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But even removed from the social and political firestorms of the 1960s, Jackson's story still resonates for its portrait of a man taking a stand even while locked down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“The most important single volume from a black since The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” —Julius Lester, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: George Jackson (Author)\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Jean Genet (Introduction by)\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Jonathan Jackson\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Jr. (Foreword by)\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781556522307\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 339 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Lawrence Hill Books\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 1970\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Lawrence Hill Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175064514653,"sku":"9781556522307","price":20.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_693_soledadb3_0.jpg?v=1654987158"},{"product_id":"love-and-struggle-my-life-in-sds-the-weather-underground-and-beyond","title":"Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond","description":"\u003cp\u003eA nice Jewish boy from suburban Boston—hell, an Eagle Scout!—David Gilbert arrived at Columbia University just in time for the explosive Sixties. From the early anti-Vietnam War protests to the founding of SDS, from the Columbia Strike to the tragedy of the Townhouse, Gilbert was on the scene: as organizer, theoretician, and above all, activist. He was among the first militants who went underground to build the clandestine resistance to war and racism known as “Weatherman.” And he was among the last to emerge, in captivity, after the disaster of the 1981 Brinks robbery, an attempted expropriation that resulted in four deaths and long prison terms. In this extraordinary memoir, written from the maximum-security prison where he has lived for almost thirty years, David Gilbert tells the intensely personal story of his own Long March from liberal to radical to revolutionary. Today a beloved and admired mentor to a new generation of activists, he assesses with rare humor, with an understanding stripped of illusions, and with uncommon candor the errors and advances, terrors and triumphs of the Sixties and beyond. It’s a battle that was far from won, but is still not lost: the struggle to build a new world, and the love that drives that effort. A cautionary tale and a how-to as well, \u003cem\u003eLove and Struggle\u003c\/em\u003e is a book as candid, as uncompromising, and as humane as its author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“David’s is a unique and necessary voice forged in the growing American gulag, the underbelly of the 'land of the free,' offering a focused and unassailable critique as well as a vision of a world that could be but is not yet—a place of peace and love, joy and justice.” \u003c\/em\u003e—Bill Ayers, author of \u003cem\u003eFugitive Days\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTeaching Toward Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e“Like many of his contemporaries, David Gilbert gambled his life on a vision of a more just and generous world. His particular bet cost him the last three decades in prison, and whether or not you agree with his youthful decision, you can be the beneficiary of his years of deep thought, reflection, and analysis on the reality we all share. If there is any benefit to prison, what some refer to as ‘the involuntary monastery,’ it may well look like this book. I urge you to read it.”\u003c\/em\u003e —Peter Coyote, actor, author of \u003cem\u003eSleeping Where I Fall\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e\"This book should stimulate learning from our political prisoners, but more importantly it challenges us to work to free them, and in doing so take the best of our history forward.\"\u003c\/em\u003e —Susan Rosenberg, author of \u003cem\u003eAn American Radical\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne of America’s most celebrated political prisoners since his appearance in the Academy Award nominated film, \u003cem\u003eThe Weather Underground\u003c\/em\u003e, David Gilbert is also the author of \u003cem\u003eNo Surrender\u003c\/em\u003e, a book of essays on politics and history. \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.kersplebedeb.com\/mystuff\/profiles\/gilbert.html\"\u003eFor more about David, see his profile page on the Kersplebedeb website\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Boots Riley (introduction)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA popular leader in the progressive struggle for radical change through culture, Boots Riley is best known as the leader of The Coup, the seminal hip-hop group from Oakland, CA. \u003cem\u003eBillboard Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e declared the group \"the best hip-hop act of the past decade.\" Riley recently teamed with Tom Morello (of Rage Against the Machine) to form the revolutionary new group, Street Sweeper Social Club.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: David Gilbert\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-60486-319-2 \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 336 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175069954141,"sku":"9781604863192","price":30.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_811_love_and_struggle3_0.jpg?v=1654987196"},{"product_id":"defying-the-tomb-selected-prison-writings-and-art-of-kevin-rashid-johnson-featuring-exchanges-with-an-outlaw","title":"Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and Art of Kevin  \"Rashid \" Johnson featuring exchanges with an Outlaw","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollow the author's odyssey from lumpen drug dealer to prisoner, to revolutionary New Afrikan, a teacher and mentor, one of a new generation rising of prison intellectuals. This book consists primarily of letters between Rashid and Outlaw, another revolutionary New Afrikan prisoner, smuggled between the segregation wing and general population over a period of months. These comrades educate themselves—and us as well—on Marxism and Maoism, the Five-Percenters, Dialectical Materialism, Dead Prez, Capitalism, Racism, Imperialism, Class Struggle, Revolutionary Nationalism, New Afrikan Independence, Psychology, and a host of other subjects, as they grapple with how to promote revolutionary consciousness in the most hostile of environments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRashid has been in prison for twenty years—the past eighteen of which in segregation (solitary confinement). Shortly after this correspondence between himself and Outlaw, he and his comrade Shaka Sankofa Zulu founded the New Afrikan Black Panther Party–Prison Chapter. The NABPP-PC has since developed branches in various prisons across the u$ empire and has its own newsletter, Right On! A number of Rashid's essays written as Minister of Defense of the NABPP-PC are also included in this book. For more about Rashid, including links to his writings available online, please visit his website at \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/rashidmod.com\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.rashidmod.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Kevin 'Rashid' Johnson has put together an outstanding compendium of political essays and letters that addresses many of the critical issues of today. His intra-prison correspondences with his comrade, Outlaw, is a rewarding study in the determined and ingenious maneuvers that prisoners have to go through to politically educate and organize themselves – and others around them. As a result, just reading the book itself provides one with the basic foundation of a political education.\" — from the Afterword by Sundiata Acoli, New Afrikan political prisoner of war\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Your mission (should you decide to accept it) is to buy multiple copies of this book, read it carefully, and then get it into the hands of as many prisoners as possible. I am aware of no prisoner-written book more important than this one, at least not since George Jackson’s Blood In My Eye. Revolutionaries and those considering the path of progress will find Kevin “Rashid” Johnson’s Defying The Tomb an important contribution to their political development.\" — Ed Mead, former political prisoner, George Jackson Brigade\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The correspondence of Rashid and Outlaw, carried on within the tenuous cracks of a supermax prison, offers the reader a compelling blend of psychological insight, political analysis, and passion for learning. Their defiance in the face of oppression is matched by their broad human solidarity. As they grapple with ideas, they also think as organizers, probing the dispositions and motivations of their fellow prisoners. Their struggle for justice is informed by a commitment to reason.\" — Victor Wallis, Professor, Liberal Arts Department, Berklee College of Music\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Kevin Rashid Johnson\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-894946-39-1\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 386 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175075491933,"sku":"9781894946391","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_893_defying3_0.jpg?v=1654987243"},{"product_id":"lucasville-the-untold-story-of-a-prison-uprising-2nd-ed","title":"Lucasville: The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising, 2nd ed.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLucasville \u003c\/em\u003etells the story of one of the longest prison uprisings in United States history. At the maximum security Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, prisoners seized a major area of the prison on Easter Sunday, 1993. More than 400 prisoners held L block for eleven days. Nine prisoners alleged to have been informants, or \"snitches,\" and one hostage correctional officer, were murdered. There was a negotiated surrender. Thereafter, almost wholly on the basis of testimony by prisoner informants who received deals in exchange, five spokespersons or leaders were tried and sentenced to death, and more than a dozen others received long sentences. \u003cem\u003eLucasville \u003c\/em\u003eexamines both the causes of the disturbance, what happened during the eleven days, and the fairness of the trials. Particular emphasis is placed on the inter-racial character of the action, as evidenced in the slogans that were found painted on walls after the surrender: \"Black and White Together,\" \"Convict Unity,\" and \"Convict Race.\" An eloquent Foreword by Mumia Abu-Jamal underlines these themes. He states, as does the book, that the men later sentenced to death \"sought to minimize violence, and indeed, according to substantial evidence, saved the lives of several men, prisoner and guard alike.\" Of the five men, three black and two white, who were sentenced to death, Mumia declares: \"They rose above their status as prisoners, and became, for a few days in April 1993, what rebels in Attica had demanded a generation before them: men. As such, they did not betray each other; they did not dishonor each other; they reached beyond their prison \"tribes\" to reach commonality.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003e\"Mr. Lynd is a masterful storyteller and he has a hell of a story to tell. [He] has written a definitive history of one of the longest prison riots in U.S. history and its aftermath. That alone is worth the price of admission… What makes the book unique in the historical sense is the remarkable range of primary and secondary sources; Lynd writes with a lawyer's pen but a poet's ear… This book is a reminder that prisoners—even death row prisoners—are human beings, too.\u003c\/em\u003e Lucasville \u003cem\u003eis a resounding affirmation of our common humanity.\"\u003c\/em\u003e” —Michael Mello, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Wrong Man: A True Story of Innocence on Death Row\u003c\/em\u003e “\u003cem\u003e\"There is a temperature at which the welder's torch becomes so hot and burns with such purity that its flame is no longer yellow, orange, or red, but burns blue. Then it is capable of cutting through steel. Staughton Lynd wields the blue flame of truth, cutting through the lies, threats, evasions, and misrepresentations of the authorities of the state of Ohio.\"\u003c\/em\u003e” —Professor \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMjAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/peter-linebaugh\" title=\"Peter Linebaugh\"\u003ePeter Linebaugh\u003c\/a\u003e, Department of History, University of Toledo; author of \u003cem\u003eThe London Hanged \u003c\/em\u003eand co-author of \u003cem\u003eThe Many-Headed Hydra\u003c\/em\u003e “Lucasville \u003cem\u003eis one of the most powerful indictments of our 'justice system' I have ever read. What comes across is a litany of flaws deep in the system, and recognizably not unique to Lucasville. The detailed transcripts (yes, oral history!) give great power to the whole story.\"\u003c\/em\u003e” —Howard Zinn, author of \u003cem\u003eA People's History of the United States\u003c\/em\u003e “\u003cem\u003e\"Of interest to anyone who follows prison politics or the often enigmatic workings of the justice system.\"\u003c\/em\u003e” —\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStaughton Lynd taught American history at Spelman College and Yale University. He was director of Freedom Schools in the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer. An early leader of the movement against the Vietnam War, he was blacklisted and unable to continue as an academic. He then became a lawyer, and in this capacity has assisted rank-and-file workers and prisoners for the past thirty years. He has written, edited, or co-edited with his wife Alice Lynd more than a dozen books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Mumia Abu-Jamal (Foreword)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMumia Abu-Jamal is probably the best-known political prisoner in the Western world. Mumia was sentenced to death for allegedly shooting and killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in December 1981. While behind bars he has written a series of widely-read books, including \u003cem\u003eLive from Death Row \u003c\/em\u003e(1995), \u003cem\u003eDeath Blossoms\u003c\/em\u003e (1996), and a history of the Black Panther Party entitled \u003cem\u003eWe Want Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e (2004). In December 2001, United States District Court judge William Yohn vacated Mumia's death sentence but not his guilty verdict. When this second edition went to press the United States Supreme Court was considering that decision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Staughton Lynd\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-60486-224-9\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 256 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175077818461,"sku":"9781604862249","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/Lucasvillefront300-664x1024.jpg?v=1740503411"},{"product_id":"meditations-on-frantz-fanons-wretched-of-the-earth-new-afrikan-revolutionary-writings","title":"Meditations on Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003e“This exercise is about more than our desire to read and understand Wretched (as if it were about some abstract world, and not our own); it’s about more than our need to understand (the failures of) the anti-colonial struggles on the African continent. This exercise is also about us, and about some of the things that We need to understand and to change in ourselves and our world.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout James Yaki Sayles\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike the revs that he most considered his teachers—Malcolm X and George Jackson—James Yaki Sayles grew up poor and found his maturity in prison, the place that Malcolm called “the Black man’s university.