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A Brilliant Red Thread, Don Hamerquist, event - June 3, 2023

Presentation & Discussion of Don Hamerquist's "A Brilliant Red Thread" in Brooklyn, NY

WHAT IS IT: A free presentation and discussion about the recently released book entitled A Brilliant Red Thread – Revolutionary Writings of Don Hamerquist WHERE IS IT: The Word is Change Book Store 368 Tompkins Avenue (at Putnam) Brooklyn, NY www.thewordischange.com WHEN IS IT: Wednesday, June 21, 2023 7pm to 9pm WHO SPEAKS AT IT: Luis Brennan (Editor of the book) Amelia Cates (Portland organizer) John Garvey (Hard Crackers Magazine) Mike Morgan (Hard Crackers Magazine) Any willing audience members WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR IT: Hard Crackers Magazine www.hardcrackers.com A BRILLIANT RED...

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May 23, 2023

Venez nous rendre visite au Salon du livre anarchiste de Montréal, le 27 & 28 mai

Venez nous rendre visite au Salon du livre anarchiste de Montréal -- le plus grand salon du livre anarchiste en Amérique du Nord ! -- la fin de semaine prochaine, les 27 et 28 maiLe salon du livre a lieu dans deux centres communautaires -- CEDA (2515 rue Delisle) et CCGV (2450 Workman) -- qui sont situés à quelques minutes de marche l'un de l'autre. Il y a des ateliers et des gens qui vendent des livres et des zines de toute l'Amérique du Nord (et d'ailleurs). Le station de métro le plus proche est Lionel GroulxCette année, nous serons...

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May 23, 2023

Come Visit Us at the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, May 27-28

Come visit us at the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair -- North America's largest anarchist bookfair! -- next weekend, May 27 & 28 The bookfair takes place in two community centres -- CEDA (2515 rue Delisle) and CCGV (2450 Workman) -- which are conveniently located just a few minutes walk across a park from each other. There are workshops and people selling books and zines from across North America (and beyond). This year we will be in the CEDA building, with all our own publications and all our most recent and most popular acquisitions. We have been given three tables this year, so we will be able to...

Revolution in Our Lifetime: A Review of "Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072" [Spectre Journal]

[Originally posted to SpectreJournal.com on September 1, 2022] Everything For Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072 by M.E. O'Brien and Eman Abdelhadi Common Notions 2022 Review by Phil Kaplan Unless you’re rich, it’s fairly hard living your life in today’s world. It’s hard to go out and live your life knowing that the only way to get food and shelter is through the cruelties of the market, through work, waged labor, making someone else richer. It’s hard living with violent police and unjust courts and dehumanizing state institutions at every level. Our so-called democracy seems quite...

Never Content: On Don Hamerquist’s “A Brilliant Red Thread” [Jarrod Shanahan in the LA Review of Books]

[Mirrored from lareviewofbooks.org, where it was posted May 12, 2023.] A Brilliant Red Thread: Revolutionary Writings from Don Hamerquist (Kersplebedeb, 2023) “TODAY WE FACE a bewildering conundrum,” writes Luis Brennan. “[M]illions of people are ready to engage in active combat with the ruling capitalist order, but we have not seen the emergence of a viable social force that articulates a promising alternative to that order.” Faith in capitalist governments, whether liberal-democratic or outright authoritarian, is eroding worldwide as crises proliferate, and even the wealthiest and most plunderous nation-states are proving incapable of sustaining the quality of life that ensures their...

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