{"title":"March2023special","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"what-we-want-what-we-believe-the-black-panther-party-library","title":"What We Want, What We Believe: The Black Panther Party Library","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The invaluable Movement documentaries Newsreel produced furthered the work of the Black Panther Party and now provide the essential visual record of the Party's early days. This new dvd collection offers an extraordinary compilation that includes historic behind the scenes details taken from a wide range of interviews and contemporary events as well as the classic Newsreel films.\"—Kathleen Cleaver, Communications Secretary, Black Panther Party, 1967–1971\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the first time on DVD, AK Press is proud to present three acclaimed Newsreel Films on the Black Panther Party: \u003cem\u003eOff the Pig\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eMayday\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eRepression\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormed in 1967, the Newsreel film collective was dedicated to chronicling and analyzing current events. In their time, they produced more than three dozen films throughout the US and abroad. By working directly with the Black Panthers, Newsreel was able to explore realities often ignored by traditional media outlets, while producing documents that the Panthers and other activists could use in organizing their own communities. The results speak for themselves and stand as true testimonials to the spirit of community self-defense and political savvy the Panthers are celebrated—and were targeted—for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccompanying the Newsreel films is a massive quantity of rare and exclusive materials culled from Roz Payne's extensive collection of FBI documents, correspondence, and interviews with Black Panthers and their supporters. It's all here, the government-sponsored repression, the trials, exile, triumph, and reunion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat We Want, What We Believe\u003c\/em\u003e is not a straight-forward documentary—the additional materials are like Roz Payne's home movies—but more like a tapestry woven from fragments of cloth. As a whole, these fragments present a rich and provocative history, straight from the mouths of Panthers, their supporters, and even the agents charged with neutralizing them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese materials—over 12 hours—are crucial to our continuing understanding of the Black Panther Party and their legacy. Any student of American History, Black Studies, Political Science \u0026amp; Law, Film Studies, or Civil Rights struggles will find a wealth of valuable information in the Library.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA portion of the proceeds from this project will go to support Black Panther Prisoners through Books Behind Bars, the Jericho Movement, and the Human Rights Research Fund. We urge you to seek out these groups and donate time and resources to their ongoing work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 12-hour DVD features three films on the Black Panther Party and additional footage on their history and legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpecial bonus features: Documents from the Roz Payne Archives chronicling the movement and repression against it. English Language, Region Free\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDisc One:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree Newsreel Films, Interviews with Field Marshall Donald Cox, Footage from 35th Anniversary Reunion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDisc Two:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInterviews with Former FBI Agents discussing COINTELPRO tactics, Footage from the Wheelock Academic Conference on the BPP\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDisc Three:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInterviews with various movement lawyers discussing Panther cases\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDisc Four:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInterviews with Newsreel members, DVD-Rom extras from the Roz Payne Archives\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"…a total Black Panther immersion.\"—\u003cem\u003eOrange County Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"If you have any interest in the history of the Black Panthers, civil rights, sociology or civil disobedience, you need this incredible four-disc DVD collection. 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Facing the possibility of arrest because of her militant activities in the struggle for Puerto Rican independence, Diana spent the next decade living underground: on the run from the FBI, raising two children, and juggling security, solidarity, and motherhood. In a perfect demonstration that the personal is political, Diana's memoir offers insights into efforts to build homegrown clandestine resistance to US imperialism. With emotional depth and a poetic style, the book brings a woman's perspective to a subject typically dominated by heroic, male discourse. It also traces Diana's political development on either side of her period underground, offering a history of the culture and politics of the 1960s and 1970s-especially the decisions that led many to take up arms against the US government—and an analysis of the political terrain of the 1990s, when she resurfaced and tried to reintegrate into a very different world. Diana Block has been an activist for forty years. She has written for political journals and women's magazines, and currently edits \u003cem\u003eThe Fire Inside\u003c\/em\u003e, the newsletter of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. \"Diana Block's \u003cem\u003eArm the Spirit\u003c\/em\u003e is a stunning piece of work with pitch-perfect voice and strong writing. She gives voice to many of us who took up the vocation of revolution and who have remained true to the vision of a radically transformed world.\"—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of \u003cem\u003eBlood on the Border\u003c\/em\u003e \"\u003cem\u003eArm the Spirit\u003c\/em\u003e is one woman's tale of wanting a better world, struggling to bring that vision to fruition and then literally having to flee for her life. It is a story of internal exile that holds lessons for us all, particularly…when a \"war on terror\" has so often become a war against our own best citizens. Block's telling is helped by beautiful poetry and resistance to dogma. 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They expose the activities of fascists and garden-variety xenophobes, showing that the struggle has to be against capitalism and exclusion, not simply its \"neo-liberal\" rendition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003col\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eAryan Politics \u0026amp; Fighting the WTO (J. Sakai)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003ePostscript: There are politics beyond tactics (J. Sakai)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eNader Quotes (Will Offley)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003e\"Anti-Globalization\": Buchanan, Fulani \u0026amp; Neo-fascist Drift in the US (Tom Burghardt, AFIB Editor)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003ePostscript: The Party's Over? (Tom Burghardt)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003e\"Millenium Round\" of the WTO under fire… from both left and right by (Alain Kessi)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eDe Fabel van de illegaal quits Dutch anti-MAI campaign (Eric Krebbers \u0026amp; Merijn Schoenmakerde)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eCampaign against the MAI potentially antisemitic (Eric Krebbers \u0026amp; Merijn Schoenmaker)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eGoldsmith and his Gaian hierarchy (Eric Krebbers)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eFabel self interview about quitting the campaign against \"free trade\" (Krebbers, Westerink \u0026amp; Schoenmaker)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eBeethoven versus McDonalds (Revolutionary Cells)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eResisting Global Capitalism in India (Jaggi Singh)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eCanadian Dry Rot (Will Offley)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eIntroduction by Anti-Fascist Forum\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhy write an essay exposing troublesome characteristics of the struggle against globalization, when global capitalism is seemingly more firmly entrenched than ever? What can be gained from \"rocking the boat\", even if it is true that the campaign against the World Trade Organization may contain certain unsavory elements? Who poses the greatest threat, who should be enemy number one, a few local demagogues or the barons of international capital? Far be it from us at Anti-Fascist Forum to argue against fighting the World Trade Organization and other planning bodies of international capital. But the reasons why people choose to struggle against the WTO, and the ideas underlying their fight, are vitally important to all of us who would like to see capitalism overthrown and class society come to an end. The authors of these texts, most of which have already been published on the internet, have all observed reactionary tendencies within the struggle against global capitalism which go beyond the presence of a few individual crackpots. While the Left currently dominates on the streets and, to a lesser degree, in the popular imagination, this is not necessarily a permanent affair. Without learning the lessons of history and debunking the pseudo-progressivism of the liberal left, revolutionaries may find themselves increasingly marginalized in a movement that whitewashes blood-drenched \"local capitalism\" and lays the basis for heightened exploitation around the world. As we have argued in our magazine, Left-wing weaknesses, both intellectual and organizational, provide a vacuum that is readily filled by the far-right. At the very least, the anti-WTO campaign is a good example of this. In the words of the International Militant Anti-Fascist Network, with which we are affiliated: \"Fascism is not the cause of the Left's collapse but the punishment for it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Anti-Fascist Forum\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175078408285,"sku":"9780973143225","price":12.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_913_mee3_0.jpg?v=1654987261"},{"product_id":"they-never-crushed-his-spirit-a-tribute-to-richard-williams","title":"They Never Crushed His Spirit: A Tribute to Richard Williams","description":"\u003cp\u003eRichard Williams was a lifelong anti-imperialist and socialist, one of the Ohio 7 convicted in 1984 of having carried out armed actions against racism and imperialism as a member of the United Freedom Front. After over twenty years of captivity and medical neglect, Richard passed away on December 7th 2005, at the age of 58. with an introduction by Lynne Stewart, and contributions by Netdahe Williams Stoddard, Jaan Laaman, Tom Manning, Ray Luc Levasseur, Jamila Levi, Pat Levasseur, Kazi Toure, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Marilyn Buck, Nehanda Abiodun, Sundiata Acoli, Mutulu Shakur, Russell \"Maroon\" Shoats, Carlos Alberto Torres, Oscar López Rivera, Laura Whitehorn, Susan Rosenberg, Adolfo Matos Antongiorgi, and many other friends, family and comrades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Interfaith Prisoners of Conscience Project\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 1-894946-22-7\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 142 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175084896349,"sku":"9781894946223","price":12.43,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_957_rwilliams3_0.jpg?v=1654987307"},{"product_id":"we-are-an-image-from-the-future-the-greek-revolt-of-december-2008","title":"We Are an Image From the Future: The Greek Revolt of December 2008","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat causes a city, then a whole country, to explode? How did one neighborhood's outrage over the tragic death of one teenager transform itself into a generalized insurrection against State and capital, paralyzing an entire nation for a month? This is a book about the murder of fifteen-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos, killed by the police in the Exarchia neighborhood of Athens on December 6th, 2008, and of the revolution in the streets that followed, bringing business as usual in Greece to a screeching, burning halt for three marvelous weeks, and putting the fear of history back into the bureaucrats of Fortress Europe and beyond. \u003cem\u003eWe Are an Image From the Future \u003c\/em\u003edelves into the December insurrection and its aftermath through interviews with those who witnessed and participated in it, alongside the communiqués and texts that circulated through the networks of revolt. It provides the on-the-ground facts needed to understand these historic events, and also dispels the myths activists outside of Greece have constructed around them. What emerges is not just the intensity of the riots, but the stories of organizing and solidarity, the questions of strategy and tactics: a desperately needed examination of the fabric of the Greek movements that made December possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book is just what Dr. Fucking Anarchy ordered. How to turn insurrection into revolution. The Greek revolt will inspire a generation as Paris '68 did 40 years earlier.\" —Ian Bone, class warrior and author of \u003cem\u003eBash the Rich\u003c\/em\u003e \"If protest is when I say I disagree, and resistance is when I do something about it, then insurrection is when everyone else is on-board too. So it was in December of 2008, when Greece burned…. \u003cem\u003eWe Are an Image from the Future\u003c\/em\u003e is a quintessential portrait of revolution in action. The coming global insurrection has already begun.\" —Ramor Ryan, author of \u003cem\u003eClandestines\u003c\/em\u003e \"What the Zapatista uprising of 1994 was to the antiglobalization movement, the Greek uprising of 2008 could be to the demise of capitalism itself.\" —CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective \"This dazzling collection is not a book about the great insurrection of 2008-it is a living piece of it that can become a part of us, and through us, it opens the prospect of a universe we might never otherwise have imagined possible. Future historians may well conclude that the Revolution finally began in 2008. If they do, this book will have played a crucial role in that realization.