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Langlois and Dubois have captured a number of the most intense communication developments and debates within the current global social justice\/altermondialiste move-ments. Like the most promising projects at the present time, they constantly combine local and global issues: low power radio, open publishing, blogging, culture-jamming and more. They provide solid fuel for the fire that continues to burn in Québec, in Canada, and across the planet.” — John Downing, author of Radical Media \u0026amp; editor of the upcoming Sage Encyclopedia of Alternative Media\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Autonomous media activists deploy their weapons of choice – video cameras, spray cans, blogs, laptops – to liberate “meaning-making” from PR specialists and corporate board rooms. 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Here is the editors' introduction to this issue:\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis issue was born in interesting times. As the first drafts rolled in, Toronto was shaken by the June mobilizations against the G20. When the dust settled and the charred shells of police cruisers had been scraped off the streets, hundreds of our comrades were behind bars and many were facing serious criminal charges. Most local activists spent the summer fundraising for legal defense, supporting the people in jail, organizing rallies, and countering the state’s PR machines. From en masse illegal searches and preemptive raids to conspiracy charges and draconian bail conditions repression was ubiquitous. In the media and the courts, the G20 Integrated Security Unit (ISU) used everything they could get their hands on as evidence against protestors. Including our books. A copy of Upping the Anti 5 appeared in a police display of “weapons” seized from activists during the protests, alongside ropes, goggles, gas masks, and props seized from an unsuspecting enthusiast en route to a live action role playing game. The ISU’s audacity made us snicker, but we agree on one thing: Upping the Anti is a weapon in the struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe G20’s promise of an era of austerity has sparked debates about how radicals should orient to this moment. As we near the end of 2010 (a proclaimed year of resistance for activists in Canada), we’re confronted with a clear challenge: we lack a plan for a long-term, broad-based, sustained resistance. We’ve gotten the bill for the bailout of global capitalism; will it invigorate our movements or foster right-wing populism? In Toronto, we’re bracing ourselves for the mayoralty of newly elected conservative Rob Ford, a longstanding city councilor known for his xenophobic and homophobic outbursts. Whatever plan we choose, we’re in for a serious fight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFights are best prepared for with a dose of critical reflection. Issue 11 opens with our thoughts about violence. Focusing on the events of the anti-G20 convergence, we use our editorial pages to account for the two situations of violence that framed the protests: that of the OPP’s Integrated Security Unit, and the actions of the black bloc on June 26th. We analyze the strategic implications of these violences by locating social democrats’ denunciation of the black bloc in the history of organized labor. From where do current conceptions of violence derive, and how do they shape our political terrain? We turn to the idea of “non-violent direct action”—what is it, and in what ways does it necessitate specific forms of organization and production among activists? Strategically, to whom does non-violent direct action appeal? When and how do we come to terms with the violence implied and inherent in non-violent direct action?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChandra Kumar kicks off our interviews section in conversation with food sovereigntist Raj Patel. Patel argues that food sovereignty is one in a series of “overlapping sovereignties” required by true democracy, and describes lessons that can be learned from decentralized, autonomous farmers’ movements in the global south. Next, Shelley Tremain interviews Ladelle McWhorter, an anti-racist feminist scholar and activist living in Virginia. McWhorter analyses the relationship between race, gender, and normalization, and argues that genealogy is an important tool for understanding modern power relations. In our final interview, Benjamin Holtzman and Craig Hughes speak with scholar James C. Scott about his research on everyday peasant politics. Scott contends that subtle forms of resistance, shaped into a shared culture among the oppressed, have significant implications for large-scale social change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur articles section begins with Lesley Wood’s account of anti-capitalist struggle in Toronto, which she presents to contextualize and assess anti-G20 convergence organizing. She argues that the “reconfigured networks” of local community organizing in the past five years paved the way for the particular story anti-summit organizers told to fuel the recent mobilization – one with consequences they did not fully anticipate. Next, John Clarke provides a retrospective on the tenth anniversary of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty’s (OCAP) famous march on Queen’s Park. Clarke offers a detailed account of mobilization during the reign of Ontario’s former neoliberal Premier Mike Harris, illuminating the similarities and key differences between then and now. Clarke concludes with assessment of current forms of resistance – specifically the Toronto Workers Assembly and OCAP – and their hopes for achieving victory against austerity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our final article, Stacy Douglas offers an anti-racist analysis of queer activism in Britain. Douglas examines radical UK publisher Raw Nerve Books’ decision not to reprint an anthology of queer essays that included a piece that critiqued prominent gay rights activist Peter Tatchell’s alleged Islamophobia. She argues that Raw Nerve’s decision, and its subsequent defense by white queer activists, can be seen as an instance of white solidarity building – a dangerous political agenda that builds “good feeling,” by drawing upon legacies of racism and white supremacy. Douglas goes on to identify anti-racist agonism as a radical framework that might effectively intervene in such cases, while remaining mindful of the practical difficulties that such a framework entails.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first of our two roundtables, Sarita Ahooja, Fred Burrill and Cleve Higgins interview indigenous activists Joe Doem, Laura Norton, and Walter David, and non-native solidarity activist Carole Boucher, on the 20th anniversary of the “Oka Crisis.” Our second roundtable, convened by Thomas Nail, features four members of No One is Illegal-Toronto, who discuss the history, trajectory, and intent of their current Solidarity\/Sanctuary City campaign, and the success of some sub-campaigns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe are also pleased to bring you three timely book reviews. First, Tim McCaskell relates his own history of queer struggle to Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile’s The Canadian War on Queers. Next, Chandra Kumar reviews Michael Keefer’s edited collection Antisemitism Real and Imagined, in which contributors analyze the motivations behind the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism. Etienne Turpin then unpacks Tiqqun’s An Introduction to Civil War, a book that has made waves across North America and Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the administrative side of things, we would like to thank Chandra Kumar for his work on our editorial committee as he moves over to our advisory board. We would also like to welcome Robyn Letson, Adrie Naylor, and Simon Wallace to our editorial committee and Eton Harris, Brett Story, and Elise Thorburn to our advisory board. Finally, we would like to extend our most sincere thanks to Caelie Frampton, Krisztina Kun, Emily van der Meulen, and Jessica Peart for their work on our advisory board as they move on to other projects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur introductory remarks would not be complete without our customary call for financial support. As you may know, Upping the Anti receives no external support from any government or educational institution, and is entirely funded by subscriptions, sales, and donations from our readers. Over the course of our first 10 issues, we have been able to squeak by in raising the $7000 that it costs to print and distribute each issue of the journal. Today, however, the compounding challenges of sustaining a purely volunteer project have led us to contemplate hiring a staff person.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe only way that we could pay a staff salary is through increasing the number of our monthly sustainers – people who pay $10 or $20 a month through PayPal or pre-authorized debit payments in support of the project. We are still short of our goal of signing up 100 sustainers; if this project is to grow beyond its current limits we need you more than ever. Please visit \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.uppingtheanti.org\/\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.uppingtheanti.org\u003c\/a\u003e to sign up!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you know other activists in your organization or community who would benefit from reading and contributing to UTA, please get in touch with us to receive bulk copies at a 50 percent discount. If you order ten or more (either back issues or the current issue) copies are only five dollars each. Get in touch at \u003ca href=\"mailto:uppingtheantidistro@gmail.com\"\u003euppingtheantidistro@gmail.com\u003c\/a\u003e if you’re interested.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFinally, we’re looking for pitches for our next two issues. The deadline for pitches for UTA 12 is December 1, 2010, and the deadline for first drafts is January 6, 2011. The deadline for pitches for UTA 13 is May 1, 2011 and the deadline for article drafts is June 1, 2011. For more information, please visit our website at \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.uppingtheanti.org\/\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.uppingtheanti.org\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe hope this new issue stimulates conversation and action, and we look forward to reading your pitches and letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn solidarity and struggle,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKelly Fritsch, David Hugill, Tom Keefer, Sharmeen Khan, Clare O’Connor, Robyn Letson, Adrie Naylor, AK Thompson, Simon Wallace\u003cbr\u003e\nToronto, November 2010\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 185 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175081226333,"sku":"UTA 11","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_963_uta11_3_0.jpg?v=1654987280"},{"product_id":"upping-the-anti-12-may-2011","title":"Upping The Anti #12 (May 2011)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eThe May 2011 issue of this journal of radical theory and practice, produced by anticapitalists in canada. Here is the editors' introduction to this issue followed by the table of contents:\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003eSix months ago, we released UTA 11 and proclaimed that it had been “born in interesting times.” It’s an assessment that continues to apply today as we release this, our twelfth issue. Since last summer’s G20 showdown on the streets of Toronto, radicals have had to consider how best to reconsolidate in the face of ongoing criminal charges and threats of infiltration. At the same time, opportunities seem everywhere to be on the horizon. Though they remain unresolved, the revolutions in the Middle-East and the anti-austerity protests in Europe remind us that mass movements have the power to change the world.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, right wing movements are also on the rise. In Wisconsin, a governor inspired by the Tea Party was able to ram through anti-labour legislation by blaming the economic crises on workers. And though students, unionists, activists, and community members retaliated by occupying the Capitol building for more than two weeks (and though solidarity extended so broadly that the occupiers received a pizza delivery arranged by Egyptian protestors in Tahrir Square), the battle of Wisconsin was not won. Instead of a general strike, the movement degrenerated into a recall campaign. It’s an outcome that forces us to ask: what would it take to win?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our editorial this issue, we examine why the left in North America continues to be socially marginal despite the fact that radical critiques of capitalism have never been easier to make. In the midst of massive austerity, why is it so difficult for the left to gain traction? In order to address this question, we propose that we must develop our capacity to orient to the contradictions underlying people’s identification with right wing politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this issue’s interviews section, Tom Keefer speaks with historian and political economist Jason Moore about ecology, the financial crisis, and the future of capitalism. Following that, we are pleased to present a conversation between Ander Reszczynski-Negrazis and Lara Bee on the radical art and pedagogy of the Beehive Design Collective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our articles section, John Sanbonmatsu takes issue with the left’s recent attacks on veganism and animal rights and argues – contra Lierre Keith – that a sustainable future depends on an end to the human consumption of other animals. Next, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victoria-law\" title=\"Victoria Law\"\u003eVictoria Law\u003c\/a\u003e examines grassroots responses to violence in our homes and communities and offers suggestions for organizing outside the criminal justice system.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFinally, Niloofar Golkar and Shourideh Molavi evaluate the North American left’s responses to the “Green Revolution” in Iran and propose that international solidarity activists must overcome a series of inherited conceptual dichotomies in order to be succesful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our first roundtable, David Hugill and Élise Thorburn sit down with European education activists to discuss their experiences organizing against neoliberal incursions into the university sector. Next, Adrie Naylor convenes a panel to discuss the rise of precarious labour and the strategies that organizers in Toronto and beyond are using to challenge it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe are pleased to feature four book reviews in this issue. Harry Thorne reviews John Holloway’s Crack Capitalism; Kirstin Schwartz tackles Islands of Resistance, a collection edited by Andrea Langlois, Ron Sakolsky, and Marian van der Zon; Anthony Fenton discusses Todd Gordon’s Imperialist Canada; and Sharmeen Khan assesses Sherene Razack, Malinda Smith, and Sunera Thobani’s States of Race.