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Based on detailed and original research, it is a gripping account of the actions and motivations of the group of white people who risked everything to oppose war and racism. At the same time, it provides a nuanced and critically engaged study demostrating the Weather Underground's contemporary significance. This engaging, and timely book tells the untold story of the Weather Underground, from its incendiary beginnings to its tumultuous end. In an unsparing critical analysis, Berger uses dozens of in-depth interviews with former Weather Underground members and other long-time activists to trace the group's evolution in relation to the civil rights, Black Power, and anti-war movements. From the Students for a Democratic Society of the 1960s through the political trials of the 1980s, \u003cem\u003eOutlaws of America\u003c\/em\u003e is a history of the Weather Underground that clearly resonates today. 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It captures the dreams and tragedies of the Weather Underground in a way that has utterly eluded the canned histories of the Sixties.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjI2OTY3In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/david-r-roediger\" title=\"David Roediger\"\u003eDavid Roediger\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class.\u003c\/em\u003e \"Hopefully, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dan-berger\" title=\"Dan Berger\"\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/a\u003e represents an emerging generation of radical activist scholars. 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It contains a marvelous array of surveillance reports, feature articles in mainstream newspapers, on-the-spot communiqués directed both to the Brigade's constituency on the Left and to the impacted public, and many print volleys between the groups on the subject of violence. Suddenly this hidden history comes alive, nuanced, open to interpretation with the actual documents in hand. Burton-Rose's helpful annotations and his thoughtful retrospective interview with several of the members of the group underscores his deep understanding of the period, the people, and the issues that remain compelling as revealed by the mix of remorse, self-criticism, as well as consistent conviction. The Brigade's use of international and historical revolutionaries as points of reference, also makes this book an valuable resource for a wide range of issue relevant to studies of the past, present, and sadly, the future.\" \u003c\/em\u003e” —Candace Falk, Ph.D., Director of The Emma Goldman Papers, and Editor of\u003cem\u003e Emma Goldman, A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 1: Made for America, 1890-1901 \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eVolume 2, Making Speech Free, 1902-1909\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003e\"The popular image of the 70s urban guerrilla, even on the left, is that of the student radical or New Left youth activist kicking it up a couple of notches. Daniel Burton-Rose’s documentary history of the George Jackson Brigade is an important corrective in this regard. The Brigade, rooted in prison work, white and black, straights, bisexuals and dykes, was as rich a mixture of the elements making up the left as one could perhaps hope for. We all have much to learn form the Brigade’s rich and unique history.\"\u003c\/em\u003e ” —André Moncourt, Co-editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Red Army Faction: A Documentary History.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"A deep dig into the victories and errors of this important yet often overlooked revolutionary group. 'Information a hundred times more powerful than any bomb.'\" \u003c\/em\u003e—G. 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The Stalinists were ultimately victorious, but only because they systematically destroyed all the other oppositional currents. This book is the story of those other movements and revolts, caught in the crossfire between the French and the Stalinists, told by one of the few survivors. Ngo Van's \u003cem\u003eIn the Crossfire\u003c\/em\u003e is one of those rare books like Voline's \u003cem\u003eThe Unknown Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e or Orwell's \u003cem\u003eHomage to Catalonia\u003c\/em\u003e that almost singlehandedly unveils moments of hidden history—sublime moments when people break through the bounds of the \"possible\"? and strive to create a life worthy of their deepest dreams and aspirations. \u003cem\u003eIn the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary\u003c\/em\u003e is an English translation of Ngo Van's fascinating and gripping autobiography, originally published in two volumes in France in 2000 and 2005. Co-edited by Van's close friend and collaborator, Hélène Fleury, and acclaimed situationist author and translator Ken Knabb, the book includes seventy color and black and white illustrations, reproducing many of Van's paintings as well as numerous documentary photographs. \u003cem\u003eIn the Crossfire\u003c\/em\u003e belongs on the shelf of every serious scholar of Vietnamese history, and is sure to be a compelling read for anyone interested in the revolutionary history of the twentieth century and beyond. Ngo Van was born in a peasant village in Vietnam in 1912. As a young man he moved to Saigon and became involved in underground struggles against the French colonial regime. In the aftermath of World War II, as most of his comrades were being murdered by Ho Chi Minh's Communist Party, Van escaped to France, where he became a factory worker, a painter, and a historical scholar. Following his retirement in 1978, he devoted the remainder of his life to researching and writing a series of books on the history of modern Vietnam. 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The volume also recounts the opposition that emerged from intellectuals, communists, independent leftists, and then – explosively – the radical student movement and countercultural revolt of the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was from this revolt that the Red Army Faction emerged, an underground organization devoted to carrying out armed attacks within the Federal Republic of Germany, in the view of establishing a tradition of illegal, guerilla resistance to imperialism and state repression. Through its bombs and manifestos the RAF confronted the state with opposition at a level many activists today might find difficult to imagine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor the first time ever in English, this volume presents all of the manifestos and communiqués issued by the RAF between 1970 and 1977, from Andreas Baader’s prison break, through the 1972 May Offensive and the 1975 hostage-taking in Stockholm, to the desperate, and tragic, events of the “German Autumn” of 1977. The RAF’s three main manifestos – \u003cem\u003eThe Urban Guerilla Concept\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eServe the People\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBlack September\u003c\/em\u003e – are included, as are important interviews with \u003cem\u003eSpiegel\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ele Monde Diplomatique\u003c\/em\u003e, and a number of communiqués and court statements explaining their actions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eProviding the background information that readers will require to understand the context in which these events occurred, separate thematic sections deal with the 1976 murder of Ulrike Meinhof in prison, the 1977 Stammheim murders, the extensive use of psychological operations and false-flag attacks to discredit the guerilla, the state’s use of sensory deprivation torture and isolation wings, and the prisoners’ resistance to this, through which they inspired their own supporters and others on the left to take the plunge into revolutionary action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on both mainstream and movement sources, this book is intended as a contribution to the comrades of today – and to the comrades of tomorrow – both as testimony to those who struggled before and as an explanation as to how they saw the world, why they made the choices they made, and the price they were made to pay for having done so. For more on this book check out the \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.germanguerilla.com\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGerman Guerilla\u003c\/a\u003e website.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“[Projectiles for the People] is a highly accessible rendition of a story of struggle that puts us into both the thought and the action. That placement conveys more than a sense or understanding of the RAF’s praxis. It transmits a connection in a visceral way. Not since reading Ten Days that Shook the World have I been so drawn into a political narrative. Reading like a historical thriller notwithstanding, Projectiles lets us see a rare confluence of theory and practice of which anyone who aspires to make revolution should be aware. The RAF may no longer be with us, but it has prepared the ground for and can yet aid the current movement for the most equitable social reality in which all people will have the greatest possible freedom to develop their full human potential. Nowhere else has the RAF’s life, times, and legacy been so clearly laid out.” — Bill Dunne (political prisoner since 1979)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This book about the Red Army Faction of American-occupied Germany is one that should be read by any serious student of anti-imperialist politics. “Volume 1: Projectiles for the People” provides a history of the RAF’s development through the words of its letters and communiqués. What makes the book especially important and relevant, however, is the careful research and documentation done by its editors. Their effort makes this work far more than a collection of communiqués. From this book you will learn the mistakes of a group that was both large and strong, but which (like our own home-grown attempts in this regard) was unable to successfully communicate with the working class of a “democratic” country on a level that met their needs. While the armed struggle can be the seed of something much larger, is also another means of reaching out and communicating with the people. Students interested in this historic era would do well to study this book and to internalize both the successes and failures of one of the largest organized armed anti-imperialists organizations operating in Western Europe since World War II.” —Ed Mead, former political prisoner, George Jackson Brigade\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Starting in the Sixties, a new revolutionary strategy began to plague the capitalist metropolis—the urban guerilla. Warfare once waged by peasant armies in the countryside of a Cuba, a China, or a Guinea-Bisseau, was suddenly transfered to small cells of ex-students in the imperialist centers of Berlin, Rome and New York. No urban guerrillas became more famed or more demonized than West Germany’s Red Army Faction (RAF). We knew their signature bold actions in the headlines: from the damaging bombing of the u.s. army V Corps headquarters in Hamburg in 1972, in response to Washington’s mining of Hanoi’s harbor in an escalation of the Vietnam War, to the kidnapping and later execution of the head of the West German industrialists association, in an effort to negotiate for the release of revolutionary prisoners. But we never heard their political voices. Since the RAF’s political statements, debates and communiqués were untranslated and unavailable in English even within the left.