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What can be gained from \"rocking the boat\", even if it is true that the campaign against the World Trade Organization may contain certain unsavory elements? Who poses the greatest threat, who should be enemy number one, a few local demagogues or the barons of international capital? Far be it from us at Anti-Fascist Forum to argue against fighting the World Trade Organization and other planning bodies of international capital. But the reasons why people choose to struggle against the WTO, and the ideas underlying their fight, are vitally important to all of us who would like to see capitalism overthrown and class society come to an end. The authors of these texts, most of which have already been published on the internet, have all observed reactionary tendencies within the struggle against global capitalism which go beyond the presence of a few individual crackpots. 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This book combines short biographies with striking and usable stencil images of thirty women—activists, anarchists, feminists, freedom-fighters and visionaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt offers a subversive portrait history which refuses to belittle the military prowess and revolutionary drive of women, whose violent resolves often shatter the archetype of woman-as-nurturer. It is also a celebration of some extremely brave women who have spent their lives fighting for what they believe in and rallying supporters in climates where a woman's authority is never taken as seriously as a man's. The text also shares some of each woman's ideologies, philosophies, struggles and quiet humanity with quotes from their writings or speeches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe women featured are: Harriet Tubman, Louise Michel, Vera Zasulich, Emma Goldman, Qiu Jin, Nora Connolly O'Brien, Lucia Sanchez Saornil, Angela Davis, Leila Khaled, Comandante Ramona, Phoolan Devi, Ani Pachen, Anna Mae Aquash, Hannie Schaft, Rosa Luxemburg, Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Lolita Lebron, Djamila Bouhired, Malalai Joya, Vandana Shiva, Olive Morris, Assata Shakur, Sylvia Rivera, Haydée Santamaría, Marie Equi, Mother Jones, Doria Shafik, Ondina Peteani, Whina Cooper and Lucy Parsons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eWhat you hold in your hands is a lethal weapon. Revolutionary Women: A Book of Stencils is a threat to the status quo and a dangerous wake-up call to every person who has ever dared to think for themselves. … I believe the words and art in this book have the power to mobilize a revolution. Rise up and let’s join them now!” \u003c\/em\u003e” —Wendy-O Matik, author of \u003cem\u003eRedefining Our Relationships: Guidelines for Responsible Open Relationships\u003c\/em\u003e “\u003cem\u003e\"This book cunningly uses the modern style of stencilling to make icons of some key figures in feminist movement. Readers are invited to spread their images across t-shirts, walls, and pavements to let the world know who really deserves to be remembered.\" \u003c\/em\u003e” —Gareth Shute, author of \u003cem\u003eHip Hop Music in Aotearoa\u003c\/em\u003e “\u003cem\u003e\"The beauty and simplicity of message is stark in this zine. It is lovingly earnest with its handcrafted cut and pastes. The snippets are well-worded, the quotes cleverly chosen. The silhouettes of fearless females are striking. Overwhelmingly, one is left with a sense of the near universal absence of images of revolutionary women. From now on, every time I see a Che Guevara portrait, I will wonder about his many, unheralded and invisible sisters.\"\u003c\/em\u003e” —Karlo Mila, author of \u003cem\u003eDream Fish Floating\u003c\/em\u003e “\u003cem\u003e\"What an amazing creative way to magnify, and illuminate the courage of 30 Sheroes whose courage, leadership and character is symbolic of the many unsung Women Sheroes of past and present.\" \u003c\/em\u003e” —Emory Douglas, Former Black Panther Party Member, Revolutionary Artist \u0026amp; Minister of Culture\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Queen of the Neighborhood\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQueen of the Neighbourhood Collective is an all-women crew of writers, researchers, editors and graphic designers originally hailing from Aotearoa\/New Zealand. Drawing on backgrounds from disparate worlds in zine-making, art, activism and academia, this is Queen of the Neighbourhood's first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Queen of the Neighbourhood\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-60486-200-3\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 128 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175080439901,"sku":"9781604862003","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_930_revwom3_0.jpg?v=1654987277"},{"product_id":"fire-and-flames-a-history-of-the-german-autonomist-movement","title":"Fire and Flames: A History of the German Autonomist Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Earlier, many of us saw themselves as anarchists, Spontis, orcommunists, while some had vague, individual ideas about a liberated life. Then we all became Autonome.\" Black blocs, squats, riots and urban guerillas—but also base groups in the factories, \"free spaces\", antinuclear occupations, and alternative lifestylism—all of these formed the context, the terrain, and the world of Germany's Autonomous movement during its high point in the 1980s. Today best knownfor the militant street fighting tactics they exemplified, the Autonomen opposed the capitalist State while purposefully not putting forward any kind of blueprint for what would replace it, an ethos summed up in the slogan, \"No power to no one!