Vermont AFL-CIO David Van Deusen, who talks about the vital need for the AFL-CIO, the US labor union federation, and the broader […]- SAN ONOFRE, 43-XXVI Jason Lamb (Nomenasno) interviú - Ivoox SAN ONOFRE-Jason Lamb interviúNomeansno-From Obscurity to Oblivion Presentamos nuestro Librito Jenkins Angloentrevistas, Vol. 2El Ágora del Lúpulo- Sábado, 29 junio 2024; 19:00 h. SAN ONOFRE arrastramos ahora hasta el matadero a Jason Lamb, segundo escritor al que despedazamos en dos semanas. ¡Cielos, qué coincidencia, SAN ONOFRE también acabamos de publicar! Más curiosidades: los mataderos […]
Black Liberation Activist Sekou Odinga’s Legacy Lives On - Activist dequi kioni-sadiki, who was married to the Black Panther for almost 13 years, reflects on his life and death. By susie day Truthout June 20, 2024 PHOTO: Sekou Odinga and dequi kioni-sadiki stand in front of a favorite ice cream parlor while on a trip to Memphis, Tennessee, on August 21, 2017 To the […]
Dynamics of the Polycrisis - By Jeremy Brecher, Senior Strategic Advisor, LNS Co-Founder June 25th, 2024 “Polycrisis” is a word that has recently come into use to characterize the way crises in many different spheres – ranging from geopolitics and economics to climate and pandemic – are aggravating each other and even converging. This commentary, the second in a series […]
Free Peppy and Krystal! Free Em All! - Peppy and Krystal are two Pittsburgh community activists who are facing trumped up political charges on the federal level. Peppy has been locked up since they were indicted in June of 2023. Krystal is out on pretrial conditions. Learn about the case and find ways to support by hitting the menu. Learn more about the […]
Chomsky on U.S. Intervention in Central America | Under the Shadow, Bonus Episode 2 - ‘Under the Shadow’ looks back on Chomsky’s University of Colorado lecture given in 1983, as some of the worst aspects of the Reagan administration’s role in Central America were being realized. by Michael Fox The Real News Network June 25, 2024 Amplify the voices that NEED to be heard. Support our journalism and ensure the […]
Gabriel Kuhn on The Sober Dad Crew - Sober Dad Crew By Stephen Kimball My guest this episode is Gabriel Kuhn. Gabriel is the author of X: Straight Edge and Radical Sobriety, Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics, and Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics and more.
Six Months in a Neoliberal Dystopia - Social Cannibalism versus Mutual Aid and Resistance in Argentina Crimethinc June 17th, 2024 In December 2023, Javier Milei came to power in Argentina, introducing sweeping deregulation and austerity measures. Promising to crush social movements in the name of unfettered capitalism, his administration is paving the way for complete social collapse and the emergence of narco-violence […]
Labor Vs Capital Struggle in the US Intensifies - Economic Update In this week’s Economic Update, Professor Richard Wolff discusses The Washington Post’s exposure of the corporate rich sponsoring police repression against student protests and how Boeing rewards CEOs while it exhibits the airlines’ worst safety record. In addition, the UAW loses union election as German capitalists and southern governors join forces to intimidate […]
Memorial Tribute in Honor of Sekou Odinga - About this event The Schomburg Center for Research & Black Culture is proud to join Family, Friends & Comrades of Sekou Mgobozi Abdullah Odinga in a Memorial Tribute to the life and legacy of a devout Muslim, Beloved husband, father, 3-generation grandfather, veteran of the Black Freedom Struggle, and former u.s. held Political Prisoner of […]
Five Star review of Positive Force in Rockmentary.com - Rockumentary.com Five stars The punk activist collective Positive Force emerged in 1985, rising from the ashes of the Summer Revolution. This feature-length film from Robin Bell skillfully mixes rare archival footage (including electrifying live performances from Fugazi, Bikini Kill, Nation of Ulysses, Anti-Flag, and others) with new interviews with key PF activists such as co-founder […]
Ep. 48: Reviled, Mocked, Ignored— Ramsey Kanaan on All Power to the Developing - All Power to the Developing: A Podcast of the East Side Institute Desire Wandan and Dan Friedman co-host this episode with guest Ramsey Kanaan, publisher of PM Press, the most impactful publisher and distributor of anarchist, Marxist, and radical literature in the United States. The conversation touches on the history of anarchism (“reviled, mocked, ignored”) Kanaan’s own […]
Prisons as Legal Slavery - By Katie Tastrom Prisons didn’t become the primary mode of punishment in the US until the nineteenth century. Not coincidentally, they grew in popularity after the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified in 1865, which outlawed slavery except as punishment for a crime. This huge loophole allowed enslavers and other rich white people to continue to extract […]
Democracy Thwarted: Vermont Council Delegates Must Keep Voting Until Results Please AFL Headquarters? - a re-run election that turns the labor council back into a top-down, dysfunctional organization—like it was for decades—will be a setback for labor locally and nationally. By Steve Early LAProgressive Jun 5, 2024 n some unions, the traditional way of winning approval for a proposed contract with management, that’s not popular with the members, is […]- The Best Comics on African History - By Sophie Roell FiveBooks 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 on African history. Interview […]
Your Vital Role in the Uprising - A Radical Guide A Radical Guide, in collaboration with Move to Amend, Adbusters, and Cool World is thrilled to invite you to, “Your Vital Role in the Uprising: A discussion inspired by the ‘Manifesto for World Revolution’.” This event is proudly co-sponsored by PM Press. It will address the critical themes of the Manifesto, focusing […]
Interview: Rain Corbyn Talks ‘Black Metal Rainbows’ and the Potential for a More Progressive Black Metal Scene - By Julie River New Noise Magazine June 13th, 2024 Is black metal beyond saving? Or has it been lost entirely to the NSBM (National Socialist Black Metal) movement and their ilk who would have the entire genre represent far-right ideals? We at New Noise Magazine have always believed that we can hold up inclusive values […]
L’Humanite avec M. Zweig (in French) - L’Humanite avec M. Zweig L’exploration d’une carte routière a un sens politique. Michael Zweig l’a appris alors qu’il avait 6 ans. La Seconde Guerre mondiale termi- née, le rationnement de l’essence devenait un souvenir. Ses parents voulaient sortir de Detroit, où ils vivaient, et découvrir ce pays d’accueil qu’ils avaient trouvé en fuyant le nazisme. […]- Crossroads: I live Where I like— A New Agenda Review - Review by Gertrude Fester New Agenda Dr Gertrude Fester, a former MP and Gender Commissioner, is Honorary Professor at the San and Khoi Research Unit and Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town. She was a long-standing member of the United Women’s Organisation (UWO) and United Women’s Congress (UWCO) and worked with women in […]