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Now, at last, a significant documentary history of the RAF has come into the spotlight, complete with a readable account of the postwar German New Left from which it emerged. Even better, this work was done by editors\/translators who reject the obedient capitalist media’s trivializing of the RAF as “pathological” death-wishing celebrities. In their hands, the words of the RAF are revealed as serious responses to the failure of parliamentary reformism, trade-unionism and pacifism, to stop the solidification of Germany’s own form of a neofascist capitalism (lightly cosmeticized with a layer of that numbing “consumer democracy”). The young RAF fighters hoped for liberation in their dangerous experiment but were willing to accept tragic consequences, and their story is emotionally difficult to read with eyes open. Controversial as the RAF was, their systematic torture in special “anti-terrorist” facilities stirred worldwide unease and even protest. In fact, those special prisons were the eagerly studied forerunners for the u.s. empire’s own latest human rights abuses, from Guantanamo to the domestic “maxi-maxi” prisons. We all and the RAF are much closer than the capitalist public wants to believe. It is all here, in this first volume of the Red Army Faction documentary histories, and we should thank all those who worked on this book.” —J. Sakai, author of \u003cem\u003eSettlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Clear-headed and meticulously researched, this book deftly avoids many of the problems that plagued earlier attempts to tell the brief but enduring history of the RAF. It offers a remarkable wealth of source material in the form of statements and letters from the combatants, yet the authors manage to present it in a way that is both coherent and engaging. Evidence of brutal—and ultimately ineffective—attempts by the state to silence the voices of political prisoners serve as a timely and powerful reminder of the continued need for anti-imperialist prisoners as leaders in our movements today. At once informative and inspirational, this is a much-needed contribution to the analysis of armed struggle and the cycles of repression and resistance in Europe and around the world.” — Sara Falconer, Toronto Anarchist Black Cross Federation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Armed struggle was one of the most controversial yet widespread phenomena of the worldwide revolutionary upsurge in the 1960s and 1970s—and the Red Army Faction was a centerpiece of this strategy in the imperial West. This valuable documentary history gathers RAF primary documents with an impressive set of contextual essays, providing the raw material necessary to understand the strategies and consequences of attacking from within the belly of the beast.” —Dan Berger, author of \u003cem\u003eOutlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Of all the revolutionary organizations to have been forged by the so-called sixties generation, the German Red Army Faction has been perhaps the most mythologized and maligned. Here at last is their story, told in their own words through “official” communications, comprehensively assembled and available for the first time in English translation. 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It is as inspiring as it is educational and a must read for anyone involved with or considering advocating for political or social change within the U.S. Arguing that reformist measures cannot be relied upon to correct the fundamental problems caused by the corporate elite and political structure in the United States, the contributing authors in this book are unified in their call for a significant revolutionary change in the United States of America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes writings by: Ramona Africa, Jake Conroy, Bill Dunne, Ronald Kuykendall, Jaan Laaman, Rob Los Ricos, Jeff Luers, Jalil Muntaqim, Jonathan Paul, Leslie Pickering, Craig Rosebraugh, and Peter Young.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Craig Rosebraugh\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: \npaperback\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: \n9780974288475\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: \n231 pages\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: LeftWingBooks\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"LeftWingBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175085092957,"sku":"9780974288475","price":22.88,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_958_rev3_0.jpg?v=1654987308"},{"product_id":"we-are-an-image-from-the-future-the-greek-revolt-of-december-2008","title":"We Are an Image From the Future: The Greek Revolt of December 2008","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat causes a city, then a whole country, to explode? 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It provides the on-the-ground facts needed to understand these historic events, and also dispels the myths activists outside of Greece have constructed around them. What emerges is not just the intensity of the riots, but the stories of organizing and solidarity, the questions of strategy and tactics: a desperately needed examination of the fabric of the Greek movements that made December possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book is just what Dr. Fucking Anarchy ordered. How to turn insurrection into revolution. The Greek revolt will inspire a generation as Paris '68 did 40 years earlier.\" —Ian Bone, class warrior and author of \u003cem\u003eBash the Rich\u003c\/em\u003e \"If protest is when I say I disagree, and resistance is when I do something about it, then insurrection is when everyone else is on-board too. So it was in December of 2008, when Greece burned…. \u003cem\u003eWe Are an Image from the Future\u003c\/em\u003e is a quintessential portrait of revolution in action. The coming global insurrection has already begun.\" —Ramor Ryan, author of \u003cem\u003eClandestines\u003c\/em\u003e \"What the Zapatista uprising of 1994 was to the antiglobalization movement, the Greek uprising of 2008 could be to the demise of capitalism itself.\" —CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective \"This dazzling collection is not a book about the great insurrection of 2008-it is a living piece of it that can become a part of us, and through us, it opens the prospect of a universe we might never otherwise have imagined possible. Future historians may well conclude that the Revolution finally began in 2008. 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The climax was the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest open and armed rebellion in U.S. history. The Battle, and Union leader Bill Blizzard’s quest for justice, was only quelled when the U.S. Army brought guns, poison gas and aerial bombers to stop the 10,000 bandanna-clad miners who formed the spontaneous “Red Neck Army.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver half a century ago, William C. Blizzard wrote the definitive insider’s history of the Mine Wars and the resulting trial for treason of his father, the fearless leader of the Red Neck Army. Events dramatized in John Sayles film \u003cem\u003eMatewan\u003c\/em\u003e, and fictionalized in Denise Giardina’s stirring novel \u003cem\u003eStorming Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e, are here recounted as they occurred. This is a people's history, complete with previously unpublished family photos and documents. If it brawls a little, and brags a little, and is angry more than a little, well, the people in this book were that way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003eWhen Miners March\u003cem\u003e is an extraordinary account of a largely ignored but important event in the history of our nation.\" \u003c\/em\u003e” —Howard Zinn, author of \u003cem\u003eA People’s History of the United States\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003eWhen Miners March\u003cem\u003e is a national treasure, a recovered gem of American History that should be required reading today. Never has a book been timelier; never has Wm. C. Blizzard's inside account of his legendary father's march to liberate the Appalachian coalfields from the abuses of King Coal been more relevant.\"\u003c\/em\u003e” —Jeff Biggers, author of \u003cem\u003eThe United States of Appalachia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003e\"This engaging book…is a valuable contribution to the preservation of a history that should be honored and never lost. Read it and weep, and cheer.\"\u003c\/em\u003e” —Harry Cleaver, author of \u003cem\u003eReading Capital Politically\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003e\"Essentially an oral history on paper, \u003c\/em\u003eWhen Miners March\u003cem\u003e is the story of the birth of the UMWA in West Virginia. It is also a study of the reality of capitalism and its toll on those who work in its sphere. It's about men who believe in the the possibilities of human solidarity and other men who succumb to greed and power. It is a testimony to the power of the idea that everyone deserves a safe workplace, a decent wage, and the life such a wage buys. Most importantly, this book is an inspiration to those who still believe that those things are worth fighting for.\" \u003c\/em\u003e” —Ron Jacobs, \u003cem\u003eCounterpunch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eCurrent events—notably the struggle for unions to remain relevant and empowered, and coal's role in the climate change crisis—make these writings both relevant and remarkable. The book underscores, among other things, both how far we have come in terms of labor protections and rights, and how far we have fallen in terms of workers’ ability and willingness to take great risks and militant action.\" \u003c\/em\u003e” —Kari Lydersen, \u003cem\u003eIn These Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author and Editor\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam C. Blizzard was a third generation Union agitator and coal miner from WV’s first family of labor. 