{"title":"Things We Are Promoting","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"marx-and-engels-on-colonies-industrial-monopoly-and-the-working-class-movement","title":"Marx and Engels: On Colonies, Industrial Monopoly and the Working Class Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally compiled and edited by the Communist Working Circle (CWC) in 1972, this is a republished collection of excerpts from the corpus of Marx and Engels. These texts show the evolution of Marx and Engels's ideas about the nascent labor aristocracy, and the enervating effects of colonialism and chauvinism on the British labour movement, with a focus on the British Empire of their time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition of \"On Colonies\" includes a substantial introduction by Marxist economist Zak Cope and former CWC member Torkil Lauesen, centering these concepts in theory and history. Cope and Lauesen show how Marx and Engels's initial belief that capitalism would expand seamlessly around the globe in the same way as it did in Europe was proven wrong by events, as instead worldwide imperialism spread capitalism as a polarizing process, not only between the bourgeoisie and the working class, but also as a division between an imperialist center and an exploited periphery. This fundamental contradiction gave capitalism completely new conditions of growth and accounts for its tragic longevity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth foundational and indispensable, \"On Colonies\" provides a useful introduction to \"Third Worldist\" analysis of global capitalism, tracing its roots back to Marxism's earliest works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZak Cope is the author of\u003cem\u003e Divided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e and co-editor of the \u003cem\u003ePalgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism\u003c\/em\u003e with Prof. Immanuel Ness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM0NTM5In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/torkil-lauesen\" title=\"Torkil Lauesen\"\u003eTorkil Lauesen\u003c\/a\u003e has since the late sixties been an anti-imperialist activist and writer. 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Sakai is one of North America’s most insightful and challenging radical intellectuals, best-known for his work \u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eSettlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, which remains the essential anti-racist labor history of the united states. Sakai work is grounded in Mao’s politics, anti-imperialism, and in a lifetime of hands-on activism; he has consistently focused on the relationship between “race” and “class” in the american context, from a perspective dedicated to abolishing the united states, capitalism, and white supremacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeyond \u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eSettlers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, however, Sakai has authored a number of other works, on subjects ranging from movement security, to the nature of the lumpen\/proletariat, to the rise of the far right, and much more. Several of these have been published in book-form by Kersplebedeb, others as zines, while others have only ever appeared on the Internet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere in this book, for the first time, is presented a selection of writings by Sakai spanning a 40 year period, from 1983 to 2022. This includes three articles initially written anonymously for the anti-imperialist journal \u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eS1\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, and an extensive interview that took place between 2020 and 2022, appearing here for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Shape of Things to Come: Selected Writings \u0026amp; Interviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a weapons cache planted for people fighting for liberation in a world that is constantly becoming more dangerous. It provides tools and methodologies, examples both positive and negative, histories and insights, to help us to collectively struggle against a system that “as its most bottom­line autonomic reflex will rather arrange to kill us all than let us remake our lives communally\u003c\/span\u003e.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eGuide to Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Beginner’s Kata: Uncensored Stray Thoughts on Revolutionary Organization” (2018)\u003c\/strong\u003e, previously published as a zine, explores what revolutionaries think about organization and what the actual experience of revolutionary organization has been, and the chasm between the two. “When we first took this path, when we joined our lives with the struggle, we were conscious of knowing so very little. One good reason we were so attracted to this revolutionary organization or that one. Not only to find rads we could run with, but to find mentors and a busy hive of experience we hoped to take cues from. \u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat never occurred to us is that those organizations might know next to nothing, too\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Notes Toward an Understanding of Capitalist Crisis \u0026amp; Theory” (2009)\u003c\/strong\u003e, previously published as a zine shortly following the 2008 financial meltdown, provides a brief overview of Marx’s views on capitalism’s crisis-prone nature and an exploration of whether these ideas are still useful to revolutionaries today. “It is reasonable to think that this general crisis is a turning point, an important stage in the protracted decline and fall of capitalism as a world system,” Sakai explains, reminding us that “What is an ‘emergency” is our need to orient ourselves in the crisis first of all. To seriously step up our political understanding, and thus our ability in the real world to help others make sense for themselves of a dramatically changing situation. A crisis for the capitalists is only great weather for us, because revolutionaries were made for crisis.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Aryan Politics \u0026amp; Fighting the W.T.O.” (2001)\u003c\/strong\u003e, previously included in the book \u003cem\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Enemy’s Enemy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, was written during the heyday of the “anti-globalization” movement. This text presciently identifies conservative and far-right tendencies amongst critics of global capitalism and shows how these were connected to the class complexion of the movement as a whole. This was the first in a series of texts Sakai authored calling attention to the rise of the far right both within the united states and internationally. It identified trends that were dismissed by most “progressives” at the time, but that would eventually help form the basis for the dramatic rise of the far right we have experienced over the past decade. “The anti­-WTO protests in Seattle were a radicalizing experience for many, on a tactical level. But on a larger scale, the Left has unacknowledged strategic problems with this issue. To sum it up simply, we have the problem that we may be helping to fuel the explosive growth of the Right and neo-fascism. And we have to think of refocusing to fight the Far Right in the anti-WTO struggle—just as we need to on every other contested terrain.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“The Green Nazi: An Investigation into Fascist Ecology” (2007)\u003c\/strong\u003e, previously published as a zine, uses the fawning biography of leading Nazi Walther Darré by Dr Anna Bramwell as a window into the ways in which fascism employs concepts like “nature” to package what are in fact a racist class agenda. “R. Walther Darré and other Rightist Green politicians could be significant to new generations of neo-fascists, and not only because they give fascism a plausible claim to being the forefather of today’s ecology movement. Far from being a political innocent, Darré was if anything even more developed about his racial supremacy than Hitler, and was certainly more practical and strategic. ... His rural settler strategy is in tune with much of the white racist Far Right in the u.s. (no small coincidence, since like Adolf Hitler himself Darré used the u.s. white settler Western frontier as his genocidal model). It all pushes us to check out what words like ‘Green,’ ‘Nature,’ ‘ecology,’ and ‘peasant’ mean in our politics.