Antifascisim, Sports, Sobriety: Working-Class Culture and Red Vienna with Gabriel Kuhn - Podcast of Cosmonaut MagazineEp. 183 We join Gabriel Kuhn, author of books like Soccer vs. the State and Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety: Forging a militant working-class culture for a discussion on sports, sobriety and also the ways Austromarxism applied these principles during the interwar period. We discuss Gabriel’s attraction to the Straight Edge movement as well […]
‘We Need to Become Something That Politicians Fear’ - A sweeping pro-worker bill, the PRO Act, just became law in Vermont. The story behind how it was passed—a years-long effort to build worker power—has national implications. By Paul Blest, More Perfect Union May 31, 2024 In a legislative cycle that has seen both considerable leaps forward and enormous steps backward for labor rights, Vermont […]- The Warehouse — A Visual Primer of America’s Carceral System - By Bill Littlefield ArtsFuse June 1st, 2024 The graphics in “The Warehouse” provide clear explanations of a grim reality. The U.S. leads the world at incarcerating its citizens. The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration by James Kilgore and Vic Liu. PM Press, 189 pages. Many of the statistics available in The Warehouse will […]
Ukrainian Anarchist - By C.S. Soong Against the Grain, KPFA June 5th, 2024 In the years following the Russian Revolution, a popular resistance movement sprang up in Ukraine that drew its inspiration from a man named Nestor Makhno. Makhno went on to organize a seven-million-strong anarchist polity amidst the chaos and brutality of the Russian Civil War. Charlie […]
Ian Brennan and Dame Evelyn Glennie Feel the Music - By Ian Brennan Talk House May 10th, 2024 The collaborators talk the physicality of sound and the creation of Another Noise. Dame Evelyn Glennie is the only deaf musician to ever win a Grammy (which she has done twice, while also being nominated five other times) and she’s been bestowed with 29 honorary doctorates around the […]
“The Whole World Is in a Terrible State o’ Chassis” - By Jeremy Brecher, Senior Strategic Advisor, LNS Co-Founder Listen to the audio version >> This is the first of a series of Strike! Commentaries on the “Polycrisis and the Global Green New Deal.” The term “polycrisis” is increasingly being used to describe an era in which multiple crises collide – in particular, our present era. […]
The socialist well-springs of popular genre fiction - Morning Star UK ANDY HEDGECOCK celebrates the way that US writers have always used crime and sci-fi to explore and express dissident ideas N outraged reviewer of Paul Auster’s Bloodbath Nation (2023) declared its author to be “a hardcore socialist of the most dangerous kind.” The book, an extended essay on the tragedy of gun […]- Hell Is Real and It Is Beige - Some of the greatest violence of prisons is hidden, in plain view, within their banality. By Vic Liu Inquest May 7, 2024 There isn’t much on the one-lane highway to Dannemora in upstate New York, except for a staggering plethora of neon signs screaming marijuana innuendos through the dark. After the dispensaries, I drive for […]
Post Punk Echo & The Bunnymen Return To Chicago For A Show At The Riviera Theatre - By Kyle Decker and Photos by Fleurette Estes In the Loop Magazine Post-punk progenitors Echo & The Bunnymen played a packed house at the Riviera Theatre (aka The Riv) in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood on the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend. While they hit the UK charts a few times in their heyday, the Liverpool band […]
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Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960–1990 - About Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960–1990 Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960–1990 examines how political violence and resistance was represented in arthouse and cult films from 1960 to 1990. This historical period spans the […]
The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah Sample - About The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah In 1963 the paperback revolution was making good literature widely available for the first time, yet only a handful of stores took the trend seriously enough to devote themselves to the cause. Rambam, a closet-sized shop on a corner of Berkeley’s Telegraph Avenue was one. The owners had […]
P Is for Palestine: A Palestine Alphabet Book Sample - About P Is for Palestine: A Palestine Alphabet Book Embark on an alphabetic odyssey through culture and heritage. Imagine a world where every letter of the alphabet unlocks the colorful tapestry of a rich and ancient culture. This enchanting book does just that, guiding young readers on a journey through language, history, and traditions with […]
Situationist International Anthology Sample - About Situationist International Anthology In 1957 a few European avant-garde groups came together to form the Situationist International. Picking up where the dadaists and surrealists had left off, the situationists challenged people’s passive conditioning with carefully calculated scandals and the playful tactic of détournement. Seeking a more extreme social revolution than was dreamed of by […]
Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings (Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization, Volume II), Second Edition Sample - About Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings (Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization, Volume II), Second Edition Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings is the second volume of Abdullah Öcalan’s definitive five-volume work The Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization. For years he has unraveled the sources of hierarchical relations, power, […]
Taking the State out of the Body: A Guide to Embodied Resistance to Zionism Sample - About Taking the State out of the Body: A Guide to Embodied Resistance to Zionism Taking the State out of the Body is a guidebook in deconstructing nationalism through trauma-informed praxis. Embedded in the political theory and practice of Jewish anti-Zionism, it invites readers of all backgrounds to build an embodied sense of safety that […]
Counting up the Olive Tree: A Palestine Number Book Sample - About Counting up the Olive Tree: A Palestine Number Book Counting up the Olive Tree: A Palestine Number Book is a rhythmic adventure where little Palestinian football (soccer) players—boys and girls—work together to save an olive tree in a race against time. Following on the extraordinary success of P Is for Palestine: A Palestine Alphabet […]
The Presidential Papers Sample - About The Presidential Papers Mixing satire, farce, and dystopia, the stories in John Kessel’s The Presidential Papers deconstruct the character and politics of five imagined presidents, some of whom bear striking resemblance to individuals who have occupied the Oval Office over the last thirty years. Who are these men and what makes them so funny, […]