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA child of Chicago’s South Side streets, Yaki always just thought of himself as a blood, “just another nigger doing a bit” (to borrow the laconic words of one of the Pontiac state prison revolt defendants). And it was in the prison movement that he found his place in the battlefield. Although he made revolutionary theory his work, his life was rooted in a time of urban guerrillas and the armed struggle. Which makes his writing much more difficult to read, but with a warning of danger and commitment that is so often missing in these neo-colonized times between the storms…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYaki soon became a leading activist in the small prison collectives in his state. First in the Stateville Prisoners Organization, which quickly grew into the New Afrikan Prisoners Organization. There were groups in Stateville, Pontiac, and Menard prisons, as well as individual members in other prisons outside Illinois and rads on the street. Yaki also became an influence in less public organizations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne thing he never became was well-known. There were definite reasons for this. In part, because Yaki was a very private person who rarely talked about his inner life or childhood, and who never wanted to write about his own past to a curious public. Becoming a radical celebrity was not anywhere in his plans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYaki was also unknown because of the role he chose for himself. Much of his writings were not for the public, or even the community as a whole. Most of them were cadre teachings. Typically, Yaki wrote and spoke as a teacher for those already New Afrikan revolutionaries who were cadre. Those who had accepted the responsibility of being organizers and local teachers themselves. Although he was often repeating or underscoring basic political lessons, sometimes these were almost technical discussions. Craft discussions. In the same way that young Five-percenters proudly talk about, “i can do the math,” “i know the numbers.” And as such his words weren’t meant to be entertaining, and rads often complained of finding them as hard to read as some textbook. Far from easy reading. But it’s like, if you wanted to be able to design the flow of water through a hydoelectric plant or do brain surgery on an infant, at the very start you’d be cracking the books late into the night and studying for all you were worth. Yaki didn’t think that trying to transform society was any easier…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Yaki started out in prison, he had amassed a real library of political and history books, together with magazines and files of documents and correspondence. And he spent hours and hours studying and writing. This gradually became more and more choked off by prison authorities. As he put it: “Inside it only grows worse, not better. Because they keep changing wardens, and every warden has to prove that they’ve made some change or new shit they can point to. Which is only more restrictions.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the start of the 21st century, he was limited to one thin cardboard case, only a few inches high, which had to hold any books, magazines, newspapers, notebooks, files, letters, blank paper, pencil and pens he had in his cell. And he had to work mandatory eight-hour shifts every day at the usual makework prison jobs (such as counting out and counting in the checkers pieces in the day room), which cut down on his intellectual hours. All this led him to decide to center himself on one major project which only required two books, a reappraisal and explanation of Frantz Fanon’s great revolutionary writing, \u003cem\u003eWretched of the Earth\u003c\/em\u003e…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere, Yaki is on a mission. To make up for the misunderstanding of Fanon’s politics that he and so many of his young rebel comrades once had. To help guide the study by newer rebels of this complex and difficult reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“i got out of Folsom \u0026amp; one of the first things i got was a kalishnikov ak-47, 7.62x39 … Needless to say, without the requisite consciousness, the gun \u0026amp; i soon parted company. The gun fell into the hands of invading pigs \u0026amp; i fell in the same hands. Was sent back to a cell … That’s when i got at the ’rad Atiba Shanna [aka James Yaki Sayles] \u0026amp; told him i’d been captured and why. He said, ‘i’d rather have one cadre free than 100 ak-47’s.’ It took me years to overstand \u0026amp; appreciate that one sentence. For this comrad has done more to de-criminalize and de-colonize my mind than any one person, book or event in my life.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyOTY0In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/sanyika-shakur\" title=\"Sanyika Shakur\"\u003eSanyika Shakur\u003c\/a\u003e, author of the best-selling book, \u003cem\u003eMonster: Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Here is an authentic voice of the Black Revolution from the times of violent ghetto uprisings, re-learning the lessons of Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth. Uncut, undiluted.” J. Sakai, author of \u003cem\u003eSettlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: James Yaki Sayles\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-894946-32-2\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 399 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175077916765,"sku":"9781989701010","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_911_meditations3_0.jpg?v=1654987259"},{"product_id":"no-surrender-writings-from-an-anti-imperialist-political-prisoner","title":"No Surrender: Writings From An Anti-Imperialist Political Prisoner","description":"\u003cp\u003eA founder of Columbia University SDS and a veteran of the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam War Movements, David Gilbert joined the Weather Underground Organization in the late 60s. After more than 10 years of clandestine resistance, he was captured in the course of an armed action in 1981. Gilbert has been a revolutionary political prisoner for 22 years, continuing his work as an AIDS activist and author from behind the walls. This first collection of David Gilbert's prison writings is a unique contribution to our understanding of the most ambitious and audacious attempts by white anti-imperialists to build an underground movement \"within the belly of the beast.\" With unsparing honesty (and unfailing humor), he discusses the errors and successes of the WUO and their allies; the pitfalls of racism, sexism, and ego in revolutionary organizations; and the possibilities and perils facing today's growing anti-imperialist resistance. Includes forewords by political prisoners Marilyn Buck and Sundiata Acoli.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book stands alone in the growing number of books about the 1960s, the anti-Vietnam War Movement, and the Weather Underground Organization because of David's willingness to own it and analyze it. His discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of this history, the role of armed struggle, the rise of terrorism, the continued aggression of the U.S. government speak directly to the concerns of everyone working for justice anywhere. David's discussion of these topics is freer, more alive, and more honest than any I have read. This book should stimulate learning from our political prisoners, but more importantly it challenges us to work to free them, and in doing so take the best of our history forward.\" Susan Rosenberg, former US political prisoner \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"David Gilbert is a warrior in the most profound sense of the term. Imbued with a near-crystalline clarity of principle, the indomitable courage to live his life in accordance with the values he holds true, and, most importantly, his every action guided by the immensity of his love for the wretched of this earth, he is truly an inspiration. Predictably, given the strength of Gilbert's character, his writings are offered as tools—nay, WEAPONS—in the ongoing struggle for liberation. 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The volume also recounts the opposition that emerged from intellectuals, communists, independent leftists, and then – explosively – the radical student movement and countercultural revolt of the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was from this revolt that the Red Army Faction emerged, an underground organization devoted to carrying out armed attacks within the Federal Republic of Germany, in the view of establishing a tradition of illegal, guerilla resistance to imperialism and state repression. Through its bombs and manifestos the RAF confronted the state with opposition at a level many activists today might find difficult to imagine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor the first time ever in English, this volume presents all of the manifestos and communiqués issued by the RAF between 1970 and 1977, from Andreas Baader’s prison break, through the 1972 May Offensive and the 1975 hostage-taking in Stockholm, to the desperate, and tragic, events of the “German Autumn” of 1977. The RAF’s three main manifestos – \u003cem\u003eThe Urban Guerilla Concept\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eServe the People\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBlack September\u003c\/em\u003e – are included, as are important interviews with \u003cem\u003eSpiegel\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ele Monde Diplomatique\u003c\/em\u003e, and a number of communiqués and court statements explaining their actions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eProviding the background information that readers will require to understand the context in which these events occurred, separate thematic sections deal with the 1976 murder of Ulrike Meinhof in prison, the 1977 Stammheim murders, the extensive use of psychological operations and false-flag attacks to discredit the guerilla, the state’s use of sensory deprivation torture and isolation wings, and the prisoners’ resistance to this, through which they inspired their own supporters and others on the left to take the plunge into revolutionary action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on both mainstream and movement sources, this book is intended as a contribution to the comrades of today – and to the comrades of tomorrow – both as testimony to those who struggled before and as an explanation as to how they saw the world, why they made the choices they made, and the price they were made to pay for having done so. For more on this book check out the \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.germanguerilla.com\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGerman Guerilla\u003c\/a\u003e website.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“[Projectiles for the People] is a highly accessible rendition of a story of struggle that puts us into both the thought and the action. That placement conveys more than a sense or understanding of the RAF’s praxis. It transmits a connection in a visceral way. Not since reading Ten Days that Shook the World have I been so drawn into a political narrative. Reading like a historical thriller notwithstanding, Projectiles lets us see a rare confluence of theory and practice of which anyone who aspires to make revolution should be aware. The RAF may no longer be with us, but it has prepared the ground for and can yet aid the current movement for the most equitable social reality in which all people will have the greatest possible freedom to develop their full human potential. Nowhere else has the RAF’s life, times, and legacy been so clearly laid out.” — Bill Dunne (political prisoner since 1979)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This book about the Red Army Faction of American-occupied Germany is one that should be read by any serious student of anti-imperialist politics. “Volume 1: Projectiles for the People” provides a history of the RAF’s development through the words of its letters and communiqués. What makes the book especially important and relevant, however, is the careful research and documentation done by its editors. Their effort makes this work far more than a collection of communiqués. From this book you will learn the mistakes of a group that was both large and strong, but which (like our own home-grown attempts in this regard) was unable to successfully communicate with the working class of a “democratic” country on a level that met their needs. While the armed struggle can be the seed of something much larger, is also another means of reaching out and communicating with the people. Students interested in this historic era would do well to study this book and to internalize both the successes and failures of one of the largest organized armed anti-imperialists organizations operating in Western Europe since World War II.” —Ed Mead, former political prisoner, George Jackson Brigade\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Starting in the Sixties, a new revolutionary strategy began to plague the capitalist metropolis—the urban guerilla. Warfare once waged by peasant armies in the countryside of a Cuba, a China, or a Guinea-Bisseau, was suddenly transfered to small cells of ex-students in the imperialist centers of Berlin, Rome and New York. No urban guerrillas became more famed or more demonized than West Germany’s Red Army Faction (RAF). We knew their signature bold actions in the headlines: from the damaging bombing of the u.s. army V Corps headquarters in Hamburg in 1972, in response to Washington’s mining of Hanoi’s harbor in an escalation of the Vietnam War, to the kidnapping and later execution of the head of the West German industrialists association, in an effort to negotiate for the release of revolutionary prisoners. But we never heard their political voices. Since the RAF’s political statements, debates and communiqués were untranslated and unavailable in English even within the left.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Now, at last, a significant documentary history of the RAF has come into the spotlight, complete with a readable account of the postwar German New Left from which it emerged. Even better, this work was done by editors\/translators who reject the obedient capitalist media’s trivializing of the RAF as “pathological” death-wishing celebrities. In their hands, the words of the RAF are revealed as serious responses to the failure of parliamentary reformism, trade-unionism and pacifism, to stop the solidification of Germany’s own form of a neofascist capitalism (lightly cosmeticized with a layer of that numbing “consumer democracy”). The young RAF fighters hoped for liberation in their dangerous experiment but were willing to accept tragic consequences, and their story is emotionally difficult to read with eyes open. Controversial as the RAF was, their systematic torture in special “anti-terrorist” facilities stirred worldwide unease and even protest. In fact, those special prisons were the eagerly studied forerunners for the u.s. empire’s own latest human rights abuses, from Guantanamo to the domestic “maxi-maxi” prisons. We all and the RAF are much closer than the capitalist public wants to believe. It is all here, in this first volume of the Red Army Faction documentary histories, and we should thank all those who worked on this book.” —J. Sakai, author of \u003cem\u003eSettlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Clear-headed and meticulously researched, this book deftly avoids many of the problems that plagued earlier attempts to tell the brief but enduring history of the RAF. It offers a remarkable wealth of source material in the form of statements and letters from the combatants, yet the authors manage to present it in a way that is both coherent and engaging. Evidence of brutal—and ultimately ineffective—attempts by the state to silence the voices of political prisoners serve as a timely and powerful reminder of the continued need for anti-imperialist prisoners as leaders in our movements today. At once informative and inspirational, this is a much-needed contribution to the analysis of armed struggle and the cycles of repression and resistance in Europe and around the world.” — Sara Falconer, Toronto Anarchist Black Cross Federation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Armed struggle was one of the most controversial yet widespread phenomena of the worldwide revolutionary upsurge in the 1960s and 1970s—and the Red Army Faction was a centerpiece of this strategy in the imperial West. This valuable documentary history gathers RAF primary documents with an impressive set of contextual essays, providing the raw material necessary to understand the strategies and consequences of attacking from within the belly of the beast.” —Dan Berger, author of \u003cem\u003eOutlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Of all the revolutionary organizations to have been forged by the so-called sixties generation, the German Red Army Faction has been perhaps the most mythologized and maligned. Here at last is their story, told in their own words through “official” communications, comprehensively assembled and available for the first time in English translation. 