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I am a soldier of the ideal.\"―Carlo Tresca, 1923\u003c\/em\u003e Arriving in America in 1904, Carlo Tresca began a nearly forty-year stretch as an active revolutionary. Nunzio Pernicone's definitive biography chronicles Tresca's larger-than-life personality, his revolutionary apprenticeship in Sulmona, Italy, and his subsequent career as fighter for liberty until his untimely death in 1943. The story of his life―as newspaper editor, labor agitator, anarchist, anti-communist, street fighter, and opponent of fascism―illuminates the lost world of Italian-American radicalism. Among friends and comrades Tresca counted revolutionary luminaries such as Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, \"Big Bill\" Haywood, Alexander Berkman, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM1MzI3In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/emma-goldman\" title=\"Emma Goldman\"\u003eEmma Goldman\u003c\/a\u003e, and countless \u003cem\u003esovversivi\u003c\/em\u003e. From his work on behalf of the IWW, to his editorship of numerous papers, including Il Proletario and Il Martello, and his assassination on the streets of New York City, Tresca's passion left a permanent mark on the American map.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Tresca's memory should be honored by all fighters for freedom today and Pernicone has done both Tresca and our movement a great service in writing this biography of an undeservingly forgotten champion of freedom.\"―Iain McKay, editor of \u003cem\u003eAn Anarchist FAQ\u003c\/em\u003e \"One could hardly find a more thorough and finely balanced investigation into the daily fabric of Tresca's life. Pernicone has brought to light and clarified myriad twists and turns of a sleepless fight, with a no-nonsense attitude which points straight to the nitty-gritty.\"―\u003cem\u003eJournal of Modern Italian Studies\u003c\/em\u003e \"Based on an extraordinary amount of research in primary and secondary Italian and American sources, [Pernicone] has written the definitive biography of this charismatic and fearless rebel. For anyone interested in Italian-American studies, labor history, and radical politics―or who seeks an in-depth understanding of early twentieth century United States history―Pernicone's biography of Tresca is must reading.\"―Spencer M. Di Scala, author of \u003cem\u003eItaly: From Revolution to Republic, 1700 to the Present\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNunzio Pernicone is professor of History at Drexel University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eItalian Anarchism, 1864–1892\u003c\/em\u003e, and editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Autobiography of Carlo Tresca\u003c\/em\u003e, and has published numerous articles on Italian-American radicalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Nunzio Pernicone\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781849350037\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 387 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: AK Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175074672733,"sku":"9781849350037","price":27.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_883_tresca3_0.jpg?v=1654987230"},{"product_id":"clenched-fists-empty-pockets","title":"Clenched Fists Empty Pockets","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eClenched Fists Empty Pockets \u003c\/em\u003esix working-class activists from Sweden discuss their experiences with class and middle-class hegemony in a variety of left-wing scenes and organizations. In doing som they flesh out the complexities and limits of what in Sweden is referred to as a “class journey.” Dealing with more than economic realities, the authors grapple with the full gamut of cultural and social class hierarchies that are embedded in the society and the left. As Fredric Carlsson-Andersson and Atilla Pişkin explain in their introductory essay: \u003cem\u003e\"The texts gathered here deal with the left as well, but in a different way: they address an alternative movement that regularly talks about the working class, but often in circles that lack even a single working-class member. In particular, though, the texts are about us: comrades from the working class who find themselves on the left, and who find themselves feeling lost and out of place – obviously, not always, but often enough. It’s easy to imagine the left as unconditionally welcoming. However, that’s not the case. As in all other scenes, the left has strict standards of right and wrong. It can take years to learn all of the rules.\"\u003c\/em\u003e This english-language edition contains a new preface by translator \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMDQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gabriel-kuhn\" title=\"Gabriel Kuhn\"\u003eGabriel Kuhn\u003c\/a\u003e, and an introduction by former Montreal activist Michael Ryan. Translated by Gabriel Kuhn and André Moncourt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Fredric Carlsson-Andersson, Atilla Pişkin\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Saddle-stitched pamphlet\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-894946-34-6\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 36 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175074738269,"sku":"9781894946346","price":4.69,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_885_cfep3_0.jpg?v=1654987232"},{"product_id":"when-miners-march","title":"When Miners March","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the first half of the 20th century, strikes and Union battles, murders and frame-ups, were common in every industrial center in the U.S. But none of these episodes compared in scope to the West Virginia Mine Wars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe uprisings of coal miners that defined the Mine Wars of the 1920’s were a direct result of the Draconian rule of the coal companies. The climax was the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest open and armed rebellion in U.S. history. The Battle, and Union leader Bill Blizzard’s quest for justice, was only quelled when the U.S. Army brought guns, poison gas and aerial bombers to stop the 10,000 bandanna-clad miners who formed the spontaneous “Red Neck Army.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver half a century ago, William C. Blizzard wrote the definitive insider’s history of the Mine Wars and the resulting trial for treason of his father, the fearless leader of the Red Neck Army. Events dramatized in John Sayles film \u003cem\u003eMatewan\u003c\/em\u003e, and fictionalized in Denise Giardina’s stirring novel \u003cem\u003eStorming Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e, are here recounted as they occurred. This is a people's history, complete with previously unpublished family photos and documents. If it brawls a little, and brags a little, and is angry more than a little, well, the people in this book were that way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003eWhen Miners March\u003cem\u003e is an extraordinary account of a largely ignored but important event in the history of our nation.\" \u003c\/em\u003e” —Howard Zinn, author of \u003cem\u003eA People’s History of the United States\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003eWhen Miners March\u003cem\u003e is a national treasure, a recovered gem of American History that should be required reading today. Never has a book been timelier; never has Wm. C. Blizzard's inside account of his legendary father's march to liberate the Appalachian coalfields from the abuses of King Coal been more relevant.\"\u003c\/em\u003e” —Jeff Biggers, author of \u003cem\u003eThe United States of Appalachia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003e\"This engaging book…is a valuable contribution to the preservation of a history that should be honored and never lost. Read it and weep, and cheer.\"\u003c\/em\u003e” —Harry Cleaver, author of \u003cem\u003eReading Capital Politically\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003e\"Essentially an oral history on paper, \u003c\/em\u003eWhen Miners March\u003cem\u003e is the story of the birth of the UMWA in West Virginia. It is also a study of the reality of capitalism and its toll on those who work in its sphere. It's about men who believe in the the possibilities of human solidarity and other men who succumb to greed and power. It is a testimony to the power of the idea that everyone deserves a safe workplace, a decent wage, and the life such a wage buys. Most importantly, this book is an inspiration to those who still believe that those things are worth fighting for.\" \u003c\/em\u003e” —Ron Jacobs, \u003cem\u003eCounterpunch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eCurrent events—notably the struggle for unions to remain relevant and empowered, and coal's role in the climate change crisis—make these writings both relevant and remarkable. The book underscores, among other things, both how far we have come in terms of labor protections and rights, and how far we have fallen in terms of workers’ ability and willingness to take great risks and militant action.\" \u003c\/em\u003e” —Kari Lydersen, \u003cem\u003eIn These Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author and Editor\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam C. Blizzard was a third generation Union agitator and coal miner from WV’s first family of labor. 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Blizzard\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781604863000\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 407 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175088140381,"sku":"9781604863000","price":30.73,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_979_whenminersmarch3_0.jpg?v=1654987331"},{"product_id":"ours-to-master-and-to-own-workers-control-from-the-commune-to-the-present","title":"Ours to Master and to Own: Workers' Control from the Commune to the Present","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the dawning of the industrial epoch, wage earners have organized themselves into unions, fought bitter strikes, and gone so far as to challenge the very premises of the system by creating institutions of democratic self-management aimed at controlling production without bosses. With specific examples drawn from every corner of the globe and every period of modern history, this pathbreaking volume comprehensively traces this often underappreciated historical tradition. 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At least that is what many Canadians, inspired by the success of the Russian Revolution in 1917, hoped and others dreaded. Seeing Reds tells the story of this turbulent period in Canadian history during the winter of 1918–19, when a fearful government led by Prime Minister Robert Borden tried to suppress radical political activity by branding legitimate labour leaders as \"Bolsheviks\" and \"Reds.\" Canada was in the grip of a widespread Red Scare promoted by the government and the media in order to discredit radical ideas and to rally public support behind mainstream political and economic policies. 