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The collection examines the many ways in which a “global consciousness” was forged during the Sixties. In various sections, essays examine the ways revolution was imagined throughout the Sixties, the implications of the “nation” for various liberation movements, the complex politicization of bodies during this time, and the enduring legacy of the period in terms of lasting political movements and cultural landscapes. Featuring a colour insert of protest poster art, this is the first anthology of its kind to bring scholars from many areas of the world together to discuss and debate the meaning and impact of these vastly transformative years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eNew World Coming\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful contribution to the meaning of the sixties for today. Legacies of the sixties are all around us, from the participative democracy of Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution to the passionate 2008 presidential campaign of the Obama generation. Yet the sixties are remembered only narrowly, not as a unique worldwide rebellion against the global status quo. \u003cem\u003eNew World Coming\u003c\/em\u003e enters the battlefield of memory against those who would discredit the legacy before it repeats.” —Tom Hayden, author, \u003cem\u003eThe Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWritings for a Democratic Society\u003c\/em\u003e “This volume provides useful steps to take us beyond stereotypes of the \"excessive decade\" and \"idealisms\" in order that we may delve into the contradictory richness of a decisive stage of the twentieth century, full of generative radicalisms and polarities. The historical undercurrents reach us today.” —Rafael Hernández, editor, \u003cem\u003eRevista Temas\u003c\/em\u003e (Havana) \"This must-read eclectic collection of often pioneering articles provides a nuanced view of how the world was changing and how it was not in the 1960s. These highly readable articles, casting a critical eye on every corner of the globe, and every social movement, put the scholarly critical spin on ‘The Times They Are a-Changin.’ \" —Alvin Finkel, Professor of History, Athabasca University, editor, \u003cem\u003eLabour\/Le Travail\u003c\/em\u003e “A groundbreaking contribution to our understanding of the culture and politics of the 1960s. Unlike most studies of the period, which focus on youth revolt, student unrest, and middle-class alienation within the United States, this collection follows a different path—tracing the many meanings of ‘liberation’ from Mexican rockers complicating Cuba’s dominance in Latin American resistance movements to youth culture in Dakar to feminism in Palestine and Brazil.” —Patrice Petro, Professor of English and Film Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee “There is a tendency among some historians to tame the sixties, to turn a series of world-spanning uprisings into a safe nostalgic soundtrack. \u003cem\u003eNew World Coming\u003c\/em\u003e restores the radicalism of the sixties, a period that initiated battles over power and privilege that continue to be fought to this day. The book is a model of committed, incisive, readable, and relevant scholarship.” —Jeet Heer, journalist and historian \"\u003cem\u003eNew World Coming\u003c\/em\u003e is a major reinterpretation that redefines the sixties experience in a global context. Utilizing a rich, diverse, and impressive breadth of work that straddles the globe from Sarnia to Palestine and just about everywhere in between, the collection makes us rethink our most basic assumptions of place, space, and meaning when it comes to this evocative period in history. This is a significant contribution to the historiography of the time, and an important new departure in sixties studies that gives readers an original perspective.\" —Dimitry Anastakis, Professor of History, Trent University, editor, \u003cem\u003eThe Sixties: Passion, Politics and Style\u003c\/em\u003e \"This collection of essays reminds us that the sixties were more than drugs and hippies. Contributors analyze and dissect the various meanings of this decade that still reverberates with us. This is definitely a book to possess for the richness of the contributions.\" —Marcel Martel, Associate Professor of History, York University \"Do you like your 'Sixties' hard-boiled or over easy; well-done or \u003cem\u003ebleu\u003c\/em\u003e? 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At the time that he wrote this essay, Day was a leading intellectual within the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation. In it he posits that anarchism has eschewed its revolutionary responsibilities, being an ideology of feeling good about oneself and one's ability to \"keep your hands clean\", while willfully overlooking the fact that this ability is largely a consequence of having failed to carry out a single successful revolution in the 20th century. As such, anarchism has retreated to a role of the perennial gadfly, ever ready to explain where those who carried out revolutions went wrong, while never actually able to explain its own frustrating lack of success. Day goes on to claim that unequal development in different countries, the realities of military defense, and the requirement for an anti-statist anticapitalist revolution to be international, all constitute serious challenges to some of the axioms of anarchist ideology, regardless of the strengths or weaknesses of individual anarchists. “The Historical Failure of Anarchism” was written for a conference on anarchist strategy in 1996 and subsequently became the object of controversy within the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation where it was seen as a break with anarchism. The resulting debates were one of several factors that precipitated the breakup of Love and Rage in 1998. 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In addition, the collection assembles corporate media profiles of the organization’s members and alternative press articles in which partisans thrash out the heated debates sparked in the progressive community by the eruption of an armed group in their midst. \u003cem\u003eCreating a Movement with Teeth\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates a forgotten chapter of the radical social movements of the 1970s in which diverse interests combined forces in a potent rejection of business as usual in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Creating a Movement with Teeth\u003cem\u003e is an important contribution to the growing body of literature on armed struggle in the 1970s. It gets us closer to knowing not only how pervasive militant challenges to the system were, but also the issues and contexts that shaped such strategies. Through documents by and about the George Jackson Brigade, as well as the introduction by Daniel Burton-Rose, this book sheds light on events that have until now been far too obscured.\" \u003c\/em\u003e” —Dan Berger, author of O\u003cem\u003eutlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity\u003c\/em\u003e; editor \u003cem\u003eThe Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003e\"Daniel Burton-Rose's documentary history of the George Jackson Brigade offers the reader a rare first-hand account of a militant movement's attempt to communicate and refine the intent of its actions. The volume focuses on the 1970s, when revolution seemed imminent to those engaged in 'the struggle.' It contains a marvelous array of surveillance reports, feature articles in mainstream newspapers, on-the-spot communiqués directed both to the Brigade's constituency on the Left and to the impacted public, and many print volleys between the groups on the subject of violence. Suddenly this hidden history comes alive, nuanced, open to interpretation with the actual documents in hand. Burton-Rose's helpful annotations and his thoughtful retrospective interview with several of the members of the group underscores his deep understanding of the period, the people, and the issues that remain compelling as revealed by the mix of remorse, self-criticism, as well as consistent conviction. The Brigade's use of international and historical revolutionaries as points of reference, also makes this book an valuable resource for a wide range of issue relevant to studies of the past, present, and sadly, the future.\" \u003c\/em\u003e” —Candace Falk, Ph.D., Director of The Emma Goldman Papers, and Editor of\u003cem\u003e Emma Goldman, A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 1: Made for America, 1890-1901 \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eVolume 2, Making Speech Free, 1902-1909\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003e\"The popular image of the 70s urban guerrilla, even on the left, is that of the student radical or New Left youth activist kicking it up a couple of notches. Daniel Burton-Rose’s documentary history of the George Jackson Brigade is an important corrective in this regard. The Brigade, rooted in prison work, white and black, straights, bisexuals and dykes, was as rich a mixture of the elements making up the left as one could perhaps hope for. We all have much to learn form the Brigade’s rich and unique history.\"\u003c\/em\u003e ” —André Moncourt, Co-editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Red Army Faction: A Documentary History.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"A deep dig into the victories and errors of this important yet often overlooked revolutionary group. 'Information a hundred times more powerful than any bomb.'\" \u003c\/em\u003e—G. 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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. 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The volume also recounts the opposition that emerged from intellectuals, communists, independent leftists, and then – explosively – the radical student movement and countercultural revolt of the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was from this revolt that the Red Army Faction emerged, an underground organization devoted to carrying out armed attacks within the Federal Republic of Germany, in the view of establishing a tradition of illegal, guerilla resistance to imperialism and state repression. Through its bombs and manifestos the RAF confronted the state with opposition at a level many activists today might find difficult to imagine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor the first time ever in English, this volume presents all of the manifestos and communiqués issued by the RAF between 1970 and 1977, from Andreas Baader’s prison break, through the 1972 May Offensive and the 1975 hostage-taking in Stockholm, to the desperate, and tragic, events of the “German Autumn” of 1977. The RAF’s three main manifestos – \u003cem\u003eThe Urban Guerilla Concept\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eServe the People\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBlack September\u003c\/em\u003e – are included, as are important interviews with \u003cem\u003eSpiegel\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ele Monde Diplomatique\u003c\/em\u003e, and a number of communiqués and court statements explaining their actions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eProviding the background information that readers will require to understand the context in which these events occurred, separate thematic sections deal with the 1976 murder of Ulrike Meinhof in prison, the 1977 Stammheim murders, the extensive use of psychological operations and false-flag attacks to discredit the guerilla, the state’s use of sensory deprivation torture and isolation wings, and the prisoners’ resistance to this, through which they inspired their own supporters and others on the left to take the plunge into revolutionary action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on both mainstream and movement sources, this book is intended as a contribution to the comrades of today – and to the comrades of tomorrow – both as testimony to those who struggled before and as an explanation as to how they saw the world, why they made the choices they made, and the price they were made to pay for having done so. For more on this book check out the \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.germanguerilla.com\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGerman Guerilla\u003c\/a\u003e website.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“[Projectiles for the People] is a highly accessible rendition of a story of struggle that puts us into both the thought and the action. That placement conveys more than a sense or understanding of the RAF’s praxis. It transmits a connection in a visceral way. Not since reading Ten Days that Shook the World have I been so drawn into a political narrative. Reading like a historical thriller notwithstanding, Projectiles lets us see a rare confluence of theory and practice of which anyone who aspires to make revolution should be aware. The RAF may no longer be with us, but it has prepared the ground for and can yet aid the current movement for the most equitable social reality in which all people will have the greatest possible freedom to develop their full human potential. Nowhere else has the RAF’s life, times, and legacy been so clearly laid out.” — Bill Dunne (political prisoner since 1979)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This book about the Red Army Faction of American-occupied Germany is one that should be read by any serious student of anti-imperialist politics. “Volume 1: Projectiles for the People” provides a history of the RAF’s development through the words of its letters and communiqués. What makes the book especially important and relevant, however, is the careful research and documentation done by its editors. Their effort makes this work far more than a collection of communiqués. From this book you will learn the mistakes of a group that was both large and strong, but which (like our own home-grown attempts in this regard) was unable to successfully communicate with the working class of a “democratic” country on a level that met their needs. While the armed struggle can be the seed of something much larger, is also another means of reaching out and communicating with the people. Students interested in this historic era would do well to study this book and to internalize both the successes and failures of one of the largest organized armed anti-imperialists organizations operating in Western Europe since World War II.” —Ed Mead, former political prisoner, George Jackson Brigade\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Starting in the Sixties, a new revolutionary strategy began to plague the capitalist metropolis—the urban guerilla. Warfare once waged by peasant armies in the countryside of a Cuba, a China, or a Guinea-Bisseau, was suddenly transfered to small cells of ex-students in the imperialist centers of Berlin, Rome and New York. No urban guerrillas became more famed or more demonized than West Germany’s Red Army Faction (RAF). We knew their signature bold actions in the headlines: from the damaging bombing of the u.s. army V Corps headquarters in Hamburg in 1972, in response to Washington’s mining of Hanoi’s harbor in an escalation of the Vietnam War, to the kidnapping and later execution of the head of the West German industrialists association, in an effort to negotiate for the release of revolutionary prisoners. But we never heard their political voices. Since the RAF’s political statements, debates and communiqués were untranslated and unavailable in English even within the left.