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Unlike last time, we don’t have to apologize for being behind schedule. What’s more, thanks to increased sales and better distribution, we have been able to print this issue without going any furthur into debt. We’ve also been kept afloat by the generous contributions of our subscribers. At a time when radical media projects are needed more than ever, we are reminded by the demise of excellent publications like Clamor and LiP Magazine how important it is to keep nurturing projects like UTA. Now, more than ever, we need to cultivate those precious spaces where we can come together for argument, debate, and alliance building. We’re happy that you, our readers, have recognized Upping the Anti as one such space. We will do our best to hold up our end of the bargain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere have been some changes to the editorial crew at UTA. Dave Mitchell has stepped down as reviews editor, but will remain a member of the advisory board. Erin Gray, formerly of the editorial collective, will replace Dave, while her spot on the editorial collective has been taken up by AK Thompson. We would like to welcome the new additions and thank those stepping down from different roles for all of their hard work in getting and keeping UTA off the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs in past issues, UTA 4 begins with a letters section. We are pleased that our readers are engaging with the things we publish and are responding to them in a thoughtful and spirited manner. What struck us most upon reading the letters submitted for this issue was how each one seemed to move beyond polemics and venture into the realm of proposition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo it seems fitting that our editorial this time around deals with the question of organization. Now, we know that might sound played out. Bolshevik. Menshevik. Mass. Anti-mass. Boredom. Confusion. Regret. But you would never believe how many people have organization on the tip of their tongue these days. In Canada, public intellectuals like Judy Rebick and Sam Gindin (each operating with quite different premises) have added to the buzz. Across the pond, Hilary Wainwright has aligned herself firmly with the new generation of “network” builders. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. In order to make sense of the current resurgence of interest in the organizational question, we’ve tried to sort through some of the history and current manifestations of the debate and to trace out the implications of various positions. And, since we’re precocious, we’ve advanced a few propositions of our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMuch of the content in this issue addresses the theme of organization in some way. In the first of our interviews, Dale Altrows joins long-time anarchist activist and person living with AIDS Robin Isaacs as he recounts his experiences of coming out and coming to anarchism in Toronto in the 1980s. With a keen memory of his experiences as a participant in radical organizations and tremendous knack for storytelling, Isaacs encourages us both to draw inspiration and learn from the not-so-distant past. In our second interview, Marina Sitrin discusses the question of movements and organization with John Holloway. Encouraging us to consider the possibilities that exist “against and beyond” the state, Holloway traces out some broad dynamics underlying the radical resurgence in Latin America. In the third interview, Gary Kinsman speaks with trans activist and teacher Dan Irving as he explores the intersection between trans issues and class politics. Arguing that trans politics are shaped by class experience (and vice versa), Irving proposes to make both Marxism and aspects of post-structuralist theory relevant in a context where they are often viewed with suspicion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our articles section, Richard Day (author of Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements) continues with the theme of organization by responding to his book’s critics. Addressing AK Thompson’s polemic published in UTA 3, as well as those penned elsewhere by Ian McKay and William Carroll, Day suggests that if our question is ‘what is to be done?’ the answer must not involve a repetition of our worst failures. Following Day’s rejoinder, Carmelle Wolfson and Lesley Wood recount their experiences at the recent World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya. Their accounts provide a critical assessment of an event that has come to be seen as one of the most significant international forums for networking and strategizing in the struggle for global justice. Moving from the global to the local, we close the articles section with an essay by Tom Keefer which explores the dynamics of non-native solidarity in the struggle at Six Nations. Arguing that the concept of “taking leadership” with which many non-native activists have approached their solidarity work is inadequate, Keefer proposes a provocative alternative. Drawing upon Black Power, the classic SNCC-era text by Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton, Keefer argues that in order to develop real coalitions with indigenous activists fighting for sovereignty, white activists must organize within their own communities to build a meaningful social base.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur roundtable section in this issue contains two pieces. In the first, Caitlin Hewitt-White has brought together prominent prison abolition activists Peter Collins, Emily Aspinwall, Filis Iverson, Sonia Marino, Julia Sudbury, Kim Pate, and Patricia Monture to talk about the politics of the prison-industrial complex and the difficulties of working both within and against the system. In the second roundtable, Vancouver-based activists Kat Norris, Jill Chettiar, Anna Hunter, and Cecily Nicholson explore the problems and promise of housing activism in the Downtown Eastside in a roundtable put together by Krisztina Kun and Nicole Latham. This discussion makes clear how serious the housing situation in Vancouver is becoming and reveals how divisions on the left are hindering our ability to respond as effectively as possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs in previous issues, our book reviews section provides activists with an opportunity to respond to debates and discussions happening in other published works. In the first review, Erica Meiners investigates the prison abolition writings of Angela Davis, Julia Sudbury, and Karlene Faith. Next, Kimiko Inouye reads bell hooks’s Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism. Finally, Scott Clarke responds to Sheila Wilmot’s Taking Responsibility, Taking Direction: White Anti-Racism in Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs always, we invite responses from our readers to the content we publish. Argument is our lifeblood and we look forward to hearing from you. The submissions deadline for Upping the Anti 5 is August 1, 2007 and you can email articles and article ideas to uppingtheanti@gmail.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter publishing UTA 3 with funds drawn from meagre life savings, we knew we were in deep. Resolving not to go any further into debt, we vowed to make the money to print this issue upfront or to never publish again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt paid off, so to speak. We sunk our energy into a subscription drive and promotion campaign. And we learned how to stomach working on the “accounts receivable” side of our ledger. We’re not out of the hole yet. But we didn’t sink any new money into this issue. What’s more, we have more subscribers than ever before. A few of these are coveted lifetime subscribers – people who give us $250 and make us promise to keep producing this thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you are not already a subscriber, we encourage you to become one. If you are already a subscriber but want to make sure that UTA continues to be a feisty little firebrand well into the future, then please consider taking out a lifetime subscription. You can find out more information by contacting us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd if you’re one of those people who still owes us money for back issues, we need to talk. 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She was also a prolific writer and poet, publishing her work in a prize-winning chapbook, an audio CD, and in various journals and anthologies. She received a PEN American Center prize for poetry in 2001. Buck was released from prison less than a month before her death at age sixty-two from uterine cancer. This selection of her finest poetry is a living testament to the fierce intelligence and huge compassion that inspired and informed her life, and to the transcendence of her poetic vision. \"Marilyn, of course references her situation in prison in many poems, but the overwhelming sense one has after reading Inside\/Out is that one has just experienced a woman who, though imprisoned, is utterly free. What we have in Marilyn Buck is a poet who is unafraid to confront the deepest parts of herself with an honesty consistent with the consciousness of a revolutionary. It is the uncovering and revealing of hope that many of her works manifest.\" — Jack Hirschman, poet laureate of San Francisco\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Marilyn Buck\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9780872865778\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 125 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: City Lights\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"City Lights","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175101050973,"sku":"9780872865778","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1076_insideout3_0.jpg?v=1654987421"},{"product_id":"the-evan-mecham-eco-terrorist-international-conspiracy","title":"The Evan Mecham Eco-Terrorist International Conspiracy","description":"\u003cp\u003e“My earliest understandings of Earth First! were almost mythological – people escaping into the wilderness, dismantling bulldozers and blasting dams. When I finally encountered Earth First! in person, what I saw was something quite different – a much more public organization, with an impressive array of campaigns and tree-sits . That myth never left me, however, and seemed to accompany Earth First! wherever it went. A couple years later, I had the privilege of seeing Peg Millett speak and perform at Laughing Horse Books in Portland, Oregon and got a glimpse of what was beneath the folklore. Peg and her group had been monkeywrenchers. The FBI had infiltrated them. They had served time in prison. More time passed, and I found myself in a very public role speaking on behalf of a new clandestine effort in defense of the wild, the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). I became intimately aware of the specifics surrounding the group’s actions, philosophy and history. I increasingly saw how each action and event played its own role, not just in the ELF’s progress, but the growth and evolution of the overall struggle. In February of 2002, a Congressional Subcommittee was held on “eco-terrorism” and an FBI agent briefly testified about a predecessor to the ELF, known as the Evan Mecham Eco Terrorist International Conspiracy (EMETIC). I had to know more. Who was this group? What had they done? How had they laid the foundation for the underground struggle that had enveloped my life? As yet more time has passed, I’ve now seen many people speak in vague and mystical terms about the Earth Liberation Front and have realized just how important it is to thoroughly and accurately document and publicize the histories of our freedom struggles. The first half of this 60-page booklet, published by Eberhardt Press and Burning Books, details EMETIC’s series of guerrilla sabotage actions against nuclear power plants, uranium mines and the Snow Bowl ski resort in the Grand Canyon region, as well as their arrests and subsequent trial. The second half is an interview I did with Peg Millett, fleshing out additional details and relating EMETIC to the ELF. This history is essential for us to contextualize where we are currently at in the Earth liberation struggle and remind us of our own strength. As always, read and apply.” Leslie James Pickering\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Leslie James Pickering\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Saddle-stitched pamphlet\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 59 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: LeftWingBooks\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arissa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175105212509,"sku":"EVANMECHAM","price":7.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1102_emetic3_0.jpg?v=1654987442"},{"product_id":"maroon-the-implacable","title":"Maroon the Implacable","description":"\u003cp\u003eRussell Maroon Shoatz is a political prisoner who has been held unjustly for over thirty years, including two decades in solitary confinement. He was active as a leader in the Black Liberation Movement in Philadelphia, both above and underground. His successful escapes from maximum-security prisons earned him the title “Maroon.” This is the first published collection of his accumulated written works, and also includes new essays written expressly for this volume. Despite the torture and deprivation that has been everyday life for Maroon over the last several decades, he has remained at the cutting edge of history through his writings. His work is innovative and revolutionary on multiple levels:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eHis self-critical and fresh retelling of the Black liberation struggle in the U.S. includes many practical and theoretical insights;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eHis analysis of the prison system, particularly in relation to capitalism, imperialism, and the drug war, takes us far beyond the recently-popular analysis of the Prison Industrial Complex, contained in books such as \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEyNDkwIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/the-new-jim-crow-mass-incarceration-in-the-age-of-colorblindness\" title=\"The New Jim Crow\"\u003eThe New Jim Crow\u003c\/a\u003e;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eHis historical research and writings on Maroon communities throughout the Americas, drawing many insights from these societies in the fields of political and military revolutionary strategy are unprecedented; and finally\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eHis sharp and profound understanding of the current historical moment, with clear proposals for how to move forward embracing new political concepts and practices (including but not limited to eco-socialism, matriarchy and eco-feminism, food security, prefiguration and the Occupy Wall Street movement) provide cutting-edge challenges for today’s movements for social change.