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the administrative front, we would like to welcome Élise Thorburn to the Editorial Committee. Former Editor David Hugill has moved to our Advisory Board, where he is joined by new members Kailin Stacy, Robyn Maynard, and Robert Butz. Finally, we would like to thank outgoing Advisory Board members \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dan-berger\" title=\"Dan Berger\"\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/a\u003e, Nicole Cohen, Chris Harris, and Shelly Tremain. We wish them well on their future endeavours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom its inception, Upping the Anti has relied solely upon donations, subscriptions, and sustainer contributions. This has allowed us to remain fiercely independent; however, it also means that we’re often strapped for cash. For this reason, we ask that you consider becoming a UTA sustainer. Sustainers can sign up to pay $5- $100 a month through Paypal or pre-authorised debit payments to support our project. With 100 new sustainers, we will be able to hire a staff person to help us deal with all those administrative details that threaten to fall through the cracks, as make some headway in raising the $7000 it costs to print and distribute each issue of the journal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe opportunity to hire an administrative staff person shows how much we’ve grown; still, Upping the Anti continues to be a volunteer effort. We hope you enjoy the fruits of our collective labour. As usual, putting together this issue was both arduous and joyful. We’re happy to have managed to publish a dozen issues under conditions that remain unfavourable to alternative and small-scale periodicals. If you like what you see, please consider becoming a sustainer. To find out more about our sustainers program, please visit us online at www.uppingtheanti.org.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFinally, if you’re interested in contributing to UTA 13 (scheduled for release in October 2011), please send us a pitch at uppingtheanti@gmail.com no later than June 3, 2011. For more information, pleasse visit us online at www.uppingtheanti.org. E\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003enjoy the issue! We look forward to your letters, submissions, and support.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn solidarity and struggle,\u003cbr\u003e\nAidan Conway, Kelly Fritsch, Tom Keefer, Sharmeen Khan, Robyn Letson, Adrie Naylor, Clare O’Connor, AK Thompson, Élise Thorburn, Simon Wallace\u003cbr\u003e\nToronto, April 2011\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eLetters to the Editors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eEditorial\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eInterviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eJason Moore: Wall Street is a Way of Organizing Nature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eLara Bee: Drawing Common Ground\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eArticles\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eJohn Sabonmatsu: Blood and Soil: Notes on Leirre Keith, Locavores, and Death Fetishism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eVictoria Law: Protection Without Police: North American Community Responses to Violence in the 1970s and Today\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eNiloofar Golkar \u0026amp; Shourideh Molavi: Fallout from the June 2009 Protests in Iran: Political Inconsistencies and Pressing Questions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eRoundtables\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eElise Thorburn \u0026amp; Dave Hugill: Pedagogy of Unrest: Education Struggles and the Prospect of an Autonomous University with Vassilis Christophides, Emma Dowling, Merijn Oudenampsen, and Gigi Roggero\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eAdrie Naylor: Union Renewal from the Margins: Perspectives on Organizing Precarious Workers with Beixi Liu, Marco Luciano, Linelle S. Mogado, Esery Mondesir, and Sonia Singh\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eHarry Thorne: John Holoway's \u003cem\u003eCrack Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eKristin Schwartz: Andrea Langlois, Ron Sakolsky \u0026amp; Marian van der Zon's \u003cem\u003eIslands of Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eAnthony Fenton: Todd Gordon's \u003cem\u003eImperialist Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eSharmeen Khan: Sherene Razack, Malinda Smith, \u0026amp; Sunera Thobani's \u003cem\u003eStates of Race\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 185 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175081324637,"sku":"UTA 12","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_964_uta12_3_0.jpg?v=1654987281"},{"product_id":"upping-the-anti-4-april-2007","title":"Upping The Anti #4 (April 2007)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eThe April 2007 issue of this journal of radical theory and practice, produced by anticapitalists in canada. Here is the editors' introduction to this issue:\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe are happy to offer up a new, fourth, issue of Upping the Anti. Unlike last time, we don’t have to apologize for being behind schedule. What’s more, thanks to increased sales and better distribution, we have been able to print this issue without going any furthur into debt. We’ve also been kept afloat by the generous contributions of our subscribers. At a time when radical media projects are needed more than ever, we are reminded by the demise of excellent publications like Clamor and LiP Magazine how important it is to keep nurturing projects like UTA. Now, more than ever, we need to cultivate those precious spaces where we can come together for argument, debate, and alliance building. We’re happy that you, our readers, have recognized Upping the Anti as one such space. We will do our best to hold up our end of the bargain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere have been some changes to the editorial crew at UTA. Dave Mitchell has stepped down as reviews editor, but will remain a member of the advisory board. Erin Gray, formerly of the editorial collective, will replace Dave, while her spot on the editorial collective has been taken up by AK Thompson. We would like to welcome the new additions and thank those stepping down from different roles for all of their hard work in getting and keeping UTA off the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs in past issues, UTA 4 begins with a letters section. We are pleased that our readers are engaging with the things we publish and are responding to them in a thoughtful and spirited manner. What struck us most upon reading the letters submitted for this issue was how each one seemed to move beyond polemics and venture into the realm of proposition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo it seems fitting that our editorial this time around deals with the question of organization. Now, we know that might sound played out. Bolshevik. Menshevik. Mass. Anti-mass. Boredom. Confusion. Regret. But you would never believe how many people have organization on the tip of their tongue these days. In Canada, public intellectuals like Judy Rebick and Sam Gindin (each operating with quite different premises) have added to the buzz. Across the pond, Hilary Wainwright has aligned herself firmly with the new generation of “network” builders. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. In order to make sense of the current resurgence of interest in the organizational question, we’ve tried to sort through some of the history and current manifestations of the debate and to trace out the implications of various positions. And, since we’re precocious, we’ve advanced a few propositions of our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMuch of the content in this issue addresses the theme of organization in some way. In the first of our interviews, Dale Altrows joins long-time anarchist activist and person living with AIDS Robin Isaacs as he recounts his experiences of coming out and coming to anarchism in Toronto in the 1980s. With a keen memory of his experiences as a participant in radical organizations and tremendous knack for storytelling, Isaacs encourages us both to draw inspiration and learn from the not-so-distant past. In our second interview, Marina Sitrin discusses the question of movements and organization with John Holloway. Encouraging us to consider the possibilities that exist “against and beyond” the state, Holloway traces out some broad dynamics underlying the radical resurgence in Latin America. In the third interview, Gary Kinsman speaks with trans activist and teacher Dan Irving as he explores the intersection between trans issues and class politics. Arguing that trans politics are shaped by class experience (and vice versa), Irving proposes to make both Marxism and aspects of post-structuralist theory relevant in a context where they are often viewed with suspicion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our articles section, Richard Day (author of Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements) continues with the theme of organization by responding to his book’s critics. Addressing AK Thompson’s polemic published in UTA 3, as well as those penned elsewhere by Ian McKay and William Carroll, Day suggests that if our question is ‘what is to be done?’ the answer must not involve a repetition of our worst failures. Following Day’s rejoinder, Carmelle Wolfson and Lesley Wood recount their experiences at the recent World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya. Their accounts provide a critical assessment of an event that has come to be seen as one of the most significant international forums for networking and strategizing in the struggle for global justice. Moving from the global to the local, we close the articles section with an essay by Tom Keefer which explores the dynamics of non-native solidarity in the struggle at Six Nations. Arguing that the concept of “taking leadership” with which many non-native activists have approached their solidarity work is inadequate, Keefer proposes a provocative alternative. Drawing upon Black Power, the classic SNCC-era text by Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton, Keefer argues that in order to develop real coalitions with indigenous activists fighting for sovereignty, white activists must organize within their own communities to build a meaningful social base.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur roundtable section in this issue contains two pieces. In the first, Caitlin Hewitt-White has brought together prominent prison abolition activists Peter Collins, Emily Aspinwall, Filis Iverson, Sonia Marino, Julia Sudbury, Kim Pate, and Patricia Monture to talk about the politics of the prison-industrial complex and the difficulties of working both within and against the system. In the second roundtable, Vancouver-based activists Kat Norris, Jill Chettiar, Anna Hunter, and Cecily Nicholson explore the problems and promise of housing activism in the Downtown Eastside in a roundtable put together by Krisztina Kun and Nicole Latham. This discussion makes clear how serious the housing situation in Vancouver is becoming and reveals how divisions on the left are hindering our ability to respond as effectively as possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs in previous issues, our book reviews section provides activists with an opportunity to respond to debates and discussions happening in other published works. In the first review, Erica Meiners investigates the prison abolition writings of Angela Davis, Julia Sudbury, and Karlene Faith. Next, Kimiko Inouye reads bell hooks’s Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism. Finally, Scott Clarke responds to Sheila Wilmot’s Taking Responsibility, Taking Direction: White Anti-Racism in Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs always, we invite responses from our readers to the content we publish. Argument is our lifeblood and we look forward to hearing from you. The submissions deadline for Upping the Anti 5 is August 1, 2007 and you can email articles and article ideas to uppingtheanti@gmail.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter publishing UTA 3 with funds drawn from meagre life savings, we knew we were in deep. Resolving not to go any further into debt, we vowed to make the money to print this issue upfront or to never publish again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt paid off, so to speak. We sunk our energy into a subscription drive and promotion campaign. And we learned how to stomach working on the “accounts receivable” side of our ledger. We’re not out of the hole yet. But we didn’t sink any new money into this issue. What’s more, we have more subscribers than ever before. A few of these are coveted lifetime subscribers – people who give us $250 and make us promise to keep producing this thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you are not already a subscriber, we encourage you to become one. If you are already a subscriber but want to make sure that UTA continues to be a feisty little firebrand well into the future, then please consider taking out a lifetime subscription. You can find out more information by contacting us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd if you’re one of those people who still owes us money for back issues, we need to talk. Capitalists have got the market cornered on contractual obligations and petty forms of coercion, so we won’t resort to them here. Instead, we would like to encourage both those who owe us money and radicals everywhere to begin taking ourselves as seriously as our opponents sometimes do. 