\" The challenges faced by the Autonomen—repression from the police, integration from the reformist left—and the way in which they were met, provide a look forward to what may face our own movements in the time to come. As the current capitalist crisis leads to new surges in protest, with radical elements try to break out of the reformist structures and defeatist traditions meant to hold us back, Germany in the 1980s doesn't seem so far away. Fire and Flames was the first comprehensive study of the German autonomous movement ever published. Released in 1990, it reached its fifth edition by 1997, with the legendary German Konkret journal concluding that \"the movement had produced its own classic.\" This is the first english translation ever published. The author, writing under the pseudonym of Geronimo, has been an Autonomous activist since the movement burst onto the scene in the early 80s. His book is not an academic study, but a movement history produced by a participant in the events, for all of us engaged in building resistance to capitalism, and fighting for a liberatory future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The target audience is not the academic middle-class with passive sympathies for rioting, nor the all-knowing critical critics, but the activists of a young generation.\" —Edition I.D. Archiv \"Some years ago, an experienced autonomous activist from Berlin sat down, talked to friends and comrades about the development of the scene, and, with Fire and Flames, wrote the best book about the movement that we have.\" —Düsseldorfer Stadtzeitung für Politik und Kultur\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe author, writing under the pseudonym of Geronimo, has been an autonomous activist since the movement burst onto the European scene in 1980-81.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Gabriel Kuhn (Afterword)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMDQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gabriel-kuhn\" title=\"Gabriel Kuhn\"\u003eGabriel Kuhn\u003c\/a\u003e lives as an independent author and translator in Stockholm, Sweden. His previous publications with PM Press include Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy (2010), \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNDkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/sober-living-for-the-revolution-hardcore-punk-straight-edge-and-radical-politics\" title=\"Sober Living for the Revolution\"\u003eSober Living for the Revolution\u003c\/a\u003e: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics (editor, 2010), Gustav Landauer: Revolution and Other Writings (editor\/translator, 2010), and Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics (2011).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout George Katsiaficas (Introduction)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Katsiaficas is currently living in Gwangju, South Korea. A visiting professor of sociology at Chonnam National University, he is finishing research on East Asian uprisings in the 1980s and 1990s. A Fulbright Fellow, student of Herbert Marcuse, and long-time activist, he is the author of The Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968. His book, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/the-antifa-comic-book-100-years-of-fascism-and-antifa-movements\" title=\"The Subversion of Politics\"\u003eThe Subversion of Politics\u003c\/a\u003e: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life, was co-winner of the APSA's 1998 Michael Harrington book award. Among his edited volumes are Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party (with Kathleen Cleaver) and Vietnam Documents: American and Vietnamese Views of the War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: geronimo\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-60486-097-9\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 185 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175090761821,"sku":"9781604860979","price":27.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1036_fireflamesfront3_0.jpg?v=1654987356"},{"product_id":"portugal-the-impossible-revolution","title":"Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter the military coup in Portugal on April 25th, 1974, the overthrow of almost fifty years of Fascist rule, and the end of three colonial wars, there followed eighteen months of intense, democratic social transformation which challenged every aspect of Portuguese society. What started as a military coup turned into a profound attempt at social change from the bottom up and became headlines on a daily basis in the world media. This was due to the intensity of the struggle as well as the fact that in 1974–75 the right-wing moribund Francoist regime was still in power in neighboring Spain and there was huge uncertainty as to how these struggles might affect Spain and Europe at large. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of what happened in Portugal between April 25, 1974, and November 25, 1975, as seen and felt by a deeply committed participant. It depicts the hopes, the tremendous enthusiasm, the boundless energy, the total commitment, the released power, even the revolutionary innocence of thousands of ordinary people taking a hand in the remolding of their lives. And it does so against the background of an economic and social reality which placed limits on what could be done.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An evocative, bitterly partisan diary of the Portuguese revolution, written from a radical-utopian perspective. The enemy is any type of organization or presumption of leadership. The book affords a good view of the mood of the time, of the multiplicity of leftist factions, and of the social problems that bedeviled the revolution.” — Fritz Stern, \u003cem\u003eForeign Affairs Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Mailer portrays history with the enthusiasm of a cheerleader, the 'home team' in this case being libertarian communism. Official documents, position papers and the pronouncements of the protagonists of this drama are mostly relegated to the appendices. The text itself recounts the activities of a host of worker, tenant, soldier and student committees as well as the author’s personal experiences.