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“When Race Burns Class: Settlers Revisited” (2000)\u003c\/strong\u003e, previously published as a zine, is an interview Sakai did with the Montreal-based group Solidarity. Answering basic questions about the book \u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eSettlers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, and drawing on experiences from his own life as an organizer, Sakai lays out some of the basic aspects of the relationship between “race” and “class” and the nature of the white working class in america. “Some people think that ‘settler’ is just a fancy way of saying ‘white people,’ and that it’s all just about racism anyway. Racism as we know it and settlerism both had their origins in capitalist colonialism, and are related but quite distinct. Settler-colonial societies started as invasion and occupation forces for Western capitalism, social garrisons usually in the Third World, as Western capitalism expanded out of Europe into the Americas, Afrika, and Asia.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Stolen at Gunpoint” (2003)\u003c\/strong\u003e is an interview conducted by Ernesto Aguilar on June 17, 2003; it originally aired on the Latino-culture program Sexto Sol on KPFT radio in Houston, Texas, and was subsequently published as an appendix to the 2014 PM Press\/Kersplebedeb edition of \u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eSettlers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e. Aguilar and Sakai discuss the Chicano movement in the 1960s, the 1968 Poor People’s Convention in Washington DC, and more broadly what desettlerization means in the united states today. “People think I’m talking about race alone, that everything in Amerika is determined by race, and that’s not really what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that race in Amerika has been used as an identifier for capitalism to form and control classes, that race is not just a metaphor for class, but an identifier of class in real terms.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Beyond McAntiwar: Notes on Finding Our Footing in the Collapsing Stage Set of the u.s. 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As an advertisement to the Third World that the u.s. empire was still able to destroy any nation-state that opposed it...”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Theory Mao Tossed to Us” (2017)\u003c\/strong\u003e, previously published in the book \u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe “Dangerous Class” and Revolutionary Theory: Thoughts On the Making pf the Lumpen\/Proletariat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, providing a quick overview of Mao’s approach to the lumpen\/proletariat in the context of the Chinese Revolution. “Like a hand grenade of ideas thrown from the distance into our skirmishes, when Mao’s iconic writings from the 1920s–30s were finally translated and widely disseminated here in the 1950s–60s, revolutionary theory on the lumpen\/proletariat underwent a major shift ... While appearing to follow the form of the Marx \u0026amp; Engels class analysis of the stormy petrel of the lumpen\/proletariat, Mao’s theoretical take represented a big remodeling job. A sharper turn, in fact, than i personally could hold onto or understand back then.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Pseudo­-Gangs” (1983)\u003c\/strong\u003e, previously published in \u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eS1\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, provides an overview of repressive measures carried out by the British against the Land and Freedom Armies in Kenya. While specifically examining the work of Brigadier General Frank Kitson and his “pseudo-gangs,” Sakai calls attention to the broader range of methods employed by the imperialist powers to keep Kenya trapped within neocolonialism. “Imperialism’s advantage in the war was a matter of professional strategy and modern organization; with these imperialism regained the strategic initiative. While there have been several books written by British officers implying that ‘pseudo­-gangs’ and Afrikan guerrillas ‘turning’ defeated the uprising, this is not true. ‘Pseudo-gangs’ were not primary in counter­insurgency, but only secondary. Their tactical importance in some situations can only be evaluated by first understanding the overall situation of counter-insurgency.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“From South Afrika to Puerto Rico to Mississippi“ (1983)\u003c\/strong\u003e, previously published in \u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eS1\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, is a quick snapshot exposing the work of one imperialist agent, Jay Mallin, the “Latin America\/Terrorism Editor” of \u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eSoldier of Fortune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e magazine. “While Washington denies any relationship to the armed white right, to ‘extremist’ groups such as the Minutemen, to mercenaries and \u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eSoldier of Fortune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, S.O.F. editor Jay Mallin has been welcome everywhere within the U.S. military. And welcome on an official basis. He has written on terrorism for the Marine Corps. At Fort Bragg’s U.S. Army Institute for Military Assistance (where the CIA and U.S. Special Forces give Latin Amerikan puppet soldiers counter-insurgency training), Mallin has been an invited lecturer. He has even taken part in seminars at the Pentagon.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“What Happened to the Zimbabwe Revolution” (1984)\u003c\/strong\u003e, previously published in \u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eS1\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, is a detailed examination of how the anticolonial revolution was neutralized in Zimbabwe by the CIA-backed promotion of a neocolonial clique around Robert Mugabe, and the important part played in this process by liberal u.s. figures like Andy Young, W. Anthony Lake, and the Carter Administration. This study exposes neocolonialism’s range of repressive tools and its multifaceted approach to keeping peoples exploited and oppressed within the capitalist world-system. “It was symbolic when the Mugabe regime made the guerrillas turn in their AK-47s and Kalashnikov rifles. The fighters were retrained by British imperialist instructors as regular army units, and rearmed with the NATO rifles used by the former settler army. People’s Courts and other ties with the masses were ended; the fighters regrouped in new bases. They now are a standard capitalist army, living as parasites (soldiers earn three or four times what plantation laborers earn) whether they like it or not. Their role now is to police their own people. Again, we recall that in 1977 Andy Young said that the task in Zimbabwe was ‘dismantling the guerrilla army and retraining it to be a police force.’ For imperialism. 