DS Book Club – “The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah” and “Downtown Locals” by Aaron Cometbus - By Forrest Gaddis Dying Scene April 1st, 2025 Aaron Cometbus has been self-publishing the Cometbus zine since 1981. These slice-of-life writings became a way to document the East Bay punk rock scene with band interviews, artwork, and personal diaries. Indie book publisher PM Press has started reprinting some of the back issues and other writings […]
Strategic Guidelines for Social Self-Defense - By Jeremy Brecher In a previous Strike! Commentary I proposed a strategic perspective for defending society against MAGA tyranny. It outlined a “Social Self-Defense” based on combining civil resistance in social institutions and the streets with political resistance in the institutions of government.Social Self-Defense cannot be based on a preconceived plan; it will have to […]
Democracy, Anarchism and Rights - By Chris Dodge Last evening I saw a video clip of a Palestinian flag being removed from a Boise, Idaho, venueas Bernie Sanders tried to continue speaking in front of a huge US flag: “Israel, like any countryon earth, has a right to defend itself from terrorism.” I later woke during the night, stillprocessing this, […]
Voices Beyond Lockdown Zine - by Josh MacPhee January 15th, 2025 Another free downloadable zine from longterm Justseeds comrade Stefan Christoff in Montreal: Voices Beyond Lockdown: Collective action and care across borders in a time of crisis This zine is a compilation of interviews Stefan recorded during the first pandemic lockdowns in spring 2020. It is the fifth in the zine […]
The Rebellion of the Hippie Lumpen in Capitalist Berlin - By Ron Jacobs Counterpunch April 4th, 2025 Image by Nick Fewings. West Berlin—the capitalist side of Berlin during the Cold War, was a city of radical ferment, especially in the 1960s into the 1980s. Groups calling themselves communist mixed with counterculture radicals, anarchists and varying combinations of any and all of the above. One of […]
Harvey Schwartz on John Womack’s Labor Strategy - By Harvey Schwartz LAWCHA John Womack Jr.’s Labor Power and Strategy, published by PM Press in 2023, offers a blueprint for how workers can leverage their latent power and expand the labor movement’s influence and numbers. The book was released before the decidedly anti-labor Trump administration took office in Washington, D.C., started dismantling the infrastructure […]
A Special Night at the Stockholm Arena - By Gabriel Kuhn April 11th, 2025 My full-time union job leaves less time for sports journalism these days, but on occasion I get to slip back into the role. On April 10, it was impossible not to attend a very special soccer game. In the quarterfinals of the European Conference League, Djurgårdens IF played Rapid […]
Eric King on The Sitdown with Jeff Nadu—Inside ADX Supermax With Mobsters - The Sitdown with Jeff Nadu Apr 8, 2025 I have interviewed many people that have been to federal prison. Many have told me stories about doing time with some of the most dangerous people in America including gangsters, mobsters, traffickers and killers. Today though I speak to an individual named Eric King that’s been in […]
Antimídia – The Rule and Ruins of Trump – Shuli Branson – Anarchist Voices #15 - By Shuli Branson CAW Journal/ Antimídia March 18th, 2025 Don’t forget what operates in the dark. Don’t forget the damage affinity groups can do. Don’t forget the spontaneous eruptions where people come together regardless of politics or identity markers to wreak havoc on the cities that try to contain us. In collaboration with Antimídia, an […]
The Anti-Deportation Collective - By Crimethinc. March 26th, 2025 In the following account, the author recounts scenes from the movement against deportations in Paris in the late 1990s. As Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and their lackeys scapegoat the undocumented and kidnap immigrants who oppose genocide even when they hold green cards, it is a good time to study how […]
The Sam and Esther Dolgoff Institute Hosts David Van Deusen - Sam and Esther Dolgott Institute (SEDI) via Cyber Dandy March 23rd, 2025 On March 23rd, 2025 the Sam and Esther Dolgoff Institute (SEDI) hosted David Van Deusen for a talk about insurgent labor, the current state of the unions, and the future of our libertarian and socialist fight against domination and exploitation. David is a […]- Want to Honor Trans Day of Visibility? Fight With Us Like Your Life Hinges on It - By Zane McNeil Truthout March 31st, 2025 Being visible isn’t enough. Let’s organize, protect each other and fight back against rising fascism. Today is Transgender Day of Visibility — a day meant for celebration and for being seen. But right now, many in my community are afraid to be visible. Some are making plans to […]
Commie Freaks! Playlist - by Josh MacPhee Signal Dispatches February 6th, 2025 I recently created a new mix for DJ Ian Head’s Pullin’ from the Stacks series on Soundcloud, which is available HERE. I’ve long been interested in the transition of political music from old left worker, military, and folk sounds to the increased absorption of pop music idioms […]
Thoughts on Matthew Shipp’s Improvisational Style: - By Jim Feast Jerry Jazz Musician photo: Matthew Shipp in Moscow; May, 2017 Inspired by Clifford Allen’s Singularity Codex: Matthew Shipp on Rogueart …..In February, 2025, I attended a residency Matthew Shipp had at The Stone in New York City. In listening to the music at this venue, I was struck by the deep rapport […]- New book on anarchist (?) city guerrilla - By Jonas Lundström (This is, overall, an unusually long review. Because of this and that it is possibly a somewhat sensitive subject, I have divided it into two. The second part, where I discuss lessons from the movement, is behind the wall, but can be obtained on request, and is laid out at the same […]
- NY Shield Law Stops Texas Judgment From Being Enforced Against Abortion Provider - By Zane McNeil Truthout March 28th, 2025 “New York’s shield law was created to protect patients and providers,” said New York Attorney General Letitia James. On Thursday, a New York county clerk refused to file a Texas court judgment of over $100,000 against a New York doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to a woman […]
Bugs Bunny as Revolutionary: A review of F. Rosemont’s book of essays - By Charlie Allison I expected great things when I opened Surrealism, Bugs Bunny and the Blues, PM Press’s collection of the writings of anarchist, artist and surrealist Franklin Rosemont (1943-2009). I didn’t expect to laugh half as much as I did (this is the most fun I’ve had reading a book from PM Press since […]
Anarchy in the Big Easy — Max Cafard and Vulpes - 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."