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/58226614\" width=\"500\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/58226614\"\u003eMAROON THE IMPLACABLE\u003c\/a\u003e from \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/vgbnd\"\u003evagabond Beaumont\u003c\/a\u003e on \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\"\u003eVimeo\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This book, \u003cem\u003eMaroon the Implacable\u003c\/em\u003e, is that very funky instruction manual on how to make revolution against Imperialist America.” —Amiri Baraka, former Poet Laureate of New Jersey “If the Great Dismal Swamp is no longer a refuge, nevertheless the message of the Maroons lives on, and Russell Maroon Shoatz is today its untamed voice. Free Maroon the Implacable!” —Hakim Bey, author of \u003cem\u003eTAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone\u003c\/em\u003e “At the core of the book is the theme of marronage—the will to escape from conditions of enslavement at any cost. This is what Russell Maroon Shoatz has done, not physically, but in the world of ideas by escaping from the rigid patriarchal framework he inherited and revaluing and promoting the role of women in the history of liberation. This book is a document of this transformation carried out against tremendous odds and told with searing honesty.” —Silvia Federici, author of \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM0MDE4In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/revolution-at-point-zero-housework-reproduction-and-feminist-struggle-second-edition\" title=\"Revolution at Point Zero\"\u003eRevolution at Point Zero\u003c\/a\u003e: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle\u003c\/em\u003e “Russell Maroon Shoats’s life reads like fiction composed by Victor Hugo. But this Jean Valjean for our time is the living truth, and his writings are a beacon for a new, revolutionary age. What a treasure has here been uncovered!” —Joel Kovel, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World\u003c\/em\u003e “Though he’s been inside for forty of his sixty-nine years on earth, the problems he raises about the justice movement are amazingly up to date. Above all, he thinks organizationally… He is always trying to work out what to do. Where he looks for answers is the only sensible place: not in ideas but in the historical experience of the grassroots.” —Selma James, author of \u003cem\u003eSex, Race, and Class: The Perspective of Winning\u003c\/em\u003e “For twenty-seven years I visited four prisoners, one of whom was Russell Shoatz, who we called Maroon. From him I always got a lesson in politics that fortified me and made me understand just what was happening in our country and what I should be doing about it. He trusted the truth of ‘power to the people,’ and it kept him focused and hopeful. His body was incarcerated but his mind soared. My mentor!” —Frances Goldin, publisher of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Barbara Kingsolver, and Adrienne Rich\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Russell Maroon Shoatz\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRussell Maroon Shoatz is a dedicated community activist, founding member of the Black Unity Council, former member of the Black Panther Party, and soldier in the Black Liberation Army. He is serving multiple life sentences as a U.S.-held prisoner of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Chuck D (Foreword)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChuck D is an American rapper, author, and producer. He helped create politically and socially conscious hip-hop music in the mid-1980s as the leader of the group Public Enemy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Fred Ho (Editor)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFred Ho is a jazz baritone saxophonist, composer, bandleader, playwright, writer, and social activist. He has written and produced many books and albums, including most recently the books Diary of a Radical Cancer Warrior (2011) and Raw Extreme Manifesto (2012), and the albums Snake Eaters and The Year of the Tiger. He is one of the founders of Scientific Soul Sessions. More information about Fred's incredible career can be found at http:\/\/www.bigredmediainc.com\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Quincy Saul (Editor)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eQuincy Saul is a writer, organizer and musician. He is a columnist for Capitalism Nature Socialism and a co-founder, writer and organizer for Ecosocialist Horizons. He is the author of Reflections of Crisis: The Great Depression and the 21st Century (2010), and the co-producer of The Music of Cal Massey. He is a columnist for The Africa Report and his articles have been published by numerous online outlets including Narco News and Area Chicago. 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In the 1970’s when hundreds of politically minded people folded back into the comforts of American society, Silvia deepened her conviction to revolutionary struggle.She became the national leader of the May 19th Communist Organization, a radical group of white, North Americans.May 19th was a key element in a fragile but growing alliance of revolutionaries, African American, Puerto Rican and white who worked relentlessly to organize people to view the U.S. Imperialist system as the leading source of world oppression.Most threatening to the government was their support for the Republic of New Afrika, a group fighting to win land in the south on which to build a socialist nation under Black rule. Members of the alliance were targets of the U.S. government’s counter insurgency program, COINTELPRO. Using an array of tactics, the government put an end to the alliance; many activists were arrested and imprisoned; Silvia was one of them. In 1983, under the RICO law, Silvia was given a 40-year prison sentence for helping to free former Black Panther, Assata Shakur from prison.She was additionally charged with criminal contempt of court for refusing to answer questions to a Grand Jury investigating the Puerto Rican Independence Movement and given another three years. After seventeen years in U.S. prisons, in 1999, following a ten-year campaign culminating in one million Italian signatures, Silvia won the right to serve out the remainder of her sentence in her homeland, Italy and was transferred to Rebbibia prison in Rome \u003cem\u003eFreeing Silvia Baraldini\u003c\/em\u003e presents Silvia’s side of the story, the side that was not supposed to be told. PLEASE NOTE that this DVD is priced for personal use. Educational institutions which wish to purchase a copy should do so via the film's producers, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thinedgefilms.com\/projects_silvia.html\"\u003eThin Edge Films\u003c\/a\u003e. 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This book is a unique introduction to his story and struggle, based on letters between him and the renowned lawyer, sociologist, educator, and activist Luis Nieves Falcón.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn photographs, reproductions of his paintings, and graphic content, Oscar’s life is made strikingly accessible—so all can understand why this man has been deemed dangerous to the U.S. government. His ongoing fight for freedom, for his people and for himself (his release date is 2027, when he will be 84 years old), is detailed in chapters which share the life of a Latino child growing up in the small towns of Puerto Rico and the big cities of the U.S. It tells of his emergence as a community activist, of his life underground, and of his years in prison. Most importantly, it points the way forward. With a vivid assessment of the ongoing colonial relationship between the U.S. and Puerto Rico, it provides tools for working for López Rivera’s release—an essential ingredient if U.S.-Latin American relations, both domestically and internationally, have any chance of improvement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBetween Torture and Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e tells a sad tale of human rights abuses in the U.S. which are largely unreported. But it is also a story of hope—that there is beauty and strength in resistance. \"In spite of the fact that here the silence from outside is more painful than the solitude inside the cave, the song of a bird or the sound of a cicada always reaches me to awaken my faith and keep me going.\" —Oscar López Rivera\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOscar López Rivera was born in San Sebastián, Puerto Rico on January 6, 1943. His family moved to the U.S. when he was an adolescent, and—like many young Latino and African American men—he was drafted into the U.S. army; his service in Viet Nam earned him the Bronze Star. When he returned from the war in 1967, he immediately set to work organizing to improve the quality of life for his people, helping to create both the Puerto Rican High School and the Puerto Rican Cultural Center of Chicago, Illinois. Eventually, however, Oscar and other young Puerto Ricans—inspired by heroic guerilla movements throughout the world—decided that their work for the independence of Puerto Rico could best be conducted in clandestine fashion. López Rivera was arrested in 1981, and ultimately sentenced to 55 years for the thought crime of seditious conspiracy; his release date is 2027, when he will be 84 years old. From 1986 to 1998, he was held in the most super maximum security prisons in the federal prison system, in conditions not unlike those at Guantanamo under which “enemy combatants” are held—conditions which the International Red Cross have called tantamount to torture. Over López Rivera’s long years behind bars, he has become a talented and prolific artist whose drawings and paintings form part of an itinerant exhibit, Not Enough Space, along with fellow independentista Carlos Alberto Torres. He has also authored a chapter, “A Century of Colonialism: One Hundred Years of Puerto Rican Resistance,” in Joy James’ Warfare in the American Homeland. Dr. Luis Nieves Falcón, renowned lawyer, psychologist, and sociologist, is professor emeritus of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) and a longtime advocate for Puerto Rican human rights. A founder of the UPR’s Department of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Dr. Falcón has been at the intellectual and activist forefront of every major modern campaign for Puerto Rican sovereignty. As chairman of the Puerto Rico Committee for Human Rights, the Puerto Rican PEN Club, and the International League for the Rights and Liberation of the Peoples, he has convened international tribunals on various issues concerning the Puerto Rican condition in Barcelona, New York, Vieques, and San Juan. Dr. Falcón is presently the president of the Nilita Vientós Gastón Foundation. His recent books include Un siglo de represión política en Puerto Rico: 1898-1998 [A Century of Political Repression in Puerto Rico: 1898-1998], and La Luz Desde La Ventana: Conversaciones con Filiberto Ojeda Ríos [The Light from the Window: Conversations with Filiberto Ojeda Rios]. Desmond Mpilo Tutu is Archbishop Emeritus of the Anglican Church of South Africa. The recipient of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, Archbishop Tutu has long spoken out for human rights for all, and for the release of all political prisoners. He was the Chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and now chairs The Elders, a group committed to dealing with the world’s most intractable challenges, including Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter, and Mary Robinson. Matt Meyer is author and editor of six books, including four titles on contemporary Africa, and PM Press’ Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners. He is a New York City-based educator and activist, and a founder of the anti-imperialist collective Resistance in Brooklyn. Meyer has served as national chair for both the War Resisters League and the Peace and Justice Studies Association, and has been called a natural coalition-builder who “provides tools for today’s activists” by Argentine Nobel Peace laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Oscar López Rivera\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Luis Nieves Falcón\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-60486-685-8\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 160 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175117271133,"sku":"9781604866858","price":22.33,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1165_betweentorture3_0.jpg?v=1654987536"},{"product_id":"the-red-army-faction-a-documentary-history-mdash-volume-2-dancing-with-imperialism","title":"The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History—Volume 2: Dancing with Imperialism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe long-awaited Volume 2 of the first-ever English-language study of the Red Army Faction—West Germany’s most notorious urban guerillas—covers the period immediately following the organization’s near-total decimation in 1977.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis work includes the details of the guerilla’s operations, and its communiqués and texts, from 1978 up until the 1984 offensive. This was a period of regrouping and reorientation for the RAF, with its previous focus on freeing its prisoners replaced by an anti-NATO orientation. This was in response to the emergence of a new radical youth movement in the Federal Republic, the Autonomen, and an attempt to renew its ties to the radical left. The possibilities and perils of an armed underground organization relating to the broader movement are examined, and the RAF’s approach is contrasted to the more fluid and flexible practice of the Revolutionary Cells. At the same time, the history of the 2nd of June Movement (2JM), an eclectic guerilla group with its roots in West Berlin, is also evaluated, especially in light of the split that led to some 2JM members officially disbanding the organization and rallying to the RAF. Finally, the RAF’s relationship to the East German Stasi is examined, as is the abortive attempt by West Germany’s liberal intelligentsia to defuse the armed struggle during Gerhard Baum’s tenure as Minister of the Interior.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDancing with Imperialism\u003c\/em\u003e will be required reading for students of the First World guerilla, those with interest in the history of European protest movements, and all who wish to understand the challenges of revolutionary struggle. For more on this book check out the \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.germanguerilla.com\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGerman Guerilla\u003c\/a\u003e website.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Andre Moncourt\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: J. 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A world that exists at the expense of New Afrikan communities and New Afrikan youth in particular, through our social savage way of attempting to gain power through AK’s, bats and beat downs … it was in the belly of the beast (prison) that ‘Monster’ underwent a revolutionary transformation, dissecting and re-building himself from the inside out, slaying the colonial thug ‘Monster’ and emerging through a re-birth as ‘Sanyika Shakur,’ a New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalist.” — from the Foreword by Yusef “Bunchy” Shakur\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection of writings by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyOTY0In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/sanyika-shakur\" title=\"Sanyika Shakur\"\u003eSanyika Shakur\u003c\/a\u003e, formerly known as Monster Kody Scott, includes several essays written from within the infamous Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit in the period around the historic 2011 California prisoners’ hunger strike, as well as two interviews conducted just before and after his release in Black August 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShakur rejects the easy answers and false solutions of the neocolonial age—integration and racism, the colonial-criminal mentality and subservience to imperialism—as the “oppo-sames” that they are. Firmly rooted in the New Afrikan Communist tradition, he skillfully uses the tools of dialectical materialism to lay bare the deeper connections between racism, sexism, and homophobia and how these mental diseases relate to the ongoing capitalist (neo-)colonial catastrophe we remain trapped within. Defending the legacy of New Afrikans’ historic struggle for Land, Independence, and Socialism, Shakur spells out a uniquely liberatory Revolutionary Nationalist vision. Annihilating the “amerikan” mental fog that has new generations continuing to self-defeat rather than coming together against the real enemy, \u003cem\u003eStand Up, Struggle Forward\u003c\/em\u003e serves as a battle cry against all forms of oppression. \u003cem\u003eStand Up, Struggle Forward\u003c\/em\u003e also contains a valuable account of political repression in the California prison system, including several of the intelligence memoranda they were used to condemn Shakur to years of solitary confinement in Pelican Bay. These internal prison documents clearly show that this prolonged solitary confinement was a direct result of Shakur’s continuing promotion of New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalist politics. As such, they provide a clear example of the way in which solitary confinement continues to be used as a tool of political repression against thousands of prisoners in California today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead one of the essays\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch1 class=\"entry-title\"\u003eStudy and Struggle: An Overstanding\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eby Sanyika Shakur\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eWho Are We\u003c\/em\u003e, those of us who would build a national ‘black’ prisoners organization? There is much hard evidence to show that as each day passes, more and more ‘black’ prisoners identify themselves as \u003cem\u003eNew Afrikans\u003c\/em\u003e and work on behalf of \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ethe New Afrikan Independence Movement.