From Hash Rebels to Urban Guerrillas: A Documentary History of the 2nd of June Movement Sample - About From Hash Rebels to Urban Guerrillas: A Documentary History of the 2nd of June Movement In the early 1970s, all across the Americas and Western Europe, armed groups emerged out of the social movements of the late 1960s. Their goal was to advance the struggle for a socialist society. In Germany, the Red Army […]
The Society of the Spectacle Sample - About The Society of the Spectacle The Society of the Spectacle is a carefully considered effort to clarify the most fundamental tendencies and contradictions of the society in which we find ourselves—in order to facilitate its overthrow. Guy Debord was the founder of the Situationist International, the notorious avant-garde group that helped trigger the May […]
B. Traven: Portrait of a Famous Unknown Sample - About B. Traven: Portrait of a Famous Unknown His life belonged to him, only. His books belonged to the public. B. Traven: Portrait of a Famous Unknown is a graphic biography that tells the larger-than-life story of the German revolutionary, actor, and writer known as B. Traven (1882–1969). Despite his commercial success as a best-selling […]
Black Coal and Red Bandanas: An Illustrated History of the West Virginia Mine Wars Sample - About Black Coal and Red Bandanas: An Illustrated History of the West Virginia Mine Wars In the early twentieth century, strikes and union battles were common in industrial centers throughout the US. But nothing compared to the class warfare of the West Virginia mine wars. The origins of this protracted rebellion were in the dictatorial […]
Queer Health Activism - Aug 25, 2022 Editor Adrian Shanker joins our co-op for this virtual event with queer health advocates Mark Travis Rivera and Emmett Patterson to discuss their contributions to a the new anthology, “Crisis and Care: Queer Activist Responses to a Global Pandemic.” Website: https://firestorm.coop/ Community Sustainer Program: https://www.patreon.com/firestormcoop
Chalie Allison talks about No Harmless Power at the Upstate Anarchist Book Fair - By Essential Dissent Lively, incendiary, and inspiring, No Harmless Power follows the life of Nestor Makhno, who organized a seven-million-strong anarchist polity during the Russian Civil War and developed Platformist anarchism during his exile in Paris as well as advising other anarchists like Durruti on tactics and propaganda. Both timely and timeless, this biography reveals […]
Picturing the Crisis - A new book uses art to make the horrors of mass incarceration as visual, and visceral, as possible. By Vic Liu , James Kilgore & Adam McGee Inquest May 30, 2024 When artist Vic Liu first reached out to activist James Kilgore, it was to propose the idea of improving the graphic design of Kilgore’s […]
Review: How Reformers Doubled Vermont AFL-CIO Membership - By Gordon Simmons Labor Notes May 24th, 2024 Photo: Vermont AFL-CIO Transforming an existing union into a more democratic and member-run organization has often proven to be a daunting—though possible—task. The pressing need to revitalize organized labor in the U.S., however, depends on such movements. Beginning in 2017, a slate of reform-minded union activists won […]
Recent campus occupations: History repeated - By George Katsiaficas Al Mayadeen English May 25th, 2024 There is much of the current protest movement that is new, yet the way in which it suddenly arose and became widespread has a remarkable similarity to the 1970 nationwide university strike in the United States. In response to the massive killings of Palestinians in Gaza, […]
Rohingya refugees in their own words – recording their unvarnished truth - CNN CNN’s Anna Coren interviews Grammy Award-winning producer Ian Brennan about his latest project: recording Rohingya refugees singing about the pain of persecution and longing for love in Bangladesh’s refugee camps. Back to Ian Brennan’s Author Page
Redacted Island 2. Supersociety Outlaws w/ Raymond Craib - By Redacted Island Author Raymond Craib joins to talk about his book Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age. We discuss leaving society, designing utopias, dodging taxes, island conmen, JG Ballard, Mitchell WerBell III, Buckminster Fuller, Ayn Rand, getting the bag, keeping the bag, shadow games, […]
Insurgent Labor with David Van Deusen on Real Progressives Podcast - By Real Progressives Podcast In a previous episode of this podcast, David Van Deusen spoke about the radical ten-point program adopted by the Vermont State Labor Council, AFL-CIO. This time, he and Steve discuss David’s new book, Insurgent Labor: The Vermont AFL-CIO from 2017 to 2023. 
Ian Brennan, Music producer on importance of making music in the remote corners of the world - ABCLive May 17th, 2024 ABC News’ Morgan Norwood spoke with music producer and author Ian Brennan about his new book, “Missing Music: Voices from Where the Dirt Roads End.” Back to Ian Brennan’s Author Page- Adventure Capitalism: Exit, Stage Right - Fardels Bear A History of the Alt-Right I love a good heist story. You know the ones, our heroes are planning a seemingly impossible task. They are the good guys, forced to operate outside the law for unjust reasons. The team is always composed of specialists: you have the getaway driver, you have the cat […]
Half My Friends Are Pharmacists by The Head Caution - When Bad Chemicals got invited to play a show at Reed’s Local in Chicago and only Kyle (vocals) and Dave (bass) were available, the promoter suggested Kyle just “read some stuff.” So Kyle read some poems and short stories while Dave accompanied with a 5-string bass. It went over surprisingly well. So they recorded “some […]
Africatown, AL— 3 star review on Songlines - By Nigel Williamson Songlines March 8th, 2024 After all Ian Brennan’s field recordings of mostly non-professional musicians and singers recorded around the world from Rwanda to Romania and Cambodia to Comoros, this intriguing recording takes him back to the country of his birth and specifically the community of Africatown, just outside Mobile, Alabama. The local […]
Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Program: A Review in Contemporary Sociology - By Jesse S. G. WozNIAK Contemporary Sociology West Virginia University How we will finally transcend capitalism and establish a viable humanitarian alternative has been arguably the central conundrum ofleftist movements for the past century. Although Karl Marx was a masterful critic of capitalism, he rarely commented on exactly how itcan be abolished and what precisely […]
Upstate Anarchist Book Fair— Jonathan Lethem on Essential Dissent Podcast - Essential Dissent Podcast Jonathan Lethem is the author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, as well as more recent best-sellers, The Feral Detective and The Arrest. Several of his novels have been made into major movies, and his shorter works can often be found in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and many other […]
In ‘Insurgent Labor,’ David Van Deusen Details How Union Reformers Turned Things Around in Vermont…And How You Can, Too - By Joe Maniscalco Work Bites May 1st, 2024 In 2020, with much of the nation biting its fingernails wondering what to do if Donald J. Trump refused to leave office after losing the presidential election — David Van Deusen, then head of the Vermont State Labor Council, was ready to lead a general strike across […]
