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The book challenges conventional wisdom on the Left about the nature of globalization, neoliberalism and imperialism, as well as the agrarian question in the Global South. It probes deeply into the roots of the global economic meltdown, the role of debt and privatization in dampening social revolt, and considers capitalism’s dynamic ability to find ever new sources of accumulation—whether through imperial or ecological plunder or the commodification of previously unpaid female labor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Left luminaries in \u003cem\u003eCapital and Its Discontents\u003c\/em\u003e look at potential avenues out of the mess—as well as wrong turns and needless detours—drawing lessons from the history of post-colonial states in the Global South, struggles against imperialism past and present, the eternal pendulum swing of radicalism, the corrosive legacy of postmodernism, and the potentialities of the radical humanist tradition. 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He is an editor of the \u003cem\u003eNew Left Review \u003c\/em\u003eand received a MacArthur Fellowship Award and the Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003eEllen Meiksins Wood, for many years Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto, is the author of a number of books, including \u003cem\u003eThe Origin of Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCitizens to Lords: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003eDavid Harvey is the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a pioneering radical geographer. He has written numerous books and is among the 20 most cited authors in the humanities.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003eLeo Panitch teaches Political Economy at YorkUniversity in Toronto and is co-editor of the \u003cem\u003eSocialist Register\u003c\/em\u003e. He is the author of numerous books, including \u003cem\u003eIn and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives\u003c\/em\u003e, published by PM Press.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003eDoug Henwood is editor of \u003cem\u003eLeft Business Observer\u003c\/em\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eAfter the New Economy\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWall Street: How It Works and for Whom\u003c\/em\u003e, and a contributing editor to \u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e magazine.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003eA South African native, Gillian Hart is Professor of Geography at UC Berkeley and the author of \u003cem\u003eDisabling Globalization: Places of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003eJohn Bellamy Foster is the editor of the independent socialist magazine \u003cem\u003eMonthly Review\u003c\/em\u003e and Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon in Eugene. He is the co-author, among other works, of \u003cem\u003eThe Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003eUrsula Huws is the editor of the international interdisciplinary journal \u003cem\u003eWork Organisation, Labour and Globalisation\u003c\/em\u003e, and the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Making of a Cybertariat: Virtual Work in a Real World\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003eDavid McNally is Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto and the author of many books, including \u003cem\u003eGlobal Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e, published by PM Press.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003eJason W Moore is a Research Fellow at the Department of Human Geography at Lund University, Sweden.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003eVivek Chibber is Professor of Sociology at New York University and the author of \u003cem\u003eLocked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003eJohn Sanbonmatsu teaches Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Postmodern Prince: Critical Theory, Left Strategy, and the Making of a New Political Subject\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEzNzMyIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/andrej-grubacic\" title=\"Andrej Grubacic\"\u003eAndrej Grubacic\u003c\/a\u003e is a dissident from the Balkans. A radical historian and sociologist, he is the co-author of \u003cem\u003eWobblies and Zapatistas\u003c\/em\u003e and author of \u003cem\u003eDon't Mourn, Balkanize!\u003c\/em\u003e (both on PM Press)\u003cem\u003e.\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e“These conversations illuminate the current world situation in ways that are very useful for those hoping to orient themselves and find a way forward to effective individual and collective action. Highly recommended.\" —Kim Stanley Robinson, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of the Mars Trilogy and \u003cem\u003eThe Years of Rice and Salt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In this fine set of interviews, an A-list of radical political economists demonstrate why their skills are indispensable to understanding today’s multiple economic and ecological crises.” —Raj Patel, author of \u003cem\u003eStuffed and Starved\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Value of Nothing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eCapital and Its Discontents\u003c\/em\u003e presents the thought of many of the most astute analysts of contemporary political economic and cultural developments in accessible interview form. Sasha Lilley's wide-ranging and probing questions prompt her interviewees to address the intersecting crises of our time and to outline frameworks for understanding and responding to them. This collection of interviews introduces the reader to much of the best thinking about social issues on the US left today.” —Barbara Epstein, UC Santa Cruz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Reading this wonderful book feels like having a face to face discussion with each author. These brilliant radical thinkers from many parts of the world generously and lucidly share their knowledge and insights on capitalism, empire, and resistance.” —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, historian and author of \u003cem\u003eRed Dirt\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOutlaw Woman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is an extremely important book. It is the most detailed, comprehensive, and best study yet published on the most recent capitalist crisis and its discontents. Sasha Lilley sets each interview in its context, writing with style, scholarship and wit about ideas and philosophies.\" —Andrej Grubacic, radical sociologist and social critic, co-author of \u003cem\u003eWobblies and Zapatistas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\nSasha Lilley is a writer and radio broadcaster. She is the co-founder and host of the critically acclaimed program of radical ideas, \u003cem\u003eAgainst the Grain\u003c\/em\u003e. As program director of KPFA Radio, the flagship station of the Pacifica Network, she headed up such award-winning national broadcasts as \u003cem\u003eWinter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan\u003c\/em\u003e. Sasha Lilley is the series editor of PM Press’ political economy imprint, Spectre.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Sasha Lilley\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: \nPaperback\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: \n978-1-60486-334-5\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: \n320 pages\n\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":40175074148445,"sku":"9781604863345","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_882_capitaldiscontents3_0.jpg?v=1654987225"},{"product_id":"creating-a-movement-with-teeth-a-documentary-history-of-the-george-jackson-brigade","title":"Creating a Movement with Teeth: A Documentary History of the George Jackson Brigade","description":"\u003cp\u003eBursting into existence in the Pacific Northwest in 1975, the George Jackson Brigade claimed 14 pipe bombings against corporate and state targets, as many bank robberies, and the daring rescue of a jailed member. Combining veterans of the prisoners' women’s, gay, and black liberation movements, this organization was also ideologically diverse, consisting of both communists and anarchists. Concomitant with the Brigade's extensive armed work were prolific public communications. In more than a dozen communiqués and a substantial political statement, they sought to explain their intentions to the public while defying the law enforcement agencies that pursued them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCollected in one volume for the first time, \u003cem\u003eCreating a Movement with Teeth\u003c\/em\u003e makes available this body of propaganda and mediations on praxis. In addition, the collection assembles corporate media profiles of the organization’s members and alternative press articles in which partisans thrash out the heated debates sparked in the progressive community by the eruption of an armed group in their midst. \u003cem\u003eCreating a Movement with Teeth\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates a forgotten chapter of the radical social movements of the 1970s in which diverse interests combined forces in a potent rejection of business as usual in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Creating a Movement with Teeth\u003cem\u003e is an important contribution to the growing body of literature on armed struggle in the 1970s. It gets us closer to knowing not only how pervasive militant challenges to the system were, but also the issues and contexts that shaped such strategies. Through documents by and about the George Jackson Brigade, as well as the introduction by Daniel Burton-Rose, this book sheds light on events that have until now been far too obscured.\" \u003c\/em\u003e” —Dan Berger, author of O\u003cem\u003eutlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity\u003c\/em\u003e; editor \u003cem\u003eThe Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003e\"Daniel Burton-Rose's documentary history of the George Jackson Brigade offers the reader a rare first-hand account of a militant movement's attempt to communicate and refine the intent of its actions. The volume focuses on the 1970s, when revolution seemed imminent to those engaged in 'the struggle.' It contains a marvelous array of surveillance reports, feature articles in mainstream newspapers, on-the-spot communiqués directed both to the Brigade's constituency on the Left and to the impacted public, and many print volleys between the groups on the subject of violence. Suddenly this hidden history comes alive, nuanced, open to interpretation with the actual documents in hand. Burton-Rose's helpful annotations and his thoughtful retrospective interview with several of the members of the group underscores his deep understanding of the period, the people, and the issues that remain compelling as revealed by the mix of remorse, self-criticism, as well as consistent conviction. The Brigade's use of international and historical revolutionaries as points of reference, also makes this book an valuable resource for a wide range of issue relevant to studies of the past, present, and sadly, the future.\" \u003c\/em\u003e” —Candace Falk, Ph.D., Director of The Emma Goldman Papers, and Editor of\u003cem\u003e Emma Goldman, A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 1: Made for America, 1890-1901 \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eVolume 2, Making Speech Free, 1902-1909\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003e\"The popular image of the 70s urban guerrilla, even on the left, is that of the student radical or New Left youth activist kicking it up a couple of notches. Daniel Burton-Rose’s documentary history of the George Jackson Brigade is an important corrective in this regard. The Brigade, rooted in prison work, white and black, straights, bisexuals and dykes, was as rich a mixture of the elements making up the left as one could perhaps hope for. We all have much to learn form the Brigade’s rich and unique history.\"\u003c\/em\u003e ” —André Moncourt, Co-editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Red Army Faction: A Documentary History.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"A deep dig into the victories and errors of this important yet often overlooked revolutionary group. 'Information a hundred times more powerful than any bomb.'\" \u003c\/em\u003e—G. Filastine (interventionist, Infernal Noise Brigade)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel Burton-Rose (Editor) is the author of \u003cem\u003eGuerrilla USA: The George Jackson Brigade\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eand the Anti-capitalist Underground of the 1970s\u003c\/em\u003e and the co-editor of \u003cem\u003eConfronting Capitalism: Dispatches from a Global Movement\u003c\/em\u003e, and T\u003cem\u003ehe Celling of America: An Inside Look at the U.S. Prison Industry\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWard Churchill (Preface) is a prolific writer and lecturer, having authored, co-authored, or edited over twenty books. He is a member of the leadership council of Colorado AIM.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Daniel Burton-Rose\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: \n978-1-60486-223-2 \n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: \n320 pages\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175075229789,"sku":"9781604862232","price":34.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_890_movementteeth3_0.jpg?v=1654987240"},{"product_id":"the-nature-of-human-brain-work-an-introduction-to-dialectics","title":"The Nature of Human Brain Work: An Introduction to Dialectics","description":"\u003cp\u003eCalled by Marx “The Philosopher of Socialism, Joseph Dietzgen was a pioneer of dialectical materialism and a fundamental influence on anarchist and socialist thought who we would do well not to forget.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDietzgen examines what we do when we think. He discovered that thinking is a process involving two opposing processes: generalization, and specialization. All thought is therefore a dialectical process. Our knowledge is inherently limited however, which makes truth relative and the seeking of truth on-going. The only absolute is existence itself, or the universe, everything else is limited or relative. Although a philosophical materialist, he extended these concepts to include all that was real, existing or had an impact upon the world. Thought and matter were no longer radically separated as in older forms of materialism. \u003cem\u003eThe Nature of Human Brain Work\u003c\/em\u003e is vital for theorists today in that it lays the basis for a non-dogmatic, flexible, non-sectarian, yet principled socialist politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cem\u003e“Here is our philosopher!”\u003c\/em\u003e —Karl Marx\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“…brilliant contributions to the theory of knowledge.”\u003c\/em\u003e —Anton Pannekoek\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Left…a fine legacy of wisdom in his writings”\u003c\/em\u003e —Friedrich A. Sorge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\nBorn near Cologne in 1828, Joseph Dietzgen worked most of his life as a tanner. A self-educated man, he participated in the Revolution of 1848 where he first read the writings of Karl Marx and became one of his supporters. Exiled from Germany after the failed revolution, he spent time in both America and Russia, where he wrote his most famous work \u003cem\u003eThe Nature of Human Brain Work\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1869, before returning to Germany. In 1884 he moved to the United States for the third and last time after being imprisoned in Germany for his political writing. He became editor of the anarchist \u003cem\u003eChicagoer Arbeiterzeitung\u003c\/em\u003e when it’s previous editors were hung by the State in response to the Haymarket bombings. When he died 2 years later he was buried beside them in Chicago.