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Historian Michael Staudenmaier also includes a final chapter linking the legacy of STO directly to the challenges facing twenty-first century radicals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Few revolutionary initiatives formed out of the struggles of the 1960s left such a profound intellectual and political legacy as the Sojourner Truth Organization. This deeply researched, balanced, and remarkable history shows how STO's practice intersected with its ideas, not only in relatively well-known campaigns attacking white-skin privilege but in shopfloor organizing and anti-imperialist solidarity as well.\" — Dave Roediger, co-author of The Production of Difference \"Michael Staudenmaier has uncovered a crucial story of the New Left, one that has escaped the attention of most scholars of the era. The members Sojourner Truth Organization would have never have been content with today's so-called online organizing. They went directly to the shop-floor to argue for a better world, where the 'white blindspot' was opened to new visions of solidarity and progress. Staudenmaeir's skilled prose and meticulous research critically honors this history and draws lessons for us today.\" — James Tracy, co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times “Truth and Revolution is a guided tour of the worker militancy, revolutionary nationalist upsurge, and new social movement eruptions of the last forty years. Best of all, Staudenmaier breaks it all down for today’s social movements. Not to be missed.” — \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dan-berger\" title=\"Dan Berger\"\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/a\u003e, author of Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMichael Staudenmaier is a veteran of anarchist, anti-imperialist, and anti-fascist movements, and is now a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He lives in Chicago with his wife Anne, and their two children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Michael Staudenmaier\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781849350976\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 387 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: AK Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175106523229,"sku":"9781849350976","price":27.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1075_truthrev3_0.jpg?v=1654987449"},{"product_id":"anarchism-and-workers-self-management-in-revolutionary-spain","title":"Anarchism and Workers' Self-management in Revolutionary Spain","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrank Mintz’s classic study of collectivisation and economic experimentation during the Spanish revolution is available here for the first time in English. This is the chronicle of the anarcho-syndicalists of Spain, who—with and without the help of their own organizations—fought and built a new world alongside everyday labourers in the chaos of revolution and Franco’s fascist coup. Participants in rural and industrial collectives totaled over 1,800,000—within an overall population of 6,000,000 in Republican Spain. Their experience as the backbone of revolution resonates still in today’s global anticapitalist movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSixteen appendices reinforce Mintz’s analysis and insight, offering case studies of collectivization in particular regions and towns, economic experiments, and the role Marxist totalitarianism and Francoist fascism played leading up to and after the revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrank Mintz’s book was originally published in 1970 in France and, along with titles like Noam Chomsky’s Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship, began to chip away at what Chris Ealham describes as the “conspiracy of silence” built up around the anarchists’ achievements during the revolution. Historical narratives of the twentieth century—whether fascist, communist, or liberal—systematically excluded the Spanish anarchists. Today we can add Anarchism and Workers’ Self-Management in Revolutionary Spain to the English-language canon—that includes works by Abel Paz, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyMTEzIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/stuart-christie\" title=\"Stuart Christie\"\u003eStuart Christie\u003c\/a\u003e, Agustín Guillamón, Martha Ackelsberg, Chris Ealham, and José Peirats—that break the silence forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrank Mintz is a retired professor of Spanish who lives in Paris, France and is active with the CNT labor union. He is the recent author of Histoire de la mouvance anarchiste 1789–2012.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes a prologue by Chris Ealham, who is a specialist in Spanish labour history and movements and author of Anarchism and the City: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Barcelona, 1898–1917.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Paul Sharkey, who has made a vast body of anarchist texts available in English.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175121236061,"sku":"9781849350785","price":26.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1214_anarchismworkerssm3_0.jpg?v=1654987560"},{"product_id":"the-worker-elite-notes-on-the-labor-aristocracy","title":"The Worker Elite: Notes on the “Labor Aristocracy”","description":"\u003cp\u003eRevolutionaries often say that the working class holds the key to overthrowing capitalism. But “working class” is a very broad category—so broad that it can be used to justify a whole range of political agendas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Worker Elite: Notes on the \"Labor Aristocracy\"\u003c\/em\u003e breaks it all down, criticizing opportunists who minimize the role of privilege within the working class, while also challenging simplistic Third Worldist analyses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this provocative study, Bromma highlights the stratification of the working class under modern capitalism, using examples from specific industries and historical events to illustrate the development and key characteristics of the worker elite. He argues that this privileged layer has evolved into a mass middle class with multiple functions in the imperialist system, including attacking and misdirecting the struggles of the global proletariat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSubjects addressed in this accessible and easy-to-read primer include:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003echanges in the international division of labor and in the structure of income inequality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003epolitical and economic aspects of class\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003egender and nation as determinants and expressions of class\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003ethe nature of privilege and parasitism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003ethe worker elite’s relationship to intellectuals, trade unions, the proletariat, and the bourgeoisie\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003estrategic implications for revolutionaries of the worker elite’s current hegemony over the proletariat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs Bromma concludes, \"Class struggle is going on every day inside the working class. It’s time to choose where our class loyalty lies—with the proletariat or with its minders in the worker elite.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Bromma\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-894946-57-5\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 88 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175151874141,"sku":"9781894946575","price":14.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/workerelite3.jpg?v=1654987690"},{"product_id":"settlers-the-mythology-of-the-white-proletariat-from-mayflower-to-modern","title":"Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e is a uniquely important book in the canon of the North American revolutionary left and anticolonial movements. First published in the 1980s by activists with decades of experience organizing in grassroots anticapitalist struggles against white supremacy, the book soon established itself as an essential reference point for revolutionary nationalists and dissident currents within the predominantly colonialist Marxist-Leninist and anarchist movements at that time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlways controversial within the establishment Left \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e uncovers centuries of collaboration between capitalism and white workers and their organizations, as well as their neocolonial allies, showing how the United States was designed from the ground up as a parasitic and genocidal entity. \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e exposes the fact that America’s white citizenry have never supported themselves but have always resorted to exploitation and theft, culminating in acts of genocide to maintain their culture and way of life. As recounted in painful detail by Sakai, the United States has been built on the theft of Indigenous lands and of Afrikan labor, on the robbery of the northern third of Mexico, the colonization of Puerto Rico, and the expropriation of the Asian working class, with each of these crimes being accompanied by violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition includes “Cash \u0026amp; Genocide: The True Story of Japanese-American Reparations” and an interview with author J. Sakai by Ernesto Aguilar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e is a critical analysis of the colonization of the Americas that overturns the 'official' narrative of poor and dispossessed European settlers to reveal the true nature of genocidal invasion and land theft that has occurred for over five hundred years. If you want to understand the present, you must know the past, and this book is a vital contribution to that effort.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEzNzQ2In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gord-hill\" title=\"Gord Hill\"\u003eGord Hill\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003e500 Years of Indigenous Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Great works measure up, inspire higher standards of intellectual and moral honesty, and, when appreciated for what they are, serve as a guide for those among us who intend a transformation of reality. \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e should serve as a reminder (to anyone who needs one) of the genocidal tendencies of the empire, the traitorous interplay between settler-capitalist, settler-nondescript, and colonial flunkies.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyOTYzIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/kuwasi-balagoon\" title=\"Kuwasi Balagoon\"\u003eKuwasi Balagoon\u003c\/a\u003e, Black Liberation Army\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“When \u003ce\u003e“When \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e hit the tiers of San Quentin, back in 1986, it totally exploded our ideas about what we as a new class of revolutionaries thought we knew about a so-called ‘united working class’ in amerika. And what's more, it brought the actual contradictions of national oppression and imperialism into sharp focus. It was my first, and as such my truest, study of the actual mechanics behind the expertly fabricated illusion of an amerikan proletariat.