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Here is the editors' introduction to this issue:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWelcome to the first issue of \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e. We have been working on bringing you this issue since September of 2004. We have been torn between the desire to get something out according to our original timeline (February of 2005) in order to establish the journal as a timely and viable project, and our wish to produce the most politically relevant publication that we can. In this, our first issue of the journal, we feel that we have done our best to strike an appropriate balance between these two objectives. So here is Upping the Anti, our first effort in an ongoing project of trying to engage with and understand the political conjuncture facing radical activists in the Canadian state today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn every issue of the journal, we begin with an editorial in which we try to work out a collective perspective on pressing issues of the day. In this, our first editorial, we outline the impetus for the project, and reflect upon the strengths and limitations of such concepts as anti-capitalism, anti-oppression, and anti-imperialism in building new radical movements in Canada and internationally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe are very pleased to bring you two important interviews that we think will have relevance for activists seeking to understand past, present and future struggles. Grace Lee Boggs is a social justice activist who for the past six decades has paired tireless community organizing with a long-term commitment to reassessing and renewing radical ideas. She has worked with political figures such as Malcolm X, Kwame Nkrumah, CLR James, and Jimmy Boggs, as well as taking part in the civil rights and Black liberation movements. Our second interview is with Ward Churchill, an indigenous scholar and activist who is today the subject of a massive attack on academic freedom by neo-conservative forces in the United States. Churchill has tirelessly chronicled state repression and genocide in the Americas and brings an important perspective for people thinking about radical social change. We bring you an interview we did with him two years ago in which he speaks about the anti-globalization movement and the potential for effective resistance to the war at home and abroad.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first of three essays in this issue of the journal, Gary Kinsman provides an introduction to autonomist Marxism and outlines how this current provides useful political tools for understanding and conceptualizing strategies of revolutionary change based on working class self-emancipation. In our next essay, Chris Hurl chronicles the development of the radical anti-capitalist wing of the anti-globalization movement and critically examines the concept of “diversity of tactics” as an approach to organizing. Finally, we reprint an essay by socialist feminist \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMjMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/selma-james\" title=\"Selma James\"\u003eSelma James\u003c\/a\u003e, written some 30 years ago, that remains an important contribution to discussions taking place today around the intersections of race, gender and class.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis issue also launches the first of a series of roundtable discussions with activists on specific issues of concern to radical movements. Sharmeen Khan brings together Gary Kinsman, Kirat Kaur, and Junie Désil to discuss the politics of “anti-oppression,” while Aidan Conway draws together a series of interviews on the “organizational question” with Robbie Mahood, Indu Viashistink, and Jeff Shantz who offer reflections from different Marxist and anarchist communist perspectives. In our next issue we look forward to bringing you other similar discussion forums looking at anti-war organizing, Palestinian solidarity activism, and advocacy and activism in defense of immigrants and refugees.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe close with reviews of two important books, Judith Butler’s \u003cem\u003eUndoing Gender,\u003c\/em\u003e and Michael Hardt’s and Antonio Negri’s \u003cem\u003eMultitude\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eUndoing Gender \u003c\/em\u003eis an important political contribution to debates and discussions taking place within the feminist and transgender movements, while Multitude is Hardt and Negri’s follow-up to their influential and controversial book Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe should stress that our approach to the project has not been to produce any kind of “party line” on the questions facing radical activists today. Instead, we see Upping the Anti as a space to discuss ideas currently being expressed and elaborated in contemporary social movements. In particular we want to explore what we see as emancipatory Marxist and anarchist contributions firmly grounded in feminist and anti-racist politics. In so doing, we are aware that a wide range of contrasting and even contradictory political ideas and approaches will be put forward in the pages of this journal. For example, in our interviews with Ward Churchill and Grace Lee Boggs, it is clear that there are a wide range of political questions upon which these two activists are divided, and we have our own disagreements with some of their perspectives. We do not share Grace’s enthusiasm for the potential of a revitalized wing of the Democratic Party in the US under the leadership of Dennis Kucinich, and we are skeptical of a number of Ward’s formulations regarding the nature of the revolutionary project in North America. However, we offer these divergent political opinions in the spirit of opening up principled discussion and debate on the radical left. We encourage you to write us letters, polemics and articles engaging with points of view that you find provocative, and to make a contribution to these debates. Our goal is to create a lively and non-sectarian forum for debate and a tool that can be appropriated and effectively used by those interested in rethinking how we organize and build effective radical movements for social change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn closing, we would like to thank all the members of our advisory board who have assisted us in the production of this first issue of the journal. We look forward to producing our next issue for Fall 2005 (the final deadline for submissions to the next issue is July 1, 2005).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn autonomy and solidarity,\u003cbr\u003e\nAidan C., Tom K., Sharmeen K.\u003cbr\u003e\nMarch 26, 2005.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175085420637,"sku":"UTA 1","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_961_utaone3_0.jpg?v=1654987311"},{"product_id":"upping-the-anti-10-may-2010","title":"Upping The Anti #10 (May 2010)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eThe May 2010 issue of this journal of action and theory, produced by a non-sectarian group of anticapitalist activists in Toronto, Canada.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFive years isn’t a long time. In the history of struggle, it’s barely a blip. Radicals learn early that, if we’re not in it for the long haul, we’re not really in it at all. But for a radical grassroots publication like ours with no external funding, a volunteer editorial team, and an ambitious mandate of rigorous analysis and broad coverage, five years is quite an accomplishment. Although other radical publishing projects have recently fallen by the wayside, we’ve managed – incontrovertibly – to thrive. For this reason, we’re pleased to bring you Issue 10 of Upping the Anti.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen we started UTA in 2005, we could only guess at the resonance that a forum such as ours would have. We envisioned it as a space to critically assess the interwoven tendencies that define the politics of today’s radical left: anti-capitalism, anti-oppression, and anti-imperialism. We believed that, although they were inexact in their proclamations, these “antis” pointed toward a radical politics outside of the party-building exercises of the sectarian left and the dead end of social democracy. Judging from our growing subscription base and the increasing number of pitches and international inquiries we receive (not to mention the fruitfulness of our interactions with authors and readers), it seems that many others agree.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBecause the current political period is fraught with difficulties, many radicals seem to recognize that it’s increasingly necessary to scrutinize our prevailing assumptions. And, while it’s never easy to step away from day-to-day activist work to engage in analysis, UTA has managed to become a dynamic space where organizers converge to discuss, debate, and devise movement strategies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Issue 10, contributors once again examine the vicissitudes of the current political moment. We begin with a series of letters submitted in response to the content of Issue 9. As always, these responses reveal gaps in analysis and illuminate the challenges of inter-movement dialogue. As editors, we have always conceived of this section of the journal as a unique space in which to develop habits of activist correspondence and analytic exchange, so please feel free to join the conversation!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our Editorial, we highlight the opportunity for anti-capitalist mobilization that arose with the financial crisis of 2008 and ask the urgent question: did we miss it? As we watch capitalism reinvent itself, we’re forced to come to terms with the fact that the left has lost the initiative and, for the most part, has adopted defensive postures. For radicals who want more than the preservation of past gains, this conjuncture demands that we carefully consider both our priorities and our strategies. In order to orient to this question, we refer to the lessons of BC’s Solidarity movement in the 1980s and the Days of Action against the Ontario Tories in the mid-90s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKicking off our interviews section, Sharmeen Khan, David Hugill, and Tyler McCreary engage with well-known feminist activist and scholar Andrea Smith as she highlights the importance of “unlikely alliances” to movement building. Next, Chandra Kumar speaks with Patrick Bond about the challenges and possibilities confronting the climate justice movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe conclude with Robyn Maynard’s discussion with Jessica Yee and Nandita Sharma as they consider sex work, migration, anti-trafficking, and Indigenous struggles. In our articles section, AK Thompson assesses activist responses to Avatar and proposes that, rather than dismissing the film, our political objectives are better realized by highlighting the promise that mainstream audiences identified in it. Next, Tom Keefer critiques Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard’s claims in Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry and shows how Marxism and indigenism can mutually inform common struggles against capitalism. In our final article for this issue, Antonis Vradis and Dimitrios Dalakoglou explore the aftermath of the Greek revolt of 2008 and assess its impact and significance for ongoing struggles around the right to the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur roundtables begin with Nicole Cohen’s discussion of the challenges of radical publishing with participants from Left Turn, Canadian Dimension, The Dominion, Briarpatch, and Z Communications. Next, Samir Shaheen-Hussain brings together a group of former police trainees and officers who have quit the force and are now engaged in working against police repression. Our final roundtable, convened by Kelly Fritsch, considers the new wave of student occupations on US campuses and their implications for how we understand social change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our reviews section, Jerome Klassen examines the relationship between imperialism and Canadian foreign policy in Yves Engler’s Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy. Next, Pat Harewood tackles David Austin’s important collection You Don’t Play With Revolution: The Montreal lectures of C.L.R. James and Noaman Ali considers John Saul’s Revolutionary Traveler. In our final review, Sara Falconer discusses Safiya Bukhari’s The War Before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs always, we hope you find this, our tenth issue, to be engrossing and provocative. Your readership inspires us. And your money sustains us! If you read UTA regularly, please consider joining our monthly sustainers program – go to www.uppingtheanti.org. We’re gradually nearing our goal of having 100 sustainers by the end of 2010. With your help, we’ll be able to focus less on fundraising and more on bringing you the radical commentary and debate that makes this project worthwhile. In addition to sustainers, we’re also always looking for people who are interested in distributing UTA. Bulk discounts are available. If you feel like you could take on distributing 10 or more copies per issue, please get in touch with us at uppingtheantidistro@gmail.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the housekeeping front, we would like to extend our thanks to Christopher Dobbie, who helped to redesign our website at www.uppingtheanti.org. PDF versions of all our articles are online and available to all subscribers. The site has been re-organized so as to provide a better and more accessible archive of our content.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe would also like to welcome Thomas Nail, Shelley Tremain, and David Shulman to our advisory board, and thank Gary Kinsman and Danielle O’Hearn for their contributions to the project.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFinally, if you are interested in contributing to Issue 11 – scheduled to launch in November 2010 – please send a pitch (about 500 words) to uppingtheanti@gmail.com describing your proposed contribution. Pitches are due by June 13, 2010. The deadline for first drafts is July 20, 2010. For more information, please visit our website at www.uppingtheanti.org.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEnjoy the issue! We look forward to your letters, submissions, and support.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn solidarity and struggle,\u003cbr\u003e\nAidan Conway Kelly Fritsch David Hugill Tom Keefer Chandra Kumar Clare O’Connor AK Thompson\u003cbr\u003e\nToronto, May 2010\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 206 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175085453405,"sku":"UTA 10","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_962_uta10_3_0.jpg?v=1654987312"},{"product_id":"upping-the-anti-13-november-2011","title":"Upping The Anti #13 (November 2011)","description":"\u003cp\u003eNumber Thirteen (November 2011) of this movement journal of theory and practice from canada. Check out the introduction below: \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAs 2011 closes out, we can’t help but think that the currentmoment is ripe with opportunities. Uprisings in the MiddleEast and North Africa, anti-austerity protests in Europe, andopposition to homegrown austerity measures like Scott Walker’santi-labour legislation in Wisconsin prove that – given the chance– most of us desire revolutionary change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd while we don’t yet have the advantage, it’s hard not tobe at least a little bit optimistic. As UTA 13 goes to press, tens ofthousands are occupying financial districts across North America.And while the Occupy Together movement remains young andvulnerable, it also points toward a growing disdain for the rulingclass and its plans for the remaining “ninety-nine percent” of us. Inmany cities, the radical left remains suspicious of this development. However, if we are going to build on the opportunities presented to us, we must hone our collective capacity to analyze and respondto emergent situations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is where Upping the Anti fits in. Responding to the ongoingcriminalization of dissent, this issue’s Editorial considers therelationship between activists and the law. How should we relateto legal proceedings? Is it better – politically speaking – to fightit out, or do we make a greater contribution by returning to ourcommunities as quickly as possible?