{"title":"Iskra Books","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eIskra Books\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a nonprofit, independent, scholarly publisher—publishing original works of theory, history, ecology, and art, as well as edited collections, new translations, and critical republications of older works. We focus specifically on the progressive and avant-garde nature of working class thought—moving critical scholarship and arts forward in innovative and practical ways. 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With a new foreword by Gabriel Rockhill, \u003cem\u003eNeocapitalism According to Michel Clouscard\u003c\/em\u003e introduces a new generation of anglosphere organizers and students to one of the most underappreciated theorists of postwar French Marxism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e​From the Foreword:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In this book, Aymeric Monville provides us with a concise and insightful overview of the work of a major French Marxist: Michel Clouscard. Unfortunately, his writings are almost completely unknown in the Anglophone world. Due to a series of factors, some of which Clouscard himself deftly diagnosed, the global theory industry has promoted anti-communist French theory—as well as forms of Marxism opposed to actually existing socialism—at the expense of thinkers like Clouscard and Monville. 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Over the course of the months of September and October, 2023, a series of interviews were conducted with Independent Workers' Union (IWU) members involved in the high-profile Iceland Trade Dispute. In this volume, in addition to workers' interviews, we include an essay from a member of the IWU, as well as three supporting, classic pieces written by Irishwomen Trade Unionists, including one from James Connolly's daughter, Nora, who proudly continued her father's work. A recurring theme of the interviews present in this book is the presence of a large number of women, especially mothers, in the frontlines of Irish labor struggles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaken together, classical writings from Irishwomen Trade Unionists and contemporary writings such as those from the Iceland workers, emphasize the ongoing, interconnected struggles of women who, across time, bear the brunt of exploitation. Women are providers for their families; they pay mortgages, and they have children to raise. 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This truly beautiful work bridges poetry, photography, and avant-garde design in a way that portrays the timeless, suspended moments of the tireless revolutionary heart in a light that is at once familiar, personal, and poignant. With moving poetry and beautiful photography from cover to cover, Alive and Paranoid—the second book in Iskra Books' popular Red Poetry Series—feels sacred: a window into the personal, deeply reflective life of one of today's leading and most heartfelt poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlive and Paranoid\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential creative work, sure to endure for decades to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book was written in the hamster wheel, in the sense that D. Musa Springer penned these poems not in leisure but in labor-in spite and because of the sleepless hustle Amerika demands. 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Writing in the immediate wake of the al-Aqsa Flood and the genocidal campaign unleashed against Gaza, Yanis Iqbal reconstructs the ideological architecture that licenses extermination: Zionism, liberal modernity, and a global consensus that treats Palestinian resistance as a metaphysical scandal rather than a political fact.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\" style=\"text-align: start; ; white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAcross five tightly argued chapters, Iqbal stages a confrontation between Marxism and postcolonial theory around the problem of the colonial mode of production, developing sharp critiques of Slavoj Žižek and \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzYifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/etienne-balibar\" title=\"Étienne Balibar\"\u003eÉtienne Balibar\u003c\/a\u003e for the ways their \"abstract negativity\" and political quietism ultimately disarm solidarity with Palestinian struggle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\" style=\"text-align: start; ; white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDrawing on Mahdi Amel, Fanon, Lukács, and Marx's own insistence that philosophy must become a practice of liberation, Iqbal argues that philosophy today either aligns itself with the physics of the oppressed—or becomes complicit with extermination.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e The Sword and the Neck \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethus reads al-Aqsa Flood as a concrete act of decolonization, a rupture in the spatial order of siege that transforms Gaza from a zone of managed death into a site of revolutionary initiative. 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Written between Berlin and Pavia, this book offers a rigorous analysis of what Hermeto calls “the perpetual present”—a condition in which capitalism reproduces itself through historical amnesia, ideological domination, and aesthetic illusion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\" style=\"text-align: start; ; white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAcross essays on aesthetics, ontology, and political economy, Hermeto traces how capitalism has reconstituted time itself: dissolving the collective capacity for historical transformation and turning social critique into a mirror of its own logic. 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In his luminous debut, Yahya Al Hamarna documents the brutalities of war alongside the fragile rituals of everyday life—studying, walking to the park, reading poetry, preparing tea, mourning, surviving.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\" style=\"text-align: start; ; white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the cramped intimacy of displacement tents to the imagined serenity of university lectures and Real Madrid matches, Al Hamarna crafts a poetics of survival: one that refuses despair and insists on the unconquerable dignity of the Palestinian people.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\" style=\"text-align: start; ; white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThrough diaristic reflection, stark testimony, and vivid lyricism, Al Hamarna’s work resists the machinery of occupation with quiet force. 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