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyOTY0In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/sanyika-shakur\" title=\"Sanyika Shakur\"\u003eSanyika Shakur\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eMonster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/e\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003eJ. Sakai is a revolutionary intellectual with decades of experience as an activist in the United States. On the subject of his own past, and the writing of \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e, he has said:\u003c\/p\u003e\\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003e\"In the Fall 1961, i found myself with other militant Sit-In veterans in the reborn Oakland chapter of Congress of Racial Equality, picketing a major store which had refused to hire New Afrikans. Even in the Bay Area that was the custom and law back then. It had started years earlier for me in high school in L.A.'s 1950's San Fernando Valley. Where as the lone uneducated leftist i had tried unsuccessfully to sell copies of the socialist labor party newspaper (the only one i could get) every week to my classmates. At the same time was working as an Asian houseboy for the family of a Jewish used car dealer (stereotypes abound for a reason). Was fired for taking a night off for my own high school graduation. The wife lost it and screamed, \" People like you don't need graduations!\" A month later was living in a different state to find a job and avoid the \"colored\" military draft. And active as the novice food drive coordinator in a long, bitter, ugly hospital workers' strike, whose main public demand was pay raises up to the federal minimum wage (we lost badly).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Have been through a thousand campaigns and movement groups since then, and can't believe i've been so dumb so often. In 1975, while mostly active doing Afrikan liberation movement support with radical exiles from various countries, i started writing a historical investigation into the puzzling class politics of euro-amerikan workers. Which i naively thought would only be a quick movement paper. Eight years later what became re-titled as \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e was finished. Even then i didn't believe there was any audience for it, and planned to only photocopy fifty copies of my typed draft for internal education in the underground black liberation army coordinating committee. Comrades with more sense than myself insisted that we publish it as a book if only for the liberation movement. Over the years, we took it through three editions, but finally it's time to hand it on to new publishers. Remember only, i wrote this with my life.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175156166749,"sku":"9781629630373","price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/2_settlers.jpg?v=1654987710"},{"product_id":"strike-revised-and-expanded","title":"Strike!: Revised and Expanded","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince its original publication in 1972, no book has done as much as Jeremy Brecher's \u003cem\u003eStrike!\u003c\/em\u003e to bring American labor history to a wide audience. \u003cem\u003eStrike!\u003c\/em\u003e narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. It tells this exciting hidden history from the point of view of the rank-and-file workers who lived it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this expanded edition, Jeremy Brecher brings the story up to date. Revised chapters covering the forty years since the original edition place the problems faced by working people today in the context of 140 years of labor history. A new chapter, \"Beyond One-Sided Class War,\" presents the American mini-revolts of the twenty-first century, from the Battle of Seattle to Occupy Wall Street and beyond. \u003cem\u003eStrike!\u003c\/em\u003e is essential reading for anyone interested in the historical or present-day situations of American workers and serves as inspiration for organizers, activists, and educators working to revive the labor movement today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"An exciting history of American labor. Brings to life the flashpoints of labor history. Scholarly, genuinely stirring.\" \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"Splendid...clearly the best single-volume summary yet published of American general strikes.\" \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“One of the most important books on labor history published since World War II.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—Howard Zinn, author of \u003cem\u003eA People’s History of the United States\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A magnificent book. I hope it will take its place as the standard history of American labor.\" \u003cbr\u003e\n—Staughton Lynd\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“Brecher’s stories are interesting and exciting, his prose colorful, his quotes well chosen.\"  \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eTexas Observer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJeremy Brecher is the author of more than a dozen books on labor and social movements including \u003cem\u003eStrike!\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003eBrass Valley\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHistory from Below\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBuilding Bridges\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGlobal Village or Global Pillage\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eGlobalization from Below\u003c\/em\u003e. He was Humanities Scholar-in-Residence at Connecticut Public Television and Radio and received five regional Emmy Awards for his documentary film work. 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For example, recent versions have left out all but a few of the celebrated songs of Joe Hill, T-Bone Slim, Ralph Chaplin, and other pioneer bards of the One Big Union—and many of the few remaining older songs have been abridged or otherwise modified.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe steadily mounting interest in Wobbly history and culture warrants this facsimile edition of a classic \u003cem\u003eLittle Red Song Book\u003c\/em\u003e from the union’s Golden Age. Reprinted here is the Nineteenth Edition, originally issued in 1923, the year the I.W.W. reached its peak membership.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOf the fifty-two songs in this book, the overwhelming majority have not been included in the I.W.W.’s own songbooks for many years. Here are such classics as Joe Hill’s “John Golden and the Lawrence Strike,” “We Will Sing One Song,” “Scissor Bill,” “The Tramp,” and others; T-Bone Slim’s “I’m Too Old to Be a Scab,” “Mysteries of a Hobo’s Life,” “I Wanna Free Miss Liberty,” and others; Ralph Chaplin’s “All Hell Can’t Stop Us,” “Up from Your Knees,” “May Day Song,” and more; and other songs by C.G. Allen, Richard Brazier, Pat Brennan, James Connolly, Laura Payne Emerson, and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNinety years ago these songs were sung with gusto in Wobbly halls and hobo jungles from Brooklyn to San Pedro. And they’re still fun to sing today!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: I.W.W.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Saddle-stitched pamphlet\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781604869507\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 64 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175159705693,"sku":"9781604869507","price":8.33,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/iwwsongsfrontcoverred300.jpg?v=1654987727"},{"product_id":"new-forms-of-worker-organization-the-syndicalist-and-autonomist-restoration-of-class-struggle-unionism","title":"New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism","description":"\u003cp\u003eBureaucratic labor unions are under assault. Most unions have surrendered the achievements of the mid-twentieth century, when the working class was a militant force for change throughout the world. Now trade unions seem incapable of defending, let alone advancing, workers’ interests.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs unions implode and weaken, workers are independently forming their own unions, drawing on the tradition of syndicalism and autonomism—a resurgence of self-directed action that augurs a new period of class struggle throughout the world. In Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe, workers are rejecting leaders and forming authentic class-struggle unions rooted in sabotage, direct action, and striking to achieve concrete gains.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the first book to compile workers’ struggles on a global basis, examining the formation and expansion of radical unions in the Global South and Global North. The tangible evidence marshaled in this book serves as a handbook for understanding the formidable obstacles and concrete opportunities for workers challenging neoliberal capitalism, even as the unions of the old decline and disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors include Au Loong-Yu, Bai Ruixue, Arup K. Sen, Shawn Hattingh, Piotr Bizyukov and Irina Olimpieva, Genese M. 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Let’s hope that these compelling case studies of rank-and-file struggle and bottom up change lead to more of the same where it’s needed the most, among those of us ’born in the USA!’“ \u003cbr\u003e—Steve Early, former organizer for the Communications Workers of America and author of \u003cem\u003eSave Our Unions: Dispatches from a Movement in Distress\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is a crucial analytical and tactical handbook for workers protesting against management. In most cases, protests, strikes, and insurgencies are only measured through government data. \u003cem\u003eNew Forms of Worker Organization\u003c\/em\u003e provides independent information on workers’ protest, their reasons, and the nature in which they are realized—essential for understanding the true shape of the workers movements in countries throughout the world. This research should be used by workers and labor unions as a tool to reach their objectives and to protect and advance workers’ rights.“ \u003cbr\u003e—Vadim Borisov, representative IndustriALL Global Union, CIS Region, sociologist, and author of over 100 publications on workers’ movements in Russia, including \u003cem\u003eWorkers and the Transition to Capitalism in Russia\u003c\/em\u003e(Verso)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Working people everywhere are feeling the pressure in a world where corporations increasingly dominate our economic, political, and social lives. In country after country, traditional unionism, advocacy, and policy reform have been proven unfit for the task of restoring the dignity and financial security of working families. The critical stories of cutting-edge organizing found in \u003cem\u003eNew Forms of Worker Organization\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrate that workers themselves hold the key to creating a world where work is honored and freedom of association is absolute.“ \u003cbr\u003e—Daniel Gross, executive director, Brandworkers, and cofounder, IWW Starbucks Workers Union\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This exciting collection provides substantial evidence that collective action by workers themselves is indispensable to advancing a strong labor movement. 