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Whether against communism or the FLQ, the Black Liberation Movement or the Muslim community, Alexandre Popovic documents the role Canada's secret services have played in repressing marginalized communities and movements for social change. From bombings and harassment campaigns, to setting up fake urban guerrilla cells and leading invasions from the US, there seem to be no limits to what the operatives of the Canadian state will do to stoke fear and justify their own ever-growing budgets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeyond just documenting these nefarious and shocking misdeeds, \u003cem\u003eManufacturing Threats \u003c\/em\u003eshows the perennial failures of attempts to rein in or reform these agencies. Popovic argues that the entire concept of repressive apparatuses whose actions must be hidden from the public and even elected politicians—which has remained the untouchable assumption of these reform efforts—is itself the problem, and that these sorts of outrages will continue unless real transparency and accountability can be achieved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDifferent chapters detail the 19th-century origins of Canada's secret police in countering the Irish nationalist Fenians, many of whom were based in the United States, and the Métis Red River Rebellion led by Louis Riel. Popovic goes on to show the role of entrapment and provocation in countering the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and Communist Party in the 1920s and '30s, and then in attempting to entrap Black and Indigenous activists and in successfully infiltrating and manipulating the nationalist Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) in the 1960s and '70s. Examining the work of the provincial and federal governments' Keable and McDonald Commissions, which came about following disclosures of RCMP dirty tricks (arson, break-ins, kidnappings...), and which led to the establishment of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), Popovic then details three major examples of CSIS informants (Marc-André Boivin, Grant Bristow, and Joseph Gilles Breault) who were allowed to carry out acts of violence and intimidation in the service of their government paymasters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is an important introduction to the subject of Canada's repressive agencies and the legislation and lack of oversight that have structured their use of agents provocateurs and informants over the years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in French as \u003cem\u003eProduire le menace\u003c\/em\u003e (Sabotart, 2017), this first English-language edition includes updated information as of 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlexandre Popovic has been politically active in social struggles since the early 1990s. 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The Canada Day Bombers had their charges thrown out, and their imprisonment was referred to as a “travesty of justice” by Judge Elizabeth Bennett.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShining a light into the murky world of police infiltration, incitement, and agent provocateurs, Manufacturing The Threat shows how Canada’s policing and national security agencies, granted additional powers after 9\/11, routinely break laws with little to no accountability or oversight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow are our lives affected by these secretive and costly organizations, supposedly put in place to protect Canadians? What are the implications for our civil liberties and for democracy itself? Finally, in this era of COVID-19, climate crisis, and increasingly divisive politics, where are real threats to our security?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eManufacturing the Threat is the first feature-length film to look closely at covert operations in Canada. 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We watch hidden-camera footage of the Nuttalls as they talk with manipulative undercover agents, as they plan their terrorist attack in a hotel room paid for by the RCMP, and even as they plant explosives during the infamous Canada Day bombing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInitially convicted of intent to commit a terrorist attack, the Nuttalls were eventually cleared of all charges in a ruling that described Project Souvenir as a “travesty of justice.” The trial proceedings revealed that the undercover operation employed over 240 agents and cost Canadian taxpayers over $900,000 in overtime pay alone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The RCMP manufactured this crime,” said Judge Elizabeth Bennett in the aftermath of the ruling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA startling exposé and a stirring call to action, Manufacturing the Threat features interviews with national security experts, newly discovered archival material, and compelling first-hand testimony from Canadian citizens caught in the web of Canada’s covert operations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor more information see: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/wideopenexposure.com\/manufacturing-the-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttps:\/\/wideopenexposure.com\/manufacturing-the-threat\/\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41018949009501,"sku":"9781989701249","price":23.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/ManufacturingThreatsCover.jpg?v=1682444226"},{"product_id":"three-way-fight-revolutionary-politics-and-antifascism","title":"Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat’s the relationship between combating the far right and working for systemic change? 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The three way fight approach says we need sharper analysis of far-right movements so we can fight them more effectively, and we also need to track ongoing developments within the ruling class, including liberal or centrist efforts to co-opt antifascism as a tool of state repression and system legitimation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis book offers an introduction to three way fight politics, with more than thirty essays, position statements, and interviews from the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/threewayfight.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThree Way Fight website\u003c\/a\u003e and elsewhere, spanning from the antifascist struggles of the 1980s and 1990s to the political upheavals of the twenty-first century. Over fifteen authors explore a range of topics, such as fascist politics’ relationship with patriarchy and settler colonialism, Tom Metzger’s “Third Position” (anticapitalist) fascism, conflict within the business community over the 2016 presidential election, and the Trump administration’s shifting relationship with the organized far right. Many of the writings address issues of political strategy, such as tensions between radicals and liberals within the reproductive rights movement and the George Floyd rebellion, video gaming as an arena of political struggle, and the importance (and challenges) of approaching antifascist organizing in ways that are militant, community based, and nonsectarian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t393Vls89fc?si=U028UzXhA7jioTUV\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Three Way Fight\u003c\/em\u003e not only represents the most pressing and insightful analysis on the far right available, but it is also written from within the movements to fight back. 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Three Way Fight's hard-earned wisdom, grounded in real political struggle over many decades, consistently provides better analyses of the far right than any current academic debates about fascism.” Joe Lowndes, coauthor of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProducers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSince first becoming a part of the revolutionary and anarchist youth movements of the late 1980s, \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eXtn Alexander \u003c\/strong\u003ehas spent the better part of his time on earth participating in anticop, antiracist, anti-imperialist, and antifascist organizing and action. 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It shows why British troops are there and, more importantly, why it is in our interests to get them out.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is how Attack International—a small, anonymous collective of anticapitalist revolutionaries based in England—described their text “The Spirit of Freedom: The War in Ireland” in 1989. Now published as a book for the first time, it still provides a concise, readable, and unabashedly partisan introduction to the history of Ireland’s struggle against British colonialism, as well as analysis of the contours of the struggle and their approach to solidarity with it. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA powerful and provocative call to the radical left to dig into the Irish republican resistance, “The Spirit of Freedom” has continued to circulate for more than three decades, far beyond the immediate audience at which it was immediately aimed, and as the context dramatically shifted. To aid the present-day reader, this edition also includes a new Preface and Afterword by C. Crowle (as well as footnotes and supplements to Attack International’s chronology and book recommendations) to update the last thirty years of history of the conflict in the Six Counties of “Northern Ireland.” These new materials also reflect on the differences between support for Irish republicanism in the 1980s in the UK, versus in the present and (for many readers) in the settler colonies of North America. 