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Now, at last, a significant documentary history of the RAF has come into the spotlight, complete with a readable account of the postwar German New Left from which it emerged. Even better, this work was done by editors\/translators who reject the obedient capitalist media’s trivializing of the RAF as “pathological” death-wishing celebrities. In their hands, the words of the RAF are revealed as serious responses to the failure of parliamentary reformism, trade-unionism and pacifism, to stop the solidification of Germany’s own form of a neofascist capitalism (lightly cosmeticized with a layer of that numbing “consumer democracy”). The young RAF fighters hoped for liberation in their dangerous experiment but were willing to accept tragic consequences, and their story is emotionally difficult to read with eyes open. Controversial as the RAF was, their systematic torture in special “anti-terrorist” facilities stirred worldwide unease and even protest. In fact, those special prisons were the eagerly studied forerunners for the u.s. empire’s own latest human rights abuses, from Guantanamo to the domestic “maxi-maxi” prisons. We all and the RAF are much closer than the capitalist public wants to believe. It is all here, in this first volume of the Red Army Faction documentary histories, and we should thank all those who worked on this book.” —J. Sakai, author of \u003cem\u003eSettlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Clear-headed and meticulously researched, this book deftly avoids many of the problems that plagued earlier attempts to tell the brief but enduring history of the RAF. It offers a remarkable wealth of source material in the form of statements and letters from the combatants, yet the authors manage to present it in a way that is both coherent and engaging. Evidence of brutal—and ultimately ineffective—attempts by the state to silence the voices of political prisoners serve as a timely and powerful reminder of the continued need for anti-imperialist prisoners as leaders in our movements today. At once informative and inspirational, this is a much-needed contribution to the analysis of armed struggle and the cycles of repression and resistance in Europe and around the world.” — Sara Falconer, Toronto Anarchist Black Cross Federation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Armed struggle was one of the most controversial yet widespread phenomena of the worldwide revolutionary upsurge in the 1960s and 1970s—and the Red Army Faction was a centerpiece of this strategy in the imperial West. This valuable documentary history gathers RAF primary documents with an impressive set of contextual essays, providing the raw material necessary to understand the strategies and consequences of attacking from within the belly of the beast.” —Dan Berger, author of \u003cem\u003eOutlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Of all the revolutionary organizations to have been forged by the so-called sixties generation, the German Red Army Faction has been perhaps the most mythologized and maligned. Here at last is their story, told in their own words through “official” communications, comprehensively assembled and available for the first time in English translation. 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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This is in addition to the millions of people the U.S. government and corporations have killed and displaced internationally as a direct result of U.S. foreign policy interests and imperialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis Country Must Change\u003c\/em\u003e is an effort to further the discussion of the necessity of a fundamental political and social revolution in the United States. This book contains essays by twelve activists and authors, all who have demonstrated a lifelong commitment to revolutionary change. It is as inspiring as it is educational and a must read for anyone involved with or considering advocating for political or social change within the U.S. Arguing that reformist measures cannot be relied upon to correct the fundamental problems caused by the corporate elite and political structure in the United States, the contributing authors in this book are unified in their call for a significant revolutionary change in the United States of America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes writings by: Ramona Africa, Jake Conroy, Bill Dunne, Ronald Kuykendall, Jaan Laaman, Rob Los Ricos, Jeff Luers, Jalil Muntaqim, Jonathan Paul, Leslie Pickering, Craig Rosebraugh, and Peter Young.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Craig Rosebraugh\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: \npaperback\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: \n9780974288475\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: \n231 pages\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: LeftWingBooks\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"LeftWingBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175085092957,"sku":"9780974288475","price":22.88,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_958_rev3_0.jpg?v=1654987308"},{"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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The unorthodox political agenda of the Sojourner Truth Organization represents a small but powerfully resonant thread running through this arc of history. Drawing on detailed archival research and oral interviews, Truth and Revolution skillfully combines social and intellectual history approaches to shed light on both the theory and the practice of STO. Perhaps most famous for its theoretical formulations of white skin privilege, the group also developed a novel analysis of class consciousness that reflected its commitment to an autonomist Marxism. In all the major arenas of its work—factory organizing, anti-imperialist solidarity, anti-nuclear and anti-fascist struggles, among many others—STO combined a strategic assessment of the urgent tasks facing an activist left with a theoretical sophistication that merits sustained attention. 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They went directly to the shop-floor to argue for a better world, where the 'white blindspot' was opened to new visions of solidarity and progress. Staudenmaeir's skilled prose and meticulous research critically honors this history and draws lessons for us today.\" — James Tracy, co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times “Truth and Revolution is a guided tour of the worker militancy, revolutionary nationalist upsurge, and new social movement eruptions of the last forty years. Best of all, Staudenmaier breaks it all down for today’s social movements. Not to be missed.” — \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dan-berger\" title=\"Dan Berger\"\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/a\u003e, author of Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMichael Staudenmaier is a veteran of anarchist, anti-imperialist, and anti-fascist movements, and is now a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 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Annihilating the “amerikan” mental fog that has new generations continuing to self-defeat rather than coming together against the real enemy, \u003cem\u003eStand Up, Struggle Forward\u003c\/em\u003e serves as a battle cry against all forms of oppression. \u003cem\u003eStand Up, Struggle Forward\u003c\/em\u003e also contains a valuable account of political repression in the California prison system, including several of the intelligence memoranda they were used to condemn Shakur to years of solitary confinement in Pelican Bay. These internal prison documents clearly show that this prolonged solitary confinement was a direct result of Shakur’s continuing promotion of New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalist politics. As such, they provide a clear example of the way in which solitary confinement continues to be used as a tool of political repression against thousands of prisoners in California today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead one of the essays\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch1 class=\"entry-title\"\u003eStudy and Struggle: An Overstanding\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eby Sanyika Shakur\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eWho Are We\u003c\/em\u003e, those of us who would build a national ‘black’ prisoners organization? There is much hard evidence to show that as each day passes, more and more ‘black’ prisoners identify themselves as \u003cem\u003eNew Afrikans\u003c\/em\u003e and work on behalf of \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ethe New Afrikan Independence Movement.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e” (emphasis in original)\u003cbr\u003e– Atiba Shanna, \u003cem\u003eNotes from a New Afrikan P.O.W., Journal, Book Three\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan id=\"more-5604\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross the expanse of a couple of decades, We’ve seen the political consciousness of prisoners grow in proportion with their overstanding of what it actually means to be a prisoner in amerikkka, but also as nationals of captive nations held in partial paralysis by u.s. imperialism. Prisoners have slowly begun to take an objective view of the matrix of u.s. colonialism from a dialectical perspective that informs Us that the settler government holds, dominates and exploits both external\/internal colonies. And that the old facade of “disadvantaged minorities” is giving way to the stark reality of submerged nations here under the blurry veneer of a so-called “united states.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis developing consciousness springs from a Revolutionary Nationalist overstanding of social development. Informed by even the most rudimentary application of dialectical materialism, one is easily drawn to the reality of New Afrika, Aztlan, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Alaska and the Indigenous People being submerged and colonized – whole nations existing under the false patina of amerikkkanism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe greater Our overstanding of this reality, the less We are believing in, or relying on, the old obviously false social construct of “race” to define Ourselves and other oppressed people. Color, or “race” as a binary term to describe the shallow differences between humans – which has no scientific basis in reality – is not a deep enough, not sound, or reasonable enough, overstanding We can see to explain, confront and resolve Our problems. It’s been said that “the color of freedom in amerikkka is green.” This tells Us something about the false construct of “race,” no? It hints at the \u003cem\u003efact\u003c\/em\u003e that under the rubble of “race” is bedrock. And that bedrock, that solid foundation, is economics. Is capitalism. We can’t even discuss, or We shouldn’t even discuss, “racism” without mentioning and combining it with capitalism. For capitalism built around it the social construct of “race” as a motto, a defense and a justification for prolonged activity. Capitalism is the \u003cem\u003ematerial \u003c\/em\u003emanifestation; “race” is the \u003cem\u003eshadow\u003c\/em\u003e, or immaterial reality of what’s casted – as a consequence of the original form. It’s not that it’s wholly unreal. We can \u003cem\u003esee \u003c\/em\u003eit. The shadow, i mean. We can even feel it, but it is but a reflection. We’ll exhaust Ourselves to the point of madness trying to combat it alone without applying destructive force to the material thing that it reflects. To be “anti-racist” is to be anti-capitalist. We become anti-racists by not using binary terms constructed to promote and sustain “race.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Any attempt to destroy ‘racism’ without an explicit link to the struggle against capitalism ultimately serves only to reinforce ‘racist’ ideology and to shield capitalism from attack.  On the other hand, an attempt to combat capitalism without an explicit link to anti-racist discourse and struggle allows capitalism to use the belief in ‘race’ held by oppressed peoples and appeal to the ‘racism’ of citizens of the oppressive state, thus undermining all revolutionary initiative. This combat also requires that we begin to de-link ourselves from the use of language that reinforces and reproduces racial ideology, e.g. the terms ‘white’ and ‘black’ in references to the identity of peoples.”\u003cbr\u003e– Comrade Owusu Yaki Yakubu, \u003cem\u003eMeditations on Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Our developing consciousness, which is necessarily New Afrikan, Revolutionary and Nationalist, We are needing new tools, new language, new ideas, means and ways to re-build Ourselves into a coherent whole for movement and struggle. We are talking about cadre development. This will come about only through arduous study and struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSee, here’s the basic thing: if you are calling yourself a New Afrikan, then you are at once saying that you are \u003cem\u003enot \u003c\/em\u003ean amerikkkan (of any stripe). You are rejecting the reactionary\/colonial identity placed arbitrarily on you by the enemy culture. You are implying that you are a citizen of the Republic of New Afrika. Further, this means that you overstand that a \u003cem\u003eNew \u003c\/em\u003eAfrikan Nation exists and has existed, in north amerikkka, at least since 1660. Now, “nation” here is not to be confused with a \u003cem\u003estate \u003c\/em\u003eor \u003cem\u003egovernment\u003c\/em\u003e. A nation is a cultural\/custom\/linguistic social development that is consolidated and evolves on a particular land mass and shares a definite collective awareness of itself. New Afrika, as a distinct entity, a total working-class \u003cem\u003enation\u003c\/em\u003e, has existed since 1660 here. The nation was given shape, name, general laws and a creed in 1968, with the founding of the Provisional Government by over 500 New Afrikan nationalists. Established at this historical convention was, The New Afrikan Declaration of Independence, Code of Umoja (New Afrikan Constitution) and The New Afrikan Creed. A President, Vice-Presidents, People’s Center Councils and a People’s Revolutionary Leadership Council were elected to designate New Afrikan Population Districts, set up registration for a New Afrikan census, etc. This was the forming of a \u003cem\u003estate\u003c\/em\u003e, an organized body designed to coherently give shape and form to the already long existing New Afrikan nation. So, We are not trying to “create” a nation – the nation exists. We are trying to agitate, educate and organize the nation for land, independence and socialism. This can only be realized through revolution. And despite what We’ve recently seen in North Africa with their “Arab Spring,” We are under no illusions about Our struggle here being a protracted, long drawn out, revolutionary war. And, truthfully, necessarily so. We have a lot of cleansing to do after having been existing so close to the seat of world power for so long. We overstand Our level of contamination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe are talking about being ideologically consistent. About pushing a particular line. Again, i want to go to the Comrade Yaki because his instructions are profound:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Angolan, Russian, Algerian, Chinese, French, Vietnamese, Cuban, Korean, Tanzanian – these are nationalities. Our nationality is New Afrikan. We don’t refer to ourselves as ‘black’ because We don’t base our nationality (nor our politics) on ‘race’ or color or a biological element of our being. Social factors are the primary determinations of our national identity (and Our politics)”.