{"title":"XBooksX","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"confronting-fascism-discussion-documents-for-a-militant-movement","title":"Confronting Fascism: Discussion Documents for a Militant Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConfronting Fascism: Discussion Documents for a Militant Movement\u003c\/em\u003e is a series of documents that came out of conversations revolutionaries in and around Anti-Racist Action were having at the highpoint of the previous wave of antifascist organizing in North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 2002 as a collaboration between Kersplebedeb, ARA Chicago, and the anarchist magazine Arsenal, \u003cem\u003eConfronting Fascism\u003c\/em\u003e is structured around a text by Don Hamerquist, \"Fascism \u0026amp; Antifascism.\" Hamerquist takes a wrecking ball to the mythology around fascism that had been traditionally peddled by the reformist left; against objections that fascists are just a distraction, or are simple-minded agents of the state and capital, he shows how fascism contains a revolutionary and even anticapitalist impulse thoroughly enmeshed with its own deeply oppressive and anti-liberatory politics. Unraveling what this means for antifascists and our strategies is the task at hand, and Hamerquist proceeds to lay down some important preliminary realities that we need to deal with. Almost twenty years later, what is most striking is how prescient so many of Hamerquist's observations were, not only about the ambiguously dynamic appeal of fascism, but also about the specific characteristics of antifascist work and the advantages and disadvantages they confer. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJ. Sakai follows Hamerquist, interrogating his analysis as he pushes it forward. Sakai argues against the idea that fascism comes primarily from the working class, just as he extends the point that fascism is not an inherently or essentially \"white\" ideology. A discussion of different forms of capitalist rule, the class structure of global imperialism, and the history of anticapitalist critique within both Italian and German \"classical\" fascism, flows into a contemporary contextualization of fascism within the neocolonial context; throughout, Sakai shows that support for fascism comes primarily from middle class men who are losing or being denied their traditional privileges, what many consider their birthrght, as a result of capitalist and imperialist \"progress.\" As such, a thread of parasitism and social revanchism is traced, connecting the tax resister from the American midwest to the racist bonehead in neoliberal Britain to the Taliban fighter in Afghanistan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShorter texts from the ARA Research Bulletin, Mark Salotte and Xtn of ARA Chicago, place these theoretical insights in the concrete context of the political and physical fight against the far right, while also recovering the connections between this fight and the broader rise of anticapitalist struggle at the time. Militant antifascist activism constituted an important factor in hemming in and ultimately thwarting the attempts at advance being made by several leading fascist groups at the time -- it was a form of struggle that worked. Without providing any kind of blueprint for the current resurgent antifa movement, they nonetheless provide insights and frameworks that should be examined and integrated, so that those taking up the work today can draw upon what was done before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBreaking with established Left practice,\u003cem\u003e Confronting Fascism\u003c\/em\u003e attempts to deal with the questions of fascism and antifascism in a serious and non-dogmatic manner. Attention is paid to to the class appeal of fascism, its continuities and breaks with the \"regular\" far-right and also even with the Left, the ways in which the fascist movement is flexible and the ways in which it isn't. Left failures, both in opposing fascism head-on, and also in providing a viable alternative to right-wing revolt, are also dealt with at length.The lived experiences of anti-fascist activists inform this work, and more attention is paid to actual historical developments and facts than to neat theories that explain everything but only coincidentally intersect with reality. Understanding the relationship of fascism, the State, left reformism and what it means to be revolutionary are priorities in a world where it seems increasingly true that those who do not advance will have to retreat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 2002, \u003cem\u003eConfronting Fascism \u003c\/em\u003ewas downloaded and purchased by thousands following the Trump election in 2016, making it suddenly \"out of print\". This new edition consists of the same material as in the 2002 edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Mark Salotte\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: J. Sakai\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Don Hamerquist\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN:  978-1-894946-87-2\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 219 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175001141341,"sku":"9781894946872","price":12.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/confrontingfascismcover_0.jpg?v=1654986675"},{"product_id":"a-time-to-die-the-attica-prison-revolt","title":"A Time To Die: The Attica Prison Revolt","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe essential first hand account of the Attica Prison rebellion, back in print for the 40th anniversary of the uprising. In September 1971 the inmates of Attica revolted, took hostages, and forced the authorities into four days of desperate negotiation. At the outset the rebels demanded-and were granted-the presence of a group of observers to act as unofficial mediators.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTom Wicker, then the associate editor of The New York Times, was one of those summoned. In four crucial days, he learned more, saw more,and felt more than in most of the rest of his life.In the end,a police attack was launched, and as a result dozens of prisoners, as well as prison employees, were killed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWriting in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e, Kurt Vonnegut said of the first edition: \"The Attican events, described with primitive energy and workday language. . . . will surely appease the hunger of tens of thousands of us for an honest insider's account of what led to such a ferocious attack on virtually unarmed prisoners. . . . [I]t is a heartbroken rather than angry book. It is a superb documentary which would hold up in court.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the occasion of its reissue, H. Bruce Franklin, author of \u003cem\u003ePrison Literature in America\u003c\/em\u003e and editor of \u003cem\u003ePrison Writing in 20th-Century America\u003c\/em\u003e, commented: \"It's a grim sign of our dark times that Tom Wicker's \u003cem\u003eA Time to Die\u003c\/em\u003e is now more timely than ever. Almost four decades after this book revealed to the world both the horrid conditions that led to the Attica prison revolt and the ensuing carnage and torture carried out by New York State authorities, America's prison system has evolved into one of the most hideous and massive violations of human rights on our planet today. Wicker's role at Attica was a life-changing experience for him, and this book he published in 1975 seemed at the time to be an alarming wake-up call for the nation. Now that this great work is back in print, Wicker's vision can help make the nation confront the roots and realities of the twenty-first-century American prison.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTom Wicker, a former reporter, Washington bureau chief, and columnist for \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, is the author of several books, including \u003cem\u003eOn the Record\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in Rochester, Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for the Haymarket edition \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"To get a sense of what was at stake at Attica in fully realized detail, Wicker’s extraordinary account of his four days among the observers, \u003cem\u003eA Time to Die\u003c\/em\u003e is indispensable. With its intermingling of personal confession and public significance, it is a real masterpiece of the first wave of the nonfiction novel, as good, in its more sober way, as Mailer’s “Armies of the Night.” \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It's a grim sign of our dark times that Tom Wicker's \u003cem\u003eA Time to Die\u003c\/em\u003e is now more timely than ever. Almost four decades after this book revealed to the world both the horrid conditions that led to the Attica prison revolt and the ensuing carnage and torture carried out by New York State authorities, America's prison system has evolved into one of the most hideous and massive violations of human rights on our planet today. Wicker's role at Attica was a life-changing experience for him, and this book he published in 1975 seemed at the time to be an alarming wake-up call for the nation. Now that this great work is back in print, Wicker's vision can help make the nation confront the roots and realities of the twenty-first-century American prison.\" H. Bruce Franklin, author of Prison Literature in America and editor of Prison Writing in 20th-Century America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Attica rebellion and Rockefeller-sanctioned massacre occurred forty years ago. Tom Wicker's story though could not be more vital today in the United States, where we have ten times the number of prisoners as we did at the time of Attica and our prisons make an art out of destroying human beings. \u003cem\u003eA Time To Die\u003c\/em\u003e compels us to understand the inhumanity of prisons in America, one of the greatest injustices of our time, and of a state that has no compunction about murdering prisoners and jailers alike. If you believe that the state puts any value on the lives of the incarcerated or on their jailers, this book will change you forever. Think Attica forty years ago, think Pelican Bay today. Then act.\" Michael Ratner, President, Center for Constitutional Rights\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eA Time to Die\u003c\/em\u003e is a searing portrait, not only of one of the great historical tragedies of the U.S. prison system, but of a journalist who wishes desperately to contribute to the struggle for racial justice while also grappling with his own white, middle-class biases. Its lessons-about the racist underpinnings of mass incarceration, about the cynical politics that determine life-or-death decisions, and about the conditions that deny prisoners their basic humanity-are as relevant today as when it was first published. This is a book that should be taught in classrooms.\" Liliana Segura, Associate Editor, \u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for previous editions \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Attican events, described with primitive energy and workday language. . . . will surely appease the hunger of tens of thousands of us for an honest insider's account of what led to such a ferocious attack on virtually unarmed prisoners. . . . [I]t is a heartbroken rather than angry book. It is a superb documentary which would hold up in court.\" Kurt Vonnegut, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Time to Die\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent and gripping account of a massacre that dramatized some appalling weaknesses in the fabric of our society.\" Robert E. Walters, \u003cem\u003eNation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of Wicker's most telling points is that the placement of these 'human warehouses' [in Attica] out of sight of the law-abiding who need never go there has resulted in their administration by guards unable to cope with, sometimes unable even to understand the language of their charges. . . . Wicker is scathing on Rockefeller's evident belief that 'the order of things must be preserved.'\" Walter Clemons, \u003cem\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Time to Die\u003c\/i\u003e is detailed, painstakingly thorough, explicit in its detail and photographs, and frightening in its implications.\" Jack McDonald, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Bar Association Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tom Wicker's \u003ci\u003eA Time to Die\u003c\/i\u003e is multilayered. On one level, it is history; on a second, political philosophy; on a third, autobiography; and on a final level, an appeal for prison reform. Above all, however, it is good writing.\" James T. Carney, \u003ci\u003eYale Law Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A Time to Die] is an unusual blend of reporting and personal soul searching. . . . [T]he result is tense, gripping, and shocking.\" Joy Macari, \u003cem\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinner of the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Fact Crime book in 1976.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175068807261,"sku":"9781608462155","price":15.12,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_863_timetodie3_0.jpg?v=1654987181"},{"product_id":"defying-the-tomb-selected-prison-writings-and-art-of-kevin-rashid-johnson-featuring-exchanges-with-an-outlaw","title":"Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and Art of Kevin  \"Rashid \" Johnson featuring exchanges with an Outlaw","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollow the author's odyssey from lumpen drug dealer to prisoner, to revolutionary New Afrikan, a teacher and mentor, one of a new generation rising of prison intellectuals. This book consists primarily of letters between Rashid and Outlaw, another revolutionary New Afrikan prisoner, smuggled between the segregation wing and general population over a period of months. These comrades educate themselves—and us as well—on Marxism and Maoism, the Five-Percenters, Dialectical Materialism, Dead Prez, Capitalism, Racism, Imperialism, Class Struggle, Revolutionary Nationalism, New Afrikan Independence, Psychology, and a host of other subjects, as they grapple with how to promote revolutionary consciousness in the most hostile of environments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRashid has been in prison for twenty years—the past eighteen of which in segregation (solitary confinement). Shortly after this correspondence between himself and Outlaw, he and his comrade Shaka Sankofa Zulu founded the New Afrikan Black Panther Party–Prison Chapter. The NABPP-PC has since developed branches in various prisons across the u$ empire and has its own newsletter, Right On! A number of Rashid's essays written as Minister of Defense of the NABPP-PC are also included in this book. For more about Rashid, including links to his writings available online, please visit his website at \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/rashidmod.com\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.rashidmod.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Kevin 'Rashid' Johnson has put together an outstanding compendium of political essays and letters that addresses many of the critical issues of today. His intra-prison correspondences with his comrade, Outlaw, is a rewarding study in the determined and ingenious maneuvers that prisoners have to go through to politically educate and organize themselves – and others around them. As a result, just reading the book itself provides one with the basic foundation of a political education.\" — from the Afterword by Sundiata Acoli, New Afrikan political prisoner of war\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Your mission (should you decide to accept it) is to buy multiple copies of this book, read it carefully, and then get it into the hands of as many prisoners as possible. I am aware of no prisoner-written book more important than this one, at least not since George Jackson’s Blood In My Eye. Revolutionaries and those considering the path of progress will find Kevin “Rashid” Johnson’s Defying The Tomb an important contribution to their political development.\" — Ed Mead, former political prisoner, George Jackson Brigade\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The correspondence of Rashid and Outlaw, carried on within the tenuous cracks of a supermax prison, offers the reader a compelling blend of psychological insight, political analysis, and passion for learning. Their defiance in the face of oppression is matched by their broad human solidarity. As they grapple with ideas, they also think as organizers, probing the dispositions and motivations of their fellow prisoners. Their struggle for justice is informed by a commitment to reason.\" — Victor Wallis, Professor, Liberal Arts Department, Berklee College of Music\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Kevin Rashid Johnson\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-894946-39-1\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 386 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175075491933,"sku":"9781894946391","price":16.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_893_defying3_0.jpg?v=1654987243"},{"product_id":"meditations-on-frantz-fanons-wretched-of-the-earth-new-afrikan-revolutionary-writings","title":"Meditations on Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003e“This exercise is about more than our desire to read and understand Wretched (as if it were about some abstract world, and not our own); it’s about more than our need to understand (the failures of) the anti-colonial struggles on the African continent. This exercise is also about us, and about some of the things that We need to understand and to change in ourselves and our world.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout James Yaki Sayles\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike the revs that he most considered his teachers—Malcolm X and George Jackson—James Yaki Sayles grew up poor and found his maturity in prison, the place that Malcolm called “the Black man’s university.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA child of Chicago’s South Side streets, Yaki always just thought of himself as a blood, “just another nigger doing a bit” (to borrow the laconic words of one of the Pontiac state prison revolt defendants). And it was in the prison movement that he found his place in the battlefield. Although he made revolutionary theory his work, his life was rooted in a time of urban guerrillas and the armed struggle. Which makes his writing much more difficult to read, but with a warning of danger and commitment that is so often missing in these neo-colonized times between the storms…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYaki soon became a leading activist in the small prison collectives in his state. First in the Stateville Prisoners Organization, which quickly grew into the New Afrikan Prisoners Organization. There were groups in Stateville, Pontiac, and Menard prisons, as well as individual members in other prisons outside Illinois and rads on the street. Yaki also became an influence in less public organizations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne thing he never became was well-known. There were definite reasons for this. In part, because Yaki was a very private person who rarely talked about his inner life or childhood, and who never wanted to write about his own past to a curious public. Becoming a radical celebrity was not anywhere in his plans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYaki was also unknown because of the role he chose for himself. Much of his writings were not for the public, or even the community as a whole. Most of them were cadre teachings. Typically, Yaki wrote and spoke as a teacher for those already New Afrikan revolutionaries who were cadre. Those who had accepted the responsibility of being organizers and local teachers themselves. Although he was often repeating or underscoring basic political lessons, sometimes these were almost technical discussions. Craft discussions. In the same way that young Five-percenters proudly talk about, “i can do the math,” “i know the numbers.” And as such his words weren’t meant to be entertaining, and rads often complained of finding them as hard to read as some textbook. Far from easy reading. But it’s like, if you wanted to be able to design the flow of water through a hydoelectric plant or do brain surgery on an infant, at the very start you’d be cracking the books late into the night and studying for all you were worth. Yaki didn’t think that trying to transform society was any easier…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Yaki started out in prison, he had amassed a real library of political and history books, together with magazines and files of documents and correspondence. And he spent hours and hours studying and writing. This gradually became more and more choked off by prison authorities. As he put it: “Inside it only grows worse, not better. Because they keep changing wardens, and every warden has to prove that they’ve made some change or new shit they can point to. Which is only more restrictions.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the start of the 21st century, he was limited to one thin cardboard case, only a few inches high, which had to hold any books, magazines, newspapers, notebooks, files, letters, blank paper, pencil and pens he had in his cell. And he had to work mandatory eight-hour shifts every day at the usual makework prison jobs (such as counting out and counting in the checkers pieces in the day room), which cut down on his intellectual hours. All this led him to decide to center himself on one major project which only required two books, a reappraisal and explanation of Frantz Fanon’s great revolutionary writing, \u003cem\u003eWretched of the Earth\u003c\/em\u003e…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere, Yaki is on a mission. To make up for the misunderstanding of Fanon’s politics that he and so many of his young rebel comrades once had. To help guide the study by newer rebels of this complex and difficult reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“i got out of Folsom \u0026amp; one of the first things i got was a kalishnikov ak-47, 7.62x39 … Needless to say, without the requisite consciousness, the gun \u0026amp; i soon parted company. The gun fell into the hands of invading pigs \u0026amp; i fell in the same hands. Was sent back to a cell … That’s when i got at the ’rad Atiba Shanna [aka James Yaki Sayles] \u0026amp; told him i’d been captured and why. He said, ‘i’d rather have one cadre free than 100 ak-47’s.’ It took me years to overstand \u0026amp; appreciate that one sentence. For this comrad has done more to de-criminalize and de-colonize my mind than any one person, book or event in my life.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyOTY0In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/sanyika-shakur\" title=\"Sanyika Shakur\"\u003eSanyika Shakur\u003c\/a\u003e, author of the best-selling book, \u003cem\u003eMonster: Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Here is an authentic voice of the Black Revolution from the times of violent ghetto uprisings, re-learning the lessons of Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth. Uncut, undiluted.” J. Sakai, author of \u003cem\u003eSettlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: James Yaki Sayles\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-894946-32-2\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 399 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175077916765,"sku":"9781989701010","price":16.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_911_meditations3_0.jpg?v=1654987259"},{"product_id":"my-enemys-enemy-essays-on-globalization-fascism-and-the-struggle-against-capitalism","title":"My Enemy's Enemy: essays on globalization, fascism and the struggle against capitalism","description":"\u003cp\u003eArticles by anti-fascist researchers and political activists from Europe and North America, examining racist and pro-capitalist tendencies within the movement against globalization. They expose the activities of fascists and garden-variety xenophobes, showing that the struggle has to be against capitalism and exclusion, not simply its \"neo-liberal\" rendition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003col\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eAryan Politics \u0026amp; Fighting the WTO (J. Sakai)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003ePostscript: There are politics beyond tactics (J. Sakai)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eNader Quotes (Will Offley)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003e\"Anti-Globalization\": Buchanan, Fulani \u0026amp; Neo-fascist Drift in the US (Tom Burghardt, AFIB Editor)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003ePostscript: The Party's Over? (Tom Burghardt)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003e\"Millenium Round\" of the WTO under fire… from both left and right by (Alain Kessi)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eDe Fabel van de illegaal quits Dutch anti-MAI campaign (Eric Krebbers \u0026amp; Merijn Schoenmakerde)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eCampaign against the MAI potentially antisemitic (Eric Krebbers \u0026amp; Merijn Schoenmaker)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eGoldsmith and his Gaian hierarchy (Eric Krebbers)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eFabel self interview about quitting the campaign against \"free trade\" (Krebbers, Westerink \u0026amp; Schoenmaker)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eBeethoven versus McDonalds (Revolutionary Cells)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eResisting Global Capitalism in India (Jaggi Singh)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eCanadian Dry Rot (Will Offley)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eIntroduction by Anti-Fascist Forum\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhy write an essay exposing troublesome characteristics of the struggle against globalization, when global capitalism is seemingly more firmly entrenched than ever? What can be gained from \"rocking the boat\", even if it is true that the campaign against the World Trade Organization may contain certain unsavory elements? Who poses the greatest threat, who should be enemy number one, a few local demagogues or the barons of international capital? Far be it from us at Anti-Fascist Forum to argue against fighting the World Trade Organization and other planning bodies of international capital. But the reasons why people choose to struggle against the WTO, and the ideas underlying their fight, are vitally important to all of us who would like to see capitalism overthrown and class society come to an end. The authors of these texts, most of which have already been published on the internet, have all observed reactionary tendencies within the struggle against global capitalism which go beyond the presence of a few individual crackpots. While the Left currently dominates on the streets and, to a lesser degree, in the popular imagination, this is not necessarily a permanent affair. Without learning the lessons of history and debunking the pseudo-progressivism of the liberal left, revolutionaries may find themselves increasingly marginalized in a movement that whitewashes blood-drenched \"local capitalism\" and lays the basis for heightened exploitation around the world. As we have argued in our magazine, Left-wing weaknesses, both intellectual and organizational, provide a vacuum that is readily filled by the far-right. At the very least, the anti-WTO campaign is a good example of this. In the words of the International Militant Anti-Fascist Network, with which we are affiliated: \"Fascism is not the cause of the Left's collapse but the punishment for it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Anti-Fascist Forum\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175078408285,"sku":"9780973143225","price":12.