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When they fail, alternatives to the alternatives simply pile up and seem to lead nowhere. In \u003cem\u003eStorming Bedlam: Madness, Utopia, and Revolt\u003c\/em\u003e, Sasha Warren suggests that the intense contradictions that animate psychiatric care can only be conceptualized by situating its technical composition in its actual social, political, and economic conditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eIn a radical rereading of the history, theory, and practice of psychiatry, \u003cem\u003eStorming Bedlam\u003c\/em\u003e emphasizes the utopian origins of the psychiatric revolution and its roots in the political and economic revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries. Warren traces a double movement in the global development of mental health services from its origins through the 20th century: a radical current pushing totalizing and idealistic visions of care to their practical limits and a reactionary one content with managing or eliminating chronically idle surplus populations. In an original and compelling account of radical experimentation in psychiatry, moral treatment is read in the light of the utopian socialist movement; the theory of communication in the French Institutional Psychotherapy of Félix Guattari is put into conversation with the Brazilian art therapy of Nise da Silveira; the Mexican anti-psychiatry movement’s reflections on violence are thought together with theories of violence developed in Argentinian psychoanalysis and Frantz Fanon’s anticolonial therapeutic practice; while the social form of the Italian Democratic Psychiatry and Brazilian anti-institutional movements are contrasted with the anti-psychiatry factions of the 1960s–70s North American counterculture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eChronicling and comparing these movements, \u003cem\u003eStorming Bedlam\u003c\/em\u003e argues that long standing divisions between social and biological approaches or between psychiatry and anti-psychiatry as discrete positions are tenuous and circular. Instead of avoiding these binaries, Warren travels through them, using their own internal logics to expose their hidden presuppositions in search of an approach to mental health care grounded in common struggles against conditions of scarcity, poverty, isolation, and exploitation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSasha Durakov Warren\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer based in Minneapolis. His experiences within the psychiatric system and commitment to radical politics led him to cofound the group Hearing Voices Twin Cities, which provides an alternative social space for individuals to discuss often stigmatized extreme experiences and network with one-another. 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Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for abolition and feminism and the fight against state violence and oppression. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbolition: Politics, Practices, Promises\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, the first of two important new volumes,\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebrings together an essential collection of Davis’s writing over the years, showing how her thinking has sharpened and evolved even as she has remained uncompromising in her commitment to collective liberation. In pieces that address the history of abolitionist practice and thought in the United States and globally, the unique contributions of women to abolitionist struggles, and stories and lessons of organizing inside and beyond the prison walls, Davis is always curious, always incisive, and always learning.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRich and rewarding, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbolition: Politics, Practices, Promises\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e will appeal to fans of Davis, to students and scholars reflecting on her life and work, and to readers new to feminism, abolition, and struggles for liberation.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"section-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“In a brilliantly observant, profoundly knowledgeable, and unfailingly original text, the author’s passion and eloquence render even the driest facts fascinating… even the staunchest Davis devotees are likely to discover new material and new ways to reimagine a more just world. A must-read essay collection for anyone invested in racial equity.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e (Starred Review)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“An activist. An author. A scholar. An abolitionist. A legend.” \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIbram X. Kendi\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Before the world knew what intersectionality was, the scholar, writer and activist was living it, arguing not just for Black liberation, but for the rights of women and queer and transgender people as well.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“As an iconic educator, scholar, and leader in the civil rights movement, Angela Davis is an obligatory add to your list of must-read black authors.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eO Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjE5NzEyIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/freedom-is-a-constant-struggle-ferguson-palestine-and-the-foundations-of-a-movement\" title=\"Freedom Is a Constant Struggle\"\u003eFreedom Is a Constant Struggle\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"This is vintage Angela: insightful, curious, observant, and brilliant, asking and answering questions about events in this new century that look surprisingly similar to the last century.\" Mumia Abu-Jamal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Angela Davis once again offers us an incisive, urgent, and comprehensive understanding of systematic racism, the grounds for intersectional analysis and solidarity, and the importance of working together as equals to unmask and depose systems of injustice…. Angela Davis gathers in her lucid words our luminous history and the most promising future of freedom.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJudith Butler\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"She has eyes in the back of our head. With her we can survive and resist.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM3NzY5In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/john-berger\" title=\"John Berger\"\u003eJohn Berger\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41881018794077,"sku":"9781642599640","price":27.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/abolitionangeladavis2024haymarket.jpg?v=1712784869"},{"product_id":"genealogies-of-antifascism-militancy-critique-and-the-three-way-fight","title":"Genealogies of Antifascism: Militancy, Critique, and the Three Way Fight","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLearning from the past to build a revolutionary antifascism for the present and future.