New book by D.Z. Shaw, Genealogies of Antifascism: Militancy, Critique and the Three Way Fight - By Xtn Alexander Three Way Fight May 2nd, 2024 In addition to the co-published PM Press and Kersplebedeb book, Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism, we are excited to see this new collection of writings from D.Z. Shaw, Genealogies of Antifascism: Militancy, Critique and the Three Way Fight. This book puts together material found on the Three Way Fight site […]
Ian Brennan Special on Monolith Cocktail: Rohingya Refugees/Missing Music - Monolith Cocktail April 23rd, 2024 ALBUM/BOOK: DOMINIC VALVONA PHOTO CREDIT:: Marilena Umuhoza Delli Introduction: Despite the multiple Grammy-award nominations and wins, and a reputation for capturing some of the most mesmeric, raw and sublime performances in the most dangerous of locations, Ian Brennan is often self-deprecating about his (obvious) talents as a producer. Ian would have us […]
Creative Resistance in Storytelling with “Kalye Pogi” – Support Our Pilot Episode! - By A Radical Guide We are thrilled to announce a unique collaboration between Pirate Studio, a socio-eco-political hub based in the Philippines, and A Radical Guide. Together, we are embarking on an exciting venture to produce “Kalye Pogi,” a groundbreaking sitcom that humorously yet poignantly exposes the daily struggles and social injustices experienced by Filipinos […]- Rohingya refugees in their own words – recording their unvarnished truth - CNN CNN’s Anna Coren interviews Grammy Award-winning producer Ian Brennan about his latest project: recording Rohingya refugees singing about the pain of persecution and longing for love in Bangladesh’s refugee camps. Back to Ian Brennan’s Author Page
A Great Way To Organize a Book - By Helena Worthen The Stansbury Forum The first thing that is striking about the new book Labor Power and Strategy is how it is organized. It is set up in a way that should be imitated, and not just for topics like labor. The way Labor Power and Strategy is organized would work for any field where a critical dialectical […]
Student Gaza Protesters Are Enforcing the Law - By Jeremy Brecher May 6th, 2024 Are students who protest war and genocide in Gaza criminals? International law says no. More than 2000 protestors have been arrested in pro-Palestinian demonstrations since mid-April. They have been charged with “criminal trespass” and other crimes. University officials, police, and politicians may say that students protesting Israeli genocide in […]- Labor Insurgency in Vermont: One, Two, Many Vermonts! - By Ron Jacobs Counterpunch May 3rd, 2024 David Van Deusen has been in a few labor battles. I know because I shared some of the same trenches. His new book, titled Insurgent Labor: The Vermont AFL-CIO, is the story of a radical attempt to realign the Vermont Labor Council along leftist, democratic and grassroots principles. […]
Disability Justice Demands Abolition - When people need care, then the solution should be to get us care, not increase the risk of police violence. By Katie Tastrom Inquest May 2, 2024 Everyone needs care, though some care is more socially acceptable to need than others. Disabled people take issue with the term “special needs,” because everyone has needs. For […]
Anarchism at the Dawn of the 20th Century - By Firestorm Coop Anarchist historians Charlie Allison (author of “No Harmless Power”) and Zoe Baker (author of “Means and End”) discuss early 20th Century anarchism, the life of Ukrainian revolutionary Nestor Makhno, organizational strategies, and the legacy of the Platform. ABOUT THE BOOKS —– “No Harmless Power” follows the life of Nestor Makhno, who organized […]
Side By Side We For Freedom Will Fight - Radio Kingston Starvation Army: Band Music No. 1 – Songs of the IWW and the Salvation Army is a new album coming out Friday May 3 on PM Press and Free Dirt Records, containing brand new recordings of songs from the early 20th century that emerged out of struggles between the Industrial Workers of the […]
Book Review: Silence Is No Reaction: Forty Years of Subhumans by Ian Gasper - by A. Iwasa Trial and Error Collective Ian Glasper is a musician and prolific music writer. His passion for the Subhumans UK and related bands is almost contagious. This is mostly an oral history not only of the Subhumans, but also associated acts and all sorts of scenesters. Coming in at a whopping 573 pages […]- NoMeansNo Reviewed on Razorcake - By Ty Stranglehold Razorcake March 19th, 2024 To be a person of the punk rock persuasion from Victoria, British Columbia is to have immense pride in our greatest export: NoMeansNo. The band managed to capture minds and fanbases globally with their incredibly unique style of punk rock. The thing is no one really knew the […]
A Queer Ecological Framework for Environmental Justice in Appalachia - By Zane McNeil NonProfit Quarterly Historically, one of the most common arguments for the demonization of LGBTQ people is framing queerness as “against nature.” For example, in 2022, the Texas Republican party said being gay was an “abnormal lifestyle choice,” suggesting that civil rights law that protects LGBTQ people from discrimination should be revoked because […]- Labor Power and Strategy: A Review - Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa Watchdog This is not a perfect book for its purpose. It’s a bit crusty, aimed at union activists in the US. There, corporate abuse of labour laws is so widespread, long-term activists are perhaps more steeped in hard-core labour history, with a greater tolerance for jargon like “associative vs […]
- Reading Between the Bars - by Moira Marquis, Senior Manager, The Freewrite Project and Juliana Luna, Intern, The Freewrite Project Pen America October 25, 2023 INTRODUCTION The State of Prison Censorship Restricting access to literature has been a longstanding practice in U.S. prisons—but not an uncontested one. In 1969, the jailhouse lawyer Martin Sostre, imprisoned in Attica, filed a number […]
A Transformative Discussion on Dismantling Corporate Power – May 30th - A Radical Guide, in collaboration with Move to Amend, Adbusters, and Cool World is thrilled to invite you to, “Your Vital Role in the Uprising: A discussion inspired by the ‘Manifesto for World Revolution’.” This event is proudly co-sponsored by PM Press. It will address the critical themes of the Manifesto, focusing on the hidden […]
What You Can’t Read Behind Bars in New York - By Rebecca McCray New York FocusJanuary 24th, 2024 Illustration: Akash Mehta; Header image: A small selection of books banned or censored by the New York prison agency’s Central Office Media Review Committee. As book banning sparks outrage in schools and libraries, the censorship of classics like Native Son persists in New York prisons. Last […]
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 […]