\u003cbr\u003e– \u003cem\u003eMeditations…\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the same reason, We don’t call ourselves “black” is also why We don’t call ourselves “African-American,” or “Negro,” “colored,” etc. These are \u003cem\u003echains, \u003c\/em\u003ewhich tie us to the plantation, to the colonial system. These are terms that substantiate, promote and sustain the colonial mentality and thus our oppression. Again, Comrade Yaki’s words instruct:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The ‘Native,’ the ‘Negro,’ the ‘colored,’ the ‘black’ and the ‘African-American’ have no identity apart from that given them by the colonizer – that is, not unless they RESIST colonialism, which entails: 1) their maintenance of an identity that is separate and distinct from that of the colonizer; 2) they begin to develop a NEW identity, through the process of ‘decolonization’ – through having remained separate and distinct, colonized people aren’t who they were prior to colonization and they can’t return to the past. Colonization has arrested their independent development, distorted who they are, and now they must become a NEW people during the process by which they regain their independence.”  (emphasis in original)\u003cbr\u003e– \u003cem\u003eMeditations…\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLet’s go a bit into this. Those who are calling themselves “African-Americans” are doing so for two real reasons. First, of course, there is an inherent overstanding that runs thoroughly through the New Afrikan nation that We are not \u003cem\u003ereally \u003c\/em\u003eamerikkkans. That We are in fact a people\/nation unto Ourselves. This used to be widely overstood with little notion of anything to the contrary. \u003cem\u003eNeo-\u003c\/em\u003ecolonialism has worked obsessively to change this awareness. The rapid de-colonization (“de-segregation”) of the nation, beginning in the late 50s, ushered in a new (neo) more thoroughly, and dare i say, \u003cem\u003erevolutionary\u003c\/em\u003e, form of control and exploitation: \u003cem\u003eneo-colonialism\u003c\/em\u003e. “Blacks” took over from “Negroes” to lead the masses into an integrated lockstep with capitalism, while they (the misleaders) were awarded nominal positions in local and regional government posts. Because the bourgeois media postulated these class enemies as being “successful,” in a new and improved amerikkka, it fostered  an image (crafted by Madison Avenue) that anybody could make it. “Now that segregation is over, you can grow up to be anything you want.” Except free, of course.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe more integration (which was supposed to mean “freedom and equality”) We got, the worst Our predicament became. The more bourgeois “freedom and equality” We struggled to obtain, the more critical our existence became, the stronger the “black” bourgeoisie got – compounded a hundred times by the u.s. ruling class. The stronger the “black” bourgeoisie became, the more Our revolutionary leadership was attacked, assassinated, imprisoned, or exiled. The more this became so, the worse the hoods got. The worse the hoods got, the more street orgs began to proliferate. More dope, more guns, more pigs – more prisons. This is what the losing of a sense of self brings. Integration \u003cem\u003eis \u003c\/em\u003eneo-colonialism. And it’s reactionary nationalism. But it would be unfair to say it’s not \u003cem\u003eprogress\u003c\/em\u003e. It \u003cem\u003eis \u003c\/em\u003eprogress – it’s just not progress in \u003cem\u003eOur \u003c\/em\u003einterest. We are moving forward, but it is towards Our annihilation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe “black” bourgeoisie worked in tandem with its masters to keep the chains on New Afrika. They overstood the strong Nationalist sentiment that ran through the nation. So in order to placate this sentiment and please their masters, the “black” bourgeoisie introduced the term “African-American.” A split personality that straddled an ocean and a colonial existence. But because our “leaders” said it was right and “after all” the masses said, “We are Africans” – Voila!  This, of course, is not scientific or a reflection of any real reality. It is a term used to maintain a colonial relationship with New Afrika – now being run by remote control through the antics and colorful animation of the “African-American” bourgeoisie. You see them in the Congressional Black Caucus, the higher echelons of the Prince Hall Masons, in the persons of Oprah, Jesse, Al Sharpton, Robert Johnson, etc. etc. They’ve been appointed by the u.s. ruling class to lead the masses – into a neo-colonial marriage with amerikkka. The “African American” bourgeoisie is conjoined (face to ass) with the u.s. ruling class and no surgery short of protracted people’s war will lose them and free Us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe masses, by and large, are innocently confused – they can be redeemed. It is Our job as cadres to do that. Which is why it is so important to study and struggle – to build up your revolutionary ideological, philosophical and theoretical overstanding so as to be able to distinguish the real from the false. The righteous from the reactionary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Our vision must be emphasized in opposition to the imperialist and neo-colonialist perspectives. Our vision demands that We stress the need to establish New Afrikan state power as the PREREQUISITE for the long term resolution of colonial violence, bad housing, miseducation, poor health, no jobs, etc. At present, the orientation underlying mass struggle is primarily neo-colonialist. We ask the u.s. government to do things for Us. Our struggle is AGAINST the u.s. government, to secure the power to prevent it from doing things to us and so that We can do things for ourselves, under our own government. Each issue that the masses struggle around must be infused (by the people’s vanguard) with the idea than none of our problems can be solved until We achieve national independence.”\u003cbr\u003e– Atiba Shanna, \u003cem\u003eVita Wa Watu: A New Afrikan Theoretical Journal, Book 12.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn closing then, i’d like to simply emphasize the need to study and struggle. Study Revolutionary Nationalism and struggle around the issues that are affecting Us. And, too, it’s a beautiful thing to see more prisoners becoming conscious of themselves as New Afrikans. This too is a prerequisite to getting free. Change your mind and you can change your conditions. Overstanding and appreciating the reality of one’s situation gives one a greater sense of appreciation for other oppressed nationals in the same or similar predicaments. I’m gonna fall out with a quote by Comrade Yaki that pretty much sums it all up – Though first, I’d like to send a clenched fisted salute to all the comrades in Canada that make 4SM possible, as well as to Comrade Jaan Laaman, for his outstanding editorial work and his continuous revolutionary commitment. We feel you!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Anyone claiming to attack racism while claiming that racism is the only thing wrong with this system, is either terribly confused or an outright enemy of the people and their interests. If We truly wanna get rid of racism, We have to overthrow capitalism … first.”\u003cbr\u003e– Comrad Yaki, \u003cem\u003eMeditations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRe-Build\u003cbr\u003eSanyika Shakur\u003cbr\u003ePelican Bay SHU – 47ADM*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*47 years after the death of Malik (Malcolm)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“i love his book \u003cem\u003eMonster\u003c\/em\u003e, because his military approach in things sets it up. One time there was a shooting in my block, and i asked the brother: ‘What do you think you are doing? Here, read this!’ And i gave him a copy of Monster. He took it real serious. Sanyika can reach people i can’t. Checking out his newest book, i’m glad he’s on our side.” —  Hondo T’chikwa, Spear \u0026amp; Shield Collective\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The Pentagon knows that the most famous soldier of his times never wore their uniform, but fought on the oppressed streets of L.A. Now, Sanyika Shakur is still a soldier for his people, but is a revolutionary teacher as well. His words here, his politics, are uncompromising as iron.” — J. Sakai, author of \u003cem\u003eSettlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“i thought i’d wait a long time after \u003cem\u003eMeditations\u003c\/em\u003e for a new work that would provide a major building block to rebuild the movement. But here it is. The chapter on patriarchy, colonialism, imperialism and neo-colonialism is a bomb — study this.” — Butch Lee, author of \u003cem\u003eNight-Vision: Illuminating War and Class on the Neo-Colonial Terrain\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Sanyika Shakur\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781894946469\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 208 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175125168221,"sku":"9781894946469","price":19.53,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1228_studyandstruggle3_0.jpg?v=1654987585"},{"product_id":"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":25.0,"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. It is also where, in May 1989, the police discovered an apartment that had served Denmark’s most notorious twentieth-century bank robbers as a hideaway for years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the most captivating chapters from the European anti-imperialist milieu of the 1970s and ’80s; the Blekingegade Group had emerged from a communist organization whose analysis of the metropolitan labor aristocracy led them to develop an illegal Third Worldist practice. While members lived modest lives, over a period of almost two decades they sent millions of dollars acquired in spectacular heists to Third World liberation movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTurning Money into Rebellion: The Unlikely Story of Denmark’s Revolutionary Bank Robbers\u003c\/em\u003e is the first-ever account of the story in English, covering a fascinating journey from anti-war demonstrations in the late 1960s via travels to Middle Eastern capitals and African refugee camps to the group’s fateful last robbery that earned them a record haul and left a police officer dead. The book includes historical documents, illustrations, and an exclusive interview with \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM0NTM5In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/torkil-lauesen\" title=\"Torkil Lauesen\"\u003eTorkil Lauesen\u003c\/a\u003e and Jan Weimann, two of the group’s longest-standing members. It is a compelling tale of turning radical theory into action and concerns analysis and strategy as much as morality and political practice. Perhaps most importantly, it revolves around the cardinal question of revolutionary politics: What to do, and how to do it? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This book is a fascinating and bracing account of how a group of communists in Denmark sought to aid the peoples of the Third World in their struggles against imperialism and the dire poverty that comes with it. The book contains many valuable lessons as to the practicalities of effective international solidarity, but just as importantly, it is a testament to the intellectual courage of the Blekingegade Group.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—Zak Cope, author of \u003cem\u003eDivided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“The story of how some pro-Palestinian activists become Denmark’s most successful bank robbers is more exciting than any thriller.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—Åsa Linderborg, \u003cem\u003eAftonbladet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“I am convinced that they never even took a nickel for themselves.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—Jørn Moos, chief investigator in the Blekingegade Case\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Editor\/Translator\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMDQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gabriel-kuhn\" title=\"Gabriel Kuhn\"\u003eGabriel Kuhn\u003c\/a\u003e is an Austrian-born author and translator. Among his publications with PM Press are \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNDkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/sober-living-for-the-revolution-hardcore-punk-straight-edge-and-radical-politics\" title=\"Sober Living for the Revolution\"\u003eSober Living for the Revolution\u003c\/a\u003e: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics \u003c\/em\u003e(2010) and \u003cem\u003eAll Power to the Councils! A Documentary History of the German Revolution of 1918-1919\u003c\/em\u003e (2012).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Gabriel Kuhn\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-60486-316-1\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 224 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":40175156887645,"sku":"9781604863161","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/b_turning_money.jpg?v=1654987713"},{"product_id":"guerrilla-warfare","title":"Guerrilla Warfare: Authoritative, Revised, New Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eChe Guevara’s classic text on revolutionary tactics and strategy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince \u003ci\u003eGuerrilla Warfare \u003c\/i\u003ewas first published in 1961, it has joined the canon of classic military literature, consulted by revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries alike. In this book, Che Guevara outlines the lessons he learned as a guerrilla soldier in the Cuban revolution and explains how a small group of dedicated fighters grew in strength with the support of the Cuban people, overcoming the odds to vanquish the US-backed dictator’s army and overthrow the dictatorship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuerrilla Warfare\u003c\/i\u003e is both an insightful account of one of the decisive revolutionary movements of the twentieth century and a timeless resource for freedom fighters the world over. This edition includes Che’s corrections and his suggestions for further revisions to the\u003cspan class=\"atm_keep-reading-flag\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e\u003ci class=\"fa fa-arrow-down\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e text—revisions his murder in 1967 prevented him from making.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175189164125,"sku":"9781644211465","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/GuerrillaWarfareAuthoritative_Revised_NewEdition.jpg?v=1760282525"},{"product_id":"divided-world-divided-class-global-political-economy-and-the-stratification-of-labour-under-capitalism-second-edition","title":"Divided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism, Second Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePurchase of this book comes with free download of the ebook files (MOBI \u0026amp; EPUB). If you only want the ebook, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/divided-world-divided-class-global-political-economy-and-the-stratification-of-labour-under-capitalism-second-edition-copy\"\u003eclick here\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDivided World Divided Class\u003c\/em\u003e charts the history of the ‘labour aristocracy’ in the capitalist world system, from its roots in colonialism to its birth and eventual maturation into a full-fledged middle class in the age of imperialism. 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\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\u003cp\u003eThis second edition includes new material such as data on growing inequality between the richest and poorest countries; data illustrating rising real wages in Imperial Britain; explication of the concepts of value, monopoly capital and unequal exchange and their ramifications for the global class structure; discussion of social imperialism on the left; responses to critiques surrounding the thesis of mass embourgeoisement through imperialism; as well as further information on a range of subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\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\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. It should be a wake-up call to advocates for the exploited classes of the global South as they attempt to develop a twenty-first-century praxis, and as they engage with advocates for workers in the global North—without denying activists in the global North a role in helping to change the world in favor of the exploited peoples of the world. 