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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":"maroon-the-implacable","title":"Maroon the Implacable","description":"\u003cp\u003eRussell Maroon Shoatz is a political prisoner who has been held unjustly for over thirty years, including two decades in solitary confinement. He was active as a leader in the Black Liberation Movement in Philadelphia, both above and underground. His successful escapes from maximum-security prisons earned him the title “Maroon.” This is the first published collection of his accumulated written works, and also includes new essays written expressly for this volume. Despite the torture and deprivation that has been everyday life for Maroon over the last several decades, he has remained at the cutting edge of history through his writings. His work is innovative and revolutionary on multiple levels:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eHis self-critical and fresh retelling of the Black liberation struggle in the U.S. includes many practical and theoretical insights;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eHis analysis of the prison system, particularly in relation to capitalism, imperialism, and the drug war, takes us far beyond the recently-popular analysis of the Prison Industrial Complex, contained in books such as \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEyNDkwIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/the-new-jim-crow-mass-incarceration-in-the-age-of-colorblindness\" title=\"The New Jim Crow\"\u003eThe New Jim Crow\u003c\/a\u003e;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eHis historical research and writings on Maroon communities throughout the Americas, drawing many insights from these societies in the fields of political and military revolutionary strategy are unprecedented; and finally\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eHis sharp and profound understanding of the current historical moment, with clear proposals for how to move forward embracing new political concepts and practices (including but not limited to eco-socialism, matriarchy and eco-feminism, food security, prefiguration and the Occupy Wall Street movement) provide cutting-edge challenges for today’s movements for social change.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/58226614\" width=\"500\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/58226614\"\u003eMAROON THE IMPLACABLE\u003c\/a\u003e from \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/vgbnd\"\u003evagabond Beaumont\u003c\/a\u003e on \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\"\u003eVimeo\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This book, \u003cem\u003eMaroon the Implacable\u003c\/em\u003e, is that very funky instruction manual on how to make revolution against Imperialist America.” —Amiri Baraka, former Poet Laureate of New Jersey “If the Great Dismal Swamp is no longer a refuge, nevertheless the message of the Maroons lives on, and Russell Maroon Shoatz is today its untamed voice. Free Maroon the Implacable!” —Hakim Bey, author of \u003cem\u003eTAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone\u003c\/em\u003e “At the core of the book is the theme of marronage—the will to escape from conditions of enslavement at any cost. This is what Russell Maroon Shoatz has done, not physically, but in the world of ideas by escaping from the rigid patriarchal framework he inherited and revaluing and promoting the role of women in the history of liberation. This book is a document of this transformation carried out against tremendous odds and told with searing honesty.” —Silvia Federici, author of \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM0MDE4In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/revolution-at-point-zero-housework-reproduction-and-feminist-struggle-second-edition\" title=\"Revolution at Point Zero\"\u003eRevolution at Point Zero\u003c\/a\u003e: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle\u003c\/em\u003e “Russell Maroon Shoats’s life reads like fiction composed by Victor Hugo. But this Jean Valjean for our time is the living truth, and his writings are a beacon for a new, revolutionary age. What a treasure has here been uncovered!” —Joel Kovel, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World\u003c\/em\u003e “Though he’s been inside for forty of his sixty-nine years on earth, the problems he raises about the justice movement are amazingly up to date. Above all, he thinks organizationally… He is always trying to work out what to do. Where he looks for answers is the only sensible place: not in ideas but in the historical experience of the grassroots.” —Selma James, author of \u003cem\u003eSex, Race, and Class: The Perspective of Winning\u003c\/em\u003e “For twenty-seven years I visited four prisoners, one of whom was Russell Shoatz, who we called Maroon. From him I always got a lesson in politics that fortified me and made me understand just what was happening in our country and what I should be doing about it. He trusted the truth of ‘power to the people,’ and it kept him focused and hopeful. His body was incarcerated but his mind soared. My mentor!” —Frances Goldin, publisher of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Barbara Kingsolver, and Adrienne Rich\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Russell Maroon Shoatz\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRussell Maroon Shoatz is a dedicated community activist, founding member of the Black Unity Council, former member of the Black Panther Party, and soldier in the Black Liberation Army. He is serving multiple life sentences as a U.S.-held prisoner of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Chuck D (Foreword)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChuck D is an American rapper, author, and producer. He helped create politically and socially conscious hip-hop music in the mid-1980s as the leader of the group Public Enemy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Fred Ho (Editor)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFred Ho is a jazz baritone saxophonist, composer, bandleader, playwright, writer, and social activist. He has written and produced many books and albums, including most recently the books Diary of a Radical Cancer Warrior (2011) and Raw Extreme Manifesto (2012), and the albums Snake Eaters and The Year of the Tiger. He is one of the founders of Scientific Soul Sessions. More information about Fred's incredible career can be found at http:\/\/www.bigredmediainc.com\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Quincy Saul (Editor)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eQuincy Saul is a writer, organizer and musician. He is a columnist for Capitalism Nature Socialism and a co-founder, writer and organizer for Ecosocialist Horizons. He is the author of Reflections of Crisis: The Great Depression and the 21st Century (2010), and the co-producer of The Music of Cal Massey. He is a columnist for The Africa Report and his articles have been published by numerous online outlets including Narco News and Area Chicago. He is a member of Scientific Soul Sessions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Matt Meyer (Afterword)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMatt Meyer is author and editor of six books, including four titles on contemporary Africa and PM Press’ Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners. He is a New York City-based educator and activist, and a founder of the anti-imperialist collective Resistance in Brooklyn. Meyer has served as national chair for both the War Resisters League and the Peace and Justice Studies Association, and has been called a natural coalition-builder who “provides tools for today’s activists” by Argentine Nobel Peace laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge (Afterword)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNozizwe Madlala-Routledge is a South African activist and politician, the former Chairperson of the ANC Parliamentary Caucus, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Deputy Minister of Health and Deputy Minister of Defence. Prior to her election to Parliament, Nozizwe served in the liberation struggle under the United Democratic Front and the ANC underground, and was a founding member of the Natal Organization of Women. She is currently executive director of Embrace Dignity, an organization that “embraces the dignity of all people and steadfastly opposes the sexual and commercial exploitation of those rendered powerless and vulnerable by absence of choice, be it as a result of poverty or any form of inequality or abuse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Russell Maroon Shoatz\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-60486-059-7\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 312 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175107178589,"sku":"9781604860597","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1160_maroontheimplacable3_0.jpg?v=1654987455"},{"product_id":"freeing-silvia-baraldini","title":"Freeing Silvia Baraldini","description":"\u003cp\u003eSilvia Baraldini moved to the U.S. in the 1960’s at the height of the Civil Rights Movement and came of age in a country burning in its own promise.Moved by African American’s fight for human rights and incensed by the show of pretense in American democracy, Silvia began a life of political activism. In the 1970’s when hundreds of politically minded people folded back into the comforts of American society, Silvia deepened her conviction to revolutionary struggle.She became the national leader of the May 19th Communist Organization, a radical group of white, North Americans.May 19th was a key element in a fragile but growing alliance of revolutionaries, African American, Puerto Rican and white who worked relentlessly to organize people to view the U.S. Imperialist system as the leading source of world oppression.Most threatening to the government was their support for the Republic of New Afrika, a group fighting to win land in the south on which to build a socialist nation under Black rule. Members of the alliance were targets of the U.S. government’s counter insurgency program, COINTELPRO. Using an array of tactics, the government put an end to the alliance; many activists were arrested and imprisoned; Silvia was one of them. In 1983, under the RICO law, Silvia was given a 40-year prison sentence for helping to free former Black Panther, Assata Shakur from prison.She was additionally charged with criminal contempt of court for refusing to answer questions to a Grand Jury investigating the Puerto Rican Independence Movement and given another three years. After seventeen years in U.S. prisons, in 1999, following a ten-year campaign culminating in one million Italian signatures, Silvia won the right to serve out the remainder of her sentence in her homeland, Italy and was transferred to Rebbibia prison in Rome \u003cem\u003eFreeing Silvia Baraldini\u003c\/em\u003e presents Silvia’s side of the story, the side that was not supposed to be told. PLEASE NOTE that this DVD is priced for personal use. Educational institutions which wish to purchase a copy should do so via the film's producers, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thinedgefilms.com\/projects_silvia.html\"\u003eThin Edge Films\u003c\/a\u003e. 