\" —David Graeber, author of \u003cem\u003eDirect Action: An Ethnography\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: A.G. 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You'll marvel at the elaborate schemes developed by The Yellow Kid and cry for the marks who lost it all to his ingenuity—$8,000,000 by some estimations. Fixed horse races, bad real-estate deals, even a money-making machine, were all tools of the trade for the Kid and his associates: The Swede, The Butterine Kid, The Harmony Kid, Fats Levine, and others. Dozens of his schemes are laid out in full detail, told with wit and style. A fantastic, engaging read-you won't be able to put it down! Joseph \"Yellow Kid\" Weil was born in 1877 to German immigrant grocers in Chicago. He worked a number of odd jobs before executing a startling number of scams, primarily in the Chicago area but all over the world. He lived to be 101, and is said to have stolen over eight million dollars in total. \"I never cheated an honest man, only rascals. They wanted something for nothing. 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Then we all became Autonome.\" Black blocs, squats, riots and urban guerillas—but also base groups in the factories, \"free spaces\", antinuclear occupations, and alternative lifestylism—all of these formed the context, the terrain, and the world of Germany's Autonomous movement during its high point in the 1980s. Today best knownfor the militant street fighting tactics they exemplified, the Autonomen opposed the capitalist State while purposefully not putting forward any kind of blueprint for what would replace it, an ethos summed up in the slogan, \"No power to no one!\" The challenges faced by the Autonomen—repression from the police, integration from the reformist left—and the way in which they were met, provide a look forward to what may face our own movements in the time to come. As the current capitalist crisis leads to new surges in protest, with radical elements try to break out of the reformist structures and defeatist traditions meant to hold us back, Germany in the 1980s doesn't seem so far away. Fire and Flames was the first comprehensive study of the German autonomous movement ever published. Released in 1990, it reached its fifth edition by 1997, with the legendary German Konkret journal concluding that \"the movement had produced its own classic.\" This is the first english translation ever published. The author, writing under the pseudonym of Geronimo, has been an Autonomous activist since the movement burst onto the scene in the early 80s. His book is not an academic study, but a movement history produced by a participant in the events, for all of us engaged in building resistance to capitalism, and fighting for a liberatory future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The target audience is not the academic middle-class with passive sympathies for rioting, nor the all-knowing critical critics, but the activists of a young generation.\" —Edition I.D. Archiv \"Some years ago, an experienced autonomous activist from Berlin sat down, talked to friends and comrades about the development of the scene, and, with Fire and Flames, wrote the best book about the movement that we have.\" —Düsseldorfer Stadtzeitung für Politik und Kultur\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe author, writing under the pseudonym of Geronimo, has been an autonomous activist since the movement burst onto the European scene in 1980-81.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Gabriel Kuhn (Afterword)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMDQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gabriel-kuhn\" title=\"Gabriel Kuhn\"\u003eGabriel Kuhn\u003c\/a\u003e lives as an independent author and translator in Stockholm, Sweden. His previous publications with PM Press include Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy (2010), \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNDkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/sober-living-for-the-revolution-hardcore-punk-straight-edge-and-radical-politics\" title=\"Sober Living for the Revolution\"\u003eSober Living for the Revolution\u003c\/a\u003e: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics (editor, 2010), Gustav Landauer: Revolution and Other Writings (editor\/translator, 2010), and Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics (2011).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout George Katsiaficas (Introduction)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Katsiaficas is currently living in Gwangju, South Korea. A visiting professor of sociology at Chonnam National University, he is finishing research on East Asian uprisings in the 1980s and 1990s. A Fulbright Fellow, student of Herbert Marcuse, and long-time activist, he is the author of The Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968. His book, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/the-antifa-comic-book-100-years-of-fascism-and-antifa-movements\" title=\"The Subversion of Politics\"\u003eThe Subversion of Politics\u003c\/a\u003e: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life, was co-winner of the APSA's 1998 Michael Harrington book award. Among his edited volumes are Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party (with Kathleen Cleaver) and Vietnam Documents: American and Vietnamese Views of the War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: geronimo\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-60486-097-9\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 185 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175090761821,"sku":"9781604860979","price":27.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1036_fireflamesfront3_0.jpg?v=1654987356"},{"product_id":"you-cant-win","title":"You Can't Win","description":"\u003cp\u003eA legendary book, bestseller in 1926, and hovering at the edge of our memory since; the favorite book of William Burroughs. 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With an introduction by William Burroughs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Jack Black\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: \nPaperback\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: \n9781902593029\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: \n279 pages\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: AK Press\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175097020509,"sku":"9781902593029","price":13.44,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_997_youcantwin3_0.jpg?v=1654987392"},{"product_id":"revolution-at-point-zero-housework-reproduction-and-feminist-struggle","title":"Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten between 1974 and the present,\u003cem\u003e Revolution at Point Zero\u003c\/em\u003e collects forty years of research and theorizing on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women’s struggles on this terrain—to escape it, to better its conditions, to reconstruct it in ways that provide an alternative to capitalist relations. Indeed, as Federici reveals, behind the capitalist organization of work and the contradictions inherent in “alienated labor” is an explosive ground zero for revolutionary practice upon which are decided the daily realities of our collective reproduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with Federici’s organizational work in the Wages for Housework movement, the essays collected here unravel the power and politics of wide but related issues including the international restructuring of reproductive work and its effects on the sexual division of labor, the globalization of care work and sex work, the crisis of elder care, the development of affective labor, and the politics of the commons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Finally we have a volume that collects the many essays that over a period of four decades \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e has written on the question of social reproduction and women’s struggles on this terrain. While providing a powerful history of the changes in the organization of reproductive labor,\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\u003c\/em\u003e documents the development of Federici’s thought on some of the most important questions of our time: globalization, gender relations, the construction of new commons.” Mariarosa Dalla Costa, coauthor of \u003cem\u003eThe Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e Our Mother Ocean\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“As the academy colonizes and tames women’s studies, Silvia Federici speaks the experience of a generation of women for whom politics was raw, passionately lived, often in the shadow of an uncritical Marxism. She spells out the subtle violence of housework and sexual servicing, the futility of equating waged work with emancipation, and the ongoing invisibility of women’s reproductive labors. Under neoliberal globalization women’s exploitation intensifies—in land enclosures, in forced migration, in the crisis of elder care. With ecofeminist thinkers and activists, Federici argues that protecting the means of subsistence now becomes the key terrain of struggle, and she calls on women North and South to join hands in building new commons.” Ariel Salleh, author of \u003cem\u003eEcofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx, and the Postmodern\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The zero point of revolution is where new social relations first burst forth, from which countless waves ripple outward into other domains. For over thirty years, Silvia Federici has fiercely argued that this zero point cannot have any other location but the sphere of reproduction. It is here that we encounter the most promising battlefield between an outside to capital and a capital that cannot abide by any outsides. This timely collection of her essays reminds us that the shape and form of any revolution are decided in the daily realities and social construction of sex, care, food, love, and health. Women inhabit this zero point neither by choice nor by nature, but simply because they carry the burden of reproduction in a disproportionate manner. Their struggle to take control of this labor is everybody’s struggle, just as capital’s commodification of their demands is everybody’s commodification.” Massimo De Angelis, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Beginning of History: Values, Struggles, and Global Capital\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In her unfailing generosity of mind, Silvia Federici has offered us yet another brilliant and groundbreaking reflection on how capitalism naturalizes the exploitation of every aspect of women’s productive and reproductive life. Federici theorizes convincingly that, whether in the domestic or public sphere, capital normalizes women’s labor as ‘housework’ worthy of no economic compensation or social recognition. Such economic and social normalization of capitalist exploitation of women underlies the gender-based violence produced by the neoliberal wars that are ravaging communities around the world, especially in Africa. The intent of such wars is to keep women off the communal lands they care for, while transforming them into refugees in nation-states weakened by the negative effects of neoliberalism. Silvia Federici’s call for ecofeminists’ return to the Commons against Capital is compelling. Revolution at Point Zero is a timely release and a must read for scholars and activists concerned with the condition of women around the world.” Ousseina D. Alidou, Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa (CAFA), Director of the Center for African Studies at Rutgers University and author of\u003cem\u003e Engaging Modernity: Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout Silvia Federici \u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSilvia Federici is a feminist writer, teacher, and militant. In 1972, she was cofounder of the International Feminist Collective, which launched the Wages for Housework campaign internationally. 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She is one of the cofounders of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa, an organization dedicated to generating support for the struggles of students and teachers in Africa against the structural adjustment of African economies and education systems. From 1987 to 2005, she also taught international studies, women’s studies, and political philosophy courses at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer decades of research and political organizing accompanies a long list of publications on philosophy and feminist theory, women’s history, education, culture, international politics, and more recently on the worldwide struggle against capitalist globalization and for a feminist reconstruction of the commons. Her steadfast commitment to these issues resounds in her focus on autonomy and her emphasis on the power of what she calls self-reproducing movements as a challenge to capitalism through the construction of new social relations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175103377501,"sku":"9781604863338","price":22.33,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1099_revpointzero3_0.jpg?v=1654987436"},{"product_id":"afrofuturism-the-world-of-black-sci-fi-and-fantasy-culture","title":"Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eComprising elements of the avant-garde, science fiction, cutting-edge hip-hop, black comix, and graphic novels, Afrofuturism spans both underground and mainstream pop culture. With a twofold aim to entertain and enlighten, Afrofuturists strive to break down racial, ethnic, and all social limitations to empower and free individuals to be themselves. This book introduces readers to the burgeoning artists creating Afrofuturist works, the history of innovators in the past, and the wide range of subjects they explore. From the sci-fi literature of Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler, and NK Jemisin to the musical cosmos of Sun Ra, George Clinton, and the Black Eyed Peas’ will.i.am, to the visual and multimedia artists inspired by African Dogon myths and Egyptian deities, topics range from the “alien” experience of blacks in America to the “wake up” cry that peppers sci-fi literature, sermons, and activism. 