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_913_mee3_0.jpg?v=1654987261"},{"product_id":"the-red-army-faction-a-documentary-history-mdash-volume-1-projectiles-for-the-people","title":"The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History—Volume 1: Projectiles For the People","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first in a two-volume series, this is by far the most in-depth political history of the Red Army Faction ever made available in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eProjectiles for the People\u003c\/em\u003e starts its story in the days following World War II, showing how American imperialism worked hand in glove with the old pro-Nazi ruling class, shaping West Germany into an authoritarian anti-communist bulwark and launching pad for its aggression against Third World nations. The volume also recounts the opposition that emerged from intellectuals, communists, independent leftists, and then – explosively – the radical student movement and countercultural revolt of the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was from this revolt that the Red Army Faction emerged, an underground organization devoted to carrying out armed attacks within the Federal Republic of Germany, in the view of establishing a tradition of illegal, guerilla resistance to imperialism and state repression. Through its bombs and manifestos the RAF confronted the state with opposition at a level many activists today might find difficult to imagine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor the first time ever in English, this volume presents all of the manifestos and communiqués issued by the RAF between 1970 and 1977, from Andreas Baader’s prison break, through the 1972 May Offensive and the 1975 hostage-taking in Stockholm, to the desperate, and tragic, events of the “German Autumn” of 1977. The RAF’s three main manifestos – \u003cem\u003eThe Urban Guerilla Concept\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eServe the People\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBlack September\u003c\/em\u003e – are included, as are important interviews with \u003cem\u003eSpiegel\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ele Monde Diplomatique\u003c\/em\u003e, and a number of communiqués and court statements explaining their actions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eProviding the background information that readers will require to understand the context in which these events occurred, separate thematic sections deal with the 1976 murder of Ulrike Meinhof in prison, the 1977 Stammheim murders, the extensive use of psychological operations and false-flag attacks to discredit the guerilla, the state’s use of sensory deprivation torture and isolation wings, and the prisoners’ resistance to this, through which they inspired their own supporters and others on the left to take the plunge into revolutionary action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on both mainstream and movement sources, this book is intended as a contribution to the comrades of today – and to the comrades of tomorrow – both as testimony to those who struggled before and as an explanation as to how they saw the world, why they made the choices they made, and the price they were made to pay for having done so. For more on this book check out the \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.germanguerilla.com\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGerman Guerilla\u003c\/a\u003e website.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“[Projectiles for the People] is a highly accessible rendition of a story of struggle that puts us into both the thought and the action. That placement conveys more than a sense or understanding of the RAF’s praxis. It transmits a connection in a visceral way. Not since reading Ten Days that Shook the World have I been so drawn into a political narrative. Reading like a historical thriller notwithstanding, Projectiles lets us see a rare confluence of theory and practice of which anyone who aspires to make revolution should be aware. The RAF may no longer be with us, but it has prepared the ground for and can yet aid the current movement for the most equitable social reality in which all people will have the greatest possible freedom to develop their full human potential. Nowhere else has the RAF’s life, times, and legacy been so clearly laid out.” — Bill Dunne (political prisoner since 1979)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This book about the Red Army Faction of American-occupied Germany is one that should be read by any serious student of anti-imperialist politics. “Volume 1: Projectiles for the People” provides a history of the RAF’s development through the words of its letters and communiqués. What makes the book especially important and relevant, however, is the careful research and documentation done by its editors. Their effort makes this work far more than a collection of communiqués. From this book you will learn the mistakes of a group that was both large and strong, but which (like our own home-grown attempts in this regard) was unable to successfully communicate with the working class of a “democratic” country on a level that met their needs. While the armed struggle can be the seed of something much larger, is also another means of reaching out and communicating with the people. Students interested in this historic era would do well to study this book and to internalize both the successes and failures of one of the largest organized armed anti-imperialists organizations operating in Western Europe since World War II.” —Ed Mead, former political prisoner, George Jackson Brigade\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Starting in the Sixties, a new revolutionary strategy began to plague the capitalist metropolis—the urban guerilla. Warfare once waged by peasant armies in the countryside of a Cuba, a China, or a Guinea-Bisseau, was suddenly transfered to small cells of ex-students in the imperialist centers of Berlin, Rome and New York. No urban guerrillas became more famed or more demonized than West Germany’s Red Army Faction (RAF). We knew their signature bold actions in the headlines: from the damaging bombing of the u.s. army V Corps headquarters in Hamburg in 1972, in response to Washington’s mining of Hanoi’s harbor in an escalation of the Vietnam War, to the kidnapping and later execution of the head of the West German industrialists association, in an effort to negotiate for the release of revolutionary prisoners. But we never heard their political voices. Since the RAF’s political statements, debates and communiqués were untranslated and unavailable in English even within the left.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Now, at last, a significant documentary history of the RAF has come into the spotlight, complete with a readable account of the postwar German New Left from which it emerged. Even better, this work was done by editors\/translators who reject the obedient capitalist media’s trivializing of the RAF as “pathological” death-wishing celebrities. In their hands, the words of the RAF are revealed as serious responses to the failure of parliamentary reformism, trade-unionism and pacifism, to stop the solidification of Germany’s own form of a neofascist capitalism (lightly cosmeticized with a layer of that numbing “consumer democracy”). The young RAF fighters hoped for liberation in their dangerous experiment but were willing to accept tragic consequences, and their story is emotionally difficult to read with eyes open. Controversial as the RAF was, their systematic torture in special “anti-terrorist” facilities stirred worldwide unease and even protest. In fact, those special prisons were the eagerly studied forerunners for the u.s. empire’s own latest human rights abuses, from Guantanamo to the domestic “maxi-maxi” prisons. We all and the RAF are much closer than the capitalist public wants to believe. It is all here, in this first volume of the Red Army Faction documentary histories, and we should thank all those who worked on this book.” —J. Sakai, author of \u003cem\u003eSettlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Clear-headed and meticulously researched, this book deftly avoids many of the problems that plagued earlier attempts to tell the brief but enduring history of the RAF. It offers a remarkable wealth of source material in the form of statements and letters from the combatants, yet the authors manage to present it in a way that is both coherent and engaging. Evidence of brutal—and ultimately ineffective—attempts by the state to silence the voices of political prisoners serve as a timely and powerful reminder of the continued need for anti-imperialist prisoners as leaders in our movements today. At once informative and inspirational, this is a much-needed contribution to the analysis of armed struggle and the cycles of repression and resistance in Europe and around the world.” — Sara Falconer, Toronto Anarchist Black Cross Federation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Armed struggle was one of the most controversial yet widespread phenomena of the worldwide revolutionary upsurge in the 1960s and 1970s—and the Red Army Faction was a centerpiece of this strategy in the imperial West. This valuable documentary history gathers RAF primary documents with an impressive set of contextual essays, providing the raw material necessary to understand the strategies and consequences of attacking from within the belly of the beast.” —Dan Berger, author of \u003cem\u003eOutlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Of all the revolutionary organizations to have been forged by the so-called sixties generation, the German Red Army Faction has been perhaps the most mythologized and maligned. Here at last is their story, told in their own words through “official” communications, comprehensively assembled and available for the first time in English translation. This is essential material for anyone wishing to know what they did, why they did it, and to draw consequent lessons from their experience.” —Ward Churchill author of \u003cem\u003eOn the Justice of Roosting Chickens\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: J. 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From the rape bordellos of the Balkans to the mass murder by AIDS in Afrika, women are being pushed to understand men’s society and, most importantly, ourselves, in a different way. The longest Amazon journey begins today.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003efrom the Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Military Strategy of Women and Children\u003c\/em\u003e lays out the need for an autonomous and independent women's revolutionary movement, a revolutionary women's culture that involves not only separating oneself from patriarchal imperialism, but also in confronting, opposing, and waging war against it by all means necessary. Of particular interest is the Lee's critique of reformist \"feminism\", and her examination of how genocide, colonialism and patriarchy are intertwined, not only historically but also in the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe three main essays in this book appeared in slightly different form in the 1980s in the underground feminist newspaper \u003cem\u003eBottomfish Blues\u003c\/em\u003e, while the postscript (\"There's Fighting in Iraq but the Real Women'sWar is in Afrika\") was written in 2003. They are the first parts of an ongoing work in progress—part four is published separately in the book \u003cem\u003eJailbreak Out of History\u003c\/em\u003e. More writings by Butch Lee are available \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.kersplebedeb.com\/mystuff\/books\/tmsowac\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.kersplebedeb.com\/mystuff\/books\/tmsowac\/index.html\"\u003eonline on the Kersplebedeb website\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.kersplebedeb.com\/mystuff\/books\/tmsowac\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.kersplebedeb.com\/mystuff\/books\/tmsowac\/index.html\"\u003eButch Lee\u003c\/a\u003e was a longtime revolutionary, and co-author of \u003cem\u003eNight-Vision: Illuminating War and Class on the Neo-Colonial Terrain\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Butch Lee\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175084339293,"sku":"9780973143232","price":10.08,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_950_tmsowac3_0.jpg?v=1654987299"},{"product_id":"they-never-crushed-his-spirit-a-tribute-to-richard-williams","title":"They Never Crushed His Spirit: A Tribute to Richard Williams","description":"\u003cp\u003eRichard Williams was a lifelong anti-imperialist and socialist, one of the Ohio 7 convicted in 1984 of having carried out armed actions against racism and imperialism as a member of the United Freedom Front. 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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":"when-race-burns-class-settlers-revisited","title":"When Race Burns Class: Settlers Revisited","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePLEASE NOTE: This text is included in the new J. 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It argues that pervasive national, racial and cultural chauvinism in the core capitalist countries is not primarily attributable to ‘false class consciousness’, ideological indoctrination or ignorance as much left and liberal thinking assumes. Rather, these and related forms of bigotry are concentrated expressions of the major social strata of the core capitalist nations’ shared economic interest in the exploitation and repression of dependent nations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book demonstrates not only how redistribution of income derived from super-exploitation has allowed for the amelioration of class conflict in the wealthy capitalist countries, it also shows that the exorbitant ‘super-wage’ paid to workers there has meant the disappearance of a domestic vehicle for socialism, an exploited working class. Rather, in its place is a deeply conservative metropolitan workforce committed to maintaining, and even extending, its privileged position through imperialism. The book is intended as a major contribution to debates on the international class structure and socialist strategy for the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Dr. Cope presents a thought provoking study of the political economy of the world system by focusing on the concept of a global labour aristocracy. Within the world system, which has also been described as a global apartheid system by some, enormous differences exist between workers’ wages and living conditions, depending on where the workers are located. The author details how a global labour aristocracy in core countries benefits at the expense of workers in periphery countries. The mechanisms supporting such a situation are identified as exploitation, imperialism and racism. The book is a valuable contribution to globalization critique.” — Gernot Köhler, Professor (retired) of Computer Studies at the Department of Computing and Information Management, Sheridan College, Ontario, Canada and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Global Wage System: A Study of International Wage Differences\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGlobal Economics: An Introductory Course\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“How can we link the division between the poor and the rich people in one and any country and the division between the rich and poor nations together into an analytical framework? The answer lies in the concept of ‘the embourgeoisement of the working people’ of the rich core countries and the fact that colonialism and national chauvinism have gone hand in hand so as to breed a ‘labour aristocracy’. This book is a must-read for anyone who cares about fairness. Zak Cope brings together brilliantly the concepts of nation, race and class analytically under the umbrella of capitalism, by situating racism in the class structure and by locating class in the context of the global economy.” — Mobo Gao, Chair of Chinese Studies and Director of the Confucius Institute at the Centre for Asian Studies, University of Adelaide, and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Battle for China’s Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This is a surprising book. At a time when confusion about Globalization surrounds us, Zak Cope pulls us towards what is fundamental. He outlines the 19th \u0026amp; 20th century recasting of the diverse human world into rigid forms of oppressed colonized societies and oppressor colonizing societies. A world divide still heavily determining our lives. Working rigorously in a marxist-leninist vein, the author focuses on how imperialism led to a giant metropolis where even the main working class itself is heavily socially bribed and loyal to capitalist oppression. Much is laid aside in his analysis, in order to concentrate on only what he considers the most basic structure of all in world capitalist society. This is writing both controversial and foundational at one and the same time.” — J. Sakai, author of \u003cem\u003eSettlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Zak Cope\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 387 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher:  Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175099838557,"sku":"9781894946414","price":17.01,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1086_dwdc3_0.jpg?v=1654987409"},{"product_id":"the-red-army-faction-a-documentary-history-mdash-volume-2-dancing-with-imperialism","title":"The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History—Volume 2: Dancing with Imperialism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe long-awaited Volume 2 of the first-ever English-language study of the Red Army Faction—West Germany’s most notorious urban guerillas—covers the period immediately following the organization’s near-total decimation in 1977.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis work includes the details of the guerilla’s operations, and its communiqués and texts, from 1978 up until the 1984 offensive. This was a period of regrouping and reorientation for the RAF, with its previous focus on freeing its prisoners replaced by an anti-NATO orientation. This was in response to the emergence of a new radical youth movement in the Federal Republic, the Autonomen, and an attempt to renew its ties to the radical left. The possibilities and perils of an armed underground organization relating to the broader movement are examined, and the RAF’s approach is contrasted to the more fluid and flexible practice of the Revolutionary Cells. At the same time, the history of the 2nd of June Movement (2JM), an eclectic guerilla group with its roots in West Berlin, is also evaluated, especially in light of the split that led to some 2JM members officially disbanding the organization and rallying to the RAF. Finally, the RAF’s relationship to the East German Stasi is examined, as is the abortive attempt by West Germany’s liberal intelligentsia to defuse the armed struggle during Gerhard Baum’s tenure as Minister of the Interior.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDancing with Imperialism\u003c\/em\u003e will be required reading for students of the First World guerilla, those with interest in the history of European protest movements, and all who wish to understand the challenges of revolutionary struggle. For more on this book check out the \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.germanguerilla.com\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGerman Guerilla\u003c\/a\u003e website.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Andre Moncourt\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: J. Smith\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-60486-030-6\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 480 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175119564893,"sku":"9781604860306","price":22.64,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1184_dancingwithimperialism3_0.jpg?v=1654987549"},{"product_id":"stand-up-struggle-forward-new-afrikan-revolutionary-writings-on-nation-class-and-patriarchy","title":"Stand Up Struggle Forward: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings On Nation, Class and Patriarchy","description":"\u003cp\u003e“It was over 20 years ago that the book \u003cem\u003eMonster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member\u003c\/em\u003e exploded on the scene and gave us all a front row seat to explore the genocidal brutality of the neo-colonial world of gangbanging. A world that exists at the expense of New Afrikan communities and New Afrikan youth in particular, through our social savage way of attempting to gain power through AK’s, bats and beat downs … it was in the belly of the beast (prison) that ‘Monster’ underwent a revolutionary transformation, dissecting and re-building himself from the inside out, slaying the colonial thug ‘Monster’ and emerging through a re-birth as ‘Sanyika Shakur,’ a New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalist.” — from the Foreword by Yusef “Bunchy” Shakur\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection of writings by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyOTY0In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/sanyika-shakur\" title=\"Sanyika Shakur\"\u003eSanyika Shakur\u003c\/a\u003e, formerly known as Monster Kody Scott, includes several essays written from within the infamous Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit in the period around the historic 2011 California prisoners’ hunger strike, as well as two interviews conducted just before and after his release in Black August 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShakur rejects the easy answers and false solutions of the neocolonial age—integration and racism, the colonial-criminal mentality and subservience to imperialism—as the “oppo-sames” that they are. Firmly rooted in the New Afrikan Communist tradition, he skillfully uses the tools of dialectical materialism to lay bare the deeper connections between racism, sexism, and homophobia and how these mental diseases relate to the ongoing capitalist (neo-)colonial catastrophe we remain trapped within. Defending the legacy of New Afrikans’ historic struggle for Land, Independence, and Socialism, Shakur spells out a uniquely liberatory Revolutionary Nationalist vision. Annihilating the “amerikan” mental fog that has new generations continuing to self-defeat rather than coming together against the real enemy, \u003cem\u003eStand Up, Struggle Forward\u003c\/em\u003e serves as a battle cry against all forms of oppression. \u003cem\u003eStand Up, Struggle Forward\u003c\/em\u003e also contains a valuable account of political repression in the California prison system, including several of the intelligence memoranda they were used to condemn Shakur to years of solitary confinement in Pelican Bay. These internal prison documents clearly show that this prolonged solitary confinement was a direct result of Shakur’s continuing promotion of New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalist politics. As such, they provide a clear example of the way in which solitary confinement continues to be used as a tool of political repression against thousands of prisoners in California today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead one of the essays\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch1 class=\"entry-title\"\u003eStudy and Struggle: An Overstanding\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eby Sanyika Shakur\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eWho Are We\u003c\/em\u003e, those of us who would build a national ‘black’ prisoners organization? There is much hard evidence to show that as each day passes, more and more ‘black’ prisoners identify themselves as \u003cem\u003eNew Afrikans\u003c\/em\u003e and work on behalf of \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ethe New Afrikan Independence Movement.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e” (emphasis in original)\u003cbr\u003e– Atiba Shanna, \u003cem\u003eNotes from a New Afrikan P.O.W., Journal, Book Three\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan id=\"more-5604\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross the expanse of a couple of decades, We’ve seen the political consciousness of prisoners grow in proportion with their overstanding of what it actually means to be a prisoner in amerikkka, but also as nationals of captive nations held in partial paralysis by u.s. imperialism. Prisoners have slowly begun to take an objective view of the matrix of u.s. colonialism from a dialectical perspective that informs Us that the settler government holds, dominates and exploits both external\/internal colonies. And that the old facade of “disadvantaged minorities” is giving way to the stark reality of submerged nations here under the blurry veneer of a so-called “united states.