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur Interviews section begins with Faraz Vahid Shahidispeaking with Jesse Rosenfeld about his experiences on theGaza-bound Freedom Flotilla II. Next, Sharmeen Khan interviewsCopwatch LA organizer Joaquin Cienfuegos. David Hugill theninterviews geographer Neil Smith about revolutionary ambitionand the role of urbanization in class struggle. Finally, LorenzoFiorito assesses the recent Canadian Union of Postal Workers’Strike with Edmonton-based union activist Mikhail Bjorge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our Articles section, Erica R. Meiners, Liam Michaud,Josh Pavan, and Bridget Simpson begin by making the casefor queer opposition to sexual offender registries and carceralexpansion. Next, Sunera Thobani assesses how the post-9\/11 globalconsensus has made social movements in the West susceptible toIslamophobia. Finally, Nick Dyer-Witherford suggests how Marx’sformula for the circulation of capital might be extended to considerthe revolutionary circulation of the common.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis issue’s Roundtable features four members of Toronto’s Queers Against Israeli Apartheid – Tim McCaskell, RichardFung, Natalie Kouri Towe, and Corvin Russell – who discuss thechallenges and opportunities confronted while doing queer anticolonial solidarity work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur book reviews begin with Kate Klein’s take on TheRevolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence WithinActivist Communities, edited by Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani, and LeahLakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Next, Alex Khasnabish tacklesAK Thompson’s Black Block, White Riot: Antiglobalization and theGenealogy of Dissent. Finally, Steve da Silva reviews Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson’s Defying the Tomb.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough space restrictions have prevented us from printingall of the letters we received in response to content that appearedin UTA 12 in these pages, we’ve made a long letter we receivedfrom Derrick Jensen in response to John Sanbonmatsu’s articleBlood and Soil – along with Sanbanmatsu’s reply – available onlineat uppingthanti.org. The debate is an intersting one, and we hopethat it can continue to generate discussion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the administrative front, we’re very pleased to welcomeLorenzo Fiorito to the Editorial Committee. We’re also happy towelcome Kieran Aarons and Rob Nichols to the UTA Advisory Board. Finally, we would like to thank outgoing Advisory Board members Ernesto Aguilar and Erica Meiners for their contributions.We wish them well in their future endeavors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSince its inception, Upping the Anti has been an importantvoice on the radical left. Our commitment to relying solely upondonations, subscriptions, and sustainer contributions has kept usfiercely independent; however, it has also meant that our financialsituation occasionally becomes precarious. To coincide with ourthirteenth issue, we’re launching a new sustainer’s drive. We urgeyou to commit to making a monthly donation – even a little goesa long way. Please visit our website for information on becoming a UTA sustainer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith your help, we can move achieve the financialsustainability that will allow us to continue publishing the radicalnews and analysis you’ve come to expect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you’re interested in contributing to UTA 14 (scheduled forrelease in May 2011), please send a pitch to\u003ca href=\"mailto:uppingtheanti@gmail\"\u003euppingtheanti@gmail\u003c\/a\u003e.com no later than December 3, 2011. For more information, pleasevisit us online at\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.uppingtheanti.org\/\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.uppingtheanti.org\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEnjoy the issue! As always, we look forward to your letters,submissions, and support.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn solidarity and struggle,\u003cbr\u003e\nAidan Conway, Lorenzo Fiorito, Kelly Fritsch, Tom Keefer, Sharmeen Khan, Robyn Letson, Adrie Naylor, Clare O’Connor, AK Thompson, Élise Thorburn, Simon Wallace\u003cbr\u003e\nToronto, November 2011\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eLetters to the Editors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eEditorial\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eInterviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eJesse Rosenfeld: Palestine Solidarity \u0026amp; the New Internationalism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eJoaquin Cienfuegos: Their Eeys Were Watching Cops\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eMikhail Bjorge: Lesons from CUPW on Delivering the Good\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eNeil Smith: Revolutionary Ambition in the Age of Austerity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eArticles\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eErica R. Meiners et al.: \"Worst of the Worst\"?: Queer Investments in Challenging Sex Offender Registries\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eSunera Thobani: Breaking Consensus: The War on Terror, Islamophobia, and Social Movements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eNick Dyer-Witheford: Networked Leninism?: The Circulation of Capital, Crisis, Struggle, and the Common\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eRoundtables\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eRobyn Letson: Coming Out Against Apartheid with Richard Fung, Natalie Kouri-Towe, Tim McCaskell \u0026amp; Corvin Ruseell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eKate Klein: Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani \u0026amp; Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's\u003cem\u003eThe Revolution Starts at Home\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eAlex Khasnabish: AK Thompson's\u003cem\u003eBlack Bloc, White Riot\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eSteve da Silva: Kevin \"Rashid\" Johnson's\u003cem\u003eDefying the Tomb\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 172 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175085486173,"sku":"UTA 13","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_965_uta13_3_0.jpg?v=1654987317"},{"product_id":"upping-the-anti-2-january-2005","title":"Upping The Anti #2 (January 2005)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe January 2005 issue of this canada-based journal of radical theory and action; below is the editorial committee's introduction:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWelcome to the second issue of \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e. We would like to start by letting you know that we have made new additions to the editorial staff of our journal. Erin Gray of Toronto has joined our editorial collective, and Dave Mitchell of Regina has joined us in the capacity of reviews editor. We are excited to have our project grow and develop, and in this issue we again provide you with a collection of writings addressing a wide variety of issues and debates concerning activists on the left in Canada. We begin this issue with responses from a number of readers to our first issue. We welcome this kind of feedback and encourage you to join in the discussions and respond to the contributions of others in the pages of \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e by email or regular mail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur editorial, the space in which we try to develop a common political perspective for the journal, takes up the question of the politics of “anti-oppression” within the Canadian context, and outlines some of our thoughts on the historical development of this perspective. In our next two issues we will take up and examine the politics of “anti-capitalism” and “anti-imperialism” as part of our project of critiquing and developing our analysis of what we call the “three antis.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this issue we run three different sets of interviews with radical theorists and organizers. We talk about questions of class and power with Himani Bannerji, a Marxist and anti-racist feminist who has made important contributions to understanding and transforming the way we look at problems of oppression and domination. We also conclude our interview with Grace Lee Boggs, a Detroit community activist who talks about her experiences of organizing over the past six decades, her experience of figures such as Jimmy Boggs and CLR James, and her reflections of a lifetime of building political organizations. Our third interview concerns one of the most important education sector struggles to have occurred over the past several years in North America—the two hundred thousand strong strike by college and university students in Québec in the spring of 2005. We speak to Nicolas Phebus, a member of the Northeastern Federation of Anarchist Communists, who shares his analysis of this important struggle in Québec.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe article section begins with a piece by Tom Keefer in which he looks at the genealogy of “socialism from below,” and questions its usefulness in contributing to the renewal of socialist politics today. Taiaiake Alfred and Lana Lowe provide an outline of the historical and contemporary nature and role of indigenous warrior societies in First Nations communities and struggles in the Canadian context. We continue with a series of roundtables that bring together various activists struggling in a number of important campaigns. Mordecai Briemberg, Paul Burrows, Rafeef Ziadah, Adam Hanieh and Samer Elatrash explore the problems and opportunities confronting Palestinian solidarity activism today; Chris Arsenault, Mike DesRoches, Derrick O’Keefe, Andrea Schmidt, George ‘Mick’ Sweetman, Honor Brabazon \u0026amp; Jessie X. discuss their experiences of the Canadian antiwar movement; and Sarita Ahooja, Sima Zerehi and \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/harsha-walia\" title=\"Harsha Walia\"\u003eHarsha Walia\u003c\/a\u003e talk about the state of immigrant and refugee solidarity activism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe final section of the journal consists of a series of reviews put together by our book reviews editor Dave Mitchell. Adrian Harewood assesses \u003cem\u003eA View for Freedom: Alfie Roberts Speaks\u003c\/em\u003e, an interview with the late Alfie Roberts, a remarkable activist and organizer in the Montréal area. Kirat Kaur reviews Judy Rebick’s latest book \u003cem\u003eTen Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e and discusses the strengths and weaknesses of Rebick’s understanding of the Canadian feminist movement. Karl Kersplebedeb writes on \u003cem\u003eCaliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e which provides a historical account of the connection between patriarchy, dispossession and the development of capitalism. Finally, Tyler McCreary reviews J. Sakai’s classic \u003cem\u003eSettlers: the Myth of the White Proletariat \u003c\/em\u003eand kicks off what we hope will be an ongoing debate on the relevance of Sakai’s analysis to understanding the relationship of race and class in North America today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFinally, we can’t finish talking about this issue of our journal without thanking our advisory board members and all the other people that made the first issue of \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e a success, and who have ensured the continuing viability of this project. To date we have sold over 700 copies of our first issue and recouped our initial publishing and mailing costs. Our many distributors ensured that hard copies of \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e were available in every province and in over 30 different Canadian cities as well as reaching countries as far away as Australia, Argentina, Cuba, England, France, Norway, Germany, India, Kenya, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Spain, and Venezuela. Copies of the journal were also distributed to several US-based political prisoners and prisoners of war, and we also take this opportunity to extend our greetings of solidarity to them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith evidence in hand that a project such as ours can be financially sustainable and politically relevant, we are reprinting 1000 copies of our first issue and publishing this second issue in a perfect bound format with a print run of 2000 copies. As we prepare the third issue of the journal for publication in the spring of 2006 we welcome further assistance in helping to distribute the second issue of the journal even more widely than the first. To this end, we have put up a web page with an up to date list of local distributors from whom you can get hard copies of the journal. If you are interested in joining this list of distributors please e-mail us at uta_distro@yahoo.ca to make arrangements and to receive discounted bulk copies of the journal. We are also open to running exchange advertisements with other radical publications and catalogs. If you have a project that you would like to promote in Upping the Anti, or if you would like to publicize our journal please get in touch with us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCopies of the first issue of the journal remain available for download and distribution, and if you are using the PDF file of our first or second issue for distribution, we would appreciate a note from you letting us know where you are from and how you will be using the journal. The deadline for articles and letters for the third issue of the journal is March 15, 2006.