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. 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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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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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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. 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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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As the editors' foreword explains:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis year marks two anniversaries: the 150 year an-niversary of the founding of Canada and the 100 year anniversary of the October Revolution. Both are significant for the re-initiation of Arsenal––the theoretical journal of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Canada [PCR-RCP]––though for drastically different reasons.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe first anniversary, which the Canadian state will be celebrating from January to December, represents the founding of a blood-drenched capitalist state after just over three hundred years of colonial settlement and plunder. In 1534 rising European powers made contact with the Indigenous nations that composed the social fabric of the regions that would eventually be enclosed in the borders of the entity we now call Canada. After numerous vicious and genocidal policies enacted alongside the clash between colonial powers, not to mention the important and heroic resistance of the original nations, the settler-state of Canada was established in 1867. Since the PCR-RCP has maintained, since its own foundation, that any revolutionary movement worthy of the name “revolutionary” must reject the colonial entity of “Canada”, this anniversary is significant insofar as it represents a mythology that we reject. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDoubtless this year will witness claims about Canada’s supposed “greatness” that either dismiss\/downplay its history of “blood and fire” or, due to the rise of fascism, celebrate colonial might. Our entire existence, and the theoretical understanding that guides the essays comprising this journal, is premised on the rejection of the Canadian myth: from our beginning we have understood the ways in which Canadian nationalism has crept into the communist movement; Canadian left nationalism is synonymous with revisionism.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThus, it is the second anniversary that we celebrate––an anniversary that those canonizing Canada’s 150 years will likely reject and belittle. Whereas 150 years ago the managers of colonial rule consolidated their predatory hege¬mony, 100 years ago on the other side of the world our ideological ancestors succeeded in launching the first successful communist seizure of state power. In the face of the armed might of the reactionary state, the Bolsheviks led by Lenin not only declared victory but consolidated this victory into the first example of modern socialism, a dictatorship of the exploited and oppressed rather than a dictatorship of exploiters and oppressors. Unlike the anniversary of Canada’s founding, we believe that the anniversary of the October Revolution is worth celebrating. But we can expect that the Canadian ruling class, excited to peddle the ideology of Canada’s “greatness” during this anniversary year, will also expend time and energy, along with their counterparts south of the border and throughout the imperialist camp, rehashing old cold war propaganda about the Russian Revolution so as to confirm its failure as pre-ordained: revolutions are “monsters that eat their young”, capitalism is the “best of the worst”, everything outside of the capitalist world order is “totalitarian”, and the so-called “end of history” is a fact of nature… This is the real totalitarian worldview and one that we should roundly reject.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt is in this context that we are relaunching our theoretical journal, Arsenal. Over a decade has passed since the original run of Arsenal, a series of magazines the initial Organizing Committees of the PCR-RCP published in the lead up to the drafting of the party programme. Since that time, while we have grown as an organization and engaged in various and important practical labour, aside from a few notable exceptions we have not produced any new theore¬tical work for popular consumption. Since we uphold Lenin’s statement that guided the October Revolution (without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement) it is necessary to redress this theoretical absence.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBut, since we are not merely “Marxist-Leninist” because we also uphold another revolutionary sequence––the one conceptualized under the term “Maoism”––we understand the business of organizing and preparing for a revolution in a way that is different from, though inspired by, the Bolsheviks in 1917. The “party of the new type” that we aim to build in Canada, the project towards which all our energy has been dedicated, is not simply a “Leninist” party but a Maoist party. Hence we figured that it would be appropriate to reintroduce our theoretical journal according to this theme: the Maoist party of the new type. At the very least the following articles will acquaint the curious reader with the way we see ourselves as an organization and what makes us different from others who also celebrate the legacy of the October Revolution.\u003cbr\u003e\nWe sincerely hope that the following articles will be helpful in thinking through the task of making revolution in this social context, a task that necessarily requires a rejection of this year’s celebration of Canadian Confederacy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBuilding a Maoist Party of a New Type\u003cbr\u003e\nA Theory in Search of a Theory: on the post-Maoist drift\u003cbr\u003e\nCommunist Methods of Mass Work\u003cbr\u003e\nDefining a Strategy of Revolution: a key issue for every revolutionary movement\u003cbr\u003e\nPeople’s War and Militarization of the Revolutionary Party: the case of the Communist Party of Peru\u003cbr\u003e\nMultipartyism in Light of Class Struggle\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Austerity Apparatus: some preliminary notes\u003cbr\u003e\nChallenges Facing the International Communist Movement: \u003cbr\u003e\nOn the experience of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) and the fight for regrouping the Maoist forces at the international level \u003cbr\u003e\nTowards a New General Line of the International Communist Movement\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/arsenal-92017-fran%C3%A7ais\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eaussi disponible en français\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: magazine\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 207 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PCR\/RCP\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PCR\/RCP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175241166941,"sku":"ARS9E","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/arsenal2017.jpg?v=1654988013"},{"product_id":"arsenal-9-2017-francais","title":"Arsenal 9\/2017 (français)","description":"\u003cp\u003eArsenal–la revue théorique du Parti Communiste Révolutionnaire, est relancé après plusieurs années d'abcense. Comme écrivent les éditeurs dans leur Avant-propos:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCette année marque deux anniversaires : le 150e anniversaire de la fondation du Canada et le centenaire de la révolution d’Octobre. Les deux sont importants pour la relance d’Arsenal – la revue théorique du Parti communiste révolutionnaire du Canada – bien que pour des raisons radicalement différentes.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLe premier, que le gouvernement canadien ne manquera pas de célébrer tout au long de l’année, rappelle la fondation d’un État capitaliste entaché de sang, après plus de 300 ans de pillage et de colonisation. En 1534, les puissances européennes montantes sont entrées en contact avec les nations indigènes qui formaient le tissu social des régions qui finiront par être enfermées à l’intérieur des frontières de l’entité que l’on appelle main-tenant le Canada. Suite à la mise en œuvre de politiques vicieuses et génocidaires nombreuses en marge des conflits opposant les puissances coloniales entre elles – sans parler de la résistance héroïque des nations originelles – l’État colonial canadien a été officiellement créé en 1867.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePuisque le PCR a toujours maintenu que tout mouvement révolutionnaire digne de ce nom doit rejeter d’emblée cette entité coloniale, cet anniversaire est significatif, dans la mesure où il représente une mythologie que nous récusons. Nul doute que tout au long de l’année, on nous assènera de propagande au sujet de la «grandeur» du Canada, dans laquelle on taira ou minimisera sa véritable histoire «de feu et de sang» – quand on ne célébrera pas sa puissance coloniale. L’existence du PCR et la conception théorique qui guide les essais publiés dans cette revue reposent fondamentalement sur le rejet du mythe canadien: dès le début, nous avons dénoncé l’infiltration du nationalisme canadien au sein du mouvement communiste; le nationalisme canadien «de gauche» est clairement synonyme de révisionnisme.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eC’est donc plutôt le deuxième anniversaire que nous comptons célébrer – un anniversaire que les apologistes des 150 ans du Canada vont quant à eux rejeter et déprécier. Tandis qu’il y a 150 ans, les artisans de la domination coloniale consolidaient leur hégémonie prédatrice, en 1917, de l’autre côté du monde, nos ancêtres idéologiques ont réussi pour une première fois à prendre le pouvoir au nom du communisme. Face aux forces armées de l’État réactionnaire, les bolcheviks dirigés par Lénine ont non seulement remporté la victoire, mais ils l’ont ensuite consolidée dans ce qui fut le premier exemple du socialisme moderne: la dictature des exploitéEs et des oppriméEs, en lieu et place de celle des exploiteurs et des oppresseurs. Contrairement à celui de la fondation du Canada, l’anniversaire de la révolution d’Octobre mérite d’être célébré. Mais il faut s’attendre à ce que la classe dominante canadienne, enthousiasmée par l’idéologie de la «grandeur» du Canada qui déferlera tout au long de l’année, consacre également du temps et de l’énergie, avec ses homologues au sud de la frontière et ailleurs dans tout le camp impérialiste, et ressorte sa vieille propagande de l’époque de la guerre froide contre la révolution russe. Elle nous dira que les révolutions sont des «monstres qui bouffent leurs jeunes», que le capitalisme est «le moins pire de tous les systèmes», que tout ce qu’on a tenté de créer en-dehors de l’ordre mondial capitaliste fut «totalitaire» et que ce que l’on a appelé «la fin de l’Histoire» est un fait avéré… Ces mensonges reflètent la véritable vision du monde totalitaire, et on doit les réfuter avec vigueur.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eC’est dans ce contexte que nous relançons notre revue théorique. Plus d’une décennie s’est écoulée depuis la parution originale d’Arsenal – une série de magazines que les premiers comités d’organisation du PCR ont publiée avant la création du parti. Depuis, alors que nous avons grandi en tant qu’organisation et que nous nous sommes engagés dans une activité pratique importante et diversifiée, nous n’avons pas produit de nouveaux travaux théoriques destinés à la consommation populaire, à part quelques exceptions notables. Puisque nous soutenons le point de vue de Lénine ayant guidé la révolution d’Octobre («sans théorie révolutionnaire, pas de mouvement révolutionnaire»), il devenait nécessaire de remédier à cette absence.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMais comme nous ne sommes pas simplement «marxistes-léninistes» et que nous défendons aussi une autre séquence révolutionnaire – celle qui a été conceptualisée sous le terme de «maoïsme» –, nous concevons l’organisation et la préparation de la révolution d’une manière différente, bien qu’inspirée par les bolcheviks de 1917. Le «parti de type nouveau» que nous voulons bâtir au Canada – le projet vers lequel toutes nos énergies ont été consacrées – n’est pas un parti simplement «léniniste», mais un parti maoïste. Nous avons donc pensé qu’il serait approprié de réintroduire notre revue théorique sous ce thème: le parti maoïste de type nouveau. Les articles contenus dans ce numéro permettront aux lectrices et lecteurs de découvrir la façon dont nous nous concevons comme organisation et ce qui nous différencie des autres groupes ou partis qui célèbrent eux aussi l’héritage de la révolution d’Octobre.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNous espérons sincèrement que cette revue contribuera à faire avancer la réflexion sur les nécessités de la révolution dans le contexte actuel – une tâche qui va de pair avec le rejet de la célébration des 150 ans de la Confédération canadienne.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAu sommaire:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBâtir un parti maoïste de type nouveau\u003cbr\u003e\nUne théorie à la recherche d’une théorie: à propos de la dérive post-maoïste\u003cbr\u003e\nL’approche communiste du travail de masse\u003cbr\u003e\nDéfinir une stratégie révolutionnaire: une question clé pour tout mouvement voué à la révolution\u003cbr\u003e\nGuerre populaire et militarisation du parti révolutionnaire: l’exemple du Parti communiste du Pérou\u003cbr\u003e\nLe multipartisme sous l’angle de la lutte de classes\u003cbr\u003e\nL’appareil austéritaire: notes préliminaires\u003cbr\u003e\nLes défis du mouvement communiste international: \u003cbr\u003e\nSur l’expérience du Mouvement révolutionnaire internationaliste (MRI) et la lutte pour regrouper les forces maoïstes \u003cbr\u003e\nVers une nouvelle ligne générale du mouvement communiste international\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/arsenal-92017-english\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ealso available in english\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: magazine\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 205 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PCR\/RCP\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PCR\/RCP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175242018909,"sku":"ARS9F","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/arsenal_fr.jpg?v=1654988016"},{"product_id":"austerity-apparatus","title":"Austerity Apparatus","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"By 2009, every anti-worker ideologue and their devotees had a popularized concept under which to mobilize their arguments about how and why workers should absorb the excesses of those capitalists who wanted to maintain their wealthy lifestyles: austerity. In this sense, the austerity apparatus is simply that which functions to police the everyday operations of crisis capitalism. In another sense this apparatus is the mobilization of operations that are a normative part of capitalism even without a crisis  But this is simply due to the fact that economic crises are also part of capitalism’s day-to-day functioning: capitalism is crisis, implicitly or explicitly.