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis developing consciousness springs from a Revolutionary Nationalist overstanding of social development. Informed by even the most rudimentary application of dialectical materialism, one is easily drawn to the reality of New Afrika, Aztlan, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Alaska and the Indigenous People being submerged and colonized – whole nations existing under the false patina of amerikkkanism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe greater Our overstanding of this reality, the less We are believing in, or relying on, the old obviously false social construct of “race” to define Ourselves and other oppressed people. Color, or “race” as a binary term to describe the shallow differences between humans – which has no scientific basis in reality – is not a deep enough, not sound, or reasonable enough, overstanding We can see to explain, confront and resolve Our problems. It’s been said that “the color of freedom in amerikkka is green.” This tells Us something about the false construct of “race,” no? It hints at the \u003cem\u003efact\u003c\/em\u003e that under the rubble of “race” is bedrock. And that bedrock, that solid foundation, is economics. Is capitalism. We can’t even discuss, or We shouldn’t even discuss, “racism” without mentioning and combining it with capitalism. For capitalism built around it the social construct of “race” as a motto, a defense and a justification for prolonged activity. Capitalism is the \u003cem\u003ematerial \u003c\/em\u003emanifestation; “race” is the \u003cem\u003eshadow\u003c\/em\u003e, or immaterial reality of what’s casted – as a consequence of the original form. It’s not that it’s wholly unreal. We can \u003cem\u003esee \u003c\/em\u003eit. The shadow, i mean. We can even feel it, but it is but a reflection. We’ll exhaust Ourselves to the point of madness trying to combat it alone without applying destructive force to the material thing that it reflects. To be “anti-racist” is to be anti-capitalist. We become anti-racists by not using binary terms constructed to promote and sustain “race.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Any attempt to destroy ‘racism’ without an explicit link to the struggle against capitalism ultimately serves only to reinforce ‘racist’ ideology and to shield capitalism from attack.  On the other hand, an attempt to combat capitalism without an explicit link to anti-racist discourse and struggle allows capitalism to use the belief in ‘race’ held by oppressed peoples and appeal to the ‘racism’ of citizens of the oppressive state, thus undermining all revolutionary initiative. This combat also requires that we begin to de-link ourselves from the use of language that reinforces and reproduces racial ideology, e.g. the terms ‘white’ and ‘black’ in references to the identity of peoples.”\u003cbr\u003e– Comrade Owusu Yaki Yakubu, \u003cem\u003eMeditations on Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Our developing consciousness, which is necessarily New Afrikan, Revolutionary and Nationalist, We are needing new tools, new language, new ideas, means and ways to re-build Ourselves into a coherent whole for movement and struggle. We are talking about cadre development. This will come about only through arduous study and struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSee, here’s the basic thing: if you are calling yourself a New Afrikan, then you are at once saying that you are \u003cem\u003enot \u003c\/em\u003ean amerikkkan (of any stripe). You are rejecting the reactionary\/colonial identity placed arbitrarily on you by the enemy culture. You are implying that you are a citizen of the Republic of New Afrika. Further, this means that you overstand that a \u003cem\u003eNew \u003c\/em\u003eAfrikan Nation exists and has existed, in north amerikkka, at least since 1660. Now, “nation” here is not to be confused with a \u003cem\u003estate \u003c\/em\u003eor \u003cem\u003egovernment\u003c\/em\u003e. A nation is a cultural\/custom\/linguistic social development that is consolidated and evolves on a particular land mass and shares a definite collective awareness of itself. New Afrika, as a distinct entity, a total working-class \u003cem\u003enation\u003c\/em\u003e, has existed since 1660 here. The nation was given shape, name, general laws and a creed in 1968, with the founding of the Provisional Government by over 500 New Afrikan nationalists. Established at this historical convention was, The New Afrikan Declaration of Independence, Code of Umoja (New Afrikan Constitution) and The New Afrikan Creed. A President, Vice-Presidents, People’s Center Councils and a People’s Revolutionary Leadership Council were elected to designate New Afrikan Population Districts, set up registration for a New Afrikan census, etc. This was the forming of a \u003cem\u003estate\u003c\/em\u003e, an organized body designed to coherently give shape and form to the already long existing New Afrikan nation. So, We are not trying to “create” a nation – the nation exists. We are trying to agitate, educate and organize the nation for land, independence and socialism. This can only be realized through revolution. And despite what We’ve recently seen in North Africa with their “Arab Spring,” We are under no illusions about Our struggle here being a protracted, long drawn out, revolutionary war. And, truthfully, necessarily so. We have a lot of cleansing to do after having been existing so close to the seat of world power for so long. We overstand Our level of contamination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe are talking about being ideologically consistent. About pushing a particular line. Again, i want to go to the Comrade Yaki because his instructions are profound:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Angolan, Russian, Algerian, Chinese, French, Vietnamese, Cuban, Korean, Tanzanian – these are nationalities. Our nationality is New Afrikan. We don’t refer to ourselves as ‘black’ because We don’t base our nationality (nor our politics) on ‘race’ or color or a biological element of our being. Social factors are the primary determinations of our national identity (and Our politics)”.\u003cbr\u003e– \u003cem\u003eMeditations…\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the same reason, We don’t call ourselves “black” is also why We don’t call ourselves “African-American,” or “Negro,” “colored,” etc. These are \u003cem\u003echains, \u003c\/em\u003ewhich tie us to the plantation, to the colonial system. These are terms that substantiate, promote and sustain the colonial mentality and thus our oppression. Again, Comrade Yaki’s words instruct:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The ‘Native,’ the ‘Negro,’ the ‘colored,’ the ‘black’ and the ‘African-American’ have no identity apart from that given them by the colonizer – that is, not unless they RESIST colonialism, which entails: 1) their maintenance of an identity that is separate and distinct from that of the colonizer; 2) they begin to develop a NEW identity, through the process of ‘decolonization’ – through having remained separate and distinct, colonized people aren’t who they were prior to colonization and they can’t return to the past. Colonization has arrested their independent development, distorted who they are, and now they must become a NEW people during the process by which they regain their independence.”  (emphasis in original)\u003cbr\u003e– \u003cem\u003eMeditations…\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLet’s go a bit into this. Those who are calling themselves “African-Americans” are doing so for two real reasons. First, of course, there is an inherent overstanding that runs thoroughly through the New Afrikan nation that We are not \u003cem\u003ereally \u003c\/em\u003eamerikkkans. That We are in fact a people\/nation unto Ourselves. This used to be widely overstood with little notion of anything to the contrary. \u003cem\u003eNeo-\u003c\/em\u003ecolonialism has worked obsessively to change this awareness. The rapid de-colonization (“de-segregation”) of the nation, beginning in the late 50s, ushered in a new (neo) more thoroughly, and dare i say, \u003cem\u003erevolutionary\u003c\/em\u003e, form of control and exploitation: \u003cem\u003eneo-colonialism\u003c\/em\u003e. “Blacks” took over from “Negroes” to lead the masses into an integrated lockstep with capitalism, while they (the misleaders) were awarded nominal positions in local and regional government posts. Because the bourgeois media postulated these class enemies as being “successful,” in a new and improved amerikkka, it fostered  an image (crafted by Madison Avenue) that anybody could make it. “Now that segregation is over, you can grow up to be anything you want.” Except free, of course.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe more integration (which was supposed to mean “freedom and equality”) We got, the worst Our predicament became. The more bourgeois “freedom and equality” We struggled to obtain, the more critical our existence became, the stronger the “black” bourgeoisie got – compounded a hundred times by the u.s. ruling class. The stronger the “black” bourgeoisie became, the more Our revolutionary leadership was attacked, assassinated, imprisoned, or exiled. The more this became so, the worse the hoods got. The worse the hoods got, the more street orgs began to proliferate. More dope, more guns, more pigs – more prisons. This is what the losing of a sense of self brings. Integration \u003cem\u003eis \u003c\/em\u003eneo-colonialism. And it’s reactionary nationalism. But it would be unfair to say it’s not \u003cem\u003eprogress\u003c\/em\u003e. It \u003cem\u003eis \u003c\/em\u003eprogress – it’s just not progress in \u003cem\u003eOur \u003c\/em\u003einterest. We are moving forward, but it is towards Our annihilation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe “black” bourgeoisie worked in tandem with its masters to keep the chains on New Afrika. They overstood the strong Nationalist sentiment that ran through the nation. So in order to placate this sentiment and please their masters, the “black” bourgeoisie introduced the term “African-American.” A split personality that straddled an ocean and a colonial existence. But because our “leaders” said it was right and “after all” the masses said, “We are Africans” – Voila!  This, of course, is not scientific or a reflection of any real reality. It is a term used to maintain a colonial relationship with New Afrika – now being run by remote control through the antics and colorful animation of the “African-American” bourgeoisie. You see them in the Congressional Black Caucus, the higher echelons of the Prince Hall Masons, in the persons of Oprah, Jesse, Al Sharpton, Robert Johnson, etc. etc. They’ve been appointed by the u.s. ruling class to lead the masses – into a neo-colonial marriage with amerikkka. The “African American” bourgeoisie is conjoined (face to ass) with the u.s. ruling class and no surgery short of protracted people’s war will lose them and free Us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe masses, by and large, are innocently confused – they can be redeemed. It is Our job as cadres to do that. Which is why it is so important to study and struggle – to build up your revolutionary ideological, philosophical and theoretical overstanding so as to be able to distinguish the real from the false. The righteous from the reactionary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Our vision must be emphasized in opposition to the imperialist and neo-colonialist perspectives. Our vision demands that We stress the need to establish New Afrikan state power as the PREREQUISITE for the long term resolution of colonial violence, bad housing, miseducation, poor health, no jobs, etc. At present, the orientation underlying mass struggle is primarily neo-colonialist. We ask the u.s. government to do things for Us. Our struggle is AGAINST the u.s. government, to secure the power to prevent it from doing things to us and so that We can do things for ourselves, under our own government. Each issue that the masses struggle around must be infused (by the people’s vanguard) with the idea than none of our problems can be solved until We achieve national independence.”\u003cbr\u003e– Atiba Shanna, \u003cem\u003eVita Wa Watu: A New Afrikan Theoretical Journal, Book 12.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn closing then, i’d like to simply emphasize the need to study and struggle. Study Revolutionary Nationalism and struggle around the issues that are affecting Us. And, too, it’s a beautiful thing to see more prisoners becoming conscious of themselves as New Afrikans. This too is a prerequisite to getting free. Change your mind and you can change your conditions. Overstanding and appreciating the reality of one’s situation gives one a greater sense of appreciation for other oppressed nationals in the same or similar predicaments. I’m gonna fall out with a quote by Comrade Yaki that pretty much sums it all up – Though first, I’d like to send a clenched fisted salute to all the comrades in Canada that make 4SM possible, as well as to Comrade Jaan Laaman, for his outstanding editorial work and his continuous revolutionary commitment. We feel you!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Anyone claiming to attack racism while claiming that racism is the only thing wrong with this system, is either terribly confused or an outright enemy of the people and their interests. If We truly wanna get rid of racism, We have to overthrow capitalism … first.”\u003cbr\u003e– Comrad Yaki, \u003cem\u003eMeditations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRe-Build\u003cbr\u003eSanyika Shakur\u003cbr\u003ePelican Bay SHU – 47ADM*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*47 years after the death of Malik (Malcolm)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“i love his book \u003cem\u003eMonster\u003c\/em\u003e, because his military approach in things sets it up. One time there was a shooting in my block, and i asked the brother: ‘What do you think you are doing? Here, read this!’ And i gave him a copy of Monster. He took it real serious. Sanyika can reach people i can’t. Checking out his newest book, i’m glad he’s on our side.” —  Hondo T’chikwa, Spear \u0026amp; Shield Collective\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The Pentagon knows that the most famous soldier of his times never wore their uniform, but fought on the oppressed streets of L.A. Now, Sanyika Shakur is still a soldier for his people, but is a revolutionary teacher as well. His words here, his politics, are uncompromising as iron.” — J. Sakai, author of \u003cem\u003eSettlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“i thought i’d wait a long time after \u003cem\u003eMeditations\u003c\/em\u003e for a new work that would provide a major building block to rebuild the movement. But here it is. The chapter on patriarchy, colonialism, imperialism and neo-colonialism is a bomb — study this.” — Butch Lee, author of \u003cem\u003eNight-Vision: Illuminating War and Class on the Neo-Colonial Terrain\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Sanyika Shakur\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781894946469\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 208 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175125168221,"sku":"9781894946469","price":11.72,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1228_studyandstruggle3_0.jpg?v=1654987585"},{"product_id":"basic-politics-of-movement-security","title":"Basic Politics of Movement Security","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eIntroducing the issues of movement security: u.s. activist and author J. Sakai \u0026amp; long-time Canadian organizer Mandy Hiscocks.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThere are many books and articles reporting state repression, but not on that subject’s more intimate relative, movement security. It is general practice to only pass along knowledge about movement security privately, in closed group lectures or by personal word-of-mouth. In fact, when new activists have questions about security problems, they quickly discover that there is no “Security for Dummies” to explore the basics. Adding to the confusion, the handful of available left security texts are usually about underground or illegal groups, not the far larger public movements that work on a more or less legal level.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eDuring Montreal's 2013 Festival of Anarchy, J. Sakai gave a workshop about the politics of movement security, sharing the results of typical incidents of both the movement’s successes and the movement’s failures in combating the “political police” or state security agencies. He also discussed the nature of those state sub-cultures. This booklet contains a transcript of that talk, and of the subsequent lively question and answer period; along with several after-the-workshop observations by Sakai.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAs he explains, \"The key thing is, to start with, security is not about being macho vigilantes or having techniques of this or that. It’s not some spy game. Security is about good politics. That’s exactly why it’s so difficult. But everyone will say that they have good politics. So this has to be broken down, this has to be explained.” Which is what he does in this unusual talk.\n\u003cdiv\u003eMandy Hiscocks comes at the topic from her personal experiences organizing against the 2010 G20 Summit in Toronto. In this in-depth interview, reprinted from the radical Canadian political journal Upping The Anti, Hiscocks describes how her political scene and groups she worked with were infiltrated by undercover agents over a year before the summit even occurred. These police infiltrators provided information used in the prosecution of anti-Globalization organizers and participants. Hiscocks provides an honest and sobering appraisal of the practical challenge of State infiltration, and of how subsequent decisions played out in regards to the anti-G20 organizing and the repression that resulted. Hiscocks spent a year in prison as a result of these experiences, shortly after this interview was conducted.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: J. Sakai\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Mandy Hiscocks\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-894946-52-0\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 68 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175151513693,"sku":"9781894946520","price":5.88,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/71sdS6WbGAS._SL1500.jpg?v=1714578580"},{"product_id":"the-worker-elite-notes-on-the-labor-aristocracy","title":"The Worker Elite: Notes on the “Labor Aristocracy”","description":"\u003cp\u003eRevolutionaries often say that the working class holds the key to overthrowing capitalism. But “working class” is a very broad category—so broad that it can be used to justify a whole range of political agendas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Worker Elite: Notes on the \"Labor Aristocracy\"\u003c\/em\u003e breaks it all down, criticizing opportunists who minimize the role of privilege within the working class, while also challenging simplistic Third Worldist analyses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this provocative study, Bromma highlights the stratification of the working class under modern capitalism, using examples from specific industries and historical events to illustrate the development and key characteristics of the worker elite. He argues that this privileged layer has evolved into a mass middle class with multiple functions in the imperialist system, including attacking and misdirecting the struggles of the global proletariat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSubjects addressed in this accessible and easy-to-read primer include:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003echanges in the international division of labor and in the structure of income inequality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003epolitical and economic aspects of class\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003egender and nation as determinants and expressions of class\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003ethe nature of privilege and parasitism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003ethe worker elite’s relationship to intellectuals, trade unions, the proletariat, and the bourgeoisie\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003estrategic implications for revolutionaries of the worker elite’s current hegemony over the proletariat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs Bromma concludes, \"Class struggle is going on every day inside the working class. It’s time to choose where our class loyalty lies—with the proletariat or with its minders in the worker elite.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Bromma\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-894946-57-5\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 88 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175151874141,"sku":"9781894946575","price":8.4,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/workerelite3.jpg?v=1654987690"},{"product_id":"amazon-nation-or-aryan-nation-white-women-and-the-coming-of-black-genocide","title":"Amazon Nation or Aryan Nation: White Women And The Coming Of Black Genocide","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese angry essays show how the massive New Afrikan uprisings of the 1960s were answered by the white ruling class: with the destruction of New Afrikan communities coast to coast, the decimation of the New Afrikan working class, the rise of the prison state and an explosion of violence between oppressed people. Taken on their own, in isolation, these blights may seem to be just more \"social issues\" for NGOs to get grants for, but taken together and in the context of amerikkkan history, they constitute genocide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Kill the Kids First” is a long, bitter rant that factually traces what was happening at street level, in daily events, in New York City in the 1980s. This is important because New York was an early epicenter of the u.s. empire’s new Black Genocide strategy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll the destructive trends that are now being so anxiously talked about in the 21st century, were first surfaced in New York City at that time. The mass incarceration of increasingly unemployed New Afrikans, young adult and child alike. The “stop and frisk” apartheid policing that justified itself by shrill alarms that any New Afrikans at all loose on the streets was the number one public emergency. As the relentless emptying out and gentrification of New Afrikan neighborhoods created mass homelessness, and entire communities started disappearing. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Kill the Kids First” ties these developments to changes in global capitalism (neocolonialism, or what we would come to know as “neoliberalism”) and most especially to changes in gender relations and politics. Finding that white women’s “equality” actually means joining the patriarchy to do genocide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe second essay, “Integration,” continues this focus on euro-women’s lives and political decisions. It documents in detail two stories from 1989, each in their own way revealing that “If you’re integrating two things then at least one thing has to go, has got to give way and disintegrate.” Through these struggles (and lack thereof), we see euro-settler women trying to work out and then having to fight out harshly between themselves what neo-colonialism is. In other words, finding that “integration” and “equality” in the age of neo-colonialism equals genocide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese first two texts originally appeared in the underground Amazon newspaper Bottomfish Blues, in 1989 and 1990. In an Appendix, we have added a third piece from a different source, to put the present crisis in a true but seldom heard historical perspective. “The Ideas of Black Genocide in the Amerikkkan Mind” was first passed around (although not published) in 2009, as part of a collection of post-“Katrina” working papers on the New Afrikan crisis within the u.s. empire. Providing readers with the background of how the tantalizing idea of Black Genocide has always been present and publicly discussed throughout the u.s. empire’s life from the 1700s onward. It reminds us how the “new normal” of euro-capitalism is always being violently engineered in blueprints of blood and cash.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn their own or taken together, these texts provide raw and vital lessons as to the intersections of nation, gender, and class, from a revolutionary and non-academic perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Bottomfish Blues\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-894946-55-1\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 160 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175152201821,"sku":"9781894946551","price":10.88,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/amazonnation.jpg?v=1654987695"},{"product_id":"the-struggle-within-prisons-political-prisoners-and-mass-movements-in-the-united-states","title":"The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Struggle Within\u003c\/em\u003e is an accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer about how mass imprisonment has been a tool of repression deployed against diverse left-wing social movements over the last fifty years. Berger examines some of the most dynamic social movements across half a century: black liberation, Puerto Rican independence, Native American sovereignty, Chicano radicalism, white antiracist and working-class mobilizations, pacifist and antinuclear campaigns, and earth liberation and animal rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBerger’s encyclopedic knowledge of American social movements provides a rich comparative history of numerous social movements that continue to shape contemporary politics. The book also offers a little-heard voice in contemporary critiques of mass incarceration. Rather than seeing the issue of America’s prison growth as stemming solely from the war on drugs, Berger locates mass incarceration within a slew of social movements that have provided steep challenges to state power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Struggle Within\u003c\/em\u003e powerfully demonstrates that the issue of political prisoners is not about individuals but about the deep and enduring bonds of community resistance. Berger’s beautiful synthesis of more than fifty years of people’s history places the prison at the center of contemporary freedom struggles. This book is necessary reading for all who wish to revive a radical tradition in the face of the prison’s coercive attempt at erasure. \u003cem\u003eThe Struggle Within\u003c\/em\u003e is a vital and moving contribution, rooted in the power of collective history.