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I highly recommend this book as it masterfully covers the genre’s humble past, its flourishing present and promising future. This is definitely a fantastically, engaging read. I couldn't put it down.” —Jarvis Sheffield, The Black Science Fiction Society “When I coined the term \"Afrofuturism\" in 1992, who knew young cultural critics like Ytasha Womack would make it their own? Accessibly written, with an emphasis on the politics of the here and now, Afrofuturism beckons us through an intellectual wormhole, into a universe where dark matter is, at last, visible.” —Mark Dery, cultural critic, author, lecturer “This book is the gravity that holds the universe of ideas that define Afrofuturism. Finally, the starting point for our welcomed explorers.” —King Britt, universal sonic architect\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYtasha L. Womack is a filmmaker, futurist, and the author of Post Black: How a New Generation Is Redefining African American Identity and 2212: Book of Rayla. She is the creator of the Rayla 2212 sci-fi multimedia series, the director of the award-winning film The Engagement, the producer and writer of Love Shorts, and the coeditor of Beats Rhymes and Life: What We Love and Hate About Hip Hop. She has written for many publications including Ebony and the Chicago Tribune and has appeared on E! True Hollywood Stories: Rappers Wives. She lives in Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Ytasha L. 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Taken on their own, in isolation, these blights may seem to be just more \"social issues\" for NGOs to get grants for, but taken together and in the context of amerikkkan history, they constitute genocide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Kill the Kids First” is a long, bitter rant that factually traces what was happening at street level, in daily events, in New York City in the 1980s. This is important because New York was an early epicenter of the u.s. empire’s new Black Genocide strategy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll the destructive trends that are now being so anxiously talked about in the 21st century, were first surfaced in New York City at that time. The mass incarceration of increasingly unemployed New Afrikans, young adult and child alike. The “stop and frisk” apartheid policing that justified itself by shrill alarms that any New Afrikans at all loose on the streets was the number one public emergency. 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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. As sex workers face increasing legal threats and decreased safety in the US, it’s a more urgent read than ever.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e– Autostraddle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Revolting Prostitutes succeeds as a well-reasoned, grounded and stubbornly materialist defense of sex workers rights in a literature characterized largely by sex panic, voyeurism, and extrapolation.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e– Jennifer McGibbon, Alternate Routes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Tackles complex topics that even sex workers struggle with, criticizing issues like classism in the sex worker community, professional dominatrixes who distance themselves from full-service sex workers out of whorephobia, and why decriminalization isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e– Ana Valens, The Daily Dot\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Revolting Prostitutes is a thrilling and formidable intervention into contemporary discussions of sex work, and settles the debate in favor of full and immediate global decriminalization. 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":"the-womens-revolution-russia-1905-1917","title":"The Women's Revolution: Russia 1905–1917","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe dominant view of the Russian Revolution of 1917 is of a movement led by prominent men like Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. Despite the demonstrations of female workers for ‘bread and herrings’, which sparked the February Revolution, in most historical accounts of this momentous period, women are too often relegated to the footnotes. Judy Cox argues that women were essential to the success of the revolution and to the development of the Bolshevik Party. With biographical sketches of famous female revolutionaries like Alexandra Kollontai and less well-known figures like Elena Stasova and Larissa Reisner, \u003cem\u003eThe Women’s Revolution \u003c\/em\u003etells the inspiring story of how Russian women threw off centuries of oppression to strike, organize, liberate themselves and ultimately try to build a new world based on equality and freedom for all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJudy Cox \u003c\/strong\u003eis a longstanding socialist and campaigner. She lives and works in Tower Hamlets, East London, where she is a primary school teacher. 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All hell breaks loose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Yellow Earth, John Sayles introduces an epic cast of characters, weaving together narratives of competing agendas and worldviews with lyrical dexterity, insight, and wit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen rich layers of shale oil are discovered beneath the town of Yellow Earth, all hell breaks loose. Locals, oil workers, service workers, politicians, law enforcement, and get-rich-quick opportunists—along with an earnest wildlife biologist—commingle and collide as the population of the town triples overnight. Harleigh Killdeer, chairman of the tribal business council of the neighboring Three Nations reservation, entertains visions of \"sovereignty by the barrel\" and joins forces with a fast-talking entrepreneur. From casino dealers to activists and high school kids, everyone in the region is swept up in the unsparing wave of an oil boom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSayles’s masterful storytelling draws an arc from the earliest exploitation of this land and its people all the way to twenty-first-century privatization schemes. Through the intertwining lives of its characters, Yellow Earth lays bare how the profit motive erodes human relationships, as well as our living planet. The fate of Yellow Earth serves as a parable for our times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Densely textured, overtly political fifth novel, the acclaimed director and screenwriter recounts what happens when shale oil is discovered beneath an Indian reservation in the North Dakota badlands and crowds of outsiders descend.” New York Times Book Review (New and Noteworthy)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mr. Sayles writes with such verve and colloquial humor that even the most esoteric issues brighten with fascination....Mr. Sayles superbly dramatizes the man-made disruptions in his novel’s small pond, but in a book motored by anarchy the most unsettling section occurs when the boom goes bust, bringing “Yellow Earth” to a surprisingly quiet conclusion: the depiction of a modern-day ghost town.\" \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Few fiction writers understand the ripple effect that big industry can have on a community with as much depth and empathy as John Sayles….His latest novel, Yellow Earth, might be his most deeply felt work yet.” \u003cem\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Incisive....\" \u003cem\u003eSeattle Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Without falling prey to false ‘both sides’ equivocation, Sayles masterfully balances and gives fair hearings to competing agendas and doesn’t shy away from the ugly side of human nature; by the same token, he doesn’t give in to cynicism or despair. What animates his fiction is curiosity about different kinds of people and their experiences, and an imagination expansive enough to portray their inner lives. He doesn’t fetishize diversity, but his stories are naturally diverse as a result of his engaged interest in the world around him. Now entering the fifth decade of his career, Sayles remains a standard-bearer for the American novel.” \u003cem\u003eSlant Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Filmmaker Sayles... is also a highly imaginative short story writer with a sure ear for dialogue, a keen eye for group dynamics, a flair for quickly establishing intriguing mise-en-scènes, and the ability to animate a great spectrum of flinty characters... Sayles expresses his compassion and concern for those who struggle with poverty and prejudice, seeking both to provoke and entertain.”  \u003cem\u003eBooklist (Starred Review)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sayles’s scrawl achieves a sensational pace. It is the impressive result of a comprehensive portrayal of all four stages and an incredible amount of layering, symbolism, and ideology. There is an urgency to \u003cem\u003eYellow Earth\u003c\/em\u003e, and Sayles wastes no words....The magic of \u003cem\u003eYellow Earth \u003c\/em\u003eis that it doesn’t feel didactic or like an overdone parable. Rather, Sayles fills his work with contradictions. The competing perspectives and ideologies manifest through the characters’ colloquial conversations, inner dialogue, and motivations.\" \u003cem\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"John Sayles has created a tale of people and place bewitched and bedeviled by money and power, ultimately convinced to join in the destruction of their lands and their lives. 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She is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Theorizing feminicide as the key epistemic violence at the heart of patriarchal, colonial, and capitalist relations of rule, this powerful text documents Black, Brown, and Indigenous trans and cis women’s ongoing resistance and insurgent dreams of bodily integrity and freedom. Weaving together memories, poetry, stories, analysis, art, and activist praxis, \u003cem\u003eFeminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e charts a new and irresistible future for anticapitalist feminist struggle. A book that belongs on the bookshelves of all progressive, left, decolonial scholar-activists.” Chandra Talpade Mohanty, author of \u003cem\u003eFeminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFeminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e tells stories of women reclaiming their histories, their dreams, their lives, and their bodies. It is a view from the ground up of the limitless greed of global corporations who want the last farm, the last seed, and the last mineral. Most importantly, it shows how violence against the Earth and violence against women are interconnected, and how feminicide and ecocide are intrinsic to the structures of global accumulation. Transforming the pain of feminicide into a fight for justice, women are showing how we can create new economies from the ground up, putting people and planet at the center to create buen vivir, the good life for all.” Vandana Shiva, author of \u003cem\u003eStaying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEarth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Drawing on concrete experiences and processes, \u003cem\u003eFeminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e explains why feminicide is a political category. It shows why social movements are the ones that have made feminicide into a term for naming patriarchal violence in relation to the capitalist and colonial system as a machine of exploitation and cruelty over certain bodies and territories; why struggles have installed the term in the media and in legal classifications at the same time as they use it to denounce patriarchal justice and counter-insurgent strategies. Speaking of feminicide and transfeminicide in relation to global processes of accumulation, as \u003cem\u003eFeminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e proposes, makes it possible both to grieve and to refuse its normalization, to create a systematic account of how violence explodes and extracts collective wealth, as well as to connect sexual violence to histories of conquest and genocide.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\"Feminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e arises from a collective encounter in Colombia in 2016 that has been vital for conceptualizing and sharing experiences from voices across Abya Yala, of Black, Indigenous, Afro-descendant and Afro-Indigenous women, and non-heteronormative bodies. Thus it is a book that is heard and written in many tongues. It is theory produced in the thickness of a poem, concepts woven into conversation, lines of argument that echo inherited histories, philosophies that carry memories. The effort of its translation and publication in English does justice to the task of introducing a vocabulary that emerges from the struggles of body-territories in their untiring strategies of re-existence.” Verónica Gago, author of \u003cem\u003eFeminist International: How to Change Everything\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFeminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e is a timely and necessary book on one of the most urgent issues facing trans and cis women globally. Centering the voices of Black and Indigenous women, this collection presents rare and much needed insight into the ways that racial capitalism and heterosexism exacerbate the politics of violence against women transnationally. From Colombia to Guinea-Bissau, these reflections dialogically, poetically and passionately demonstrate why Black and Indigenous women matter and why we must do everything in our power to stop racialized gender violence now.” Christen A. Smith, author of \u003cem\u003eAfro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence and Performance in Brazil \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eFeminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e is a searing, unflinching indictment and analysis of gender-based violence and its embeddedness in extant structures of colonialism, modern patriarchy, racism, and capital accumulation. In their own riveting words and voices, Black, Afro-descendant, trans, and Indigenous women, activists, and researchers from across the Americas and the Global South offer stories and theories of the living experiences and memories of the racist, feminicidal violence they and their communities have endured and resisted, and never forgotten, despite the imposed silence of dominant histories. Through them we see the monstrous and intimate scales of the punitive powers women face. But we also see the enormous powers women themselves wield—powers of rebellion, resistance, and re-existence—which are the radical capacities for transformation we can put our hopes in. Harrowing and heartening, moving, humbling, and inspiriting, these are powerful and empowering calls for collective resistance and joy, and renewed life-making against the pedagogies of cruelty directed against the truth of women’s rebellion. This book is more than a glimpse of what it will take to remake the world. It shows us that those who now defend life, land, culture, and community are who will lead us into a different future.