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His works combine cutting-edge scientific speculation, socialist and anarchist themes, and a deeply humanistic vision. Described by fans and adversaries alike as a “techno-utopian socialist,” MacLeod thrusts his characters into uncanny encounters that have included AI singularities, divergent human evolution, and posthuman cyborg-resurrection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his novella\u003cem\u003e The Human Front\u003c\/em\u003e, a young Scottish guerrilla fighter is drawn into low-intensity sectarian war in a high-intensity dystopian future, and the arrival of an alien intruder (complete with saucer!) calls for new tactics and strange alliances. Its companion piece, “Other Deviations,” first published in this edition, reveals the complex origins of MacLeod’s alternate history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlus: “The Future Will Happen Here, Too,” in which a Hebridean writer celebrates the landscapes that shaped his work, measures Scotland’s past against humanity’s future, and peers into the eyes of an eel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd Featuring: our irreverent Outspoken Interview, a candid and often cantankerous conversation that showcases our author’s deep erudition and mordant wit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The Human Front has pretty much everything you could ask from a great story: character, insight, plot, that quality of description that transports a feeling, sensation, incident or landscape seemingly direct from world to mind, and revelation. It has substance. It should make your mind reel, and work.” —Iain M. Banks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The Human Front is a complete knock out—very funny, ingenious, and so densely political it might give you a headache. This novella has more ideas and better characters than most novels. It’s elegant, eloquent and laugh-out-loud funny. And that last quality by itself makes it worth the very weird trip.” —Rick Kleffel, The Agony Column\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The Human Front is a feather-weight book, which packs a heavyweight punch. In terms of size, it’s a novella, but it includes more entertainment than many books that are four times its length.” —Nathan Brazil, SF Site\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Science fiction’s freshest new writer…MacLeod is a fiercely intelligent, prodigiously well-read author who manages to fill his books with big issues without weighing them down.” —Salon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Ken MacLeod's novels are fast, funny and sophisticated. There can never be enough books like these: he is writing revolutionary SF. A nova has appeared in our sky.” —Kim Stanley Robinson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKen MacLeod is one of the brightest and most progressive of Britain’s new “Hard SF” stars who are navigating exciting new futures, to the delight of a growing legion of fans around the world. His award-winning works combine cutting-edge scientific speculation, socialist and anarchist themes, and a deep humanistic vision. Described by fans and detractors alike as a “techno-utopian socialist,” MacLeod delights in engaging recognizable characters in far-flung adventures across the boundaries of space and time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Scotland’s legendary Outer Isles, MacLeod graduated from Glasgow University with a degree in zoology and has worked as a computer programmer and written a masters thesis on biomechanics. A regular in British SF and progressive circles, he is married and has two children. He lives in South Queensferry, Scotland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Ken MacLeod\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-60486-395-6\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 128 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175112749149,"sku":"9781604863956","price":16.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1159_humanfront3_0.jpg?v=1654987502"},{"product_id":"categories-of-revolutionary-military-policy","title":"Categories of Revolutionary Military Policy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe introduction, by Kersplebedeb:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe following essay, by the Belgian revolutionary communist T. Derbent, is an unusual and valuable contribution to understanding, renewing, and rebuilding the revolutionary option.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe term “revolutionary” is used here to refer to something precise, namely action and reflection intended to bring about a revolution, a hegemonic change in the way society is organized, “bottom lining” the goals of liberation and building a new way of life for all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMilitary policy is a prerequisite for revolutionaries—in the sense that, without it, there can be no successful revolution. Those who neglect it, who think away from it as we so often do, may have nice ideas, but they are neglecting a question that will be necessary to address if they are ever to put those nice ideas into practice in a durable manner. Indeed, would-be revolutionaries who have no military policy are not revolutionaries at all, but only more people with political opinions. While Derbent does not belabor this point, it underlies everything addressed here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis essay is based on a talk given in Brussels at an event organized by the Bloc Marxiste-Léniniste in April 2006, and subsequently published in two parts in the Bloc ML’s magazine Clarté (#5 May 2006 and #6 December 2006). It was subsequently translated into German, Greek, and Italian, being debated and discussed by comrades throughout Europe, mainly within the Marxist-Leninist tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe present translation constitutes the first time this text is being made available to an English-reading audience—and specifically, to a North American one. The history of armed struggle in the united states and canada is necessarily different from that elsewhere; obviously, this is not Italy, or Algeria, or Nepal. The armed experience here has always been defined by the realities and contradictions of settler-colonialism, the tension between the ongoing  anticolonial resistance and the fact that any movement here must find its way on terrain claimed by the colonizer’s society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFurthermore, as in any overview of such a dense area of knowledge and activity, this is not an exhaustive study. More to the point, it is a study with a specific goal: to introduce us to the concepts of military doctrine, and to explain how these have been used and misused by revolutionary forces. Although the author mentions objective factors, there is no discussion of historical materialism or broader historical patterns or dynamics; for example, the relationship between global changes in the means of production and distribution, and the inevitable calling up of completely new forms of struggle from military doctrine to individual tactics. Likewise, the author presupposes revolutionary organization, but doesn’t have the space to go into what revolutionary class organization means in military practice (and vice-versa, dialectically).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet it would be a cop-out to hold this specificity against the text, or to dismiss Derbent’s educational endeavor as a “European view” of little practical interest to those of us on Turtle Island. That is because this is not a “how-to-do-it,” but rather a “how-to-study-it,” paper. Surveying military experiences in various times and places—with particular attention paid to that period of the twentieth century marked by the presence of “real existing socialism” and ubiquitous anticolonial revolutions—in order to distill those elements, questions, and dilemmas that reoccur time and again; i.e., those that are universal. Laying out the background and consequences of already developed revolutionary policy considerations, in order to help us apply the lessons learned to our own context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs such, this paper does not provide answers, it simply clarifies what some of the questions will be for those who choose to develop a revolutionary practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDerbent proceeds from the larger to the smaller, from the more general to the more specific. In this order, he defines and discusses revolutionary military policy (an overall military orientation \u0026amp; activity), military doctrine (a war plan), military development (organization of practical activity), the science of war (recognizing universal laws that always apply), the art of war (experience \u0026amp; mastery of the practice of warfare), strategy (a specific plan to achieve military goals in the existing overall situation), operational art (which connects strategy and tactics), and tactics (the means by which operations are carried out). The author examines how these different concepts are related to one another, how they have been articulated in different circumstances, and to what effect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is far from a rah-rah, inspirational pep talk relying on heroic examples of rebel armed struggle. Instead, it is of necessity fairly abstract and formal—otherwise it would be 440 instead of just 40 pages long. In particular, its terminology conforms to professional military usage. A graduate of the u.s. army’s command \u0026amp; staff college at Fort Leavenworth would be at ease reading this paper, whose terminology and frame of mind would be familiar to them. While, on the other hand, a revolutionary who has never read Clausewitz along with Lenin and Mao’s military writings (“Lessons of the 1905 Uprising,” “Strategic Problems in the Anti-Japanese Guerrilla War,” etc. ) might find it difficult going.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll the more reason why it should be read, studied, discussed, and built upon by comrades here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe complete text of this pamphlet is also \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/urbanguerilla.org\/categories-of-revolutionary-military-policy-t-derbent-april-2006\/\"\u003eavailable online on the urbanguerilla.org website\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: T. 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Finally, the RAF’s relationship to the East German Stasi is examined, as is the abortive attempt by West Germany’s liberal intelligentsia to defuse the armed struggle during Gerhard Baum’s tenure as Minister of the Interior.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDancing with Imperialism\u003c\/em\u003e will be required reading for students of the First World guerilla, those with interest in the history of European protest movements, and all who wish to understand the challenges of revolutionary struggle. For more on this book check out the \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.germanguerilla.com\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGerman Guerilla\u003c\/a\u003e website.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Andre Moncourt\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: J. 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So this has to be broken down, this has to be explained.” Which is what he does in this unusual talk.\n\u003cdiv\u003eMandy Hiscocks comes at the topic from her personal experiences organizing against the 2010 G20 Summit in Toronto. In this in-depth interview, reprinted from the radical Canadian political journal Upping The Anti, Hiscocks describes how her political scene and groups she worked with were infiltrated by undercover agents over a year before the summit even occurred. These police infiltrators provided information used in the prosecution of anti-Globalization organizers and participants. Hiscocks provides an honest and sobering appraisal of the practical challenge of State infiltration, and of how subsequent decisions played out in regards to the anti-G20 organizing and the repression that resulted. 