“ —Angela Y. Davis, author and former political prisoner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Before the U.S. had today’s mass incarceration, it had political prisoners. Dan Berger’s excellent book shows how political repression produced the human rights nightmare that exists today in America’s prisons. More, the book tells the history of the hundreds of activists who have been incarcerated here—and most important of all, the stories of those who remain inside. This historical account tells the truth not only about political incarceration but also about how movements can act to dismantle the U.S. prison nation. Wherever you find your place in social justice activism, this much-needed book will help enrich your work and make it more effective.“ —Laura Whitehorn, former political prisoner and editor of \u003cem\u003eThe War Before\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dan-berger\" title=\"Dan Berger\"\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/a\u003e has provided scholars and activists alike an untold and unfortunately too easily forgotten history of political incarceration and the struggle to free political prisoners in the U.S. Berger deftly grapples not only with the resilience of the incarcerated and the movements seeking their freedom, but more importantly with the roots of political incarceration in modern colonialism and its primary justification—racism. More than stirring our hearts and minds, this timely book should move us to action!“ —José López, executive director of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“When the radical New Left crashed and burned, most participants resumed more or less conventional life trajectories. We too often forget that many of our brothers and sisters are still behind bars with no assurance of release. In \u003cem\u003eThe Struggle Within\u003c\/em\u003e we are told about not only Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier but dozens of other political prisoners whose names we may not know. These men and women ’raised the stakes’ in confrontation with the Powers That Be and are behind bars not just for their ideas but because they were ’active participants in resistance movements.’ The author describes this book as an ’introductory and incomplete sketch,’ but it is, in fact, the most comprehensive survey of imprisoned Movement activists known to me. I deeply admire the author’s efforts to tell it like it is without excessive adjectives. While these souls are imprisoned, we are not free.“ —Staughton Lynd, author, educator, prison activist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This vital piece connects not only an insightful academic reflection with lessons which radical movements would do well to learn, it connects past history with current realities in the service of a more just future. All intellectual pursuits should be so rooted in the service of building campaigns and organizations for the people’s liberation; Berger’s must-read book is a gift to social change activists everywhere.“ —Matt Meyer, coeditor of \u003cem\u003eWe Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/strong\u003e is an assistant professor of comparative ethnic studies at the University of Washington Bothell. His work on race, prisons, media, and American social movements has appeared widely in popular and scholarly journals. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eCaptive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era\u003c\/em\u003e, forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press (2014). Berger is also the author or editor of three previous books: \u003cem\u003eLetters From Young Activists\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOutlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism\u003c\/em\u003e. A longtime activist, Berger is a cofounder of Decarcerate PA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/ruth-wilson-gilmore\" title=\"Ruth Wilson Gilmore\"\u003eRuth Wilson Gilmore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a professor of geography at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is a member of the founding collective of Critical Resistance, one of the most important national anti-prison organizations in the United States. She examined how political and economic forces produced California’s prison boom in \u003cem\u003eGolden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California\u003c\/em\u003e, which was recognized by ASA with its Lora Romero First Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003edream hampton\u003c\/strong\u003e has written about music, culture, and politics for twenty years. Her articles and essays have appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Detroit News\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHarper’s Bazaar\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEssence\u003c\/em\u003e, and a dozen anthologies, most recently \u003cem\u003eBorn to Use Mics: Reading Nas’s Illmatic\u003c\/em\u003e, edited by Michael Eric Dyson. A longtime member of the human rights organization Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, hampton helped to organize the Black August Hip Hop Concert Benefit to raise awareness about U.S. political prisoner for ten years. hampton directed The Black August Hip Hop Project, a film about the concert series, political prisoners, and MXGM.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175152398429,"sku":"9781604869552","price":10.88,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/the_struggle_within.jpg?v=1654987697"},{"product_id":"settlers-the-mythology-of-the-white-proletariat-from-mayflower-to-modern","title":"Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e is a uniquely important book in the canon of the North American revolutionary left and anticolonial movements. First published in the 1980s by activists with decades of experience organizing in grassroots anticapitalist struggles against white supremacy, the book soon established itself as an essential reference point for revolutionary nationalists and dissident currents within the predominantly colonialist Marxist-Leninist and anarchist movements at that time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlways controversial within the establishment Left \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e uncovers centuries of collaboration between capitalism and white workers and their organizations, as well as their neocolonial allies, showing how the United States was designed from the ground up as a parasitic and genocidal entity. \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e exposes the fact that America’s white citizenry have never supported themselves but have always resorted to exploitation and theft, culminating in acts of genocide to maintain their culture and way of life. As recounted in painful detail by Sakai, the United States has been built on the theft of Indigenous lands and of Afrikan labor, on the robbery of the northern third of Mexico, the colonization of Puerto Rico, and the expropriation of the Asian working class, with each of these crimes being accompanied by violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition includes “Cash \u0026amp; Genocide: The True Story of Japanese-American Reparations” and an interview with author J. Sakai by Ernesto Aguilar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e is a critical analysis of the colonization of the Americas that overturns the 'official' narrative of poor and dispossessed European settlers to reveal the true nature of genocidal invasion and land theft that has occurred for over five hundred years. If you want to understand the present, you must know the past, and this book is a vital contribution to that effort.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEzNzQ2In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gord-hill\" title=\"Gord Hill\"\u003eGord Hill\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003e500 Years of Indigenous Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Great works measure up, inspire higher standards of intellectual and moral honesty, and, when appreciated for what they are, serve as a guide for those among us who intend a transformation of reality. \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e should serve as a reminder (to anyone who needs one) of the genocidal tendencies of the empire, the traitorous interplay between settler-capitalist, settler-nondescript, and colonial flunkies.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyOTYzIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/kuwasi-balagoon\" title=\"Kuwasi Balagoon\"\u003eKuwasi Balagoon\u003c\/a\u003e, Black Liberation Army\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“When \u003ce\u003e“When \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e hit the tiers of San Quentin, back in 1986, it totally exploded our ideas about what we as a new class of revolutionaries thought we knew about a so-called ‘united working class’ in amerika. And what's more, it brought the actual contradictions of national oppression and imperialism into sharp focus. It was my first, and as such my truest, study of the actual mechanics behind the expertly fabricated illusion of an amerikan proletariat.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyOTY0In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/sanyika-shakur\" title=\"Sanyika Shakur\"\u003eSanyika Shakur\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eMonster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/e\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003eJ. Sakai is a revolutionary intellectual with decades of experience as an activist in the United States. On the subject of his own past, and the writing of \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e, he has said:\u003c\/p\u003e\\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003e\"In the Fall 1961, i found myself with other militant Sit-In veterans in the reborn Oakland chapter of Congress of Racial Equality, picketing a major store which had refused to hire New Afrikans. Even in the Bay Area that was the custom and law back then. It had started years earlier for me in high school in L.A.'s 1950's San Fernando Valley. Where as the lone uneducated leftist i had tried unsuccessfully to sell copies of the socialist labor party newspaper (the only one i could get) every week to my classmates. At the same time was working as an Asian houseboy for the family of a Jewish used car dealer (stereotypes abound for a reason). Was fired for taking a night off for my own high school graduation. The wife lost it and screamed, \" People like you don't need graduations!\" A month later was living in a different state to find a job and avoid the \"colored\" military draft. And active as the novice food drive coordinator in a long, bitter, ugly hospital workers' strike, whose main public demand was pay raises up to the federal minimum wage (we lost badly).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Have been through a thousand campaigns and movement groups since then, and can't believe i've been so dumb so often. In 1975, while mostly active doing Afrikan liberation movement support with radical exiles from various countries, i started writing a historical investigation into the puzzling class politics of euro-amerikan workers. Which i naively thought would only be a quick movement paper. Eight years later what became re-titled as \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e was finished. Even then i didn't believe there was any audience for it, and planned to only photocopy fifty copies of my typed draft for internal education in the underground black liberation army coordinating committee. Comrades with more sense than myself insisted that we publish it as a book if only for the liberation movement. Over the years, we took it through three editions, but finally it's time to hand it on to new publishers. Remember only, i wrote this with my life.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175156166749,"sku":"9781629630373","price":19.28,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/2_settlers.jpg?v=1654987710"},{"product_id":"turning-money-into-rebellion-the-unlikely-story-of-denmark-s-revolutionary-bank-robbers","title":"Turning Money into Rebellion: The Unlikely Story of Denmark’s Revolutionary Bank Robbers","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlekingegade is a quiet Copenhagen street. 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The book is a valuable contribution to globalization critique.” — Gernot Köhler, Professor (retired) of Computer Studies at the Department of Computing and Information Management, Sheridan College, Ontario, Canada and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Global Wage System: A Study of International Wage Differences\u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eGlobal Economics: An Introductory Course\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“How can we link the division between the poor and the rich people in one and any country and the division between the rich and poor nations together into an analytical framework? The answer lies in the concept of ‘the embourgeoisement of the working people’ of the rich core countries and the fact that colonialism and national chauvinism have gone hand in hand so as to breed a ‘labour aristocracy’. This book is a must-read for anyone who cares about fairness. Zak Cope brings together brilliantly the concepts of nation, race and class analytically under the umbrella of capitalism, by situating racism in the class structure and by locating class in the context of the global economy.” — Mobo Gao, Chair of Chinese Studies and Director of the Confucius Institute at the Centre for Asian Studies, University of Adelaide, and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Battle for China’s Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This is a surprising book. At a time when confusion about Globalization surrounds us, Zak Cope pulls us towards what is fundamental. He outlines the 19th \u0026amp; 20th century recasting of the diverse human world into rigid forms of oppressed colonized societies and oppressor colonizing societies. A world divide still heavily determining our lives. Working rigorously in a marxist-leninist vein, the author focuses on how imperialism led to a giant metropolis where even the main working class itself is heavily socially bribed and loyal to capitalist oppression. Much is laid aside in his analysis, in order to concentrate on only what he considers the most basic structure of all in world capitalist society. This is writing both controversial and foundational at one and the same time.” — J. Sakai, author of \u003cem\u003eSettlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Divided World Divided Class is valuable to a wide audience, especially those unfamiliar with the history of imperialism, the unequal exchange paradigm, and its impact on class structure. 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It reaffirms, with an impressive breadth and depth of evidence and argument, that the Northern workers must help fight for democratic sovereignty in the global South—even if it appears to be against their material interests to do so.\" — Professor Timothy Kerswell, University of Macau, Department of Government and Public Administration\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eKersplebedeb Statement on Zak Cope's About Face (Aug. 16 2024)\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTLDR: Zak Cope has renounced his former anti-imperialist views and has embraced “the West,” zionism, and the legacies and ongoing realities of colonialism and imperialism. Kersplebedeb Publishing stands by Zak’s previous work and is saddened to see him now embracing the structures of oppression, exploitation, and genocide which he previously had stood against.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLONGER VERSION:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe at Kersplebedeb Publishing were surprised to learn (to say the least) that Zak Cope, author of \u003cem\u003eDivided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e—which we published two editions of in 2012 and 2015, respectively—has had a dramatic change of opinion on seemingly every aspect of political economy in the last year (he implies that it was sparked by the events of October 7, 2023). In the \u003cem\u003ePalgrave Handbook of Contemporary Geopolitics \u003c\/em\u003e(2024), which Cope edited and to which he contributed two chapters, he describes his “personal and intellectual commitment to free markets, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law and the conservative and classical liberal values that uphold the same.” He declares his support for “the people of... Israel in their just struggle to overcome the imperialist and totalitarian forces bent on their destruction.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite this description of the opponents of the zionist state as “imperialist,” it is not clear whether Cope—who has been mainly known as a prominent theorist of anti-imperialism and defender of the theory of a global labour aristocracy—now thinks imperialism does not exist or just that it is a good thing. He compares foreign direct investment from the Global North into the Global South to “people who spend less than they earn... loan[ing] to those who spend more than they earn.” He denies that there is anything morally problematic in this relationship, arguing to the contrary that “free trade can and has led to historically unprecedented reductions in poverty rates worldwide.” He states that “Europe’s industrialization and economic take-off was largely endogenous, driven by technological innovation, entrepreneurship, liberal institutions, and scientific culture,” while “Colonialism and the slave trade played a relatively minor role.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCope now espouses right-wing shibboleths, such as the historically ignorant view that Nazi Germany was socialist (!) or that a domination of the social sciences by Marxism and postcolonialism (“the academic study of the cultural, political, and economic legacies of colonialism and imperialism,” as he defines it) has “seriously curtailed academic freedom.” He derisively refers to the concept of “European, Western, and ‘White’ oppression, exploitation, and racism,” a use of scare quotes implying that he views the entire concept of whiteness as being of questionable analytic utility, at a minimum. (Elsewhere, he uses scare quotes on “First World” and “Third World,” as well as “core” and “periphery.”) He approvingly cites Thatcher’s aphorism about socialism being broken by its dependence on an exhaustible supply of “other people’s money.” He rejects the labour theory of value and calls “counter[ing] anti-capitalism with reasoned, fact-based, and historically grounded argument... one of the most urgent cultural and political challenges of our time.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a footnote, he “retract[s]” \u003cem\u003eDivided World \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Wealth of Some Nations \u003c\/em\u003e(which he published with Pluto Press in 2019) for the reason that they are “based on Marxist views that are outright false or misleadingly one-sided.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe share Cope’s desire to make a clear distinction between his past work and his output today and going forward—barring a second 180° degree rotation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCope’s argument in \u003cem\u003eDivided World Divided Class\u003c\/em\u003e and similar writings was nothing more nor less than an assertion of the humanity of the people of the Third World (or Global South) and an attempt to explain their dehumanization in the realm of ideas (racism and national chauvinism) by reviewing their position in the realm of economics, as those who produce most of the world's enormous wealth yet receive scarcely any of its benefit. If there was a weakness to his approach, it was his reliance on a lot of numbers and statistics and math (themselves often the mystifying product of bourgeois economics) to show what could be illustrated much more simply and clearly in more concrete terms. But so it goes with “immanent critique”—our thought at the time was (and is now) that given the use of bourgeois economics to muddy the waters in order to hide the reality of imperialist exploitation, that there was value in using it to clarify and demystify.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCope’s new position—which comes as an utter shock to us, and which we find difficult to believe he can himself take seriously—does indeed amount to a complete reversal of this: a dehumanization of the global majority and an obfuscation and denial of the racism and national chauvinism to which they are subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZak, wtf?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNote to Readers: Kersplebedeb is making the ebook version of Divided World Divided Class, which we still consider to be a valuable contribution to understanding the world we live in, available free of charge via the leftwingbooks.net website: \u003ca href=\"www.leftwingbooks.net\/\/divided-world-divided-class-ebook\"\u003ewww.leftwingbooks.net\/\/divided-world-divided-class-ebook\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175193981021,"sku":"9781894946681","price":20.96,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/coverDWDC2.jpg?v=1654987826"},{"product_id":"jailbreak-out-of-history-the-re-biography-of-harriet-tubman-the-evil-of-female-loaferism","title":"Jailbreak Out of History: The Re-Biography of Harriet Tubman, \u0026 \"The Evil of Female Loaferism\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eJailbreak Out of History\u003c\/em\u003e, revolutionary Amazon theorist Butch Lee shows how the anticolonial struggles of New Afrikan\/Black women were central to the unfolding of 19th century amerika, both during and \"after\" slavery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book's title essay, \"The Re-Biography of Harriet Tubman\" (which can be read online \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kersplebedeb.com\/posts\/jailbreak\/\" style=\"color: #07b1b9;\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e) recounts the life and politics of Harriet Tubman, who waged and eventually lead the war against the capitalist slave system. As Lee explains, \"Harriet Tubman was a radical political figure, someone totally involved as a player in the great political ideas and military storms of her day. She was a guerrilla. Someone who lived and taught others to live by the communal and working-class New Afrikan culture that her people had planted in this difficult ground, and a Black Feminist to the end.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the same time, Lee exposes how the white supremacist patriarchy has distorted the truth of Harriet's life, by both trivializing and exceptionalizing her. Countering this disinformation, \"The Re-Biography of Harriet Tubman\" surveys the reality of struggle before and during the u.s. Civil War, showing how New Afrikan women were repeatedly taking up the task of smashing the slave system that confined them, on their own terms. Lee shows how what was special about Harriet was not that she was unique in resisting, but rather because of her military skill - \"She was one of the most brilliant professional practitioners ever at the art of war. As a guerrilla, so elusive that she could strike fatal blows and never be felt. Lead battles and go unseen. As an Amazon, she conducted warfare in a zone beyond men’s comprehension. But her blows still fell on point.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJailbreak Out of History\u003c\/em\u003e's second essay, written in 2014, picks up the story where The Re-Biography leaves off, showing how New Afrikan women's labor and resistance remained central to how the global class struggle played out in the united states after the white men's Civil War came to an end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The Evil of Female Loaferism\" details New Afrikan women's attempts to withdraw from and evade capitalist colonialism, an unofficial but massive labor strike which threw the capitalists North and South into a panic. The ruling class response consisted of the \"Black Codes\", Jim Crow, re-enslavement through prison labor, mass violence, and ... the establishment of a neo-colonial Black patriarchy, whose task was to make New Afrikan women subordinate to New Afrikan men just as New Afrika was supposed to be subordinate to white amerika:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"During the Civil War and after 1865, New Afrikan women led a limited strategy of rebellion both spontaneous and conscious. Away from patriarchal capitalism and its attempts to re-enslave them. Living their communal culture created for survival during captivity. Mass withholding of their labor from plantations, insistence on their right to reject fulltime wage labor, fighting to regain control over their bodies in production and reproduction both, New Afrikan women in particular cracked the old plantation system. For without the mass labor gangs the old plantation system couldn’t work. The compromise they forced on the planter capitalists, even within the larger setback for liberation during the fall of Black Reconstruction, was the semi-feudal sharecropping system. Where families tilled fields and raised their children without white overseers although under the onerous class conditions of a defeated communal nation...