\" Neferti X. M. Tadiar, author of \u003cem\u003eThings Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFeminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of the heart and mind, of spirit and memory, and of truth and resistance. By amplifying the voices of Black, Indigenous and women of color living on the frontlines of colonialism and imperialism, this book offers an alarming exposition of the horrors and terrain of contemporary racialized, capitalist accumulation and dispossession—who it targets, under what historical conditions, and the staggering and multiple forms of patriarchal violence necessary for its reproduction. The narratives move through past, present, and future—drawing on ancestral wisdom of place, speaking to the everyday political interventions of feminist freedom fighters in the here and now, and ultimately shaping future feminist resistors rising up from the earth and demanding change. There is no hiding from the haunting accounts of colonial, capitalist violence courageously shared in these pages, or the questions about international solidarity that float to the surface as you read. The transformative power, analytic precision, and deep and uncompromising indictment of our current world captured in the book’s pages—and showcased in such painful and beautiful ways— is what we desperately need to think with, to teach, to understand, and to mobilize for collective liberation across the globe. Reading it is like standing on the precipice of change.” Jaskiran Dhillon, author of \u003cem\u003ePrairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization and the Politics of Intervention\u003c\/em\u003e and Associate Professor of Global Studies, The New School\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFrom the Book\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"From the spread of new forms of witch-hunting and the worldwide escalation in the number of women murdered daily, there is mounting evidence of what some feminists have called “a low-intensity war against women.” This chapter starts with the question: What are the motivations and logic behind this phenomenon? I try to answer this question by placing the specific forms of violence in a historical context and examining the impact of capitalist development, past and present, in women’s lives and gender relations. In this context, I also explore the relation between different forms of violence—familial, extra-domestic, and institutional—and the strategies for resistance that women around the world are creating to put a stop to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Since the beginning of the feminist movement, violence against women has been a key issue in feminist literature and organization, inspiring the formation of the first International Tribunal on Crimes against Women, held in Brussels in March 1976. Since then, feminist antiviolence initiatives have multiplied, as have laws passed by governments following the UN World Conferences on Women. But, far from diminishing, violence against women has increased in every part of the world, to the point where feminists now describe it as “feminicide.” Not only has the violence represented by the number of women killed and abused continued to increase, but its character has also changed. It is increasingly more public, more brutal, and it frequently takes forms that are typical of times of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"What are the causes of this phenomenon and what does it tell us about transformations that are occurring in the global economy and women’s social position? Answers to these questions have varied, but it is clear that the root causes of this escalation are found in the new forms of capital accumulation, which involve broad processes of land dispossession, the destruction of communitarian relations, and an intensification in the exploitation of natural resources and labor. What still needs to be clarified, however, are the concrete ways in which this violence is a consequence and\/or instrument of the advance of capitalist relations. In this chapter, I address the question both by providing a historical perspective, and by discussing the relation between domestic and public violence and policies at the institutional level that have been adopted to discipline women. My goal is to demonstrate that while this new wave of violence adopts different forms, its common denominator is the devaluation of women’s lives and labor promoted by globalization. In other words, the new violence against women is rooted in structural trends that are constitutive of capitalist development and state power in all times. This means that the construction of alternatives to capitalism must be an essential part of the struggle against this violence against women, in order to eradicate its causes.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Silvia Federici\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Susana Draper\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Liz Mason-Deese\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781942173441\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 240 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Common Notions\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175374893149,"sku":"9781942173441","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/feminicide_and_global_accumulation_9781942173441_fc.jpg?v=1654988967"},{"product_id":"girl-online-a-user-manual","title":"Girl Online: A User Manual","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat happens when a woman goes online? She becomes a girl.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe unwritten contract of the internet, that a user is what is used, extends from the well-examined issue of data privacy and consent to the very selves women are encouraged to create in order to appear. Invited to self-construct as “girls online,” vloggers, bloggers and influencers sign a devil’s bargain: a platform on the condition they commodify themselves, eternally youthful, cute and responsibility-free, hiding offline domestic, professional and emotional labour while paying for their online presence with “accounts” of personal “experience.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Told via the arresting personal narrative of one woman negotiating the (cyber)space between her identities as girl, mother, writer, and commodified online persona, Girl Online is written in a\u003cspan class=\"atm_keep-reading-flag\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e plethora of the online styles, from programming language to the blog\/diary, from tweets to lyric prose, taking in selfies, social media, celebrity and Cyberfeminism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“This is theory as user manual for every girl who has misplaced her body, for all who have ever attempted the looking glass life of writing a self onto screen. Walsh does not betray these early desires of screen life even as she elucidates the stark disappointments of its actualization.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Boyer, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Undying\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Draws together preoccupations of her earlier writings into a fascinating and engrossing exploration of what it is to be a girl, writing, on the internet. Thought-provoking, playful, and witty, \u003ci\u003eGirl Online\u003c\/i\u003e is a delight, both in content and in form.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatherine Angel, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/tomorrow-sex-will-be-good-again-women-and-desire-in-the-age-of-consent?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=fc2111db5\u0026amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eTomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A brilliant, timely act of feminist resistance. Joanna Walsh wields language as deliberately as a surgeon her knife. She doesn’t miss a trick, or an opportunity for (s)wordplay. Here as ever she is ‘good to think’ with, a formidable and original theorist for and beyond our online era.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLauren Elkin, author of \u003ci\u003eFlaneuse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Skilfully captures the fragmentary nature of online existence, the slippery nature of our online selves and their endless interpretations, and both the connections and the alienation that come with it. This is a deep and yet beautifully light meditation on what the internet is doing to our brains.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJuliet Jacques, author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/trans-a-memoir?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=af7e421a9\u0026amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrans\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “The internet is all about girls—and is an impossible place to be one. \u003ci\u003eGirl Online\u003c\/i\u003e writes its way through that dilemma with critical insight and creative moxie. It’s a really good book for anyone who has ever tried to have a gender—especially on the internet.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMcKenzie Wark, author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/capital-is-dead-is-this-something-worse?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=f8b69e21a\u0026amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eCapital is Dead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Neither a mirror nor a lamp, the screen offers no specular high or illuminating epiphany. Yet, it provides a set of immaterialities for the switch up of identity and personhood, imaginary spaces from which to prompt far-reaching reflection and the timed fantasy of emancipation. Joanna Walsh delivers a new batch of historical screen memories in a constant remix of desire and memory, erasure and fear. The text rotates into literary and theoretical analyses, tech labs and artistic sites, propelled by touching autobiographemes that explode and mutate according to a digital logic that holds subjectivity to a new standard of captivity. Taking off from AI Alice Through the Looking Glass, Walsh calls up crucial works of Derrida, Chantal Ackermann, Luce Irigaray, Kathy Acker, and other innovators of shredded identity, jamming on the theoretical fine print of our internet contracts and reversible selfhood.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAvital Ronell, author of \u003ci\u003eStupidity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this profound and moving account of what it’s like to be a girl online, Joanna Walsh guides readers through unwritten terms and conditions women face when they’re on the internet, how they’re forced to commodify themselves, and effectively pay for the space they take up ‘with accounts of personal experience.’”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBusiness Insider\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “In this book of essays in alternative forms, including programming language, tweets, and lyric prose, Joanna Walsh explores what it means to be a woman on this thing called the internet. Expect some philosophizing on tech, identity, selfies, and social media.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNylon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Joins a growing genre of writing, including fiction and nonfiction, that attempts to articulate the way it feels to be online.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEliza Goodpasture, \u003ci\u003e3:AM Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Any woman who’s ever dealt with reply guys gone feral, dogpiling, doxxing, or dick pics in her DMs knows one thing: It’s hard to be a woman on the internet. In \u003ci\u003eGirl Online\u003c\/i\u003e, Joanna Walsh explores our relationship to the web—what we sacrifice to have an internet presence, how our identities change online, and what we receive in return.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eK.W. Colyard, \u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Walsh’s philosophy is funny and thoughtful, and here, she presents the feminist resistance for the extremely online girls (or should we say gworls?).”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna Cafolla, \u003ci\u003eThe Face\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “An explorative work about what it is to be a woman, on and off the internet.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSophie Grenham, \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eGirl Online\u003c\/i\u003e sits generously, generatively, generically in the questioning, querying, “wondering” modes of the writing it examines.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHannah Hutchings-Georgiou, \u003ci\u003eThe Arts Desk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A deeply playful romp through the theory and politics of creating an online persona and of logging on … [Walsh offers] a new understanding of how girlhood is performed online.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaire Thomson, \u003ci\u003eLunate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Walsh delivers playful and lived-in observations about the online world.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnandi Mishra, \u003ci\u003eArtReview\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Esoteric in one breath and widely relatable in another, threaded with sly humour and enlivened with breaths of personal reflection.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRuth McKee, \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Using a variety of styles ranging from programming language to tweets to a blog, [Walsh] brilliantly captures the realities and unrealities of online existence.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eManhattan Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40334395506781,"sku":"9781839765353","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/59498599.jpg?v=1658679423"},{"product_id":"the-crisis-of-ugliness-from-cubism-to-pop-art","title":"The Crisis of Ugliness: From Cubism to Pop-Art","description":"\u003cp\u003eMikhail Lifshitz is a major forgotten figure in the tradition of Marxist philosophy and art history. 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Richie surface the often unrecognized genealogies of queer, anti-capitalist, internationalist, grassroots, and women-of-color-led feminist movements, struggles, and organizations that have helped to define abolition and feminism in the twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis pathbreaking book also features illustrations documenting the work of grassroots organizers embodying abolitionist feminist practice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmplifying the analysis and the theories of change generated out of vibrant community based organizing, Abolition. Feminism. Now. highlights necessary historical linkages, key internationalist learnings, and everyday practices to imagine a future where we can all thrive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In Abolition. Feminism. Now., Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie—four visionaries whose longstanding abolitionist work is inseparable from their feminist principles—brilliantly show how abolition feminism has always offered the radical tools we need for revolutionary change. Feminist approaches to the carceral regime reveal the connections between state violence and intimate violence, between prisons and family policing, and between local and global organizing. By illuminating the genealogy of anti-carceral feminism and its vital struggles against all carceral systems, the authors compel us to see the urgent necessity of abolition feminism now.”