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eGenealogies of Antifascism\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of essays written by D.Z. Shaw between January 2020 and the fall of 2023, focusing on the themes of fascism and antifascism in the context of shifting socio-political landscapes in North America. These essays are a response to both contemporary events and a growing body of literature on militant antifascism, reflecting on incidents such as the anti-police uprisings in 2020, the electoral defeat of Donald Trump, and subsequent political upheavals including the far-right putsch of January 6, 2021, as well as reviewing current perspectives in light of past experiences and theorizations, from Georgi Dimitrov, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Black Panther Party, to contemporary revolutionary thinkers such as J. Sakai, Butch Lee, and Don Hamerquist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAimed at a politically committed activist audience, Shaw provides a snapshot of an evolving philosophy of antifascism that grapples with the theoretical and practical challenges presented both by recent events and by the historical foundations of North America’s settler societies. In Part I, Shaw establishes the theoretical parameters necessary to understand and combat fascism, critiquing traditional Marxist frameworks and putting forth a detailed interpretation of the “three way fight” approach, one that situates the struggle against both capitalism and the far right in the North American context. In Part II, Shaw offers commentary on the work of other antifascist theorists, addressing specific topics including militant feminist antifascism, the problems with liberalism, and historical analyses of anti-Nazi resistance in Germany. The third and final part features a previously unpublished essay critically analyzing Judith Butler's stance on nonviolence and defending the practice of emancipatory community self-defense.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout, Genealogies defends militant antifascism against its liberal counterpart, arguing for a form of community self-defense that goes beyond “common sense” understandings of the term. Shaw advocates for an antifascism that is alert to the complexities of fighting fascism in a North American context, highlighting the intersections of class, race, gender, and settler colonialism. The book not only offers a critical perspective on the current state of antifascist movements but also seeks to push the theoretical boundaries of antifascism beyond its existing paradigms, suggesting new directions for understanding and combating the far right today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith a Preface by Michael Staudenmaier.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fLPc_LZvqL0?si=EjCSutTVHq_Ungf_\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Ever since \u003cem\u003ePhilosophy of Antifascism\u003c\/em\u003e, D.Z. Shaw has been investigating the phenomenon of fascism and the practice(s) of antifascist resistance. Although I read some of the 'snapshots' of this book over the past several years when they were first published as separate interventions, the collected assemblage constitutes a powerful intervention that challenges us to think both fascism and antifascism. The overall result is a synthesis and explication of the 'three way fight' conception of fascism\/anti-fascism that truly does provide a genealogy of thinking this terrain. From a critique of the orthodox Dimitrov line, to an interior critique of particular aspects of antifascist praxis, to conceptions of class struggle, to linkages of contemporary fascism with settler-colonialism and gender orthodoxy, to a focus on the limitations of 'liberal anti-fascist' conceptions and practices … This is an excellent primer on the meaning of fascism and what it means to resist fascism. Most importantly, it is grounded in the perspective of 'embattled communities' who 'resort to self-defence' in opposition to the legal intervention that 'intensifies their social vulnerability.' In a conjuncture where fascistic politics are devoted to generating genocidal death worlds, this book is a timely barometer.\" --J. Moufawad-Paul, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Communist Necessity\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDemarcation and Demystification: Philosophy and Its Limits\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Genealogies of Antifascism travels far beyond introductory and cursory engagements with the nature of fascism and anti­fascism to provide a new generation of militants with the theoretical framework necessary to wage a successful struggle against the resurgent far right. Shaw’s collection of essays covers a great deal of ground to critique orthodox Marxist interpretations of fascism, rebuke liberal antifascism, and defend the ‘three way fight’ conception of the antifascist struggle. Insightful and rigorously argued, this collection is absolutely essential reading.” --Mark Bray, author of \u003cem\u003eAntifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Most of the scholarship on antifascism focuses on history or movement dynamics with little discussion of the theories that drive these actions. This book fills that void in antifascist theory. The essays and reviews collected here provide a theoretical framework for antifascist activism. Shaw elaborates on the notion of a three way fight between antifascists, fascists, and the state that underpins antifa activism. In doing so, he provides a theoretical depth to understanding the relationships between these movements. This is a must read for anyone who wants to understand the ‘why’ of militant antifascism.” --Stanislav Vysotsky author of \u003cem\u003eAmerican Antifa: The Tactics, Culture, and Practice of Militant Antifascism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eD.Z. Shaw teaches at a community college in so-called British Columbia. He is the author of \u003cem\u003ePhilosophy of Antifascism: Punching Nazis and Fighting White Supremacy\u003c\/em\u003e (2020), The \u003cem\u003ePolitics of the Blockade\u003c\/em\u003e (Kersplebedeb, 2020), \u003cem\u003eEgalitarian Moments: From Descartes to Rancière\u003c\/em\u003e (2016), and numerous essays on philosophy and political thought. He is one co-author in the multi-author collaboration published under the pseudonym M.I. Asma, \u003cem\u003eOn Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal\u003c\/em\u003e (Kersplebedeb, 2021). He is also a co-editor of the book series Living Existentialism, published by Rowman and Littlefield.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41971959398493,"sku":"9781989701362","price":25.13,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/genealogies-final.png?v=1713370681"},{"product_id":"the-black-antifascist-tradition","title":"The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back From Anti-Lynching to Abolition","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"facts-addl-detail\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora, revealing that Black antifascism has always been vital to global freedom struggles.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt once a history for understanding fascism and a handbook for organizing against, \u003cem\u003eThe Black Antifascist Tradition\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential book for understanding our present moment and the challenges ahead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom London to the Caribbean, from Ethiopia to Harlem, from Black Lives Matter to abolition, Black radicals and writers have long understood fascism as a threat to the survival of Black people around the world—and to everyone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Black Antifascist Tradition\u003c\/em\u003e, scholar-activists Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill Mullen show how generations of Black activists and intellectuals—from Ida B. Wells in the fight against lynching, to Angela Y. Davis in the fight against the prison-industrial complex—have stood within a tradition of Black Antifascism. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Davis once observed, pointing to the importance of anti-Black racism in the development of facism as an ideology, Black people have been “the first and most deeply injured victims of fascism.” Indeed, the experience of living under and resisting racial capitalism has often made Black radicals aware of the potential for fascism to take hold long before others understood this danger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book explores the powerful ideas and activism of Paul Robeson, Mary McLeod Bethune, Claudia Jones, W. E. B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, Aime Cesaire, and Walter Rodney, as well as that of the Civil Rights Congress, the Black Liberation Army, and the We Charge Genocide movement, among others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn shining a light on fascism and anti-Blackness, Hope and Mullen argue, the writers and organizers featured in this book have also developed urgent tools and strategies for overcoming it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"other_contributors\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"press_clippings\"\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\"This introduction to the Black anti-fascist tradition is a necessary intervention for our increasingly dangerous and authoritarian times. Drawing on Ida B. Wells, Mary McLeod Bethune, Angela Davis, and more, Hope and Mullen offer an accessible history and strategies for forward movement.