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e” (emphasis in original)\u003cbr\u003e– Atiba Shanna, \u003cem\u003eNotes from a New Afrikan P.O.W., Journal, Book Three\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan id=\"more-5604\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross the expanse of a couple of decades, We’ve seen the political consciousness of prisoners grow in proportion with their overstanding of what it actually means to be a prisoner in amerikkka, but also as nationals of captive nations held in partial paralysis by u.s. imperialism. Prisoners have slowly begun to take an objective view of the matrix of u.s. colonialism from a dialectical perspective that informs Us that the settler government holds, dominates and exploits both external\/internal colonies. And that the old facade of “disadvantaged minorities” is giving way to the stark reality of submerged nations here under the blurry veneer of a so-called “united states.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis developing consciousness springs from a Revolutionary Nationalist overstanding of social development. Informed by even the most rudimentary application of dialectical materialism, one is easily drawn to the reality of New Afrika, Aztlan, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Alaska and the Indigenous People being submerged and colonized – whole nations existing under the false patina of amerikkkanism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe greater Our overstanding of this reality, the less We are believing in, or relying on, the old obviously false social construct of “race” to define Ourselves and other oppressed people. Color, or “race” as a binary term to describe the shallow differences between humans – which has no scientific basis in reality – is not a deep enough, not sound, or reasonable enough, overstanding We can see to explain, confront and resolve Our problems. It’s been said that “the color of freedom in amerikkka is green.” This tells Us something about the false construct of “race,” no? It hints at the \u003cem\u003efact\u003c\/em\u003e that under the rubble of “race” is bedrock. And that bedrock, that solid foundation, is economics. Is capitalism. We can’t even discuss, or We shouldn’t even discuss, “racism” without mentioning and combining it with capitalism. For capitalism built around it the social construct of “race” as a motto, a defense and a justification for prolonged activity. Capitalism is the \u003cem\u003ematerial \u003c\/em\u003emanifestation; “race” is the \u003cem\u003eshadow\u003c\/em\u003e, or immaterial reality of what’s casted – as a consequence of the original form. It’s not that it’s wholly unreal. We can \u003cem\u003esee \u003c\/em\u003eit. The shadow, i mean. We can even feel it, but it is but a reflection. We’ll exhaust Ourselves to the point of madness trying to combat it alone without applying destructive force to the material thing that it reflects. To be “anti-racist” is to be anti-capitalist. We become anti-racists by not using binary terms constructed to promote and sustain “race.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Any attempt to destroy ‘racism’ without an explicit link to the struggle against capitalism ultimately serves only to reinforce ‘racist’ ideology and to shield capitalism from attack.  On the other hand, an attempt to combat capitalism without an explicit link to anti-racist discourse and struggle allows capitalism to use the belief in ‘race’ held by oppressed peoples and appeal to the ‘racism’ of citizens of the oppressive state, thus undermining all revolutionary initiative. This combat also requires that we begin to de-link ourselves from the use of language that reinforces and reproduces racial ideology, e.g. the terms ‘white’ and ‘black’ in references to the identity of peoples.”\u003cbr\u003e– Comrade Owusu Yaki Yakubu, \u003cem\u003eMeditations on Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Our developing consciousness, which is necessarily New Afrikan, Revolutionary and Nationalist, We are needing new tools, new language, new ideas, means and ways to re-build Ourselves into a coherent whole for movement and struggle. We are talking about cadre development. This will come about only through arduous study and struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSee, here’s the basic thing: if you are calling yourself a New Afrikan, then you are at once saying that you are \u003cem\u003enot \u003c\/em\u003ean amerikkkan (of any stripe). You are rejecting the reactionary\/colonial identity placed arbitrarily on you by the enemy culture. You are implying that you are a citizen of the Republic of New Afrika. Further, this means that you overstand that a \u003cem\u003eNew \u003c\/em\u003eAfrikan Nation exists and has existed, in north amerikkka, at least since 1660. Now, “nation” here is not to be confused with a \u003cem\u003estate \u003c\/em\u003eor \u003cem\u003egovernment\u003c\/em\u003e. A nation is a cultural\/custom\/linguistic social development that is consolidated and evolves on a particular land mass and shares a definite collective awareness of itself. New Afrika, as a distinct entity, a total working-class \u003cem\u003enation\u003c\/em\u003e, has existed since 1660 here. The nation was given shape, name, general laws and a creed in 1968, with the founding of the Provisional Government by over 500 New Afrikan nationalists. Established at this historical convention was, The New Afrikan Declaration of Independence, Code of Umoja (New Afrikan Constitution) and The New Afrikan Creed. A President, Vice-Presidents, People’s Center Councils and a People’s Revolutionary Leadership Council were elected to designate New Afrikan Population Districts, set up registration for a New Afrikan census, etc. This was the forming of a \u003cem\u003estate\u003c\/em\u003e, an organized body designed to coherently give shape and form to the already long existing New Afrikan nation. So, We are not trying to “create” a nation – the nation exists. We are trying to agitate, educate and organize the nation for land, independence and socialism. This can only be realized through revolution. And despite what We’ve recently seen in North Africa with their “Arab Spring,” We are under no illusions about Our struggle here being a protracted, long drawn out, revolutionary war. And, truthfully, necessarily so. We have a lot of cleansing to do after having been existing so close to the seat of world power for so long. We overstand Our level of contamination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe are talking about being ideologically consistent. About pushing a particular line. Again, i want to go to the Comrade Yaki because his instructions are profound:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Angolan, Russian, Algerian, Chinese, French, Vietnamese, Cuban, Korean, Tanzanian – these are nationalities. Our nationality is New Afrikan. We don’t refer to ourselves as ‘black’ because We don’t base our nationality (nor our politics) on ‘race’ or color or a biological element of our being. Social factors are the primary determinations of our national identity (and Our politics)”.\u003cbr\u003e– \u003cem\u003eMeditations…\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the same reason, We don’t call ourselves “black” is also why We don’t call ourselves “African-American,” or “Negro,” “colored,” etc. These are \u003cem\u003echains, \u003c\/em\u003ewhich tie us to the plantation, to the colonial system. These are terms that substantiate, promote and sustain the colonial mentality and thus our oppression. Again, Comrade Yaki’s words instruct:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The ‘Native,’ the ‘Negro,’ the ‘colored,’ the ‘black’ and the ‘African-American’ have no identity apart from that given them by the colonizer – that is, not unless they RESIST colonialism, which entails: 1) their maintenance of an identity that is separate and distinct from that of the colonizer; 2) they begin to develop a NEW identity, through the process of ‘decolonization’ – through having remained separate and distinct, colonized people aren’t who they were prior to colonization and they can’t return to the past. Colonization has arrested their independent development, distorted who they are, and now they must become a NEW people during the process by which they regain their independence.”  (emphasis in original)\u003cbr\u003e– \u003cem\u003eMeditations…\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLet’s go a bit into this. Those who are calling themselves “African-Americans” are doing so for two real reasons. First, of course, there is an inherent overstanding that runs thoroughly through the New Afrikan nation that We are not \u003cem\u003ereally \u003c\/em\u003eamerikkkans. That We are in fact a people\/nation unto Ourselves. This used to be widely overstood with little notion of anything to the contrary. \u003cem\u003eNeo-\u003c\/em\u003ecolonialism has worked obsessively to change this awareness. The rapid de-colonization (“de-segregation”) of the nation, beginning in the late 50s, ushered in a new (neo) more thoroughly, and dare i say, \u003cem\u003erevolutionary\u003c\/em\u003e, form of control and exploitation: \u003cem\u003eneo-colonialism\u003c\/em\u003e. “Blacks” took over from “Negroes” to lead the masses into an integrated lockstep with capitalism, while they (the misleaders) were awarded nominal positions in local and regional government posts. Because the bourgeois media postulated these class enemies as being “successful,” in a new and improved amerikkka, it fostered  an image (crafted by Madison Avenue) that anybody could make it. “Now that segregation is over, you can grow up to be anything you want.” Except free, of course.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe more integration (which was supposed to mean “freedom and equality”) We got, the worst Our predicament became. The more bourgeois “freedom and equality” We struggled to obtain, the more critical our existence became, the stronger the “black” bourgeoisie got – compounded a hundred times by the u.s. ruling class. The stronger the “black” bourgeoisie became, the more Our revolutionary leadership was attacked, assassinated, imprisoned, or exiled. The more this became so, the worse the hoods got. The worse the hoods got, the more street orgs began to proliferate. More dope, more guns, more pigs – more prisons. This is what the losing of a sense of self brings. Integration \u003cem\u003eis \u003c\/em\u003eneo-colonialism. And it’s reactionary nationalism. But it would be unfair to say it’s not \u003cem\u003eprogress\u003c\/em\u003e. It \u003cem\u003eis \u003c\/em\u003eprogress – it’s just not progress in \u003cem\u003eOur \u003c\/em\u003einterest. We are moving forward, but it is towards Our annihilation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe “black” bourgeoisie worked in tandem with its masters to keep the chains on New Afrika. They overstood the strong Nationalist sentiment that ran through the nation. So in order to placate this sentiment and please their masters, the “black” bourgeoisie introduced the term “African-American.” A split personality that straddled an ocean and a colonial existence. But because our “leaders” said it was right and “after all” the masses said, “We are Africans” – Voila!  This, of course, is not scientific or a reflection of any real reality. It is a term used to maintain a colonial relationship with New Afrika – now being run by remote control through the antics and colorful animation of the “African-American” bourgeoisie. You see them in the Congressional Black Caucus, the higher echelons of the Prince Hall Masons, in the persons of Oprah, Jesse, Al Sharpton, Robert Johnson, etc. etc. They’ve been appointed by the u.s. ruling class to lead the masses – into a neo-colonial marriage with amerikkka. The “African American” bourgeoisie is conjoined (face to ass) with the u.s. ruling class and no surgery short of protracted people’s war will lose them and free Us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe masses, by and large, are innocently confused – they can be redeemed. It is Our job as cadres to do that. Which is why it is so important to study and struggle – to build up your revolutionary ideological, philosophical and theoretical overstanding so as to be able to distinguish the real from the false. The righteous from the reactionary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Our vision must be emphasized in opposition to the imperialist and neo-colonialist perspectives. Our vision demands that We stress the need to establish New Afrikan state power as the PREREQUISITE for the long term resolution of colonial violence, bad housing, miseducation, poor health, no jobs, etc. At present, the orientation underlying mass struggle is primarily neo-colonialist. We ask the u.s. government to do things for Us. Our struggle is AGAINST the u.s. government, to secure the power to prevent it from doing things to us and so that We can do things for ourselves, under our own government. Each issue that the masses struggle around must be infused (by the people’s vanguard) with the idea than none of our problems can be solved until We achieve national independence.”\u003cbr\u003e– Atiba Shanna, \u003cem\u003eVita Wa Watu: A New Afrikan Theoretical Journal, Book 12.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn closing then, i’d like to simply emphasize the need to study and struggle. Study Revolutionary Nationalism and struggle around the issues that are affecting Us. And, too, it’s a beautiful thing to see more prisoners becoming conscious of themselves as New Afrikans. This too is a prerequisite to getting free. Change your mind and you can change your conditions. Overstanding and appreciating the reality of one’s situation gives one a greater sense of appreciation for other oppressed nationals in the same or similar predicaments. I’m gonna fall out with a quote by Comrade Yaki that pretty much sums it all up – Though first, I’d like to send a clenched fisted salute to all the comrades in Canada that make 4SM possible, as well as to Comrade Jaan Laaman, for his outstanding editorial work and his continuous revolutionary commitment. We feel you!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Anyone claiming to attack racism while claiming that racism is the only thing wrong with this system, is either terribly confused or an outright enemy of the people and their interests. If We truly wanna get rid of racism, We have to overthrow capitalism … first.”\u003cbr\u003e– Comrad Yaki, \u003cem\u003eMeditations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRe-Build\u003cbr\u003eSanyika Shakur\u003cbr\u003ePelican Bay SHU – 47ADM*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*47 years after the death of Malik (Malcolm)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“i love his book \u003cem\u003eMonster\u003c\/em\u003e, because his military approach in things sets it up. One time there was a shooting in my block, and i asked the brother: ‘What do you think you are doing? Here, read this!’ And i gave him a copy of Monster. He took it real serious. Sanyika can reach people i can’t. Checking out his newest book, i’m glad he’s on our side.” —  Hondo T’chikwa, Spear \u0026amp; Shield Collective\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The Pentagon knows that the most famous soldier of his times never wore their uniform, but fought on the oppressed streets of L.A. Now, Sanyika Shakur is still a soldier for his people, but is a revolutionary teacher as well. His words here, his politics, are uncompromising as iron.” — J. Sakai, author of \u003cem\u003eSettlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“i thought i’d wait a long time after \u003cem\u003eMeditations\u003c\/em\u003e for a new work that would provide a major building block to rebuild the movement. But here it is. The chapter on patriarchy, colonialism, imperialism and neo-colonialism is a bomb — study this.” — Butch Lee, author of \u003cem\u003eNight-Vision: Illuminating War and Class on the Neo-Colonial Terrain\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Sanyika Shakur\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781894946469\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 208 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175125168221,"sku":"9781894946469","price":19.53,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1228_studyandstruggle3_0.jpg?v=1654987585"},{"product_id":"the-struggle-within-prisons-political-prisoners-and-mass-movements-in-the-united-states","title":"The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Struggle Within\u003c\/em\u003e is an accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer about how mass imprisonment has been a tool of repression deployed against diverse left-wing social movements over the last fifty years. Berger examines some of the most dynamic social movements across half a century: black liberation, Puerto Rican independence, Native American sovereignty, Chicano radicalism, white antiracist and working-class mobilizations, pacifist and antinuclear campaigns, and earth liberation and animal rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBerger’s encyclopedic knowledge of American social movements provides a rich comparative history of numerous social movements that continue to shape contemporary politics. The book also offers a little-heard voice in contemporary critiques of mass incarceration. Rather than seeing the issue of America’s prison growth as stemming solely from the war on drugs, Berger locates mass incarceration within a slew of social movements that have provided steep challenges to state power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Struggle Within\u003c\/em\u003e powerfully demonstrates that the issue of political prisoners is not about individuals but about the deep and enduring bonds of community resistance. Berger’s beautiful synthesis of more than fifty years of people’s history places the prison at the center of contemporary freedom struggles. This book is necessary reading for all who wish to revive a radical tradition in the face of the prison’s coercive attempt at erasure. \u003cem\u003eThe Struggle Within\u003c\/em\u003e is a vital and moving contribution, rooted in the power of collective history.“ —Angela Y. Davis, author and former political prisoner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Before the U.S. had today’s mass incarceration, it had political prisoners. Dan Berger’s excellent book shows how political repression produced the human rights nightmare that exists today in America’s prisons. More, the book tells the history of the hundreds of activists who have been incarcerated here—and most important of all, the stories of those who remain inside. This historical account tells the truth not only about political incarceration but also about how movements can act to dismantle the U.S. prison nation. Wherever you find your place in social justice activism, this much-needed book will help enrich your work and make it more effective.“ —Laura Whitehorn, former political prisoner and editor of \u003cem\u003eThe War Before\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dan-berger\" title=\"Dan Berger\"\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/a\u003e has provided scholars and activists alike an untold and unfortunately too easily forgotten history of political incarceration and the struggle to free political prisoners in the U.S. Berger deftly grapples not only with the resilience of the incarcerated and the movements seeking their freedom, but more importantly with the roots of political incarceration in modern colonialism and its primary justification—racism. More than stirring our hearts and minds, this timely book should move us to action!“ —José López, executive director of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“When the radical New Left crashed and burned, most participants resumed more or less conventional life trajectories. We too often forget that many of our brothers and sisters are still behind bars with no assurance of release. In \u003cem\u003eThe Struggle Within\u003c\/em\u003e we are told about not only Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier but dozens of other political prisoners whose names we may not know. These men and women ’raised the stakes’ in confrontation with the Powers That Be and are behind bars not just for their ideas but because they were ’active participants in resistance movements.’ The author describes this book as an ’introductory and incomplete sketch,’ but it is, in fact, the most comprehensive survey of imprisoned Movement activists known to me. I deeply admire the author’s efforts to tell it like it is without excessive adjectives. While these souls are imprisoned, we are not free.“ —Staughton Lynd, author, educator, prison activist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This vital piece connects not only an insightful academic reflection with lessons which radical movements would do well to learn, it connects past history with current realities in the service of a more just future. All intellectual pursuits should be so rooted in the service of building campaigns and organizations for the people’s liberation; Berger’s must-read book is a gift to social change activists everywhere.“ —Matt Meyer, coeditor of \u003cem\u003eWe Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/strong\u003e is an assistant professor of comparative ethnic studies at the University of Washington Bothell. His work on race, prisons, media, and American social movements has appeared widely in popular and scholarly journals. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eCaptive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era\u003c\/em\u003e, forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press (2014). Berger is also the author or editor of three previous books: \u003cem\u003eLetters From Young Activists\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOutlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism\u003c\/em\u003e. A longtime activist, Berger is a cofounder of Decarcerate PA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/ruth-wilson-gilmore\" title=\"Ruth Wilson Gilmore\"\u003eRuth Wilson Gilmore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a professor of geography at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is a member of the founding collective of Critical Resistance, one of the most important national anti-prison organizations in the United States. She examined how political and economic forces produced California’s prison boom in \u003cem\u003eGolden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California\u003c\/em\u003e, which was recognized by ASA with its Lora Romero First Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003edream hampton\u003c\/strong\u003e has written about music, culture, and politics for twenty years. Her articles and essays have appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Detroit News\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHarper’s Bazaar\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEssence\u003c\/em\u003e, and a dozen anthologies, most recently \u003cem\u003eBorn to Use Mics: Reading Nas’s Illmatic\u003c\/em\u003e, edited by Michael Eric Dyson. A longtime member of the human rights organization Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, hampton helped to organize the Black August Hip Hop Concert Benefit to raise awareness about U.S. political prisoner for ten years. hampton directed The Black August Hip Hop Project, a film about the concert series, political prisoners, and MXGM.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175152398429,"sku":"9781604869552","price":18.13,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/the_struggle_within.jpg?v=1654987697"},{"product_id":"our-commitment-is-to-our-communities","title":"Our Commitment Is to Our Communities: Mass Incarceration, Political Prisoners, and Building a Movement for Community-Based Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the 2014 Certain Days calendar, David Gilbert wrote that the “War on Crime” which began in the early 1970s was in fact a conscious government counterinsurgency strategy to decimate and disrupt Black and other people of color communities across the United States. In this pamphlet, interviewed by Bob Feldman, David uses this observation as his starting point to discuss the ongoing catastrophe that is mass incarceration, connecting it to the continued imprisonment of political prisoners and the challenges that face our movements today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this pamphlet, interviewed by Bob Feldman, David uses this observation as his starting point to discuss the ongoing catastrophe that is mass incarceration, connecting it to the continued imprisonment of political prisoners and the challenges that face our movements today. This interview was conducted by mail in March 2014, by Bob Feldman. A shorter version originally appeared in The Shadow newspaper, issue 56, Spring 2014. (Shadow Press, P.O. Box 20298, New York, NY 10009. Email: \u003ca href=\"mailto:shadowpress@rocketmail.com\"\u003eshadowpress@rocketmail.com\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Gilbert, a longtime anti-racist and anti-imperialist, first became active in the Civil Rights movement in 1961. In 1965, he started the Vietnam Committee at Columbia University; in 1967 he co-authored the first Students for a Democratic Society pamphlet naming the system “imperialism”; and he was active in the Columbia strike of 1968. He went on to spend a total of 10 years underground, building a clandestine resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDavid has been imprisoned in New York State since 10\/20\/81, when a unit of the Black Liberation Army along with allied white revolutionaries tried to get funds for the struggle by robbing a Brinks truck. This tragically resulted in a shoot-out in which a Brinks guard and two police officers were killed. David is serving a sentence of 75 years (minimum) to life under New York State’s “felony murder” law, whereby all participants in a robbery, even if they are unarmed and non-shooters, are equally responsible for all deaths that occur. While in prison, he’s been a pioneer for peer education on AIDS and has continued to write and advocate against oppression. He’s been involved with the annual Certain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar since 2001 and has written two books from prison that are available from Kersplebedeb and PM Press: No Surrender and Love and Struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: David Gilbert\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Saddle-stitched pamphlet\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 29 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175173075037,"sku":"9781894946650","price":6.72,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/ourcommitmentistoourcommunities.jpg?v=1654987770"},{"product_id":"condemned","title":"Condemned","description":"\u003cp\u003eCondemned: the whole story is the first-hand account of Keith LaMar's (a.k.a. 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Condemned: the whole story forces readers to grapple with the notion of (in)justice for the poor and the conflict of interest inherent within the for-profit prison industry in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Injustice of Justice, A Short Film\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eqfbHR1agHM?si=fgvyxjNmrKbwFKNd\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Self-published","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175178285149,"sku":"9781483961712","price":15.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/condemned.jpg?v=1654987783"},{"product_id":"lumpen-the-autobiography-of-ed-mead","title":"Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead","description":"\u003cp\u003eMore than a memoir,\u003cem\u003e Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead\u003c\/em\u003e takes the reader on a tour of America’s underbelly. From Iowa to Compton to Venice Beach to Fairbanks, Alaska, Mead introduces you to poor America just trying to get by—and barely making it. When a thirteen-year-old Mead ends up in the Utah State Industrial School, a prison for boys, it is the first step in a story of oppression and revolt that will ultimately lead to the foundation of the George Jackson Brigade, a Seattle-based urban guerrilla group, and to Mead’s re-incarceration as a fully engaged revolutionary, well-placed and prepared to take on both his captors and the predators amongst his fellow prisoners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough his work organizing against conditions in solitary confinement, and then with queer prisoners in the legendary Men Against Sexism, followed by his exile from Washington to the dungeons at Marion, Brushy Mountain, and Florence, Ed Mead’s practice stands as a rebuke to the inhumanity and indifference which surround the world’s largest prison system.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the late Black Liberation Army soldier Safiya Bukhari observed, “we must at least write our history and point out the truth of what we did—the good, the bad, and the ugly.” Ed Mead has done that here, recounting his life’s story with unflinching honesty, providing a model of personal integrity and revolutionary creativity and determination for us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNote that if you purchase this book you will also receive the digital (ebook) files. If you only want the digital files, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/copy-of-lumpen-the-autobiography-of-ed-mead-ebook-mobi-and-epub\"\u003ethey are available separately here\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEd died on November 6, 2023. The following is from a statement produced by loved ones:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn November 6, 2023, lifelong abolitionist, writer, fighter, and former political prisoner Ed Mead joined the ancestors. Ed died at home, on his 82nd birthday, after almost a decade of battling late stage lung cancer. Born in 1941, in Santa Monica, California, to Ramona (Ona) Irene Mead and Edward Leo Mead, Ed was the second oldest of six siblings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEd Mead did not live a conventional life. As his lifelong friend and comrade, Mark Cook, is fond of saying, Ed spent his life “kicking ass for the working class.” After spending much of his youth in reform “schools” and detention centers along the Pacific coast, Ed became politicized in prison in the 1960s. He was a founding member of the George Jackson Brigade, a revolutionary guerilla underground organization based in the Pacific Northwest in the mid-to-late 1970s. Ed spent 35 years of his life in prisons, 18 of which were for his political actions as a member of the George Jackson Brigade.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA brief bio for an essay Ed wrote in the 2024 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar reads, “I was once a young man doing life on the installment plan, well on my way to becoming just another crime statistic. Then something changed, I became rights conscious. I no longer identified as a criminal, instead I came to identify as a prisoner rights activist. With the passage of time and a lot of effort, I morphed again; I became class conscious—I became a communist. These changes were not sudden, they involved years of struggle and difficult study. The one thread throughout the years of change was political struggle on the inside and studying the writings of early revolutionaries. This is the path for those of you who will no longer accept the things you cannot change and are instead changing the things you cannot accept.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhile in prison for his part in armed struggle, Ed helped to form Men Against Sexism (MAS) at Walla Walla State Penitentiary in Washington. With other comrades, Ed helped to put an end to prisoner-on-prisoner sexual assault and other forms of abuse at Walla Walla. He also helped to form the Committee to Safeguard Prisoners’ Rights at Arizona State Prison. He was a seasoned jailhouse lawyer and a committed organizer within the prison walls. While imprisoned, Ed was a prodigious journalist. He co-founded and wrote for the\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRed Dragon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ein the 1970s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, The Abolitionist\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ein the 1980s (different from the contemporary newspaper of that name)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePrison Legal News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, which still exists and is the longest running newspaper produced by and for current and former prisoners in the United States.