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn excavation of the ideology of austerity and its relationship to the mechanisms of capitalism, \u003cem\u003eAusterity Apparatus\u003c\/em\u003e is a philosophical excursion through a variety of concepts surrounding capitalist crisis and class struggle. Written as a series of interconnected meditations on the problematic of austerity, \u003cem\u003eAusterity Apparatus\u003c\/em\u003e is a creative intervention rather than a polemic or rigorous analysis; it is designed to force reflection on the ways in which contemporary capitalism conditions its subjects to accept its limits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn examining the problematic of austerity, Moufawad-Paul also discusses the relationship between neoliberalism and fascism and the ways in which the latter is immanent to capitalism. This aspect of \u003cem\u003eAusterity Apparatus\u003c\/em\u003e should be of particular interest to readers exploring the meaning of the contemporary re-emergence of fascist politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Accessible without losing its edge, the language fantastically compelling while also being as precise and uncompromising as a bullet.”\u003cbr\u003e\nBenjanun Sriduangkaew, award-nominated author of \u003cem\u003eScale-Bright\u003c\/em\u003e, the upcoming Winterglass, and various stories appearing in \u003cem\u003eClarkesworld\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eApex\u003c\/em\u003e, and collections of the year’s best speculative fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n“This book is an unapologetic, militant critique of contemporary capitalism. Moufawad-Paul’s skillful arguments are a testament to the necessary centrality of class politics, indeed class war, to any anti-capitalist struggle worthy of its name. Drawing not only on Marx, Lenin, and Mao, but also more recent analyses, this book disassembles the politics of austerity in our world, offering hope that the left can be, or is, more than the sum of its parts.”\u003cbr\u003e\nColleen Bell, Assistant Professor of Political Studies at University of Saskatchewan, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Freedom of Security\u003c\/em\u003e and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eWar, Police, and Assemblages of Intervention.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: J. 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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. 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\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: J. 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The French revolution invented modern politics and democracy, the Russian revolution paved the way for the socialist transition, while the Chinese revolution connected the emancipation of those peoples oppressed by imperialism with the path to socialism. These revolutions are great precisely because they are bearers of undertakings that are far ahead of the immediate demands of their time. beacons that illuminate the still unfinished struggles of the peoples for the realization of these goals. It is impossible to understand the contemporary world by ignoring these great revolutions. To commemorate these revolutions, says Samir Amin, one needs both to assess their ambitions (the utopia of today will be the reality of tomorrow), and to understand the reasons for their temporary setbacks. Conservative and reactionary minds refuse to do so—they wish us to believe that great revolutions have been nothing more than unfortunate accidents, that the peoples who have made them were carried away by their deceitful enthusiasm, diversions from the normal current of history. This collection of essays helps to situate the lessons of the October 1917 Russian Revolution from a perspective of 100 years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSamir Amin, born in Cairo in 1931, is one of the world’s greatest radical thinkers —a creative Marxist’. He is the director of Third World Forum (Forum du tiers monde), Dakar and President of the World Forum for Alternatives. 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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. 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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 book opens with a detailed description of what it was like to live and work in one of the heaviest industrial concentrations in the world. The author takes the reader on a walk through the heart of the South Side of Chicago, observing the noise, heavy traffic, the 24-hour restaurants and bars, the rich diversity of people on the streets at all hours of the day and night, and the smell of the highly polluted air.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFactory life includes stints at a machine shop, a shortening factory, a railroad car factory, a structural steel shop, a box factory, a chemical plant, and a paper cup factory. Along the way there is a wildcat strike, an immigration raid, shop-floor actions protesting supervisor abuses, serious injuries, a failed effort to unionize, and a murder. Ranney’s emphasis is on race and class relations, working conditions, environmental issues, and broader social issues in the 1970s that impacted the shop floor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eForty years later, the narrator returns to Chicago’s South Side to reveal what happened to the communities, buildings, and the companies that had inhabited them. \u003cem\u003eLiving and Dying on the Factory Floor \u003c\/em\u003econcludes with discussions on the nature of work; racism, race, and class; the use of immigration policy for social control; and our ability to create a just society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Ranney is professor emeritus in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois Chicago. Ranney has also been a factory worker, a labor and community organizer, and an activist academic. He is the author of four books and more than a hundred journal articles, book chapters, and monographs on issues of employment, labor and community organizing, and U.S. trade policy. His two most recent books are \u003cem\u003eGlobal Decisions, Local Collisions: Urban Life in the New World Order \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eNew World Disorder: The Decline of U.S. Power\u003c\/em\u003e. In addition to his writing, he gives lectures on economic policy and politics and also finds time to be an actor and director in a small community theatre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“David Ranney’s is our best account of the New Left’s turn to the factory and other workplaces in the seventies. Reading in some parts like a novel, it introduces us to a remarkable cast of working-class characters, while offering a refreshingly critical look at his own experiences. 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Compellingly written and thought provoking, \u003cem\u003eLiving and Dying on the Factory Floor \u003c\/em\u003ebrings to life the daily realities of race, class, and gender in an urban community on the brink of joining the rust belt. Ranney pairs vivid depictions of everyday forms of social struggle with timely reflections on the political implications for contemporary readers. 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Lenin was originally compiled by the Communist Working Circle, a Danish anti-­imperialist group. In the late 1960s, the CWC developed the so-­called “parasite state” theory linking the imperialist exploitation and oppression of the proletariat in the Global “South” with the establishment of states in the Global “North” in which the working class lives in relative prosperity. In connection with studies of this division of the world, CWC published these texts by Lenin with the title “On Imperialism and Opportunism.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is the relevance of these texts today? Firstly, the connection that Lenin posits between imperialism and opportunism—that is, the sacrifice of long-­term socialist goals for short-­term or sectional gains—is more pronounced than ever. Second, imperialism may, in many respects, have changed its economic mechanisms and its political form, but its content is fundamentally the same, namely, a transfer of value from the Global South to the Global North, with the political outcome being that the working class is divided into a highly-­exploited proletariat in the South and a working class in the North which lives in relative prosperity. Lenin referred to this better-­off section of the working class as a “labor aristocracy.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith an introduction by former CWC member \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM0NTM5In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/torkil-lauesen\" title=\"Torkil Lauesen\"\u003eTorkil Lauesen\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: V.I. Lenin\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-894946-94-0\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 191 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":40175303098461,"sku":"9781894946940","price":16.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/lenin_coverjpg.jpg?v=1654988390"},{"product_id":"kites-a-journal-of-communist-theory-and-strategy-1-january-2020","title":"kites: a journal of communist theory and strategy #1 (January 2020)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAs the editorial to this new journal explains:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the American and Canadian prison systems, \u003cem\u003ekites \u003c\/em\u003eare “contraband” correspondence shared among inmates, and between inmates and those on the outside. Tiny, folded-up pieces of paper, kites are slipped past the watchful eyes of our tormentors, passed through commissary or along with items moving in and out of prison. Their contents range from everyday survival shit to the fragments of plans to strike an enemy. In all cases, the kite is a clandestine form of exchange and dialogue invented by our class in the most brutal conditions known to the North American proletariat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a symbol of proletarian resilience and a cultural form from which we have much to learn, we can find no better name for a journal whose mandate is the exchange of a very different kind of contraband created by our class and even more necessary to survive present and future conditions: revolutionary theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe also found in our title another symbol: the resistance of the occupied Palestinian nation, wherein kites painted with the Palestinian flag have been flown in defiance above the Israeli military occupation and invading settler garrisons far below them. So like the kites of Gaza, we communists must reach for the sky while remaining grounded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe journal kites comes into existence at a time when growing numbers of people in North America are coming into motion against the horrors of the present and the bleakness of the future. Resurgent fascism, artificial intelligence in the hands of our oppressors, escalating inter-imperialist rivalries, and climate catastrophe all pose existential threats to much of humanity and certainly to the proletariat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe extent of the crisis of capitalism-imperialism can be gleaned from the extent to which social decay and misery has spread from the periphery to the very heart of the imperialist countries. Stable jobs and the prospect of home ownership are impossibilities for a swelling majority. Bourgeois politicians in every jurisdiction from “left” to right enact one neoliberal policy after another that transfers wealth from the popular classes to capital. Personal debt is crushing most people. More children in the US die to gun violence than do US soldiers in imperialist wars. The US and Canada are in the midst of an opioid overdose crisis manufactured by pharmaceutical capital carving out profitable new markets by any means necessary. In some regions, archaic Christian (and other) fundamentalist moralities are resurgent as they are succeeding in restoring oppressive gender and sexuality norms and in making abortion and reproductive health increasingly inaccessible; while in other regions bourgeois feminisms co-exist and sanction new forms of patriarchy that objectify women’s bodies and turn romantic and sexual relations into a market exchange of commodities. Both forms of patriarchy reinforce a widespread culture of rape. The children of Mexican and Central American migrants are living in cages by the thousands. The state-sanctioned and extrajudicial killing and mass incarceration of proletarians, especially of the US’s and Canada’s oppressed nations and nationalities, continue unabated, but with the cover and legitimacy provided by state-sanctioned celebrations of diversity, anti-oppression optics, and the inclusion (though not without conflict and struggle) of substantial petty-bourgeois segments of oppressed nationalities and nations into media, culture, academia, and bourgeois politics. And against the backdrop of all the violence perpetrated by the bourgeois state apparatus, we can add a generation of downwardly mobile white men steeped in fascist ideas and culture who are deputizing themselves in greater numbers to further terrorize against North America’s oppressed nationalities and nations, Muslims, women, and LGBTQ people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe are entering (if not already finding ourselves well within) a period of protracted crisis from which the bourgeoisie has no exit strategy that the popular classes will find bearable. Against the backdrop of the social decay and fascist resurgence gripping the imperialist countries, popular rebellion is punctuating business-as-usual both inside and outside the imperialist countries: the mass rebellions against police terror in Ferguson (2014) and Baltimore (2015); anti-fascist mobilization dogging fascists wherever they mobilize since 2016; and popular disruptions to the ICE body snatchers across the US throughout 2019. More recently, we have seen mass rebellions in Puerto Rico that toppled a governor, in Ecuador that halted brutal IMF austerity, and in Haiti that persists against the corrupt lackeys of North American imperialism who destroyed and stole from the PetroCaribe program with Venezuela, and which reflects two centuries of unabated revolutionary struggle by the Haitian masses. And yet, despite these courageous and sometimes successful acts of resistance, in most places – especially in North America – there has yet to emerge a consolidated subjective force that can lead this rising rebelliousness in an escalating and successful direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe reason for this is simple: the lack of consolidated revolutionary organization, leadership, and strategy to effectively confront the imperialist ruling classes that make up the North American imperialist powers of the United States and Canada. In recent years, a growing mass of young people have become thoroughly disillusioned with capitalism. This disillusionment has resulted in growing attraction to “socialism” (though, unfortunately, a socialism thoroughly imbued with a bourgeois anti-communist sentiment that denies the need for revolution, proletarian dictatorship, and the complete dismantling of capitalism-imperialism). The spontaneous tendency for resistance and discontent to be brought under the wing of one section of the ruling class or another is no surprise considering that the bourgeoisie has constructed what the (new) Communist Party of Italy calls a regime of preventive counterrevolution over the last century adept at deflating opposition to its rule. A revolutionary movement will not spontaneously emerge out of the growing mass discontent. A communist organization with a scientific strategy capable of diverting resistance and discontent towards revolution does not arise simply from economic, political, and social crises, but must be consciously forged through the hard work of theory and practice.Were a revolutionary force to emerge, an oppressive system that now seems unassailable and existential crises that appear inevitable could anchor our convictions that a socialist world that serves the people and rehabilitates a dying biosphere is not only necessary but also possible. Without a revolutionary force, we are left pleading at the feet of the perpetrators of history’s greatest mass murders to find it in their hearts to change their ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs we see it, the subjective situation – the dispersal of revolutionary forces and their lack of strategic unity, and the insufficiently contested dominance of postmodernism, social democracy, identity politics activism, and liberalism – is what can and must be transformed to open the door to seizing on future opportunities for revolutionary advances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo that end, \u003cem\u003ekites\u003c\/em\u003e aims to constitute a theoretical exchange among revolutionary-minded people looking for a way forward across the territories held by the decaying imperialist powers of the US and Canada. To all revolutionaries who understand that we need to find a common strategy to defeat capitalism-imperialism and establish an ecological and socialist society moving towards communism, we appeal to your support and assistance in this project. Please share, comment on, and engage with our materials. Write us. Propose contributions. And if you are part of a revolutionary organization, consider establishing a relationship with our Editorial Committee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"rtecenter\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Editorial Committee of \u003cem\u003ekites \u003c\/em\u003eis composed of a handful of communist revolutionaries from across North America, and at its founding emerges from the initiative of two organizations: Revolutionary Initiative (RI) in Canada and the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries (OCR) in the US. Although we three entities constitute independent collectives, we are firmly united on the need for communist revolutionaries across North America to struggle and work towards the constitution of a new communist party.