\" \u003ci\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Black Antifascist Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e gives us the materials we need to face an uncertain future. The book gives us the possibility of hope based on histories and trajectories it maps and recovers. This remarkable book documents how those who began the struggle against anti-Black racism were always already 'pre-mature antifascists.'\" David Palumbo-Liu, author of \u003ci\u003eSpeaking Out of Place\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"As we confront, arguably, the greatest assault on our already severely limited form of liberal democracy, \u003ci\u003eThe Black Antifascist Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for not only diagnosing the problems that we face, but rather for providing us with historical tools to fight ascendant fascism and right wing authoritarianism in the United States. Drawing inspiration from Octavia Butler to anti-lynching campaigns and the 'We Charge Genocide' movement, Hope and Mullen offer a powerful lens onto the Black Radical Tradition that moves the discussion of fascism from a narrow focus on interwar Europe to the transnational questions of racial apartheid, settler colonialism and anti-Black racism. Beautifully written and cogently argued, this book is a must read for this moment. I can’t wait to assign it in my undergraduate and graduate classes.\" Donna Murch, author, \u003ci\u003eAssata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\"The Black Antifascist Tradition is a primer on the history and legacy of over a century of Black antifascist activism. This timely collection introduces readers to the political organizing, theoretical interventions and world-making of some of the leading change makers and theorists of our times. This book is the missing link between present and past that is so urgently needed as a new generation confronts a new manifestation of old problem. A must read and infusion of hope.\" Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine, Associate professor of African American Studies and History at Wayne State University and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Revolution has Come: Black power, Gender and the Black Panther Party in Oakland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Roman slave empire ruled by punishment and death, flogging, and beheading. The bundle of rods with a protruding axe blade—the fasces—were both means of execution and emblem of sovereign power. Ever since, incarceration and systematic premature death have remained the foundation of fascism. \u003ci\u003eThe Black Antifascist Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e is an absolutely needed chronicle showing how Black people lead antifascism. It begins with Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s Red Record against lynching in the early twentieth century and concludes with the new abolitionism against the carceral and death-dealing state in the twenty-first century. In between are the essential campaigns by the thinkers an actors of Pan-Africanism (1930s), Double Victory (1940s), We Charge Genocide (1950s), Black Power (1960s), and the anarchist antagonistic autonomy of our times, which have fought for life and for our commons.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMjAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/peter-linebaugh\" title=\"Peter Linebaugh\"\u003ePeter Linebaugh\u003c\/a\u003e, author, \u003cem\u003eThe Magna Carta Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Black Antifascist Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e offers an indispensable framing that places Black experience at the center to show how anti-Blackness is inseparable from the development of US fascism, past and present. Through a crisp synthesis of essential writings by Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. Du Bois, Aimé Césaire, William Patterson, Huey P. Newton, Angela Y. Davis, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/ruth-wilson-gilmore\" title=\"Ruth Wilson Gilmore\"\u003eRuth Wilson Gilmore\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjgifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/mariame-kaba\" title=\"Mariame Kaba\"\u003eMariame Kaba\u003c\/a\u003e, Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill V. Mullen make a compelling argument for reconceptualizing a race-based history of Black life through the lens of racialized fascism. An important read for anyone interested in understanding how we arrived at today’s US style of authoritarianism and state repression.\" Diane Fujino, author, \u003ci\u003eHeartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\"From the sophisticated understanding of law as an agent of fascism articulated in the anti-lynching activism of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, to the abolitionist theorization of fascism as both a theory of anti-Blackness and a structure of oppression by scholar-activists such as Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Angela Davis; and with explorations of anti-colonialism, antiwar movements, and Black Power along the way, \u003ci\u003eThe Black Antifascist Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e offers a careful history of Black thought and art by way of a celebration of the exquisite threads of antifascism woven inextricably into the Black Radical Tradition. Hope and Mullen detail the ways the Black Radical Tradition has not simply always been antifascist but that it has been powerfully, effectively, originally responsible for formulating antifascist analysis and strategy.\" \u003cspan class=\"im\"\u003eMicol Seigel, author, \u003ci\u003eViolence Work: State Power and the Limits of Police\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Black Antifascist Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e is a handbook a century in the making. It is a historical synthesis of how the forerunners of anti-colonial struggle, Pan-Africanism, and Black revolutionary theory and practice identified and confronted fascist emergence and organization from a local to an international scale and across the formative epochs. Richly detailed and thoroughly researched, this highly accessible and readable text is also wide-angled and multi-layered in scope--adeptly interconnecting people, places, events, and actions with their resultant insights, observations, and practical formulations. This book is the complete exposition of Black antifascist thought, and a necessary guide for the antifascist struggles of today.\" Justin Akers Chacón, author, \u003ci\u003eRadicals in the Barrio\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\"Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill V. Mullen have written the definitive history for one of the most important, and least discussed, pieces of the antifascist movement. Weaving together historical analysis, trenchant critique, and future visioning, this is one of the most important books on antifascism ever written.\" Shane Burley, author, \u003ci\u003eWhy We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Black Anti-Fascist Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e is a dazzling work of reclamation and admonition that simultaneously reaches into the folds of past and future to make an urgent, formidable case that fascism, capitalism, and anti-Black violence are profoundly interconnected. Hope and Mullen give voice to activists and intellectuals of two centuries with compelling clarity. They have produced a volume providing an astute and knowledgeable guide to a complex legacy with which every partisan of 'freedom dreams' needs to critically engage.