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOnce released from prison in 1993, Ed worked tirelessly with revolutionary organizations and prisoner support groups, including but not limited to the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, the Attica Brothers Legal Defense Committee, the Seattle chapter of the National Jericho Movement, All of Us or None, and the National Lawyers Guild. Ed created the Free Mark Cook Organizing Committee and worked relentlessly to free his comrade Mark Cook, who was finally released in 2000. He also founded Prison Art, a nonprofit website that provided a platform for prisoners to sell their crafts and artwork. And he continued to write about prison conditions and prisoner resistance. He wrote for\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCalifornia Prison Focus,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003efounded\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Rock\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eto support California prisoners on hunger strike, co-created the prison newsletter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Kite\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePrison Covid\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003enewsletter to track the pandemic in prison in 2020–2021. Ed believed changing prisons will come from the prisoners themselves. This belief motivated his work on publications featuring prisoner journalism and communications.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 2016, Mead donated his papers to the University of Washington Libraries to be accessed by researchers, students, activists, and others. The collection, which forms the basis of something now called the Washington Prison History Project, includes several prisoner-run newsletters and lawsuits that Mead participated in. It also included the programming code for the Warden Game, a computer game Ed designed in prison in the mid-1980s after the Washington Department of Corrections introduced computers on a limited capacity in prisons. (A playable version of the game, based on Ed’s original code, is on the WPHP site.) Ed was later able to use the computer skills he taught himself inside to gain employment as a technical engineer for several different agencies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEd published the zine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Theory and Practice of Armed Struggle in the Northwest: A Historical Analysis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(Kersplebedeb, 2007), and the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(Kersplebedeb, 2015). Some of his organizing in Washington prisons is also captured in the books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eConcrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(originally published by University of Missouri Press, 1981),\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGuerrilla USA: The George Jackson Brigade and the Anticapitalist Underground of the 1970s\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(University of California Press, 2010), and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCreating a Movement with Teeth: A Documentary History of the George Jackson Brigade\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(PM Press, 2010), as well as in dozens of talks and interviews he conducted over the years. He can be seen in the film\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Gentleman Bank Robber: The Story of Butch Lesbian Freedom Fighter rita bo brown\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(2017). Along with Mark Cook, Ed also has an interview in the forthcoming book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(AK Press, due out in December 2023).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the Postscript to\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/lumpen-the-autobiography-of-ed-mead\" data-preorder-handle=\"lumpen-the-autobiography-of-ed-mead\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLumpen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, Ed wrote, “Let me tell you what my mama told me. She said the Earth should be a better place to live as a result of you having passed through. It took me a long while to internalize that message, although I do think the world is a slightly better place as a result of my having been here.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe agree with Ed—the world is a better place because of his lifetime of struggle and sacrifice. Ed Mead Presente!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" href=\"mailto:rattlingthecagesbook@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eEd Mead's support team\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eQuestions and comments may be sent to\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" href=\"mailto:info@freedomarchives.org\" target=\"_blank\"\u003einfo@freedomarchives.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Lumpen is a must-read for any radical that is serious about understanding how prisoners can struggle on the inside. Ed Mead mixes his personal story and political development in a compelling narrative. His time imprisoned makes mine look like a total picnic but its his rigorous interrogation of his own politics and practice that most impressed me. I could not put this book down!\" Daniel McGowan, former political prisoner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Lumpen is a page-turning retelling of Ed Mead's life, from his early days growing up on the frontier of Alaska, to the frontiers of prisoner organizing from inside and later outside prison. The everydayness of his descriptions of how the George Jackson Brigade came to be, to the simple necessity to form Men Against Sexism while behind bars, reminds us that everyday justice can lead us to extraordinary places. In a mostly ahistorical queer left, this book is a must read!\" Ryan Conrad, editor of \u003cem\u003eAgainst Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"There are many who talk the talk. Ed Mead is one who actually walked the walk. In fact, he's never stopped walking it, an example of commitment and integrity from which there's much to be learned. His autobiography should be read by everyone serious about the struggle for liberation.\" Ward Churchill\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175221276765,"sku":"9781894946780","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/lumpen_edmead.jpg?v=1654987923"},{"product_id":"clandestine-occupations-an-imaginary-history","title":"Clandestine Occupations: An Imaginary History","description":"\u003cp\u003eA radical activist, Luba Gold, makes the difficult decision to go underground to support the Puerto Rican independence movement. When Luba’s collective is targeted by an FBI sting, she escapes with her baby but leaves behind a sensitive envelope that is being safeguarded by a friend. When the FBI come looking for Luba, the friend must decide whether to cooperate in the search for the woman she loves. Ten years later, when Luba emerges from clandestinity, she discovers that the FBI sting was orchestrated by another activist friend who had become an FBI informant. In the changed era of the 1990s, Luba must decide whether to forgive the woman who betrayed her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTold from the points of view of five different women who cross paths with Luba over four decades, Clandestine Occupations explores the difficult decisions that activists confront about the boundaries of legality and speculates about the scope of clandestine action in the future. 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Clandestine Occupations takes us into the thoughts and feelings of six different women as each, in her own way, grapples with choices about how to live and act in a world rife with oppression but also brightened by rays of humanity and hope.”\u003cbr\u003e\n—David Gilbert, political prisoner, author of Love and Struggle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Through this fascinating novel, Diana Block brings to life stories about radical history that will educate and engage today’s activists. Her portrayal of a woman in solitary confinement rings true to experience, offering a raw view of the struggle for resilience under daunting circumstances. Through flights of imagination, the novel gives us hope for political transformations in the future.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—Sarah Shourd, author of A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Diana Block once again challenges our understanding of the ethical essence of revolution. Beyond political theory and practice, the moral dilemmas and turmoils are constant and consistent. Where does your loyalty lie, how does your dedication confront obstacles? These are the questions found in these pages as Diana searches for a just balance in human relationships and politics. Clandestine Occupations captures and occupies the heart and spirit, teaching us what it means to be genuine and sincere in revolutionary life and love.”\u003cbr\u003e\n—Jalil Muntaqim, political prisoner, author We Are Our Own Liberators: Selected Prison Writings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDiana Block was a founding member of San Francisco Women Against Rape and the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee. She spent thirteen years living underground with a political collective committed to supporting the Puerto Rican independence and Black liberation movements. 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Upon release he joined the Spanish Revolution, after which he decamped for Mexico, where he died in 1956 while employed at a toy factory. \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyMTEzIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/stuart-christie\" title=\"Stuart Christie\"\u003eStuart Christie\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyMTEyIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/granny-made-me-an-anarchist-general-franco-the-angry-brigade-and-me\" title=\"Granny Made Me an Anarchist\"\u003eGranny Made Me an Anarchist\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, introduces the AK Press edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“While Radowitzky’s story has been told … it has never been told in quite the way Agustín Comotto tells it. Through a series of flashbacks [Prisoner 155] examines the agonies and survival of an exceptional individual.” —\u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Comotto’s \u003cem\u003ePrisoner 155 \u003c\/em\u003eis, in my view, a truly great work, comparable to Art Spiegelman’s \u003cem\u003eMaus \u003c\/em\u003eand Marjane Satrapi’s \u003cem\u003ePersepolis\u003c\/em\u003e, rich with complexity and ambiguity, and whose shy and sensitive central character, a committed humanist imbued with a deep sense of justice who never expressed regret for the two lives he took, remains an enigma. He was one of countless men and women, the salt of the earth, most of them anonymous, who chose to resist against an unjust, class-ridden society in the hope of building a better world for humanity.” —Stuart Christie, from the foreword\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAgustín Comotto is a researcher and artist based in Barcelona.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStuart Christie (Introduction) is the author of \u003cem\u003eGranny Made Me an Anarchist\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLuigi Celentano is a translator, writer, and editor based in Buenos Aires.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175272788061,"sku":"9781849353021","price":36.4,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/prisoner155.jpg?v=1654988152"},{"product_id":"look-for-me-in-the-whirlwind-from-the-panther-21-to-21st-century-revolutions","title":"Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmid music festivals and moon landings, the tumultuous year of 1969 included an infamous case in the annals of criminal justice and Black liberation: the New York City Black Panther 21. Though some among the group had hardly even met one another, the 21 were rounded up by the FBI and New York Police Department in an attempt to disrupt and destroy the organization that was attracting young people around the world. Involving charges of conspiracy to commit violent acts, the Panther 21 trial—the longest and most expensive in New York history—revealed the illegal government activities which led to exile, imprisonment on false charges, and assassination of Black liberation leaders. Solidarity for the 21 also extended well beyond “movement” circles and included mainstream publication of their collective autobiography, Look for Me in the Whirlwind, which is reprinted here for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLook for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions \u003c\/em\u003econtains the entire original manuscript, and includes new commentary from surviving members of the 21: Sekou Odinga, Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Jamal Joseph, and Shaba Om. Still-imprisoned Sundiata Acoli, Imam Jamil Al-Amin, and Mumia Abu-Jamal contribute new essays. Never or rarely seen poetry and prose from Afeni Shakur, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyOTYzIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/kuwasi-balagoon\" title=\"Kuwasi Balagoon\"\u003eKuwasi Balagoon\u003c\/a\u003e, Ali Bey Hassan, and Michael “Cetewayo” Tabor is included. Early Panther leader and jazz master Bilal Sunni-Ali adds a historical essay and lyrics from his composition “Look for Me in the Whirlwind,” and coeditors kioni-sadiki, Meyer, and Panther rank-and-file member Cyril “Bullwhip” Innis Jr. help bring the story up to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt a moment when the Movement for Black Lives recites the affirmation that “it is our duty to win,” penned by Black Liberation Army (BLA) militant Assata Shakur, those who made up the BLA and worked alongside of Assata are largely unknown. This book—with archival photos from David Fenton, Stephen Shames, and the private collections of the authors— provides essential parts of a hidden and missing-in-action history. Going well beyond the familiar and mythologized nostalgic Panther narrative, From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions explains how and why the Panther legacy is still relevant and vital today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Listen to these voices of young men and women—from places like New Jersey or Panama, New York or Antigua—who poured their insights, courage, and creative energy into New York City’s fledgling Black Panther Party that generated chapters in all five boroughs. Unlike out west, where police shot and killed Panthers to disrupt the revolutionary group, New York relied more heavily on courts, jails, and prison to sabotage the organization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese men and women were tried in the case called the “New York 21”—a barrel full of preposterous crimes which the Panthers supposedly conspired to commit—that led to the arrest and imprisonment of all the leaders (except those who reached an escape route before the police caught them at home). The state fully expected that the Panthers would remain behind bars for decades after being convicted, given that a police informant had masqueraded as a Panther until their arrest. However, the powerful example of Afeni Shakur, who defended herself, the fierce dedication of brilliant attorneys, and the organizing talents of Panther supporters on the outside made the trial the longest-running case in New York—with a short one-hour jury deliberation before finding the 21 not guilty on all charges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis reprint edition allows a new generation to hear these amazing stories, and additionally, to read the authors’ reflections and insights for today.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—Kathleen Cleaver, Black Panther Party Communications Secretary (1967–1971); Senior Lecturer, Emory University School of Law\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eLook for Me in the Whirlwind\u003c\/em\u003e could not come at a timelier moment in history. As newly-emerging grassroots movements challenge state violence against Black people in the U.S., it is essential that new generations learn anew, and that older ones are reminded, of police and FBI tools of repression deployed to demobilize Black radical activism and its growing influence on the Black working class in the ’60s. These remembrances, by those framed in the NY Panther 21 case, are vital building blocks for reconstructing the history of one of the least understood chapters of the Black Panther Party. They are also indispensable reading for those seeking to understand how individual activists and their movements were able to hold their center in the face of harrowing government repression.”