Review: Labor Power and Strategy: Learning from the Garment Workers - By Jeffery Hermanson Labor NotesFebruary 15th, 2023 John Womack Jr.’s new book, Labor Power and Strategy (PM Press, 2023), edited by Peter Olney and Glenn Perusek and with responses from 10 organizers, labor activists, and educators, is a timely consideration of some basic strategic principles. Womack maintains that the primary power that workers have is […]
Beyond Prisons Podcast— Certain Days - Josh Davidson and Leslie James Pickering from the Certain Days collective join the show to talk about 2024’s Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar and the work of their collective. We previously spoke with Josh and other folks from the collective back in 2020 and we encourage you to go listen to that episode […]
Silvia Federici on feminism, primitive accumulation, bodies, magic, dance… and (no) Taylor Swift - Crisis and Critique Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda sit down with the Italian feminist theorist and activist Silvia Federici to discuss her work on feminism, critique of Marx(ism), primitive accumulation, contemporary feminism, wars, and many other things. You can listen to our podcast here: https://anchor.fm/crisisandcritique If you like this and other episodes, please consider subscribing […]- Labor Power and Strategy: A Review - By Gabriel Winant, University of Chicago Labor Studies in Working Class History In a recent Supreme Court case, Glacier Northwest v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 174, a concrete company won a claim against its union for material costs caused by a strike. Prior to walking out, workers had left wet concrete in some mixing […]
The Outspoken and the Incendiary: A Literary Celebration of the Life and Work of Terry Bisson - City Lights, Locus Magazine, and PM Press present The Outspoken and the Incendiary: A Literary Celebration of the Life and Work of Terry Bisson MC’d by Ramsey Kanaan and Peter Maravelis with Diana Block, Peter Coyote, Karen Joy Fowler, Jonathan Lethem, Nick Mamatas, Kim Stanley Robinson, Rudy Rucker, and Carter Scholz This event took place […]
Season 1: How Terry Bisson Made Up Better Worlds— Connected Culture - A podcast about the sometimes unexpected ways people intersect created by Andy “River” Peterson. In season one of Our Connected Culture we explore how late science fiction author Terry Bisson’s lifelong activism was central to how he imagined a better world in his 1988 novel Fire on the Mountain, using previously unreleased and archival audio […]
Golbarg Bashi and McGill University students in Canada talk with Centering for Peace - By Centering for Peace Berks Community Television Faramarz Farbod talks with two McGill University students in Canada about students on a rotational hunger strike in solidarity with Palestinians and with Dr. Golbarg Bashi, an Iranian-Swedish feminist historian, about student activism for Palestine at Columbia University in New York City where she live Originally aired 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 […]
A Conversation with Eric Drooker on Unscripted - Unscripted Moments: A Podcast About Propagandhi Born and raised on Manhattan Island, Eric Drooker began to slap his art on the streets at night as a teenager. Since then, his drawings and posters have become a familiar sight in the global street art movement, and his paintings appear frequently on covers of the New Yorker. […]- Ian Brennan, Missing! Music. Voices from Where the Dirt Roads - By Alessio Surian Blogfoolk Non è nuovo a queste pagine Ian Brennan, musicista e produttore che ha avuto riconoscimenti importanti in ambito discografico: le collaborazioni con Ramblin’ Jack Elliott’s nel 2006 e quella con Peter Case nel 2007 sono state candidate ai Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album, l’album “Zomba Prison Project” è stato […]
Jason Lamb on NoMeansNo for Quebec radio Jeudi Noir (in French) - Jeudi Noir
Jackson Rising Redux NYC Book Launch 1199 SEIU - International Peace Research Association The NYC book launch of PM Press’ Jackson Rising Redux (2023), edited by Kali Akuno and Matt Meyer, was held at the main union hall of SEIU 1199 as a means of building new alliances across community-labor and geographic lines. Akuno and Meyer were joined by 1199 Vice President Shaywaal Amin, […]- Bezos and Musk are gunning for the NLRB: Game On! - WPKN Community Radio Economist Michael Zweig and Labor attorney Arthur Schwartz analyze the attack by Amazon, Tesla and Starbucks on the National Labor Relations Board in a case that could wind up before the Supreme Court of the United States. Interview by Richard Hill, April 2, 2024
- Labor Power and Strategy: A Review - By Robert D. Parmet New York Labor History Association, INC Labor Power and Strategy by John Womack Jr., edited by Peter Olney and Glenn Perušek (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2023)As the American labor movement recovers from its steep membership decline, students, members and friends have been forthcoming with suggestions as to how workers might best […]
- THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION - Chapter 4 from Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War (Verso 2005) By Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews, and Michael Watts An Eastern race well versed in Western culture and profoundly in sympathy with Western ideals will be established in the Orient. Furthermore, a Jewish state will inevitably fall under […]
Take That, Joe Manchin - By Ted Glick April 14th, 2024 “We are a married couple of 45 years. We are taking action together as elders deeply concerned about the future facing our 3-year-old grandson, all children, and all life on earth. That is why we have joined with many others to stop the destructive and abusive Mountain Valley Pipeline, […]- Daegu punk band Drinking Boys and Girls Choir returns home after N. America tour - By Kyle Decker and Fleurette Estes Korea Times CHICAGO — Drinking Boys and Girls Choir’s founding members Bae Meena and Kim Myeong-jin (MJ) have been relentless in the face of adversity and indifference after forming the skate punk band way back in 2013 in Daegu. Punk music has never been hugely popular in Korea, but […]
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 […]
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 […]- Jason Lamb on Prescription Punk Rock (PPR) on CKRL.QC.ca - Prescription Punk Rock (PPR) on CKRL.QC.ca
The Power of Saying “Nonbinary” in a Southern Accent - Read an excerpt from Y’all Means All, a new collection of essays about Appalachian queerness. By Them.us April 5th, 2022 The Appalachian hills are as gentle as they are queer. That’s the premise of Y’all Means All, a powerful new collection of essays that celebrate, affirm, and reclaim the region as a powerful source of […]
The Green New Deal: From Below or from Above? - By Jeremy Brecher, Senior Strategic Advisor, LNS Co-Founder While the original Green New Deal congressional resolution primarily envisioned a program at the federal level, activists and governments in local, state, regional, and civil society arenas have gone ahead and implemented many of its programs. Federal and sub-federal actions can be synergistic, but they both require […]