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Solidarity,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Editors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 181 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175085551709,"sku":"UTA 2","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_966_utatwo3_0.jpg?v=1654987318"},{"product_id":"upping-the-anti-5-october-2007","title":"Upping The Anti #5 (October 2007)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEditorial\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eBetween a Rock and a Hard Place: Social Democracy and Anti-Capitalist Renewal in English Canada\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInterviews\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eThe Fight for Feminism (Sunera Thobani)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eThe Tradition of Resistance, on Indigenous Anti-Colonialism (\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEzNzQ2In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gord-hill\" title=\"Gord Hill\"\u003eGord Hill\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eFrom the Perspective of Resistance (Michael Hardt)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArticles\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eInto a Black Hole: Tar Sands and Oil Production in Western Canada (Macdonald Stainsby)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eStrength in Numbers? why radical students need a new organizing model (Caelie Frampton)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eThe Three Way Fight Debate, on Islam, Fascism and the Left, with Rami El-Amine and Michael Staudenmeier\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRoundtable: You Can't Jail the Spirit\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eThe Movement to Free Political Prisoners (Bryan Doherty and Tom Keefer)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eInterviews with Ashanti Alston, Robert Seth Hayes, Susan Tipograph and Sara Falconer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNot to mention those ever-interesting book reviews and letters to the editor..\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175085748317,"sku":"UTA 5","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_969_utafive3_0.jpg?v=1654987319"},{"product_id":"upping-the-anti-6","title":"Upping The Anti #6","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe May 2008 edition of this radical journal of theory and action from Toronto, Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eTable of Contents of Upping the Anti #6\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eEditorial\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eIn Praise of Good Maps: Theory, History and the Signs of the Times\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eInterviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMutulu Olugbala: It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: The Opposite of Truth is Forgetting George Katsiaficas: Remembering May 1968\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eArticles\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJoshua Kahn Russell \u0026amp; Brian Kelly: Giving Form to a Stampede: The First Two Years of the New SDS Eric Newstadt: Accounting for the Student Movement Caelie Frampton: Response to Newstadt Jeff Monagham \u0026amp; Kevin Walby: The Green Scare is Everywhere\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eRoundtables\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKriss Sol: Organizing Against the G8 with Hanne Jobst, Sabu and Go, Miranda and Jaggi Singh. Alex Khasnabish: Anti-Poverty Organizing in Halifax with Jill Ratcliffe, Capp Larsen, Angela Weal, Susan Lefort, Cole Webber, and James Babbitt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Calnitsky: \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTEifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/naomi-klein\" title=\"Naomi Klein\"\u003eNaomi Klein\u003c\/a\u003e, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Alexis Shotwell: Color of Violence: the INCITE! Anthology. Chris Keefer: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex. INCITE! (ed.). Scott Neigh Grace-Edward Galabuzi, Canada’s Economic Apartheid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Upping The Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 296 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175085781085,"sku":"UTA 6","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_970_utasix3_0.jpg?v=1654987320"},{"product_id":"upping-the-anti-3-november-2006","title":"Upping The Anti #3 (November 2006)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe November 2006 issue of this canada-based journl of radical theory and action; below is the editorial committee's introduction:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWelcome to the third issue of \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e. After all the usual hard work and delays, we’re happy to once again present these pages. As always, our content is devoted to discussing both the successes and shortcomings of contemporary movements for social change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe kick off this issue with a series of exchanges in the Letters section, where readers respond to content from \u003cem\u003eUpping The Anti\u003c\/em\u003e 2. We’re pleased that UTA is generating these kinds of engaging debates, and we encourage readers to write us with their thoughts and perspectives on the articles and interviews we print. Stay tuned for our online discussion board accessible from the Autonomy and Solidarity website: http:\/\/auto_sol.tao.ca.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this issue, our editorial tries to assess the difficult space in which the North American anti-war movement presently finds itself. Despite the fact that, now more than ever, a massive antiwar movement with strong anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist tendencies is needed, the Canadian anti-war movement has not been able to deliver the goods. We attempt to analyze why anti-war organizers have overlooked the positive contributions of the antiglobalization movement and conclude by suggesting that the way forward lies in transcending the antithetical terms of our present struggles, where small direct actions stand in opposition to larger but depoliticized single day protests against the war. While we know that it’s impossible to resolve this dialectic on paper, we offer up the editorial in the hope of sharpening the terms of debate. Nothing would make us happier than to see others throw their hats into the ring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis issue also contains two interviews, both with renowned scholar-activists. The interview with Aijaz Ahmad addresses fundamental questions of revolution and organization, and reflects on the complexities of Islamic and anti-imperialist movements in Asia and the Middle East. William Robinson discusses Latin American resistance to neoliberalism in the changing context of global capitalism and considers how these movements are relating to the state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our articles section, AK Thompson critically engages the arguments of Richard Day’s \u003cem\u003eGramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements\u003c\/em\u003e and discusses whether or not the orientation to “affinity” expressed by the newest social movements is adequate to the task of making meaningful social change. Following Thompson’s piece, Isabel MacDonald writes on Canadian complicity in the occupation of Haiti, outlining both the horrific oppression visited upon the Haitian people and the difficulties faced by the solidarity movement in support of Haiti. Subsequently, RJ Maccani investigates the Zapatista experience and outlines the lessons to be drawn north of the Rio Grande amidst Mexico’s changing political terrain. As in the interview section, Maccani’s piece engages the question of the relationship between anti-capitalist movements and the state. Our final article finds Jen Plyler writing about the need for sustainable movements to develop supportive conditions that can help organizers to ‘keep on keeping on.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur roundtable section is devoted entirely to the struggle of the Six Nations people of the Grand River territory – one of the most important indigenous social movements taking place in Canada today. While currently focusing on the reclamation of a suburban housing estate, the struggle highlights larger issues of political sovereignty and settler colonialism. Tom Keefer provides an overview and background to the situation, while in the roundtable, participants focus on the role of non-native solidarity activists in supporting this indigenous movement. We interview Brian Skye, a member of the Cayuga nation who has been very active at the site, on his perspectives on solidarity organizing. We also interview Jan Watson, a non-native Caledonia, Ontario resident who has been centrally involved in organizing against racism directed against the people of Six Nations. The roundtable concludes with reflections by AJ Withers, Josh Zucker and Stefanie Gude, focusing on the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty’s role in supporting the Six Nations struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the reviews section, Scott Neigh reflects on the connections between activism and research explored in \u003cem\u003eSociology for Changing the World: Social Movements\/Social Research,\u003c\/em\u003e edited by Caelie Frampton et al. Yutaka Dirk considers Dan Bergers’s assessment of the \u003cem\u003eWeather Underground: Outlaws of America\u003c\/em\u003e and Sharmeen Khan interrogates the white anti-racism of Inga Muscio’s \u003cem\u003eAutobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil: My Life and Times in a Racist, Imperialist Society.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe would like to take this opportunity to encourage our supporters to contribute financially to help us continue this project. Our journal is entirely “independent.” For those of you not keeping up with contemporary euphemisms, “independent” means we have no money. Basically, we’re broke. So, if you like what we do and would like us to keep on doing it, you should consider making a financial donation to the project. That way, you can be independent, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith your help, we hope to publish \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e twice a year. A one year subscription to the journal is $20, a two year subscription is $35, and back issues of Volumes 1 and 2 are available for $10 each. We especially encourage those who are financially endowed (like the professionals who feel sorry for us, the class traitors who envy us, and the organizations dying to keep it real) to consider purchasing a lifetime subscription to the journal for $250. This lifetime subscription (your life or ours – whichever expires first!) entitles you to all back and future issues of \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti,\u003c\/em\u003e along with other non journal materials, including pamphlets and DVDs that are currently in the works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe need other kinds of help, too. Although we have successfully distributed Upping the Anti throughout Canada and internationally with the help of distributors in our network, we welcome any further assistance with distribution. 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If you are a distributor who owes us money from previous issues, don’t be shy about getting in touch with us to cut a deal and arrange to receive copies of the new issue!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Solidarity and Struggle,\u003cbr\u003e\nAidan C., Erin G., Tom K., and Sharmeen K.\u003cbr\u003e\nToronto, November 6, 2006.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 183 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175086403677,"sku":"UTA 3","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_967_utathree3_0.jpg?v=1654987321"},{"product_id":"upping-the-anti-7","title":"Upping The Anti #7","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe October 2008 edition of this radical journal of theory and action from Toronto, Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eTable of Contents of Upping the Anti #7\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eEditorial\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Moment of Danger: Catastrophe and Actualization\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eInterviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eClayton Thomas-Müller—Just Environmentalism? 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Of our seven editors, five were on strike for 85 days between November and February with the membership of CUPE Local 3903 at York University in Toronto. Fighting precarious work and the neoliberal university, we weathered an unmovable administration before being legislated back to work by the provincial government. This exhilarating but exhausting midwinter, three-month strike threatened to delay our production aims.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNevertheless, as this issue came together, the editorial process revitalized our spirits, focused our goals and compelled us to publish something useful for future struggles. In our editorial, we engage with the challenges and opportunities that arise from the global economic crisis and the election of Barack Obama. Calling attention to the ways that politicians and economists are drawing on myth to reinvigorate capitalism, we consider the enduring question of hegemony. After evaluating some of the different orientations that today’s radicals adopt when approaching this question, we outline how the left might use myths to help constitute a broader collective and radical “we.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs always, we begin this issue with letters from our readers. Heather Hax and etienne turpin revisit the question of catastrophe in their responses to our last editorial (UTA 7). Reflecting on our interview with sex worker and organizer Kara Gillies, Simone Skye highlights the importance of adopting a labour perspective on sex work. Melissa Elliot responds to Tom Keefer’s article from last issue and offers a perspective on how non-native activists should relate to indigenous struggles. Finally, Greg Flemming responds to Neil Balan’s review of Žižek’s \u003cem\u003eDefense of Lost Causes\u003c\/em\u003e and Balan responds to Flemming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our interviews section, Aidan Conway talks with leading Marxist thinkers David McNally, Leo Panitch, and Sam Gindin about their perspectives on the current economic crisis. Long-time AIDS activist Gary Kinsman interviews Deborah Gould, a former ACT UP activist and author of the recently published \u003cem\u003eMoving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS\u003c\/em\u003e. In our final interview, Chris Dixon interviews Montreal-based organizer Helen Hudson as part of his ongoing project to record the experiences and insights of anti-authoritarian organizers in Canada and the US.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLong-time Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) organizer John Clarke begins our articles section with an assessment of the challenges of anti-poverty organizing and movement building during the economic crisis. Next, anti-Israeli apartheid activist Shourideh Molavi assesses the terrain for Palestine solidarity organizing in the wake of Israel’s attack on Gaza. Finally, solidarity activist Shiri Pasternak reports on the ongoing struggles of the Algonquins of Barriere Lake (ABL).