\" Alan Wald, author,\u003ci\u003eTrinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Anti-Fascist Crusade\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\"Through the dialectic of 'Anti-black Fascism' and the 'Black Antifascist Tradition,' Jeanelle Hope and Bill V. Mullen expertly convey how African descendant antifascists in the United States and beyond developed a unique interpretation of the fascist threat through their experience of, and fightback against, Jim Crow, Euro-American (settler) colonialism and imperialism, and policies and practices of white supremacy. A stunning work of historical recovery, political analysis, and critical interpretation, The Black Antifascist Tradition reads guerrilla intellectuals like Ida B. Wells and Ruth Wilson Gilmore into the tradition of Black Antifascism, highlights prominent Black Antifascists like Aimé Césaire and George Jackson, and recovers lesser-known critics of Anti-Black Fascism like Thyra Edwards and Lorenzo Kom’boa Irvin. In doing so, it not only makes an invaluable contribution to scholarship on the Black radical tradition (or the Tradition of Radical Blackness), but also paves the way for deeper and more serious study of antifascisms emanating from Black realities. In our current moment of naked acts of genocide, intensified racialized police and military violence, and the bold resurgence of rightwing authoritarianism, Hope and Mullen, and the freedom fighters they examine, remind us of the long and rich praxis of resistance on which we can—and must—build. Everything is at stake.\" Charisse Burden-Stelly, author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Scare\/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States\u003c\/i\u003e and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eOrganize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIn The Black Antifascist Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e, Hope and Mullen unearth a distinct and underacknowledged lineage of Black antifascist organizing, from Ida B. Wells-Barnett and the anti-lynching movement to Black Lives Matter and the struggle for police abolition. Drawing on the contributions of past and present thinkers and activists, this book offers an essential overview of the ways that Black radicals have understood the relationship between fascism and white supremacy and organized to confront both. The book introduces readers to a history of Black internationalist and antifascist organizing, including lesser-known campaigns by Black soldiers during the Spanish Civil War and the Black Panther Party’s United Front Against Fascism. In so doing, the authors raise provocative arguments about the existential violence Black people experience even under 'normal' conditions of capitalist exploitation, underscoring the role of anti-Black racism in anticipating the rise of fascism long before its formal ascent to power. Importantly, Hope and Mullen show how resisting the conditions that threaten Black life in particular has produced strategies that are equally relevant to struggles against violent, anti-democratic movements everywhere. By broadening our horizons around what counts as antifascist organizing, The Black Antifascist Tradition insists on the inseparability of antifascism from the struggle for Black liberation.\" Haley Pessin, coeditor, \u003ci\u003eVoices of a People's History of the United States in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42007845044317,"sku":"9798888900949","price":34.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9798888900949-f_large-afc757edde2a3bca080cfc7aaa638b49.jpg?v=1713552814"},{"product_id":"twilight-prisoners","title":"Twilight Prisoners: The Rise of the Hindu Right and the Fall of India","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"facts-addl-detail\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn incisive, lyrical, and deeply reported account of India’s descent into authoritarianism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTraveling across India, interviewing Hindu zealots, armed insurgents, jailed dissidents, and politicians and thinkers from across the political spectrum, Siddhartha Deb reveals a country in which forces old and new have aligned to endanger democracy. The result is an absorbing—and disturbing—portrait. India has become a religious fundamentalist dystopia, one depicted here with a novelist’s precise language and eye for detail.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePrime Minister Narendra Modi and his party—a formation explicitly drawing on European fascism—has deftly exploited modern technologies, the media, and market forces to launch a relentless campaign on minorities, women, dissenters, and the poor. Deb profiles these people, as well as those fighting back, including writers, scholars, and journalists. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTwilight Prisoners\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e sounds the alarm now that the world’s largest democracy is under threat in ways that echo the fissures in the United States, United Kingdom, and so-called democracies the world over.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"other_contributors\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5 id=\"press_clippings\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\"Siddhartha Deb has been one of the clearest, most articulate, and consistent voices documenting the rise of Hindu nationalism and its organic links to neoliberalism in India.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEzNjg3In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/arundhati-roy\" title=\"Arundhati Roy\"\u003eArundhati Roy\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e“Siddhartha Deb is one of our greatest writers; in both fiction and journalism, he relentlessly challenges genres and received ideas. As a book about India, and simply as a book about contemporary global politics, Twilight Prisoners is in a class of its own, going deeper than anyone else dares into the history of India’s crimes against its people. In its portraits of titanic contemporary figures of resistance, it also provides something vanishingly rare: a margin of hope. A great and necessary book.” Nikil Saval, author of A Rage in Harlem: June Jordan and Architecture\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\"It has always been hard to capture what is happening in a country as continentally large as India. But Siddhartha Deb has the largeness of mind and spirit to see the great processes afflicting India and to show us the humanity and dreams of people who refuse to surrender.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMDIifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/vijay-prashad\" title=\"Vijay Prashad\"\u003eVijay Prashad\u003c\/a\u003e, author, with Noam Chomsky, of \u003ci\u003eOn Cuba\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Through a meticulous examination of historical events, personal narratives, and critical analysis, Deb unveils a stark portrayal of the impact of Hindu nationalism under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. As Deb navigates through the complexities of modern India, he sheds light on the challenges faced by marginalized communities, the erosion of secular values, and the unsettling rise of authoritarianism in a country once celebrated for its diversity and pluralism.\" \u003ci\u003eSpring Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Siddhartha Deb\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the most distinctive writers to have emerged from South Asia in the last two decades.” Pankaj Mishra\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42007845109853,"sku":"9798888900888","price":30.73,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9798888900888-f_large-afdab62ffa6a2724318b40408b13b4d1.jpg?v=1713552820"},{"product_id":"how-to-abolish-prisons","title":"How to Abolish Prisons","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn incisive guide to abolitionist strategy, and a love letter to the movement that made this moment possible. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCritics of abolition sometimes castigate the movement for its utopianism, but in How to Abolish Prisons, long-time organizers Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché reveal a movement that has made the struggle for abolition as real as the institutions they are fighting against.