Jonathan Lethem on The Collapsing Frontier - LAPL Blog Christopher Taylor, Adult Librarian, Mark Twain Branch Library, Tuesday, March 19, 2024 Jonathan Lethem is a writer of short stories, novels, essays, and the occasional song. After publishing short pieces in science fiction magazines like Journal Wired, Isaac Asimov’s, and New Pathways in the late 80s and early 90s, his debut novel Gun, […]
Dave Chase reviews On Medicine as Colonialism - By Dave Chase Michael Fine, MD recently published a must read new book: “On Medicine as Colonialism” that challenges the core of what we believe about our healthcare system. 🏥💡 Dr. Fine reveals a startling truth: our healthcare isn’t primarily about health—it’s about wealth extraction, powered by colonialist tactics. This book dives into how healthcare […]- Michael Zweig: Overcoming the Divisions of Class, Race & Gender - Writer’s Voice Is identity politics keeping us divided? And how can activists build solidarity with others while fighting for their own rights? We talk with activist, educator and organizer Michael Zweig about his book, Class, Race and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism. Then in honor of Spring, Host Francesca Rheannon reads her […]
- Broken Faces - By Kyle Decker Shotgun Honey he mouth heals quickly. In two or three days, this hole two-thirds of the way through the inside of my face will be gone. That is if I could just keep my tongue out of it. Ironically enough, I received this war wound preventing violence. Or, at least, attempting to […]
Neocolonialismo anarco-capitalista - Investigaciones Geograficas Raymond Craib Departamento de Historia Cornell University Hace dos años, el multimillonario Richard Branson logró una “victoria” trivial sobre el multimillonario Jeff Bezos en la carrera por llegar al límite de sus respectivos egos. Su carrera espacial fue positiva en cuanto a la cobertura mediática, pero había y hay poco en juego además […]
Fairy Fest Brings Ithaca Community Together Despite Snowstorm - The Cornell Daily Sun Despite bleak winter temperatures and dreadful, dropping snow, many locals and Cornellians gathered in the Ithaca Commons and the surrounding downtown area on March 23 to celebrate Fairy Fest, a spring festival where attendees enjoyed a day of crafts and fun in various downtown businesses dressed as fairies, elves and other […]
Soldiers of remembrance: a review of The Cargo Rebellion: Those Who Chose Freedom - By Halldór H Kristínarson Shouts Music March 24th, 2024 The Cargo Rebellion: Those Who Chose Freedom is a fascinating read for those interested in learning about social justice warriors of the past who shaped not only our modern, free world but also the world of modern music. Those who wield the swords of power have […]
A Double-Tongued Troubadour: An Interview with Jeffrey Cyphers Wright - by Jim Feast Rain Taxi A self-described New Romantic poet, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright is also a publisher, art and literary critic, eco-activist, impresario, filmmaker, and visual artist. He is author of nineteen books of poetry, most recently a collection of sonnets and collages titled Doppelgängster: Self-Portraits in a Funhouse Mirror (MadHat Press, $21.95); his work […]
Hard Crackers Journal Table of Contents - Hard Crackers is guided by one principle: that in the ordinary people of this country (and the world) there resides the capacity to escape from the mess we are in, and a commitment to documenting and examining their strivings to do so. Issue No. 1, Spring 2016 Issue No. 2, Fall 2016 Issue No. 3, […]
Race Traitor Journal Table of Contents - Race Traitor calls itself a journal of the New Abolitionism. Its motto is “Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.” The journal takes its stand on two points: first, that the “white race” is not a natural but a social category; second, that what was historically constructed can be undone. The first of these points […]
Israel Has Formed a Task Force to Carry Out Covert Campaigns at US Universities - A major Israeli news site says Israel’s foreign affairs and diaspora affairs ministries are behind the operation. By William I. Robinson , Truthout March 23, 2024 Copyright, Truthout.org. Reprinted with permission As worldwide protest escalates over Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, academic freedom and free speech are under all-out attack on university campuses in […]
Jason Lamb on Judgead’s Basement Podcast - Judgead’s Basement Episode 191: John Wright of No Means No, and Author Jason Lamb talk to us about the book NOMEANSNO FROM OBSCURITY TO OBLIVION (an oral history), Jughead and John have a pre-interview discussion about topography and road atlases, how the book came to be, there is an underlying sadness alleviated by moments of […]
Kevin A. Young, author of Abolishing Fossil Fuels on WHMP - WHMP James Swanson on “The Deerfield Massacre”. Harvard’s atheist pastor, Greg Epstein, on life and death. GCC environmental science prof Brian Adams with UMass history prof Kevin Young on “Abolishing Fossil Fuels: Lessons from Movements that Won”. Ruth Griggs & Jim Olsen on The Back Porch Festival.
Jason Lamb on Kingrock Podcast - The Kingrock Podcast Author of NOMEANSNO : From Obscurity to Oblivion, radio host, former stand up comedian, Jason Lamb and i have a great conversation about his first book, documenting the Canadien punk band, NOMEANSNO! It was incredible to get to learn about a band I’ve previously heard of but never listened to and it […]
The Making of a Lifelong Antifascist— Josh Fernandez at Firestorm Books - Antiracist organizer Josh Fernandez discusses his new book, “The Hands That Crafted the Bomb,” with fellow writer Joe Loya, whose own memoir, “The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell,” was published in 2005. Together they discuss their respective histories of conflict with authority, writing as an outlet for rage, and the humanity of “fcked up” […]
Chris Robé on reactionary populism, progressive Hollywood, Eisenstein, anarchism, and surveillance - Film Adjusting the Focus on Somali-Americans: 'First Person Plural' and 'Muslim Youth Voices' by Chris Robé in PopMatters- To Defeat the Far Right, We Must Build From the Bottom Up - By Luis Feliz Leon Convergence Magazine March 6, 2024 The movement to defeat the Far Right must include immigrant workers and members of other oppressed groups, working through their own independent and durable mass organizations rooted in workplaces and neighborhoods. This is the first in a series of reflections on the opportunities and challenges facing […]
- Kevin A. Young, author of Abolishing Fossil Fuels - Why did you write this book and why is it important? I wanted to know how the fossil fuel industry can be defeated. Many academic studies analyze the climate emergency or the policies that can end carbon emissions, but few examine how ending emissions can become politically possible. My interest in that question stemmed directly […]