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur first roundtable discussion finds members of the Student Liberation Action Movement (SLAM) revisiting their organizing experiences in the 1990s at New York City’s Hunter College. Our second roundtable explores the merits of study groups in radical left organizing and features participants from the LA Crew, Another Politics is Possible, the Activist Study Circles, and the New York Study Group.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKaty Rose begins our book reviews section with an investigation of \u003cem\u003eAsian Settler Colonialism\u003c\/em\u003e (U of Hawai’i Press), an edited collection in which authors explore the complicated colonial dynamics between “locals” and the native population of Hawai’i. Ernesto Aguilar reviews \u003cem\u003eLet Freedom Ring\u003c\/em\u003e (PM Press), an edited collection of political prisoner writing, and Frank Edgewick considers the long-awaited reprint of Semiotext(e)’s \u003cem\u003eAutonomia: Post-Political Politics.\u003c\/em\u003e Finally, DT Cochrane reviews Robert McChesney’s \u003cem\u003eThe Political Economy of Media\u003c\/em\u003e (Monthly Review Press).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis issue marks four years of \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e. We are pleased to welcome Erika Biddle to the editorial committee. We would like to thank former editor Nicole Cohen for her significant contributions to the journal and are pleased that she remains an active Advisory Board member. Since 2005, we have published two journals each year, hosted public forums, and maintained an ongoing and improving web presence. We have done this with an all-volunteer collective of editors and advisory board members. Nevertheless, producing a journal is expensive and \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e is only made possible through your support. If you have not done so already, please consider subscribing to \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e. After all, nothing beats receiving mail! We are happy to announce that we now have a sustainer’s program whereby you can make monthly donations to the journal to ensure that we are able to continue publishing. Visit us online to get a subscription or to make a donation. All donations go directly to the production of the journal. Visit us often at www.uppingtheanti.org and stay tuned for our website relaunch this summer. We look forward to your feedback on the new site’s design and usability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e number nine is scheduled to come out in October of 2009. If you are interested in contributing, please send a pitch to uppingtheanti@gmail.com. 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Here is the editors' introduction to this issue:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe can hardly believe it, but we’ve done it again. Welcome to the ninth issue of Upping the Anti, our latest contribution to the world of independent radical publishing. As soon as we’re done with one issue, another is in the works, and as usual, the challenges of producing a 200 page book twice a year are substantial. Independent publishing is precarious at the best of times, and because we’ve aimed big – by printing a journal with a circulation of 2,500 and cultivating distribution networks across the continent and beyond – we are no exception to the rule that radical publications need consistent and ongoing support from their readership. We have some new ideas about how to do that, but first let us update you on our changing editorial committee and the new issue. Founding editor Sharmeen Khan has reluctantly turned in her red pen and moved to the UTA advisory board, as has Erika Biddle.We thank both of them for their important contributions to the project. Editor AK Thompson has been on a leave of absence to complete his dissertation, and the work of getting this issue out has been greatly aided by the work of new editors David Hugill, Chandra Kumar, and Danielle O’Hearn. We also welcome Robyn Letson to our advisory board.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs always, we begin this issue with interventions from our readers which support, challenge or complete content from past issues. We’re always soliciting feedback and critical dialogue in our pages so drop us a line if you’ve got some thoughts about issue nine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our interviews section, Kelly Fritsch talks with disability, queer and trans activist, Eli Clare. Sharmeen Khan and Natalie Kouri-Towe interview leading scholar Sherene Razack about her book Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics (University of Toronto Press).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our first article, Palestine solidarity activist Ben Saifer analyses the emergence and assesses the implications of Zionist-initiated “dialogue” efforts on Canadian university campuses. Next, Kate Milley examines the organization of anti-native activism in response to the struggles of the Six Nations people on the Haldimand tract, revealing the broader, deeply entrenched racism and colonial logic of Canadian society. Finally, Chris Hurl and Kevin Walby untangle common assumptions about student movement politics in their historical analysis of The Canadian Union of Students from 1965-1969.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur roundtables section begins with a tenth anniversary reflection on the mass mobilization against the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999. Contributors offer retrospective analyses of this pivotal moment of the anti-globalization movement. The second roundtable discussion addresses anti-Olympic organizing. We hear from activists preparing for the upcoming mobilizations against the Vancouver 2010 games, and from those who organized against the games in Salt Lake City, Turin, and Sydney.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book reviews section features Sean Benjamin’s review of Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (AK Press), and Jeff Shantz’s review of The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History, Volume 1: Projectiles for the People (PM Press).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe hope you find Upping the Anti useful in your organizing work and research. If so, please support us as we face significant financial need. Very few radical publications are able to survive on subscriptions and sales alone and UTA has consciously chosen not to become dependent on government subsidies, grants, or foundation funding. To keep the journal affordable and truly independent, we need the support of our readers. If you have the means to help, we encourage you to join our online sustainers program. The wonders of the internet make it easy to support your most trusted projects; please go to http:\/\/uppingtheanti.org and become a monthly sustainer. We aim to have 100 sustainers by the end of 2009. If we succeed, we’ll have the financial security necessary to allow us to focus less on fundraising and more on bringing you the radical debate that is at the core of our effort. And if you’ve put off subscribing, wait no longer. Finally, we are always interested in connecting with activists who would like to distribute the journal. Bulk discounts are available, and if you feel like you could distribute 10 or more copies of each issue, please get in touch with us at uppingtheantidistro@gmail.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe are also happy to announce the launch of our new website thanks to the wonderful help of Christopher Dobbie. Please check us out at uppingtheanti.org. PDF versions of all our articles are now online and available to all subscribers, and the site has been re-organized so as to provide a better and more accessible archive of our content.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you are interested in contributing to issue 10 – scheduled to launch in April 2010 – please send a pitch to uppingtheanti@gmail.com describing your proposed contribution. Pitches are due by November 29, 2009. The deadline for first drafts is January 4, 2010. 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A Line in the Tar Sands is drawn with hope and righteous anger, celebrating the cosmologies that the tar sands industry—and its politicians—would destroy.” Raj Patel, author of \u003cem\u003eStuffed and Starved\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This collaborative effort not only details the insanity of tar sands development, it also shines a light on the Indigenous-led resistance movement challenging the fundamentally exploitative paradigm underlying extreme energy extraction. 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The Arab Spring resulted in regime changes and a reconfiguration of imperial dynamics in most countries, while in Syria the war continues, with no clear trajectory of it ending. The indignados and Occupy Wall Street have changed the political landscape, but the Right has adapted, upping their anti against people of colour, immigrants, women, LGBTQ folks, and workers alike. The Right’s success in many governments continues to cement a neo-liberal agenda. Most recently, we see the beginning of the Trans Pacific Partnership but have yet to see a real opposition to it. While this may reveal instances of weakness, of course, we continue to resist. We continue to be inspired by the Chicago teachers’ strike and the Québec student strike, each of which effectively linked the struggles against oppression, capitalist exploitation, and imperialism. More recently, we have witnessed the fast food workers strike in the US go global, while Brazil erupts in protests triggered by the World Cup. 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We then bring to you a roundtable with Karin Baqi, Shireen Soofi, Khaoula Bengezi, Josee Oliphant, Amy Darwish, and Rosalind Wong, organizers for migrant justice in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Hamilton, who discuss Sanctuary\/Solidarity City campaigns and the successes, changes, and challenges within this movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUTA 16’s book reviews section starts off with Patrick Dedauw’s analysis of Safe Space: Gay Neighbourhood History and the Politics of Violence by Christina Hanhardt, in which he assesses Hanhardt’s history of urban LGBTQ activist movements and applies some lessons from the book to current LGBTQ organizing in Montreal. Next, Jannie Wing-sea Leung delves into the anthology Comrades In Health: US Health Internationalists Abroad and at Home to examine its importance to the work of radical health practitioners. 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Lastly, we want to thank the people who helped us with copyediting and proofreading: Rita Camacho, Leslie Muñoz, Amy Saunders, Sarah Miller, Nate Prior, Elizabeth Farries, Tristan Sturm, Élise Thorburn, Nicole Leach, Jody Smith and Robyn Hartley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs usual, we have pushed the authors, interviewees, and participants in roundtables to connect forms of oppression with capitalism and imperialism. We hope that the pieces they have produced will be useful in articulating larger demands and building the overarching and coordinating organizations that we lack and urgently need. We welcome criticism in this context, as well as your pitches for articles, roundtables, interviews, and book reviews for Issue 17 of Upping the Anti. 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And then there was the Printemps érable — the Maple Spring. In 2011, proclaiming the need for austerity, Québec’s governing Liberal Party announced a draconian increase in tuition fees. Enraged that the government would destroy a legacy of public education, so hard won during the 1960s Quiet Revolution — a legacy from which they themselves had reaped benefits — the youth of Québec took to the streets in a student strike under the banner of the carrés rouges. They fought not merely for education, but for the future: a future they watch being destroyed by the unrelenting march of capitalism, intent on the merciless exploitation of citizens and natural resources.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGeneration Rising is the story of the most important mass mobilization in Québec’s (and Canada’s) history. 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It is the story of the Internet generation deploying its mastery of social media to harness the forces of hundreds of thousands, and ultimately defeat a battle-hardened premier.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt the end of it all, Québec’s first social media mobilization had laid the foundations for a brave new future, where the old world of order and authority might finally be swept aside to make way for a new, twenty-first-century democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLe combat est avenir — the fight is the future, and the battle has just begun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Shawn Katz\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781552667255\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 232 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Fernwood\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fernwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175212789853,"sku":"9781552667255","price":36.36,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/generationrising.jpg?v=1654987900"},{"product_id":"mortar-1","title":"Mortar #1: Revolutionary Journal of Common Cause Anarchist Organization","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first volume of Mortar, the theoretical journal of Common Cause, an Ontario-based anarchist organization. Inside you will find an editorial introduction, along with five collectively written articles covering subjects such as building community power, disability and dual consciousness, militancy, false conceptions of democracy and anarchist perspectives on gentrification.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMortar is available for free (not including postage), or can be \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/linchpin.ca\/?q=mortar-volume-1\"\u003edownloaded from Common Cause's website here\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Common Cause\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: magazine\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 45 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Common Cause\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Cause","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175213117533,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/Mortar1_0_Page_01_0.jpg?v=1654987901"},{"product_id":"upping-the-anti-18-august-2016","title":"Upping the Anti #18 (August 2016)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe August 2016 issue of this journal of radical theory and practice, produced by anticapitalists in canada. Here is the editors' introduction to this issue, followed by the table of contents:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDear readers, family, fans, and haters,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThank you for your sustained love, resistance, and solidarity. We’ve been working hard to bring you some really exciting and thought provoking material to keep you coming back for more! It is with much pleasure and gratitude that we bring you Issue 18 of Upping the Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt has been an exciting few months of editing articles and working on production. This past spring, we saw two important occupations in the city of Toronto. In April 2016, members of Black Lives Matter-Toronto (BLM-TO) and allies completed a 15-day occupation at the police headquarters demanding justice for murdered Black people. Andrew Loku, Jermaine Carby, and many others have been killed as a result of police brutality. The occupation occurred during the coldest weather in Toronto – yet they managed to hold the space for two weeks as communities across the country rallied to support them.