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It is also where, in May 1989, the police discovered an apartment that had served Denmark’s most notorious twentieth-century bank robbers as a hideaway for years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the most captivating chapters from the European anti-imperialist milieu of the 1970s and ’80s; the Blekingegade Group had emerged from a communist organization whose analysis of the metropolitan labor aristocracy led them to develop an illegal Third Worldist practice. While members lived modest lives, over a period of almost two decades they sent millions of dollars acquired in spectacular heists to Third World liberation movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTurning Money into Rebellion: The Unlikely Story of Denmark’s Revolutionary Bank Robbers\u003c\/em\u003e is the first-ever account of the story in English, covering a fascinating journey from anti-war demonstrations in the late 1960s via travels to Middle Eastern capitals and African refugee camps to the group’s fateful last robbery that earned them a record haul and left a police officer dead. The book includes historical documents, illustrations, and an exclusive interview with \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM0NTM5In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/torkil-lauesen\" title=\"Torkil Lauesen\"\u003eTorkil Lauesen\u003c\/a\u003e and Jan Weimann, two of the group’s longest-standing members. It is a compelling tale of turning radical theory into action and concerns analysis and strategy as much as morality and political practice. Perhaps most importantly, it revolves around the cardinal question of revolutionary politics: What to do, and how to do it? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This book is a fascinating and bracing account of how a group of communists in Denmark sought to aid the peoples of the Third World in their struggles against imperialism and the dire poverty that comes with it. The book contains many valuable lessons as to the practicalities of effective international solidarity, but just as importantly, it is a testament to the intellectual courage of the Blekingegade Group.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—Zak Cope, author of \u003cem\u003eDivided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“The story of how some pro-Palestinian activists become Denmark’s most successful bank robbers is more exciting than any thriller.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—Åsa Linderborg, \u003cem\u003eAftonbladet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“I am convinced that they never even took a nickel for themselves.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—Jørn Moos, chief investigator in the Blekingegade Case\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Editor\/Translator\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 is an Austrian-born author and translator. Among his publications with PM Press are \u003cem\u003e\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 \u003c\/em\u003e(2010) and \u003cem\u003eAll Power to the Councils! A Documentary History of the German Revolution of 1918-1919\u003c\/em\u003e (2012).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Gabriel Kuhn\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-60486-316-1\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 224 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175156887645,"sku":"9781604863161","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/b_turning_money.jpg?v=1654987713"},{"product_id":"patty-hearst-the-twinkie-murders-a-tale-of-two-trials","title":"Patty Hearst \u0026 The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePatty Hearst \u0026amp; The Twinkie Murders\u003c\/em\u003e is a darkly satiric take on two of the most famous cases of our era: the kidnapping of heiress Patty Hearst, and the shocking assassination of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and gay leader Harvey Milk. As a reporter for the \u003cem\u003eBerkeley Barb\u003c\/em\u003e, Paul Krassner was ringside at the spectacular California trials. Krassner’s deadpan, hilarious style captures the nightmare reality behind the absurdities of the courtroom circus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUsing his infamous satiric pen and investigative chops, Krassner gets to the truth behind the events: the role of the police and FBI, the real deal with Patty and the SLA, and what really happened in Patty’s infamous closet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlus:\u003c\/em\u003e A merciless exposé of the “Taliban” wing of the gay movement and their scandalous attacks on alt-rock star Michelle Shocked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlso\u003c\/em\u003e featured is our Outspoken Interview, an irreverent and fascinating romp through the secret history of America’s radical underground. Names will be named.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Krassner is an expert at ferreting out hypocrisy and absurdism from the more solemn crannies of American culture.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Krassner has the uncanny ability to alter your perceptions permanently.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Krassner not only attacks establishment values; he attacks decency in general.” \u003cbr\u003e—Harry Reasoner, ABC News\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The FBI was right—this man is dangerous—and funny, and necessary.”\u003cbr\u003e—George Carlin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“As soon as we decided to create the \u003cem\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/em\u003e, I knew I wanted Paul Krassner involved.”\u003cbr\u003e—Arianna Huffington\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreator of the \u003cem\u003eRealist\u003c\/em\u003e, the legendary underground magazine that many credit as the beginning of the radical “new journalism” of the 1960s, \u003cstrong\u003ePaul Krassner\u003c\/strong\u003e is an immortal, immoral, revered, and reviled icon of American humor. Wielding satire as a weapon, he began the assault on middle America known today as the “counterculture” and is still a hero to radicals and a menace to the establishment. He now lives near Palm Springs disguised as an old man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Paul Krassner\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-629630-38-0\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 128 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175183757405,"sku":"9781629630380","price":16.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/pattyhearst_krassner.jpg?v=1654987797"},{"product_id":"guerrilla-warfare","title":"Guerrilla Warfare: Authoritative, Revised, New Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eChe Guevara’s classic text on revolutionary tactics and strategy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince \u003ci\u003eGuerrilla Warfare \u003c\/i\u003ewas first published in 1961, it has joined the canon of classic military literature, consulted by revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries alike. In this book, Che Guevara outlines the lessons he learned as a guerrilla soldier in the Cuban revolution and explains how a small group of dedicated fighters grew in strength with the support of the Cuban people, overcoming the odds to vanquish the US-backed dictator’s army and overthrow the dictatorship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuerrilla Warfare\u003c\/i\u003e is both an insightful account of one of the decisive revolutionary movements of the twentieth century and a timeless resource for freedom fighters the world over. This edition includes Che’s corrections and his suggestions for further revisions to the\u003cspan class=\"atm_keep-reading-flag\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e\u003ci class=\"fa fa-arrow-down\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e text—revisions his murder in 1967 prevented him from making.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175189164125,"sku":"9781644211465","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/GuerrillaWarfareAuthoritative_Revised_NewEdition.jpg?v=1760282525"},{"product_id":"tania-undercover-with-che-guevara-in-bolivia","title":"Tania: Undercover with Che Guevara in Bolivia","description":"For the first time, the story of “Tania the guerrilla” is told with tenderness and veracity by a key participant in the revolutionary movement in Latin America.\n\nTania was born Haydée Tamara Bunke to German Jewish refugees in Argentina in 1937. Her family moved to East Germany after the war, but she was soon drawn to the Cuban Revolution.\n\nShe became one of Cuba’s most successful spies in Latin America, penetrating Bolivia’s high society and even making contact with the country’s president and other members of the ruling circle. When her cover was blown she joined Che’s guerrilla group but was killed in an ambush in August 1967. She was only 30 years old.\n\nAt the time of her death, the CIA suggested Tania had been romantically involved with Che, largely in order to discredit him. 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The compromise they forced on the planter capitalists, even within the larger setback for liberation during the fall of Black Reconstruction, was the semi-feudal sharecropping system. Where families tilled fields and raised their children without white overseers although under the onerous class conditions of a defeated communal nation...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"New Afrikan women’s strategy back then grew spontaneously out of their daily lives, their experiences and needs. Not out of some textbook or some political protest routine. Stubbornly living communal culture and fighting capitalism is often ignored or dismissed as “impractical.” Yet and again, it was that partial strategy by women back then that proved most useful in real life. Still, it did not make that very difficult hurdle from the level of spontaneous breakout to the level of conscious strategy. In which analysis, tentative strategic understanding, new tactics \u0026amp; practice, criticism of results, and then the emergence of new strategy, all flow in a continuous dialectical circle of struggle. And those partial women’s struggles \u0026amp; victories, great as they were, underline the reality that if you don’t have a strategy to end a war then someone else will usually end it for you. But you won’t like it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"All these earlier battles throughout the New Afrikan nation still throw light for us on the latest battlefield. And on battles certain to come.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eButch Lee (1940–2021) was an Amazon theorist. 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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":"lumpen-the-autobiography-of-ed-mead","title":"Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead","description":"\u003cp\u003eMore than a memoir,\u003cem\u003e Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead\u003c\/em\u003e takes the reader on a tour of America’s underbelly. From Iowa to Compton to Venice Beach to Fairbanks, Alaska, Mead introduces you to poor America just trying to get by—and barely making it. When a thirteen-year-old Mead ends up in the Utah State Industrial School, a prison for boys, it is the first step in a story of oppression and revolt that will ultimately lead to the foundation of the George Jackson Brigade, a Seattle-based urban guerrilla group, and to Mead’s re-incarceration as a fully engaged revolutionary, well-placed and prepared to take on both his captors and the predators amongst his fellow prisoners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough his work organizing against conditions in solitary confinement, and then with queer prisoners in the legendary Men Against Sexism, followed by his exile from Washington to the dungeons at Marion, Brushy Mountain, and Florence, Ed Mead’s practice stands as a rebuke to the inhumanity and indifference which surround the world’s largest prison system.