\u003cp\u003eLarry Gambone grew up in logging towns on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, where he was active in the anti-nuclear weapons ‘Ban-the-Bomb’ movement. He attended Simon Fraser University between 1967-70 and was involved in the campus New Left. He formed a campus IWW branch, and later joined the Vancouver Yippies. Gambone briefly lived on a commune in the Kootenays in the 1970's, helped form the anarchist paper \u003cem\u003eOpen Road\u003c\/em\u003e and became involved in the Surrealist Movement. In the 1980's he began a serious study of working class movements and the autodidact thinkers that influenced them, which lead to an interest in the writings of Joseph Dietzgen. Gambone remains active in his community and continues to study and write about anarchism and other social movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Joseph Dietzgen\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: \npaperback\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: \n978-1-60486-036-8\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: \n144 pages\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175084372061,"sku":"9781604860368","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_951_dietzgen3_0.jpg?v=1654987301"},{"product_id":"what-would-it-mean-to-win","title":"What Would It Mean to Win?","description":"\u003cp\u003eMovements become apparent as “movements” at times of acceleration and expansion. In these heady moments they have fuzzy boundaries, no membership lists—everybody is too engaged in what’s coming next, in creating the new, looking to the horizon. But movements get blocked, they slow down, they cease to move, or continue to move without considering their actual effects. When this happens, they can stifle new developments, suppress the emergence of new forms of politics; or fail to see other possible directions. Many movements just stop functioning as movements. They become those strange political groups of yesteryear, arguing about history as worlds pass by. Sometimes all it takes to get moving again is a nudge in a new direction... We think now is a good time to ask the question: What is winning? Or: What would—or could—it mean to “win”?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors include: Valery Alzaga and Rodrigo Nunes, Colectivo Situaciones, Stephen Duncombe, Gustavo Esteva, The Free Association, Euclides André Mance, Michal Osterweil, Sasha Lilley, Kay Summer and Harry Halpin, Ben Trott, Nick Dyer-Witheford, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition includes a foreword by John Holloway and an extended interview with Michal Osterweil and Ben Trott of the Turbulence Collective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Where is the movement today? Where is it going? Are we winning? The authors of the essays in this volume pose these and other momentous questions. There are no easy answers, but the discussion is always insightful and provocative as the writers bravely take on the challenge of charting the directions for the Left at a time of ecological crisis, economic collapse, and political disillusionment.” Walden Bello, Executive Director of Focus on the Global South\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Turbulence presents an exciting brand of political theorising that is directed and inspired by current strategic questions for activism. This kind of innovative thinking, which emerges from the context of the movements, opens new paths for rebellion and the creation of real social alternatives.” Michael Hardt, co-author of \u003cem\u003eCommonwealth\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMultitude\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEmpire\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The history of the past half-century and particularly the last decade is as easily told as a series of victories as defeats, maybe best as both. Sometimes we won—and this is what makes the \u003cem\u003eWhat Does It Mean to Win?\u003c\/em\u003e anthology such a powerful vision of the possible and the seldom-seen present. The authors of this book connect some of the more remarkable events of the last decade—in Oaxaca, in the banlieus of Paris, in the crises of neoliberalism—into a constellation of possibilities and demands, demands on the world but also demands on the readers, to think afresh of what is possible and what it takes to get there. As one author begins, ‘The new movements embodied and posited deliberate reactions to the practical and theoretical failures of previous political approaches on the left.’ This is the book about what came after the failures, and what’s to come.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEzNzE4In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/rebecca-solnit\" title=\"Rebecca Solnit\"\u003eRebecca Solnit\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eHope in the Dark\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Paradise Built in Hell\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Turbulence Collective\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince 2006, the Turbulence Collective has produced a series of text-based political interventions. Each has focussed on a particular problematic: our ability to measure success, the issue of visibility, the question of how we think about the future. The goal has been less the creation of another new journal or magazine which hopes to offer a ‘snapshot’ of the world’s diverse movements for change, but rather the carving out of a space where the difficult debates and investigations into the political realities of our time can be carried out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Turbulence” is the term used to describe the disruption caused by movement through a non-moving element, or an element moving at a different speed. Its unpredictability has posed enormous problems for conventional aerodynamics. Yet in certain contexts it can be tremendously productive: The turbulence produced by the movement of the bumblebee’s tiny wings is the secret to its ability to fly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe editors are: David Harvie, Keir Milburn, Tadzio Müller, Rodrigo Nunes, Michal Osterweil, Kay Summer, Ben Trott and David Watts. They variously live in Berlin, Carrboro (North Carolina), Leeds, London, and São Paulo. The Turbulence Collective itself has had pieces published in \u003cem\u003eEphemera: Theory \u0026amp; Politics in Organization\u003c\/em\u003e (November 2007), \u003cem\u003eLe Monde Diplomatique\u003c\/em\u003e Brasil (July 2008),\u003cem\u003e Anarksiterna\u003c\/em\u003e (Sweden, 2009) and carried as supplements by the German magazines \u003cem\u003eAnalyse \u0026amp; Kritik\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGrundrisse: Zeitschrift fuer Linke Theorie \u0026amp; Debate\u003c\/em\u003e (both 2008). Besides Portuguese, Swedish and German texts have also been translated into Greek, Italian, Serbian and Spanish.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175088074845,"sku":"9781604861105","price":20.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_978_towin3_0.jpg?v=1654987330"},{"product_id":"you-dont-play-with-revolution-the-montreal-lectures-of-c-l-r-james","title":"You Don't Play With Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James","description":"\u003cp\u003eRevolution is a serious business, and C.L.R. James knew more than most. Our brand-new collection presents eight never-before-published lectures by the celebrated Marxist cultural critic, delivered during his stay in Montreal in 1967 and 1968. Ranging in topic from Marx and Lenin to Shakespeare and Rousseau to Caribbean history and the Haitian Revolution, these lectures demonstrate the staggering breadth and clarity of James' knowledge and interest. Strikingly little information exists today about the period of time James spent working with West Indian intellectuals and students in Canada in the late 1960s, but the research of editor David Austin demonstrates the critical role these encounters played in the development of James' more mature critical theory. Readers just beginning to delve into James work will find this collection accessible and engaging, an ideal introduction to a complex and multi-faceted body of scholarship. Also included are two seminal interviews produced with James during his stay in Canada, selected correspondence from the time period, and an appendix of essays on James' work, which includes the seminal Marty Glaberman essay, \"C.L.R. James: The Man and His Work.\". \u003cem\u003eYou Don't Play With Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e also includes a preface by Robert A. Hill, co-founder of the C.L.R. James Study Circle and historical advisor to the new James archive at Columbia University, and a lengthy historical introduction by David Austin. C.L.R. James (1901-1989) was born in Trinidad and was a prominent anti-colonial scholar and cultural critic throughout his life. With Grace Lee and Raya Dunayevskaya, he helped define and popularize the autonomist Marxist tradition in the United States and Canada. David Austin is founder and trustee of the Alfie Roberts Institute, an independent research institute based in Montreal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: C.L.R. 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With specific examples drawn from every corner of the globe and every period of modern history, this pathbreaking volume comprehensively traces this often underappreciated historical tradition. Ripe with lessons drawn from historical and contemporary struggles for workers’ control, Ours to Master and to Own is essential reading for those struggling to create a new world from the ashes of the old.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eImmanuel Ness\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of political science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and edits \u003ci\u003eWorkingUSA\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDario Azzellini\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, documentary director, and political scientist at Johannes Kepler University in Linz.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175089647709,"sku":"9781608461196","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1027_ourstomaster3_0.jpg?v=1654987343"},{"product_id":"fire-and-flames-a-history-of-the-german-autonomist-movement","title":"Fire and Flames: A History of the German Autonomist Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Earlier, many of us saw themselves as anarchists, Spontis, orcommunists, while some had vague, individual ideas about a liberated life. Then we all became Autonome.\" Black blocs, squats, riots and urban guerillas—but also base groups in the factories, \"free spaces\", antinuclear occupations, and alternative lifestylism—all of these formed the context, the terrain, and the world of Germany's Autonomous movement during its high point in the 1980s. Today best knownfor the militant street fighting tactics they exemplified, the Autonomen opposed the capitalist State while purposefully not putting forward any kind of blueprint for what would replace it, an ethos summed up in the slogan, \"No power to no one!\" The challenges faced by the Autonomen—repression from the police, integration from the reformist left—and the way in which they were met, provide a look forward to what may face our own movements in the time to come. As the current capitalist crisis leads to new surges in protest, with radical elements try to break out of the reformist structures and defeatist traditions meant to hold us back, Germany in the 1980s doesn't seem so far away. Fire and Flames was the first comprehensive study of the German autonomous movement ever published. Released in 1990, it reached its fifth edition by 1997, with the legendary German Konkret journal concluding that \"the movement had produced its own classic.\" This is the first english translation ever published. The author, writing under the pseudonym of Geronimo, has been an Autonomous activist since the movement burst onto the scene in the early 80s. His book is not an academic study, but a movement history produced by a participant in the events, for all of us engaged in building resistance to capitalism, and fighting for a liberatory future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The target audience is not the academic middle-class with passive sympathies for rioting, nor the all-knowing critical critics, but the activists of a young generation.\" —Edition I.D. Archiv \"Some years ago, an experienced autonomous activist from Berlin sat down, talked to friends and comrades about the development of the scene, and, with Fire and Flames, wrote the best book about the movement that we have.\" —Düsseldorfer Stadtzeitung für Politik und Kultur\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe author, writing under the pseudonym of Geronimo, has been an autonomous activist since the movement burst onto the European scene in 1980-81.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Gabriel Kuhn (Afterword)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMDQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gabriel-kuhn\" title=\"Gabriel Kuhn\"\u003eGabriel Kuhn\u003c\/a\u003e lives as an independent author and translator in Stockholm, Sweden. His previous publications with PM Press include Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy (2010), \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNDkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/sober-living-for-the-revolution-hardcore-punk-straight-edge-and-radical-politics\" title=\"Sober Living for the Revolution\"\u003eSober Living for the Revolution\u003c\/a\u003e: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics (editor, 2010), Gustav Landauer: Revolution and Other Writings (editor\/translator, 2010), and Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics (2011).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout George Katsiaficas (Introduction)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Katsiaficas is currently living in Gwangju, South Korea. A visiting professor of sociology at Chonnam National University, he is finishing research on East Asian uprisings in the 1980s and 1990s. A Fulbright Fellow, student of Herbert Marcuse, and long-time activist, he is the author of The Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968. His book, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/the-antifa-comic-book-100-years-of-fascism-and-antifa-movements\" title=\"The Subversion of Politics\"\u003eThe Subversion of Politics\u003c\/a\u003e: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life, was co-winner of the APSA's 1998 Michael Harrington book award. Among his edited volumes are Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party (with Kathleen Cleaver) and Vietnam Documents: American and Vietnamese Views of the War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: geronimo\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-60486-097-9\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 185 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175090761821,"sku":"9781604860979","price":27.