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA few weeks later, we then saw a militant occupation of the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) office as the Attawapiskat First Nation called a state of emergency in response to the nation’s suicide crisis. Allied with Black Lives Matter, Indigenous activists and other allies demonstrated cross-community support bridging anti-Black racism with colonization. In both occupations, various organizations, unions, and individuals rallied to support activists holding down the space. People provided hot meals, warm clothing and supplies, performances, numbers, letters of support, and on-site medical care. The connections forged during the weeks at BLM-TO Tent City and the INAC occupation show how cross-political and community alliances can be developed and maintained through direct action. With those Toronto specific actions, the editors continue to engage with and publish the lessons and histories of radical social movements, especially as activists experiment with different models of organizing.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSince our last issue, Canada has experienced a young, fresh-faced, Trudeau-style welcome to tens of thousands of Syrian refugees. Their presence has influenced a liberal settler-patriotism and compassion, as well as provoked the ire of many fascist elements of this society. While state massacres rage on in Syria, many borders across Europe have closed their gates in the face of an unprecedented movement of migrants from the all regions of the global south. Global upheavals have also occurred in growing numbers. In March 2016, approximately 7 million Brazilians marched in protest of the Rousseff government’s corruption amidst the country’s dwindling economic state. Thousands of students at Jawaharlal Nehru University mobilized against the growing Hindu nationalist movement that sought to try student union comrades under charges of sedition for their demands for Kashmiri \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM3NzYyIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/azadi-freedom-fascism-fiction\" title=\"azadi\"\u003eazadi\u003c\/a\u003e, dismantling the caste system, and freedom to political prisoners. Comrades, there is much to rage against!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn this issue, we address some of the rage-inducing issues facing today’s social justice movements. Because we recognize the toll of these struggles as well as the need to fight for something instead of always fighting against, we start off with our editorial on self care. After many engrossing discussions on this hot topic, members of the editorial committee all seem to agree on the need for our circles to (continue to) talk about both self care and community care to build, strengthen, and sustain our movements. It’s not easy to keep the struggle going, let alone do it without radical care, affection, and mutual aid.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn our interviews section, we start off with an interview with OmiSoore H. Dryden and Suzanne Lenon on their recent book entitled, Disrupting Queer Inclusion: Canadian Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging. This interview raises some important questions with how capitalist nationalism is reproduced in LGBT communities and how queer activists can disrupt these logics. We then have an interview with one of the founding members of Upping the Anti. In Chris Dixon’s interview with Sharmeen Khan on 10 years of UTA, she reflects on the successes and on-going struggles of maintaining an alternative, political publication. Finally, Salmaan Khan interviews Sandy Hudson, one of the spokespeople and founders of BLM-TO. In this interview, Hudson discusses the history of anti-Black racism and rise of Black Lives Matter in Toronto – from the murder of Jermaine Carby to the occupation of the police station in downtown Toronto.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOur articles section kicks off with Kris Hermes’ “Collective Action Behind Bars.” With the current year holding two national conventions for the Republican and Democratic parties, Hermes’ article looks back to different jail solidarity tactics during mass convergences. We also feature a piece by John Huot on “Autonomist Marxism and Workplace Organizing in Ontario in the 1970s,” which focuses on the struggles of rank and file workers against union the bureaucracy. Looking at how the New Tendency influenced the Canadian postal workers union, we see both the influence as well as the limitations to their organizing. We conclude our articles section with a piece by Annelies Cooper entitled, “The Interpersonal is Political.” In this piece Cooper unpacks the relationships of solidarity and mutual aid between settlers and Indigenous activists and pushes readers to think through what meaningful relationships could look like across settler-Indigenous activism.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNext up we feature a roundtable on “Sex Work Politics and Prison Abolition” conducted by Niloofar Golkar. Featuring Elene Lam, Chanelle Gallant, Robyn Maynard, and Monica Forrester, this conversation challenges liberal-feminist approaches to sex work and insists on centering a prison abolitionist framework in sex worker organizing.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFinally, in our book reviews section, Karl Gardner reviews Umair Muhammad’s book Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in an Age of Indivdualism. This review is focused on the importance of critiquing individual “lifestyle” activism and its replacement with collective organizing efforts. Then, Bob Eastman reviews The City is Ours, outlining the importance of squatting movements in Europe and North America. Lastly, Shane Burley looks at the rise of fascism by reviewing two books: Militant Anti-Fascism and Physical Resistance. Here Burley offers insight into how activists can understand the emergence of fascism and incorporate a diversity of tactics in their struggles against it.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfter you get through some or all of this content, please consider writing us a letter about any topic that piques your interest or inspires great disagreement. If you are interested in submitting an article, book review, roundtable, or interview pitch for Issue 19, please do so by September 30, 2016. Thank you again for your continued readership and support. If you’re not already a subscriber or sustainer, please offer us some of your capital through one or both of those methods, or a one time larger than life donation. You can do so at uppingtheanti.org where you will also find submission guidelines and material from previous issues. If you’d like to join the editorial committee or advisory board or if you’d like to help out with the project in any way, please email us at uppingtheanti@gmail.com.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe are sad to say goodbye (for now) to former editors Robyn Letson and Amelia Spedaliere (who both remain involved on the advisory board) but are so overjoyed to welcome Karl Gardner, Niloofar Golkar, and Salmaan Khan to the editorial collective. As always, without the ongoing support and labour of our former and current editors and advisory board members, this work would not be possible. We are also saying goodbye and a heartfelt thank you to some long-time advisory board members who are moving on from the project: Irina Ceric, Mandy Hiscocks, Karl Kersplebedeb, Thomas Nail, and Adrie Naylor. Their involvement has been invaluable! Finally, we would also like to give a shoutout to folks who came by Sharmeen’s apartment to help with proofing and those who gave feedback on our editorial. Thanks to: Adrie Naylor, Kieran Hart, Tom Keefer, Gita Madan, Andrew Stokes, Thania Vega, and Shayla Chilliak. Also much gratitude to Daryl Vocat for illustrating this issue’s cover art (write us a letter about it!) and Simon Black for our ad art because the beauty of our movements should be reflected by beautiful art. We hope you enjoy Issue 18!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eIn struggle and solidarity,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJasmine, Devin Clancy, Karl Gardner,\u003cbr\u003e\nNiloofar Golkar, Sharmeen Khan, and Salmaan Khan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto, August 2016\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eplease note that the contents of Upping the Anti \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.uppingtheanti.org\/journal\/uta\/eighteen\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ecan be read online on their website here\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eTABLE OF CONTENTS\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eInterviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnpacking Inclusion and Building Queer(er) Alliances: An interview with OmiSoore H. Dryden \u0026amp; Suzanne Lenon\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eRobyn Letson \u0026amp; Jasmine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBuilding Community, building resistance: Black Lives Matter-Toronto, an interview with Sandra Hudson \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eSalmaan Khan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGrassroots Theory: 10 Years of Upping the Anti: An interview with Sharmeen Khan \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eChris Dixon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eArticles\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCollective Action Behind Bars: A history of jail solidarity and its importance for today's social change movements\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eKris Hermes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAutonomist Marxism and Workplace Organizing in Canada in the 1970s\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eJohn Huot\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Interpersonal is Political: Lessons from Indigenous Solidarity Organizing: Reflections on Union Activism and Indigenous Solidarity Work\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eAnnelies Cooper\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eRoundtables\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA Roundtable on Sex Work Politics and Prison Abolition : \u003cem\u003ewith Elene Lam, Chanelle Gallant, Robyn Maynard and Monica Forrester\u003cbr\u003e\nNiloofar Golkar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Reviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eConfronting Injustice\u003cbr\u003e\nFrom Individual Activists to Collective Organizers\u003cbr\u003e\nUmair Muhammad\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eREVIEW BY Karl Gardner\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA Lasting Influence\u003cbr\u003e\nAsk Katzeff, Bart van der Steen, and Leender van Hoogenhuize\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eREVIEW BY Bob Eastman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnti Fascism: 100 Years in the Streets\u003cbr\u003e\nM. Testa and Dave Hann\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eREVIEW BY Shane Burley\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 160 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175235858525,"sku":"UTA 18","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/uta_18_cover.jpg?v=1654987987"},{"product_id":"arsenal-9-2017-english","title":"Arsenal 9\/2017 (english)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe theoretical journal of Canada's Parti Révolutionnaire Communiste\/Revolutionary Communist Party, rebooted after several years' absence. As the editors' foreword explains:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis year marks two anniversaries: the 150 year an-niversary of the founding of Canada and the 100 year anniversary of the October Revolution. Both are significant for the re-initiation of Arsenal––the theoretical journal of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Canada [PCR-RCP]––though for drastically different reasons.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe first anniversary, which the Canadian state will be celebrating from January to December, represents the founding of a blood-drenched capitalist state after just over three hundred years of colonial settlement and plunder. In 1534 rising European powers made contact with the Indigenous nations that composed the social fabric of the regions that would eventually be enclosed in the borders of the entity we now call Canada. After numerous vicious and genocidal policies enacted alongside the clash between colonial powers, not to mention the important and heroic resistance of the original nations, the settler-state of Canada was established in 1867. Since the PCR-RCP has maintained, since its own foundation, that any revolutionary movement worthy of the name “revolutionary” must reject the colonial entity of “Canada”, this anniversary is significant insofar as it represents a mythology that we reject. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDoubtless this year will witness claims about Canada’s supposed “greatness” that either dismiss\/downplay its history of “blood and fire” or, due to the rise of fascism, celebrate colonial might. Our entire existence, and the theoretical understanding that guides the essays comprising this journal, is premised on the rejection of the Canadian myth: from our beginning we have understood the ways in which Canadian nationalism has crept into the communist movement; Canadian left nationalism is synonymous with revisionism.