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Ian Wallace, Library Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA thorough delight as it moves from first person accounts of street demonstrations through intricate analyses of political movements. Mailer has handled masterfully the enormous cast of politicians, officers of the military peasant and workers councils, and a myriad of splinter parties, movements and caucuses.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Choice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“What did it all add up to? Was the 'Lisbon Commune' the real thing: a popular revolution arising from the masses without leaders or parties or vanguards? Phil Mailer claims that it was, or could have been. In a vigorous book that is part blow by blow account, part vivid eye-witness reporting and part unashamedly polemical analysis, he stresses what he sees as the revolution’s most important feature—ordinary people spontaneously taking power for themselves. He presents a wealth of fascinating detail about workers’ committees and peasant cooperatives which is a welcome antidote to the tiresome journalistic assumption of the time that without a tank, a bomb, or a dispossessed British businessman what happened in Portugal wasn’t worth talking about.” — Ben Pimlott, \u003cem\u003eNew Society\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhil Mailer was born in Dublin Ireland in 1946 and is a resident of Ireland and Portugal. After living in London where he was on the fringes of the King Mob group, he went to Portugal in 1973 and actively participated in the events following the Carnation Revolution of April, 1974. He was an editor of the newspaper Combate and managed a bookshop, Contra A Corrente, in Lisbon with other Portuguese revolutionaries. He has been a long-time translator from Portuguese and has translated the song lyrics and poems of José Afonso (whose song \"Grandola\" was a signal for the revolution) into English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout Maurice Brinton (afterword)\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaurice Brinton was the pen name under which Chris Pallis (1923–2005) wrote and translated for the British libertarian socialist group Solidarity from 1960 until the early 1980s. He combined a distinguished medical career under his real name with revolutionary socialist writing and translation under his pen name. This work includes several eyewitness accounts of key moments in European left politics: the Belgian general strike of 1960, Paris in May 1968, and Portugal 1974–75. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Phil Mailer\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: \nPaperback\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: \n978-1-60486-336-9\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: \n288 pages\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175102263389,"sku":"9781604863369","price":34.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1065_portugal3_0.jpg?v=1654987432"},{"product_id":"zionism-in-the-age-of-the-dictators","title":"Zionism in the Age of the Dictators","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1933 the German Zionist Federation sought Hitler s patronage: \"Zionism hopes to be able to win the collaboration even of a government fundamentally hostile to Jews. . . . Boycott propaganda . . . currently being carried on against Germany . . . is in essence un-Zionist.\" Zionism became the only other legal political movement in the Nazi Reich. That same year, the World Zionist Organization (WZO) made the Ha'avara (Transfer) Agreement, undermining the boycott against Nazi Germany. German Jewish emigrants to Palestine had to buy Nazi goods that the WZO sold in the Middle East. In 1937 the Haganah (later the Israeli army) sent an agent to Berlin. They would provide spy intelligence if the Nazis further eased the monetary regulations for emigrants to Palestine. The Zionist-Revisionist movement (today the ruling Likud Party) set up a detachment at Mussolini's naval academy. He personally reviewed them in 1936. They wanted him to replace Britain as Zionism s patron. In 1941, the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel (later Likudniks) told the Nazis that they wanted a \"Jewish state on a national and totalitarian basis, bound by a treaty with the German Reich,\" and offered \"to actively take part in the war on Germany s side.\" This is the sordid history documented in Lenni Brenner's \u003cem\u003eZionism in the Age of the Dictators\u003c\/em\u003e. This updated edition features a new afterword by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Short, crisp, and carefully documented. Mr Brenner is able to cite numerous cases where Zionists collaborated with anti-Semitic regimes, including Hitler's.\" --Edward Mortimer, The Times (London)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Brenner reviews the efforts of the Jewish establishment of the war years to play down, even to conceal, reports of the camps in Europe for fear of inciting anti-semitism at home.\" --David Lan, London Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Brenner thoroughly documents collusion between the established Zionist organizations and fascists of all stripes . . . . The 'scientific' racism of the 19th century with its 'white man's burden' and Jew-hating, the 'master race' anti-communism of the fascists, the Biblical mythologization of a people chosen to colonize -- all of this has been cut from the same cloth, the products of imperialism.