Trump Tries to Blow Up Airport Screeners Union - by Jenny Brown Labor Notes March 11th, 2025 In a memo that that one TSA employee said sounded like “a teenage blogger writing about someone they don’t like,” the Department of Homeland Security announced March 7 that it was cancelling the union contract for 47,000 workers at the Transportation Security Administration. The American Federation of […]
Interview with PM Press - One Big Podcast Recommended Books FW Jason spoke with FM Michael and Ramsey from PM Press about radical publishing and the IWW.
Hostile Takeover: Tech Capital and the Coup of the US Government, Part 2, Endgames and Ideologies - by the Center for Political Education March 21st, 2025 CPE is hosting a three-part series on tech capital and the administrative coup of the US government. Hostile Takeover: Tech Capital and the Coup of the US Government will feature a series of conversations among subject matter experts, strategists, and organizers trying to make sense of […]
Whoring It Up At Sleeping Village In Chicago - By Kyle Decker In The Loop March 10th, 2025 By Kyle Decker WHORES., while not being the most shocking band name out there, is definitely a word that carries weight. A t-shirt would certainly require explaining in most circles. When I told my bandmate about this gig, he put it in his calendar as “Show […]
In Punk We Trust - By Daniel winnipegpublibrary November 4th, 2024 In downtown Los Angeles, Alex Damage makes his way to a nearby 7-11. He purchases a pack of cigarettes then steps back into the smoggy summer morning. With his head pounding from the previous evening, Alex soon realizes that his leather jacket is missing. After making his way down […]
Social movements constrained Trump in his first term – more than people realize - By Kevin A. Young The Conversation Donald Trump’s first term as president saw some of the largest mass protests seen in the U.S. in over 50 years, from the 2017 Women’s March to the 2020 protests after George Floyd’s murder. Things feel different this time around. Critics seem quieter. Some point to fear of retribution. […]
Courage Through Time: Unveiling the Saga of Two Fearless Women - By Joy on Paper Live! Embark on a riveting journey with Courage Through Time as we unveil the saga of two fearless women in this mystery detective dual-timeline series. Tour de Force Reveals Story of Two Brave Women Separated by Centuries KENNETH WISHNIA discusses his journey to create FROM SUN TO SUN, an deftly written […]
The West Virginia Mine Wars: Black Coal and Red Bandanas - By Firestorm Books Author Raymond Tyler and illustrator Summer McClinton are joined by Shaun Slifer and Kenzie New-Walker of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum to discuss a new graphic history telling the story of the Matewan Massacre and the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War.
The Have-Not Mystery: An Interview with Jim Feast - By Jim Feast North of Oxford A review of Brooklyn Crime Novel by Jonathan Lethem Lethem certainly raises big issues in his new Brooklyn Crime Novel; however, it’s not the fact that he raises them, for, after all, anyone can raise issues, but how he addresses them that makes the book a startling and fundamental examination […]
Three Way Fight - Author Q&A with Xtn Alexander and Matthew N. Lyons By Ben Lorber Political Research Associates March 11, 2025 This interview was conducted in September 2024 and updated in January 2025. PRA sat down to talk with activists Xtn Alexander and Matthew N. Lyons about their book, Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism (2024, PM Press). Three […]
Andrew Nette On His Book, REVOLUTION IN 35mm – POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND RESISTANCE IN CINEMA - Robert Bellissimo At The Movies
Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues: Selected Writings on Popular Culture— A Review - Comics Grinder The art of the essay provides a platform for writers to share their subject and perhaps a bit about their worldview. We read essays all the time, usually as reviews, mainly on books, movies and music. And there are notable collections such as Pauline Kael’s oeuvre. A writer who likes to write such […]
What Really Happened in the First Trump Resistance? - By Jeremy Brecher As we grapple with how to live through and ultimately terminate the nightmare of the second Trump regime, we can gain a lot from examining the myths and the realities of the resistance to the first Trump regime. Activist group SumOfUs’s Projection of “Resist Trumpism Everywhere” on London’s Marble Arch as part […]- Dr. Jared Ball’s review of Revolution in 35mm on his Youtube channel, iMWiL! - iMWiL! December 26th, 2024
Down by Law: Criminalization, Solidarity, and Survival in Europe – Book Trailer- The DOGE and the neoreactionaries - By Matthew N. Lyons Three Way Fight I anticipated a drive toward dictatorship, but I didn’t anticipate DOGE. When Donald Trump was reelected president, I (like many other people) knew he would make a grab for power beyond anything in his first term. I’ve traced Trump’s increasingly intimate relationship with far right politics, from his […]
Missing Music: Voices from Where the First Roads End— A Review - By Angel Romero World Music Central January 8th, 2025 “Missing Music: Voices from Where the First Roads End” was authored by Grammy-winning music producer Ian Brennan. It chronicles his ongoing efforts to amplify the voices of underrepresented nations and populations worldwide. This concise and fascinating volume compiles narratives from Brennan’s field-recording expeditions, emphasizing storytelling and […]- 12 Ways We Can Exploit Fossil Fuel Industry Vulnerabilities — Even Under Trump - Polluters are vulnerable. This was true during Trump’s first term and will be true in his second. By Kevin A. Young Truthout December 29, 2024 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 […]