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1036_fireflamesfront3_0.jpg?v=1654987356"},{"product_id":"revolution-at-point-zero-housework-reproduction-and-feminist-struggle","title":"Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten between 1974 and the present,\u003cem\u003e Revolution at Point Zero\u003c\/em\u003e collects forty years of research and theorizing on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women’s struggles on this terrain—to escape it, to better its conditions, to reconstruct it in ways that provide an alternative to capitalist relations. Indeed, as Federici reveals, behind the capitalist organization of work and the contradictions inherent in “alienated labor” is an explosive ground zero for revolutionary practice upon which are decided the daily realities of our collective reproduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with Federici’s organizational work in the Wages for Housework movement, the essays collected here unravel the power and politics of wide but related issues including the international restructuring of reproductive work and its effects on the sexual division of labor, the globalization of care work and sex work, the crisis of elder care, the development of affective labor, and the politics of the commons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Finally we have a volume that collects the many essays that over a period of four decades \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e has written on the question of social reproduction and women’s struggles on this terrain. While providing a powerful history of the changes in the organization of reproductive labor,\u003cem\u003e \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM0MDE4In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/revolution-at-point-zero-housework-reproduction-and-feminist-struggle-second-edition\" title=\"Revolution at Point Zero\"\u003eRevolution at Point Zero\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e documents the development of Federici’s thought on some of the most important questions of our time: globalization, gender relations, the construction of new commons.” Mariarosa Dalla Costa, coauthor of \u003cem\u003eThe Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e Our Mother Ocean\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“As the academy colonizes and tames women’s studies, Silvia Federici speaks the experience of a generation of women for whom politics was raw, passionately lived, often in the shadow of an uncritical Marxism. She spells out the subtle violence of housework and sexual servicing, the futility of equating waged work with emancipation, and the ongoing invisibility of women’s reproductive labors. Under neoliberal globalization women’s exploitation intensifies—in land enclosures, in forced migration, in the crisis of elder care. With ecofeminist thinkers and activists, Federici argues that protecting the means of subsistence now becomes the key terrain of struggle, and she calls on women North and South to join hands in building new commons.” Ariel Salleh, author of \u003cem\u003eEcofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx, and the Postmodern\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The zero point of revolution is where new social relations first burst forth, from which countless waves ripple outward into other domains. For over thirty years, Silvia Federici has fiercely argued that this zero point cannot have any other location but the sphere of reproduction. It is here that we encounter the most promising battlefield between an outside to capital and a capital that cannot abide by any outsides. This timely collection of her essays reminds us that the shape and form of any revolution are decided in the daily realities and social construction of sex, care, food, love, and health. Women inhabit this zero point neither by choice nor by nature, but simply because they carry the burden of reproduction in a disproportionate manner. Their struggle to take control of this labor is everybody’s struggle, just as capital’s commodification of their demands is everybody’s commodification.” Massimo De Angelis, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Beginning of History: Values, Struggles, and Global Capital\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In her unfailing generosity of mind, Silvia Federici has offered us yet another brilliant and groundbreaking reflection on how capitalism naturalizes the exploitation of every aspect of women’s productive and reproductive life. Federici theorizes convincingly that, whether in the domestic or public sphere, capital normalizes women’s labor as ‘housework’ worthy of no economic compensation or social recognition. Such economic and social normalization of capitalist exploitation of women underlies the gender-based violence produced by the neoliberal wars that are ravaging communities around the world, especially in Africa. The intent of such wars is to keep women off the communal lands they care for, while transforming them into refugees in nation-states weakened by the negative effects of neoliberalism. Silvia Federici’s call for ecofeminists’ return to the Commons against Capital is compelling. Revolution at Point Zero is a timely release and a must read for scholars and activists concerned with the condition of women around the world.” Ousseina D. Alidou, Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa (CAFA), Director of the Center for African Studies at Rutgers University and author of\u003cem\u003e Engaging Modernity: Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout Silvia Federici \u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSilvia Federici is a feminist writer, teacher, and militant. In 1972, she was cofounder of the International Feminist Collective, which launched the Wages for Housework campaign internationally. With other members of Wages for Housework, like \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/women-and-the-subversion-of-the-community-a-mariarosa-dalla-costa-reader\" title=\"Mariarosa Dalla Costa\"\u003eMariarosa Dalla Costa\u003c\/a\u003e and Selma James, and with feminist authors like Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, Federici has been instrumental in developing the concept of \"reproduction\" as a key to class relations of exploitation and domination in local and global contexts, and as central to forms of autonomy and the commons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the 1990s, after a period of teaching and research in Nigeria, she was active in the anti-globalization movement and the U.S. anti-death penalty movement. She is one of the cofounders of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa, an organization dedicated to generating support for the struggles of students and teachers in Africa against the structural adjustment of African economies and education systems. From 1987 to 2005, she also taught international studies, women’s studies, and political philosophy courses at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer decades of research and political organizing accompanies a long list of publications on philosophy and feminist theory, women’s history, education, culture, international politics, and more recently on the worldwide struggle against capitalist globalization and for a feminist reconstruction of the commons. Her steadfast commitment to these issues resounds in her focus on autonomy and her emphasis on the power of what she calls self-reproducing movements as a challenge to capitalism through the construction of new social relations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175103377501,"sku":"9781604863338","price":22.33,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1099_revpointzero3_0.jpg?v=1654987436"},{"product_id":"the-revolution-of-everyday-life","title":"The Revolution of Everyday Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published just months before the May 1968 upheavals in France, Raoul Vaneigem's \u003cem\u003eThe Revolution of Everyday Life\u003c\/em\u003e offered a lyrical and aphoristic critique of the \"society of the spectacle\" from the point of view of individual experience. Whereas Debord's masterful analysis of the new historical conditions that triggered the uprisings of the 1960s armed the revolutionaries of the time with theory, Vaneigem's book described their feelings of desperation directly, and armed them with \"formulations capable of firing point-blank on our enemies.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I realise,\" writes Vaneigem in his introduction, \"that I have given subjective will an easy time in this book, but let no one reproach me for this without first considering the extent to which the objective conditions of the contemporary world advance the cause of subjectivity day after day.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVaneigem names and defines the alienating features of everyday life in consumer society: survival rather than life, the call to sacrifice, the cultivation of false needs, the dictatorship of the commodity, subjection to social roles, and above all the replacement of God by the Economy. And in the second part of his book, \"Reversal of Perspective,\" he explores the countervailing impulses that, in true dialectical fashion, persist within the deepest alienation: creativity, spontaneity, poetry, and the path from isolation to communication and participation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor \"To desire a different life is already that life in the making.\" And \"fulfillment is expressed in the singular but conjugated in the plural.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe present English translation was first published by Rebel Press of London in 1983. This new edition of The Revolution of Everyday Life has been reviewed and corrected by the translator and contains a new preface addressed to English-language readers by Raoul Vaneigem. The book is the first of several translations of works by Raoul Vaneigem that PM Press plans to publish in uniform volumes. Vaneigem's classic work is to be followed by The Knight, the Lady, the Devil, and Death (2003) and The Inhumanity of Religion (2000).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaoul Vaneigem (b. 1934) is a native of Lessines (Hainaut), Belgium, a small town whose traditional claim to fame was the production of paving stones but which in the twentieth century also produced the Surrealist painter René Magritte and the Surrealist poet Louis Scutenaire. Vaneigem grew up in the wake of World War II in a working-class, socialist and anticlerical milieu. He studied Romance philology at the Free University of Brussels and embarked on a teaching career that he later abandoned in favor of writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn late 1960 Vaneigem was introduced to Guy Debord by Henri Lefebvre, and soon after he joined the Situationist International, which Debord and his comrades-in-arms had founded not long before, and he remained in the group throughout the decade of the 1960s. There is a grain of truth in the stereotypical view that Debord and Vaneigem, as two leading lights of the SI, stood for two opposite poles of the movement: the objective Debord versus the subjective Vaneigem: Marxism versus anarchism: icy cerebrality versus sensualism: and, of course, The Society of the Spectacle versus The Revolution of Everyday Life —the two major programmatic books of the SI, written by the two men without consultation, both published in 1967, each serving in its own way to kindle and color the May 1968 uprisings in France. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther works by Raoul Vaneigem already published in English translation include \u003cem\u003eThe Totality for Kids\u003c\/em\u003e (London: Christoper Gray\/Situationist International, 1966 [\"Banalités de Base\", 1962-63]); \u003cem\u003eContributions to the Revolutionary Struggle\u003c\/em\u003e (London: Bratach Dubh, 1981 [De la grève sauvage à l'autogestion généralisée, 1974]); \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Pleasures\u003c\/em\u003e (London: Pending Press, 1983 [1979]) \u003cem\u003eThe Movement of the Free Spirit\u003c\/em\u003e (New York: Zone Books, 1994 [1986]); \u003cem\u003eA Cavalier History of Surrealism\u003c\/em\u003e (San Francisco: AK Press, 1999 [1977]); and \u003cem\u003eA Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings\u003c\/em\u003e (London: Pluto, 2003 [2001])\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Translator\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Manchester, England, Donald Nicholson-Smith is a longtime resident of New York City. As a young man he was a member of the Situationist International (1965-67), and his translations include Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle (Zone) and Henri Lefebvre's The Production of Space (Blackwell), as well as works by Jean-Patrick Manchette, Thierry Jonquet, and Paco Ignacio Taibo II. At present he is at work on Apollinaire's Letters to Madeleine, as sent by the poet from the trenches of Champagne in 1915.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Raoul Vaneigem\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: \nPaperback\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: \n978-1-60486-678-0\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: \n288 pages\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175106457693,"sku":"9781604866780","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1098_reveverydaylife3_0.jpg?v=1654987447"},{"product_id":"truth-and-revolution-a-history-of-the-sojourner-truth-organization-1969-1986","title":"Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969-1986","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the 1970s and 1980s, as the movements of the sixties receded from view, the revolutionary left in the United States went through a series of profound political, demographic, and cultural transformations as it struggled to find its footing in a rapidly changing world. The unorthodox political agenda of the Sojourner Truth Organization represents a small but powerfully resonant thread running through this arc of history. Drawing on detailed archival research and oral interviews, Truth and Revolution skillfully combines social and intellectual history approaches to shed light on both the theory and the practice of STO. Perhaps most famous for its theoretical formulations of white skin privilege, the group also developed a novel analysis of class consciousness that reflected its commitment to an autonomist Marxism. In all the major arenas of its work—factory organizing, anti-imperialist solidarity, anti-nuclear and anti-fascist struggles, among many others—STO combined a strategic assessment of the urgent tasks facing an activist left with a theoretical sophistication that merits sustained attention. Historian Michael Staudenmaier also includes a final chapter linking the legacy of STO directly to the challenges facing twenty-first century radicals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Few revolutionary initiatives formed out of the struggles of the 1960s left such a profound intellectual and political legacy as the Sojourner Truth Organization. This deeply researched, balanced, and remarkable history shows how STO's practice intersected with its ideas, not only in relatively well-known campaigns attacking white-skin privilege but in shopfloor organizing and anti-imperialist solidarity as well.\" — Dave Roediger, co-author of The Production of Difference \"Michael Staudenmaier has uncovered a crucial story of the New Left, one that has escaped the attention of most scholars of the era. The members Sojourner Truth Organization would have never have been content with today's so-called online organizing. They went directly to the shop-floor to argue for a better world, where the 'white blindspot' was opened to new visions of solidarity and progress. Staudenmaeir's skilled prose and meticulous research critically honors this history and draws lessons for us today.\" — James Tracy, co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times “Truth and Revolution is a guided tour of the worker militancy, revolutionary nationalist upsurge, and new social movement eruptions of the last forty years. Best of all, Staudenmaier breaks it all down for today’s social movements. Not to be missed.” — \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dan-berger\" title=\"Dan Berger\"\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/a\u003e, author of Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMichael Staudenmaier is a veteran of anarchist, anti-imperialist, and anti-fascist movements, and is now a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 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Corsairs, sufis, pederasts, \"irresistible\" Moorish women, slaves, adventurers, Irish rebels, heretical Jews, British spies, and radical working class heroes all populate a book which intends to entertain and to make a point about \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003einsurrectionary communities.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autonomedia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175111536733,"sku":"9798312795516","price":13.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1124_pirateutopias3_0.jpg?v=1654987488"},{"product_id":"revolutionary-writing-common-sense-essays-in-post-political-politics","title":"Revolutionary Writing: Common Sense Essays In Post-Political Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003eFourteen radical essays in \"open\" or \"autonomous\" Marxism, subverting (by critiquing) the typical concept of the political, and examining the current configurations of the insurrection of global labor against global capital.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter a century of failed attempts to bring about radical social change,the concept of revolution is itself in crisis. The resurgence of anti-capitalist movements across the globe is a hopeful sign. Yet, themost disturbing is the contemporary indifference to revolution. What doesanti-capitalism in its contemporary form of anti-globalisation mean if itis not a practical critique of capitalism and what does it wish to achieveif its anti-capitalism fails to espouse the revolutionary project of humanemancipation? Anti-capitalist indifference to revolution is acontradiction in terms. The misery of our time demands that we, onceagain, dream revolution, that is, orient our theoretical and practicalactivities on the ideal of the society of the free and equal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes essays by John Holloway, Harry Cleaver, Antonio Negri, Ferruccio Gambino, Johannes Agnoli \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/women-and-the-subversion-of-the-community-a-mariarosa-dalla-costa-reader\" title=\"Mariarosa Dalla Costa\"\u003eMariarosa Dalla Costa\u003c\/a\u003e, George Caffentzis, Mike Rooke, and Werner Bonefeld.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Werner Bonefeld\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: \nPaperback\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: \n9781570271335\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: \n253 pages\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Autonomedia\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autonomedia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175111995485,"sku":"9781570271335","price":23.