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"New Afrikan women’s strategy back then grew spontaneously out of their daily lives, their experiences and needs. Not out of some textbook or some political protest routine. Stubbornly living communal culture and fighting capitalism is often ignored or dismissed as “impractical.” Yet and again, it was that partial strategy by women back then that proved most useful in real life. Still, it did not make that very difficult hurdle from the level of spontaneous breakout to the level of conscious strategy. In which analysis, tentative strategic understanding, new tactics \u0026amp; practice, criticism of results, and then the emergence of new strategy, all flow in a continuous dialectical circle of struggle. And those partial women’s struggles \u0026amp; victories, great as they were, underline the reality that if you don’t have a strategy to end a war then someone else will usually end it for you. But you won’t like it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"All these earlier battles throughout the New Afrikan nation still throw light for us on the latest battlefield. And on battles certain to come.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eButch Lee (1940–2021) was an Amazon theorist. Her work deals with the need to understand women's struggles in both their class and military dimensions, as well as the fundamental importance of grasping the relationship between colonialism, neo-colonialism, and patriarchy. Her other books include \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/the-military-strategy-of-women-and-children\"\u003eThe Military Strategy of Women and Children\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/night-vision-illuminating-war-and-class-on-the-neo-colonial-terrain\"\u003eNight-Vision: Illuminating War and Class on the Neo-Colonial Terrain\u003c\/a\u003e. Some of her other writings can be found on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kersplebedeb.com\/posts\/category\/authors\/butch_lee\/\"\u003ekersplebedeb.com\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175198175325,"sku":"9781894946704","price":12.56,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/jailbreak_cover1.jpg?v=1654987834"},{"product_id":"learning-from-an-unimportant-minority","title":"Learning from an Unimportant Minority","description":"\u003cp\u003eRace is all around us, as one of the main structures of capitalist society. Yet, how we talk about it and even how we think about it is tightly policed. Everything about race is artificially distorted as a white\/Black paradigm. Instead, we need to understand the imposed racial reality from many different angles of radical vision. In this talk given at the 2014 Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, J. Sakai shares experiences from his own life as a revolutionary in the united states, exploring what it means to belong to an “unimportant minority.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/kersplebedeb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/banner_tan.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"banner_tan\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7450\" src=\"http:\/\/kersplebedeb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/banner_tan.jpg\" style=\"height:319px; width:410px\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eQuoting from the book:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRace is notoriously slippery, awkward to hold onto as a subject, yet totally all around us. Totally. All the time, every day, we breathe it; \u003cem\u003eafter all, it is us\u003c\/em\u003e, so we can’t ever be far from it. This seeming contradiction of what should be so simple being endlessly complicated in society is because how we think about race, how we talk about race … capitalism is constantly trying to police this. They don’t want to neaten it, they actually want to constrict it and keep remaking it in their own distorted images and stamping it on our faces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo in u.s. society ...  capitalism pushes thinking and talking about race into the dominant form of a white\/Black paradigm. Where everything is supposed to be arranged according to the relationship between white men—who are defined as: What’s “normal”, the standard—and New Afrikan people—who are indirectly or covertly depicted as incomplete or deficient models of the first. So that the supposed goal of capitalistic “antiracism” is that eventually at some point everyone will be exactly like white men.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWell, we don’t have to comment really on that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInto this paradigm, everyone else—“unimportant minorities”—are essentially crammed and flattened into that two-dimensional story, according to some always shifting order that they have, judging by how important or unimportant they think we are.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis raises a question: What is an unimportant minority? Am not going to answer that, but let me point you in a certain direction ...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"backcover_col\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8554\" src=\"http:\/\/kersplebedeb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/backcover_col.jpg\" style=\"height:600px; width:499px\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: J. Sakai\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-894946-60-5\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 118 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175200469085,"sku":"9781894946605","price":8.4,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/learningfromanunimportantminority.jpg?v=1654987845"},{"product_id":"eurocentrism-and-the-communist-movement","title":"Eurocentrism and the Communist Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Biel's \u003cem\u003eEurocentrism and the Communist Movement \u003c\/em\u003etraces the history of Eurocentric -- and anti-Eurocentric -- currents in the Marxist-Leninist tradition, arguing that this distortion was key to the development and spread of revisionism, and ultimately to the failures of the communist project, in the 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA work of intellectual history, \u003cem\u003eEurocentrism and the Communist Movement \u003c\/em\u003eexplores the relationship between Eurocentrism, alienation, and racism, while tracing the different ideas about imperialism, colonialism, \"progress\", and non-European peoples as they were grappled with by revolutionaries in both the colonized and colonizing nations. Teasing out racist errors and anti-racist insights within this history, Biel reveals a century-long struggle to assert the centrality of the most exploited within the struggle against capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe roles of key figures in the Marxist-Leninist canon -- Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao -- within this struggle are explored, as are those of others whose work may be less familiar to some readers, such as Sultan Galiev, Lamine Senghor, Lin Biao, R.P. Dutt, Samir Amin, and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEurocentrism and the Communist Movement was written in the context of the declining British Maoist movement of the late 1980s. As Robert Biel explains in his preface to this new edition,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The work responded to a strong sense that the important task was to construct a Marxist theory of political economy which could reflect the real relationships in the contemporary world system. That was the constructive task but, before we could attempt it, we also had to conduct a negative task -- one of demolition: to identify and remove the blockage that stood in our way. This blockage was the thing we identified as Eurocentrism, a trend which imprisoned theory in an economistic and mechanical framework, denying the real dynamics of history in which the world outside the major European powers has always played such a major role, and does so still in the form of the liberation movements against all forms of oppression and neo-colonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"On the basis of the research conducted in the current book, I felt I was in a position to begin the constructive task, reflected in my book \u003cem\u003eThe New Imperialism\u003c\/em\u003e (2000). In this book, I sought to show that the superficial consolidation of world capitalism (then still in a somewhat triumphalist phase) was premised on an intensification of capitalism’s fundamental contradictions -- on the destruction of human resources and the physical environment—and that the different forms of alienation highlighted by Marx are still fully present, and more specifically, that the global order remains profoundly racist. In my most recent book, \u003cem\u003eThe Entropy of Capitalism \u003c\/em\u003e(2012), I have described a system now beginning to unravel under the force of these contradictions. In this sense, Eurocentrism and the Communist Movement forms the beginning of a trilogy, the more destructive and explicitly polemical part, aiming to clear the terrain.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn pursuit of this \"destructive\", anti-racist and anti-colonial goal, Biel has made an important contribution to understanding the development of Marxist thought in the 19th and 20th centuries, with strategic implications for our current revolutionary project:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Declining capitalism seems locked in a death-embrace with the symptoms of its own decay. While going to its own grave, it is determined to drag humanity down with it. To reverse this tendency is the task now facing the left.  ...  Where the system marginalises the periphery, the excluded, we must place them in the centre of the picture. ...  It is not certain that the radical forces will be able to seize this chance and rescue humanity. But, if armed with a historical understanding which identifies the most intensely oppressed and the most creative forces, it will indeed be equipped to rise to the challenge.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Robert Biel’s Eurocentrism and the Communist Movement is a conscientious and well-researched effort to present Eurocentrism as a colonial, racist and social-chauvinist mentality and phenomenon. It decries this problem as having overvalued European developments and influence under the rubric of ‘progress’, depreciated the history and dynamic of the oppressed peoples and nations, subordinated their revolutionary role and aspirations to the European states and industrial proletariat and in effect favoured colonialism and the slave trade and the entire train of consequences up to neocolonialism and neoliberalism.” -- Professor José María Sison, chairperson of the International Coordinating Committee, International League of Peoples’ Struggle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Biel challenges not only Eurocentrism but the corresponding economic determinism that has frequently limited the scope and reach of radical Left social movements.  I found myself thinking about the famous phrase, attributed to Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, to the effect that ‘...the truth is always revolutionary.’  To which I would add, no matter how challenging it may be to address it.” -- Bill Fletcher, Jr., co-author of \u003cem\u003eSolidarity Divided\u003c\/em\u003e; syndicated columnist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A long overdue second appearance as it was singularly the most outstanding contribution in the checkered history of the anti-revisionist movement in Britain … an exciting, fertile exploration to developing the need to make concrete and relevant the general theses adopted in the 1960s.” -- Sam Richards, \u003cem\u003eEncyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism Online\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Biel teaches political ecology at University College London and is the author of The New Imperialism and The Entropy of Capitalism. 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This new book presents the history of the Chicano movement, exploring the colonialism and semi-colonialism that frames the Chican@ national identity. It also sheds new light on the modern repression and temptation that threaten liberation struggles by simultaneously pushing for submission and assimilation into Amerika.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChicano Power and the Struggle for Aztlán\u003c\/em\u003e is a must read for all involved in national liberation struggles in the United $tates today. Integrating gender and class into the discussion of the Chican@ nation, this book frames the struggle in a much needed analysis of history. \u003cem\u003eChicano Power and the Struggle for Aztlán\u003c\/em\u003e lays the groundwork for the way forward for our struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRead about:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eThe true history of Mexico and Amerika and the birth of the Chican@ nation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eMany revolutionary heroes of the Chican@ people\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eModern torture methods used against conscious Chican@s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eThe class makeup of the nation today\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eThe way forward for the national liberation movement\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe principal authors, Cipactli of the Brown Berets - Prison Chapter and Ehecatl, have served long prison sentences due to their class and nationality, and have worked many years as members of United Struggle from Within, the anti-imperialist prisoner organization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the first book-length publication to come out of a MIM(Prisons)-led study group. 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Examining the clash between the corporate offensive and the forces of resistance from both pan-continental and class-struggle perspectives, the authors argue that the failure of traditional labour responses has led workers to explore new strategies of struggle, including a continental labour movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis expanded edition examines developments in the offensive of North American big business, especially the blitzkrieg of constitutional reforms in Mexico in 2013–14. This crisis and its implications for the North American left and labour movements are explored in greater depth. 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This book brings together theoretical, definitional and logical considerations, as well as the extensive empirical evidence which is now available, to demonstrate that China has indeed definitely become a capitalist-imperialist country. Indeed, the issue is raised of whether the current world imperialist system is in fact in the early stages of bifurcating into two competing imperialist blocs, one led by the United States and the other led by China.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIs China an Imperialist Country?\u003c\/em\u003e contains extensive data on:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003ethe size and nature of the present Chinese capitalist economy; \u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003ethe massive and rapidly growing export of capital from China, to Africa and around the world; \u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003ethe very rapid expansion of the Chinese military for the purpose of ‘protecting’ China’s foreign investment; \u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003ethe dangerous and growing contention between China and other imperialist powers, especially the United States. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis data is analyzed and interpreted in a Maoist framework, in order to decipher some of the implications of the past hundred years of Chinese—and world—history, for those who seek the overthrow and end to capitalism and imperialism in all its forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders who wish to correspond with the author, NB Turner, please write to \u003ca href=\"mailto:nbturner14@gmail.com\"\u003enbturner14@gmail.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: N.B. Turner et al.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-894946-75-9\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 173 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175220719709,"sku":"9781894946759","price":14.28,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/china_cover1.jpg?v=1654987921"},{"product_id":"lumpen-the-autobiography-of-ed-mead","title":"Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead","description":"\u003cp\u003eMore than a memoir,\u003cem\u003e Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead\u003c\/em\u003e takes the reader on a tour of America’s underbelly. From Iowa to Compton to Venice Beach to Fairbanks, Alaska, Mead introduces you to poor America just trying to get by—and barely making it. When a thirteen-year-old Mead ends up in the Utah State Industrial School, a prison for boys, it is the first step in a story of oppression and revolt that will ultimately lead to the foundation of the George Jackson Brigade, a Seattle-based urban guerrilla group, and to Mead’s re-incarceration as a fully engaged revolutionary, well-placed and prepared to take on both his captors and the predators amongst his fellow prisoners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough his work organizing against conditions in solitary confinement, and then with queer prisoners in the legendary Men Against Sexism, followed by his exile from Washington to the dungeons at Marion, Brushy Mountain, and Florence, Ed Mead’s practice stands as a rebuke to the inhumanity and indifference which surround the world’s largest prison system.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the late Black Liberation Army soldier Safiya Bukhari observed, “we must at least write our history and point out the truth of what we did—the good, the bad, and the ugly.” Ed Mead has done that here, recounting his life’s story with unflinching honesty, providing a model of personal integrity and revolutionary creativity and determination for us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNote that if you purchase this book you will also receive the digital (ebook) files. If you only want the digital files, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/copy-of-lumpen-the-autobiography-of-ed-mead-ebook-mobi-and-epub\"\u003ethey are available separately here\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEd died on November 6, 2023. The following is from a statement produced by loved ones:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn November 6, 2023, lifelong abolitionist, writer, fighter, and former political prisoner Ed Mead joined the ancestors. Ed died at home, on his 82nd birthday, after almost a decade of battling late stage lung cancer. Born in 1941, in Santa Monica, California, to Ramona (Ona) Irene Mead and Edward Leo Mead, Ed was the second oldest of six siblings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEd Mead did not live a conventional life. As his lifelong friend and comrade, Mark Cook, is fond of saying, Ed spent his life “kicking ass for the working class.” After spending much of his youth in reform “schools” and detention centers along the Pacific coast, Ed became politicized in prison in the 1960s. He was a founding member of the George Jackson Brigade, a revolutionary guerilla underground organization based in the Pacific Northwest in the mid-to-late 1970s. Ed spent 35 years of his life in prisons, 18 of which were for his political actions as a member of the George Jackson Brigade.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA brief bio for an essay Ed wrote in the 2024 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar reads, “I was once a young man doing life on the installment plan, well on my way to becoming just another crime statistic. Then something changed, I became rights conscious. I no longer identified as a criminal, instead I came to identify as a prisoner rights activist. With the passage of time and a lot of effort, I morphed again; I became class conscious—I became a communist. These changes were not sudden, they involved years of struggle and difficult study. The one thread throughout the years of change was political struggle on the inside and studying the writings of early revolutionaries. This is the path for those of you who will no longer accept the things you cannot change and are instead changing the things you cannot accept.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhile in prison for his part in armed struggle, Ed helped to form Men Against Sexism (MAS) at Walla Walla State Penitentiary in Washington. With other comrades, Ed helped to put an end to prisoner-on-prisoner sexual assault and other forms of abuse at Walla Walla. He also helped to form the Committee to Safeguard Prisoners’ Rights at Arizona State Prison. He was a seasoned jailhouse lawyer and a committed organizer within the prison walls. While imprisoned, Ed was a prodigious journalist. He co-founded and wrote for the\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRed Dragon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ein the 1970s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, The Abolitionist\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ein the 1980s (different from the contemporary newspaper of that name)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePrison Legal News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, which still exists and is the longest running newspaper produced by and for current and former prisoners in the United States.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOnce released from prison in 1993, Ed worked tirelessly with revolutionary organizations and prisoner support groups, including but not limited to the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, the Attica Brothers Legal Defense Committee, the Seattle chapter of the National Jericho Movement, All of Us or None, and the National Lawyers Guild. Ed created the Free Mark Cook Organizing Committee and worked relentlessly to free his comrade Mark Cook, who was finally released in 2000. He also founded Prison Art, a nonprofit website that provided a platform for prisoners to sell their crafts and artwork. And he continued to write about prison conditions and prisoner resistance. He wrote for\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCalifornia Prison Focus,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003efounded\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Rock\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eto support California prisoners on hunger strike, co-created the prison newsletter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Kite\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePrison Covid\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003enewsletter to track the pandemic in prison in 2020–2021. Ed believed changing prisons will come from the prisoners themselves. This belief motivated his work on publications featuring prisoner journalism and communications.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 2016, Mead donated his papers to the University of Washington Libraries to be accessed by researchers, students, activists, and others. The collection, which forms the basis of something now called the Washington Prison History Project, includes several prisoner-run newsletters and lawsuits that Mead participated in. It also included the programming code for the Warden Game, a computer game Ed designed in prison in the mid-1980s after the Washington Department of Corrections introduced computers on a limited capacity in prisons. (A playable version of the game, based on Ed’s original code, is on the WPHP site.) Ed was later able to use the computer skills he taught himself inside to gain employment as a technical engineer for several different agencies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEd published the zine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Theory and Practice of Armed Struggle in the Northwest: A Historical Analysis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(Kersplebedeb, 2007), and the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(Kersplebedeb, 2015). Some of his organizing in Washington prisons is also captured in the books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eConcrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(originally published by University of Missouri Press, 1981),\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGuerrilla USA: The George Jackson Brigade and the Anticapitalist Underground of the 1970s\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(University of California Press, 2010), and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCreating a Movement with Teeth: A Documentary History of the George Jackson Brigade\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(PM Press, 2010), as well as in dozens of talks and interviews he conducted over the years. He can be seen in the film\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Gentleman Bank Robber: The Story of Butch Lesbian Freedom Fighter rita bo brown\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(2017). Along with Mark Cook, Ed also has an interview in the forthcoming book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(AK Press, due out in December 2023).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the Postscript to\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/lumpen-the-autobiography-of-ed-mead\" data-preorder-handle=\"lumpen-the-autobiography-of-ed-mead\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLumpen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, Ed wrote, “Let me tell you what my mama told me. She said the Earth should be a better place to live as a result of you having passed through. It took me a long while to internalize that message, although I do think the world is a slightly better place as a result of my having been here.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe agree with Ed—the world is a better place because of his lifetime of struggle and sacrifice. Ed Mead Presente!