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the late Black Liberation Army soldier Safiya Bukhari observed, “we must at least write our history and point out the truth of what we did—the good, the bad, and the ugly.” Ed Mead has done that here, recounting his life’s story with unflinching honesty, providing a model of personal integrity and revolutionary creativity and determination for us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNote that if you purchase this book you will also receive the digital (ebook) files. If you only want the digital files, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/copy-of-lumpen-the-autobiography-of-ed-mead-ebook-mobi-and-epub\"\u003ethey are available separately here\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEd died on November 6, 2023. The following is from a statement produced by loved ones:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn November 6, 2023, lifelong abolitionist, writer, fighter, and former political prisoner Ed Mead joined the ancestors. Ed died at home, on his 82nd birthday, after almost a decade of battling late stage lung cancer. Born in 1941, in Santa Monica, California, to Ramona (Ona) Irene Mead and Edward Leo Mead, Ed was the second oldest of six siblings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEd Mead did not live a conventional life. As his lifelong friend and comrade, Mark Cook, is fond of saying, Ed spent his life “kicking ass for the working class.” After spending much of his youth in reform “schools” and detention centers along the Pacific coast, Ed became politicized in prison in the 1960s. He was a founding member of the George Jackson Brigade, a revolutionary guerilla underground organization based in the Pacific Northwest in the mid-to-late 1970s. Ed spent 35 years of his life in prisons, 18 of which were for his political actions as a member of the George Jackson Brigade.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA brief bio for an essay Ed wrote in the 2024 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar reads, “I was once a young man doing life on the installment plan, well on my way to becoming just another crime statistic. Then something changed, I became rights conscious. I no longer identified as a criminal, instead I came to identify as a prisoner rights activist. With the passage of time and a lot of effort, I morphed again; I became class conscious—I became a communist. These changes were not sudden, they involved years of struggle and difficult study. The one thread throughout the years of change was political struggle on the inside and studying the writings of early revolutionaries. This is the path for those of you who will no longer accept the things you cannot change and are instead changing the things you cannot accept.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhile in prison for his part in armed struggle, Ed helped to form Men Against Sexism (MAS) at Walla Walla State Penitentiary in Washington. With other comrades, Ed helped to put an end to prisoner-on-prisoner sexual assault and other forms of abuse at Walla Walla. He also helped to form the Committee to Safeguard Prisoners’ Rights at Arizona State Prison. He was a seasoned jailhouse lawyer and a committed organizer within the prison walls. While imprisoned, Ed was a prodigious journalist. He co-founded and wrote for the\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRed Dragon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ein the 1970s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, The Abolitionist\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ein the 1980s (different from the contemporary newspaper of that name)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePrison Legal News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, which still exists and is the longest running newspaper produced by and for current and former prisoners in the United States.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOnce released from prison in 1993, Ed worked tirelessly with revolutionary organizations and prisoner support groups, including but not limited to the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, the Attica Brothers Legal Defense Committee, the Seattle chapter of the National Jericho Movement, All of Us or None, and the National Lawyers Guild. Ed created the Free Mark Cook Organizing Committee and worked relentlessly to free his comrade Mark Cook, who was finally released in 2000. He also founded Prison Art, a nonprofit website that provided a platform for prisoners to sell their crafts and artwork. And he continued to write about prison conditions and prisoner resistance. He wrote for\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCalifornia Prison Focus,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003efounded\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Rock\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eto support California prisoners on hunger strike, co-created the prison newsletter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Kite\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePrison Covid\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003enewsletter to track the pandemic in prison in 2020–2021. Ed believed changing prisons will come from the prisoners themselves. This belief motivated his work on publications featuring prisoner journalism and communications.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 2016, Mead donated his papers to the University of Washington Libraries to be accessed by researchers, students, activists, and others. The collection, which forms the basis of something now called the Washington Prison History Project, includes several prisoner-run newsletters and lawsuits that Mead participated in. It also included the programming code for the Warden Game, a computer game Ed designed in prison in the mid-1980s after the Washington Department of Corrections introduced computers on a limited capacity in prisons. (A playable version of the game, based on Ed’s original code, is on the WPHP site.) Ed was later able to use the computer skills he taught himself inside to gain employment as a technical engineer for several different agencies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEd published the zine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Theory and Practice of Armed Struggle in the Northwest: A Historical Analysis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(Kersplebedeb, 2007), and the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(Kersplebedeb, 2015). Some of his organizing in Washington prisons is also captured in the books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eConcrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(originally published by University of Missouri Press, 1981),\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGuerrilla USA: The George Jackson Brigade and the Anticapitalist Underground of the 1970s\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(University of California Press, 2010), and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCreating a Movement with Teeth: A Documentary History of the George Jackson Brigade\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(PM Press, 2010), as well as in dozens of talks and interviews he conducted over the years. He can be seen in the film\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Gentleman Bank Robber: The Story of Butch Lesbian Freedom Fighter rita bo brown\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(2017). Along with Mark Cook, Ed also has an interview in the forthcoming book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(AK Press, due out in December 2023).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the Postscript to\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/lumpen-the-autobiography-of-ed-mead\" data-preorder-handle=\"lumpen-the-autobiography-of-ed-mead\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLumpen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, Ed wrote, “Let me tell you what my mama told me. She said the Earth should be a better place to live as a result of you having passed through. It took me a long while to internalize that message, although I do think the world is a slightly better place as a result of my having been here.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe agree with Ed—the world is a better place because of his lifetime of struggle and sacrifice. Ed Mead Presente!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" href=\"mailto:rattlingthecagesbook@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eEd Mead's support team\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eQuestions and comments may be sent to\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" href=\"mailto:info@freedomarchives.org\" target=\"_blank\"\u003einfo@freedomarchives.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Lumpen is a must-read for any radical that is serious about understanding how prisoners can struggle on the inside. Ed Mead mixes his personal story and political development in a compelling narrative. His time imprisoned makes mine look like a total picnic but its his rigorous interrogation of his own politics and practice that most impressed me. I could not put this book down!\" Daniel McGowan, former political prisoner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Lumpen is a page-turning retelling of Ed Mead's life, from his early days growing up on the frontier of Alaska, to the frontiers of prisoner organizing from inside and later outside prison. The everydayness of his descriptions of how the George Jackson Brigade came to be, to the simple necessity to form Men Against Sexism while behind bars, reminds us that everyday justice can lead us to extraordinary places. In a mostly ahistorical queer left, this book is a must read!\" Ryan Conrad, editor of \u003cem\u003eAgainst Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"There are many who talk the talk. Ed Mead is one who actually walked the walk. In fact, he's never stopped walking it, an example of commitment and integrity from which there's much to be learned. His autobiography should be read by everyone serious about the struggle for liberation.