\u003cbr\u003e—Dorothy Roberts, author, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build A Safer World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this powerful, wise and well-crafted book, filled with insight and provocation, Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie make it patently and abundantly clear why abolitionist feminism is necessary. Offering vivid snapshots from a political movement, the book explains how organizing to end violence without turning to violent institutions such as prisons and the police as remedies, is how we learn what we need to do to make change possible. Abolitionist feminists, they teach us, in taking up the slow, practical and painstaking work of campaigning, also expand our political horizons and create imaginative tools for world building. Attentive to histories of organising that are too quickly erased, and alive to new possibilities for working collectively in the present time, this book is as capacious and demanding as the abolitionist feminism it calls for. It gives us a name for what we want. Abolitionism. Now.”\u003cbr\u003e—Sara Ahmed, author of Willful Subjects\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This little book is a massive offering on where we have been, where we are right now, and what we are imagining and organizing into being as abolition feminists. Breaking us out of every container and binary, Abolition. Feminism. Now. invites us to be in the complexity and contradictions of our humanity in the massive intersectional work of structural change. The ideas of abolition and feminism are rivers moving through us towards a liberated future which we can already feel existing within and between us. Invigorating and rooting, this text is instantly required reading, showing us how everything we have done and are doing is accumulating towards a post-punitive, transformative future - our lineage is bursting with brilliance! And we are prefiguring this possibility - wherever we are is a site of practice, a place where we are collectively becoming accountable to a justice infused with humanity, compassion and the belief that we can change. This book is a lineage of words and visuals, showing us the beauty of our efforts, and gently reminding us that we are not failing - we are learning, and we are changing.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNjkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/adrienne-maree-brown\" title=\"adrienne maree brown\"\u003eadrienne maree brown\u003c\/a\u003e, author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Neither manifesto nor blueprint for revolution, this extraordinary book makes the most compelling case I’ve ever seen for the indivisibility of feminism and abolition, for the inseparability of gendered and state violence, domestic policing and militarism, the street, the home, and the world. Combining decades of analytical brilliance and organizational experience, Davis, Dent, Meiners, and Richie offer a genealogy of the movements that brought us here, lessons learned, battles won and lost, and the ongoing collective struggle to build a thoroughly revolutionary vision and practice. A provocation, an incitement, an offering, an invitation to a difficult struggle to which we must all commit. Now.”\u003cbr\u003e—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is the book we’ve all needed for a long, long time.”\u003cbr\u003e—Robyn Maynard, author of Policing Black Lives\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Abolition. Feminism. Now. is a demand in every way. It pushes readers not to accept simple stories but to embrace complexity and new ways of thinking. But it is also a celebration of feminist agitators and freedom fighters who undermine the carceral state while building new sources safety, repair, and accountability. Of an ever-changing, growing, and evolving movement that puts survivors at the center of its analysis, not the periphery. And of a historic political struggle that considers freedom worth the fight. And, in the end, the authors make it clear that abolition feminism isn’t on its way; it’s already unfolding all around us.”\u003cbr\u003e—Nia T. Evans, Boston Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Abolition, as a theory and practice, is gaining in public visibility. But abolition’s feminist genealogies are less visible. And at this moment—one of political uncertainty, a global health crisis, the simultaneous proliferation of misinformation and intellectual curiosity, and a collective willingness to discuss and commit to abolitionist ideas and practices—influential thinkers and activists Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie offer a beautifully and accessibly written text on carceral systems and abolition and feminism. Abolition. Feminism. Now. is a timely work, offering an essential and critical genealogy of anticarceral feminism and ongoing conversations about the tools and solutions needed for structural change.”\u003cbr\u003e—LaShawn Harris, author of Sex Workers, Psychics, and Number Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Abolition. Feminism. Now. challenges us to move beyond the accessible, popular, and trendy toward a substantive and meaningful conceptualization of abolition feminism that is capacious enough to fundamentally change us.”\u003cbr\u003e—Jenn Jackson, author of Black Women Taught Us\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“These authors’ exhortation to remember abolition’s feminist lineages are important reminders now that large-scale protests have quieted into less visible (and more protracted) organizing.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victoria-law\" title=\"Victoria Law\"\u003eVictoria Law\u003c\/a\u003e, author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40365714899037,"sku":"9781642592580","price":16.61,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9781642592580-f_medium-42a775a0ef46e1097a8120427a27cd3c.jpg?v=1659400340"},{"product_id":"art-in-the-after-culture-capitalist-crisis-and-cultural-strategy","title":"Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy","description":"\u003cp\u003e“This kaleidoscopic collection will help you see and comprehend the world anew—which is, in my book, what good art should do.”\u003cbr\u003e—Astra Taylor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a scary and disorienting time for art, as it is a scary and disorienting time in general. Aesthetic experience is both overshadowed by the spectacle of current events and pressed into new connection with them. The self-image of art as a social good is collapsing under the weight of capitalism’s dysfunction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn these incisive essays, art critic Ben Davis makes sense of our extreme present as an emerging \"after-culture\"—a culture whose forms and functions are being radically reshaped by cataclysmic events. In the face of catastrophe, he holds out hope that reckoning with the new realities of art, technology, activism, and the media, can help us weather the super-storms of the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e”Ben Davis understands that you can't truly understand art without an analysis of the economic system that created the artist. 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Murch frames the contemporary movement in relation to earlier struggles for Black Liberation, while excavating the origins of mass incarceration and the political economy that drives it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Donna Murch is one of the sharpest, most incisive, and elegant writers on racism, radicalism, and struggle today. In this collection of essays assessing the current contours of the contemporary movement against racism in the United States, Murch combines a historian’s rigor with a cultural critic’s insights and the passionate expression of someone deeply engaged with the politics, debates, and key questions confronting activists and organizers today. This is a smart and sophisticated book that should be read and studied by everyone in search of answers to the profound crises that continue to confront this country.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMDMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/keeanga-yamahtta-taylor\" title=\"Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor\"\u003eKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor\u003c\/a\u003e, author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Donna Murch is one of our most brilliant thinkers and a committed scholar activist. In Assata Taught Me, she offers powerful insights about the Black freedom movement and Black radical politics, past and present. I always learn and am inspired when I read her work. This book is essential reading for historians, organizers and people interested in making sense of this historical moment, and more importantly, in changing the world.”\u003cbr\u003e—Barbara Ransby, author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Assata Taught Me is a masterclass on the Black Radical Tradition. From the extractive structures of the world’s largest police state to the revolutionary resistance, Donna Murch meticulously traces the history and contours of the current Movement for Black Lives. This book is seminal like its namesake, Assata Shakur.”\u003cbr\u003e—Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“To feel anything other than fatalistic about the moment in which we currently live, and to see the future as anything less than perilous, might seem utterly foolish—unless, that is, one has sat with Donna Murch’s latest. With her rigorous rescuing, remembering, and reckoning with past histories of trauma, struggle, and resistance that current pundits and progressives alike too easily forget, as well as her searing reminders of present-day possibilities for a better world, Murch, like Assata Shakur before her, teaches us much we desperately need to learn in this time of momentous upheaval.”\u003cbr\u003e—Heather Ann Thompson, author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 of 1971 and its Legacy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Assata Shakur was a prisoner of war. Donna Murch understands this profoundly, which is why she wrote a book about a half-century of overlapping domestic wars in the United States. Each essay forcefully drives home the point that to be Black in America—to be Black in the world—is to live in a state of war under a warfare state. 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Among the thirty-six writers are Muriel Rukeyser, Margaret Walker, Josephine Herbst, Tillie Olsen, Tess Slesinger, Agnes Smedley, and Meridel Le Sueur. Other voices may be new to readers, including many working-class Black and white women. Topics covered range from sexuality and family relationships, to race, class, and patriarchy, to party politics. Toni Morrison writes that the anthology is “peopled with questioning, caring, socially committed women writers.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"expandable-section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"d-sm-block table-of-contents centered\"\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"text--center\"\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForeword Toni Morrison xiii\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreface to the 2022 Edition xv\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreface xvii\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWomen and U.S. Literary Radicalism Paula Rabinowitz 1\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart I Fiction 17\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWriting Red: Women's Short Fiction of the 1930s Paula Rabinowitz 19\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAgnes Smedley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShan-fei, Communist 30\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeridel Le Sueur\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSequel to Love 36\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRuth McKenney\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Industrial Valley 39\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeane Zugsmith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoom in the World 46\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdith Manuel Durham\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeepening Dusk 52\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLucille Boehm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo-Bit Piece 67\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarita Bonner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Whipping 70\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRamona Lowe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Woman in the Window 79\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Thomas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur House 84\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEleanor Clark\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHurry, Hurry 89\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJosephine Herbst\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Enemy 96\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTess Slesinger\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Mouse-Trap 106\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart II Poetry 125\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorlds Moving: Women, Poetry, and the Literary Politics of the 1930s Charlotte Nekola 127\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuriel Rukeyser\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnn Burlak 135\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbsalom 139\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore of a Corpse Than a Woman 142\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFifth Elegy: A Turning Wind 143\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGenevieve Taggard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTry Tropic 147\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReturn of the Native 148\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo My Mother 149\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSilence in Mallorca 150\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProud Day 