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Linebaugh restores the dignity of the despised luddites with a poetic grace worthy of the master.” —Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Ideas can be beautiful too, and the ideas \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMjAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/peter-linebaugh\" title=\"Peter Linebaugh\"\u003ePeter Linebaugh\u003c\/a\u003e provokes and maps in this history of liberty are dazzling reminders of what we have been and who we could be.” —Rebecca Solnit, author of Storming the Gates of Paradise\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePeter Linebaugh is a child of empire, schooled in London, Cattaraugus (NY), Washington, DC, Bonn, and Karachi. He has taught at Harvard University and Attica Penitentiary, at New York University and the Federal Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. He used to edit Zerowork and was a member of the Midnight Notes Collective. 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May this comprehensive gathering simultaneously celebrate past battles and chart future goals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the 250+ songs, writings are included from Archie Green, Franklin Rosemont, \u003ca title=\"David Roediger\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/david-r-roediger\" data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjI2OTY3In0=\"\u003eDavid Roediger\u003c\/a\u003e, Salvatore Salerno, Judy Branfman, Richard Brazier, James Connell, Carlos Cortez, Bill Friedland, Virginia Martin, Harry McClintock, Fred Thompson, Adam Machado, and many more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This engaging anthology features the lyrics to 250 or so Wobbly songs, rich with references to job sharks, shovel stiffs, capitalist tools, and plutocratic parasites. 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At fewer than 150 pages, written in accessible language, illustrated with an abundance of original photographs, this book should be on the coffee tables of all those invested in returning to a tradition of class struggle in the US.\" -Sharon Smith, author of \u003cem\u003eSubterranean Fire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Brandon Weber’s \u003cem\u003eClass War USA \u003c\/em\u003eisn’t just a retelling of well-known and not-so-well-known strikes. Weber has done for a new generation of social and labor activists what Sid Lens did for an earlier one: bring to life the hard scrabble union, social, and political struggles of working class people from the past to the present. And by the way, in case you ever wondered why Woody Guthrie’s \"This Land is Your Land\" never became the national anthem, Weber has the answer.\" -Kim Moody, a founder of \u003cem\u003eLabor Notes \u003c\/em\u003eand author of \u003cem\u003eOn New Terrain: How Capital is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Brandon Weber does a masterful job at succinctly bringing to life many gripping and insightful episodes from the rich history of American labor, allowing readers to draw invaluable lessons for today’s struggles. Yes, this was, and is, class war. In his colorful collection, Weber vividly shows that people working together can, against all odds in a culture that fetishizes individualism, bring about social progress. Now, let’s get these stories and lessons into the hands of those who buy into the prevailing divisiveness and tribalism, so that they too can unite across racial, ethnic, gender and other barriers and be heard!\" \u003cbr\u003e\n-Dr. Thomas Greven, Freie Universität Berlin\/Germany\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Brandon Weber\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781608468478\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 168 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Haymarket Books\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175279734877,"sku":"9781608468478","price":27.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/classwarusa.jpg?v=1654988199"},{"product_id":"subterranean-fire-a-history-of-working-class-radicalism-in-the-united-states-updated-edition","title":"Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States (Updated Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis revised and updated edition of Sharon Smith’s accessible, critical history of the US labor movement examines the hidden radical history of workers’ resistance from the nineteenth century to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"There is no better time than the present for an updated edition of Subterranean Fire, as such a fire is clearly burning brighter than it has in decades, and yet so many people do not know how to connect the struggles of today to those of the past. Sharon Smith brings that history to life once again, blasting through the myths of the working class that Trump-era narratives cling to in order to connect us once again to the possibility of building broad solidarity.\" Sarah Jaffe, author of \u003cem\u003eNecessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\"A veteran worker-intellectual brilliantly addresses the crisis of the labor movement, skewering those who believe that renewal can come from the top down, and encouraging those who are fighting to rebuild it from the bottom up.\"  \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/mike-davis\" title=\"Mike Davis\"\u003eMike Davis\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003ePlanet of Slums\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Sharon Smith\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781608469178\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 504 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Haymarket Books\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175291564125,"sku":"9781608469178","price":25.2,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/subterraneanfire.jpg?v=1654988298"},{"product_id":"song-of-the-stubborn-one-thousand-the-watsonville-canning-strike-1985-87","title":"Song of the Stubborn One Thousand: The Watsonville Canning Strike, 1985-87","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn September 9, 1985, one thousand mainly Mexican women workers in Watsonville, California, the “frozen food capital of the world,” were forced out on strike in response to an attempt by Watsonville Canning owner, Mort Console, to break their union. They returned to work eighteen months later. Not one had crossed the picket line. A moribund union has been revitalized, and Watsonville's Latino majority emerged as a major force in local politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt a time when organized labor was in headlong retreat, the Watsonville Canning strike was a dramatic show of the power of women workers, whose struggle became a rallying point for the Chicano movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eApart from its sheer drama, the strikers' story illuminates the challenges facing a group of ordinary working people who waged a protracted and ultimately successful struggle against seemingly insurmountable odds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“[W]ell-written, fast-paced, and inspiring....This masterpiece of the genre is simultaneously an education in labor organizing in the multinational workplace and a stirring tale of struggle by some of U.S. capitalism’s most exploited workers….Haymarket Books, is probably the best current publisher of labor history; with this book both Haymarket and the author Peter Shapiro have outdone themselves.” \u003cem\u003eCounterPunch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Peter Shapiro has written an important book of how 1,000 Latina workers in Watsonville, California won an 18-month long strike in the 1980s against one of the biggest canning companies in the state. It is an inspiring tale about the unity and perseverance of immigrant women against a corporation backed by big lawyers and a big bank during high tide of Reagan-era union busting. But it is much more—for labor activists and labor historians alike know that while solidarity is critical, it is often not enough. Shapiro offers keen insights into the complex world of this strike, in which a vast array of players—the workers, Teamster union leaders and their opposition, community and church activists, and Leftists of various stripes—engaged in what Shapiro provocatively calls a \"laboratory\" for different styles of leadership, and what these meant for the workers’ desire to shape their own destiny.\" \u003cbr\u003e\nMae M. Ngai, Author of \u003cem\u003eImpossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Peter Shapiro combines wonderful story telling with a sharp historian's analysis to explain an important but little-known corner of the US labor movement. \u003cem\u003eSong of the Stubborn One Thousand \u003c\/em\u003eis a story of hope and inspiration. It's a must read for anyone interested in the power of working people and minorities.\" Freelance journalist Reese Erlich, who covered the strike for the \u003cem\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"I’ve waited nearly 25-years for this book. Against all odds, for 18-months, the mostly Latina strikers sacrificed, built their union, and no one crossed their picket line. With attention to detail, patience, and most of all empathy Shapiro takes the readers on the 18-month peregrination with the Stubborn One Thousand. This is a book that every organizer needs to read.\" Fernando E. Gapasin, co-author of \u003cem\u003eSolidarity Divided\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Peter Shapiro has written a powerful book about one of the most important labor and civil rights battles since World War Two - the Watsonville strike. He shows clearly that workers won because of the interaction between the mostly Mexican immigrant strikers, the reform movement in the Teamsters, and organizations and leaders on the left. It was this synthesis, with all its problems, that gave the strike its power, and has made it a touchstone for radical strategy and tactics since. It is an inspiring story, told skillfully through the eyes and words of its participants. Read this book.” David Bacon, author of \u003cem\u003eChildren of NAFTA \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eIllegal People\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“The cannery workers struggle chronicled by Peter Shapiro, in this well-written and insightful book, occurred three decades ago. But trade unionists of all kinds face similar challenges today whenever they go on strike. Shapiro shows how workers faced with management resistance and union ambivalence can overcome both with strong rank-and-file leadership, independent shop-floor organization, and active community support.” Steve Early, former organizer for Communications Workers of America and author of \u003cem\u003eSave Our Unions\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Peter Shapiro\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781608466801\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 237 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Haymarket Books\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175293857885,"sku":"9781608466801","price":26.53,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/songofthestubbornonethousand.jpg?v=1654988314"},{"product_id":"living-and-dying-on-the-factory-floor-from-the-outside-in-and-the-inside-out","title":"Living and Dying on the Factory Floor: From the Outside In and the Inside Out","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Ranney’s vivid memoir describes his work experiences between 1976 and 1982 in the factories of southeast Chicago and northwest Indiana. The book opens with a detailed description of what it was like to live and work in one of the heaviest industrial concentrations in the world. The author takes the reader on a walk through the heart of the South Side of Chicago, observing the noise, heavy traffic, the 24-hour restaurants and bars, the rich diversity of people on the streets at all hours of the day and night, and the smell of the highly polluted air.