Rock-Fuel and Warlike People: On Mitch Troutman’s “The Bootleg Coal Rebellion” - By Jonah Walters Los Angeles Review of Books March 21, 2024 The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925–1942 by Mitch Troutman “CULM,” A CURIOUS WORD, comes from the Welsh “cwlwm,” meaning knot. But if you hear it spoken nowadays, it’s probably in one of the micro-accents of the Pennsylvania anthracite […]
Jason Lamb on Between Awesome and Disaster with Will Carey - Between Awesome and Disaster with Will Carey Jason Lamb spent years grinding on the Canadian Comedy Scene in a fashion that parallels the band which is the subject of his new book NoMeansNo: From Obscurity to Oblivion: An Oral History. He talks to Will about the uniquely original punk scene that developed in his hometown […]- Monthly Labor Report — Edition #7 — Labor Demands a Gaza Cease Fire - Monthly Labor Report with Richard HillWPKN 89.5 FM March 5th, 2024 Michael Zweig, economist and labor historian, is joined by special guest Carl Rosen, president of the United Electrical Workers Union (UE), to discuss the nation-wide campaign by organized labor to demand an immediate and permanent cease fire in the ongoing slaughter in by Israel […]
- In Response to Ben Fong’s review of “Labor Power and Strategy” - By Jeffery Hermanson Stansbury Forum In December of 2023 Ben Fong published a review of Labor Power and Strategy (PM PRess) in the online journal Catalyst. The review provoked a lot of discussion and continuing interest in the interview with John Womack on the topic of working class power. Jeff Hermanson, a long time organizer […]
Michelle Cruz Gonzales of Spitboy is Punk AF and Lived to Teach About It - By Sheree Bishop Rightnowish Podcast, KQED March 7th, 2024 Punk writer Michelle Cruz Gonzales reads from her memoir, The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band (Deb Frazin) Warning: This episode contains explicit language. View the full episode transcript. Michelle Cruz Gonzales spent her teenage years and the beginning of her adulthood […]- Essay #75: Chris Robé, Anarchism, Video Activism and State Repression - Film Adjusting the Focus on Somali-Americans: 'First Person Plural' and 'Muslim Youth Voices' by Chris Robé in PopMatters
- Jason Lamb Of 93.1The Zone (Appearance From John Of NoMeansNo) Interview On 99.9 Punk World Radio FM - 99.9 Punk World Radio FM March 4th, 2024
- The Hands That Crafted the Bomb: The Making of a Lifelong Antifascist on Revolutionary Left Radio - Revolutionary Left Radio Josh Fernandez joins the show to discuss his new biography “The Hands That Crafted the Bomb: The Making of a Lifelong Antifascist”. Together Josh and Breht have a wide ranging conversation on antifascism, teaching, prison, organizing, parenting, drug and alcohol abuse, and much more. Check out the book HERE Check out an […]
- Race, Gender, Class: Bishop Barber, Economist Michael Zweig on Poor & Low-Wage Voters in 2024 Election -
- The Punk Rock Chronicles Podcast - No Means No: From Obscurity to Oblivion with author Jason Lamb By Stan Mueller, Chris Tjernagel, and Rob Imlay Punk Rock Chronicles Podcast March 11, 2024 In this installment, we’re stoked to have Jason Lamb, the accomplished writer of the groundbreaking book “No Means No: From Obscurity to Oblivion – An Oral History.” Hailing from […]
- Various artists: Africatown, AL: Ancestor Sounds review – music that defies the darkest of pasts - From blues to industrial and rap, these extraordinary recordings showcase the community of descendants of the last slavers’ ship to the US By Jude Rogers The Guardian March 8th, 2024 early five decades after the importation of enslaved people was abolished by US Congress in 1807, the last slaver’s ship came from west Africa to […]
Palestine is the World (2002) - By Silvia Federici March 12th, 2024 The Israeli invasion of Palestine is an act of aggression of such gravity that it is almost impossible for me to speak of anything else. When the population of six cities and many villages is tortured daily in front of the whole world, and when those perpetrating these crimes […]- Dying Scene Exclusive Interview with Author Kyle Decker, Chicago, Illinois - By Fleurette Estes Dying Scene Fleurette Estes March 12 – 9:31 am Dying Scene ran into Chicago-based author and vocalist Kyle Decker several times between September 2023 and January 2024. On January 27th, 2024, Dying Scene met up with Decker at Jackalope Coffee & Tea House and Let’s Boogie Records in the Bridgeport neighborhood for […]
- David Van Deusen talking about Worker Uprisings Today in Rojava, France, and United States - By Cyber Dandy On this episode I have brought back two guests who have been here before, along with a third guest that we are all excited to meet. Speaking to things more familiar to those of us in the United States, David Van Deusen – former president of the Vermont AFL-CIO – has joined […]
- Books vs Movies (or The Eternal Struggle Between Apples and Oranges) - By Kyle Decker February 24th, 2024 There’s a particular soapbox I keep finding myself on. It’s not a particularly important soapbox, mind you. It has nothing to do with social issues, morality, or the state of the world today. But every time someone says, “The book is always better than the movie.” I have to […]
- Jason Lamb on Between Awesome and Disaster with Will Carey - Between Awesome and Disaster with Will Carey March 4th, 2024 Jason Lamb spent years grinding on the Canadian Comedy Scene in a fashion that parallels the band which is the subject of his new book NoMeansNo: From Obscurity to Oblivion: An Oral History. He talks to Will about the uniquely original punk scene that developed […]
Fag Hag: A Review - Review by John Galbraith Simmons In the 1960s a small number among the young and alienated in France set in motion a revolt that took aim at political and cultural life in ways that set the stage for a permanent, ongoing critique of everyday life. Sex and sexuality, in this ambitious endeavor, constituted a central […]
Palestinian Children’s Book Becomes Target for Boycott and Censorship - Radhika Sainath Tries to Find a Book for Her Toddler By Radhika Sainath Lithub December 19, 2017 As a new parent, I’m now alert to a substratum of media that passed below the radar of my younger, less narcissistic, self. In the space of mild leftist parenting, this means acquiring board-book samizdat such as Click Clack Moo (cows striking for workplace […]- NoMeansNo announce book in Punk News - Punk News Jan 24, 2024 Nomeansno releases a oral and visual history of their band titled From Obscurity to Oblivion: An Oral History in book format. The book is written by Jason Lamb and Paul Prescott with Foreword by comedian Fred Armisen. The book is available now through PM Press.
- Michael Zweig-Class, Race, & Gender Challenging The Injuries & Divisions of Capitalism - My Labor Radio’s Podcast In his most recent book, Michael Zweig compiles a lifetime of history studying the working class in America. This quick read is a top recommendation by so many progressive Labor leaders in this country as a helpful guide about where we began, to where we are going. Class, Race, & Gender […]
- Michael Zweig on KMUD Friday Night Talk - On KMUD Friday Night Talk This recording starts a few minutes before the end of the previous show. Michael Zweig’s interview begins at 2:28.