152\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAutumn Song for Guitar 153\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreative Effort 154\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOde in Time of Crisis 155\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJosephine W. Johnson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnder the Sound of Voices 157\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe Who Shall Turn- 158\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIce Winter 159\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMargaret Walker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor My People 161\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDark Blood 163\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLineage 164\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGladys Casely Hayford\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Palm Wine Seller 165\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKathleen Tankersley Young\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll Things Insensible 167\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLucia Trent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBreed, Women, Breed 168\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLady in a Limousine 169\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParade the Narrow Turrets 170\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRuth Lechlitner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the Wall to Your Left 171\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSusan McMillan Shepherd\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhite Man's Blues 172\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMary LeDuc Gibbons\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMothers 173\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoy Davidman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Woman 174\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwentieth-Century Americanism 175\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrayer Against Indifference 178\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTillie Olsen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI Want You Women Up North to Know 179\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFlorence Reece\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhich Side Are You On? 182\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAunt Molly Jackson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI Am a Union Woman 184\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Hungry Blues 185\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart III Reportage, Theory, and Analysis 187\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorlds Unseen: Political Women Journalists and the 1930s Charlotte Nekola 189\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJosephine Herbst\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Passport from Realengo 18 199\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAgnes Smedley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe People in China 203\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnna Louise Strong\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFighters for Women's Rights 215\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFront Trenches-Northwest 224\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElla Winter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWoman Freed 228\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRuth Gruber\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinding Women 236\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTillie Olsen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Strike 245\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVivian Dahl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThem Women Sure Are Scrappers 252\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElaine Ellis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWomen of the Cotton Fields 255\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMary Guimes Lear\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBessie: A Garment Strike Story 258\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElla Ford\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe Are Mill People 264\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnonymous\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy Life: A True Story by a Negro Worker of the South 270\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd Mine: A True Story by a Negro Worker of the North 272\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo More Helling! A True Story by a Working Woman 274\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMollie V. Lewis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNegro Women in Steel 276\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDorothy Day\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Good Landlord (An Interview with Our Janitress) 279\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThyra J. Edwards\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChicago in the Rain (Relief for Negro Homeless Men on the South Side) 282\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMary Heaton Vorse\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSchool for Bums 285\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHard-Boiled 291\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMyra Page\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Leave Them Meters Be!\" 293\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Water!\" 296\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeridel Le Sueur\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Fetish of Being Outside 299\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMary Inman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eManufacturing Femininity 304\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Pivot of the System 308\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Code of a Class 312\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRebecca Pitts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWomen and Communism 316\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrace Hutchins\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWomen under Capitalism 329\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Double Burden 335\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors 341\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments 347\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This historic volume powerfully captures the vital role revolutionary women played in shaping American radicalism during the Great Depression. It is a must-read for anyone interested in history, gender, and politics.” —Keisha N. Blain, author of Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This republication of Writing Red comes to us just as we are primed to think deeply about gender, race, and class in a moment that mirrors both the tragedy and creative awakening in the aftermath of the early twentieth century’s capitalist crisis. In the 1930s, in the 1980s, and again today, these women writers attend to our neglected realities and dreams. Hopefully, future generations will learn how not to forget them, and we will all benefit from their wisdom and perspective, moving forward toward the freedom of not just some but all.” —Gina Dent, co-author of Abolition. Feminism. Now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Thirty-five years ago, Nekola and Rabinowitz produced a labor of love, the path-breaking anthology, Writing Red. Indefatigable researchers, they discovered radical women writers whose work had gone missing from histories of the Thirties and histories of feminism. Theirs was not an academic exercise, but rather an effort to show that radical women of the Thirties, in their desire to tackle capitalism, racism and patriarchy, were there well before us. Now that historians are re-periodizing the women’s movement, suggesting the Thirties rather than the Sixties as its starting point, Writing Red is more essential than ever.” —Alice Echols, Barbra Streisand Chair of Contemporary Gender Studies at the University of Southern California\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“From Meridel Le Sueur’s fiction to Margaret Walker’s poetry, from legendary folk singer Aunt Molly Jackson’s lyrics to Tillie Olsen’s reportage from the West Coast Longshoreman’s Strike of 1934, Writing Red reignites the fires behind the battlelines of women’s struggles in the 1930s for a new generation of readers. Contemporary organizers and activists in abortion rights, trade unions, gender studies, sex work, and other sites of social action will find comrades-in-arms from a century ago in this magnificent volume by Nekola and Rabinowitz.” —Mark Nowak, author of Social Poetics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Writing Red is an indispensable record of the political struggles and intersectional solidarities of 1930s women radicals. With this updated edition, the revolutionary desires of the past are illuminated anew for the next generation of readers, writers, and activists. A testament to feminist collaboration, and a call to meet the challenges of the present, Writing Red is an enduring and necessary book.” —Sarah Ehlers, author of Left of Poetry: Depression America and the Formation of Modern Poetics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In Writing Red, Paula Rabinowitz and Charlotte Nekola introduce twenty-first century readers to remarkable writers from an extraordinary decade. Exquisitely readable and superbly informative, these collected voices bring to life women in fields and factories, kitchens, battlefields, and on the picket lines. By drawing attention to sexuality, domestic labor, motherhood, gender and racial oppression, these radical writers amplified the Left of their time. They remain a vital resource in ours.” —Rosemary Hennessy, author of Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Writing Red is one of those rare books that transformed twentieth century literary history forever. This bold and brilliant anthology, curated with audacity by Charlotte Nekola and Paula Rabinowitz, became the vanguard text of a new direction in the study of United States Literary Radicalism, one that upended the masculinist narrative of the Marxist-led cultural movement of the 1930s. Nearly four decades later, its unparalleled mission of reinvention continues to refresh and inspire scholars, activists, and readers.” —Alan Wald, author of Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth Century Literary Left\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This superb anthology offers the perfect introduction to the wide range of radical women writers in '30s America. And it documents a key moment in the evolution of the progressive movement in the US. A perfect book for any course touching on the Depression Era or the history of radicalism.” —T.V. Reed, author of The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this time of precarity, pandemic, and protest, we need more than ever to read those women writers of short fiction, poetry, and reportage that Charlotte Nekola and Paula Rabinowitz first anthologized in 1987. Writing Red captures anger at exploitation and longing for a more just world: among both the left authors of the depression decade of 1930-1940 and its feminist editors of the 1980s, when women's studies as a field became institutionalized. We need these fighting words to counter the fascism and financial capitalism of our time.” —Eileen Boris, author of Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“When it was first published in 1987, Writing Red exploded the leftist literary landscape by forcefully demonstrating how Depression-era women writers engaged carefully with gender, sexuality, class, and race in their radical work. Thanks to this timely republication of a classic anthology, an entirely new generation of readers and activists can grapple with the brilliant pieces it contains – even as they ask themselves why so many of the struggles found in this essential volume’s pages continue to feel eerily familiar. Populated with the energetic voices of women who imagined their fiction, poetry, and reportage as essentially connected to on-the-ground protest, Writing Red will inspire, challenge, and provoke all who peruse its pages.” —Aaron Lecklider, author of Love's Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This volume excavates the stories, poems, and reportage of women writers whose work originally appeared in now-defunct Left journals. 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That vision is a call to action to subvert the foundational order of racial capitalism, colonial violence, and a heteropatriarchal economy that threatens every form of life. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Feminist Subversion of the Economy\u003c\/em\u003e makes the connection between the systems that promise more devastation and destruction of life in the name of profit—and rallies women, LGBTQ+ communities, and movements worldwide to center gender and social reproduction in a vision for a balanced ecology, a just economy, and a free society. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNewly translated and updated in collaboration with Liz Mason-Deese, who has won a PEN translation award for her work on feminist economics, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Feminist Subversion of the Economy\u003c\/em\u003e shows the urgent need to radically and democratically discuss what we mean by a dignified life and how we can organize to sustain life collectively.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmaia Pérez Orozco\u003c\/strong\u003e has a PhD in Economics and is activist in social and feminist movements. She is a long time educator and advocate of feminist economic concepts, theory, and practice all around Spain and Latin America\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiz Mason-Deese \u003c\/strong\u003eis an editor at \u003cem\u003eViewpoint Magazine,\u003c\/em\u003e a member of the Counter-Cartographies Collective, and a member of the translation collective Territorio de Ideas. She is a long-time translator of and participant in feminist movements in Latin America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Feminist Subversion of the Economy\u003c\/em\u003e fires a thousand shots at the deadly, destructive, and exploitative economy at the heart of capitalist growth. These shots come from many perspectives interwoven in this carefully researched and passionately argued feminist text—that is, the many perspectives of ordinary people who constitute the labor necessary to reproduce this world and better worlds still; those silenced, exploited, discarded by a global capitalist system that equally disavows and destroys our rich but imperiled ecological world; and those whose organized power everywhere constitutes the forces that can overthrow the conditions of its imprisonment, and that of our planet. Amaia Pérez Orozco reminds us that we all have contributions to make for a shared life of dignity and autonomy in balance with our other-than-human world; contributions that demand we organize against capital, colonial violence, climate catastrophe, racism, and sexism. The feminist and ecological analysis, the militant tools and methods, the refusal of the lies and myths that prop up a crisis-making world order, and the pluralist vision of a life worth living found in this book warrant collective study and coordinated action.