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" href=\"mailto:rattlingthecagesbook@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eEd Mead's support team\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eQuestions and comments may be sent to\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" href=\"mailto:info@freedomarchives.org\" target=\"_blank\"\u003einfo@freedomarchives.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Lumpen is a must-read for any radical that is serious about understanding how prisoners can struggle on the inside. Ed Mead mixes his personal story and political development in a compelling narrative. His time imprisoned makes mine look like a total picnic but its his rigorous interrogation of his own politics and practice that most impressed me. I could not put this book down!\" Daniel McGowan, former political prisoner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Lumpen is a page-turning retelling of Ed Mead's life, from his early days growing up on the frontier of Alaska, to the frontiers of prisoner organizing from inside and later outside prison. The everydayness of his descriptions of how the George Jackson Brigade came to be, to the simple necessity to form Men Against Sexism while behind bars, reminds us that everyday justice can lead us to extraordinary places. In a mostly ahistorical queer left, this book is a must read!\" Ryan Conrad, editor of \u003cem\u003eAgainst Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"There are many who talk the talk. Ed Mead is one who actually walked the walk. In fact, he's never stopped walking it, an example of commitment and integrity from which there's much to be learned. His autobiography should be read by everyone serious about the struggle for liberation.\" Ward Churchill\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175221276765,"sku":"9781894946780","price":16.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/lumpen_edmead.jpg?v=1654987923"},{"product_id":"panther-vision","title":"Panther Vision","description":"\u003cp\u003eKevin \"Rashid\" Johnson entered the u.s. prison system over 20 years ago, one of countless young Black men consigned to lifelong incarceration by the post-civil right policies of anti-Black genocide. While behind bars, Rashid encountered the ideas of revolutionary Black nationalism and Marxism-Leninism, and of the people and organizations who have used and developed these ideas in previous generations, foremost amongst these being the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. Along with other Black\/New Afrikan prisoners, Rashid helped found the New Afrikan Black Panther Party-Prison Chapter, while using both his artwork and his political writings as avenues to advance the cause of liberation for all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHere, collected in book form for the first time, are Rashid's core writings as Minister of Defense of the NABPP-PC. Subjects addressed include the differences between anarchism and Marxism-Leninsm, the legacy of the Black Panther Party, the timeliness of Huey P. Newton's concept of revolutionary intercommunalism, the science of dialictical and historical materialsm, the practice of democratic centralism, as well as current events ranging from u.s. imperialist designs in Africa to national oppression of New Afrikans within u.s. borders. And much more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs Professor Jared Ball explains in his preface,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Rashid represents the fear expressed by COINTELPRO’s fearful question: What happens if this radicalism reaches successive generations and then explicitly calls for the same and more in their time? He both articulates to his contemporaries and those coming behind him the context in which their art exists, the shifts in the landscape that take us from African medallion hip-hop to the bling era. He can also demonstrate with wondrous skill the power artists have in articulating those same ideas, critiques and concepts of revolution. Rashid in this sense becomes the problem he has himself warned is necessary.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eForeword by Jalil Muntaqim, introduction by Jared Ball; afterwords By George Katsiaficas and Tom Big Warrior.\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 original Black Panther Party for Self-Defense challenged the prevailing socio-political and economic relationship between the government and Black people. The New Afrikan Black Panther Party is building on that foundation, and Rashid’s writings embrace the need for a national organization in place of that which had been destroyed by COINTELPRO and racist repression. We can only hope this book reaches many, and serves to herald and light a means for the next generation of revolutionaries to succeed in building a mass and popular movement.”\u003cbr\u003e\nJalil Muntaqim, Prisoner of War\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“All Praise due to Brother Kevin Rashid Johnson, for his courage, determination and commitment from deep within the belly of the beast. For using his pen as a weapon to put forth his vision and perspectives, to inform and enlighten, to be discussed and evaluated.”\u003cbr\u003e\nEmory Douglas, Revolutionary Artist \u0026amp; Former Minister of Culture, Black Panther Party 1967–1981\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“The U.S. is a society that originally based itself on a form of prison labor called slavery. Then it based itself on a form of slavery called racial segregation. Now it sets at the core of its political culture a form of racial segregation called the prison industry, run by a judicial machine. Each of these phases of U.S. history has used its racialization of class relations to render its class exploitation extreme. As with all exploitation, there is resistance. Today, Rashid’s is one of the most powerful voices of that resistance.”\u003cbr\u003e\nSteve Martinot, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Rule of Racialization\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Kevin \"Rashid\" Johnson's \u003cem\u003ePanther Vision\u003c\/em\u003e is an extraordinary testimony to the human capacity to struggle against oppression.  Johnson, a Virginia prisoner, who has been moved to Oregon and Texas, is a radical writer, artist, and organizer and co-founder and current Minister of Defense of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party Prison Chapter (NABPP-PC). The theme of struggle against capitalism and white supremacy as central to revolutionary change runs throughout this collection of thirty-eight articles (written between 2005 and 2015) and fifty-five, often extraordinary, drawings – most done with only a pen. \u003cem\u003ePanther Vision\u003c\/em\u003e breaks out of the walls of physical imprisonment to treat such topics as politics, history, theory, organization, Troy Davis, Trayvon Martin, and Michael Brown. It discusses well-known figures such as Marx, Lenin, Mao, Angela Davis, George Jackson, Ella Baker, Huey P. Newton, Assata Shakur, Kwame Nkrumah, Amilcar Cabral, Howard Zinn, George Jackson, and lesser known, but important writers such as Hubert Harrison and Theodore W. Allen. \"Rashid\" Johnson's \u003cem\u003ePanther Vision\u003c\/em\u003e is a remarkable achievement -- the power of his writings, art, and thought cannot be jailed and will continue to reach wider audiences and grow in importance.\" -- Jeffrey B. 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These texts show the evolution of Marx and Engels's ideas about the nascent labor aristocracy, and the enervating effects of colonialism and chauvinism on the British labour movement, with a focus on the British Empire of their time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition of \"On Colonies\" includes a substantial introduction by Marxist economist Zak Cope and former CWC member Torkil Lauesen, centering these concepts in theory and history. Cope and Lauesen show how Marx and Engels's initial belief that capitalism would expand seamlessly around the globe in the same way as it did in Europe was proven wrong by events, as instead worldwide imperialism spread capitalism as a polarizing process, not only between the bourgeoisie and the working class, but also as a division between an imperialist center and an exploited periphery. 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Given the rapid developments of the past few months, however, it was felt important to make his chapter on the alt-right available as soon as possible – therein lies the origin of this publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupplementing “Ctrl-Alt-Delete” is an essay written by comrades from the Its Going Down website, “The Rich Kids of Fascism.” This is a view from activists currently involved in opposing both the far right and the state, on the streets. As its title would imply, \"Rich Kids\" focuses on the elitist class politics of the alt right, and how that sets it apart from other far right phenomenon like boneheads or militias. Looking at the alt-right’s fortunes over the past few years, IGD show the role played by both the media, and white racist fears about the ongoing struggles of Black people and immigrants, in feeding this threat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn appendix, “Notes on Trump,” by Bromma, serves not so much as a counterpoint, as a contextualization. Not directly addressing the alt-right itself, Bromma’s Notes posit that the election of Trump and the rise of the far right are not simple accidents of history, nor the result of some single failure on our side or success on theirs, but are conjoined expressions of a deep shift within the world economy. As he argues, “What’s coming into view, semi-hidden underneath the frenzied soap opera of reactionary populism, is that the tide of globalization has crested and started to recede.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe alt right in one expression of this reactionary moment. We must oppose them, but also prepare ourselves to oppose what might come next. Understanding one’s enemy can only help in this regard, and indeed a thorough understanding of an opposing political force can also help us prepare for future far right iterations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is why this book is being offered now. A tool for work that needs doing. 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Nowhere is this more true than when it comes to the lumpen\/proletariat, that most dramatic, most elusive of maybe-­or-­maybe-­not “classes.” This matters because the revolutionary movement and the lumpen have a much longer and more involved relationship than we’ve fully owned up to. Whether revolutionaries think it’s good or not, the lumpen are going to play a big part in everyone’s future. No better place, then, to start remaking the tool of theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCriminalization is a basic condition of our paradoxically growing yet collapsing, glittering but increasingly decaying late capitalism. Shaping the zone of the poorest and most exploited in postmodern society, the zone of the dispossessed that everyone knows of. Here it’s often called the inner city or the rez. Same same as elsewhere it’s called the favela or the ghetto, the bantustan or banlieue. Every capitalist nation or society has its own name for it; it’s always different and always the same, because it is where the dispossessed have to gather, to live and struggle to survive. It’s where criminality is out front and where the lumpen\/proletariat are mass produced as jagged fragments or strata of “partial-­class.” While the lumpen fall from all classes, it is in these zones of the dispossessed that they reach an open and mass character. That they themselves can take over the life of parts of the neighborhood and make it “home.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOut of this enduring culture and criminalization of the zone, lumpen\/proletarians are constantly being made in larger and larger numbers even in the most technologically advanced and affluent nations of imperialist “civilization.” Of all the classes of capitalist society, it is the lumpen\/proletariat that has the most outdated theory attached to it. Just scraps of theory, really. Still pictured by many socialists as a small and marginal maybe-­or-­maybe-­not “class,” wretched and largely unimportant to revolutionary change. But today the lumpen have become major players in the political crises of both left and right. This is something that has to be picked up, no matter how white-­hot to the touch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJ. Sakai’s ground-breaking, \u003cem\u003eThe “Dangerous Class” and Revolutionary Theory: Thoughts on the Making of the Lumpen\/Proletariat\u003c\/em\u003e, is our first major exploration of this most controversial and least understood “non-class” in revolutionary politics. It is an attempt to unknot the puzzle.  It encompasses the threads of criminality as well as gender, of breaking social boundaries and eating the bitterest of class politics. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt all times, the author interrogates the forming of left theory on this “dangerous class” by the highway flare  of his own experiences, and more importantly the mass violent liberation wars of the 1950s-1960s. This is not a memoir, though, but an explanation of how anti-capitalist class theory is hammered out while red-hot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the day Marx \u0026amp; Engels’ \u003cem\u003eCommunist Manifesto \u003c\/em\u003efirst lit up the “dangerous class” of jumbled criminals and outcasts on the far margins of society—those stickup-boys and sex workers and thieves and mercenaries whom they named the lumpen\/proletariat–radicals have been uncertain what their role should be, and even how they should be discussed.   In no other area of the class structure has there been such widely divergent anti-capitalist viewpoints. Who are allies, who are enemies?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile great 20th century rebels of the capitalist periphery from Mao Z to Huey Newton forced the sharp evolution of left work with the lumpen, the general uncertainty has only persisted.  Confusing not only our immediate practice but even larger anti-capitalist theory about class politics. Sakai’s work comes at a time when there has been renewed interest in politically locating the lumpen—as they assume a larger and larger role at the cutting edge of world upheaval.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe “Dangerous Class” and Revolutionary Theory \u003c\/em\u003eis not only novel for its subject but in its approach.  The author shows how the vulgar “socialist” picture of noble working people on one side of a divide and unsavory criminals and outcasts on the other, has never been true.  But, rather,  that the emerging outcast lumpen\/proletariat and the new capitalist lower working class that they painfully grew out of—were both criminalized at birth in the rise of euro-capitalism. In all this, Sakai follows the actual “non-class” development of the lumpen in capitalism alongside the development of left theory on these declassed elements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe “Dangerous Class” and Revolutionary Theory \u003c\/em\u003estarts with the paper of that name, on the birth of the modern lumpen\/proletariat in the 18th and 19th centuries and the storm cloud of revolutionary theory that has always surrounded them.  Going back and piecing together both the actual social reality and the analyses primarily of Marx but also Bakunin and Engels, the paper shows how Marx’s class theory wasn’t something static. His views learned in quick jumps, and then all but reversed themselves in several significant aspects.  While at first dismissing them in the \u003cem\u003eCommunist Manifesto \u003c\/em\u003eas “that passively rotting mass” at the obscure lower depths, Marx soon realized that the lumpen could be players at the very center of events in revolutionary civil war. Even at the center in the startling rise of new regimes.  Like his was at times almost a post-modern understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/kersplebedeb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lumpen-mao1.jpg\" style=\"width: 359px; height: 417px; float: left;\"\u003eThe second part consists of the detailed paper \u003cem\u003eMao Z’s Revolutionary Laboratory and the Role of the Lumpen Proletariat\u003c\/em\u003e. This, too, is ground-breaking work. If the major revolutionary theory we have about the lumpen was first roughly assembled in 19th century Europe, these ideas weren’t put to the test then. As Sakai points out, the left’s euro-centrism here prevented it from realizing the obvious: that the basic theory from European radicalism was first fully tested not there or here but in the Chinese Revolution of 1921-1949. Under severely clashing political lines in the left, the class analysis finally used by Mao Z was shaken out of the shipping crate from Europe and then modified to map the organizing of millions over a prolonged generational revolutionary war. One could hardly wish for a larger test tube, and the many lessons to be learned from this mass political experience are finally put on the table.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition, there are also two lively Addendums:  The first is an informal correspondence, a back and forth of questions raised by an early draft of The “Dangerous Class” and Revolutionary Theory, between the book’s editor and J. Sakai. It starts with the question of how to place the traditional gay community in this? The second Addendum is a reprint of J. Sakai’s 1976 covert intelligence paper, \"U.S. Experiment Using Black “Gangs” to Repress Black Community Rebellions\" (circulated under the earlier title “The Lumpenproletariat and Repression”). There is both an extensive Foreword explaining the politics and circumstances that led to this paper, as well as an Afterword explaining how the education paper was used and some critical reaction to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nJ. Sakai is a revolutionary intellectual with decades of experience as an activist in the U.S. As he explains about the path that led him to writing Settlers, his first book:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"In the Fall 1961, i found myself with other militant Sit-In veterans in the reborn Oakland chapter of Congress of Racial Equality, picketing a major store which had refused to hire New Afrikans. Even in the Bay Area that was the custom and law back then.  It had started years earlier for me in high school in L.A.'s 1950's San Fernando Valley (sent by my family after flunking out of school in Chicago). Where as the lone uneducated leftist i had tried unsuccessfully to sell copies of the socialist labor party newspaper (the only one i could get) every week to my classmates. At the same time was working as an Asian houseboy for the family of a Jewish used car dealer (stereotypes abound for a reason). Was fired for taking a night off for my own high school graduation.  The wife lost it and screamed, \"People like you don't need graduations!\" A month later was living in a different state to find a job and avoid the \"colored\" military draft. And active as the novice food drive coordinator in a long, bitter, ugly hospital workers' strike, whose main public demand was pay raises up to the federal minimum wage (we lost badly).\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nHave been through a thousand campaigns and movement groups since then, and can't believe i've been so dumb so often. In 1975, while mostly active doing Afrikan liberation movement support with radical exiles from various countries, i started writing a historical investigation into the puzzling class politics of euro-amerikan workers. Which i naively thought would only be a quick movement paper. Eight years later what became re-titled as Settlers was finished. 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On the other hand, there is the identification of being part of a (\"white\") oppressor nation. Gilbert seeks to understand the origins of this contradiction, its historical development, as well as possibilities to weaken and ultimately transform the situation. In other words, how can people organize a break with white supremacy and foster solidarity with the struggles of people of color, both within the United States and around the world?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGilbert began this project in the early 1980s, while in jail facing charges stemming from his activities in the revolutionary underground. It  started as a pamphlet reflecting on writings about race and class by Ted Allen, W.E.B. DuBois, and J. Sakai.  In the 1990s, Gilbert added a retrospective essay, reviewing lessons from the 1960s and the New Left he had been active in at the time. Over the years, \u003cem\u003eLooking at the White Working Class Historically\u003c\/em\u003e (as it was known in previous editions) has been widely circulated across multiple waves and generations of activists. As Gilbert writes in the introduction to this 2017 edition, this text remains the most popular of his writings for younger radicals seeking to build movements against racism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition contains all the material from previous versions (including an essay by J. Sakai), along with a new introduction, Gilbert's take on the election of Donald Trump, and an extensive new text surveying changes in the global political order since the 1960s. 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His support of Black liberation as a method of freeing the world is to be studied, appreciated, and applied.” —Jared A. Ball, author of \u003cem\u003eI Mix What I Like! A Mixtape Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e, and professor of Media and Africana Studies at Morgan State University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“If we want to organize white people against racism and for racial justice, if you want to build up a broad-based majority for economic, racial, and gender justice, if you are enraged at the devastation of structural inequality in our lives and on our planet, then this book is key.  Class inequality is organized through white supremacy, and the ruling class strategy of divide and rule of pitting working class and poor white people against communities of color, must be understood.  David Gilbert gives us historical analysis to understand this ruling class strategy, and how we can unite white people across class to a collective liberation vision with racial justice at the center.” —Chris Crass, author of \u003cem\u003eTowards the “Other America”: Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Gilbert, a longtime anti-racist and anti-imperialist, first became active in the Civil Rights movement in 1961. In 1965, he started the Vietnam Committee at Columbia University; in 1967 he co-authored the first Students for a Democratic Society pamphlet naming the system “imperialism”; and he was active in the Columbia strike of 1968. He later joined the Weather Underground and spent a total of 10 years underground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDavid has been imprisoned in New York State since October 20th, 1981, when a unit of the Black Liberation Army along with allied white revolutionaries tried to get funds for the struggle by robbing a Brinks truck. This tragically resulted in a shoot-out in which a Brinks guard and two police officers were killed. David is serving a sentence of 75 years (minimum) to life under New York State’s “felony murder” law, whereby all participants in a robbery, even if they are unarmed and non-shooters, are equally responsible for all deaths that occur. While in prison, he’s been a pioneer for peer education on AIDS and has continued to write and advocate against oppression. He’s been involved with the annual Certain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar since 2001 and has written two books from prison that are available from Kersplebedeb: \u003cem\u003eNo Surrender \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eLove and Struggle\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as the pamphlet \u003cem\u003eOur Commitment is to Our Communities: Mass Incarceration, Political Prisoners and Building a Movement for Community-Based Justice.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYou can write to David at:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Gilbert #83A6158\u003cbr\u003e\nWende Correctional Facility,\u003cbr\u003e\n3040 Wende Road\u003cbr\u003e\nAlden, New York 14004-1187\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: David Gilbert\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-894946-91-9\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 97 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175254143069,"sku":"9781894946919","price":8.4,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/lwwch_cover_0.jpg?v=1654988068"},{"product_id":"insurgent-supremacists-the-u-s-far-right-s-challenge-to-state-and-empire","title":"Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Matthew N. Lyons takes readers on a tour of neonazis and Christian theocrats, by way of the patriot movement, the LaRouchites, and the alt-right. Supplementing this, thematic sections explore specific dimensions of far-right politics, regarding gender, decentralism, and anti-imperialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA major study of movements that strive to overthrow the U.S. government, that often claim to be anti-imperialist and sometimes even anti-capitalist yet also consciously promote inequality, hierarchy, and domination, generally along explicitly racist, sexist, and homophobic lines. Revolutionaries of the far right: insurgent supremacists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIntervening directly in debates within left and antifascist movements, Lyons examines both the widespread use and abuse of the term “fascism,” and the relationship between federal security forces and the paramilitary right. His final chapter offers a preliminary analysis of the Trump presidential administration relationship with far-right politics and the organized far right’s shifting responses to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBoth for its analysis and as a guide to our opponents, \u003cem\u003eInsurgent Supremacists\u003c\/em\u003e promises to be a powerful tool in organizing to resist the forces at the cutting edge of reaction today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Drawing on deep expertise and years of experience tracking the shifting constellations of the insurrectionist Right, Matthew Lyons guides readers through the history, ideology, and agendas of these seemingly obscure but increasingly powerful political forces in America. If you want to understand them, you need to read this book.