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1116_revwriting3_0.jpg?v=1654987492"},{"product_id":"organization-and-spontaneity-the-theory-of-the-vanguard-party-and-its-application-to-the-black-movement-in-the-us-today","title":"Organization and Spontaneity: The Theory of the Vanguard Party and its Application to the Black Movement in the US Today","description":"\u003cp\u003eKimathi Mohammed's\u003cem\u003e Organization and Spontaneity\u003c\/em\u003e was originally published in 1974 as a response to key contradictions of the late 1960s and early 1970s Black freedom movement. Mohammed was among the most original political theorists of the Black Power era, and in contrast with many popular political figures of the time, his work emphasized the self-organization of ordinary African Americans and their liberating, self-directed activism. Mohammed placed forward his critique of would-be Black vanguards at a time when most prominent Black Power activists—even the socialist advocates among them—were beginning to embrace electoral politics and systems of patronage which would ultimately suppress independent Black political power. \u003cem\u003eOrganization \u0026amp; Spontaneity\u003c\/em\u003e anticipated new obstacles in the Post-Civil Rights era, and continues to point the way forward for our own place and time. This updated edition includes Mohammed's previously unpublished essay exploring the influence of C.L.R. James on the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. A new introductory essay by Modibo Kadalie and an afterword by Matthew Quest are also included here for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Andrew Zonneveld\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-0985890926\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 134 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: On Our Own Authority!\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"On Our Own Authority!","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175123857501,"sku":"9780985890926","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1210_orgspont3_0.jpg?v=1654987581"},{"product_id":"the-bolsheviks-and-workers-control-1917-1921-the-state-and-counter-revolution","title":"The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control 1917-1921: The State and Counter-Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published as a pamphlet in 1970, Maurice Brinton's \u003cem\u003eThe Bolsheviks and Workers' Control\u003c\/em\u003epresents a concise yet brilliant historical critique of revolutionary Russia from the year 1917 to 1921, from the Bolshevik's ascension to state power, up to--and in the aftermath of--Lenin and Trotsky's lethal suppression of the 1921 Kronstadt Uprising. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis small volume offers a critical understanding of the history of the Russian Revolution that has too often been obscured by romanticized Leninist revision. With devastating documentation and attention to detail, Brinton's writing exposes the Bolshevik counter-revolution and its hostile resentment toward the self-mobilization of the Russian working class. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAdditionally, Brinton's work illuminates crucial distinctions between workers' self-management of industry and workers control (an alternate idea coined by the Bolshevik dictatorship). In this way, his work asserts and defends the revolutionary idea that the working class itself can govern the affairs of society, outside of the authority of any state power or ruling class whatever its name or form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Maurice Brinton\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-0985890919\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 176 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: On Our Own Authority!\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"On Our Own Authority!","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175166259293,"sku":"9780985890919","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/bolsheviksworkerscontrol.jpg?v=1654987753"},{"product_id":"the-power-of-neighborhood-and-the-commons","title":"\"The Power of Neighborhood\" and the Commons","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe anonymous Swiss author of \u003cem\u003ebolo’bolo\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAkiba\u003c\/em\u003e offers a new practical proposal for reshaping the future, based on this prognosis of the present:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Our economic system is stumbling from one collapse to the next … Our system is fundamentally flawed and destabilized by internal contradictions. To point out one of them: income can only be generated by work, but work is getting scarce at the moment and will become even scarcer in the future. Thus the “purchasing power” that capital needs to realize value is strangulated by itself. These contradictions are being deferred into the future by financial manipulations … The metaphor of the train racing towards an abyss and the need to pull the emergency brake must spring to mind. Since the braking distance has meanwhile become longer than the distance to the abyss, we have to think in terms of parachutes.’’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Autonomedia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175201386589,"sku":"9781570272837","price":16.73,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/powerofneighborhood.jpg?v=1654987849"},{"product_id":"precarious-communism-manifest-mutations-manifesto-detourned","title":"Precarious Communism: Manifest Mutations, Manifesto Detourned","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow does one demonstrate the enduring relevance of a sacred text but to help it speak to present times? This is what churches do with the Bible and what Marxists do with the writings of Marx.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRichard Gilman-Opalsky offers a book-length détournement of \u003cem\u003eThe Communist Manifesto \u003c\/em\u003eas a loving blasphemy, as a grateful revolt, both for and against the original text. Gilman-Opalsky detourns the 1848 manifesto as an exploration of its ongoing applicability, as well as its failures, in relation to capitalism and its evolving crises. \u003cem\u003ePrecarious Communism \u003c\/em\u003eexplores long-form détournement as a tool for critical theory. But most importantly, Gilman-Opalsky’s new book is a mutant manifesto of its own that makes the case for an autonomist and millennial Marxism, for the many movements of precarious communism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Precarious Communism offers a creative, convincing, and provocative rerouting of \u003cem\u003eThe Communist Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e, exploring the catastrophes of both statism and capitalism in a fresh new light. Gilman-Opalsky lays bare ideological specters of the past that continue to haunt the present. This book is a must read for anyone interested in what autonomy, dignity, and association mean today, and in understanding the insurrectionary hope of people everywhere.” – John Asimakopoulos, Director of the Transformative Studies Institute\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRichard Gilman-Opalsky is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Springfield. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eSpectacular Capitalism: Guy Debord and the Practice of Radical Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e (2011) and \u003cem\u003eUnbounded Publics: Transgressive Public Spheres, Zapatismo, and Political Theory\u003c\/em\u003e (2008).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Richard Gilman-Opalsky\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781570272929\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 144 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Autonomedia\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autonomedia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175202009181,"sku":"9781570272929","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/precariouscommunism.jpg?v=1654987852"},{"product_id":"caliban-and-the-witch","title":"Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation","description":"\u003cp\u003eA groundbreaking herstorical exploration, in many ways similar to Maria Mies’ \u003cem\u003ePatriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCaliban and the Witch\u003c\/em\u003e focuses much more on Europe, while bringing Federici’s own autonomous Marxist perspective to bear on the subject at hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is very much a history of the making of the European working class, a re-telling of the birth of capitalism, with women at the center of the story. While there is some repetition from chapter to chapter (one suspects that some of them could stand on their own), the picture painted is moving and accessible, and Federici draws on an abundance of scholarly sources. \u003cem\u003eCaliban and the Witch\u003c\/em\u003e can be a useful tool in laying the foundations of a movement that is at the same time anti-capitalist, anti-patriarchal, and anti-colonialist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI have written an in-depth review of \u003cem\u003eCaliban and the Witch\u003c\/em\u003e, a shortened version of which was published in the revolutionary journal\u003cem\u003e Upping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e in their \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/upping-the-anti-2-january-2005\"\u003e2nd issue, January 2005\u003c\/a\u003e. You can read a longer version of my review on my site here: \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/kersplebedeb.com\/posts\/caliban-and-the-witch-part-one-of-four\/\"\u003eCaliban and the Witch; a Book Review.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Autonomedia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175203221597,"sku":"9791570270597","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/caliban.jpg?v=1654987858"},{"product_id":"eclipse-and-re-emergence-of-the-communist-movement","title":"Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Communist Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the years following 1968, a number of people involved in the most radical aspects of the French general strike felt the need to reflect on their experiences and to relate them to past revolutionary endeavors. This meant studying previous attempts and theories, namely those of the post-1917 German-Dutch and Italian Communist Left. The original essays included here were first written between 1969 and 1972 and circulated amongst left communist and worker circles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut France was not the only country where radicals sought to contextualize their political environment and analyze their own radical pasts. Over the years these three essays have been published separately in various languages and printed as books in both the United States and the UK with few changes. This third English edition is updated to take into account the contemporary political situation; half of the present volume is new material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book argues that doing away with wage-labor, class, the State, and private property is necessary, possible, and can only be achieved by a historical break, one that would certainly differ from October 1917 . . . yet it would not be a peaceful, gradual, piecemeal evolution either. Like their historical predecessors—Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Anton Pannekoek, Amadeo Bordiga, Durruti, and Debord—the authors maintain a belief in revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Gilles Dauvé is well-known in certain circles for his radical ideas about the functioning of modern capitalist society. The author has had a significant influence on both libertarian communists and anarchists.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—Iš rankų į rankas press (Lithuania)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Authors:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1947, Gilles Dauvé has worked as a translator and a schoolteacher. He is the author of essays and books on the Russian, German, and Spanish revolutions, and on democracy, fascism, war, morals, crisis, and class. Most infamously, in English, his texts \u003cem\u003eWhat Is Situationism?\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFascism\/Anti-Fascism\u003c\/em\u003e (both written under the pseudonym Jean Barrot) have led a legendary existence in the samizdat pamphlet underground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Algeria in a family of European settlers in 1941, François Cerruti (pen name François Martin) evaded the draft and supported Algerian independence. After 1962, he worked in a self-managed factory and was a member of the local section of the Trotskyist Fourth International. The 1965 army putsch forced him to go to France, where he had to do his military service. While a soldier, his participation in a mutiny sent him to jail for a few months. In the 1968 general strike, he was involved in the worker radical minority, and later active in “libertarian communist” or “ultra-leftist” or simply communist circles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Gilles Dauve\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-62963-043-4\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 168 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175205154909,"sku":"9781629630434","price":20.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/eclipse_and_re-mergence_of_the_communist_movement.jpg?v=1654987870"},{"product_id":"our-mother-ocean-enclosure-commons-and-the-global-fishermen-s-movement","title":"Our Mother Ocean: Enclosure, Commons, and the Global Fishermen’s Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe ocean today is a central protagonist in the ongoing battle for life on earth. It is the site of a violent clash between the right to live and the right to profit, as corporate interests enclose the ocean’s vast common of living riches through tourism and industrial fishing—distorting landscapes, depleting fish stocks, and destroying barriers to protection against climate disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOur Mother Ocean\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of the Fisherman’s Movement from its beginnings in Southern India to its central role in the struggle against neoliberal globalization. Since the 1970s, the Fisherman’s Movement has been one of the ocean’s closest and most impassioned protectors, raising key questions concerning the relationship between work and the safeguarding of common resources, the provision of community needs and environmental limits of the devastating industrialization of our oceans. While a remarkable political awareness has spread over the last 40 years around questions of food, agriculture and land, the issues of the sea have remained concealed, despite the protracted struggles between fish workers and those who oversee the sector and the exploitation of the ocean’s resources.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this crucial intervention, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/women-and-the-subversion-of-the-community-a-mariarosa-dalla-costa-reader\" title=\"Mariarosa Dalla Costa\"\u003eMariarosa Dalla Costa\u003c\/a\u003e and Monica Chilese offer the ocean to the land-locked history of food sovereignty movements led primarily workers in the global South against dispossession.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDalla Costa and Chilese draw attention to the polyvalent functions of the ocean as a source of food, medicine, raw materials, biodiversity and culture—and as a site of human labour and livelihood threatened by vast enclosures through industrial fishing and tourism. This book is an urgent reminder that the ocean is today the site of a heroic struggle for the preservation of life on earth. It points crucially to impassioned sectors of the movement of movements that endure in the global South, and details the stakes of the struggles and its outcomes on land and at sea as central for the future of life on earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/women-and-the-subversion-of-the-community-a-mariarosa-dalla-costa-reader\" title=\"Mariarosa Dalla Costa\"\u003eMariarosa Dalla Costa\u003c\/a\u003e has for decades been a central figure in the development of autonomy in a wide range of anticapitalist\u003cbr\u003e\nmovements. Her seminal coauthored book The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community, has been\u003cbr\u003e\ntranslated into six languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMonica Chilese is a political sociologist at the University of Padua, where she devotes her study to the question of ecology,\u003cbr\u003e\ngiving special attention to the marine environment, the impoverishment of the fisheries, and the analysis of social problems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The emergence of [the] fisher as part of the movement against neoliberal globalization is beautifully understood in this book. I applaud the authors’ passionate portrayal of workers on the sea as an organic part of those of us who wish to protect Nature against the rapacious excesses of capitalism.