The Presidential Papers by John Kessel: Review by Gary K. Wolfe - By Gary K. Wolfe Locus Magazine December 26th, 2024 PM Press’s series of “Outspoken Author” collections, reaching its 30th volume with John Kessel’s The Presidential Papers, has long provided useful short overviews of the fiction and nonfiction of some of our field’s most distinguished writers (always accompanied by insouciant but revealing interviews by the late […]
In Memory of David Corbin - By Gordon Simmons In the late hours of February 25, 2025, West Virginia labor historian David Alan Corbin died. First published in 1981, David’s Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922, was one of the first comprehensive explorations of the West Virginia MineWars and remains as the unsurpassed […]
What Is Salting, the Organizing Tactic Spicing Up the Labor Movement? - By Kim Kelly Teen Vogue December 30th, 2024 No Class is an op-ed column by writer and radical organizer Kim Kelly that connects worker struggles and the current state of the American labor movement with its storied — and sometimes bloodied — past. The resurgence of the American labor movement is being led in no […]- Chaos or Revolution? It Depends on Us - By Andy Dandy 3WF February 28, 2025 Antifascist, Donald Trump, far right, radical left The recent Trump presidential victory in the US and the far-right assault it unloosed pose new challenges for the far left. Some people have argued that the current developments signal “the end of America,” with the Trumpian dismantling of elements of […]
Women’s Unwaged Work— An Excerpt From Selma James’ Sex, Race, and Class - The Progressive International Selma James is a feminist, socialist, and anti-racist activist, best known for her work in advocating for the recognition and value of unwaged work.
In 1972, James founded the International Wages for Housework Campaign, highlighting the economic value of domestic labor. She has written extensively on issues of gender, race, and class, emphasizing […]
Anti-Fascism, Sports And Sobriety – A Conversation With Gabriel Kuhn - For A New Republic Podcast Mickey Moran sits down with Gabriel Kuhn, an Austrian activist, translator and author, to discuss his work exploring the intersection between sport and radical politics.- Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues: Selected Writings on Popular Culture— A Review - By Richard Modiano February 5th, 2025 Franklin Rosemont’s Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues is an exhilarating, freewheeling exploration of the intersections between American pop culture, surrealist thought, and radical politics. As both a poet and a dedicated surrealist, Rosemont brings an infectious enthusiasm to his subjects, weaving together seemingly disparate elements—cartoons, music, labor history, […]
Understanding Öcalan - By Hank Kennedy New Politics Winter 2025 An old proverb says that “The Kurds have no friends but the mountains.” There’s a great deal of truth there. The Kurdish people, split between Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Turkey, have been used and abused by a murderer’s row of stronger nations, including Turkey and the United States. […]
CITY LIGHTS LIVE! Ken Knabb - By City Lights Books City Lights and PM Press celebrate the publication of two books about Situationism: Situationist International Anthology (Revised and Expanded Edition) Edited and Translated by Ken Knabb Published by PM Press – and – The Society of the Spectacle By Guy Debord Edited and translated by Ken Knabb Published by PM Press
Federal Workers Mobilize against Musk’s and Trump’s ‘Corporate Coup’ - By Jenny Brown Labor Notes February 20th, 2025 Federal employee union members have been speaking out, rallying, and suing, as agency after agency has been hit by Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE)—a private unaccountable entity which has been demanding access to all government records while spreading wild lies about waste and fraud. Around […]
WCH Podcast E99-100: Vietnam war strike wave - By Working Class History January 8th, 2025 With the background of the Vietnam war, rising prices and stagnant wages, workers in the US began to ignore calls to support the war effort and keep working, and instead launch a wave of wildcat strikes in key industries, while women homeworkers fought for lower prices. We tell […]
Sociologist and Historian Wess Harris Takes on the Institutional Gatekeepers - By Michael M. Barrick The Appalachian Chronicle January 4th, 2025 While ecology is always a top issue for Appalachia, the overriding issue for our publication in 2024 has to do with one issue – how Appalachia’s story is told. I’ll examine this through a series of articles about Wess Harris, a sociologist, historian, author, editor […]
Etniko Bandido: Decolonization, Land Regeneration, and the Spirit of DIY in the Philippines - By Gabriel Kuhn Originally posted on DIY Conspiracy February 14th, 2025 This anarchist collective and infoshop in the Philippines is fighting for community, deconolization and land regeneration. Last year, we launched the project DIY Solidarity that allows us to redistribute funds among DIY communities to beat at least some of the injustices that come with […]