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—Mark Rupert, author of \u003cem\u003eIdeologies of Globalization: Contending Visions of a New World Order\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A brilliant exploration of the U.S. far right today and its many different strains. In wonderfully clearheaded, deeply researched prose, Matthew N. Lyons provides a cogent and innovative analysis of far-right movements, using historical examination and his own contemporary reporting to expose surprising truths about the far right’s base, motivations, and ambivalent relationship to capitalism. A vital resource for anyone who wants to fight the alt-right and other ‘insurgent supremacists’ in our midst.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—Donna Minkowitz, author of \u003cem\u003eFerocious Romance: What My Encounters with the Right Taught Me about Sex, God, and Fury\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Bold and brilliant in its scholarship and ideological framing, Lyons challenges all of us who yearn for real democracy to step up to meet the challenge of the neofascist threat.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—Chip Berlet, editor of \u003cem\u003eEyes Right! Challenging the Right Wing Backlash\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Writing by writing, Matthew Lyons has filled in the face of the new far right for us. It’s facts he brings, not internet hot air. In this strange moment, we all need Lyons’s work more than ever.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—J. Sakai, author of \u003cem\u003eSettlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Insurgent Supremacists is one of the best overviews of the recent U.S. far right, and a useful corrective to sloppy popular accounts. Lyons takes the reader on a lively tour through the far right’s twists and turns, keeping a critical eye on the role of gender, while highlighting the movement’s unusual elements like decentralization and anti-imperialism.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—Spencer Sunshine, author of \u003cem\u003eUp in Arms: A Guide to Oregon’s Patriot Movement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMatthew N. Lyons has been writing about right-wing politics for over 25 years. His work focuses on the interplay between right-wing movements and systems of oppression, and responses to these movements by leftists, liberals, and the state. He writes regularly for Three Way Fight, a radical antifascist blog, and his work has also appeared in the \u003cem\u003eGuardian New Politics, Socialism and Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eteleSUR\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e, and other publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLyons contributed the title essay to the book \u003cem\u003eCtrl-Alt-Delete: An Antifascist Report on the Alternative Right\u003c\/em\u003e (Kersplebedeb Publishing, 2017). He is coauthor with Chip Berlet of \u003cem\u003eRight-Wing Populism in America\u003c\/em\u003e (Guilford Press, 2000) and author of \u003cem\u003eArier, Patriarchen, Übermenschen: die extreme Rechte in den USA\u003c\/em\u003e (Aryans, Patriarchs, Supermen: The Far Right in the USA [Unrast Verlag, 2015]).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLyons is cotrustee of the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust, which stewards the literary legacy of the late playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Matthew N. Lyons\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-62963-511-8\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 384 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175267151965,"sku":"9781629635118","price":20.96,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/insurgentsupremacists.jpg?v=1654988120"},{"product_id":"the-global-perspective-reflections-on-imperialism-and-resistance","title":"The Global Perspective: Reflections on Imperialism and Resistance","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the 1970s and 80s, Torkil Lauesen was a member of a clandestine communist cell which carried out a series of robberies in Denmark, netting very large sums which were then sent on to various national liberation movements in the Third World. Following their capture in 1989, Torkil would spend six years in prison. In 2016, Lauesen’s book \u003cem\u003eDet Globale Perspektiv\u003c\/em\u003e was released in Denmark. In it, he explains how he sees the world political situation today, and his thoughts about the future. In 2018, Kersplebedeb Publishing is pleased to release the English language edition of this book, translated by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMDQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gabriel-kuhn\" title=\"Gabriel Kuhn\"\u003eGabriel Kuhn\u003c\/a\u003e, and with a Preface by Dr. Zak Cope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs Lauesen details, we today live in a world of massive and unprecedented inequality. Never before has humanity been so starkly divided between the “haves” and the “have nots”. Never before has the global situation been accelerating so quickly. The Third World national liberation movements of the 20th century very much triggered the liberatory movements that did manage to emerge in the First World, and seemed for an all-too-brief moment to point to an escape hatch from history’s downward spiral ... but for many today that all seems like ancient history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Global Perspective\u003c\/em\u003e bridges the gap between Third Worldist theory, and the question of “What Is To Be Done?” in a First World context. It is an important contribution towards developing an effective political practice based on the realities of the global situation, avoiding the pitfalls of sugarcoating the situation with the First World populations, or of falling into pessimistic quietism. It bridges the gap not only between generations, but also between theory and practice. As Lauesen says, “It is a book written by an activist, for activists. Global capitalism is heading into a deep structural crisis in the coming decades, so the objective conditions for radical change will be present, for better or for worse. The outcome will depend on us, the subjective forces.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“The central concerns of Lauesen’s book are the misery of the global masses and the global class structures that keep that misery in place, as well as the question: What can be done about it?” — Gernot Köhler, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Global Wage System: A Study of International Wage Differences\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGlobal Economics: An Introductory Course\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“There are autobiographies by radicals and there are analyses of imperialism. If you want both in one, this book is for you.” — Klaus Viehmann, auhor of \u003cem\u003ePrison Round Trip\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“With \u003cem\u003eThe Global Perspective\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM0NTM5In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/torkil-lauesen\" title=\"Torkil Lauesen\"\u003eTorkil Lauesen\u003c\/a\u003e is re-vitalizing important discussions on the radical left. The book offers important insights and analytical tools with which to study contemporary political and economic changes, something that is equally important for political activists and academics alike. By incorporating unequal exchange into the study of  political economy, Lauesen conveys a strong case for a global perspective.” — Rasmus Alex Wendt, author of \u003cem\u003eTRIPs in India: An analysis of the impact of global governance on political processes in India\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“As global inequality and poverty has reached its highest apogee today, The Global Perspective is a crucial contribution to the study of imperialism and anti-imperialism, revealing that the political, economic, and military legacy of European colonial intervention remains stronger than ever.  This work by Torkil Lauesen has produced a comprehensive and highly accessible contribution to understanding the history, theory and nature of imperialism for those of us searching for a practice of resistance; drawing on essential classical and modern theoretical approaches. As research and academic study of imperialism returns center stage, Lauesen vividly reveals how it maintains and increases living standards in the Global North as it grinds down 85 percent of all humanity in the Global South.   The Global Perspective is an ethical call for mindfulness beyond ourselves, nations, and regions and toward the possibility a praxis for international solidarity.  In this way, The Global Perspective is a very hopeful book invaluable to students of imperialism and serious practitioners of the struggle against global exploitation.” — Immanuel Ness, author of \u003cem\u003eSouthern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"With \u003cem\u003eThe Global Perspective \u003c\/em\u003eTorkil Lauesen not only synthesizes the classic works of anti-imperialist political economy but joins the ranks of contemporary radical political economists, such as Robert Biel and John Smith, whose creative innovations in developing updated and integrated theories of imperialism and capitalism contribute to an understanding of the global contradictions of the current conjuncture. By recentering the Marxist theory of value, while putting it into dialogue with concepts such as the biopolitical, Lauesen injects new life into the former while transforming the latter according to materialist foundations. Alongside his whirlwind tour of anti-imperialist political economy and the current structure of global capitalism, Lauesen delivers a necessary shit-kicking to those works of political economy––both neoliberal and pseudo-radical––that have festered in the open wound of the so-called 'end of history'. Hopefully one consequence of this book is that Marxist-inclined readers will never take trash theories of 'debt economy' and 'immaterial labour' seriously again. Traversing the fault lines and lines of flight of contemporary imperialism, Lauesen cannot help but recognize, as any dedicated Marxist should, that the objective circumstances are primed for revolution but the subjective circumstances are lagging behind. The questions he raises concerning this subjective dimension, what is to be done, are necessarily controversial but, at the very least, will create openings for further debate and dialogue. As a side point I must say that it is inspiring to witness militants from the past generation of anti-imperialist struggle, who have paid a high cost for their contributions, to not only stay the course but be willing to creatively adapt to transformed circumstances.\" — J. Moufawad-Paul, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Communist Necessity\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eContinuity and Rupture\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAusterity Apparatus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Torkil Lauesen’s The Global Perspective is an accessible, wide-ranging, and heartfelt overview of the theory and practice of anti-imperialism over time, written by an indomitable veteran of the struggle. It combines solid theory with illuminating personal narrative. This book can be used as an excellent introduction to the study of imperialism. But it’s also a carefully considered political summation of the anti-imperialist movement, something that will be of great interest to experienced activists. Because of the book’s impressive breadth and distinct point of view, some of its specific assertions will be controversial. But that’s part of what makes it valuable. I think that The Global Perspective is an excellent launch pad for a renewed discussion about the nature of modern imperialism—a discussion we urgently need.” Bromma, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Worker Elite: Notes on the ‘Labor Aristocracy’\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eExodus and Reconstruction: Working-Class Women at the Heart of Globalization\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eRacist ‘Anti-Imperialism’? Class, Colonialism and the Zapatistas\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTorkil Lauesen is a longtime anti-imperialist activist and writer living in Denmark. From 1970 to 1989, he was full-time member of a communist anti-imperialist group, supporting Third World liberation movements by both legal and illegal means. He worked occasionally as a glass factory worker, mail carrier, and laboratory worker, in order to be able to stay on the dole. In connection with support work, he has traveled in Lebanon, Syria, Zimbabwe, South Africa, the Philippines, and Mexico. In the 1990s, while in prison, he was involved in prison activism and received a Masters degree in political science. He is currently a member of International Forum, an anti-imperialist organization based in Denmark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eZak Cope is co-editor of the \u003cem\u003eJournal of Labor and Society \u003c\/em\u003eand co-editor of the \u003cem\u003ePalgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism\u003c\/em\u003e. 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In the spirit of \u003cem\u003eA People’s History of the United States\u003c\/em\u003e, this book conveys engaging and accessible narratives of ordinary people who led labor struggles that have indelibly shaped American history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEssays include vivid accounts of resistance in the workplace like the Ludlow miner’s strike and organizing at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, as well as broader pieces on cultural figures like Woody Guthrie, Black Wall Street in Tulsa, OK, and the fight for the eight-hour day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn invaluable tool for learning the lessons of grassroots struggle, \u003cem\u003eClass War, USA \u003c\/em\u003eis the perfect counter-narrative to the myth that change comes only from the top, and will appeal to students of history and labor activists alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBrandon Weber has written for \u003cem\u003eThe Progressive\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eUpworthy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBig Think\u003c\/em\u003e, and many other online publications, and has been a union activist for over 30 years. 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This book is indispensable reading for today’s generation of young workers who—through no fault of their own—have no knowledge of the US working class’ vast tradition of struggle, or its relevance for the future. At the same time, \u003cem\u003eClass War, USA \u003c\/em\u003eis just as valuable for those who have withstood the relentless assault on unions over the last four decades—and will undoubtedly find tremendous inspiration in the history Weber so convincingly tells. It is also worth noting that Weber also recounts the stories of working-class struggles far beyond the realm of the official union movement, including the Stonewall Rebellion that launched the gay liberation movement in 1969 and the Attica prison uprising in 1971. At fewer than 150 pages, written in accessible language, illustrated with an abundance of original photographs, this book should be on the coffee tables of all those invested in returning to a tradition of class struggle in the US.\" -Sharon Smith, author of \u003cem\u003eSubterranean Fire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Brandon Weber’s \u003cem\u003eClass War USA \u003c\/em\u003eisn’t just a retelling of well-known and not-so-well-known strikes. Weber has done for a new generation of social and labor activists what Sid Lens did for an earlier one: bring to life the hard scrabble union, social, and political struggles of working class people from the past to the present. And by the way, in case you ever wondered why Woody Guthrie’s \"This Land is Your Land\" never became the national anthem, Weber has the answer.\" -Kim Moody, a founder of \u003cem\u003eLabor Notes \u003c\/em\u003eand author of \u003cem\u003eOn New Terrain: How Capital is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Brandon Weber does a masterful job at succinctly bringing to life many gripping and insightful episodes from the rich history of American labor, allowing readers to draw invaluable lessons for today’s struggles. Yes, this was, and is, class war. In his colorful collection, Weber vividly shows that people working together can, against all odds in a culture that fetishizes individualism, bring about social progress. 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A member of the Black Panther Party and defendant in the infamous Panther 21 case, Balagoon went underground with the Black Liberation Army (BLA). Captured and convicted of various crimes against the State, he spent much of the 1970s in prison, escaping twice. After each escape, he went underground and resumed BLA activity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBalagoon was unusual for his time in several ways. He combined anarchism with Black nationalism, he broke the rules of sexual and political conformity that surrounded him, he took up arms against the white supremacist State—all the while never shying away from developing his own criticisms of the weaknesses within the movements. His eloquent trial statements and political writings, as much as his poetry and excerpts from his prison letters, are all testimony to a sharp and iconoclastic revolutionary who was willing to make hard choices and fully accept the consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBalagoon was captured for the last time in December 1981, charged with participating in an armored truck expropriation in West Nyack, New York, an action in which two police officers and a money courier were killed. Convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, he died of an AIDS-related illness on December 13, 1986.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first part of this book consists of a historical essay by Akinyele Umoja and an extensive intergenerational roundtable discussion of the significance of Balagoon’s life and thoughts today. The second section consists of poetry by Balagoon, including several never published before. The third section contains court statements and essays by Balagoon himself; while most of these had been included in previous editions, there are some that have not been available since they were published in various movement publications in the 1980s. The fourth section consists of excerpts from letters Balagoon wrote to the canadian publication Bulldozer\/Prison News Service following his capture. The fifth section consists of three texts by Balagoon that people had in their possession but which have never been published before. Finally, the sixth section contains a reproduction of the exercise booklet for revolutionary prisoners that Balagoon created while incarcerated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCo-published with PM Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“We have to get our jewels where we can, for this is how we carry on from one generation to the next, it's revolutionary cross-pollination. To paraphrase Che, we need one, two, three, many more Kuwasi Balagoons in order to get free of the chains that bind us.” —Sanyika Shakur\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003ciframe width=\"353\" height=\"627\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3d9Gsu5llM8\" title=\"The Spirit of Freedom: Anticolonial War \u0026amp; Uneasy Peace in Ireland\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction to 2019 Edition ......... 6\u003cbr\u003e\nIntroduction to the First Edition ......... 8\u003cbr\u003e\nB.L.A., by Albert Nuh Washington ......... 10\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKuwasi in the Twenty-­First Century ......... 11\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nMaroon: \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyOTYzIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/kuwasi-balagoon\" title=\"Kuwasi Balagoon\"\u003eKuwasi Balagoon\u003c\/a\u003e and the Evolution of Revolutionary New Afrikan Anarchism,\u003cbr\u003e\nby Akinyele Umoja ......... 13\u003cbr\u003e\n3 Haiku That Barely Suggest the Sparkle of Kuwasi Balagoon, by David Gilbert ......... 46\u003cbr\u003e\nKuwasi: A Virtual Roundtable of Love and Reflection, Compiled and coordinated by Matt Meyer, with Joan P. Gibbs and Meg Starr, featuring Sekou Odinga, Bilal Sunni-­Ali,\u003cbr\u003e\nKim Kit Holder, Meg Starr, Danielle Jasmine, Amilcar Shabazz, Ajamu Sankofa, David Gilbert, dequi kioni-­sadiki, Kai Lumumba Barrow, Dhoruba Bin Wahad, and Ashanti Alston ......... 47\u003cbr\u003e\nBlack Cats Named Kuwasi, by Kai Lumumba Barrow ......... 62\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePoetry ......... 65\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nyour honor ......... 66\u003cbr\u003e\nwith no questions ......... 67\u003cbr\u003e\nsecretary watts ......... 68\u003cbr\u003e\nspring comes ......... 69\u003cbr\u003e\nbig ben ......... 70\u003cbr\u003e\ni remember ......... 73\u003cbr\u003e\nlife is rough ......... 74\u003cbr\u003e\nthe klan marched ......... 75\u003cbr\u003e\nmother of pearl sky ......... 76\u003cbr\u003e\nrain ......... 77\u003cbr\u003e\nsome solo piano or guitar ......... 78\u003cbr\u003e\nfiltered through the roof ......... 79\u003cbr\u003e\nwe’ve got to ......... 80\u003cbr\u003e\nwhen the world is stale ......... 82\u003cbr\u003e\nlock step ......... 83\u003cbr\u003e\nrefused ......... 84\u003cbr\u003e\nrockland ......... 86\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKuwasi Speaks ......... 89\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIn the Other Army ......... 90\u003cbr\u003e\nStatement at Preliminary Hearing ......... 93\u003cbr\u003e\nBrink’s Trial Opening Statement ......... 95\u003cbr\u003e\nBrink’s Trial Closing Statement ......... 129\u003cbr\u003e\nBrink’s Trial Sentencing Statement ......... 141\u003cbr\u003e\nDestroy All Traitors ......... 145\u003cbr\u003e\nStatement to New Afrikan Freedom Fighters Day ......... 148\u003cbr\u003e\nAnarchy Can’t Fight Alone ......... 150\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Continuing Appeal of Anti-­Imperialism ......... 155\u003cbr\u003e\nWhy Isn’t the Whole World Dancin’? ......... 160\u003cbr\u003e\nA Letter to Overthrow Newspaper ......... 170\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLetters from Prison ......... 173\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKuwasi Remembered ......... 199\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIn Memory of Kuwasi Balagoon, New Afrikan Freedom Fighter, by David Gilbert ......... 201\u003cbr\u003e\nNew Afrikan People’s Organization Memorial Statement ......... 204\u003cbr\u003e\nStatement by Prisoners at Auburn ......... 206\u003cbr\u003e\nA Eulogy, by Sundiata Acoli ......... 207\u003cbr\u003e\nBorn on Sunday, by David Gilbert ......... 208\u003cbr\u003e\nIn Memory of Kuwasi Balagoon, by Marilyn Buck ......... 210\u003cbr\u003e\nSome Reflections on an Unpublished Poem, by Meg Starr ......... 211\u003cbr\u003e\nAn Unpublished Poem, by Kuwasi Balagoon ......... 213\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFound and Shared ......... 215\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n1. Where Do We Go From Here? ......... 217\u003cbr\u003e\n2. On Traitors ......... 250\u003cbr\u003e\n3. The Vocations of Warrior and Soldier ......... 261\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKuwasi Balagoon Exercise Book ......... 268\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eContributors ......... 278\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“The success of the Movement for Black Lives over the last three years has demonstrated the power inherent in a challenge to white supremacy that is at once radical, non-hierarchical, intersectional, and queer-centered. But for many in today's political world, this constellation of commitments pops out of nowhere, with little articulate history. And that is a shame, because there is always a history, and to understand where we came from tells us a great deal about where we are. A conversation with our elders—whether departed or not—always deepens our understanding. This important, often brilliant, and little known collection from a Black anarchist political prisoner, whose struggle moves from the early 60s Panthers, to the early years of the AIDS epidemic, deserves wide discussion among today's radicals. The words in these papers and letters speak important truths to our current situation, and will provoke heated debate on both theory and practice, as we move into a new and dangerous era, ever rekindling the hope of radical transfomation.”\u003cbr\u003e\n—Mark Lance, professor of philosophy, Justice and Peace Studies Program, Georgetown University; general director, Institute for Anarchist Studies\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175282618461,"sku":"9781629633770","price":16.76,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/a_soldier_s_story_revolutionary_writings_by_a_new_afrikan_anarchist.jpg?v=1654988224"},{"product_id":"strike-one-to-educate-one-hundred-the-rise-of-the-red-brigades-1960s-1970s","title":"Strike One to Educate One Hundred: The Rise of the Red Brigades 1960s-1970s","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen \u003cem\u003eStrike One to Educate One Hundred\u003c\/em\u003e was written, Italy’s Red Brigades were crashing out of our daily newspapers into everyone’s awareness. Yet, almost no real information about them was available here.  \u003cem\u003eStrike One\u003c\/em\u003e was written for that need.  