\" --Hilton Obenzinger, Journal of Palestine Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLenni Brenner was born into an Orthodox Jewish family. He became an atheist at age ten, and a left political activist at fifteen. His involvement with the Black Civil Rights Movement began on his first day in the organized left, when he met James Farmer of the Congress of Racial Equality, later the organizer of the freedom rides of the early 60s. He was active in the mid 1950s with Bayard Rustin, later the organizer of Martin Luther King's 1963 I have a dream March on Washington. He was arrested three times during civil rights sit-ins in the San Francisco Bay Area. He spent thirty-nine months in prison when a court revoked his probation for marijuana possession, because of his activities during the 1964 Berkeley Free Speech Movement at the University of California. Immediately on imprisonment, he spent four days in intense discussion with Huey Newton, later the founder of the Black Panther Party, who he encountered in the court holding tank. Subsequently, upon his release in 1968, he worked with Kathy Cleaver and other Panthers. Brenner was an antiwar activist from the first days of the Vietnam war, speaking frequently at rallies in the Bay Area. In 1963 he organized the Committee for Narcotic Reform in Berkeley. In 1968 he co-founded the National Association for Irish Justice, the American affiliate of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association. He worked with Kwame Ture (also known as Stokely Carmichael), the legendary Black Power leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, in the Committee against Zionism and Racism, from 1985 until Ture's death in 1998. Brenner is the author of four books: Zionism in the Age of the Dictators (1983), The Iron Wall: Zionist Revisionism from Jabotinsky to Shamir (1984), Jews in America Today (1986), and The Lesser Evil (1988), a history of the Democratic Party. In 2002 he edited 51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis, which contains complete translations of many of the documents quoted in Zionism in the Age of the Dictators and The Iron Wall. In 2004 he edited Jefferson \u0026amp; Madison On Separation of Church and State: Writings on Religion and Secularism. His books have been favorably reviewed in eleven languages by prominent publications, including the London Times, the London Review of Books, Moscow's Izvestia and the Jerusalem Post. Brenner has written over one-hundred articles for many publications, including New York's Amsterdam News, the Anderson Valley Advertiser, The Atlanta Constitution, CounterPunch, The Jewish Guardian, The Nation, The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Middle East Policy, Middle East International, The Journal of Palestine Studies, The New Statesman of London, Al-Fajr in Jerusalem, and Dublin's United Irishman. 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Her observations shed new light on the lived experience of Nazi internment. Levy-Hass stands alone as the only resistance fighter to record on her own experience inside the camps, and she does so with unflinching clarity and attention to the political and social divisions inside Bergen Belsen.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Hanna Levy-Hass\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Amira Hass\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781608464609\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 220 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Haymarket Books \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175206105181,"sku":"9781608464609","price":22.33,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/diaryofbergenbelsen.jpg?v=1654987874"},{"product_id":"militant-anti-fascism-a-hundred-years-of-resistance","title":"Militant Anti-Fascism: A Hundred Years of Resistance","description":"\u003cp\u003eFascism is not a thing of the past. In this era of crisis and austerity, it is growing even stronger. The question is: How do we stop it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to M. Testa, the fight against it must be aggressive and unrelenting. Using a mixture of orthodox history, eyewitness accounts, and unflinching analysis, he makes the case for a resolutely militant anti-fascism, one that gives no quarter and tolerates no excuses. Unlike other partisan accounts of contemporary battles against fascism and ultra-nationalism, Militant Anti-Fascism takes us from proto-fascists in nineteenth-century Austria to modern-day street-fights in London, providing a broad context for its arguments and looking at numerous countries over a longer period of time. The result is both a serious historical study and a story of victory and struggle, past and present, designed to inspire and energize militants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLay aside, as M. Testa does, your faith in liberal, legislative, and state-approved approaches to today’s fascist threat. Start by reading this provocative and unapologetic overview of militant anti-fascism and the strategies that have successfully confronted the far right when it has reappeared in its many guises.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eM. Testa, undercover anti-fascist blogger, has analyzed the changing fortunes of the British far right since 2009. He has written for the anarchist magazine Freedom and is a member of the Anti-Fascist Network. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\nPreface\u003cbr\u003e\nIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePart I\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eItaly: No Flowers For Mussolini\u003cbr\u003e\nFrance: A New Acceptance of Violence\u003cbr\u003e\nAustria: Fascist Violence Could only Be Met by Violence\u003cbr\u003e\nGermany: ‘Beat the fascists wherever you meet them’\u003cbr\u003e\nSpain: ‘The Spanish Anarchist lives for liberty, virtue and dignity’\u003cbr\u003e\nHungary, Romania \u0026amp; Poland: ‘To Arms! 