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThus, it is the second anniversary that we celebrate––an anniversary that those canonizing Canada’s 150 years will likely reject and belittle. Whereas 150 years ago the managers of colonial rule consolidated their predatory hege¬mony, 100 years ago on the other side of the world our ideological ancestors succeeded in launching the first successful communist seizure of state power. In the face of the armed might of the reactionary state, the Bolsheviks led by Lenin not only declared victory but consolidated this victory into the first example of modern socialism, a dictatorship of the exploited and oppressed rather than a dictatorship of exploiters and oppressors. Unlike the anniversary of Canada’s founding, we believe that the anniversary of the October Revolution is worth celebrating. But we can expect that the Canadian ruling class, excited to peddle the ideology of Canada’s “greatness” during this anniversary year, will also expend time and energy, along with their counterparts south of the border and throughout the imperialist camp, rehashing old cold war propaganda about the Russian Revolution so as to confirm its failure as pre-ordained: revolutions are “monsters that eat their young”, capitalism is the “best of the worst”, everything outside of the capitalist world order is “totalitarian”, and the so-called “end of history” is a fact of nature… This is the real totalitarian worldview and one that we should roundly reject.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt is in this context that we are relaunching our theoretical journal, Arsenal. Over a decade has passed since the original run of Arsenal, a series of magazines the initial Organizing Committees of the PCR-RCP published in the lead up to the drafting of the party programme. Since that time, while we have grown as an organization and engaged in various and important practical labour, aside from a few notable exceptions we have not produced any new theore¬tical work for popular consumption. Since we uphold Lenin’s statement that guided the October Revolution (without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement) it is necessary to redress this theoretical absence.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBut, since we are not merely “Marxist-Leninist” because we also uphold another revolutionary sequence––the one conceptualized under the term “Maoism”––we understand the business of organizing and preparing for a revolution in a way that is different from, though inspired by, the Bolsheviks in 1917. The “party of the new type” that we aim to build in Canada, the project towards which all our energy has been dedicated, is not simply a “Leninist” party but a Maoist party. Hence we figured that it would be appropriate to reintroduce our theoretical journal according to this theme: the Maoist party of the new type. At the very least the following articles will acquaint the curious reader with the way we see ourselves as an organization and what makes us different from others who also celebrate the legacy of the October Revolution.\u003cbr\u003e\nWe sincerely hope that the following articles will be helpful in thinking through the task of making revolution in this social context, a task that necessarily requires a rejection of this year’s celebration of Canadian Confederacy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBuilding a Maoist Party of a New Type\u003cbr\u003e\nA Theory in Search of a Theory: on the post-Maoist drift\u003cbr\u003e\nCommunist Methods of Mass Work\u003cbr\u003e\nDefining a Strategy of Revolution: a key issue for every revolutionary movement\u003cbr\u003e\nPeople’s War and Militarization of the Revolutionary Party: the case of the Communist Party of Peru\u003cbr\u003e\nMultipartyism in Light of Class Struggle\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Austerity Apparatus: some preliminary notes\u003cbr\u003e\nChallenges Facing the International Communist Movement: \u003cbr\u003e\nOn the experience of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) and the fight for regrouping the Maoist forces at the international level \u003cbr\u003e\nTowards a New General Line of the International Communist Movement\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/arsenal-92017-fran%C3%A7ais\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eaussi disponible en français\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: magazine\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 207 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PCR\/RCP\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PCR\/RCP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175241166941,"sku":"ARS9E","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/arsenal2017.jpg?v=1654988013"},{"product_id":"arsenal-9-2017-francais","title":"Arsenal 9\/2017 (français)","description":"\u003cp\u003eArsenal–la revue théorique du Parti Communiste Révolutionnaire, est relancé après plusieurs années d'abcense. Comme écrivent les éditeurs dans leur Avant-propos:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCette année marque deux anniversaires : le 150e anniversaire de la fondation du Canada et le centenaire de la révolution d’Octobre. Les deux sont importants pour la relance d’Arsenal – la revue théorique du Parti communiste révolutionnaire du Canada – bien que pour des raisons radicalement différentes.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLe premier, que le gouvernement canadien ne manquera pas de célébrer tout au long de l’année, rappelle la fondation d’un État capitaliste entaché de sang, après plus de 300 ans de pillage et de colonisation. En 1534, les puissances européennes montantes sont entrées en contact avec les nations indigènes qui formaient le tissu social des régions qui finiront par être enfermées à l’intérieur des frontières de l’entité que l’on appelle main-tenant le Canada. Suite à la mise en œuvre de politiques vicieuses et génocidaires nombreuses en marge des conflits opposant les puissances coloniales entre elles – sans parler de la résistance héroïque des nations originelles – l’État colonial canadien a été officiellement créé en 1867.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePuisque le PCR a toujours maintenu que tout mouvement révolutionnaire digne de ce nom doit rejeter d’emblée cette entité coloniale, cet anniversaire est significatif, dans la mesure où il représente une mythologie que nous récusons. Nul doute que tout au long de l’année, on nous assènera de propagande au sujet de la «grandeur» du Canada, dans laquelle on taira ou minimisera sa véritable histoire «de feu et de sang» – quand on ne célébrera pas sa puissance coloniale. L’existence du PCR et la conception théorique qui guide les essais publiés dans cette revue reposent fondamentalement sur le rejet du mythe canadien: dès le début, nous avons dénoncé l’infiltration du nationalisme canadien au sein du mouvement communiste; le nationalisme canadien «de gauche» est clairement synonyme de révisionnisme.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eC’est donc plutôt le deuxième anniversaire que nous comptons célébrer – un anniversaire que les apologistes des 150 ans du Canada vont quant à eux rejeter et déprécier. Tandis qu’il y a 150 ans, les artisans de la domination coloniale consolidaient leur hégémonie prédatrice, en 1917, de l’autre côté du monde, nos ancêtres idéologiques ont réussi pour une première fois à prendre le pouvoir au nom du communisme. Face aux forces armées de l’État réactionnaire, les bolcheviks dirigés par Lénine ont non seulement remporté la victoire, mais ils l’ont ensuite consolidée dans ce qui fut le premier exemple du socialisme moderne: la dictature des exploitéEs et des oppriméEs, en lieu et place de celle des exploiteurs et des oppresseurs. Contrairement à celui de la fondation du Canada, l’anniversaire de la révolution d’Octobre mérite d’être célébré. Mais il faut s’attendre à ce que la classe dominante canadienne, enthousiasmée par l’idéologie de la «grandeur» du Canada qui déferlera tout au long de l’année, consacre également du temps et de l’énergie, avec ses homologues au sud de la frontière et ailleurs dans tout le camp impérialiste, et ressorte sa vieille propagande de l’époque de la guerre froide contre la révolution russe. Elle nous dira que les révolutions sont des «monstres qui bouffent leurs jeunes», que le capitalisme est «le moins pire de tous les systèmes», que tout ce qu’on a tenté de créer en-dehors de l’ordre mondial capitaliste fut «totalitaire» et que ce que l’on a appelé «la fin de l’Histoire» est un fait avéré… Ces mensonges reflètent la véritable vision du monde totalitaire, et on doit les réfuter avec vigueur.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eC’est dans ce contexte que nous relançons notre revue théorique. Plus d’une décennie s’est écoulée depuis la parution originale d’Arsenal – une série de magazines que les premiers comités d’organisation du PCR ont publiée avant la création du parti. Depuis, alors que nous avons grandi en tant qu’organisation et que nous nous sommes engagés dans une activité pratique importante et diversifiée, nous n’avons pas produit de nouveaux travaux théoriques destinés à la consommation populaire, à part quelques exceptions notables. Puisque nous soutenons le point de vue de Lénine ayant guidé la révolution d’Octobre («sans théorie révolutionnaire, pas de mouvement révolutionnaire»), il devenait nécessaire de remédier à cette absence.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMais comme nous ne sommes pas simplement «marxistes-léninistes» et que nous défendons aussi une autre séquence révolutionnaire – celle qui a été conceptualisée sous le terme de «maoïsme» –, nous concevons l’organisation et la préparation de la révolution d’une manière différente, bien qu’inspirée par les bolcheviks de 1917. Le «parti de type nouveau» que nous voulons bâtir au Canada – le projet vers lequel toutes nos énergies ont été consacrées – n’est pas un parti simplement «léniniste», mais un parti maoïste. Nous avons donc pensé qu’il serait approprié de réintroduire notre revue théorique sous ce thème: le parti maoïste de type nouveau. Les articles contenus dans ce numéro permettront aux lectrices et lecteurs de découvrir la façon dont nous nous concevons comme organisation et ce qui nous différencie des autres groupes ou partis qui célèbrent eux aussi l’héritage de la révolution d’Octobre.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNous espérons sincèrement que cette revue contribuera à faire avancer la réflexion sur les nécessités de la révolution dans le contexte actuel – une tâche qui va de pair avec le rejet de la célébration des 150 ans de la Confédération canadienne.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAu sommaire:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBâtir un parti maoïste de type nouveau\u003cbr\u003e\nUne théorie à la recherche d’une théorie: à propos de la dérive post-maoïste\u003cbr\u003e\nL’approche communiste du travail de masse\u003cbr\u003e\nDéfinir une stratégie révolutionnaire: une question clé pour tout mouvement voué à la révolution\u003cbr\u003e\nGuerre populaire et militarisation du parti révolutionnaire: l’exemple du Parti communiste du Pérou\u003cbr\u003e\nLe multipartisme sous l’angle de la lutte de classes\u003cbr\u003e\nL’appareil austéritaire: notes préliminaires\u003cbr\u003e\nLes défis du mouvement communiste international: \u003cbr\u003e\nSur l’expérience du Mouvement révolutionnaire internationaliste (MRI) et la lutte pour regrouper les forces maoïstes \u003cbr\u003e\nVers une nouvelle ligne générale du mouvement communiste international\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/arsenal-92017-english\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ealso available in english\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: magazine\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 205 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PCR\/RCP\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PCR\/RCP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175242018909,"sku":"ARS9F","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/arsenal_fr.jpg?v=1654988016"},{"product_id":"policing-black-lives-state-violence-in-canada-from-slavery-to-the-present","title":"Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, \u003cem\u003ePolicing Black Lives\u003c\/em\u003e traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first comprehensive account of nearly four hundred years of state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization and punishment of Black lives in Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile highlighting the ubiquity of Black resistance,\u003cem\u003e Policing Black Lives \u003c\/em\u003etraces the still-living legacy of slavery across multiple institutions, shedding light on the state’s role in perpetuating contemporary Black poverty and unemployment, racial profiling, law enforcement violence, incarceration, immigration detention, deportation, exploitative migrant labour practices, disproportionate child removal and low graduation rates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmerging from a critical race feminist framework that insists that all Black lives matter, Maynard’s intersectional approach to anti-Black racism addresses the unique and understudied impacts of state violence as it is experienced by Black women, Black people with disabilities, as well as queer, trans, and undocumented Black communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA call-to-action, \u003cem\u003ePolicing Black Lives \u003c\/em\u003eurges readers to work toward dismantling structures of racial domination and re-imagining a more just society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Robyn Maynard’s meticulously-researched and compelling analysis of state violence challenges prevailing narratives of Canadian multiculturalism and inclusion by examining how structures of racism and ideologies of gender are complexly anchored in global histories of colonization and slavery. 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In compelling and accessible prose, Maynard provides a sweeping overview of Canadian state violence from colonial times to the present, seamlessly articulating the relationship - and distinctions - between settler colonialism and anti-Blackness, and centering Black women, trans and gender nonconforming people within the broader narrative. Through an analysis squarely situated in the global socioeconomic context, \u003cem\u003ePolicing Black Lives \u003c\/em\u003eexplores parallels between state violence in Canada and its neighbor to the South, as well as the unique legal, social and historical forces informing criminalization through segregation, surveillance, “stop and frisk”\/carding\/street checks, the war on drugs, gang policing, the school to prison pipeline, welfare “fraud” and child welfare enforcement, and the conflation of immigration and criminality. The result is both eye-opening and chilling, firmly pointing to shared fronts of struggle across borders. Policing Black Lives is a critical read for all in Canada and the United States who #SayHerName and assert that #BlackLivesMatter, and essential to movements for Black liberation on Turtle Island.\" Andrea J. Ritchie, author \u003cem\u003eInvisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"To understand this moment in Canada when Black communities are asserting that Black Lives really do matter, readers need this book.\" Sylvia D. Hamilton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Grounded in an impressive and expansive treatment of Black Canadian history, Maynard has written a powerful account of state anti-Black violence in Canada. 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