\" Ward Churchill\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175221276765,"sku":"9781894946780","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/lumpen_edmead.jpg?v=1654987923"},{"product_id":"clandestine-occupations-an-imaginary-history","title":"Clandestine Occupations: An Imaginary History","description":"\u003cp\u003eA radical activist, Luba Gold, makes the difficult decision to go underground to support the Puerto Rican independence movement. When Luba’s collective is targeted by an FBI sting, she escapes with her baby but leaves behind a sensitive envelope that is being safeguarded by a friend. When the FBI come looking for Luba, the friend must decide whether to cooperate in the search for the woman she loves. Ten years later, when Luba emerges from clandestinity, she discovers that the FBI sting was orchestrated by another activist friend who had become an FBI informant. In the changed era of the 1990s, Luba must decide whether to forgive the woman who betrayed her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTold from the points of view of five different women who cross paths with Luba over four decades, Clandestine Occupations explores the difficult decisions that activists confront about the boundaries of legality and speculates about the scope of clandestine action in the future. It is a thought-provoking reflection on the risks and sacrifices of political activism as well as the damaging reverberations of disaffection and cynicism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Clandestine Occupations is a triumph of passion and force. A number of memoirs and other nonfiction works by revolutionaries from the 1970s and ‘80s, including one by Block herself, have given us partial pictures of what a committed life, sometimes lived underground, was like. But there are times when only fiction can really take us there. A marvelous novel that moves beyond all preconceived categories.”\u003cbr\u003e\n—Margaret Randall, author of Che on My Mind\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Diana Block creates a vivid and engaging tapestry of how political passion interweaves with the intricacies of personal relationships. Clandestine Occupations takes us into the thoughts and feelings of six different women as each, in her own way, grapples with choices about how to live and act in a world rife with oppression but also brightened by rays of humanity and hope.”\u003cbr\u003e\n—David Gilbert, political prisoner, author of Love and Struggle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Through this fascinating novel, Diana Block brings to life stories about radical history that will educate and engage today’s activists. Her portrayal of a woman in solitary confinement rings true to experience, offering a raw view of the struggle for resilience under daunting circumstances. Through flights of imagination, the novel gives us hope for political transformations in the future.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—Sarah Shourd, author of A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Diana Block once again challenges our understanding of the ethical essence of revolution. Beyond political theory and practice, the moral dilemmas and turmoils are constant and consistent. Where does your loyalty lie, how does your dedication confront obstacles? These are the questions found in these pages as Diana searches for a just balance in human relationships and politics. Clandestine Occupations captures and occupies the heart and spirit, teaching us what it means to be genuine and sincere in revolutionary life and love.”\u003cbr\u003e\n—Jalil Muntaqim, political prisoner, author We Are Our Own Liberators: Selected Prison Writings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDiana Block was a founding member of San Francisco Women Against Rape and the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee. She spent thirteen years living underground with a political collective committed to supporting the Puerto Rican independence and Black liberation movements. Since returning voluntarily from clandestinity in 1994, Diana has committed herself to anti-prison work, becoming a founding member of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners and the Jericho Movement. Previous writings include her memoir Arm the Spirit and she is a member of the editorial collective of The Fire Inside newsletter, which has been giving voice to women and transgender prisoners since 1996. She lives in San Francisco with her life partner, former political prisoner Claude Marks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Diana Block\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-62963-121-9\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 256 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175237136477,"sku":"9781629631219","price":23.73,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/clandestineoccupations.jpg?v=1654987992"},{"product_id":"pacifism-as-pathology-reflections-on-the-role-of-armed-struggle-in-north-america","title":"Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America","description":"\u003cp\u003ePacifism as Pathology has long since emerged as a dissident classic. Originally written during the mid-1980s, the seminal essay “Pacifism as Pathology” was prompted by veteran activist Ward Churchill’s frustration with what he diagnosed as a growing—and deliberately self-neutralizing—”hegemony of nonviolence” on the North American left. The essay’s publication unleashed a raging debate among activists in both the U.S. and Canada, a significant result of which was Michael Ryan’s penning of a follow-up essay reinforcing Churchill’s premise that nonviolence, at least as the term is popularly employed by white “progressives,” is inherently counterrevolutionary, adding up to little more than a manifestation of its proponents’ desire to maintain their relatively high degrees of socioeconomic privilege and thereby serving to stabilize rather than transform the prevailing relations of power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis short book challenges the pacifist movement’s heralded victories—Gandhi in India, 1960s antiwar activists, even Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights movement—suggesting that their success was in spite of, rather than because of, their nonviolent tactics. Churchill also examines the Jewish Holocaust, pointing out that the overwhelming response of Jews was nonviolent, but that when they did use violence they succeeded in inflicting significant damage to the nazi war machine and saving countless lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs relevant today as when they first appeared, Churchill’s and Ryan’s trailblazing efforts were first published together in book form in 1998. Now, along with the preface to that volume by former participant in armed struggle\/political prisoner Ed Mead, postscripts by both Churchill and Ryan, and a powerful new foreword by leading oppositionist intellectual Dylan Rodríguez, these vitally important essays are being released in a fresh edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This extraordinarily important book cuts to the heart of the central reasons movements to bring about social and environmental justice always fail. The fundamental question here is: is violence ever an acceptable tool to bring about social change? This is probably the most important question of our time, yet so often discussions around it fall into clichés and magical thinking: that somehow if we are merely good and nice enough people, the state will stop using its violence to exploit us all. Would that this were true.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—Derrick Jensen, author of \u003cem\u003eEndgame\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Although Churchill couches his psychological analysis in much more polite terms than I would, he believes that some white upper-middle-class activists are deeply conflicted about whether they really want to dismantle capitalism and give up their position of privilege.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eGreanville Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003eThe book’s main thrust is to analyze and tear apart the ideology of pacifism, explaining how it is, in many ways, a counter-revolutionary ideology.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eIrish Republican News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWard Churchill was, until moving to Atlanta in 2012, a member of the leadership council of Colorado AIM. He is a life member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War and currently a member of the elders council of the original Rainbow Coalition, founded by Chicago Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in 1969. Now retired, Churchill was professor of American Indian Studies and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies until 2005, when he became the focus of a major academic freedom case. Among his two dozen books are Agents of Repression and The COINTELPRO Papers (1990, 2002), both coauthored with Jim Vander Wall, as well as A Little Matter of Genocide (1997), and Acts of Rebellion (2003).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMichael Ryan is a Montréal-based translator and copy editor. From the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, Ryan was active in Montréal’s Marxist and antiauthoritarian left. (He insists that the two are not mutually exclusive.) Ryan continues to believe that if we want true social change we’re going to have to kick it over.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEd Mead is a former political prisoner who was arrested for his participation in actions carried out by the George Jackson Brigade in the Northwest during the 1970s. He spent eighteen years in prison and, while at Washington’s Walla Walla State Correctional Facility, helped found Men Against Sexism, thereby halting prisoner-on-prisoner rape while he was confined there. Also a cofounder of Prison Legal News, his memoir Lumpen was published in 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDylan Rodríguez is professor and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside. He is the author of two books: Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime (2006) and Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition (2009). His current thinking, writing, and teaching focus on how regimes of social liquidation, cultural extermination, physiological evisceration, and racist terror become normalized features of everyday life in the “post–civil rights” and “postracial” moments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eProduct Details:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Ward Churchill and Michael Ryan • Preface: Ed Mead • Foreword: Dylan Rodríguez \u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: PM Press\u003cbr\u003e\nISBN: 978-1-62963-224-7\u003cbr\u003e\nPublished: 03\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\nFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nSize: 8x5\u003cbr\u003e\nPage count: 192\u003cbr\u003e\nSubjects: Politics-Acitvism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Ward Churchill\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Michael Ryan\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781629632247\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 192 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175244279901,"sku":"9781629632247","price":22.33,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/a_pacifism_as_pathology.jpg?v=1654988031"},{"product_id":"setting-sights-histories-and-reflections-on-community-armed-self-defense","title":"Setting Sights: Histories and Reflections on Community Armed Self-Defense","description":"\u003cp\u003eDecades ago, Malcolm X eloquently stated that communities have the legitimate right to defend themselves “by any means necessary” with any tool or tactic, including guns. This wide-ranging anthology uncovers the hidden histories and ideas of community armed self-defense, exploring how it has been used by marginalized and oppressed communities as well as anarchists and radicals within significant social movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFar from a call to arms, or a “how-to” manual for warfare, this volume offers histories, reflections, and questions about the role of firearms in small collective defense efforts and its place in larger efforts toward the creation of autonomy and liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing diverse perspectives from movements across the globe, Setting Sights includes vivid histories and personal reflections from both researchers and those who participated in community armed self-defense. Contributors include Dennis Banks, Kathleen Cleaver, Mable Williams, Subcomandante Marcos, Kristian Williams, George Ciccariello-Maher, Ashanti Alston, and many more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This book is a must read. It looks like self-defense and resistance today, but it is more. It is about courage, lucidity, and tools to create new worlds under the storm, in the midst of disaster.”