\" —George Katsiaficas, activist and author, \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/the-antifa-comic-book-100-years-of-fascism-and-antifa-movements\" title=\"The Subversion of Politics\"\u003eThe Subversion of Politics\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAsia’s Unknown Uprisings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"There is no apocalyptic randiness in this amazing account of the horror. Instead, we get a call as rigorous as passionate for what we all need to do now. The authors distill for the reader the almost overwhelming documentation they used in their very solid exploration of the subject, covering almost every aspect of it, and share their insights in an elegant and direct style. The World Fishers Movement, brilliantly described here, the biggest fishers movement in history, begins to do for Mother Ocean what Via Campesina, the biggest farmers movement in history, is doing for Mother Earth. In resisting the new enclosures, hundreds of millions of people are thus attempting to stop the devastating activity of corporate capital, in order to sustain their ways of life and ours. They need both our awareness and our action. This is the book we need for both.\" —Gustavo Esteva, author of \u003cem\u003eGrassroots Modernism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book is indeed a timely one. With climate change and the exhaustion of natural resources the patriarchal\/capitalist civilisation seems to be coming to an end. The authors remind us that Mother Earth and Mother Ocean are indeed the source of all life on our planet. Without earth no life; without oceans and water, no life. The authors criticize that the vital connection between humans and the sea, between humans and the earth has been disrupted by capitalist\/patriarchal exploitation. The victims of this explotation are among others all the small coastal fishermen who lose their livelihood. However, the authors do not stop by only analysing these problems but show how people everywhere fight against this destruction. I warmly recommend this book to all who are concerned about future life on this planet.\" —Maria Mies, author of \u003cem\u003ePatriarchy and Accumulation on a World-Scale\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Subsistence Perspective\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eOur Mother Ocean\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/women-and-the-subversion-of-the-community-a-mariarosa-dalla-costa-reader\" title=\"Mariarosa Dalla Costa\"\u003eMariarosa Dalla Costa\u003c\/a\u003e and Monica Chilese sound an eloquent warning about the precarious state of not only the planet’s fisheries but of the health of the world’s oceans themselves. They foreground the dilemmas facing fishermen’s movements in various continents, caught as they are between economic imperatives, the need to fish sustainably, and the pressures of multinational capitalism. This book is a thoughtful and necessary call to action.\" —David Gullette, Simmons College\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Through overfishing, industrial aquaculture, and poisoning, capitalism is killing ocean life—upon which all of life on Earth depends—but the people who are most directly threatened by this destruction are fighting back, and the rest of us urgently need to join their struggles. That is the story that unfolds in this remarkably detailed but compact book by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/women-and-the-subversion-of-the-community-a-mariarosa-dalla-costa-reader\" title=\"Mariarosa Dalla Costa\"\u003eMariarosa Dalla Costa\u003c\/a\u003e and Monica Chilese. To date, awareness of the killing has been mostly limited to the environmental movement. At the same time, awareness of the ways in which capitalism has been slowly destroying traditional communities of those who live by, on, and with the seas has been mostly limited to the peoples of those communities and, in the case of indigenous fishing communities, a few anthropologists. This book not only illuminates the interrelationships between these two patterns of destruction, but also highlights the emergence of a worldwide movement of resistance on the part of some of those most directly threatened.\" —Harry Cleaver, author of \u003cem\u003eReading Capital Politically\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eOur Mother Ocean\u003c\/em\u003e is an engaging and critical effort by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/women-and-the-subversion-of-the-community-a-mariarosa-dalla-costa-reader\" title=\"Mariarosa Dalla Costa\"\u003eMariarosa Dalla Costa\u003c\/a\u003e and Monica Chilese, who bring attention to the concerns, questions, and struggles relating to the seas and their remarkable social, economic, cultural, and ecological importance to human beings. This appealing book not only questions our relation with the sea but aims to raise consciousness about the way we live our lives and the ecologic problematic we all face globally. Stressing the ‘polyvalence of the vital functions which the ocean represents,’ the authors explore how the relation of humans with the sea has become one of depredation and destruction for commercial purposes. The book deals with the implications of industrial fishing, aquaculture, aquafarming, and marine pollution, thus exploring not only the appalling consequences and damage for the marine and coastal ecosystems, but for the small communities all over the world whose livelihoods depend on the sea and who have been affected by this approach to the sea as a ‘usable object.’ It is in this context that the authors brilliantly relate the path of the movement of fishermen, a movement born in the seventies in India that has now spread all over the world. Under the banner of food sovereignty, this movement fights the neoliberal predatory assault and view of sea life as mere products, while struggling to establish a different relationship with the sea, a sustainable relationship with this source of life that ensures the protection of both the small coastal communities who ‘have always lived on the sea and of the sea’ and the sheltering of the beauties, habitats, and ecosystems of our mother ocean.\" —Massimo Modonesi, professor of history, sociology, and Latin American studies,director of the Department of Sociology of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Mariarosa Dalla Costa\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Monica Chilese\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781942173007\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 144 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Common Notions\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175213674589,"sku":"9781942173007","price":22.33,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/our_mother_ocean_cover_image.jpg?v=1654987904"},{"product_id":"abolish-work-abolish-restaurants-plus-work-community-politics-war","title":"Abolish Work: “Abolish Restaurants” Plus “Work, Community, Politics, War”","description":"\u003cp\u003eFinally available for the first time in a single book format, Abolish Work combines two influential and well-circulated pamphlets written from the frontlines of the class war. The texts from the anonymous workers at Prole.info offer cutting-edge class analysis and critiques of daily life accompanied by uncensored, innovative illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving from personal thoughts and interactions to large-scale political and economic forces, Abolish Work reads alternately like a worker’s diary, a short story, a psychology of everyday life, a historical account, and an angry flyer someone would pass you on the street.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe classic “Abolish Restaurants“ is an illustrated guide to the daily misery, stress, boredom, and alienation of restaurant work, as well as the ways in which restaurant workers fight against it. Drawing on a range of anti-capitalist ideas as well as a heaping plate of personal experience, it is part analysis and part call-to-arms. An additional piece, “Work, Community, Politics, War“ is a comic book introduction to modern society, identifying both the oppressive and subversive tendencies that exist today in order to completely remake society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The entire booklet is enthralling, perhaps especially so if you don’t already know what goes on behind the scenes for underpaid, non-unionized restaurant workers in the United States.“ —Brittany Shoot, Change.org\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The stress of the dinner rush, the fights with co-workers, the split shifts, the lousy tippers, the aching backs . . . It is not just random individual misfortune. It is a functional and necessary part of a larger system that creates similar conditions everywhere. Capitalist society is built on class struggle, and Abolish Work puts forward the perspective of one side in that struggle.“ —Mickey Z., PlanetGreen.com\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In this persuasive chapbook, author Prole.info utilizes words and illustrations to tell two intriguing parallel stories: first, what the food service industry entails for those who work in the restaurants themselves, and then, the political and social implications of eating establishments on local economies and working people.“ —Ernesto Aguilar, dotrad.com\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Class analysis + a critique of daily life + uncensored innovative graphics + more . . . Enjoy!“ —Gilles Dauvé\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Abolish Work on the surface looks like simple agitprop. It is expertly illustrated in stark, thick-lined drawings that are shadow-like and rudimentary. This breaks up the text and makes it more digestible, while adding a cold and unsettling feel to what is a well-researched and near perfect political essay.“ —Craven Rock\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe author is an anonymous worker whose writings and illustrations can be found on www.prole.info. “Prole“ is short for “proletarian“ a word used by Karl Marx to describe the working class under capitalism. We are all the people in this society who do not own property or a business we can make money from, and therefore have to sell our time and energy to a boss—we are forced to work. Our work is the basis of this society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Prole.info\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-60486-340-6\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 96 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175218393181,"sku":"9781604863406","price":16.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/abolish_work.jpg?v=1654987916"},{"product_id":"wages-for-students","title":"Wages for Students","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWages for Students \u003c\/em\u003ewas published anonymously by three activists in the fall of 1975. It was written as “a pamphlet in the form of a blue book” by activists linked to the journal Zerowork during student strikes in Massachusetts and New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDeeply influenced by the Wages for Housework Campaign’s analysis of capitalism, and relating to struggles such as Black Power, anticolonial resistance, and the antiwar movements, the authors fought against the role of universities as conceived by capital and its state.  The pamphlet debates the strategies of the student movement at the time and denounces the regime of forced unpaid work imposed every day upon millions of students. \u003cem\u003eWages for Students \u003c\/em\u003ewas an affront to and a campaign against the neoliberalization of the university, at a time when this process was just beginning. Forty years later, the highly profitable business of education not only continues to exploit the unpaid labor of the students, but now also makes them pay for it. Today, when the student debt situation has us all up to our necks, and when students around the world are refusing to continue this collaborationism, we again make this booklet available “for education against education.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis new trilingual (English, Spanish, French) edition includes an introduction by George Caffentzis, Monty Neill, and John Willshire-Carrera alongside a transcript of a collective discussion organized by Jakob Jakobsen, Malav Kanuga, Ayreen Anastas, and Rene Gabri, following a public reading of the pamphlet by George Caffentzis, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e, Cooper Union students, and other members and friends of 16 Beaver.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Wages for Students\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-942173-02-1\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 224 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Common Notions\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175237169245,"sku":"9781942173021","price":19.53,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/wagesforstudents.jpg?v=1654987993"},{"product_id":"beneath-the-paving-stones","title":"Beneath the Paving Stones","description":"\u003cp\u003eReprinted for the 50th anniversary of May 1968, this anthology brings together the three most widely translated, distributed, and influential pamphlets of the Situationist International available in the sixties, along with an eyewitness account of the May events by Maurice Brinton of Solidarity. \u003cem\u003eBeneath the Paving Stones \u003c\/em\u003ealso includes numerous documents, photographs, poster art, and graffiti originating from Paris in 1968. 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He does this by revisiting and attempting to draw lessons from the history of the revolutionary movement from the French Revolution, through the conflicts between anarchists and Marxists in the International Workingmen’s Association and the Russian and Spanish revolutions, to the social revolution of 1968. These are not just abstract theoretical reflections, but are informed by the experiences of a lifetime of revolutionary commitments and by his constant willingness to challenge orthodoxies of all kinds: “Far from allowing ourselves to sink into doubt, inaction, and despair, the time has come for the left to begin again from zero, to rethink its problems from their very foundations. The failure of both reformism and Stalinism imposes on us the urgent duty to find a way of reconciling (proletarian) democracy with socialism, freedom with Revolution.