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRI is a party-building formation formed out of mass work in proletarian neighbourhoods in Toronto tracing back to the mid-2000s. OCR was formed in 2017 as a handful of revolutionaries with experience in previous communist organizations came together to sum up past experiences, initiate mass work among the proletariat, and revitalize revolutionary strategy. And the Editorial Committee of \u003cem\u003ekites \u003c\/em\u003ebrings together a handful of communist revolutionaries into a distinct collective that is in conversation with RI, OCR, and other communist forces across the continent who we hope will become future contributors to this particular project as well as the broader work of proletarian revolution against this dying capitalist-imperialist order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat binds us is a common love, hate, and humility: love for the people, hate for the present order and those who preside over it, and the humility to subject ourselves to the long process of figuring out how to make revolution. Spiritual bonds aside, we share the perspective that revolutionary civil war is necessary to overthrow the rule of capitalism-imperialism; a dictatorship of the proletariat must be established thereafter to prevent the restoration of capitalism; socialist society must be a transition, driven by class struggle, towards the ultimate goal of communism on a world scale; and a vanguard party is necessary to lead the revolution and the socialist transition period and unite all who can be united at each step of the process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe would be remiss if we were not clear that we ground and guide ourselves with the revolutionary theory that the history of proletarian revolution has to offer. Principally, this means assimilating the major advances in communist theory developed by Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Mao, but also studying the contributions (as well as shortcomings or errors!) of many other proletarian revolutionary leaders over the past century and a half, such as Rosa Luxemburg, Antonio Gramsci, Che Guevera, Amilcar Cabral, Huey P. Newton, Thomas Sankara, George Jackson, and yes, Stalin too. Beyond these leaders and the theories they developed, we are grounded in studying the historical experiences and roles of the masses in revolutionary struggle and transformation. We do not, however, treat these experiences dogmatically, but rather as vital experiments from which we can and must learn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat said, these cannot be our only sources of guidance. We would know nothing of contemporary developments in global politics and economics, scientific discovery, technological developments, philosophical debates, ideological trends, and popular culture if we restricted our reading and theoretical engagement to thinkers whose times are many, many decades behind us. Sound revolutionary strategy can only arise from measuring our guiding theories up against the ongoing study of and engagement with the changing realities around us, and we wholeheartedly plan for kites to be a space for the study, debate, and reporting on the ground that continues to shift under our feet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"rtecenter\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is no red textbook we can turn to for clear cut answers to the crises we face today. We uphold and study revolutionary theory and experience so years and decades are not wasted leading our organizations and movements into dead-ends that past revolutionary experiences have long ago exposed to be bankrupt. But the dogmatic drivel and politics of proclamation that flood the internet should not be confused with the painstaking, critical intellectual work of living, breathing revolutionary theory. And revolutionary theory needs to be grounded in the practical work of communists leading mass struggle, undertaking empirical research, and engaging deeply with many different schools of thought. Instead of circling around within closed and insular ideological systems, \u003cem\u003ekites \u003c\/em\u003eaims to be in dialogue with revolutionary political currents immersed in the people and with comrades, thinkers, artists, and organizers undertaking the hard work of analyzing and confronting the challenges before us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThough \u003cem\u003ekites \u003c\/em\u003ewill be focused on questions facing revolutionaries from within the North American imperialist powers, we are internationalists, and we are obliged to play our part in contributing to advancing the entire international proletarian revolution and supporting revolutionary struggles worldwide. From our standpoint as proletarian internationalists, we welcome and will enter all necessary exchanges and debates with the international communist movement (ICM) as a whole, and kites will in time also become a place for exchanging views and analyses with comrades internationally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e In this issue\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe opening issue of kites takes on some crucial questions facing revolutionary-minded people today: what exactly is the proletariat today, what are some mass struggles in recent history that we can learn something from, and just what the fuck is up with this debate among Maoists in 2019 on the question of protracted people’s war (PPW)?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe open \u003cem\u003ekites\u003c\/em\u003e #1 with an essay that’s been studied within RI and OCR for a few years now and the importance of which has only grown with time. Part I of Kenny Lake’s The Specter That Still Haunts: Locating a Revolutionary Class within Contemporary Capitalism-Imperialism provides a conception of the proletariat and its potential to lead the revolutionary transformation of society that is in sharp contrast to outdated interpretations that emphasize factory work and exploitation in the labor process and fetishize struggles between the exploited and their immediate exploiters. Expect to find the remaining parts of the Specter series in the back pages of kites alongside contemporary pieces on the urgent questions before us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second piece, Kilmore and John Albert’s From the Masses, To the Masses: A Summation of the October 22 Coalition’s Resistance to Police Brutality in the Late 1990s, offers a people’s history of a significant resistance movement to the epidemic of police murders of Black men and other oppressed people that was building prior to the events of 9\/11. As seductive as it is to turn to the ’60s and ’70s as the main repository for inspiration and guidance for revolutionaries in North America, Kilmore and John Albert draw out some important lessons from a major wave of mass struggle from a time and place not so distant from our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClosing with a hot take from Kenny Lake, \u003cem\u003ekites\u003c\/em\u003e enters the fray of the PPW debate. However, Lake cuts away from the existing universality: yes \/ no shape of the debate by drawing our attention to the actual historical experience of the people’s war in Peru and addressing some of the strategic innovations of Chairman Gonzalo and the Communist Party of Peru that go ignored or unstudied by what Lake trenchantly refers to as the “church of PPW universalism.” Lake’s intervention also addresses the overall legacy of dogmatism within the Maoist movement, the disarray caused by the loss of socialism in China in 1976, the relationship between the subjective forces for revolution and the “objective situation,” and other questions of revolutionary strategy being confronted practically today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHit us up\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe’re making \u003cem\u003ekites \u003c\/em\u003eas accessible as possible by posting each article online along with downloadable PDFs, but we both welcome and encourage you to order one or many copies of the bounded edition available from our distributor Kersplebedeb at LeftWingBooks.net (where bulk-pricing options will be made available to encourage group study and local distribution). For purchases of 10 or more, please contact us directly at \u003ca href=\"mailto:kites-journal@protonmail.com\"\u003ekites-journal@protonmail.com\u003c\/a\u003e. Any proceeds from the sale of \u003cem\u003ekites \u003c\/em\u003ewill be ploughed directly back into efforts to expand its circulation, organizational capacity, and political endeavours being undertaken by those revolutionaries engaging with its contents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe offer \u003cem\u003ekites \u003c\/em\u003ein these various formats to project revolutionary communist politics far and wide, but we also want to allow for engagement with this material in a way that minimizes attracting the attention of the repressive-surveillance apparatuses. We definitely encourage those with active social media presences to critically engage with and discuss our materials on their platforms and raise the level of debate above the personal attacks and arrogant posturing that often suffocate revolutionary politics on the Internet. Indeed, we are looking forward to hearing your feedback directly and beginning a conversation around any questions that may arise. That said, let’s be clear that all Internet communication can potentially be viewed by our enemies. So if you are seeking to develop a connection with us, especially if you are writing on behalf of an organization, we encourage the use of end-to-end encryption methods (you can find instructions for this in the Contact Us section of our website).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe mandate \u003cem\u003ekites \u003c\/em\u003eto develop a form through which the theory, strategy, historical and practical summation, and concrete analysis of contemporary conditions – all crucial necessities for building a revolutionary movement aimed at overthrowing capitalism-imperialism North America and throughout the world – is developed, disseminated, and debated. We take this responsibility seriously and with humility, and will do our utmost to rise to the tasks in front of us. We hope others will join us on this endeavour to fly high while staying grounded in the people and with all the challenges ahead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e***********************************************************\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe contents of issue #1 can be read on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kites-journal.org\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/kites-journal.org\/\u003c\/a\u003e website:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kites-journal.org\/2019\/12\/10\/revolutionary-contraband\/\"\u003eThe contraband of revolutionary theory\u003c\/a\u003e (editorial)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kites-journal.org\/2019\/12\/10\/specter-part1\/\"\u003eThe Proletariat: What It Is, What It Ain't\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kites-journal.org\/2019\/12\/11\/from-the-masses-to-the-masses-a-summation-of-the-october-22-coalitions-resistance-to-police-brutality-in-the-late-1990s\/\"\u003eFrom the Masses, To the Masses: A Summation of the October 22 Coalition’s Resistance to Police Brutality in the Late 1990s\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kites-journal.org\/2019\/12\/11\/on-infantile-internet-disorders-and-real-questions-of-revolutionary-strategy-a-response-to-the-debate-over-the-universality-of-protracted-peoples-war\/\"\u003eOn Infantile Internet Disorders and Real Questions of Revolutionary Strategy: A Response to the “Debate” over the Universality of Protracted People’s War\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ekites \u003c\/em\u003e#1 will be 136 pp. and will be available to ship later in January, but for now it can be pre-ordered from leftwingbooks.net; bulk orders of more than 3+ can be more discounted, email \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/kites-journal@protonmail.com\"\u003ekites-journal@protonmail.com\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: kites\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kites Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175305228381,"sku":"KITES1","price":17.64,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/kites1-cover-SecondEd.jpg?v=1677756985"},{"product_id":"the-communist-necessity-2nd-ed","title":"The Communist Necessity 2nd Ed.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“There was a time when we proclaimed that we were part of a beautiful and fragmented chaos of affinity groups, conflicted organizations, disorganized rebels, all of whom were somehow part of the same social movement that was greater than the sum of its parts. We were more accurately a disorganized mob of enraged plebeians shaking our fists at a disciplined imperial army. Years ago we spoke of \u003cstrong\u003esocial movementism \u003c\/strong\u003ebut now it only makes sense to drop the ‘social’ since this phase of confusion was incapable of understanding the social terrain. Disparate, unfocused, and divided movements lack a unified intentionality; they have proved themselves incapable of pursuing the necessity of communism.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFive years ago \u003cem\u003eThe Communist Necessity \u003c\/em\u003ewas written to demarcate a revolutionary politics grounded in necessity from social movementism, and revolutionary science from contemporary intellectual fads. Now J. Moufawad-Paul’s notorious polemic is back, still relevant and prescient.