The Four Expectable Axes of MAGA Action - By Jeremy Brecher February 16th, 2025 Protester against Trump, July 13, 2017. Photo credit: Alisdare Hickson, Wikimedia Commons, CC by-SA 2.0. The previous Commentary in this series laid out the unknowns – known and unknown — that will characterize the Trump presidency. But amidst the uncertainty, the main thrusts of the Trump regime are increasingly […]- Bringing Far-Right Politics into the Mainstream - By Matthew N. Lyons New Politics A key element of Donald Trump’s presidential career has been his symbiotic relationship with the organized U.S. far right. This relationship has been unprecedented for any U.S. president or major party presidential candidate, but it has also been complex and unstable and has evolved considerably over the past decade. […]
Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety | Julius Deutsch & Gabriel Kuhn - Auxiliary Statements PodcastEp. 183 In which the Austrians do antifascism by definitely not recreating any fascist aesthetics. Reading: Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety: Forging a Militant Working-Class Culture (2016) by Gabriel Kuhn & Julius Deutsch- Off the Shelf: The stories of Felicity and Ruth - By Rabbi Rachel Esserman The Reporter January 23rd, 2025 The reason I didn’t ask for a review copy of “From Sun to Sun” by Kenneth Wishnia (PM Press) was due to its dual nature: while part of the novel is a revised version of the biblical Book of Ruth, other chapters take place in contemporary […]
- From Hash Rebels to Urban Guerrillas: with Gabriel Kuhn - By The Final Straw Radio Show February 2nd, 2025 Today we’re sharing an interview recorded this week with Gabriel Kuhn speaking about the West German urban guerrilla group the 2nd of June Movement, the book he co-edited on this subject entitled From Hash Rebels to Urban Guerrillas: A Documentary History of the 2nd of June […]
City Lights and PM Press celebrate the publication of two books about Situationism - By City Lights December 10th, 2024 This event was originally broadcast on Tuesday, December 10, 2024 and was hosted by Peter Maravelis (City Lights) Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation
Review of “Safety Through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism” - By Matthew N. Lyons Three Way Fight January 14th, 2025 Shane Burley and Ben Lorber, Safety Through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting AntisemitismBrooklyn: Melville House, 2024288 pages; paperback $19.99, ISBN 978-1-68589-091-9 Review by Matthew N. Lyons In October 2024, the Heritage Foundation (the outfit that previously issued the odious Project 2025) released Project Esther: […]
Incorporating Graphic Nonfiction | Classroom Connections - by LibraryPass December 5th, 2024 The Cargo Rebellion: Those Who Chose Freedom by Alexi Dudden, Ben Barson, Jason Chang and Kim Inthavong (PM Press) This graphic account about the Robert Browne Rebellion of 1852 uses a Narrative structure, telling the story of 400 indentured Chinese laborers who organized a mutiny against their captors, seizing control […]
Rescue from an Unjust Obscurity: Hank Kennedy on B. TRAVEN: PORTRAIT OF A FAMOUS UNKNOWN by Golo - Today on SOLRAD, Hank Kennedy reviews B. TRAVEN: PORTRAIT OF A FAMOUS UNKNOWN by Golo, published by PM Press By Hank Kennedy Solrad November 11th, 2024 How do you write a biography for someone about whom many basic details, including even their real name and date of birth, are unknown? If that sounds like an […]
The Politics of Picking Books - Behind the complicated curation of Ithaca’s radical Autumn Leaves bookstore. By Alistar Fruehstorfer Collegetown A bookstore’s allure lies in the quiet promise of discovery. Your “To Read” list—a meticulous inventory of what you absolutely must know—is forgotten amid thousands of unknown titles. Thumbing through pages of words written by an unfamiliar name, it feels like […]- “From Sun to Sun and ‘Biblical Noir’: An Interview with Kenneth Wishnia” - By William Blick Retreats from Oblivion January 21st, 2025 One of my favorite types of “noir” is the more “hopeful” one…”one more job and I am getting out”….The other type which is more relevant today is that there are “noble projects” that are doomed from the beginning because of how things have been set up…. Noir […]
Musical memories of a well-spent youth - As a kid, nearly every spare dollar I had went to LPs, gasoline, and concert tix. Or, namely, the raw materials for these essays. Release dates: 1st Mondays of the month, starting New Year’s Day 2025. By Randal Doane “One Track Memory” is a monthly newsletter that features an essay about a single song and […]
Ian Brennan’s Hidden Tales - By Ian Brennan Songlines April 4th, 2024 A selection of excerpts from this new book, collecting stories behind some of the most singular albums that we have had the privilege of hearing Ian Brennan is a hugely successful producer whose work has often graced the pages of Songlines. He’s produced albums by the likes of […]
Accolades for James Kelman’s All We Have Is The Story - All We Have Is The Story: Selected Interviews 1973-2022 selected A Best Non-fiction Books of 2024 by Product Magazine UK Product Magazine UK All We Have Is The Story: Selected Interviews 1973-2022 by James Kelman, published by PM Press Best known for his fiction, both novels and short stories, long term Kelman readers will know […]
Art As A Vehicle For Anarchist Ideas - The Final Straw Radio December 15th, 2024 This week, we’re sharing another presentation from the 2024 ACABookfair in so-called Asheville. On youtube you’ll find the audio sync’d up with the slideshow presentation from the bookfair by visiting youtube.com/@thefinalstrawradio.