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Over six decades Daniel Guérin had a record of willingness to cooperate with any section of the French left that shared his fundamental goals of proletarian self-emancipation, colonial liberation, and sexual freedom. He was a vigorous polemicist but saw no fragment of the left, however obscure, as beneath his attention. He was also typically generous, never seeking to malign his opponents, however profoundly he disagreed with them. He was always willing to challenge orthodoxy, whether Marxist or anarchist. Yet behind the varying formulations one consistent principle remained: ‘The Revolution of our age will be made from below—or not at all.’” —Ian Birchall, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Spectre of Babeuf\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSartre Against Stalinism\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eA Rebel’s Guide to Lenin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Guérin provides an eloquent history of libertarian socialist practice that is not just insightful but also an exemplary display of straightforward writing, passion, and balance. The book is highly valuable as a history of thought and action, to be sure, but, even more important, as an exploration of issues and ideas directly relevant to today’s world.” —Michael Albert, author of \u003cem\u003eParecon: Life after Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“With the continual debasing of ‘libertarian’ to mean free-market capitalist, the publication in English of Daniel Guérin’s classic \u003cem\u003eFor a Libertarian Communism \u003c\/em\u003eis very welcome. It shows why Guérin was one of France’s leading libertarian thinkers and activists, for it discusses what remain the key issues for socialists of all schools. His deep knowledge of both anarchism and Marxism makes this book essential reading for all radicals: Marxists will get their false notions of anarchism challenged while those interested in anarchism will see that it is libertarian socialism rather than some incoherent lifestyle choice.” —Iain McKay, author of \u003cem\u003eAn Anarchist FAQ\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eProperty Is Theft! A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Reader\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eDirect Struggle Against Capital: A Peter Kropotkin Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Daniel Guérin is the creator of a unique synthesis between Marxism and anarchism: libertarian communism. His reflections are more than ever relevant for the 21th century.” —Michael Löwy, author of \u003cem\u003eEcosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDaniel Guérin (1904–1988) was a prominent member of the French left for half a century, and arguably one of the most original and most interesting. One of the first on the left to attach central importance to the struggle against colonialism, he became one of the best-known figures in anticolonial campaigns throughout the 1950s and ’60s. He was also one of the first in France to warn of the rising dangers of fascism, publishing \u003cem\u003eThe Brown Plague \u003c\/em\u003ein 1933 and \u003cem\u003eFascism and Big Business \u003c\/em\u003ein 1936. He met Leon Trotsky in 1933, and would work with the Trotskyist resistance during the war; a respected member of the Fourth International during the 1940s, he was a close, personal friend of Michel Raptis (alias Pablo) until his death. His controversial, libertarian Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution, \u003cem\u003eClass Struggle in the First Republic, 1793–1797 \u003c\/em\u003e(1945, 2nd ed. 1968) was judged by his friend C.L.R. James to be “one of the great theoretical landmarks of our movement” and by Sartre to be “one of the only contributions by contemporary Marxists to have enriched historical studies.” Increasingly critical of what he saw as the authoritarianism inherent in Leninism, he influenced a generation of activists with his “rehabilitation” of anarchism through his \u003cem\u003eAnarchism \u003c\/em\u003eand the anthology \u003cem\u003eNo Gods, No Masters\u003c\/em\u003e, before playing a role in the resurgence of interest in Rosa Luxemburg and becoming better known for his attempts to promote a “synthesis” of Marxism and anarchism. He was also regarded by 1968 as the grandfather of the gay liberation movement in France and in the 1970s as a leading light in antimilitarist campaigns. His writings have been repeatedly republished both in French and in translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Berry has a BA in French and German from Oxford University, an MA in French Studies from the University of Sussex and a DPhil in history, also from Sussex. He is currently a senior lecturer in politics and history at Loughborough University, UK. His publications include \u003cem\u003eA History of the French Anarchist Movement, 1917–1945 \u003c\/em\u003e(AK Press, 2009); \u003cem\u003eNew Perspectives on Anarchism, Labour and Syndicalism: The Individual, the National and the Transnational \u003c\/em\u003e(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), coedited with Constance Bantman; \u003cem\u003eLibertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red \u003c\/em\u003e(Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), coedited with Alex Prichard, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjIifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/ruth-kinna\" title=\"Ruth Kinna\"\u003eRuth Kinna\u003c\/a\u003e, and Saku Pinta; and several journal articles and book chapters on Daniel Guérin. He is currently preparing a biography of Guérin to be published by PM Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMitchell Abidor is the principal French translator for the Marxists Internet Archive. PM Press’s collections of his translations include \u003cem\u003eAnarchists Never Surrender \u003c\/em\u003eby \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjE4NTI0In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victor-serge\" title=\"Victor Serge\"\u003eVictor Serge\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVoices of the Paris Commune\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eDeath to Bourgeois Society\u003c\/em\u003e. His other published translations include \u003cem\u003eThe Great Anger: Ultra-Revolutionary Writing in France from the Atheist Priest to the Bonnot Gang\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eCommunards: The Paris Commune of 1871 as Told by Those Who Fought for It\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eA Socialist History of the French Revolution \u003c\/em\u003eby Jean Jaurès.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Daniel Guérin\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: David Berry\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-62963-236-0\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 160 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175275049053,"sku":"9781629632360","price":20.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/for_a_libertarian_communism.jpg?v=1654988161"},{"product_id":"libertarian-socialism-politics-in-black-and-red","title":"Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe history of anarchist-Marxist relations is usually told as a history of factionalism and division. These essays, based on original research and written especially for this collection, reveal some of the enduring sores in the revolutionary socialist movement in order to explore the important, too often neglected left-libertarian currents that have thrived in revolutionary socialist movements. By turns, the collection interrogates the theoretical boundaries between Marxism and anarchism and the process of their formation, the overlaps and creative tensions that shaped left-libertarian theory and practice, and the stumbling blocks to movement cooperation. Bringing together specialists working from a range of political perspectives, the book charts a history of radical twentieth-century socialism, and opens new vistas for research in the twenty-first. Contributors examine the political and social thought of a number of leading socialists—Marx, Morris, Sorel, Gramsci, Guérin, C.L.R. James, Hardt and Negri—and key movements including the Situationist International, Socialisme ou Barbarie and Council Communism. Analysis of activism in the UK, Australasia, and the U.S. serves as the prism to discuss syndicalism, carnival anarchism, and the anarchistic currents in the U.S. civil rights movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eContributors include Paul Blackledge, Lewis H. Mates, Renzo Llorente, Carl Levy, Christian Høgsbjerg, Andrew Cornell, Benoît Challand, Jean-Christophe Angaut, Toby Boraman, and David Bates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eLibertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red \u003c\/em\u003eis an invaluable contribution to historical scholarship and libertarian politics. The collection of essays contained in the book has the great virtue of offering both analytical perspectives on ideas, and historical perspectives on movements. The contributions examine classical themes in anarchist politics such as individual liberty, whilst also exploring more neglected thinkers and themes from a libertarian standpoint, such as C.L.R. James and race. There can be little doubt that the volume will be of major interest to historians, theorists, students and activists.” —Darrow Schecter, reader in Italian, School of History, Art History and Philosophy, University of Sussex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Just what we need as we move into a new phase of revolt against the obscenity of capitalism: a recovery of the richness of our different traditions of struggle, with their weavings and bumpings. Time to move on, time to redeem the struggles of the past. A valuable and welcome collection.” —John Holloway, author of \u003cem\u003eChange the World Without Taking Power \u003c\/em\u003eand professor of sociology, Autonomous University of Puebla\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This is a welcome and essential collection that is sure to spark debates and support ongoing efforts to build a liberatory movement in which Marxists and anarchists can find common ground and practice mutual respect and humility. In this period of late-capitalism, survival itself is at stake. Theory and practice, whether Marxism or Anarchism in their many manifestations, lead to dead ends without careful assessment of the world as it is now.” —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of \u003cem\u003eAn \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTgifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/an-indigenous-peoples-history-of-the-united-states\" title=\"Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States\"\u003eIndigenous Peoples’ History of the United States\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“An important, redemptive collection of essays that questions narratives of sectarian difference without resorting to easy answers. In exploring the productive frictions, convergences, agonisms and affinities that have created and re-created the 'black and red,' the contributors recover the neglected histories of a capacious Left, one that repudiated ideological rigidity and sterile orthodoxies without abandoning its socialist commons. Itself a model of such capaciousness, this is a stimulating and necessary work.” —Raymond B. Craib, associate professor, Department of History, Cornell University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlex Prichard is senior lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter. He gained his PhD from Loughborough University in 2008 for work on the international political theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. Dr Prichard is coeditor of the Contemporary Anarchist Studies monograph series published by Manchester University Press and was coeditor of a 2016 special issue of Capital \u0026amp; Class on ideological convergence on the left.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjIifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/ruth-kinna\" title=\"Ruth Kinna\"\u003eRuth Kinna\u003c\/a\u003e works at Loughborough University in the UK. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eKropotkin: Reviewing the Classical Anarchist Tradition \u003c\/em\u003e(2016) and writes on historical and contemporary anarchist politics. She is editor of the peer-review journal \u003cem\u003eAnarchist Studies\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSaku Pinta gained his PhD from Loughborough University in 2011. His research brought to light the history of the IWW and libertarian socialism more broadly. He is the writer and coproducer of To My Son in Spain, (2009) a documentary that tells the story of Finnish-Canadians from Thunder Bay who joined the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion of the International Brigades to fight in Spain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Berry is senior lecturer in History at Loughborough University. He has published widely on the history of the anarchist movement in France and in particular on the thought of Daniel Guérin. 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In recent years there has been both a renewed interest in theories of social reproduction and an explosion of women’s struggles and strikes across the world. The collection offers both historical and contemporary Marxist feminist analysis of how the reproduction of labour and life functions under capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDalla Costa’s essays, speeches, and political interventions provide insight into the vibrant and combative women’s movement that emerged in Italy and across the world in the early 1970s. Since the publication of \u003cem\u003eWomen and the Subversion of the Community \u003c\/em\u003e(1972), Dalla Costa has been a central figure in the development of autonomist thought in a wide range of anticapitalist and feminist social movements. Her detailed research and provocative thinking deepens our understanding of the role of women’s struggles for autonomy and control over their bodies and labour. These essays provide critical and relevant ideas for anticapitalists, antiracists, and feminists who are attempting to build counterpower in the age of austerity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMariarosa Dalla Costa is an influential Italian Marxist feminist and activist. She is the coauthor of the classic feminist text \u003cem\u003eThe Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community\u003c\/em\u003e, with \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMjMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/selma-james\" title=\"Selma James\"\u003eSelma James\u003c\/a\u003e. This text launched the “domestic labor debate” in the early 1970s by redefining housework as reproductive labor necessary to the functioning of capitalism and as work that has been rendered invisible by its removal from the wage-relation. Her research has been translated into multiple languages and published in journals, edited collections, and monographs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHarry Cleaver is an American scholar, Marxist theoretician, and professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. He is best known as the author of \u003cem\u003eReading Capital Politically, an autonomist reading of Karl Marx’s Capital\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCamille Barbagallo is a feminist activist and researcher. Her research, situated within Marxist feminist theory, gender, and black studies, explores how the reproduction of labour-power is valued, what it costs, and who pays the bill. She is the coeditor of \u003cem\u003eThe Commoner no. 15, Care Work and the Commons\u003c\/em\u003e, with \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e. Before migrating to London in 2005, she lived and worked in Australia and was active in labour struggles, the national student movements, and in radical social movements that focused on ending the mandatory detention of asylum seekers and campaigns to close the refugee camps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRichard Braude is a translator in Palermo, Italy who has translated works by left-wing Italian authors including Lea Melandri, Rossana Rossanda, Nanni Balestrini and Furio Jesi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This book is a further testimony to the great contribution Mariarosa Dalla Costa has made to feminist thought. It will be read for years to come.” 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\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This publication is a major step in the constitution of a subversive feminist historiography. Mariarosa Dalla Costa’s contribution has been at the vanguard of the theorization of the relation between the oppression of women and capitalism.” Morgane Merteuil, researcher, coeditor of \u003cem\u003ePour un féminisme de la totalité\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“That capitalism organizes society to be divided into a ‘private’ sphere of the home and a ‘public’ sphere of the workplace is commonly acknowledged by all. What is not recognized is how capital consistently tries to depoliticize the ‘private.’ Even revolutionaries have sometimes been in thrall of this particular obfuscation, limiting their anticapitalist strategizing to the workplace alone. Mariarosa Dalla Costa’s works, since the 1970s, have unfailingly pierced this veil. By theorizing the reproduction of labour power to be the precondition for capitalism’s functioning, Dalla Costa has always illuminated for us the immense political potential of the private. Connecting unpaid labour in the home to the paid work of the wage worker, and by linking the naturalization of women’s work to the capitalization of nature, Dalla Costa, in her scholarship and on the streets, continues to model for us an insurgent, irrepressible, anticapitalist feminism.” Tithi Bhattacharya, editor of \u003cem\u003eSocial Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression\u003c\/em\u003e; national organizer for the International Women’s Strike\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Mariarosa Dalla Costa\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Camille Barbagallo\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-62963-570-5\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 288 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175297003613,"sku":"9781629635705","price":34.