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFactory life includes stints at a machine shop, a shortening factory, a railroad car factory, a structural steel shop, a box factory, a chemical plant, and a paper cup factory. Along the way there is a wildcat strike, an immigration raid, shop-floor actions protesting supervisor abuses, serious injuries, a failed effort to unionize, and a murder. Ranney’s emphasis is on race and class relations, working conditions, environmental issues, and broader social issues in the 1970s that impacted the shop floor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eForty years later, the narrator returns to Chicago’s South Side to reveal what happened to the communities, buildings, and the companies that had inhabited them. \u003cem\u003eLiving and Dying on the Factory Floor \u003c\/em\u003econcludes with discussions on the nature of work; racism, race, and class; the use of immigration policy for social control; and our ability to create a just society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Ranney is professor emeritus in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois Chicago. Ranney has also been a factory worker, a labor and community organizer, and an activist academic. He is the author of four books and more than a hundred journal articles, book chapters, and monographs on issues of employment, labor and community organizing, and U.S. trade policy. His two most recent books are \u003cem\u003eGlobal Decisions, Local Collisions: Urban Life in the New World Order \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eNew World Disorder: The Decline of U.S. Power\u003c\/em\u003e. In addition to his writing, he gives lectures on economic policy and politics and also finds time to be an actor and director in a small community theatre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“David Ranney’s is our best account of the New Left’s turn to the factory and other workplaces in the seventies. Reading in some parts like a novel, it introduces us to a remarkable cast of working-class characters, while offering a refreshingly critical look at his own experiences. We get compelling views of factory work, including the physical dangers and injuries that came with it, as well as a better understanding of a range of New Left organizing efforts. With the experience of a radical organizer and the insights of a very good social scientist, Ranney writes with particular sensitivity about race relations in the workplace.” James R. 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Compellingly written and thought provoking, \u003cem\u003eLiving and Dying on the Factory Floor \u003c\/em\u003ebrings to life the daily realities of race, class, and gender in an urban community on the brink of joining the rust belt. Ranney pairs vivid depictions of everyday forms of social struggle with timely reflections on the political implications for contemporary readers. This book will be required reading for the next generation of radicals, particularly those hoping to understand how we arrived at the postindustrial ‘gig economy,’ and how we dismantle it and construct a truly free society.” Michael Staudenmaier, author of \u003cem\u003eTruth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969–1986\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: David Ranney\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-62963-639-9\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 160 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175295397981,"sku":"9781629636399","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/living_and_dying_on_the_factory_floor.jpg?v=1654988334"},{"product_id":"choke-points-logistics-workers-disrupting-the-global-supply-chain","title":"Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain","description":"\u003cp\u003eGlobal capitalism is a precarious system. Relying on the steady flow of goods across the world, trans-national companies such as Wal-Mart and Amazon depend on the work of millions in docks, warehouses and logistics centres to keep their goods moving.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e This is the global supply chain, and, if the chain is broken, capitalism grinds to a halt. This book looks at case studies across the world to uncover a network of resistance by these workers who, despite their importance, often face vast exploitation and economic violence. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Experiencing first hand wildcat strikes, organised blockades and boycotts, the authors explore a diverse range of case studies, from South China dockworkers to the transformation of the port of Piraeus in Greece, and from the Southern California logistics sector, to dock and logistical workers in Chile and unions in Turkey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJake Alimahomed-Wilson is Professor of Sociology at California State University, Long Beach. He is the author of\u003cem\u003e Solidarity Forever? Race, Gender, and Unionism in the Ports of Southern California\u003c\/em\u003e (Lexington Books, 2016), and the editor of \u003cem\u003eChoke Points\u003c\/em\u003e (Pluto, 2018).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eImmanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. He is the author and editor of many books, including \u003cem\u003eSouthern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class \u003c\/em\u003e(Pluto, 2015) and \u003cem\u003eUrban Revolt: State Power and the Rise of People's Movements in the Global South\u003c\/em\u003e (Haymarket, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This phenomenal collection is a must-read for anyone interested in the dire state of the contemporary global economy. It offers an unprecedented analysis of supply chain capitalism through case studies from around the world that are beautifully written and carefully researched.\"\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Deborah Cowen, University of Toronto\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Takes us straight into these crucial nodes of labor struggle. Choke points in global supply chains are revealed as spaces of hazard and calculation, violence and negotiation, victory and loss, passion and organisation.\"\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Brett Neilson, Research Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003eIntroduction: Forging Workers’ Resistance Across the\u003cbr\u003eGlobal Supply Chain - Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Immanuel Ness\u003cbr\u003ePART I - Building Labor Power and Solidarity Across the World’s Choke Points \u003cbr\u003e1. Labor and Social Movements’ Strategic Usage of the Global Commodity Chain Structure - Elizabeth A. Sowers, Paul S. Ciccantell, and David A. Smith\u003cbr\u003e2. Across the Chain: Labor and Conflicts in the European Maritime Logistics Sector - Andrea Bottalico\u003cbr\u003e3. Durban Dockers, Labor Internationalism, and Pan-Africanism - Peter Cole\u003cbr\u003ePART II - Disruptions: Logistics Workers Resisting Exploitation \u003cbr\u003e4. Worker Militancy and Strikes in China’s Docks - Bai Ruixue and Au Loong Yu\u003cbr\u003e5. “Work Hard, Make History”: Oppression and Resistance in Inland Southern California’s Warehouse and Distribution Industry - Ellen Reese and Jason Struna\u003cbr\u003e6. Stop Treating Us Like Dogs! Workers Organizing Resistance at Amazon in Poland - Amazon workers and supporters\u003cbr\u003e7. Decolonizing Logistics: Palestinian Truckers on the Occupied Supply Chain - Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Spencer Louis Potiker\u003cbr\u003ePART III - Neoliberalism and the Global Transformation of Ports\u003cbr\u003e8. Decoding the Transition in the Ports of Mumbai - Johnson Abhishek Minz\u003cbr\u003e9. Back to Piraeus: Precarity for All! - Dimitris Parsanoglou and Carolin Philipp\u003cbr\u003e10. Contested Logistics? Neoliberal Modernization and Resistance in the Port City of Valparaíso - Jorge Budrovich Sáez and Hernán Cuevas Valenzuela\u003cbr\u003e11. Logistics Workers’ Struggles in Turkey: Neoliberalism and Counterstrategies - Çağatay Edgücan Şahin and Pekin Bengisu Tepe\u003cbr\u003ePART IV - New Organizing Strategies for the Global Supply Chain \u003cbr\u003e12. “The Drivers Who Move This Country Can Also Stop It”: The Struggle of Tanker Drivers in Indonesia - Abu Mufakhir, Alfian Al’ayubby Pelu, and Fahmi Panimbang\u003cbr\u003e13. Lessons Learned from Eight Years of Experimental Organizing in Southern California’s Logistics Sector - Sheheryar Kaoosji\u003cbr\u003e14. Struggles and Grassroots Organizing in an Extended European Choke Point - Carlotta Benvegnù and Niccolò Cuppini\u003cbr\u003e15. Beyond the Waterfront: Maintaining and Expanding Worker Power in the Maritime Supply Chain - Peter Olney\u003cbr\u003eContributor Biographies \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175298445405,"sku":"9780745337241","price":32.35,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/chokepoints.jpg?v=1654988353"},{"product_id":"revolting-prostitutes-the-fight-for-sex-workers-rights","title":"Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights","description":"\u003cp\u003eDo you have to think that prostitution is good to support sex worker rights? How do sex worker rights fit with feminist and anti-capitalist politics? Is criminalising clients progressive—and can the police deliver justice?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Revolting Prostitutes, sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh perspective to questions that have long been contentious. Speaking from a growing global sex worker rights movement, and situating their argument firmly within wider questions of migration, work, feminism, and resistance to white supremacy, they make clear that anyone committed to working towards justice and freedom should be in support of the sex worker rights movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“An essential addition to the feminist canon and required reading for anyone who cares about equality and human rights.” \u003cem\u003eIndependent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eRevolting Prostitutes \u003c\/em\u003eis a book I have been waiting for. It is uniquely fit to address the destructive divisions that exist among feminists concerning prostitution. Rejecting the equally unacceptable alternatives of condemnation and glorification of sex work, the authors provide a powerful account of the work itself, the issues it raises, the institutional policy that shape it, all the while demonstrating that sex workers struggles are crucial to any movement for social justice. Well researched, beautifully written, \u003cem\u003eRevolting Prostitutes \u003c\/em\u003eshould be widely read, especially, but not only, by feminists.