Multiple Worlds Vying to Exist: Philip K. Dick and Palestine - By Jonathan Lethem The Paris Review November 14, 2024 1. Imagine a present-day reader reaching for Philip K. Dick’s 1964 novel Martian Time-Slip in search of transport, out of the here and now to a psychedelically paranoid near-future Mars. This person might be disconcerted to find two characters discussing traveling to a zone called New […]
7 Rules for Narrative Discipline in the Time of Trump - We need to focus on helping people to see that the current administration is not on their side, to see the damage being done, and to see that there are alternative policies that actually would meet their needs. By Cynthia Kaufman Common Dreams January 31st, 2025 The next period in U.S. politics will be won […]- ‘Freedom Shall Prevail’ promoted in London - The graphic novel ‘Freedom Shall Prevail’ about Abdullah Öcalan’s life was promoted in London. Sean Michael Wilson, the award-winning author of the novel, said: “I learnt many things from the leader of the Kurdish people. I am a student of this book.” ANF News October 5th, 2024 As part of the global Freedom for Abdullah […]
Climate Justice, Indigenous rights, and the settler-colonial mindset - Al Jazeera Marc Lamont Hill in conversation with activist Nick Estes about Indigenous rights and the need for climate justice. Across the globe, Indigenous peoples are grappling with the devastating effects of a rapidly escalating climate crisis, yet they remain sidelined in environmental decision-making. So how can meaningful change happen when those most affected aren’t […]- From Sun to Sun: A Review in The Jury Box - By Steve Steinbock Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Wishnia’s new standalone novel follows two strong female heroes separated by thousands of years, trying to solve crimes while seen as outsiders by those around them. In contemporary New York, Felicity Ortega Pérez is hired by a private-security firm to locate a former employee who disappeared after allegedly […]
- Celluloid Dreams: Revolution and Its Enemies in Cold War Global Cinema - By Jason Christian Los Angeles Review of Books November 14th, 2024 Jason Christian reviews “Revolution in 35mm,” edited by Andrew Nette and Samm Deighan. IN MAY 1976, mere weeks after a brutal junta took over Argentina, a military death squad kidnapped the Jewish Argentine filmmaker Raymundo Gleyzer, and he was never seen or heard from […]
Three Way Fight - Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism By Xtn Alexander and Matthew N. Lyons Political Research December 4th, 2024 Photo: Counterprotestors oppose a rally in support of the Confederate flag in St. Paul, Minnesota in 2015 (Credit: Fibonacci Blue/Flickr.com) This article is an adapted and abridged excerpt from Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism (PM Press/Kersplebedeb, 2024), 1–9. It […]- B. Traven: Portrait of a Famous Unknown: A Review - By David Mandl The Comics Journal November 14th, 2024 In the long historical line of public figures who have “gone native,” B. Traven stands out. The (probably) American-born writer, best known as the author of the novel The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, was in his thirties when he found himself on a beach in […]
- Andrew Nette Interview: Revolution in 35mm in The Long Seventies Podcast - The Long Seventies Podcast November 15th, 2024 We interview editor and author Andrew Nette about his new book, co-edited with Samm Deighan, “Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960–1990” You can buy the book at PM Press: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1656 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-35mm-Political-Resistance-Grindhouse-ebook/dp/B0CRNHVK68 Andrew’s Substack newsletter: https://andrewnette.substack.com/ X: @Pulpcurry Bluesky: @pulpcurry.bsky.social Instagram: @pulpcurry Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/AndrewNette/
Rattling the Cages: In Conversation with James Kilgore - By Firestorm Books In dialog with “Rattling the Cages” co-editor Eric King, James Kilgore discusses his history as an activist, underground fugitive, political prisoner, and author of books on mass incarceration. Together they explore the state of international solidarity, the abolitionist movement, and James’ recent collaboration with artist Vic Liu on “Rattling the Cages: Oral […]
Film About Sámi Resistance Figther Niillas Somby - By Gabriel KuhnJanuary 23rd, 2025 Niillas Somby is an icon of the Sámi resistance movement. In 1982, he lost an arm and an eye during a failed attempt to damage a bridge leading to a hydropower dam construction site. The action was part of the struggle against development plans along the Áltá River, a pivotal […]- The Presidential Papers by John Kessel: A Review - By Rich Horton Strange at Ecbatan November 5th, 2024 John Kessel’s new collection is the latest in the PM Press Outspoken Authors series of slim volumes by, in their words, “today’s edgiest, most entertaining, and uncompromising writers”. These books are all by writers of speculative fiction, and the originating editor was the late Terry Bisson. […]
The Rain in Spain w/ Prole.info— on The Antifada - The Antifada November 18th, 2024 A report from the Valencia inundation zone by B from the propaganda powerhouse Prole.info! We discuss the floods and the political aftermath, including mudslinging at the King and the future of the Spain’s tenuous socialist government. From there were move on to his thoughts about Trump, the Democrats, and the […]- The Presidential Papers by John Kessel Review in Locus - By Gary K. Wolfe Locus December 26th, 2024 PM Press’s series of “Outspoken Author” collections, reaching its 30th volume with John Kessel’s The Presidential Papers, has long provided useful short overviews of the fiction and nonfiction of some of our field’s most distinguished writers (always accompanied by insouciant but revealing interviews by the late series […]