\u003cbr\u003e\n—Johanna Fernandez, Professor of History, Baruch College Department of Black and Latino Studies, City University of New York; cocurator, \u003cem\u003e¡Presente! 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A tireless coalition-builder and organizer, déqui is a radio producer of the weekly show “Where We Live” on WBAI-Radio, Pacifica; an educator with the NYC Department of Education; and a member of the Jericho Movement to Free All Political Prisoners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSekou Odinga was a member of Malcolm X’s Organization of Afro-American Unity, a founding member of the New York chapter of the Black Panther Party as well as the Black Panther International Section, and was a member of the NY Panther 21. A citizen of the Republic of New Afrika and combatant of the Black Liberation Army, Sekou was captured in October 1981, mercilessly tortured, and spent the following thirty-three years behind bars—a prisoner of war and political prisoner of the U.S. empire. 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While in prison, Theofilou also authored a book on Attica as part of the international solidarity with the U.S. prisoners’ strike on the forty-fifth anniversary of the prison uprising.\" Theofilou addressed the Court of Appeal on April 28, 2017 with the following statement in his plea: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"My prosecution is part of a comprehensive effort by the Greek political personnel to introduce, implement, and enforce a Law and Order doctrine over the past two and a half decades—an effort which has intensified from 2009–2015. This is a doctrine that entwines the Ministry of Public Order and the Ministry of Justice and is imported by the Greek government as a policy package from the United States. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI repeat once again, and conclude, that I did not commit the offenses for which I am accused. I did commit, however, the one offense that includes all others. I am an anarchist. In the class war, I chose the side of the excluded and the underprivileged, the prosecuted and the accursed, the poor, the weak, and the oppressed. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy imprisonment is, on the one hand, the only natural consequence of that choice, and on the other hand, one more field of struggle.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Tasos Theofilou\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-942173-12-0\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 144 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Common Notions\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175288615005,"sku":"9781942173120","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/theofilou_writingsfrom_final.jpg?v=1654988277"},{"product_id":"building-free-life-dialogues-with-ocalan","title":"Building Free Life: Dialogues with Ocalan","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Socrates to Antonio Gramsci, imprisoned philosophers have marked the history of thought and changed how we view power and politics. From his solitary jail cell, Abdullah Öcalan has penned daringly innovative works that give profuse evidence of his position as one of the most significant thinkers of our day. His prison writings have mobilized tens of thousands of people and inspired a revolution in the making in Rojava, northern Syria, while also penetrating the insular walls of academia and triggering debate and reflection among countless scholars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo how do you engage in a meaningful dialogue with Abdullah Öcalan when he has been held in total isolation since April 2015? You compile a book of essays written by a globally diverse cast of the most imaginative luminaries of our time, send it to Öcalan’s jailers, and hope that they deliver it to him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFeatured in this extraordinary volume are over a dozen writers, activists, dreamers, and scholars whose ideas have been investigated in Öcalan’s own writings. Now these same people have the unique opportunity to enter into a dialogue with his ideas. Building Free Life is a rich and wholly original exploration of the most critical issues facing humanity today. In the broad sweep of this one-of-a-kind dialogue, the contributors explore topics ranging from democratic confederalism to women’s revolution, from the philosophy of history to the crisis of the capitalist system, from religion to Marxism and anarchism, all in an effort to better understand the liberatory social forms that are boldly confronting capitalism and the state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere can be no boundaries or restrictions for the development of thought. Thus, in the midst of different realities—from closed prisons to open-air prisons—the human mind will find a way to seek the truth. \u003cem\u003eBuilding Free Life \u003c\/em\u003estands as a monument of radical thought, a testament of resilience, and a searchlight illuminating the impulse for freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eContributors include: Shannon Brincat, Radha D’Souza, Mechthild Exo, Damian Gerber, Barry K. Gills, Muriel González Athenas, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM3NzY1In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/david-graeber\" title=\"David Graeber\"\u003eDavid Graeber\u003c\/a\u003e, Andrej Grubačić, John Holloway, Patrick Huff, Donald H. Matthews, Thomas Jeffrey Miley, Antonio Negri, Norman Paech, Ekkehard Sauermann, Fabian Scheidler, Nazan Üstündağ, Immanuel Wallerstein, Peter Lamborn Wilson, and Raúl Zibechi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInternational Initiative “Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan—Peace in Kurdistan” is a multinational peace initiative for the release of Abdullah Öcalan and a peaceful solution to the Kurdish question. It was established immediately after his abduction from Nairobi and handing over to the Republic of Turkey on February 15, 1999, following a clandestine operation by an alliance of secret services. Part of its activity is the publication of Abdullah Öcalan’s works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat People Are Saying:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Öcalan’s works make many intellectuals uncomfortable because they represent a form of thought that is not only inextricable from action, but also directly grapples with the knowledge that it is.” David Graeber, author of \u003cem\u003eDebt: The First 5,000 Years\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Öcalan’s writings written in captivity are thus in the tradition of the ideology of the PKK as a left national liberation movement, which also includes the claim to change their own society. 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Finally, Karl Marx’s realization should be remembered: ‘An idea becomes material violence when it seizes the masses.’ And Abdullah Öcalan’s message has seized the masses in Kurdistan.” Nikolaus Brauns, historian and journalist, author of \u003cem\u003ePartisanen einer neuen Welt: Eine Geschichte der Linken und Arbeiterbewegung der Türkei\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Where else would you expect to find a world-class political genius than . . . prison? 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She tells of how she met and worked alongside the group’s founding members, Ulrike Meinhof, Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe, Irmgard Möller, and Holger Meins; how she learned the details of the May Offensive and other actions while in her prison cell; about the struggles to defend human dignity in the most degraded of environments, and the relationships she forged with other women in prison.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlso included are a foreword by Ann Hansen, who situates the draconian prison conditions inflicted on the RAF within the context of a global counterinsurgency program that would help spawn the plague of mass incarceration we still face today, an afterword by the late Osvaldo Bayer, and an appendix by J. Smith and André Moncourt summarizing the politics and history of the RAF throughout the group's existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eListen to an Interview with Margrit Schiller by the Prison Radio Show\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe allowfullscreen=\"\" height=\"90\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" msallowfullscreen=\"\" oallowfullscreen=\"\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/18659531\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/000000\/\" style=\"border: none\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Margrit Schiller’s life story Remembering the Armed Struggle, is not meant to mark a hard break with the Red Army Faction, but is more of a critical reflection in the spirit of solidarity. Even those who do not share Schiller’s perspective well find it interesting to join her as she looks back on her years underground and in prison.” diesseits\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Schiller’s recollections are profoundly honest and to the point. She neither glorifies the Red Army Faction nor does she repent or distance herself from her past.” \u003cem\u003etaz\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“I am moved by the honesty of this story, showing the limits, doubts, and uncertainties. Margrit is far from pretending to be a hero or providing a heroic tale. May Margrit’s experiences and those of her comrades help us to continue the battle for the freedom of political prisoners in any corner of the world. May they also allow us to radically question the prison system, which is used as a space to discard the excluded and to criminalize poverty. . . . Memory, freedom, and desire are part of the experience of resistance of our bodies, of our lives. And Margrit, stripping away her own history in this book, with pain but with courage, helps us to continue spinning colors, flavors, sounds and aromas in this mild time of attempts.” Claudia Korol, author of \u003cem\u003eLas Revoluciones de Berta \u003c\/em\u003e(2019) from the Prologue to the Spanish edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“The book challenges prejudices and dares to address subjects that are taboo, especially in these latitudes so plagued by silences about the human aspects that mark the reality of the struggle to free ourselves. This story is the story of hundreds of antisystem militants . . . [It] contains that old but not perished left-wing argument from the 1960s about how words should have some connection to actions . . .” Grupo de ex presas politicas: Memoria v testimonios\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMargrit Schiller was a member of the Red Army Faction in the early 1970s, and as a result spent most of the decade in West German prisons. Released in 1979, she moved to Cuba in 1985, and then to Uruguay in 1993. After ten years in Montevideo she returned in Germany. She is now living in Berlin. She described her experiences in Cuba and Uruguay in her memoir So siehst du gar nicht aus! (2011).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnn Hansen served seven years of a life sentence in federal prisons for acts carried out as part of the group Direct Action in Canada. She is a prison abolition activist and author of \u003cem\u003eDirect Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eTaking the Rap: Women Doing Time for Society’s Crimes\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOsvaldo Bayer (1927–2018) was an author, journalist, and scriptwriter who was exiled from Argentina during the years of military dictatorship. His works include \u003cem\u003eThe Anarchist Expropriators\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAnarchism \u0026amp; Violence\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eRebellion in Patagonia\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJ. 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The Cuban government struck back with the Wasp Network—a dozen men and two women—sent to infiltrate those organizations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Last Soldiers of the Cold War\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of those unlikely Cuban spies and their eventual unmasking and prosecution by US authorities. Five of the Cubans received long or life prison terms on charges of espionage and murder. Global best-selling Brazilian author Fernando Morais narrates the riveting tale of the Cuban Five in vivid, page-turning detail, delving into the decades-long conflict between Cuba and the US, the growth of the powerful Cuban exile community in Florida, and a trial that eight Nobel Prize winners condemned as a travesty of justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Last Soldiers of the Cold War \u003c\/em\u003eis both a real-life spy thriller and a searching examination of the Cold War’s legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Exhaustively researched and cinematically vivid.” \u003cem\u003eMinneapolis Star-Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Fernando Morais\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781781688762\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 288 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Verso\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175348285533,"sku":"9781781688762","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/the_last_soldiers_of_the_cold_war.jpg?v=1654988757"},{"product_id":"colors-of-the-cage-a-memoir-of-an-indian-prison","title":"Colors of the Cage: A Memoir of an Indian Prison","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA powerful eyewitness account of life in an Indian prison shows how abolition is necessary to achieve a democratic transformation of society. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn May 2007, Arun Ferreira, a democratic rights activist, was picked up at a railway station in western India, detained by the court, and condemned to prison for an expanding list of crimes: criminal conspiracy, murder, possession of arms, and rioting, among others added during his detention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn one of the most notorious prisons in India, Arun Ferreira was constantly abused and tortured. Over the next several years, each of the ten cases slapped against him fell apart. At long last, Ferreira was acquitted of all charges. As he exited the prison, moments away from freedom, he was rearrested by plainclothes police. He never got to glimpse his family waiting for him just outside the prison gates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn stark and riveting detail, Ferreira recounts the horrors he faced in prison—torture, beatings, the general air of hopelessness—and the small consolations that kept hope alive—strikes and solidarity among inmates. His memoir is a timely reminder that across the globe policing and incarceration are institutions in desperate need of being dismantled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArun Ferreira, a human rights lawyer and member of the Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights, was branded and arrested as the leader of the propaganda and communications wing of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) in 2007. He was acquitted of all charges in 2014 only to be re-arrested in a coordinated police crackdown in 2018. 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His account of the ruinous effects of post-9\/11 anti-terror laws is instructive and applies far beyond the Indian context.” Nermeen Shaikh, Cohost of \u003cem\u003eDemocracy Now!\u003c\/em\u003e and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Present as History: Critical Perspectives on Global Power\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“In this chilling account of the uses and abuses of the law by agencies of the state, Arun Ferreira describes the harrowing treatment faced by political prisoners in an Indian prison today. Alongside, he provides a deeply moving story of the bonds of solidarity that develop between prisoners from widely separated groups and social strata. 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Anyone aware or affected should get the chance to hear from courageous people like Arun Ferreira; his stunning memoir reveals the poignant human texture as well as the political implications of his prison experience. The need for such bearing of witness has only grown more timely. 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