It was not an academic study. It was written by people who were doing it, and read by people who wanted to do it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow there are many books and countless papers and articles about the Red Brigades’ history, but most are from a police and state point of view. \u003cem\u003eStrike One\u003c\/em\u003e is still a unique and practically useful work, because it tells the other side, of innovative anti-capitalism.  It details how the spectre of urban guerrilla warfare grew at last out of the industrial centers of modern Italy. Showing how this was a political project of a young working class layer that was fed up with reformism’s lies. The authors, who were varied supporters who chose to remain anonymous due to Italy and NATO’s draconian “anti-terrorist” laws, tell much of this story in the militants’ own words:  in translations of key political documents, news reports and communiqués.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePractical details of the BR’s innovative politics are a backbone of this book, and especially about its distinctive fighting style in the early defining battles .  These working class rebels were categorically opposed to bombings—which they labeled as the indiscriminate, anti-working class tactics of fascists and right-wingers—opposing any armed violence which couldn’t precisely target the ruling class and its active servants. This writing also placed that urban guerrilla project in its context in Italy’s large, complex 1960s left. Long circulated by left circles as a photocopy, \u003cem\u003eStrike One\u003c\/em\u003e is finally published here as a book for the first time.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Chris Aronson Beck\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Reggie Emiliana\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Lee Morris\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Ollie Patterson\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-894946-98-8\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 296 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175284191325,"sku":"9781894946988","price":20.96,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/strikeone_g.jpg?v=1654988237"},{"product_id":"1978-a-new-stage-in-the-class-war-selected-documents-from-the-spring-campaign-of-the-red-brigades","title":"1978: A New Stage in the Class War? Selected Documents from the Spring Campaign of the Red Brigades","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e1978: A New Stage in the Class War? Selected Documents from the Spring Campaign of the Red Brigades\u003c\/em\u003e, presents for the first time to English language readers a selection of documents on the strategic logic and conjunctural analysis behind the 1978 offensive of the Red Brigades which brought that organizations strategy of “attack on the heart of the state” to a climax and induced a national political crisis. The book includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- the February 1978 “Resolution of the Strategic Leadership” which presents the BR strategy of protracted armed struggle in the context of their analysis of the “imperialist state of the multinationals” and of the class composition of the Italian social formation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- The nine communiques issued by the group during the captivity of Moro.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- The editorial “Achtung Banditi” from the June 1978 issue of the Marxist-Leninist journal Corrispondenza Internazionale which sharply criticizes the strategic line of the BR from a revolutionary perspective sympathetic to armed struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- The March 1979 document “The Spring Campaign: Capture, Trial, and Execution of the President of the DC, Aldo Moro” which further clarifies what the BR meant by the “heart of the state”, criticizes the “anti-political” alternatives offered by elements within Autonomy and extensively discusses their understanding of how the national crisis developed as a result of their action.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcronym Key ......... 5\u003cbr\u003e Introduction ......... 11\u003cbr\u003e Chronology ......... 19\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eResolution of the Strategic Directorate of the Red Brigades (February 1978) ......... 29\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cu\u003ePart One ......... 31\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Imperialism of the Multinationals ......... 31\u003cbr\u003e Imperialism and War ......... 33\u003cbr\u003e The Imperialist State of the Multinationals ......... 35\u003cbr\u003e Creation of An Imperialist Political Personnel ......... 36\u003cbr\u003e The Rigid Centralization of the State Structure Under the Control of the Executive ......... 40\u003cbr\u003e In the Imperialist State, Reformism and Annihilation Are Integrated Forms of the Same Function,\u003cbr\u003e the Preventative Counter-­Revolution ......... 42\u003cbr\u003e The Imperialist State of the Multinationals Is\u003cbr\u003e Neither Fascist Nor Social Democratic ......... 44\u003cbr\u003e Industrial Restructuring ......... 50\u003cbr\u003e Proletarian Violence and Imperialist Counter-­Revolution ......... 55\u003cbr\u003e A New Proletarian Figure: The “Political Criminal”\u003cbr\u003e Or the Urban Guerrilla ......... 58\u003cbr\u003e The Repressive Mutual Assistance Agreement\u003cbr\u003e Between the Imperialist States ......... 59\u003cbr\u003e From the Repressive Mutual Assistance Agreement to the Joint Organization of the Police ......... 62\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003ePart Two ......... 63\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Apparatus of Preventative Counter-­Revolution In Our Country ......... 63\u003cbr\u003e The Way Out of the Crisis ......... 84\u003cbr\u003e Stage and Conjuncture ......... 86\u003cbr\u003e The Current Conjuncture:\u003cbr\u003e Transition From Armed Peace to War ......... 87\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003ePart Three ......... 90\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On the Guerrilla’s Methods of Action In the Current Conjuncture ......... 90\u003cbr\u003e The Metropolitan Proletariat and the\u003cbr\u003e Proletarian Movement of Offensive Resistance ......... 92\u003cbr\u003e The Working Class ......... 94\u003cbr\u003e The Intellectual Reserve Army ......... 100\u003cbr\u003e The Petty Bourgeoisie ......... 101\u003cbr\u003e Women Workers ......... 102\u003cbr\u003e The Guerrilla and Proletarian Power ......... 106\u003cbr\u003e The Fighting Communist Party ......... 108\u003cbr\u003e The Combat Fronts ......... 113\u003cbr\u003e Italy Is A Weak Link In the Imperialist Chain ......... 114\u003cbr\u003e The Guerrilla Is the Organizational Form of Proletarian Internationalism In the Metropole ......... 115\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNote 1 ......... 119\u003cbr\u003e Note 2 ......... 124\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMoro Communiqués ......... 127\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Communiqué #1 (March 18, 1978) ......... 129\u003cbr\u003e Communiqué #2 (March 25, 1978) ......... 132\u003cbr\u003e Communiqué #3 (March 29, 1978) ......... 137\u003cbr\u003e Communiqué #4 (April 4, 1978) ......... 141\u003cbr\u003e Communiqué #5 (April 10, 1978) ......... 145\u003cbr\u003e Communiqué #6 (April 15, 1978) ......... 148\u003cbr\u003e Communiqué #7 (April 20, 1978) ......... 151\u003cbr\u003e Communiqué #8 (April 24, 1978) ......... 154\u003cbr\u003e Communiqué #9 (May 5, 1978) ......... 158\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRed Brigades #6 the Spring Campaign: the Capture, Trial, and Execution of the President of the DC, Aldo Moro (March 1979) ......... 163\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Spring Campaign ......... 165\u003cbr\u003e The Ugly Intentions of the Imperialist Bourgeoisie\u003cbr\u003e On the Eve of March 16th ......... 166\u003cbr\u003e “Programmatic Agreement” Or the “Heart of the State” ......... 161\u003cbr\u003e Two Lines On Building Proletarian Power ......... 168\u003cbr\u003e Offensive Strengthening Or Defensive Contraction? ......... 171\u003cbr\u003e Armed Propaganda, Combative Agitation, Mass Media ......... 173\u003cbr\u003e “No Negotiation”—Or, the Policy of “Doing Nothing” ......... 176\u003cbr\u003e The “Firmness” of the Jackals—Or, the Policy of the PCI ......... 182\u003cbr\u003e Strategic Weakening of the DC ......... 185\u003cbr\u003e Political Weakening of the BR ......... 185\u003cbr\u003e On Some Words and Questions ......... 186\u003cbr\u003e The Capture of Moro and the\u003cbr\u003e Annihilation of His Escort ......... 186\u003cbr\u003e The Trial and Imprisonment of Aldo Moro ......... 190\u003cbr\u003e The Execution of Aldo Moro ......... 193\u003cbr\u003e Build the Party and Strengthen and\u003cbr\u003e Extend 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The new language of capitalism burnishes hierarchy, competition, and exploitation as leadership, collaboration, and sharing, modeling for us the habits of the economically successful person: be visionary, be self-reliant, and never, ever stop working.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"As [Leary] explores what our language has looked like, and the ugliness now embedded in it, [he] invites us to imagine what our language could emphasize, what values it might reflect. What if we fought “for free time, not ‘flexibility’; for free health care, not ‘wellness’; and for free universities, not the ‘marketplace of ideas”?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis book reminds us of the alternatives that persist behind these keywords: our managers may call us as “human capital,” but we are also workers. We are also people. “Language is not merely a passive reflection of things as they are,” Leary writes. “[It is] also a tool for imagining and making things as they could be.” \u003cem\u003eThe Outline\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"[Leary] has written a clever, even witty examination of the manipulation of language in these days of neoliberal or late stage capitalism. \u003cem\u003eKeywords: The New Language of Capitalism \u003c\/em\u003ereminds the reader that those who control the language can more easily control the culture while also providing that reader with the tools needed to decipher the capitalist class’s manipulation of the words we use.\" \u003cem\u003eCounterpunch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"John Patrick Leary’s bracing study of the market regime’s signature catchphrases and word clouds allows us to see how the dogmas of late capitalism increasingly shape not merely the taken-for-granted order of things but also the very language we might otherwise employ to challenge that order. Still, even as Leary’s dogged philology points us toward grim conclusions, his critical voice also showcases the best uses our common tongue can serve—calling out the lies and cruelties of the patois of the capitalist market for what they are. \u003cem\u003eKeywords\u003c\/em\u003e is a worthy successor to the groundbreaking work of Raymond Williams, and deserves just as wide a readership.\" Chris Lehmann, author of \u003cem\u003eRich People Things\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"John Pat Leary has written a history of the present in the form of lexicon of its keywords. Resilience, flexibility, passion, wellness, synergy, and dozens more – he explains the political work done by words that fuel and beset our imaginations, that hail and exhort us to keep working and buying things and paying our debts in times of crisis, decline, and uncertainty about the future. We don’t have nearly enough bulwarks against despair. This book is it!\" Sarah Brouillette, Professor, Department of English, Carleton University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"In this masterful dissection of capitalism's modern lexicon, John Patrick Leary elucidates the ideas—and ideology—shaping our contemporary political moment.\" Nicole Aschoff \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"If you feel like you’re drowning in the endless torrent of capitalist bullshit, turn to this excellent glossary which explains what all those terms really mean. Dip into it, use it as a reference, or read it cover to cover - however you approach it, you’ll find it immensely clarifying (and sanity-restoring).\" Doug Henwood\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"[This book]...pulls no punches. [It] shows, with a mordant analysis, how the words used in modern business culture disguise inequality, a false meritocracy, and the new ideology that finds the bosses of Silicon Valley in bed with the politicians in the White House.\" \u003cem\u003eEl Confidencial\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: John Patrick Leary\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781608469628\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 216 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Haymarket Books\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175289761885,"sku":"9781608469628","price":13.44,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/keywords_0.jpg?v=1654988284"},{"product_id":"radicals-in-the-barrio-magonistas-socialists-wobblies-and-communists-in-the-mexican-american-working-class","title":"Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican-American Working Class","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRadicals in the Barrio\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers a long and rich history of political radicalism within the Mexican and Chicano working class in the United States. Chacón clearly and sympathetically documents the ways that migratory workers carried with them radical political ideologies, new organizational models, and shared class experience, as they crossed the border into southwestern barrios during the first three decades of the twentieth-century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJustin Akers Chacón \u003c\/b\u003eprevious work includes \u003ci\u003eNo One is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border\u003c\/i\u003e (with \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/mike-davis\" title=\"Mike Davis\"\u003eMike Davis\u003c\/a\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175292022877,"sku":"9781608467754","price":23.48,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/radicalsinthebarrio.jpg?v=1654988302"},{"product_id":"art-after-money-money-after-art-creative-strategies-against-financialization","title":"Art after Money, Money after Art Creative Strategies Against Financialization","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe imagine that art and money are old enemies, but this myth actually reproduces a violent system of global capitalism and prevents us from imagining and building alternatives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the chaos unleashed by the 'imaginary' money in financial markets to the new forms of exploitation enabled by the 'creative economy' to the way art has become the plaything of the world's plutocrats, our era of financialization demands we question our romantic assumptions about art and money. By exploring the way contemporary artists engage with cash, debt and credit, Haiven identifies and assesses a range of creative strategies for mocking, sabotaging, exiting, decrypting and hacking capitalism today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten for artists, activists and scholars, this book makes an urgent call to unleash the power of the radical imagination by any media necessary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMax Haiven is Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social Justice at Lakehead University, Canada. His books include \u003cem\u003eArt after Money, Money after Art\u003c\/em\u003e (Pluto, 2018), \u003cem\u003eCrises of Imagination, Crises of Power\u003c\/em\u003e (Zed Books, 2004), \u003cem\u003eCultures of Financialization\u003c\/em\u003e (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014) and the \u003cem\u003eRadical Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e (Zed Boooks, 2014).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Perhaps the most theoretically creative radical thinker of the moment\" David Graeber, author of \u003cem\u003eDebt: The First 5000 Years \u003c\/em\u003e(Melville House, 2014)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Daring, brilliant, provocative. At last a radical critique of the crypto-approach and an abolitionist approach to the problem of money and art\" Franco Berardi, Philosopher, author of \u003cem\u003eFuturability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility\u003c\/em\u003e (Verso, 2017)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFigures\u003cbr\u003e\nDedication\u003cbr\u003e\nAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\nIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\n1. 3.5 Artistic Strategies To Envision Money’s Mediation\u003cbr\u003e\n2. 6 Artists x 2 Crises x 3 Orders Of Reproduction\u003cbr\u003e\n3. 0 Participation: Benign Pessimism, Tactical Parasitics and the Encrypted Common\u003cbr\u003e\n4. Encryption: Art’s Crypt, Securitization in Numbers, Derivative Socialities\u003cbr\u003e\n5. Conclusion: Toward Abolitionist Horizons\u003cbr\u003e\nNotes\u003cbr\u003e\nSubject Index\u003cbr\u003e\nName Index\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Max Haiven\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9780745338248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 304 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Pluto\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175297855581,"sku":"9780745338248","price":21.06,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/artaftermoney.jpg?v=1654988351"},{"product_id":"choke-points-logistics-workers-disrupting-the-global-supply-chain","title":"Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain","description":"\u003cp\u003eGlobal capitalism is a precarious system. 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Race, Gender, and Unionism in the Ports of Southern California\u003c\/em\u003e (Lexington Books, 2016), and the editor of \u003cem\u003eChoke Points\u003c\/em\u003e (Pluto, 2018).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eImmanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. He is the author and editor of many books, including \u003cem\u003eSouthern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class \u003c\/em\u003e(Pluto, 2015) and \u003cem\u003eUrban Revolt: State Power and the Rise of People's Movements in the Global South\u003c\/em\u003e (Haymarket, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This phenomenal collection is a must-read for anyone interested in the dire state of the contemporary global economy. 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Choke points in global supply chains are revealed as spaces of hazard and calculation, violence and negotiation, victory and loss, passion and organisation.\"\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Brett Neilson, Research Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003eIntroduction: Forging Workers’ Resistance Across the\u003cbr\u003eGlobal Supply Chain - Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Immanuel Ness\u003cbr\u003ePART I - Building Labor Power and Solidarity Across the World’s Choke Points \u003cbr\u003e1. Labor and Social Movements’ Strategic Usage of the Global Commodity Chain Structure - Elizabeth A. Sowers, Paul S. Ciccantell, and David A. Smith\u003cbr\u003e2. Across the Chain: Labor and Conflicts in the European Maritime Logistics Sector - Andrea Bottalico\u003cbr\u003e3. Durban Dockers, Labor Internationalism, and Pan-Africanism - Peter Cole\u003cbr\u003ePART II - Disruptions: Logistics Workers Resisting Exploitation \u003cbr\u003e4. Worker Militancy and Strikes in China’s Docks - Bai Ruixue and Au Loong Yu\u003cbr\u003e5. “Work Hard, Make History”: Oppression and Resistance in Inland Southern California’s Warehouse and Distribution Industry - Ellen Reese and Jason Struna\u003cbr\u003e6. Stop Treating Us Like Dogs! Workers Organizing Resistance at Amazon in Poland - Amazon workers and supporters\u003cbr\u003e7. Decolonizing Logistics: Palestinian Truckers on the Occupied Supply Chain - Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Spencer Louis Potiker\u003cbr\u003ePART III - Neoliberalism and the Global Transformation of Ports\u003cbr\u003e8. Decoding the Transition in the Ports of Mumbai - Johnson Abhishek Minz\u003cbr\u003e9. 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Today, the US sees itself as the heartland of the international capitalist system, its society and politics intertwined deeply with its economic system. This book looks at the history of North America from the founding of the colonies to debunk the myth that America is 'naturally' capitalist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the first white-settler colonies, capitalist economic elements were apparent, but far from dominant, and did not drive the early colonial advance into the West. Society, too, was far from homogeneous - as the role of the state fluctuated. Racial identities took time to imprint, and slavery, whilst at the heart of American imperialism, took both capitalist and less-capitalist forms. Additionally, gender categories and relations were highly complex, as standards of ‘manhood’ and ‘womanhood’ shifted over time to accommodate capitalism, and as there were always some people challenging this binary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy looking at this fascinating and complex picture, James Parisot weaves a groundbreaking historical materialist perspective on the history of American expansion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Parisot is an affiliate faculty member in Sociology at Drexel University. He has published articles in a variety of scholarly journals, is co-editor of the book \u003cem\u003eAmerican Hegemony and the Rise of Emerging Powers: Cooperation or Conflict?\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge, 2017), and is the author of \u003cem\u003eHow America Became Capitalist: Imperial Expansion and the Conquest of the West\u003c\/em\u003e (Pluto, 2019).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Parisot's rich and lively analysis of the domestic history of US empire helps readers understand what it was about the development of US economic, social and political institutions that made the American state so central in the making of global capitalism\" Leo Panitch, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, York University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"There is a relatively limited literature covering the entire course of the USA's transition to a capitalist society. In his concise but illuminating new book, James Parisot provides such an account.\" Neil Davidson, author of \u003cem\u003eHow Revolutionary were the Bourgeois Revolutions?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Utilizing the notion of 'empire' and focusing on the geographic expansion of commodity production and circulation across the North American continent, James Parisot's provocative book will be a focus of debate in years to come\" Charles Post, City University of New York, author of \u003cem\u003eThe American Road to Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Terrific ... At the heart of American capitalism is a history of empire. 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While reasserting the explanatory power of Marx's theory of history and political economy, they update the Marxian framework to incorporate the transformation of relations of production and class patterns whose main expression has been the rise of managerial features.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book makes the case for a revision of Marxist analysis on analytical as well as political grounds, to demonstrate that capitalism is entering a new period based on managerialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGerard Duménil is an economist and former Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. He is a member of the editorial board of Marx. He is the co-author with Dominique Levy of \u003cem\u003eManagerial Capitalism \u003c\/em\u003e(Pluto, 2018), and \u003cem\u003eThe Crisis of Neoliberalism \u003c\/em\u003e(HUP, 2014).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDominique Lévy is an economist and former Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. He is a member of the editorial board of \u003cem\u003eMarx \u003c\/em\u003eand co-author of \u003cem\u003eManagerial Capitalism \u003c\/em\u003e(Pluto, 2018) and \u003cem\u003eThe Crisis of Neoliberalism \u003c\/em\u003e(HUP, 2014\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Every serious student of political economy will want to read Gerard Dumenil and Dominique Levy's masterful synthesis of Marxist method, contemporary Econo-physics, and their own theoretical and empirical work on the emergence of neoliberal managerial forms of capitalism on a global scale\" Duncan K. Foley, Leo Model Professor of Economics, New School for Social Research\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e\nList of Tables\u003cbr\u003e\n1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\nPart I: Modes of Production and Classes\u003cbr\u003e\n2. Patterns of Income Distribution\u003cbr\u003e\n3. Marx's Theory of History\u003cbr\u003e\n4. Managers in Marx's Analysis\u003cbr\u003e\n5. Sociality and Class Societies\u003cbr\u003e\n6. Managerialism and Managerial Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e\n7. A Wealth of Alternative Interpretations\u003cbr\u003e\n8. Hybridization as Analytical Challenge\u003cbr\u003e\nPart II: Twelve Decades of Managerial Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e\n9. Varying Trends of Inequality\u003cbr\u003e\n10. The Sequence of Social Orders\u003cbr\u003e\n11. Class and Imperial Power Structures\u003cbr\u003e\n12. The Politics of Social Change\u003cbr\u003e\n13. Tendencies, Crises and Struggles\u003cbr\u003e\nPart III: Past Attempts at the Inflection of Historical Dynamics\u003cbr\u003e\n14. Utopian Capitalism in Bourgeois Revolutions\u003cbr\u003e\n15. Utopian Socialism and Anarchism\u003cbr\u003e\n16. Self-Proclaimed Scientific Socialism\u003cbr\u003e\nPart IV: Prospects for Human Emancipation within and beyond Managerialisms\u003cbr\u003e\n15. The Economics and Politics of Managerialisms\u003cbr\u003e\n16. 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