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eCaliban and the Witch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Essential reading for feminists engaged in sex work and those studying it. By centering their analysis squarely on the issue of labor rights and upholding harm reduction as a critical benchmark, the authors take on entrenched positions in the feminist struggles over prostitution work and propose a subtle but powerful shift in the terrain of future debate.” Kathi Weeks, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Problem with Work\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eRevolting Prostitutes \u003c\/em\u003ewill fuel the fight for sex workers’ rights with fresh thinking on feminism, deep analysis of policing and the law, and a critical examination of sex work itself. Smith and Mac have drawn together a radically inclusive map for liberation.” Melissa Gira Grant, author of \u003cem\u003ePlaying the Whore\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Smith and Mac are sharply honest about the emotional, social and political realities of sex work in all its forms and geographies, eschewing pearl-clutching or cheerleading for a laser-guided honesty and frankness about what can improve the lives and experiences of sex workers around the globe, regardless of social class. \u003cem\u003eRevolting Prostitutes \u003c\/em\u003eis key to understanding how important the rights of sex workers are, and what is at stake when policy is misguided or clouded in sentimentality and gut-feeling over straight evidence. A must-read for politicians, policy makers, and anyone keen to understand the realities of modern sex work.” Dawn Foster, author of \u003cem\u003eLean Out\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“With fine, lucid discourse, Juno Mac and Molly Smith decline to engage in the typical back and forth that drones on between the would-be saviors, the scolds, and the glorifiers to go to the heart of the matter—sex work as labor, with a work force ready to speak their minds and fight for their rights. They avoid easy answers and ask the reader to rethink sex work.” Susie Bright, author of \u003cem\u003eBig Sex Little Death: A Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“An essential read for anyone interested in feminism, activism, and other social justice movements.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e– Zoë Naseef, Bust\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Revolting Prostitutes situates questions about sex work in contemporary life in the context of labor rights, white supremacy, critique of police and the global sex workers’ rights movement. 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It does so without insisting that there is nothing troubling about sex work: about the psychosexual forces that lead men to buy it, or the economic forces that compel women to sell it. ... It is a model of how to write about politics — or, indeed, anything.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e– Amia Srinivasan, The Chronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Juno Mac\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Molly Smith\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781786633613\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 288 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Verso\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175310798941,"sku":"9781786633613","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/revpros.jpg?v=1654988467"},{"product_id":"homestead-steel-mill-the-final-ten-years-uswa-local-1397-and-the-fight-for-union-democracy","title":"Homestead Steel Mill–the Final Ten Years: USWA Local 1397 and the Fight for Union Democracy","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpanning the famous Homestead steel strike of 1892 through the century-long fight for a union and union democracy, \u003cem\u003eHomestead Steel Mill—the Final Ten Years\u003c\/em\u003e is a case history on the vitality of organized labor. Written by fellow worker and musician Mike Stout, the book is an insider’s portrait of the union at the U.S. Steel’s Homestead Works, specifically the workers, activists, and insurgents that made up the radically democratic Rank and File Caucus from 1977 to 1987. Developing its own “inside-outside” approach to unionism, the Rank and File Caucus drastically expanded their sphere of influence so that, in addition to fighting for their own rights as workers, they fought to prevent the closures of other steel plants, opposed U.S. imperialism in Central America, fought for civil rights, and built strategic coalitions with local environmental groups.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMike Stout skillfully chronicles his experience in the takeover and restructuring of the union’s grievance procedure at Homestead by regular workers and put at the service of its thousands of members. Stout writes with raw honesty and pulls no punches when recounting the many foibles and setbacks he experienced along the way. The Rank and File Caucus was a profound experiment in democracy that was aided by the 1397 Rank and File newspaper—an ultimate expression of truth, democracy, and free speech that guaranteed every union member a valuable voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eProfusely illustrated with dozens of photographs, \u003cem\u003eHomestead Steel Mill—the Final Ten Years \u003c\/em\u003eis labor history at its best, providing a vivid account of how ordinary workers can radicalize their unions. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Mike Stout’s well-constructed and splendidly illustrated memoir is about a special place and time, but it also serves as a window on a social insurgency that can provide inspiration for future social progress. It is a story of skilled workers who proudly got their hands dirty—an industrial world of crane men, machinists, mechanics, millwrights, laborers, and electricians that once dominated a region—but who also combined working-class culture as writers, poets musicians, cartoonists, and even lawyers. Today, there are new skills and different jobs, but class oppression endures. Greed without end or solidarity forever? The choice remains and the consequences for a sick earth and an imperial world order could not be greater.” Charles McCollester, for Chief Steward, UE Local 610, Switch and Signal Plant; former professor of labor history at Indiana University of Pennsylvania\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Shop-floor activists at U.S. Steel’s famous Homestead Works played a key role in the democracy movement that swept through their national union and almost topped its top leadership in the late 1970s. After that Steel Workers Fightback campaign, they turned USW Local 1397 into a model local union, just in time to mount spirited resistance to mill closings throughout western Pennsylvania. Mike Stout’s firsthand account of rank-and-file militancy and creativity in the face of deindustrialization and capital flight contains many relevant lessons for union members today. If every local union had the fighting spirit of 1397 in its heyday, the U.S. labor movement would be in far better shape.” Steve Early, former International Representative, Communications Workers of America and author of \u003cem\u003eRefinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“I can see this book finding a privileged place on the shelves of American radicals. This is a labor history which is exciting, emotional, and thought-provoking, a splendid example of radical history at its best.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEzNzMyIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/andrej-grubacic\" title=\"Andrej Grubacic\"\u003eAndrej Grubacic\u003c\/a\u003e, professor and chair of Anthropology and Social Change, CIIS–San Francisco; author of \u003cem\u003eWobblies and Zapatistas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“‘Women of Steel’ was a pretty apt name for the women working in the mills, as Mike Stout shows us. These women stood together and stood up for themselves, plus organized the guys against corporate greed and union officials’ sexism. Stout’s description of the women’s strength, smarts, and leadership comes from the heart. He worked for members’ rights alongside these women or stood behind them when they stepped forward.” Martha Gruelle, former coeditor of \u003cem\u003eLabor Notes \u003c\/em\u003eand coauthor of \u003cem\u003eDemocracy Is Power\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“The best movements have the most leaders, and Mike Stout does a great job introducing us to some of the many people who took on the steel industry and devious union bureaucrats during the last decade of U.S. Steel’s Homestead Works in Pittsburgh. Mike’s union sisters and brothers built community alliances, and they had fun, partied together and mourned together. They made mistakes and built victories. It’s a story from the era of deindustrialization, but with lessons for all of us working to rebuild a powerful labor movement for the future.” Ken Paff, national organizer for Teamsters for a Democratic Union\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor more than fifty years, Mike Stout has been an antiwar, union, and community organizer, as well as the last Local 1397 Union Grievance Chair at the U.S. Steel Homestead Works. He is currently president of the Allegheny Chapter of the Izaak Walton League, the oldest environmental conservation organization in the United States. Stout is also a singer-songwriter and recording artist, with eighteen albums and more than 150 songs written and recorded, who has used his music to raise tens of thousands of dollars for a host of social and economic justice causes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJoAnn Wypijewski is a writer and editor based in New York. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines, including \u003cem\u003eCounterPunch\u003c\/em\u003e, where she writes a monthly column, “Diamonds and Rust.” Her latest book, with Kevin Alexander Gray and Jeffrey St. Clair, is \u003cem\u003eKilling Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStaughton Lynd received a BA from Harvard, an MA and PhD from Columbia, and a JD from the University of Chicago. He taught American history at Spelman College in Atlanta. He is a lifelong union and peace activist and the author of many books, including \u003cem\u003eSolidarity Unionism\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWobblies \u0026amp; Zapatistas\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Mike Stout \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Introduction by JoAnn Wypijewski\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Afterword by Staughton Lynd\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781629637914\/9781629638553\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 352 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175314960477,"sku":"9781629637914","price":34.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/homestead_steel_mill.jpg?v=1654988494"},{"product_id":"class-power-on-zero-hours","title":"Class Power on Zero-Hours","description":"\u003cp\u003eAngryWorkers, a small political collective, have spent six years organising in London’s industrial backyard, mainly in the food manufacturing and logistics sector. This book is about their experiences as they try and find new ways of building class power in tough times. It is essential reading for anyone who is grappling with the question: ‘what next for working class politics and revolutionary strategy?’