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Given the rapid developments of the past few months, however, it was felt important to make his chapter on the alt-right available as soon as possible – therein lies the origin of this publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupplementing “Ctrl-Alt-Delete” is an essay written by comrades from the Its Going Down website, “The Rich Kids of Fascism.” This is a view from activists currently involved in opposing both the far right and the state, on the streets. As its title would imply, \"Rich Kids\" focuses on the elitist class politics of the alt right, and how that sets it apart from other far right phenomenon like boneheads or militias. Looking at the alt-right’s fortunes over the past few years, IGD show the role played by both the media, and white racist fears about the ongoing struggles of Black people and immigrants, in feeding this threat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn appendix, “Notes on Trump,” by Bromma, serves not so much as a counterpoint, as a contextualization. Not directly addressing the alt-right itself, Bromma’s Notes posit that the election of Trump and the rise of the far right are not simple accidents of history, nor the result of some single failure on our side or success on theirs, but are conjoined expressions of a deep shift within the world economy. As he argues, “What’s coming into view, semi-hidden underneath the frenzied soap opera of reactionary populism, is that the tide of globalization has crested and started to recede.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe alt right in one expression of this reactionary moment. We must oppose them, but also prepare ourselves to oppose what might come next. Understanding one’s enemy can only help in this regard, and indeed a thorough understanding of an opposing political force can also help us prepare for future far right iterations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is why this book is being offered now. A tool for work that needs doing. 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By unearthing the hidden mechanisms that power white nationalism, Stern reveals just how pervasive the far right truly is.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e“An important study that extends the knowledge from other recent books that have demonstrated a stubbornly pervasive network of white nationalists.”\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An important volume for anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy. Stern has fashioned an invaluable guide with which to unmask a new breed of racism.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eProud Boys and the White Ethnostate\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the definitive guide to alt-right ideas today. Stern brilliantly documents how a younger generation of activists are repackaging the Far Right, waging a battle for cultural dominance. The internet is their home, where they mix fascist ideologies and faux scholarship to make their case for white\/Christian\/male dominance. Stern has analyzed an enormous swath of ethno-nationalist material, sparing the rest of us from having to engage in that odious task. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eProud Boys\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is essential reading in the age of Trump.” Arlene Stein, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eUnbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this carefully researched book, the historian Alexandra Minna Stern studies a wide array of online web sites, documenting a rise in claims to whiteness as a basis of identity, as a claim to victimhood and as an argument for a ‘white ethnostate.’ Drawing ideas from films (‘red-pilling’ comes from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Matrix\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) and from the left (the need for ‘safe spaces’), the Alt-Right, she argues, is trying to normalize a frightening shift from talk of civic nationalism to talk of race-based nationalism. This is very important work we should all know about.” Arlie Hochschild, author of\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eStrangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, finalist for the National Book Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Timely, well-researched, and insightful,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eProud Boys and the White Ethnostate\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a brilliant study of the alt-right’s beginnings and current attempts to push its message of racial separation, misogyny, white nationalism, and xenophobia into the American mainstream. It should be read in schools and book clubs across the nation.” Leo R. Chavez, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eProud Boys and the White Ethnostate\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e lays bare the complex intellectual, theoretical, and political commitments of an ascendant alt-right and its use of culture, history, and identity to build power and win broad public consent. At its heart it is a sober warning about the ways that violence, patriarchy, and white supremacy continue to shape the American political imagination.” Daniel Martinez HoSang, coauthor of\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eProducers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAlexandra Minna Stern\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the author of the award-winning \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTelling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. 