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThis second edition of Moufawad-Paul’s first book includes a preface by Dao-yuan Chou and a reflective afterword by the author. New readers can discover why the recognition of communism’s necessity “requires a new return to the revolutionary communist theories and experiences won from history.”\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Communist Necessity\u003c\/em\u003e is a polemical interrogation of the practice of “social movementism” that has enjoyed a normative status at the centres of capitalism. Despite the fact that the name “communism” has been reclaimed by a variety of important intellectuals, J. Moufawad-Paul argues that, due to a failure to grapple with the concrete questions connected to historical moments of actually making revolution, movementist praxis remains hegemonic. More of a philosophical intervention than a historiography or political economy, \u003cem\u003eThe Communist Necessity\u003c\/em\u003e engages in a quick and pointed manner with a variety of authors and tendencies including Alain Badiou, Jodi Dean, the Invisible Committee, Tiqqun, Théorie Communiste, and others. Moufawad-Paul argues that a refusal to recognize contemporary revolutionary movements from the 1980s to the present results in the reification of a capitalist “end of history” discourse within this movementist conceptualization of theory and practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally written as a small essay on the left-wing blog \u003cem\u003eMLM Mayhem\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Communist Necessity\u003c\/em\u003e was expanded into a pocket-sized treatise in 2015, sketching out the boundaries of the movementist terrain, as well as its contemporary ideologues, so as to raise questions that may be uncomfortable for those still devoted to movementist praxis, particularly if they define themselves as marxist. Aware of his past affinity with social movementism, and with some apprehension of the problem of communist orthodoxy, Moufawad-Paul argues that the recognition of communism's necessity “requires a \u003cem\u003enew return\u003c\/em\u003e to the revolutionary communist theories and experiences won from history.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJ. Moufawad-Paul lives in Toronto and works as casualized contract faculty at York University where he received his PhD in philosophy. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eAusterity Apparatus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eContinuity and Rupture\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eDemarcation and Demystification\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDao-yuan Chou is an organizer and author of \u003cem\u003eSilage Choppers and Snake Spirits\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: J. 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Drawing on his own decades of experience as an anti-imperialist, Lauesen shows how dialectical materialism can be employed as a method to understand the past five hundred years of capitalist history, how contradictions internal to European capitalism led to colonialism and genocide in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, as all humanity was brought into a single exploitative world system. The globalized capitalist system has developed through successive and changing principal contradictions, decisively impacting regional, national, and local contradictions. This has in turn given rise to new reactions, interacting with and modifying the principal contradiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIdentifying the principal contradiction is indispensable for developing a global perspective on capitalism. This methodology is not just a valuable tool with which to analyze complex relationships: it also tells us how to intervene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM0NTM5In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/torkil-lauesen\" title=\"Torkil Lauesen\"\u003eTorkil Lauesen\u003c\/a\u003e is a longtime anti-imperialist activist and writer living in Denmark. From 1970 to 1989, he was a 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 incarcerated, 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\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Torkil Lauesen\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Translated by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMDQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gabriel-kuhn\" title=\"Gabriel Kuhn\"\u003eGabriel Kuhn\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-989701-03-4\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 157 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175312076893,"sku":"9781989701034","price":23.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/theprincipalcontradiction_cover3.jpg?v=1654988475"},{"product_id":"the-kapetanios-partisans-and-civil-war-in-greece-1943-1949","title":"The Kapetanios: Partisans and Civil War in Greece, 1943–1949","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe complicated and dramatic course of the Civil War in Greece had, for lack of parties interested in reconstructing the truth of its events, never been narrated prior to the appearance of this volume. It closed a gap in the history of our times, and did so with thoroughness and vivid journalistic immediacy. In addition to the known sources and unpublished documents, the author relied on testimony painstakingly collected from survivors of the tragedy who were scattered throughout the world. It remains the authoritative account.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt the center of the stage are the kapetanios, the guerrilla chiefs who organized the partisans in the Greek mountains. Their first leader was Aris Velouchiotis, “a wild, bearded figure who owed something to Chapaiev and prefigured Castro”; the second was Markos Vafiadis, who continued the armed struggle into its last hopeless stages. Ranged against the partisans are a series of foreign powers representing the succession of imperial hegemony in the eastern Mediterranean: first the German and Italian occupation forces during World War II; then the British, who unremittingly pursued the object, both during and after the war, under Tory and Labour ministers alike, of restoring to power the monarchist Right; and finally the Americans, who entered the fray with the Truman Doctrine of 1947, and made of Greece a “laboratory,” in the words of General Van Fleet, for experiments with napalm, chemical and incendiary defoliants, and barbed-wire compounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Communist-led movement was badly divided and disoriented at every crucial turn in the struggle. The partisans were hindered and betrayed by a Central Committee leadership which, in obedience to pressures from the Soviet Union, forced upon the kapetanios almost complete disarmament at the end of the German-Italian occupation. The role of the Soviet Union was defined in the Moscow accord, informally drafted by Churchill and approved by Stalin; it gave Great Britain a “90 percent” dominance in Greece after the war. By the author’s account, this barter of the rights of the Greek people was respected by the Soviet Union throughout the closing phases of World War II and the fighting that followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDominique Eudes has been a journalist trained in the field of economics, and a screenwriter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Dominique Eudes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9780853452751\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 404 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Monthly Review Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Monthly Review Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175316828253,"sku":"9780853452751","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/kapetanios.jpg?v=1654988505"},{"product_id":"kites-a-journal-of-communist-theory-and-strategy-2-october-2020","title":"kites: a journal of communist theory and strategy #2 (October 2020)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTaken from the opening editorial of \u003cem\u003ekites #2\u003c\/em\u003e [\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kites-journal.org\/2020\/06\/09\/nothing-is-hard-in-this-world-if-you-dare-to-scale-the-heights\/\"\u003e\"Nothing is hard if we dare to scale the heights\"\u003c\/a\u003e]:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRevolutionary philosophy, strategy, and politics are difficult to come by in North America today. While the member organizations and individuals behind kites cultivate class struggle and mass combativeness in their own regions, our collective contribution through kites will be to continue to address questions of revolutionary strategy, analyze the unfolding crises of capitalism-imperialism, and offer summations of resistance and revolutionary struggles that we must learn from.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this issue, we follow this opening editorial, written shortly after the outbreak of rebellions in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by police, with a short intervention from our Editorial Committee into the current movement against police brutality and the oppression of Black people, entitled “Defund, Abolish...but what about Overthrow?” In it, we compare and contrast current calls to “defund” or “abolish” the police with a communist understanding of their role and the need to overthrow the system they enforce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Manifesto of the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries (US)” offers a searing indictment of US capitalism-imperialism, an inspiring and materialist vision of a communist future, an examination of the challenges and contradictions of proletarian dictatorship and the socialist transition to communism, and bold initial strategic thinking on how to develop the subjective forces for revolution that would stand a chance of overthrowing US capitalism-imperialism through revolutionary civil war. “Theses on capitalism, crisis and class war” by José San Miguel outlines a concentrated analysis of the existential threats to humanity posed by the capitalist crisis of overaccumulation, the dynamic role of proletarian revolution and socialist states in shaping the outcome of previous crises, and the challenges before the forces of communist revolution today, from resurgent fascism to the bourgeoisie’s flexible permanent regime of preventive counterrevolution. We believe these “Theses” sharply pose many of the most crucial questions and challenges before revolutionaries today. We conclude this issue with “Things Done Changed,” part two of Kenny Lake’s four-part series The Specter That Still Haunts: Locating a Revolutionary Class within Contemporary Capitalism-Imperialism, in which Lake analyzes how the ascendance of finance capital, the development of global cities and export processing zones, and the growth of slums, migration, and resource extraction impact who the proletariat is today and how it can be organized for revolution. We look forward to being in dialogue with others attempting to dig into the challenges of building a revolutionary movement and communist organization as well as connecting revolutionary theory with all those hungry for it in the wake of the rebellions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBulk orders of more than 3+ can be more discounted, email \u003ca href=\"mailto:kites-journal@protonmail.com\"\u003ekites-journal@protonmail.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kites Publications\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kites Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175325904989,"sku":"KITES2","price":17.64,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/kites-cover-page-2.jpg?v=1654988570"},{"product_id":"continuity-and-rupture-philosophy-in-the-maoist-terrain","title":"Continuity and Rupture: Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain","description":"\u003cp\u003eA philosophical examination of the theoretical terrain of contemporary Maoism premised on the counter-intuitive assumption that Maoism did not emerge as a coherent theory until the end of the 1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is a fascinating must-read and highly readable book; even if you disagree with the author’s arguments, you will reconsider much of the rhetoric that we take for granted regarding Maoism.\" Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of \u003cem\u003eAn Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eContinuity  and  Rupture \u003c\/em\u003eis  Moufawad-Paul’s  theorization  of  a political and revolutionary thought of today. This book offers an active framework for understanding the Maoist turn in Marxism, which the author grounds in a challenging vision of history and a necessity for social change.\" Julian Jason Haladyn, author of \u003cem\u003eBoredom and Art\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Capitalism is headed for disaster. Any serious attempt to alter the course of history requires revolutionary theory. Whether you agree  with  J. Moufawad-Paul’s  conclusions  or  not,  this  book raises the questions we all need to ask.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMDQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gabriel-kuhn\" title=\"Gabriel Kuhn\"\u003eGabriel Kuhn\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eLife Under the Jolly Roger \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eTurning Money Into Rebellion\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Calling  all  organizers,  anti-capitalists,  and  people  who  care about  anticolonial  struggle—this  book  is  for  you.  Beautifully clear, Moufawad-Paul lays out the concepts that we almost never get  to  learn  in  our  schools  or  in  our  social  movements—theconcepts  that  many  have  struggled  to  grasp  and  apply—the concepts that are necessary for revolution. Placing the tools of western philosophy in the service of explicating the significance and necessity of actually-existing Maoism, this book is an accessible and compelling primer in science, theory, philosophy, and revolution. This book is just in time. At its heart, it is an historical materialist  account  of  the  unfolding  of  revolutionary  praxis through  the  rupture  and  continuity  of  Marxist-Leninism and  Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.  Moufawad-Paul  begins  his periodization and clarification of Maoism from the revolutionary theory  of  the  Community  Party  of  Peru  and  the  Communist(Maoist)  Party  of  Afghanistan  situated  in  the  global  struggle against  capitalism-imperialism.  And  for  you,  eurocentric academic Marxists: you have been put on notice—you can’t say you haven’t been told.\" Rachel  Gorman,  Associate  Professor  in  Critical  Disability Studies, York University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Moufawad-Paul’s \u003cem\u003eContinuity  and  Rupture \u003c\/em\u003eis  a  much  welcomed attempt to bring philosophical clarity to political debates which all too often are wrapped around vague terms at the expense of conceptual  clarity.  Its  central  thesis  claims  that  Maoism  is  a coherent theoretical development that both continues the revolutionary content of Leninist theory and breaks with its historical limitations, thus opening up a new set of theoretical possibilities ultimately  rooted  in  the  scientific  propositions  of  historical materialism.  It  is  a  provocative  thesis,  but  one  that  is  lucidly explored by Moufawad-Paul. This is a book that should renew interest  in  historically  concrete  forms  of  Marxist  theory  and produce spirited, but invaluable, debate on the nature of Maoism. Highly  recommended  for  both  practical  and  philosophical reasons!\" Esteve  Morera,  author  of  \u003cem\u003eGramsci’s  Historicism\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGramsci, Materialism and Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: J. 