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Saru Jayaraman,\u003c\/strong\u003e lawyer, activist, and author of \u003cem\u003eOne Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“Any glimpse into the future forecasts care work as an ever-growing portion of our economy. \u003cem\u003eThe Feminist Subversion of the Economy\u003c\/em\u003e is a lush provocation that reexamines the fundamental work that nurtures and sustains communities around the globe, shedding new light on the internationalization of precarious and feminized labor. Amaia Pérez Orozco lifts up the 'chosen family' as a queer, anticapitalist network, one of many ways to pivot away from the defanged 'third sector' as delineated in the Global North, and toward a transformative social solidarity economy. Such cooperative economics are essential for our own thriving. The book serves as a timely reminder of the centrality of reproductive labor in making, and therefore re-making global systems through this type of queer, feminist, antiracist praxis. In doing so, it recasts feminized labor as the nexus of so many seemingly disparate crises—from ecology to gender exploitation to capitalism itself—and therefore the crux of solidarity through building power and new modalities of living together.” —\u003cstrong\u003eEsteban Kelly\u003c\/strong\u003e, Executive Director of the US Federation of Worker Co-ops, cofounder of AORTA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“Through a rigorous, relentless exposure of the destructive logic governing capitalist development, Orozco sets the foundations for a feminist politics capable of subverting the myths propagated by capitalist economy and radically transforming the conditions and ends of our social reproduction. A must not only for feminists movements but for all engaged in the struggle to create a more just society.”—\u003cstrong\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eRevolution at Point Zero\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM0MDE3In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/caliban-and-the-witch\" title=\"Caliban and the Witch\"\u003eCaliban and the Witch\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“Amaia Pérez Orozco skillfully recenters the feminist critique of contemporary capitalist economics on the practices of sustaining life.  The result is analytically rich and politically provocative.”—\u003cstrong\u003eKathi Weeks\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\"Amaia Perez Orozco’s contributions for life against capital remind us of our humanness—and the contributions of ecofeminism to dismantling hierarchies, exploitation, and invisibleness—in order to fulfill our collective responsibilities to establish a good life for all. \u003cem\u003eThe Feminist Subversion of the Economy \u003c\/em\u003ewell articulates the road to creating a clear commitment to achieve the interconnections and solidarity that will create and sustain a better world.” —\u003cstrong\u003eJessica Gordon-Nembhard\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eCollective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“In the last decade, feminist political economy has experienced an efflorescence, as a generation of new thinkers has critically revised the practice of reading the interconnected spheres of misery produced by capitalism, in all its debilitating forms. Why? Because such heterodox, ruptural feminisms offer the most robust theorization of the multidimensional confluence of ecological devastation, state-sanctioned racism, deteriorating mental and physical wellbeing, colonial exploitation, reliance on unpaid work (including care), heteropatriarchal division and social murder. These crises are synthetically and historically produced in and through capitalism, a global totality and the epicenter of these problems. Amaia Pérez Orozco’s \u003cem\u003eThe Feminist Subversion of the Economy\u003c\/em\u003e is not just the exemplar of this critical-analytic tradition; this book is a further contribution towards the construction of “a solid base from which to fight”; a “utopian horizon”; a life-sustaining collectively-pedagogical project of “buen convivir”; and a feminist degrowth transition. This book will compel you think differently--and even better, with others!--as to how we can create a life-sustaining economy.”—\u003cstrong\u003eKai Bosworth\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003ePipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the 21st Century\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom the Book\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eFrom the perspective of feminism, we are aware that the socioeconomic system where we live is defined not only for being capitalist but also for being heteropatriarchal, for being structured in a racial way, for being (neo)colonialist, for being anthropocentric and so on... Given the abundance of the epithets which we can allude to, in these pages we opt for following Donna Haraway when she asks herself “how may we name that scandalous Thing?” (1991: 340). Well then, one of the defining elements of this scandalous Thing is that capitalist markets are at their epicenter. The starting point of the proposal that takes as analytic and politic axis the sustainability of life, when thinking about the economy and dealing with crisis, can be understood as a rebellion against the status quo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e What do we mean by capitalist markets being at the epicenter? In a material sense, we say that they are in the epicenter because their mechanisms define how the socioeconomic structure works; and because the socially guaranteed process is the accumulation of the capital. This inhibits a collective responsibility in the sustaining life and, moreover, establishes a constant threat within it, which ends up resolving (badly) in feminized and invisible areas. That is why we use the metaphor of an iceberg to illustrate the socioeconomic system. On a symbolic level, they are in the epicenter because their anthropocentric, ethnocentric and androcentric logic defines the very notion of life that is worth living. They impose a self-sufficiency ideal through the insertion in the market that can only be \u003cem\u003ereached\u003c\/em\u003e by a privileged subject, although this scope is fictitious and is based on the exploitation of the rest. But, even more, they are at the epicenter in political terms because from them we define the confrontation, which often is not only reduced to asking for improvements in their playing field (employment, salary, consumption), but it also establishes the hegemonic identity of the struggle to the worker subject, constituted, precisely, by its position in the wage relation, a relation defined in the framework of the capitalist markets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eBut, what or who are those \u003cem\u003emarkets\u003c\/em\u003e? Capitalist markets are not deities; they are socioeconomic institutions in which power relations that privilege specific individuals are assembled, but whose functioning is not reducible to a confrontation between capitalists and workers, the ones on the top against the ones on the bottom, men facing up to women, the 1 % and the 99 %. They are a combination of structures that allow a few lives to be imposed as those worthy to be sustained by everyone, as the only ones worthy to be rescued in times of crisis. They are a series of mechanisms that organize specific lives in a hierarchy and establish as a referent and a top priority the life of a privileged individual who, following María José Capellín, we will call BBVAh as \u003cem\u003eWWMAh\u003c\/em\u003e: white, wealthy, male, adult, with a normative functionality, heterosexual. This is the face of the ones that rule the accumulation process. It is the individual that embodies the corporate power. Power and resources concentrate around it and define life itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThrough this starting point, the feminist demand to put the sustainability of life at the center arises. Maybe at first, this proposal was a reaction in contrast to what-is-not, rather than a clear commitment to what-it-is. It was a promising alternative but it was still relatively incomplete; that is why it was easy to fill with idealizations and\/or be ignored. It was easy to play dumb for many people and leave the work to \u003cem\u003eco-workers\u003c\/em\u003e, for sure, praising the importance of the care and their spreading of love. Little by little, we are splitting hairs. For example, we can see that, while talking about the life-capital conflict, we cannot refer to an immaculate life tainted by capital, but we must open the debate on how to re-create accomplice (sexed) subjectivities. We can see that talking about heteropatriarchy is to talk about unpaid work, but also about much more, like mechanisms of regulation of the invisible spheres of the economy and of the constitution of subjects willing to inhabit them. From the reaction, we move on to the construction of another solid base from which to fight, and this is no longer so easy to avoid. This book is on that path between reacting to the perversity of the existing economy and proposing different ways of thinking and making lives (more) livable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eLooking from the sustainability of life is not simple, among other reasons, because it places us in a basic pressure: observe form outside of the capitalist markets a society in which these markets are the center. Understanding the process, but without being drawn by it. As a result of this same tension, declarations of intent are not enough in this proposal, because none of us has irrefutable truths; we need an arduous common process in which we rediscover the world, pulling together the threads of lucidity that are scattered. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eIs talking about life sustainability to focus on who does the cooking? Yes and no. Of course, it means talking about that, but also wondering about megaprojects, the free trade agreements or the balance of payments. What is unique is that we landed all of this in certain individuals with peculiar decessities, with social relationships and with a specific positioning in that scandalous Thing. We talk about who cooks and how time is divided. And we also talk about how the steel of the cutlery has been extracted, transformed and exported; how the food chain, from which we eat, operates; the source where the energy with which we cook comes from. We want to understand if rice is more expensive because the capitals take refuge in \u003cem\u003esafe values\u003c\/em\u003e now that speculating with subprime mortgages is too risky; and if the coffee that we drink comes from large plantations that have stolen the land to the peasant economy. Looking from life sustainability involves wondering if, in the end, all that complex gear allows the people that make it up to eat or not, good or bad, with food sovereignty or without it, with quality time to sit at a table, with imposed or chosen companies. And if people are malnourished, it is not very worthy that the result of the balance of payments is positive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThis proposal has pros and cons which are related to that popularity on the ordinary life. If we long for a common and democratically argued notion of good living together, it is necessary to politicize what we often live as problems (or successes) not only the personal ones, but the minuscule ones, from our day to day. It is about starting from oneself in order not to remain in oneself “politicize the existence [and] leave from oneself” (Precarias a la deriva, 2004a: 83). In that sense, it can be an appropriate proposal for a variety of people. Although talking about the evolution of the earning rates or the marginal productivity rates sounds foreign to most people, discussing if we live well, badly or regular in our ordinary lives is something that everybody can use as a starting point. However, this is also its most dangerous risk. It is very easy to start from what is ordinary and stay in what is ordinary without daring to question the whole matter. 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This first biography of Werner Scholem tells his life story by drawing on a wide range of original sources and archive material long hidden beyond the Iron Curtain of the Cold War era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFirst published in German by UVK Verlagsgesellschaft as \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWerner Scholem - eine politische Biographie (1895-1940)\u003c\/em\u003e, Konstanz, 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePart of the Historical Materialism series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Werner Scholem was a leading light of the left wing of the Communist Party of Germany in the 1920s. A new biography by Ralf Hoffrogge presents a revolutionary life that refused all compromise.\" \u003cstrong\u003eNathaniel Flakin, \u003cem\u003eLeft Voice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The most interesting parts of Hoffrogge's work are perhaps the thick descriptions of the Weimar Republic's communist milieu with its peculiar mixture of dogmatism and careerism, male chauvinism and women's emancipation, puritanism and sexual permissiveness. The interesting figure here is Scholem's wife Emmy, who came from humble background, eager to learn and climb the social ladder, aware of her chances for emancipation and equipped with all the weapons of a woman.\" \u003cstrong\u003eGerd Koenen, \u003cem\u003eDIE ZEIT\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"...in the field of historical research, it is the more refined work by Ralf Hoffrogge that will make a lasting impression. His reconstruction of events is the only one that allows us to understand Scholem's arrest and trial...