From the Foreword to E.P. Thompson’s “William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary” - First of the Month What follows below comes from Peter Linebaugh’s Stop, Thief! The Commons, Enclosures and Resistance (PM Press, 2014). First of the Month will reprint pieces from Linebaugh’s collection of essays, which has been called a “Commonist Manifesto,” throughout 2024. The following text is an excerpt from a piece of Linebaugh’s that served […]
How The PM March 70% Warehouse Sale is Mitigating Capitalist Waste - Surviving The Book-Industrial-Complex Every year, millions of good books end up “pulped” by the book industry’s big distribution companies when they are returned by retail outlets and on-line stores. At PM, we pay a ransom of sorts to save our books from the grinder and landfill. We painstakingly sift through waist deep stacks of unsorted […]
Nardwuar vs. John Wright (Nomeansno) & Steve Turner (Mudhoney) - Nardwuar interviews John Wright (Nomeansno) & Steve Turner (Mudhoney) about their respective books “Nomeansno: From Obscurity to Oblivion: An Oral History” and “Mud Ride: A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion” at Neptoon Records in Vancouver, BC Canada ! Thanks to Bev Davies for the Bludgeoned Pigs & John Lydon Pics ! Doot doo ! […]- Black Metal Rainbows full video from the book launch show -
Three Way Fight book announcement and excerpt - By ThreeWayFight Wednesday, February 28, 2024 We are publishing a book! Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism is forthcoming from PM Press and Kersplebedeb Publishing in May 2024. The book is edited by Xtn Alexander and Matthew N. Lyons, with a foreword by Janeen Porter and an afterword by Michael Staudenmaier. Here’s the description from […]
Food & Freedom— Wren Awry on Against the Grain - Against the Grain Reclaiming the commons sounds good in the abstract, but what’s being done on a practical level? Gaye Chan and Nandita Sharma, the Hawai‘i-based co-founders of Eating in Public, describe projects like Free Gardens and Free Stores. Also: Wren Awry discusses the volume to which Chan and Sharma contributed an essay.- A professor started an anti-fascist college club—and found himself under investigation - Josh Fernandez discusses his memoir, “The Hands That Crafted the Bomb: The Making of a Lifelong Antifascist.” by Mel Buer Real News Network February 15, 2024 As a community college professor, Josh Fernandez started an anti-fascist club to organize alongside his students. The school administration responded by investigating him for “soliciting students for potentially dangerous […]
- Michael Zweig at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies - Navigating Race and Class in Today’s Political Environment” February 9th, 2024
- Friendship & Admiration - By Louis H. Battalen The Catholic Worker January-February, 2024 Juanita Morrow Nelson and Dorothy Day were two radical pacifists committed to advocating and practicing peace and economic and social justice through the shared lens of nonviolence as both a technique and as a way of life. They shared their lives and activism side by side […]
- Popular Enforcement of International Law from Vietnam to Gaza - By Jeremy Brecher Strike Commentaries on Substack The International Court of Justice has found that Israel’s actions in Gaza may constitute genocide in violation of international law. A US District Court has endorsed that finding and added, “It is every individual’s obligation to confront the current siege in Gaza.” What can we learn from history […]
The AFL-CIO Can Be Reformed, Locally and From the Bottom-Up! - by Steve Early Coutnerpunch February 16th, 2024 Changing the leadership, structure, or functioning of any U.S. labor organization is no easy task. Activists and experts have long argued about whether dysfunctional unions are best reformed from the top-down, bottom up, or some mix of the two approaches. For the past 65 years, the main locus of […]- SHARPer Than Knives - By The International Anti-Fascist Defense Fund February 17th, 2024 As we’ve mentioned previously, openly holding “leftist” views (like racism = an evil that must be eradicated) in a country as tulmultous as Colombia can put a target on your back. Such was the case for six members of SHARP (Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice) Bogotá, who […]
Peter Linebaugh’s “Great Act of Historical Imagination”* - By Benj DeMott First of the Month December 2nd, 2023 “A commonist manifesto for the 21st Century…” High praise for Peter Linebaugh’s 2014 collection of essays, Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance, went right by me. I missed the book when it came out and only grabbed it last month to pass time on […]- The Hands That Crafted the Bomb - New Books Network January 25th, 2024 Josh Fernandez is a community college professor in Northern California who finds himself under investigation for “soliciting students for potentially dangerous activities” after starting an antifascist club on campus. As Fernandez spends the year defending his job, he reflects on a life lived in protest of the status quo, […]
Inspiring and Informative LGBT+ History Books - UK LGBT+ History Month 2024: Everything You Need to Know The Proud Trust LGBT+ History Month is an annual celebration of the lives of LGBT+ people of the past. It is celebrated every February in the UK, with each year’s celebration having its own unique theme. Discover how and why you can mark this month […]- NoMeansNo — From Obscurity to Oblivion charts career of Victoria hardcore punk legends - By Stuart Derdeyn Vancouver Sun Jan 24, 2024 Canadian punk legends NoMeansNo featured in new book. At its peak, there wasn’t a better punk rock band on Earth than Victoria’s NoMeansNo. Don’t believe it? You may reconsider after reading the praises heaped upon the Victoria group from luminaries ranging from Nardwuar the Human Serviette and […]
- Meet Me in the Eternal City - Silicon Valley has alwaysdreamed of building its own utopias.Who’s ready to move in? By Kaitlyn Tiffany The Atlantic February 2024 The international airport serving the capital of Montenegro has only two arrival gates, and last spring they were busier than usual. I was there for the same reason many others were: The tiny Balkan state […]
- How to read the ICJ decision and end genocide, war and settler colonialism - A better understanding of the legalese inherent to international law mandates reveals the tools activists can use to organize more strategically for Palestinian freedom. By Matt Meyer Waging NonViolence January 29th, 2024 On Jan. 26, the International Court of Justice, or ICJ, issued a historic decision that some progressives applauded while others decried it as […]
Mic Crenshaw, Moe Bowstern, Nissa Ulvin and Jay Nevilles talk It Did Happen Here - By Bryant Lake Bowl Mic Crenshaw, Moe Bowstern, Nissa Ulvin and Jay Nevilles discuss the past, present and future implications and impact of anti-racist and anti-fascist movement work. Moe and Mic are co-producers and co-authors of the It Did Happen Here Podcast and book. Jay Nevilles and Mic Crenshaw are co-founders of the Baldies. There […]
Robin D. G. Kelley and Peter Linebaugh on American Thanatocracy— Conjecture at the Howard Zinn Book Fair - Trinity Social Justice Institute In this special episode, co-host Christina Heatherton moderates a conversation between historians Robin D. G. Kelley and Peter Linebaugh about their work on racism, capital, and punishment. This episode was co-produced with the Howard Zinn Book Fair. Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp […]
12 Teaser | Gustav Landauer: Anarchism, Utopia, Community - What’s Left of Philosophy Feb 4, 2024 In this episode, we explore the work of German anarchist Gustav Landauer. We work through the utility of utopia in political transformations and what is required to create richer communities and social life. In the end, we discover the one vibe we’re cool with: joy. Come on through […]- BOOK TALK: Class, Race, and Gender with Michael Zweig - 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 problems: the common […]
New Grammy category for African music ignores almost all of Africa - The friends and collaborators catch up about the power and practicality of art. By Ian Brennan NPR February 4th, 2023 Nigeria’s global star Burna Boy (center) is nominated in Grammy’s new category “best African music performance.” Nominees are from Nigeria, South Africa and Benin. Other African musicians feel neglected. Mulatu Astatke (left) is a pioneer […]
Can Karl Marx & Sherlock Holmes Solve the Dastardly Deeds Done at a Rich Spa? - by Jess Flarity The FIfth Estate Karl Marx, Private Eye by Jim Feast. PM Press, 2023 Karl Marx Private Eye is a fascinating chimera: it is simultaneously a cozy mystery, a Conan Doyle parody, and a philosophical meditation on Karl Marx’s reaction to the failed 1871 Paris Commune. Author Jim Feast weaves a compelling narrative […]- Class, Race & Gender on My Labor Radio’s Podcast - In his most recent book, Michael Zweig compiles a lifetime of history studying the working class in America. This quick read is a top recommendation by so many progressive Labor leaders in this country as a helpful guide about where we began, to where we are going. Class, Race, & Gender Challenging The Injuries & […]