Michael Moorcock: celebrating 60 years of New Worlds on The Spectator’s Book Club - My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the writer, musician and editor Michael Moorcock, whose editorship of New Worlds magazine is widely credited with ushering in a ‘new wave’ of science fiction and developing the careers of writers like J G Ballard, Iain Sinclair, Pamela Zoline, Thomas M Disch and M John Harrison. With the […]- No, the Fight for the Climate Isn’t “Over” - The fate of our climate depends on much more than just which party controls Washington. Despite their current celebrations, polluters will remain vulnerable under President Trump. By Kevin A. Young Jacobin “The struggle against climate change is over” if Donald Trump wins again, tweeted Bernie Sanders before Election Day 2024. Presumably our fate is now […]
Scotland’s books of the year revealed as author James Kelman gets lifetime achievement award - By Brian Ferguson The Scotsman November 29th, 2024 James Kelman, the controversial Glasgow-born Booker Prize winner who has struggled to find a publisher in recent years, has been honoured with a lifetime achievement award for his contribution to Scottish literature. Kelman was recognised at Scotland’s flagship literary awards on Thursday night, more than half a […]
Phil Cohen Obituary - Phil Cohen 1943-2024 Professor Phil Cohen, radical activist, cultural theorist, memoirist, poet and urban ethnographer, has died aged 81. ‘When I first met Phil Cohen,’ recalls Dr Toby Butler, ‘he was professor of Cultural Studies at the University of East London. Fizzing with ideas, he drew together an astonishing array of artists, academics and policy […]- Out in the Open - — Remarks on the Trump Election — By Ken Knabb November 26th, 2024 The Donald Trump campaign has exposed some very ugly aspects of American society. They’re not pretty to look at, but it’s probably better that they’re out there in the open where we can all see them and no one can deny them. […]
Gordon Simmons interviewed by Mine Wars Museum - Faith Leone: Today is Tuesday, August 6th, 2024. My name is Faith Leone. I’m in Charleston,West Virginia interviewing Gordon Simmons for the Fred Barkey Oral History Collection withthe West Virginia Mine Wars Museum. Mr. Simmons, could you spell your first and last namefor me? Gordon Simmons: G O R D O N S I M […]
A. Iwasa reviews Josh Fernandez’ memoir The Hands That Crafted the Bomb - By A. Iwasa Synch Chaos What’s it like to be an antifascist college professor facing termination for “soliciting students for potentially dangerous activities” while military recruiters have free range on your campus? If you’re generally critical of academics, one thing you’ll have to understand about Josh Fernandez is that he’s hated teachers his whole life. […]- The Impact of Images - By Ron Jacobs Counterpoints Most people seem to think that the saying “A picture is worth a thousand words” originated with Confucius, Ben Franklin or some other sage. In fact, it is actually attributed to an advertising man named Fred R. Barnard. Apparently, Barnard introduced the phrase in an article in the advertising journal Printers […]
- Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960–1990: A Review - By Samm Deighan and Andrew Nette CultureMag Andrew Nette/ Samm Deighan: Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960–1990. PM Press, Binghamton, New York 2024. Large format paperback, 386 pages, over 200 illustrations, USD 29,95. This richly illustrated book, just fresh off the press, examines how political […]
This Reading List Kills Fascists - Our annual holiday sale is active now through January first.Take 50% off all books and e-Books with coupon code GIFT This sale includes all books, e-Books, CDs and DVDs. Sale excludes apparel, merch, pre-order titles, FOPM memberships, combo packs, gift certificates, gift boxes, gift bags, maps, and cannot be applied on top of wholesale/reseller […]- Understanding white fascism in the US - By Ron Jacobs MorningStar UK RON JACOBS recommends a new collection of essays that examine the presence of fascism in the US and the struggle against it DONALD TRUMP is certainly the figure around which fascists in the United States have flocked to more than any other politician, but the movement does not need him […]
- Where is the working class’ power? An interview with Peter Olney and John Womack - Cosmonaut October 28th, 2024 Peter Olney is a labor organizer of over half a century, long-time organizing director at the ILWU, and researcher on labor strategy. John Womack is a Harvard historian of the labor movement and the Mexican Revolution. In this episode they sit down with Ira and Rudy to discuss Peter and John’s […]
Interview with Andrew Nette on Cold War Cinema - Cold War Cinema Join us for our first ever interview with the Australian writer and scholar, Andrew Nette, who, along with the film historian Samm Deighan, co-edited the new book, published by PM Press. is an author of fiction and nonfiction. He is coeditor of three previous books for PM Press, Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, […]
The Strategic Art of Ambiguity - By Kyle Crawford Stanford Social Innovation Review November 4th, 2024 As Heather McLeod and Leslie Crutchfield observed in describing the difficulty of creating high-impact nonprofits, social innovators often face obstacles that have nothing to do with their own internal operations. Bold ideas, a strong team, hard work, and clear metrics will get you far—to which […]
James Kelman and the ‘part of no-part’ - By Sean Sheehan Prisma September 9th, 2024 James Kelman’s most recent novel, “God’s teeth and other phenomena”, was published last year and reviewed in The Prisma. “Keep moving and no questions” is a collection of nearly 30 short stories by Kelman, also published in 2023, and together they constitute a fictional representation of what Jacques […]- Part 2: Neither Horseshoes nor Fishhooks (book review: Three-Way Fight) - By Daphne Lawless Fightback Newsletter Part 1 of a two-part review of Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism, Xtn Alexander, Matthew N. Lyons, and Janeen Porter (eds). Kerseplebedeb, 2024. Art by Rafaela Gaspar Part 2 of a two-part review of Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism, Xtn Alexander, Matthew N. Lyons, and Janeen […]