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the introduction: \"In January 2014 some AngryWorkers chose to move to a working class neighbourhood on the fringes of west London. We felt an urgent need to break out of the cosmopolitan bubble and root our politics in working class jobs and lives. We wanted to pay more than just lip service to the classic slogan, ‘the emancipation of the working classes must be conquered by the working classes themselves.’ Over the next six years, comrades joined us and we worked in a dozen different warehouses and factories. We organised slowdowns on shop floors, rocked up on bosses’ and landlords’ doors with our solidarity network, and banged our heads against brick walls as shop stewards in the bigger unions. We wrote up all our experiences in our newspaper, WorkersWildWest, which we gave out to 2,000 local workers at warehouse gates at dawn. We tried to rebuild class power and create a small cell of a revolutionary organisation. This book documents our experiences. It is material for getting rooted. It is a call for an independent working class organisation.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe full introduction is available to read online: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/classpower.net\/intro\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/classpower.net\/intro\/\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: AngryWorkers\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781527258341\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 392 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: AngryWorkers\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"AngryWorkers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175318237277,"sku":"9781527258341","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/classpoweronzerohours_0.jpg?v=1654988514"},{"product_id":"birth-work-as-care-work-stories-from-activist-birth-communities","title":"Birth Work as Care Work: Stories from Activist Birth Communities","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBirth Work as Care Work \u003c\/em\u003epresents a vibrant collection of stories and insights from the front lines of birth activist communities. The personal has once more become political, and birth workers, supporters, and doulas now find themselves at the fore of collective struggles for freedom and dignity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe author, herself a scholar and birth justice organizer, provides a unique platform to explore the political dynamics of birth work, drawing connections between birth, reproductive labor, and the struggles of caregiving communities today. Articulating a politics of care work in and through the reproductive process, the book brings diverse voices into conversation to explore multiple possibilities and avenues for change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt a moment when agency over our childbirth experiences is increasingly centralized in the hands of professional elites, Birth Work as Care Work presents creative new ways to reimagine the trajectory of our reproductive processes. Most importantly, the contributors present new ways of thinking about the entire life cycle, providing a unique and creative entry point into the essence of all human struggle—the struggle over the reproduction of life itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“I love this book, all of it. The polished essays and the interviews with birth workers dare to take on the deepest questions of human existence.” Carol Downer, cofounder of the Feminist Women’s Health Centers of California and author of \u003cem\u003eA Woman’s Book of Choices\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This volume provides theoretically rich, practical tools for birth workers and other care workers to collectively and effectively fight capitalism and the many intersecting processes of oppression that accompany it. Birth Work as Care Work forcefully and joyfully reminds us that the personal is political, a lesson we need now more than ever.” Adrienne Pine, author of \u003cem\u003eWorking Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in Honduras\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“All we are doing in this world is living and dying, creating and destroying. We generate new life in our children and in our ideas. Becoming a birth supporter, getting to be an attendant to the miracle of childbirth, has transformed my social justice work. Our visions for justice are what we are birthing in this world. Learning to listen, learning to trust the body and the people, and learning to breathe will transform our movement work. Birth Work as Care Work demonstrates these lessons through showing us ways we can learn together to support the birth of new worlds.” Adrienne Brown, coeditor of \u003cem\u003eOctavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This book places the doula—as a caring birth activist—at the heart of reproductive care work in our modern society. Doula, a new name for an ancient traditional role, reappears today as women daring to reclaim their power through birthing and caring for their children.” Valérie Dupin cofounder and cochair of the Association Doulas de France\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Alana Apfel is an artist and a robust one. Weaving the logic behind birth, care, and reproduction together, \u003cem\u003eBirth Work as Care Work \u003c\/em\u003edocuments how caregivers and communities are marginalized in society on a daily basis whilst working to sustain themselves and ironically, to sustain life itself. Her thesis seeks to put the human back into being.” Chitra Subramaniam, editor in chief of \u003cem\u003eThe News Minute\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlana Apfel was born in the United States and raised in the UK. She holds graduate degrees in anthropology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and the University of Edinburgh. Her writing engages the politics of care work with a focus on birth and activist birth communities. Alana teaches on ways to radicalize birth work and continues to support people through birth in Bristol, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLoretta J. Ross was a cofounder and National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective. She is one of the creators of the term “Reproductive Justice,” coined by African American women following the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victoria-law\" title=\"Victoria Law\"\u003eVictoria Law\u003c\/a\u003e is a mother, photographer, and writer. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eResistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women \u003c\/em\u003eand coeditor of \u003cem\u003eDon’t Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e is a feminist activist, writer, and teacher. In 1972 she was one of the cofounders of the International Feminist Collective, the organization that launched the international campaign for Wages for Housework. In the 1990s, after a period of teaching and research in Nigeria, she was active in the anti-globalization movement and the U.S. anti–death penalty movement. She is the author of \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM0MDE4In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/revolution-at-point-zero-housework-reproduction-and-feminist-struggle-second-edition\" title=\"Revolution at Point Zero\"\u003eRevolution at Point Zero\u003c\/a\u003e: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Alana Apfel\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781629631516\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 152 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175319777373,"sku":"9781629631516","price":20.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/birthwork.jpg?v=1654988524"},{"product_id":"indignant-heart-a-black-workers-journal","title":"Indignant Heart, A Black Worker's Journal","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis autobiography begins with Denby's youth in a Black sharecropping family in Alabama. It moves to his workplace struggles in the auto industry and to his thought and activity as a Marxist-Humanist and colleague of Raya Dunayevskaya.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eNews \u0026amp; Letters\u003c\/em\u003e, December 2003:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRevolutionary life of Charles Denby\u003cbr\u003e\nby Susan Van Gelder\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe publication of a 40th anniversary edition of AMERICAN CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL by Raya Dunayevskaya and the long-awaited DIALECTICS OF BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLES by John Alan reminds us, on the 20th anniversary of his death, how significant Charles Denby was to the development of Marxist-Humanist philosophy and its organization, News and Letters Committees. As Raya Dunayevskaya put it,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The 75 years of Charles Denby's life are so full of class struggles, Black revolts, freedom movements that they not only illuminate the present, but cast a light even on the future. Listening to him, you felt you were witnessing an individual's life that was somehow universal, and that touched you personally. The genius of Charles Denby lies in the fact that the story of his life--INDIGNANT HEART: A BLACK WORKER'S JOURNAL--is the history of workers' struggles for freedom, his and all others the world over.\"(1)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA UNIQUE INDIVIDUAL\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCharles Denby was a Black auto production worker who grew up in rural Alabama and came north to Detroit with many other young Black men in the 1920s to work in the auto factories. He became involved in race and class struggles and was recruited into the Trotskyist movement. He quickly discovered the increasing division between rank-and-file labor and the union bureaucracy and refused to become a part of the union leadership. During the 1950s he chose to work with Raya Dunayevskaya and remained with her through several organizational splits. Their experiences led him to accept editorship of NEWS \u0026amp; LETTERS when it was founded in 1955 because he \"felt strongly that there was an imperative need for A NEW KIND of workers' paper\" (emphasis added).(2) His column \"Worker's Journal\" appeared on the front page of each issue until his death in 1983.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to say \"Workers as revolutionary thinkers?\" First, Denby's experiences as an African-American Southern farmer and autoworker had given him a desire for freedom that was total. He fought a life-long battle against the fragmentation of himself that capitalism forces upon us all. In Marxist-Humanism Denby helped develop a philosophy of liberation which in turn helped him develop and concretize his drive to be a full human being. Marxist-Humanism strives toward Marx's vision of a society centered on human needs and capacities. 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This is indeed revolutionary in a society where workers are supposed to be ignorant and unwilling to think.