\" \u003cstrong\u003eLorenz Jaeger, \u003cem\u003eFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"...Two recently published biographies that could not be more different are devoted to the life of this exceptional politician, to whom the historian Miriam Zadoff attributed an \"agile temperament\", but also depicted him in an apotheosis of suffering, comparing Scholem to the biblical Job. Quite different is the sober reconstruction of the historian Ralf Hoffrogge, invariably oriented towards the facts. Almost entirely without gaps, this political biography reconstructs the twisted lifeline of Scholem in the context of its time. The merit of both biographies consists not least in the fact that here for the first time a personality is portrayed who embodied in his intellectual and political action the intrinsic ambiguity of the period between the two world wars.\"\u003cstrong\u003eWolf Scheller in \u003cem\u003eJüdische Allgemeine Zeitung\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Hoffrogge’s narrative, expanding beyond Scholem’s tragic life trajectory, highlights numerous biographically relevant subjects: the genesis and political development of the Weimar Republic and the place of the KPD within it; the difficult relationship between Western communist parties and the Soviet Union; the prejudices communists of Jewish origin faced within and outside their movement; and even of the emergence of the Nazi concentration camp system\" \u003cstrong\u003eFerdinand Schoning in \u003cem\u003eEast Central Europe Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40470860955741,"sku":"9781608469963","price":30.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/jewishcommunistinweimar9781608469963-f_medium-375455f9bf2d367c4dbd41f0afd11a31.jpg20220302-22-55jqq1.jpg?v=1661896996"},{"product_id":"finding-my-voice-on-grieving-my-father-eric-garner-and-pushing-for-justice","title":"Finding My Voice: On Grieving My Father, Eric Garner, and Pushing for Justice","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"content-type\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"facts-addl-detail\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"description\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn this unforgettable memoir, Emerald Garner recounts her father’s cruel and unjust murder, the immense pain that followed, the pressures of an exploitative media, and her difficult yet determined journey as an activist against police violence.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e She begins with the morning of July 17, 2014—a rare day off from work, one she had hoped to enjoy with rest and family, that quickly turned her world inside out. 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This is a collective story of trans women of color, who were sex workers and radical political organizers, who created shared housing to ensure that young people had safe places to sleep. It is the story of clean syringes, \"liberated\" from empathetic doctors’ offices by activists who were punk women of color who distributed them among injection drug users in squats in the East Village, and the early AIDS activists who made sure that everyone knew how to use them. It is the story of Black Panthers and the Young Lords taking over Lincoln Park Hospital in the Bronx to demand and ultimately create community-accessible drug treatment programs; and of bad date sheets passed between sex workers in Portland, who created a data collection tool that changed how prison abolitionists track systemic violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt a political moment when Liberatory Harm Reduction and mutual aid are more important than ever, this book serves as an inspiration and a catalyst for radical transformation of our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForeword by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/adrienne-maree-brown\"\u003eadrienne maree brown\u003c\/a\u003e. Introduction by Tourmaline.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Saving Our Own Lives\u003c\/em\u003e is rooted in Shira Hassan’s extensive experience and commitment to harm reduction as a liberatory practice. This is a book grounded in deep love for those who are most marginalized in our society and respectfully documents their stories and emancipatory analyses. This open-hearted book is illuminating, informative and inspiring. It will have a forever place on my bookshelf.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/mariame-kaba\"\u003eMariame Kaba\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe Do This 'Til We Free Us\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\"This vital book is a spark, a balm, an agitation, a blessing, a celebration. Through narrative and research and conversation and reflection, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSaving Our Own Lives\u003c\/em\u003e tears down the myths perpetuated by the medical-industrial complex and prison-industrial complex, and shows us how communities have been building ways to survive and heal in spite of--and against--these systems. Shira Hassan’s book is at once expansive and personal, far-reaching and like coming home. I'm going to return to it again and again, and you will too.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMaya Schenwar, co-author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePrison by Any Other Name \u003c\/em\u003eand editor-in-chief\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Truthout\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\"Grounded, brilliant, and generous - \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSaving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction\u003c\/em\u003e offers key tools, histories, testimony and analysis to deepen our everyday work to support ourselves and our beloved communities. As always, deep gratitude to the visionary Shira Hassan for this luminescent collection, resplendent with the power to shift hearts and minds. A must read for organizers, educators and all of us working to do more than struggle and survive.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/erica-r-meiners\"\u003eErica R. Meiners\u003c\/a\u003e, co-author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/abolition-feminism-now\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbolition. Feminism. Now.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\"This brilliantly moving book - at once a generous love letter to our freedom movements and an urgent demand for radical transformative work - will inspire readers not only to \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethink\u003c\/em\u003e about harm reduction differently, but to actually \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003elive\u003c\/em\u003e in ways that reflect a commitment to its liberatory potential. Shira Hassan has brought together an amazing chorus of voices that includes freedom fighters, political educators, cultural workers, BIPOC leaders and disability justice activists whose analyses and reflections offer exactly the kind of collective wisdom and encouragement that we need right now. Indeed, the possibility of a radical queer abolitionist future is closer because of Shira Hassan has so beautifully helped us understand the potential for freedom when we engage in a process of saving our own lives.\"\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eBeth Richie, co-author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/abolition-feminism-now\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbolition. Feminism. Now.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Saving Our Own Lives\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most important books that I have read in a long time. Shira Hassan defines and emphasizes the necessary intersections of multiple growing movements for reproductive justice, transformative justice, disability justice, anti-criminalization of sex work, healing justice, and abolition. This is the first book that has explicitly brought our movements together to highlight the importance of our shared analyses and commitments. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSaving Our Own Lives\u003c\/em\u003e is also a tribute to leaders, organizers, care workers, and icons who have long been at the forefront of liberatory struggles, but have been historically neglected or deemed disposable by mainstream and leftists movements. This book weaves together painful stories, astute political insights, research, theory, and lived experiences to remind readers of the importance of community and our commitments to one another. For those of us who have been at the outskirts of multiple spaces and places, this is a guide, an affirmation book, a welcomed mirror, an entire embrace. This book reminds us that the power has always been with us and it welcomes everyone else to learn from and to join us.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eConnie Wun, co-founder of AAPI Women Lead\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e“With \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSaving Our Own Lives\u003c\/em\u003e, Shira Hassan has yet again provided an immensely practical, grounded, inspiring, indispensable tool for our struggles. This book will introduce a whole new generation of organizers who got involved in anti-police mobilizing and COVID mutual aid projects to the history, principles and practices of liberatory harm reduction, which are essential for ensuring this work resists paternalistic charity dynamics, brings everyone along, and actually builds the new world we need rather than just tinkering with the broken institutions that currently dominate us. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSaving Our Own Lives\u003c\/em\u003e is packed with compelling stories that show what liberatory harm reduction is and what it can do, and what tensions surround its practice that need to be attended to with care by its practitioners. Shira shares her particular wisdom, gleaned from years of practice in communities most harmed by policing and coercive social services and healthcare models, showing paths forward that generate community-based solutions that we can all start working on right now. This book is easy to read, and ready to inspire us all as we take the difficult and urgent next steps confronting the unfolding crises of our times.” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dean-spade\"\u003eDean Spade\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/mutual-aid-building-solidarity-during-this-crisis-and-the-next\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\"\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSaving Our Own Lives\u003c\/em\u003e is a courageous, insightful, and vulnerable offering from Shira Hassan, pulled from three decades of her life and movement history. Part narrative of how she saved her own life along with many others, part handbook on how practicing harm reduction creates liberatory and resilient movements, and part history lesson illustrating the role that harm reduction has played for decades past and decades to come. This book is an essential read, as oppressed communities are co-figuring how to survive these times together.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEjeris Dixon, Executive Director of Vision Change Win\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\"As someone who has had the privilege of learning from Shira Hassan and her community of liberatory harm reductionists, I know what an incredible gift it is that now the rest of the world can too. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSaving Our Own Lives\u003c\/em\u003e fiercely reclaims the roots of harm reduction in disabled, Indigenous, Black, queer, trans, sex working, drug using, and migrant communities, and challenges conventional wisdoms around treatment, service provision, violence, trauma, survival, resilience, empowerment, and change in ways that are absolutely essential in the current moment, and to build the futures we want. Whether we are looking for lessons on how to tackle the opioid crisis, interrupt and heal from violence, or ensure reproductive justice for all, the chorus of voices gathered in this volume offer incisive, insightful, and practical real talk from the frontlines. Simultaneously irreverent and serious as a heart attack, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSaving Our Own Lives\u003c\/em\u003e tells it like it is and as it needs to be if we are all going to survive what is unfolding now and what is to come.” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAndrea J. Ritchie, Interrupting Criminalization and co-author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNo More Police: A Case for Abolition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Saving Our Own Lives \u003c\/em\u003eis truly a priceless gift to the world. Each chapter or revolutionary love note recounts the beautiful, brilliant, and, at times, painful histories of the family of Black, Indigenous and People of Color organizers, people in the sex trade, sex workers, young people, queer people, trans people, and those whose street-based strategies for survival and love created what we now know as 'harm reduction.' There are so many lessons on each and every page, all exquisitely written to document stories that we should already know and principles of liberation that we should be practicing every day. This book should be read page by page by everyone and held close at hand for constant reminders of those to whom we owe so much. Shira Hassan in collaboration with her revolutionary harm reduction family has created an incredible book that has such relevance to our continued co-creation of a liberatory abolitionist future.\u003ci\u003e\" \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMimi Kim, founder of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/creative-interventions\"\u003eCreative Interventions\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40640237011037,"sku":"9781642598414","price":34.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/savingourownlives9781642598414-f_medium-a2a959ebbdc14bb9f352fb250c742d62.jpg?v=1666804172"},{"product_id":"communards-and-other-cultural-histories-essays-by-adrian-rifkin","title":"Communards and Other Cultural Histories: Essays by Adrian Rifkin","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the travails of art critical language in the late eighteenth century to the upheaval of the Paris Commune of 1871, from neo-classical art criticism to the Paris Commune of 1871, from Bizet’s Carmen and Edith Piaf’s song to the culture of gay cruising, this collection of Rifkin's essays map a work beyond any one discipline.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAdrian Rifkin\u003c\/strong\u003e was Professor of Fine Art at the University of Leeds, then Professor of Visual Culture at Middlesex University and Professor of Art Writing at Goldsmiths London, and is currently visiting Professor in Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSteve Edwards\u003c\/strong\u003e (editor) is Professor in the Department of Art History at Birkbeck College, University of London. 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