\u003cbr\u003e\n—Gustavo Esteva, founder of the Universidad de la Tierra and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Future of Development: A Radical Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“In Setting Sights, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjI2OTY5In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/scott-crow\" title=\"scott crow\"\u003escott crow\u003c\/a\u003e pulls together an important collection of historic and contemporary essays and interviews on politically informed armed self-defense. Thoughtful, considered, compelling, and even provocative, this edited collection brings together many perspectives, raises important questions, and gives considerable attention to the ways race and gender inform these crucial issues.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—Emilye Crosby, author of \u003cem\u003eA Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This provocative book, well worth reading, confirms that there is intellectual heft in revolutionary ideas. A valuable contribution to the history of community self-defense.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—Charlie E. Cobb Jr., author of \u003cem\u003eThis Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“An extensive volume that vividly illustrates the foundations and necessity of community armed defense in struggles for freedom against injustice and racism.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—Robert Hillary King, author of \u003cem\u003eFrom the Bottom of the Heap\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“. . . crow is considered armed and dangerous. He is proactive in civil disobedience skills and goes to events to instigate trouble.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003escott crow is an international speaker and author. His first book, \u003cem\u003eBlack Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective\u003c\/em\u003e, was included on NPR's Top Summer Reads of 2015. \u003cem\u003eBlack Flags and Windmills \u003c\/em\u003ehas been translated into Spanish, Russian, and Chinese. He is a contributor to the books \u003cem\u003eGrabbing Back: Essays Against the Global Land Grab\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWitness to Betrayal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Black Bloc Papers\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eWhat Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the Nation\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWard Churchill was, until moving to Atlanta in 2012, a member of the leadership council of Colorado AIM. He is a life member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War and currently a member of the elders council of the original Rainbow Coalition, founded by Chicago Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in 1969. Now retired, Churchill was professor of American Indian Studies and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies until 2005, when he became the focus of a major academic freedom case. 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Yet during his lifetime, Blanqui was a towering figure of revolutionary courage and commitment as he organized nearly a half-dozen failed revolutionary conspiracies and spent half of his life in jail. This is Blanqui's story.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175279931485,"sku":"9781608464722","price":26.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/communistinsurgent.jpg?v=1654988200"},{"product_id":"a-soldiers-story-revolutionary-writings-by-a-new-afrikan-anarchist","title":"A Soldier's Story: Revolutionary Writings by a New Afrikan Anarchist","description":"\u003cp\u003eKuwasi Balagoon was a participant in the Black Liberation struggle from the 1960s until his death in prison in 1986. A member of the Black Panther Party and defendant in the infamous Panther 21 case, Balagoon went underground with the Black Liberation Army (BLA). Captured and convicted of various crimes against the State, he spent much of the 1970s in prison, escaping twice. After each escape, he went underground and resumed BLA activity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBalagoon was unusual for his time in several ways. He combined anarchism with Black nationalism, he broke the rules of sexual and political conformity that surrounded him, he took up arms against the white supremacist State—all the while never shying away from developing his own criticisms of the weaknesses within the movements. His eloquent trial statements and political writings, as much as his poetry and excerpts from his prison letters, are all testimony to a sharp and iconoclastic revolutionary who was willing to make hard choices and fully accept the consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBalagoon was captured for the last time in December 1981, charged with participating in an armored truck expropriation in West Nyack, New York, an action in which two police officers and a money courier were killed. Convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, he died of an AIDS-related illness on December 13, 1986.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first part of this book consists of a historical essay by Akinyele Umoja and an extensive intergenerational roundtable discussion of the significance of Balagoon’s life and thoughts today. The second section consists of poetry by Balagoon, including several never published before. The third section contains court statements and essays by Balagoon himself; while most of these had been included in previous editions, there are some that have not been available since they were published in various movement publications in the 1980s. The fourth section consists of excerpts from letters Balagoon wrote to the canadian publication Bulldozer\/Prison News Service following his capture. The fifth section consists of three texts by Balagoon that people had in their possession but which have never been published before. Finally, the sixth section contains a reproduction of the exercise booklet for revolutionary prisoners that Balagoon created while incarcerated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCo-published with PM Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“We have to get our jewels where we can, for this is how we carry on from one generation to the next, it's revolutionary cross-pollination. To paraphrase Che, we need one, two, three, many more Kuwasi Balagoons in order to get free of the chains that bind us.” —Sanyika Shakur\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003ciframe width=\"353\" height=\"627\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3d9Gsu5llM8\" title=\"The Spirit of Freedom: Anticolonial War \u0026amp; Uneasy Peace in Ireland\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction to 2019 Edition ......... 6\u003cbr\u003e\nIntroduction to the First Edition ......... 8\u003cbr\u003e\nB.L.A., by Albert Nuh Washington ......... 10\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKuwasi in the Twenty-­First Century ......... 11\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nMaroon: \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyOTYzIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/kuwasi-balagoon\" title=\"Kuwasi Balagoon\"\u003eKuwasi Balagoon\u003c\/a\u003e and the Evolution of Revolutionary New Afrikan Anarchism,\u003cbr\u003e\nby Akinyele Umoja ......... 13\u003cbr\u003e\n3 Haiku That Barely Suggest the Sparkle of Kuwasi Balagoon, by David Gilbert ......... 46\u003cbr\u003e\nKuwasi: A Virtual Roundtable of Love and Reflection, Compiled and coordinated by Matt Meyer, with Joan P. Gibbs and Meg Starr, featuring Sekou Odinga, Bilal Sunni-­Ali,\u003cbr\u003e\nKim Kit Holder, Meg Starr, Danielle Jasmine, Amilcar Shabazz, Ajamu Sankofa, David Gilbert, dequi kioni-­sadiki, Kai Lumumba Barrow, Dhoruba Bin Wahad, and Ashanti Alston ......... 47\u003cbr\u003e\nBlack Cats Named Kuwasi, by Kai Lumumba Barrow ......... 62\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePoetry ......... 65\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nyour honor ......... 66\u003cbr\u003e\nwith no questions ......... 67\u003cbr\u003e\nsecretary watts ......... 68\u003cbr\u003e\nspring comes ......... 69\u003cbr\u003e\nbig ben ......... 70\u003cbr\u003e\ni remember ......... 73\u003cbr\u003e\nlife is rough ......... 74\u003cbr\u003e\nthe klan marched ......... 75\u003cbr\u003e\nmother of pearl sky ......... 76\u003cbr\u003e\nrain ......... 77\u003cbr\u003e\nsome solo piano or guitar ......... 78\u003cbr\u003e\nfiltered through the roof ......... 79\u003cbr\u003e\nwe’ve got to ......... 80\u003cbr\u003e\nwhen the world is stale ......... 82\u003cbr\u003e\nlock step ......... 83\u003cbr\u003e\nrefused ......... 84\u003cbr\u003e\nrockland ......... 86\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKuwasi Speaks ......... 89\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIn the Other Army ......... 90\u003cbr\u003e\nStatement at Preliminary Hearing ......... 93\u003cbr\u003e\nBrink’s Trial Opening Statement ......... 95\u003cbr\u003e\nBrink’s Trial Closing Statement ......... 129\u003cbr\u003e\nBrink’s Trial Sentencing Statement ......... 141\u003cbr\u003e\nDestroy All Traitors ......... 145\u003cbr\u003e\nStatement to New Afrikan Freedom Fighters Day ......... 148\u003cbr\u003e\nAnarchy Can’t Fight Alone ......... 150\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Continuing Appeal of Anti-­Imperialism ......... 155\u003cbr\u003e\nWhy Isn’t the Whole World Dancin’? ......... 160\u003cbr\u003e\nA Letter to Overthrow Newspaper ......... 170\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLetters from Prison ......... 173\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKuwasi Remembered ......... 199\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIn Memory of Kuwasi Balagoon, New Afrikan Freedom Fighter, by David Gilbert ......... 201\u003cbr\u003e\nNew Afrikan People’s Organization Memorial Statement ......... 204\u003cbr\u003e\nStatement by Prisoners at Auburn ......... 206\u003cbr\u003e\nA Eulogy, by Sundiata Acoli ......... 207\u003cbr\u003e\nBorn on Sunday, by David Gilbert ......... 208\u003cbr\u003e\nIn Memory of Kuwasi Balagoon, by Marilyn Buck ......... 210\u003cbr\u003e\nSome Reflections on an Unpublished Poem, by Meg Starr ......... 211\u003cbr\u003e\nAn Unpublished Poem, by Kuwasi Balagoon ......... 213\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFound and Shared ......... 215\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n1. 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