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/women_and_the_subversion_of_the_community.jpg?v=1654988344"},{"product_id":"storming-heaven-class-composition-and-struggle-in-italian-autonomist-marxism-second-edition","title":"Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism (Second Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStorming Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e is the only book which looks at Italian workerist theory and practice, from its origins in the anti-Stalinist left of the 1950s to its heyday twenty years later. It focuses on the theme of workerism, or 'operaismo', which includes the refusal of work, class self-organisation, mass illegality and the extension of revolutionary agency, of of which are still practiced today by workers across the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmphasising the dynamic nature of class struggle as the distinguishing feature of workerist thought, Storming Heaven reveals how this form of radical politics developed alongside emerging social movements to great effect. It assesses the strengths and limitations of workerism as first developed by Antonio Negri, Mario Tronti, Sergio Bologna and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition includes a new chapter looking at the debates around operaismo and Autonomia since the book originally appeared in 2002, and is updated with a new foreword and afterword.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSteve Wright is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. He is the author of the classic survey of Italian autonomist theory \u003cem\u003eStorming Heaven \u003c\/em\u003e(Pluto, 2017), now in its second edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The best account in English of the developments of autonomous politics in Italy in the 1960s and '70s\" Michael Hardt, co-author with Antonio Negri of \u003cem\u003eEmpire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"As the most wide-ranging, historically nuanced and theoretically incisive treatment of the contested tradition of operaismo, Wright's book is an indispensable contribution to the study, critique or revitalisation of Italy's foremost contribution to Marxian heterodoxy\" Alberto Toscano Goldsmiths, University of London\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A vital, lucid contribution to understanding how the red threads of Marxism are being rewoven into the fabric of twenty-first century radicalism\" Nick Dyer-Witheford, author of \u003cem\u003eCyber-Proletariat and Cyber-Marx\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eForeword by Harry Cleaver\u003cbr\u003e\nAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\nIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\n1. Weathering the 1950s\u003cbr\u003e\n2. Quaderni Rossi and the Workers' Enquiry\u003cbr\u003e\n3. Classe Operaia\u003cbr\u003e\n4. New Subjects\u003cbr\u003e\n5. The Creeping May\u003cbr\u003e\n6. Potere Operaio\u003cbr\u003e\n7. Toni Negri and the Operaio Sociale\u003cbr\u003e\n8. The Historiography of the Mass Worker\u003cbr\u003e\n9. The Collapse of Workerism\u003cbr\u003e\n10. Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\nPostscript: Once More, With Feeling: A Bibliographic Essay\u003cbr\u003e\nAfterword to the Italian Edition by Riccardo Bellofiore \u0026amp; Massimiliano Tomba\u003cbr\u003e\nBibliography\u003cbr\u003e\nIndex\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Steve Wright\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9780745399904\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 304 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Pluto\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175297232989,"sku":"9780745399904","price":36.45,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/storming_heaven.jpg?v=1654988346"},{"product_id":"towards-a-gay-communism","title":"Towards a Gay Communism: Elements of a Homosexual Critique","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in Italian in 1977, Mario Mieli's groundbreaking book is an early landmark of revolutionary queer theory – now available for the first time in a complete and unabridged English translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong the most important works ever to address the relationship between homosexuality, homophobia and capitalism, Mieli's essay continues to pose a radical challenge to today's dominant queer theory and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith extraordinary prescience, Mieli exposes the efficiency with which capitalism co-opts 'perversions' which are then 'sold both wholesale and retail'. In his view, the liberation of homosexual desire requires the emancipation of sexuality from both patriarchal sex roles and capital.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing heavily upon Marx and psychoanalysis to arrive at a dazzlingly original vision, \u003cem\u003eTowards a Gay Communism \u003c\/em\u003eis a hitherto neglected classic that will be essential reading for all who seek to understand the true meaning of sexual liberation under capitalism today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMario Mieli was a leading figure in the Italian gay movement of the 1970s, respected as one of the movement's most profound intellectuals. He committed suicide in 1983 at the age of 30. His work \u003cem\u003eTowards a Gay Communism \u003c\/em\u003e(Pluto, 2018) was considered a controversial classic of the era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e What People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An indispensable, pioneering example of the long, difficult effort to articulate queer struggle with anti-capitalist struggle\" Kevin Floyd, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism \u003c\/em\u003e(University of Minnesota Press, 2009)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mieli was ahead of his time... \u003cem\u003eTowards a Gay Communism \u003c\/em\u003ebelongs to a visionary tradition of ecstatic utopianism... A fascinating document of its departed moment, but also as renewable inspiration for our contemporary desire to envision a future that is foreign to today\" Tim Dean\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A just and timely tribute to one of theory's forgotten stars\" \u003cem\u003eTANK\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForeword: 'I Keep My Treasure in My Arse' by Tim Dean\u003cbr\u003e Introduction by Massimo Prearo\u003cbr\u003e Translator’s Preface by Evan Calder Williams\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Homosexual Desire is Universal\u003cbr\u003e 2. Fire and Brimstone, or How Homosexuals Became Gay\u003cbr\u003e 3. Heterosexual Men, or Rather Closet Queens\u003cbr\u003e 4. Crime and Punishment\u003cbr\u003e 5. A Healthy Mind in a Perverse Body\u003cbr\u003e 6. Towards a Gay Communism\u003cbr\u003e 7. The End\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A: Unpublished Preface to Homosexuality and Liberation by Mario Mieli (1980)\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B: Translator’s additional note from Chapter 1\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175297429597,"sku":"9780745399515","price":37.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/towardsagaycommunism.jpg?v=1654988347"},{"product_id":"beyond-the-periphery-of-the-skin-rethinking-remaking-and-reclaiming-the-body-in-contemporary-capitalism","title":"Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism","description":"\u003cp\u003eMore than ever, “the body” is today at the center of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, antiracist, trans, ecological movements—all look at the body in its manifold manifestations as a ground of confrontation with the state and a vehicle for transformative social practices. Concurrently, the body has become a signifier for the reproduction crisis the neoliberal turn in capitalist development has generated and for the international surge in institutional repression and public violence. 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In this process she confronts some of the most important questions for contemporary radical political projects. What does “the body” mean, today, as a category of social\/political action? What are the processes by which it is constituted? How do we dismantle the tools by which our bodies have been “enclosed” and collectively reclaim our capacity to govern them?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Federici’s attempt to draw together the work of feminists and activists from different parts of the world and place them in historical context is brave, thought-provoking, and timely. Federici’s writing is lucid and her fury palpable.” \u003cem\u003eRed Pepper\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Real transformations occur when the social relations that make up everyday life change, when there is a revolution within and across the stratifications of the social body. . . . Silvia Federici offers the kind of revolutionary perspective that is capable of revealing the obstacles that stand in the way of such change.” \u003cem\u003eFeminist Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Reading Federici empowers us to reconnect with what is at the core of human development, women’s labor-intensive caregiving—a radical rethinking of how we live.” \u003cem\u003eZ Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It is good to think with Silvia Federici, whose clarity of analysis and passionate vision come through in essays that chronicle enclosure and dispossession, witch-hunting, and other assaults against women, in the present, no less than the past. It is even better to act armed with her insights.” Eileen Boris, Hull Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California–Santa Barbara\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Silvia Federici’s theoretical capacity to articulate the plurality that fuels the contemporary movement of women in struggle provides a true toolbox for building bridges between different features and different people.” Massimo De Angelis, professor of political economy, University of East London\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSilvia Federici is a feminist writer, teacher, and militant. In 1972 she was cofounder of the International Feminist Collective that launched the Wages for Housework campaign. Her books include\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/witches-witch-hunting-and-women\"\u003e \u003cem\u003eWitches, Witch-Hunting, and Women\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e; \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/caliban-and-the-witch\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCaliban and the Witch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e; \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/re-enchanting-the-world-feminism-and-the-politics-of-the-commons\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRe-enchanting the World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e; and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/revolution-at-point-zero-housework-reproduction-and-feminist-struggle\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRevolution at Point Zero\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e. She is a professor emerita of social sciences at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. 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Its aims, politics, lifestyles, and tactics grow directly out of the autonomous social movements that emerged in Europe from the 1970s through the mid-1990s. In fact, today's infamous \"Black Blocs\" are the direct descendants of the European \"Autonomen.\" But these important historical connections are rarely noted, and never understood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eSubversion of Politics \u003c\/em\u003esets the record straight, filling in the gaps between the momentous events of 1968 and 1999. Katsiaficas presents the protagonists of social revolt—Italian feminists, squatters, disarmament and anti-nuclear activists, punk rockers, and anti-fascist street fighters—in a compelling and sympathetic light. At the same time, he offers a work of great critical depth, drawing from these political practices a new theory of freedom and autonomy that redefines the parameters of the political itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Katsiaficas—Fulbright fellow, former student of Herbert Marcuse, and long-time activist—is Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts. Author or editor of more than 10 books, he is writing a book on the Gwangju Uprising and East Asian social movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"...a scholarly gem which is indispensable reading for anyone interested in how social change occurs, especially in the advanced industrial countries.\" —Carl Boggs, National University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book is an important corrective to the all-too-common view that global capitalism is triumphant, that there is no basis for opposing the values it promotes.\" —Barbara Epstein, University of California at Santa Cruz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This elegantly and lively account has been meticulously researched and reveals new antisystemic forms of participatory democracy for achieving a greater individual and community control over everyday life. Thus the book's most notable value is to offer us some perspective on how to limit the damaging effects of global capitalism on our lives.\"—Susanne Peters, University of Giessen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"AK Press's republication of George Katsiaficas's \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/the-antifa-comic-book-100-years-of-fascism-and-antifa-movements\" title=\"The Subversion of Politics\"\u003eThe Subversion of Politics\u003c\/a\u003e comes at a good moment: when autonomous social movements are redefining the politics of the Americas from Mexico to Argentina. Katsiaficas's book is a unique history of autonomists in Italy, Germany and other parts Europe from the 1970s on. It affords a better understanding of the similarities (and differences) between the autonomy of the American and European movements. 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This book is about their experiences as they try and find new ways of building class power in tough times. It is essential reading for anyone who is grappling with the question: ‘what next for working class politics and revolutionary strategy?’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the introduction: \"In January 2014 some AngryWorkers chose to move to a working class neighbourhood on the fringes of west London. We felt an urgent need to break out of the cosmopolitan bubble and root our politics in working class jobs and lives. We wanted to pay more than just lip service to the classic slogan, ‘the emancipation of the working classes must be conquered by the working classes themselves.’ Over the next six years, comrades joined us and we worked in a dozen different warehouses and factories. We organised slowdowns on shop floors, rocked up on bosses’ and landlords’ doors with our solidarity network, and banged our heads against brick walls as shop stewards in the bigger unions. 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It moves to his workplace struggles in the auto industry and to his thought and activity as a Marxist-Humanist and colleague of Raya Dunayevskaya.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eNews \u0026amp; Letters\u003c\/em\u003e, December 2003:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRevolutionary life of Charles Denby\u003cbr\u003e\nby Susan Van Gelder\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe publication of a 40th anniversary edition of AMERICAN CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL by Raya Dunayevskaya and the long-awaited DIALECTICS OF BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLES by John Alan reminds us, on the 20th anniversary of his death, how significant Charles Denby was to the development of Marxist-Humanist philosophy and its organization, News and Letters Committees. As Raya Dunayevskaya put it,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The 75 years of Charles Denby's life are so full of class struggles, Black revolts, freedom movements that they not only illuminate the present, but cast a light even on the future. Listening to him, you felt you were witnessing an individual's life that was somehow universal, and that touched you personally. The genius of Charles Denby lies in the fact that the story of his life--INDIGNANT HEART: A BLACK WORKER'S JOURNAL--is the history of workers' struggles for freedom, his and all others the world over.