- Part 1: Neither Horseshoes nor Fishhooks (book review: Three-Way Fight) - By Daphne Lawless Fightback Newsletter Part 1 of a two-part review of Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism, Xtn Alexander, Matthew N. Lyons, and Janeen Porter (eds). Kerseplebedeb, 2024. What’s wrong with this picture? We beg forgiveness for beginning this review with a block quote from a Wikipedia article: The horseshoe theory asserts that […]
- So What Happens After November 5th? - By Ron Jacobs Counterpunch October 11th, 2024 I wrote the following earlier this year (2024). “Will we be fighting this fascism that, as Black panther George Jackson wrote fifty years ago, “tolerates the existence of no valid revolutionary activity…. (and) is concealed behind the illusion of a mass participatory society.”. Or will it be a […]
Resisting Trump and the MAGA Movement: Interview with anti-fascist Matthew Lyons of Three Way Fight - No Borders Media November 4th, 2024 This episode of No Borders Media, recorded on the eve of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, features an interview with anti-fascist writer and researcher Matthew Lyons. Matthew, who lives and works in Philadelphia, is the author of Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire and […]
Eros + Massacre Episode 10: The Battle of Algiers with Andrew Nette - By Samm Deighan Cinepunx October 20th, 2024 Andrew Nette, my co-editor on Revolution in 35mm, joined me for this rather intense episode about Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers (1966). We talk a lot about the film’s powerful impact, the Algerian struggle for independence from French colonial occupation, the cost and effectiveness of violence, Pontecorvo’s […]
Between The Abysmal + Catastrophic: A Three Way Fight Analysis Of The 2024 Presidential Election / Matthew N. Lyons - Last Born in the Wilderness November 4th, 2024 Political analyst, writer, and Three Way Fight contributor Matthew N. Lyons joins me to discuss his analysis of the upcoming US presidential election, and how the choices presented to voters is “between a Democratic option more abysmal than four years ago and a Republican option even more catastrophic than […]
Oakland streets to Rwandan hills, Ian Brennan’s musical storytelling spans globe - Powerhouse producer-writer’s ninth book, ‘Missing Music’ tells far-flung tales of preserving essential voices. by Joshua Rotter 48hills September 26, 2024 On Mon/30 at City Lights, when Ian Brennanappears in conversation with musician Peter Case to plug his latest book (more info here), he swears he won’t steal the spotlight. “We’re just going to have a conversation,” says the Grammy-winning […]
The Everyday Anarchy of Colin Ward - By Everyday Anarchism Podcast August 14th, 2024 This episode publishes on the hundredth anniversary of Colin Ward! Colin was one of the popularizers of many of the ideas featured in this podcast, and I’ve stayed away from covering him for fear of copying him. But my guest today, Roman Krznaric, convinced me to do an […]
Liberation as a Practice: The Liberation Tarot Deck - Firestorm Coop Sep 19, 2024 Magic is an essential tool for healing and social change within our communities. Liberation Tarot organizer Elicia Epstein and essay contributor lawrence barriner ii discuss this unique deck that seeks to serve as a tool for those inspired towards revolution in the face of the able-centered, capitalist, heterocis-normative, white-supremacist patriarchy. […]
Notes on Trump/MAGA 2024 - By Matthew N Lyons Three Way Fight October 27, 2024 Photo: Donald Trump, 17 July 2019, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. In 2020 I described the US presidential race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump as a choice not between a lesser evil and a greater evil, but between the abysmal and the catastrophic. This […]
Get Your Gift in Time— 2024 USPS Shipping Deadlines - We will do our best to get you your package in time, however with almost all 2024 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 […]- Andrew Nette’s 10 Favorite Films of Political Violence and Revolution - By Andrew Nette CrimeReads September 26th, 2024 In a new book, writers reflect on the cinema of political engagement and resistance. Political violence is defined as acts perpetrated to achieve political goals, and can include war, military coups, genocide, state repression, terrorism, guerilla warfare, and assassinations, as well as the violence associated with racism and […]
Tristan Clark— Orstralia: A Punk History 1974-1989 - By Stephen A. Russell The Saturday Paper July 16th, 2024 Tristan Clark’s exhaustive but never exhausting thrash through Australia’s punk history rocks – from its first explosion in Brisbane, defying the crushing reign of then premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen, through to Sydney’s seething Darlinghurst, where Radio Birdman commandeered upstairs at the Oxford Hotel, and on to […]
Ramsey Kanaan and Indie Booksellers and Lying Liars: This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast - By LitHub PodcastOctober 25th, 2024 Featuring Lefty Booksellers, Dodgy Paperbacks, and Some Thoughts on Fact-Checking Calvin Kasulke talks to Ramsey Kanaan of PM Press about his leftist press taking ownership of Autumn Leaves, the legendary indie bookstore in Ithaca, NY
Magazine that Rejected ‘Israel’ Ad Promoted ‘Antisemitic’ Book - Outlet that said a Jewish book could ‘cause trouble’ advertised a book that teaches kids ‘intifada’ means ‘rising up for what is right.’ By Francesca Block The Free Press On Wednesday, I reported that a trade magazine that promotes books refused to run an ad for Israel Alone because “customers might complain.” Matt Baldacci, publisher […]
Anti-Fascism and the Three Way Fight in Québec - By Dandy Andy Three Way Fight September 3rd, 2024 Photo by: Annie Ouellet of Anti-fascists gather in Trois-Rivières to prevent ultranationalist xenophobes from marching, July 27, 2019. In his “Afterword” to Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism, Michael Staudenmaier writes: “The three way fight is not an ideology or a fixed political line. It […]
“Fight Like Hell. . .”: A Book Review of Black Coal & Red Bandanas - By Austin Sauerbrei Religious Socialism In their new graphic novel, Raymond Tyler and Summer McClinton bring to life stories of labor leader and reformer Mary G. Harris “Mother” Jones and the West Virginia mine wars. With black and white illustrations and striking gashes of red throughout, Black Coal & Red Bandanas not only offers a […]