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Moufawad-Paul advances a militant approach to philosophy against (at least) two contending schools of thought. Against some Marxist interpretations of Marx's famous 11th thesis––those sweeping accusations that philosophy tout court is idealist––he defends philosophy as a practice of clarity. And against those new materialists who have mistaken their construction of speculative metaphysics, \"new\" ontologies, and idiosyncratic objects as synonymous with––or even more important than–– transforming the world, he defends a philosophical method grounded in historical materialism and engaged in social struggle. Read this book; it's a manifesto for philosophy.\" Devin Zane Shaw, author of \u003cem\u003eEgalitarian Moments: From Descartes to Rancière\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"J. Moufawad-Paul's wide-ranging intervention is a timely and fresh return to the 11th thesis. It forces philosophers to recognize the extent to which their historically recurrent pretension to rise above politics has produced propaganda for the status quo in general, and now liberal propaganda in particular. Deftly unpacking why seemingly radical currents in contemporary ontology actually amount to an occulting, reactionary retreat, the book returns to basics as a means of developing struggle. Whether or not one practices or wishes to practice philosophy in the Maoist terrain, Demarcation and Demystification is a major statement on the gulf between what philosophers actually do, and what they think they do.\" Matthew R. 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Governments have spoken of being at war and find themselves forced to seek new powers in order to maintain social order and prevent the spread of the virus. This is often exercised with the notion that we will return to normal as soon as we can. What if that is not possible? Secondly, if the state can mobilize itself in the face of an invisible foe like this pandemic, it should also be able to confront visible dangers such as climate destruction with equal force.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency, leading environmental thinker, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTIifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/andreas-malm\" title=\"Andreas Malm\"\u003eAndreas Malm\u003c\/a\u003e demands that this war-footing state should be applied on a permanent basis to the ongoing climate front line. He offers proposals on how the climate movement should use this present emergency to make that case. 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Karl argues that China’s contemporary emergence is best seen not as a “return,” but rather as the product of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary activity and imaginings. From the Taipings in the mid-nineteenth century through nationalist, anti-imperialist, cultural, and socialist revolutions to today’s capitalist-inflected Communist State, modern China has been made in intellectual dissonance and class struggle, in mass democratic movements and global war, in socialism and anti-socialism, in repression and conflict by multiple generations of Chinese people mobilized to seize history and make the future in their own name. Through China’s successive revolutions, the contours of our contemporary world have taken shape. This brief interpretive history shows how.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Rebecca Karl brings to life in wonderful detail the successive revolutionary moments that constituted modern China, illuminating their importance even when they failed to achieve their goals. Although that modern world may now be behind us, Karl shows how the modern Chinese experiments provide an essential basis for thinking revolution in our future.” Michael Hardt, co-author of \u003cem\u003eAssembly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"How do we reckon with “state communism” and the twentieth-century revolutions now that they have passed? This is not an abstract question, but a pressing concern for all those who are committed to the long struggle against capitalism during the current interregnum. Rebecca Karl’s China’s Revolutions in the Modern World underscores the centrality of China’s revolutionary experience to global modernity, and, through an analysis of China’s one and a half centuries of revolution in its many permutations, offers readers a deepened understanding of revolution itself.\" Prof. Christopher Connery, University of California, Santa Cruz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Karl blows away the manufactured fog that has obscured our understanding of China’s radical history. She allows us to see the patterns of serial revolution that have brought so much turmoil and innovation to modernity. Breathtaking and indispensable!\" Andrew Ross, author of \u003cem\u003eFast Boat to China: Lessons from Shanghai\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eStone Men\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"It is exceedingly rare for a book to provide both a synthetic, comprehensive overview of a complex historical period and new, original perspectives for our understanding of that period: Rebecca Karl achieves just that in this clearly written and insightful volume. By investigating seven revolutionary moments, from the Taiping to 1989, Karl shows us that China’s revolutions were part and parcel of global struggles to define possible futures. Unabashedly anti-teleological, theoretically inspired, and politically engaged, \u003cem\u003eChina’s Revolution in the Modern World\u003c\/em\u003e is a perfect introduction to modern China for non-specialists, an excellent teaching tool, but also a revealing read for China specialists, who will find much to think with in this volume.\" Fabio Lanza, author of The \u003cem\u003eEnd of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eChina’s Revolutions in the Modern World\u003c\/em\u003e is an insightful, sometimes provocative, and always readable survey of the most tumultuous events in China’s history. Karl provides a convincing narrative of political, social, and intellectual change while offering a unique global perspective as well as nuanced discussions of gender and historiographical issues. This book would make an excellent introductory text in university undergraduate courses.\" Peter Zarrow, author of \u003cem\u003eChina in War and Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAfter Empire: The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eEducating China\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A tour de force re-narration of modern China’s revolutionary moments. Written with uncommon grace and lucidity, Karl invites readers to rethink China’s past as lived creations of the present and explorations of possible futures. A spectacular achievement!\" Ching Kwan Lee, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Specter of Global China\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Rebecca Karl’s masterful study of revolution in modern China shows us how revolutionary movements became thinkable.\" Asad Haider, author of \u003cem\u003eMistaken Identity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A concise and thought-provoking overview of nearly two centuries of Chinese revolutionary movements by historian Rebecca Karl, starting with the Taiping Rebellion which broke out in 1850.\" Carlos Martinez, \u003cem\u003eMorning Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175346188381,"sku":"9781788735599","price":35.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/chinas_revolutions_in_the_modern_world.jpg?v=1654988738"},{"product_id":"kites-a-journal-of-communist-theory-and-strategy-3-february-2021","title":"kites: a journal of communist theory and strategy #3 (February 2021)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ekites\u003c\/em\u003e is a journal of communist theory and strategy for revolution focused on North America. It emerged in 2020 from the initiative of two organizations: Revolutionary Initiative (RI) in Canada and the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries (OCR) in the US. Its Editorial Committee is composed of a few communist revolutionaries from across North America, and operates as an independent entity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eTeble of Contents\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKick ‘em While They’re down, By the Kites Editorial Committee\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMalcolm X Didn’t Dish Out Free Bean Pies: Distinguishing Charity and Social Work from Revolutionary Strategy, by kenny lake\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing blood: A Guide to Communist Agitation, by the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries (US)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLooking Back to Face Forward: The Role of Summation in the Revolutionary Process, by the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries (US)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ecatching fire: Participant Reflections on the Summer of Protest and Rebellion, by a reader of kites\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen we ride on our enemies (part 3 of the specter series), by kenny Lake\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Postmodernist Nonsense to Plain Proletarian English: A Translation Guide, by a kites editor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ea revolutionary people requires a revolutionary literature, the kites editorial committee\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eRead the Editorital [\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kites-journal.org\/2020\/12\/11\/kick-em-while-theyre-down\/\"\u003e\"Kick ’Em While They’re Down\"\u003c\/a\u003e]:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the future, hopefully 2020 will go down in history as the year of squandered possibilities for revolutionary advance in the US. We say hopefully because the other possibility—2020 as the year when all the signs of impending catastrophe were present, but those who claimed commitment to ending injustice failed to find a way to stop the catastrophe—is all too likely.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nFor 2020 was a year of deepening and multiplying crises in the US—wildfires, hurricanes, and other climate-change-driven disasters breaking all previous records; COVID-19 laying bare the inability of the capitalist-imperialist system to provide decent healthcare, employment, or basic necessities for many; police brutality and the oppression of Black people leading to waves of massive nationwide rebellions and protests; and deep divisions in society, including among the bourgeoisie, expressed in a bitterly contested election and the ability of Trump to trample on the normal functioning of bourgeois politics. All of these crises present the possibilities for communists to expose the workings of capitalism-imperialism to millions; to organize the proletariat, rebellious youth, oppressed people, and those in the petty-bourgeoisie willing to betray their class into a revolutionary people; to wrest leadership of the resistance movements away from opportunists and reformists and divert resistance towards revolutionary objectives; and to repolarize class alliances in society in a way favorable to the revolutionary overthrow of the bourgeoisie.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBut throughout 2020, there was no political force able to accomplish this. The simple reason is that there is no vanguard communist party in the US, or even a critical mass of communist cadre committed to forging one. Of course, stating this obvious but largely unacknowledged problem will not resolve it. So let’s examine the potential opportunities for revolutionary advances in the US and the ideological and political barriers that have stymied the development of the subjective forces for revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/kites-journal.org\/2020\/12\/11\/kick-em-while-theyre-down\/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRead the rest of the editorial here\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBulk orders of more than 3+ can be more discounted, email \u003ca href=\"mailto:kites-journal@protonmail.com\"\u003ekites-journal@protonmail.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kites Publications\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kites Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175349956701,"sku":"KITES3","price":17.64,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/kites3_cover.jpg?v=1654988775"},{"product_id":"false-nationalism-false-internationalism-class-contradictions-in-the-armed-struggle","title":"False Nationalism False Internationalism: Class Contradictions in the Armed Struggle","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis study is a radically different investigation into one of the most critical--and least understood--zones of revolutionary work: the struggle for solidarity between the left in an oppressor nation and rebellions against that nation from the oppressed. 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Also bringing into view how u.s. solidarity for the anti-fascist fighting then in both the Spanish Civil War and Ethiopia's resistance to Italian invasion,was handled in a way that both defused and handcuffed domestic Black anger to white \"Communist\" leadership . \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll before moving to the study's main contested battleground in the great 1960s violent rebellions in the u.s. empire, ebbing but continuing even into the early 1980s. This book was published in 1985, and was not intended for any general readership at all (it only appeared in paperback book form to facilitate being mailed into prisons). If its language is harsh, and the analysis blunt and unsparing in its anger, they reflect a time when revs were dealing with deaths and fugitive lives and mass incarceration and the smashing of organizations and communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: E. 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The science of Women, or Jineology, is one of those contributions which both men and women should understand in order to deepen our critique and our anti-capitalist struggle, as well as the concepts of criticism and self-criticism and democratic confederalism.” Raúl Zibechi, author of \u003cem\u003eDispersing Powers: Social Movements as Anti-state Forces\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe New Brazil: Regional Imperialism and the New Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A bright light shining through the darkness of these times, an extraordinary achievement in the most dreadful conditions: we need to understand more about the struggle for freedom being fought by the Kurdish movement. This book by Havin Guneser is a clear, committed, inspiring, and necessary introduction to the movement and its ideas.” John Holloway, author of \u003cem\u003eCrack Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIn, Against, and Beyond Capitalism: The San Francisco Lectures\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“In this unmissable book, Havin Guneser strikes the right chords with her uncompromising and warm-hearted analysis of the Kurdish Freedom movement, and the Kurdish women’s movement. A must-read for everyone who wants to understand what the struggle for freedom means in today’s violent world.” Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Politics of Autonomy in Latin America\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSocial Sciences for an Other Politics \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHavin Guneser is an engineer, journalist, and women’s rights activist who writes and speaks extensively on the topic of revolution in Rojava. 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