\"(1)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA UNIQUE INDIVIDUAL\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCharles Denby was a Black auto production worker who grew up in rural Alabama and came north to Detroit with many other young Black men in the 1920s to work in the auto factories. He became involved in race and class struggles and was recruited into the Trotskyist movement. He quickly discovered the increasing division between rank-and-file labor and the union bureaucracy and refused to become a part of the union leadership. During the 1950s he chose to work with Raya Dunayevskaya and remained with her through several organizational splits. Their experiences led him to accept editorship of NEWS \u0026amp; LETTERS when it was founded in 1955 because he \"felt strongly that there was an imperative need for A NEW KIND of workers' paper\" (emphasis added).(2) His column \"Worker's Journal\" appeared on the front page of each issue until his death in 1983.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to say \"Workers as revolutionary thinkers?\" First, Denby's experiences as an African-American Southern farmer and autoworker had given him a desire for freedom that was total. He fought a life-long battle against the fragmentation of himself that capitalism forces upon us all. In Marxist-Humanism Denby helped develop a philosophy of liberation which in turn helped him develop and concretize his drive to be a full human being. Marxist-Humanism strives toward Marx's vision of a society centered on human needs and capacities. Denby understood how alienating capitalist society is and how totally it must be uprooted for a better world to begin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDenby's writings, as he was the first to insist, reflect dialogues, discussions, debates with other workers. His was an individualism that always retained his awareness of connection to the mass movement, or as Hegel had put it, \"individualism that lets nothing interfere with its universality, or freedom.\" In the pamphlet WORKERS BATTLE AUTOMATION written in 1960, Charles Denby is the primary author, but brought in other workers to tell their own stories and share their own views, often differing from his own, of automation in steel, light manufacturing, and even offices. This is indeed revolutionary in a society where workers are supposed to be ignorant and unwilling to think.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A unique combination of worker and intellectual\"-- this is not only a principle of Marxist-Humanist journalism and organization, but a description of Charles Denby himself. The stories of his life that make up his autobiography, INDIGNANT HEART: A BLACK WORKER'S JOURNAL are not abstract discussions about philosophy. Philosophy is present throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1943 after returning South, Denby came to Detroit again to find a better-paying job in the auto factories:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThey had recently had a stoppage because Negroes were put in that department...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI said [to Wide, Denby's roommate], \"How come? Isn't there a union now?\"...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWide said, \"The union doesn't mean everything to Negroes that some people think\"...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe employment office was practically filled. I met up with a white fellow from Tennessee who had just come to Detroit... He asked me what I was going to ask for.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI told him riveting.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHe said he didn't know the names of any jobs and would ask for the same thing. He'd never been North before or in a plant. He was in the line behind me.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen I reached the desk I asked the man for riveting. He told me that there weren't any riveting jobs. He asked if I had riveted before.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI said, yes, in Mobile, on bridges and in shipyards. I was lying to him but wanted to get the job.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHe said that was an altogether different kind of riveting and that my experience wouldn't apply. If I wanted to learn, he could send me to the school and they would pay me sixty cents an hour. He said he had a laboring job open, it only paid eighty-seven cents an hour. The man promised I might get on another job in a day or two that paid more...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI waited for the fellow from Tennessee... He said they had given him a job, riveting. \"And I just come in from the field.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI asked him if he had said that he had experience or if they mentioned going to school.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHe said, no.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI got kinda mad and went back to the man at the desk. He said he was busy and that he had given me the last available job.\u003c\/em\u003e(3)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDenby's story reveals the persistence and depth of the racism even unionized workers confronted. It also points a direction for overcoming it: dialogue between white and Black workers that all with a stake in systemic racism strive so hard to prevent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDenby continued to struggle against injustice in the shop, fighting for Black women workers to be given jobs in the sewing department. He insisted that there be no compromise on full integration, and that the Communist Party's support for the \"no-strike pledge,\" which the government had convinced the union leadership to agree to in support of the war effort, would only hurt workers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout the 1940s and 1950s Denby continued to write about the increasing gap between the union bureaucracy and rank-and-file union members. Racism continued unremittingly and profoundly to drive a wedge between white and Black workers and limit their power to challenge the direction of the union leadership. Denby recounts his experiences with the Communist and Trotskyist parties during this period, where he sought for Blacks and all workers to be treated as full, thinking human beings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe found that despite what was said, prejudice against African Americans persisted in the radical parties. He also became disillusioned with their vanguardist philosophy, that they were the ones to teach and lead the masses to revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHowever he recognized a foundation for his own thinking and activities in Raya Dunayevskaya's view of the central role of the Black masses in America, and in her concept, based on her study of Hegel's Absolute Idea, that theory and practice are inseparable. In 1955 the Johnson-Forest Tendency, to which they both belonged, underwent a split. Co-leader C.L.R. James disagreed with Dunayevskaya and Denby on the need for a revolutionary organization to reconstitute dialectical thought for modern struggles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA LIFE OF STRUGGLES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eINDIGNANT HEART: A BLACK WORKER'S JOURNAL was first published in 1952. Part II was written in 1978 after Denby retired from the plant and had been editor of NEWS \u0026amp; LETTERS for 23 years. In this part Denby reflects not only his personal experiences but the whole breadth of experience he gained as a Marxist-Humanist. As John Alan expresses it in DIALECTICS OF BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLES:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe range of his columns included stories about wildcat strikes, how the union bureaucracy participated in the writing of sell-out contracts, the relation between automation and unemployment in the Black communities and his own activity in the Civil Rights Movement. He wrote on the crucial dimension of race in America's freedom struggles and on the importance of philosophy to articulate the meaning of his own and the movements' activities. Today's activists would do well to reconnect with Denby's way of recollecting the meaning of the freedom struggles during his lifetime.(4)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe difference between the two parts is remarkable. Some critics, incapable of recognizing workers as thinkers, believe Denby was \"brainwashed\" in News and Letters Committees. But read Denby's speech at one of his local union meetings in 1962, and then still try to say that this man was brainwashed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI also pointed out that the great profits the corporation was making, which everyone had talked about, were going back into machines, into automation to make us work harder. It wasn't just a question of labor, I said, it was a question of the laborer; and I knew the company understood that very well, because they always kept putting more and more into the machines, and nothing for the human beings. Karl Marx, I said, had been the one to first point this fact out, a fact that every worker knows very well without having a long explanation about it. It meant the dead labor, the machines, were always on top of living labor, the workers. And if anybody wanted to find out the truth about that statement, all they had to do was go into any auto shop in this country, and they'd find out about it soon enough. In the shop, it's not a question of theory, it's a matter of fact that every worker knows: every year the machines are improved to run the workers more and more, to get as much out of them as possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the yelling that followed--hand-clapping, foot stamping and whistling--it's clear that the workers knew exactly what I was talking about. And after that demonstration, the bureaucrats turned off all of the microphones that had been set up throughout the hall and behind which workers were lined up to speak. And to this day in my local union, they've never set up microphones the way they used to at contract ratification meetings.(5)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlan underscores the importance of Charles Denby's relationship to Raya Dunayevskaya:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDunayevskaya recalled exciting moments when ideas were exchanged back and forth between herself and Denby. What she described was nothing less than a concretization of the Absolute Idea, the unity of the movement from theory with the movement from practice which is itself a form of theory. The unity created new directions in the thinking of both Dunayevskaya and Denby.(6)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDunavevskaya recalled that Denby's response to the news of Stalin's death was in sharp contrast to others in the Johnson-Forest Tendency who felt that workers did not see any relation to their own lives:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was March 5, 1953 when Stalin died. Denby called me the minute he got out of the shop. He said he imagined I was writing some sort of political analysis of what that meant and he wanted me to know what the workers in his shop were talking about that day: \"Every worker was saying, 'I have just the man to fill Stalin's shoes--my foreman..\" It impressed me so much that I said not only that I would write the political analysis of the death of that totalitarian, but that the workers' remarks would become the jumping off point for my article on the trade unions.(7)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the 20-year anniversary of his death, Charles Denby is very much alive in the philosophy of Marxist-Humanism. His writings on Black opposition to militarism and the importance of Marx's revolutionary ideas to the Black world (some are included in the new AMERICAN CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL) are important for all who oppose globalized capitalism today and wish to create new human foundations for society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the last year of his life Denby, though quite ill, was enthused by Raya Dunayevskaya's new discoveries of Karl Marx's writings on the Black world. He urged Dunayevskaya to develop this in her 1983 Introduction to the pamphlet. When completed, it showed the development of Marx's understanding of Black oppression and that Marx saw overcoming it would lead to greater freedom for all of humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe had concluded INDIGNANT HEART: A BLACK WORKER'S JOURNAL similarly:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI consider my life story as part of the worldwide struggle for freedom. As a Black from South U.S.A. and a Black auto production worker in Detroit, my experience has proved to me that history is the record of the fight of all oppressed people in everything they have thought and done to try to get human freedom in this world. I'm looking forward to that new world, and I firmly believe it is within reach, because so many others all over the world are reaching so hard with me.(8)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNOTES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1. Dunayevskaya, Raya, Afterword to INDIGNANT HEART: A BLACK WORKER'S JOURNAL. Wayne State University Press: Detroit, 1989. pp. 295-303\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e2. Ibid, p. 299.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e3. Denby, Charles, INDIGNANT HEART, op. cit. pp. 87-88\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e4. Alan, John, DIALECTICS OF BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLES. News \u0026amp; Letters: Chicago, 2003.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e5. 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James and a small circle of collaborators making up the radical left Johnson-Forest Tendency reached the conclusion that there was no true socialist society existing anywhere in the world. Written in collaboration with Raya Dunayevskaya and Grace Lee Boggs, this is another pioneering critique of Lenin and Trotsky, and reclamation of Marx, from the West Indian scholar and activist, C.L.R. James. Originally published in 1950, this definitive edition includes the original preface from Martin Glaberman to the third edition, C.L.R. James’ original introductions to three previous editions and a new introduction from James’ biographer Paul Buhle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“When one looks back over the last twenty years to those men who were most far-sighted, who first began to tease out the muddle of ideology in our times, who were at the same time Marxists with a hard theoretical basis, and close students of society, humanists with a tremendous response to and understanding of human culture, Comrade James is one of the first one thinks of.” E.P. Thompson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e “C.L.R. James is one of those rare individuals whom history proves right.” \u003cem\u003eRace Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e “It remains remarkable how far ahead of his time he was on so many issues.” \u003cem\u003eNew Society\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the West Indies C.L.R. James is honored as one of the fathers of independence. In Britain he is feted as a historic pioneer of the black movement. He is generally regarded as one of the major figures in Pan-Africanism, and a leader in developing a current within Marxism that was democratic, revolutionary, and internationalist. His long life and impressive career played out in Trinidad, England, and America. For the last years of his life, he lived in south London and lectured widely on politics, Shakespeare, and other topics. He died there in 1989.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRaya Dunayevskaya, who died in 1987, was a highly respected and influential philosopher, political activist, and feminist. She was the founder of Marxist Humanism in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGrace Lee Boggs (born June 27, 1915) is an author, lifelong social activist and feminist. She is known for her years of political collaboration with C.L.R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya in the 1940s and 1950s. She eventually went off in her own political direction in the 1960s with her husband of some forty years, James Boggs, until his death in 1993. She is still active at 97 with the recent book \u003cem\u003eThe Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/em\u003e, written with Scott Kurashige and published by University of California Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePaul Buhle is a retired Senior Lecturer at Brown University and author or editor of 35 volumes, including histories of radicalism in the U.S. and the Caribbean, studies of popular culture, and a series of nonfiction comic art volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMartin Glaberman (1918–2001) was an influential American Marxist, teacher, and autoworker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: C.L.R. 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