“Imperialism as a whole is the enemy of humanity, not particular countries”: Reading Michael Karadjis on the Middle East - By Matthew N. Lyons Three Way Fight October 8th, 2024 The last time Israel launched a ground invasion of Lebanon, in 2006, I argued on Three Way Fight (here, here, and here) that US leftists should support Hezbollah against Israeli aggression, despite the fact that it was a right-wing movement with ultimately theocratic goals. This […]
Michael Moorcock is Back: NEW WORLDS 60th Anniversary ISSUE Global Exclusive Video - NEW WORLDS ANNEX: www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/new-worlds-annex/ Ordering Information as of 18/9/2024- John Davey Says: “To begin with, at least, the mag will be available via https://jaydedesign.com (in the U.K.) @ £20 (for pre-ordered signed copies [while stocks last]) and £15 for the residue, and via www.ziesings.com (in the U.S.A.) @ $25 (for pre-ordered signed copies [while stocks […]
CREATIVES: Author Jonathan Lethem - WRFI In this edition of CREATIVES ON WRFI, a conversation between celebrated American novelist Jonathan Lethem and Jacob White, Associate Professor of Writing at Ithaca College and host of Jamaican Clash on WRFI. Jonathan Lethem visits Ithaca this weekend as part of the fourth annual Ithaca Is Books Festival (Sept. 12-15). You can see Lethem […]
“Revolution in 35MM” with Samm Deighan on The Final Straw Radio podcast - Final Straw Radio This week, we’re sharing Ian’s talk with Samm Deighan, co-editor of Revolution in 35 MM: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to Grindhouse, 1960-1990, out 9/24/24 from PM Press. Among other things, they discuss the origins of the book, the benefits and limitations of genre storytelling, the forces that […]- LAPL Blog— An Interview With Ian Brennan - by Christopher Taylor, Los Angeles Public Library Adult Librarian, Mark Twain Branch Library Ian Brennan is a music producer, writer, and educator from the Bay Area. Beginning in the late 2000s, he has produced a series of acclaimed albums recorded in situ all over the world, often from overlooked music communities and remote areas. He […]
Challenging the Visual Story of Mass Incarceration - With The Warehouse, James Kilgore and Vic Liu counter the tendency to reduce people to stereotypes or mere statistics. By Greta Rainbow Hyperallergic September 15, 2024 You don’t have to be one of the nearly two million Americans currently incarcerated to have an idea of what prison looks like, whether accurate or not. Audiences have […]
We’re hiring— in Ithaca, NY - Autumn Leaves Bookseller/Book Buyer Position Autumn Leaves is an independent bookstore nestled in the scenic Finger Lakes region of Ithaca, NY. We believe that freedom of knowledge is crucial and independent bookstores are vital to their local communities. Autumn Leaves offers critically important radical books and media that challenge traditional ways of thinking. Our two-story location […]- Keir Starmer’s favourite radical socialist - Political disaffection is key to James Kelman’s work By Boyd Tonkin Unheard July 18th, 2024 Modern politics is a business that obliterates the self. It turns its winning practitioners into one-dimensional media-facing personalities schooled for the soundbite and the photo-op. Yet plenty of voters, and news outlets with gnat-sized attention spans, still hanker for glimpses […]
- Tomas Rothaus on Argentina & Anti-Fascism - 3cr Radio This week we talk to Tomas Rothaus [X/Twitter(link is external)]. Tomas is the author of several forthcoming titles, including Another War Is Possible: Militant Anarchist Experiences in the Antiglobalization Era (PM Press, 2025). We spoke to Tomas about Argentina under Milei, the importance of political spaces such as La Cultura del Barrio, anarchism, anti-fascism and more.
Indigenous resistance since 1992, Part 1 and 2, with Gord Hill, author of 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance - Working Class History July 17th, 2024 Following on from his excellent book, 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance, Gord Hill of the Kwakwaka’wakw nation gives us an overview of over three decades of Indigenous resistance in the Americas since 1992. Our podcast is brought to you by our patreon supporters. Our supporters fund our work, and […]
Chicago’s Own: Dancepunks, BEASTII, Release First New Album In 7 Years - By Kyle Decker In the Loop Some scholars of popular culture have written about “The 20-Year Rule,” which suggests exactly what it sounds like it suggests. That styles of fashion and music tend to return in twenty-year cycles. I don’t see this as problematic, myself. It makes a lot of sense when you think about […]- Illustrator Vic Liu Wants to Make the Horrors of Mass Incarceration Unmistakable - By Colleen Hamilton them.us August 16th, 2024 The visual artist behind an illustrated three-part examination of mass incarceration discusses the invisibilization of injustice that allows for our mass incarceration crisis to continue. “One of Them” is all about you. More community than column, this space is where we’ll be speaking to friends and idols, history-makers […]
A Response to Andrew Major’s Pedaling Parsimoniously – A Book & Cog Review, Sort Of - Sam Tracy responds to Andrew’s review of his book. By Sam Tracy Bike Mag August 20th, 2024 “Chock full of interesting insights, useful technical information, and even a taste of community bike shop philosophy.” —Andrew Major, BIKE “Riding More with Less is a nice combination of grit and history… I am positive that you will […]
Tarot to Connect with Revolutionary Realities, a virtual event hosted by Firestorm Books - Firestorm Books Join Lane Smith, author of “78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World,” Christopher Marmolejo, author of “Red Tarot: A Decolonial Guide to Divinatory Literacy,” and Sara Calverese, creator of “Turning Terrestrial Tides Tarot” for a discussion about grounding spiritual practices in our activism to cope with and fight oppression.
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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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 […]