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The essays in this collection do not point to a single conclusion or path forward but rather raise questions that remain open about how to move beyond the current crisis amid a darkening sky of seeming impossibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eBeyond Crisis \u003c\/em\u003edoes not look on the bright side. It looks straight into the eye of the storm and unfolds the hopelessness of conventional left politics in Greece and how it became part of the unfolding cycle of state violence and austerity. 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Hitler had recently come to power in Germany and some residents of the eastern beaches neighbourhood had formed \"Swastika Clubs\" to protect their community from \"undesirable elements.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn August 16, at Toronto’s Christie Pits, a baseball game between two local teams - one made up of Jewish players - ignited the simmering resentments. Some troublemakers unfurled a huge swastika flag, shouting, \"Heil Hitler!\" Retaliation from Jewish spectators and players was swift and reinforcements for both sides poured into the park. The result - never experienced in Toronto before or since - was a four-hour race riot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe riot at Christie Pits remains a disturbing, even legendary part of the city's history. Authors Cyril Levitt and William Shaffir, carefully sifting fact from fiction, provide a compelling perspective on how ordinary Canadians reacted to the intensifying antisemitism in Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Shaffir\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor in the Department of Sociology at McMaster University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNote to the Reader \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Toronto the Good—1933 \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 “Every Evil is Jewish”\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3 “Keep the Beaches Clean” \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4 “Jews Flee in Terror From Nazi Torture”\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5 “Swastika Club Must Be Outlawed” \u003cbr\u003eChapter 6 Kipling or Hitler?\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7 “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8 “Dismissed All Charges” \u003cbr\u003eChapter 9 Protest \u003cbr\u003eChapter 10 “…Lies, Lies, Lies” \u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003ePostscript\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePhotographs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eAppendices \u003cbr\u003eBibliography \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"display: block;\" class=\"tabs__panel tabs__panel--reviews r-tabs-panel r-tabs-state-active\" id=\"tab-4\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tabs__content\"\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[Major’s book] results in a detailed study that impressively brings out the handling of biblical texts across a range of retellings throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, even as he convincingly demonstrates that there may be less at stake in these retellings than meets the eye.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003e Paula J. 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O'Connor simultaneously produces empathy and outrage, in the exact proportions we need to fight back. Indispensable.\"—Greg Grandin, Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale University and author of The End of the Myth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Blood-Red Lines is a forensic deep-dive into the dark arterial network of the anti-immigrant far-right. In an engaging journalistic method and story-telling style, O’Connor presents a map-like, chronological exposé of the white nationalist origination of restrictionist policy and its comfortable convergence with capitalist political economy. He painstakingly details the methods by which these toxic ideas have enabled opportunists, demagogues, and fascist foot-soldiers to gain entry and influence within the political mainstream. Not to despair, O’Connor also introduces us to the people, organizations, and efforts taking shape to defeat the resurgent far-right. Anyone trying to understand how the far-right has surged in ranks and influence in recent decades--and everyone committed to the cause of justice for migrants and refugees--needs to read this book and take action.\" —Justin Akers Chacón, author of No One is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the US-Mexico Border\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A wide-ranging, deep-thinking, profoundly necessary book on the overlap between the alt-right and anti-immigrant movements on the boil in the United States—what O'Connor aptly calls border fascism. O'Connor deftly identifies the diverse contemporary and historical strains of xenophobic, racist, white nationalist, misogynistic, and eugenicist thought that has laid the groundwork for Trumpism, anti-immigrant cruelty, and insurgent alt-right violence in the United States. For anybody studying immigration policy or trends today, this part of the story cannot be overlooked: O'Connor's work in Blood Red Lines is essential.\"—John Washington, author, The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the US-Mexican Border and Beyond\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175354642525,"sku":"9781642599190","price":27.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/blood_red_lines.jpg?v=1654988817"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/collections\/destroy_fascism.jpg?v=1651520978","url":"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/antifascism.oembed?page=11","provider":"Leftwingbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}