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A unique combination of worker and intellectual\"-- this is not only a principle of Marxist-Humanist journalism and organization, but a description of Charles Denby himself. The stories of his life that make up his autobiography, INDIGNANT HEART: A BLACK WORKER'S JOURNAL are not abstract discussions about philosophy. Philosophy is present throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1943 after returning South, Denby came to Detroit again to find a better-paying job in the auto factories:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThey had recently had a stoppage because Negroes were put in that department...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI said [to Wide, Denby's roommate], \"How come? Isn't there a union now?\"...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWide said, \"The union doesn't mean everything to Negroes that some people think\"...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe employment office was practically filled. I met up with a white fellow from Tennessee who had just come to Detroit... He asked me what I was going to ask for.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI told him riveting.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHe said he didn't know the names of any jobs and would ask for the same thing. He'd never been North before or in a plant. He was in the line behind me.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen I reached the desk I asked the man for riveting. He told me that there weren't any riveting jobs. He asked if I had riveted before.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI said, yes, in Mobile, on bridges and in shipyards. I was lying to him but wanted to get the job.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHe said that was an altogether different kind of riveting and that my experience wouldn't apply. If I wanted to learn, he could send me to the school and they would pay me sixty cents an hour. He said he had a laboring job open, it only paid eighty-seven cents an hour. The man promised I might get on another job in a day or two that paid more...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI waited for the fellow from Tennessee... He said they had given him a job, riveting. \"And I just come in from the field.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI asked him if he had said that he had experience or if they mentioned going to school.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHe said, no.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI got kinda mad and went back to the man at the desk. He said he was busy and that he had given me the last available job.\u003c\/em\u003e(3)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDenby's story reveals the persistence and depth of the racism even unionized workers confronted. It also points a direction for overcoming it: dialogue between white and Black workers that all with a stake in systemic racism strive so hard to prevent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDenby continued to struggle against injustice in the shop, fighting for Black women workers to be given jobs in the sewing department. He insisted that there be no compromise on full integration, and that the Communist Party's support for the \"no-strike pledge,\" which the government had convinced the union leadership to agree to in support of the war effort, would only hurt workers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout the 1940s and 1950s Denby continued to write about the increasing gap between the union bureaucracy and rank-and-file union members. Racism continued unremittingly and profoundly to drive a wedge between white and Black workers and limit their power to challenge the direction of the union leadership. Denby recounts his experiences with the Communist and Trotskyist parties during this period, where he sought for Blacks and all workers to be treated as full, thinking human beings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe found that despite what was said, prejudice against African Americans persisted in the radical parties. He also became disillusioned with their vanguardist philosophy, that they were the ones to teach and lead the masses to revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHowever he recognized a foundation for his own thinking and activities in Raya Dunayevskaya's view of the central role of the Black masses in America, and in her concept, based on her study of Hegel's Absolute Idea, that theory and practice are inseparable. In 1955 the Johnson-Forest Tendency, to which they both belonged, underwent a split. Co-leader C.L.R. James disagreed with Dunayevskaya and Denby on the need for a revolutionary organization to reconstitute dialectical thought for modern struggles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA LIFE OF STRUGGLES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eINDIGNANT HEART: A BLACK WORKER'S JOURNAL was first published in 1952. Part II was written in 1978 after Denby retired from the plant and had been editor of NEWS \u0026amp; LETTERS for 23 years. In this part Denby reflects not only his personal experiences but the whole breadth of experience he gained as a Marxist-Humanist. As John Alan expresses it in DIALECTICS OF BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLES:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe range of his columns included stories about wildcat strikes, how the union bureaucracy participated in the writing of sell-out contracts, the relation between automation and unemployment in the Black communities and his own activity in the Civil Rights Movement. He wrote on the crucial dimension of race in America's freedom struggles and on the importance of philosophy to articulate the meaning of his own and the movements' activities. Today's activists would do well to reconnect with Denby's way of recollecting the meaning of the freedom struggles during his lifetime.(4)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe difference between the two parts is remarkable. Some critics, incapable of recognizing workers as thinkers, believe Denby was \"brainwashed\" in News and Letters Committees. But read Denby's speech at one of his local union meetings in 1962, and then still try to say that this man was brainwashed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI also pointed out that the great profits the corporation was making, which everyone had talked about, were going back into machines, into automation to make us work harder. It wasn't just a question of labor, I said, it was a question of the laborer; and I knew the company understood that very well, because they always kept putting more and more into the machines, and nothing for the human beings. Karl Marx, I said, had been the one to first point this fact out, a fact that every worker knows very well without having a long explanation about it. It meant the dead labor, the machines, were always on top of living labor, the workers. And if anybody wanted to find out the truth about that statement, all they had to do was go into any auto shop in this country, and they'd find out about it soon enough. In the shop, it's not a question of theory, it's a matter of fact that every worker knows: every year the machines are improved to run the workers more and more, to get as much out of them as possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the yelling that followed--hand-clapping, foot stamping and whistling--it's clear that the workers knew exactly what I was talking about. And after that demonstration, the bureaucrats turned off all of the microphones that had been set up throughout the hall and behind which workers were lined up to speak. And to this day in my local union, they've never set up microphones the way they used to at contract ratification meetings.(5)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlan underscores the importance of Charles Denby's relationship to Raya Dunayevskaya:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDunayevskaya recalled exciting moments when ideas were exchanged back and forth between herself and Denby. What she described was nothing less than a concretization of the Absolute Idea, the unity of the movement from theory with the movement from practice which is itself a form of theory. The unity created new directions in the thinking of both Dunayevskaya and Denby.(6)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDunavevskaya recalled that Denby's response to the news of Stalin's death was in sharp contrast to others in the Johnson-Forest Tendency who felt that workers did not see any relation to their own lives:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was March 5, 1953 when Stalin died. Denby called me the minute he got out of the shop. He said he imagined I was writing some sort of political analysis of what that meant and he wanted me to know what the workers in his shop were talking about that day: \"Every worker was saying, 'I have just the man to fill Stalin's shoes--my foreman..\" It impressed me so much that I said not only that I would write the political analysis of the death of that totalitarian, but that the workers' remarks would become the jumping off point for my article on the trade unions.(7)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the 20-year anniversary of his death, Charles Denby is very much alive in the philosophy of Marxist-Humanism. His writings on Black opposition to militarism and the importance of Marx's revolutionary ideas to the Black world (some are included in the new AMERICAN CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL) are important for all who oppose globalized capitalism today and wish to create new human foundations for society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the last year of his life Denby, though quite ill, was enthused by Raya Dunayevskaya's new discoveries of Karl Marx's writings on the Black world. He urged Dunayevskaya to develop this in her 1983 Introduction to the pamphlet. When completed, it showed the development of Marx's understanding of Black oppression and that Marx saw overcoming it would lead to greater freedom for all of humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe had concluded INDIGNANT HEART: A BLACK WORKER'S JOURNAL similarly:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI consider my life story as part of the worldwide struggle for freedom. As a Black from South U.S.A. and a Black auto production worker in Detroit, my experience has proved to me that history is the record of the fight of all oppressed people in everything they have thought and done to try to get human freedom in this world. I'm looking forward to that new world, and I firmly believe it is within reach, because so many others all over the world are reaching so hard with me.(8)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNOTES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1. Dunayevskaya, Raya, Afterword to INDIGNANT HEART: A BLACK WORKER'S JOURNAL. Wayne State University Press: Detroit, 1989. pp. 295-303\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e2. Ibid, p. 299.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e3. Denby, Charles, INDIGNANT HEART, op. cit. pp. 87-88\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e4. Alan, John, DIALECTICS OF BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLES. News \u0026amp; Letters: Chicago, 2003.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e5. Denby, op. cit. pp. 255-257.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e6. Alan, op. cit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e7. Dunayevskaya, op. cit. p. 297.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e8. 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