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on extensive interviews with abolitionist crews all over North America, Herzing and Piché provide a collective reconstruction of what the grassroots movement to abolish prisons actually is, what initiatives it has launched, how it organizes itself, and how its protagonists build the day-to-day practice of politics. Readers sit in on the Winnipeg rideshares of Bar None and the meetings of the Chicago Community Bail Fund as they assess the utility of politicized mutual aid. They follow the campaigns and coalitions of Critical Resistance in Oakland and San Francisco and Survived and Punished in New York City, and learn about the prisoner correspondence projects that keep activists behind bars and outside them in constant coordination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbolitionist campaigns are constructing on-the-ground initiatives across North America to deconstruct carceral society and build resistant communities.Through the words, deeds, and personalities of this beautifully peopled movement, How to Abolish Prisons emerges as a stunning snapshot of a movement's thinking in motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“At their most effective, movements for radical change help to produce new ways of understanding the world, new epistemologies. Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché have provided an invaluable service by illuminating the part played by prison abolition activists in generating theories and practices that have the power to change our present-day realities and the potential to create lasting, radical transformations for the future.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAngela Y. Davis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Abolish Prisons \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis hope in action. It is right on time.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjgifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/mariame-kaba\" title=\"Mariame Kaba\"\u003eMariame Kaba\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjE4Nzg5In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/we-do-this-til-we-free-us-abolitionist-organizing-and-transforming-justice\" title=\"We Do This ‘Til We Free Us\"\u003eWe Do This ‘Til We Free Us\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow to Abolish Prisons\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eshows us that abolition is possible, because the work is already happening. This illuminating, grounded documentation of real efforts to dismantle carceral systems makes liberatory visions tangible. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Abolish Prisons\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an antidote to hopelessness. You will emerge from this book saying, ‘We can do this!’” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMaya Schenwar, co-author of\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePrison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Abolish Prisons\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a needed text by and for movement organizers. This book skillfully embodies the abolitionist spirit of imagination, practice making different, and generating wisdom through collective victories and challenges. By focusing on both why and how prison abolitionists fight, this book offers a treasury of gems on abolition as a practical politics of refusal, revolution, and relationality.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/harsha-walia\" title=\"Harsha Walia\"\u003eHarsha Walia\u003c\/a\u003e, author of\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBorder and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow to Abolish Prisons\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a vital, necessary text on prison abolition. The authors are both scholars and practitioners in the struggle to abolish prisons, and the lessons they share are grounded in knowledge gleaned from decades of movement work. Herzing and Piché’s words highlight the urgency of the task at hand, while advancing crucial lessons for anyone wishing to build more liberatory futures.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eRobyn Maynard, co-author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEyNDgyIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/rehearsals-for-living\" title=\"Rehearsals for Living\"\u003eRehearsals for Living\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand author of\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePolicing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Based on their collective decades of organizing against the prison industrial complex plus scores of interviews with organizers in the US and Canada, Herzing and Piché have written a love letter to abolitionists. But in their hands, abolition is neither perfect nor idealized. Herzing and Piché remind us that abolition is practical and beautifully imperfect because it is a collective creation, and it is now in our grasp because it is already in our history.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNaomi Murakawa, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The global carceral regime is a genocidal, antiblack, colonial beast that will only be abolished through a proliferation of the creative forms of collaboration and revolt examined in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Abolish Prisons\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché offer a gift to anyone who is serious about stoking, deepening, and critically informing their abolitionist commitments and curiosities. I am profoundly grateful for the incitement and seriousness of this book.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDylan Rodríguez, author of the Frantz Fanon Award-winning \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWhite Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A vital book on the twenty-first century prison abolition movement that delves deep into the art and practice of grassroots organizing. Herzing and Piché brilliantly distill the painstaking efforts of organizers on the frontlines of abolitionist struggles throughout the United States and Canada. Energizing, clarifying, and highly readable, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Abolish Prisons\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an essential resource both for those new to and those already active in movements for transformative change.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eEmily Thuma, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAll Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Amid the resurgence of the racist and fascist far right, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Abolish Prisons\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e provides a visionary analysis of abolitionist struggles across Canada and the United States. Drawing on original interviews with organizers, Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché demonstrate how abolitionist organizations put theory into practice. In doing so, they show how movement organizers and theorists articulate distinct pathways to abolition and ‘build a new world within the grips of the old.’ An urgent intervention in this tumultuous conjuncture.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJordan T. Camp, author of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Abolish Prisons\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is filled with discerning analyses and reflections from leading organizers and intellectuals of the prison abolition movement in Canada and the United States. Offering crucial examples of strategy and tactics, unpacking thorny issues of reformism, capacity, and tension, and asking instructive questions about solidarity, scale, victory, and defeat, Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché provide urgent insights into the rigorous praxis, principled political education, and radical vision that constitute the unfinished struggle for abolition.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJudah Schept, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eCoal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eRachel Herzing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an organizer, activist, and advocate fighting the violence of surveillance, policing and imprisonment for over two decades. Herzing was executive director of Center for Political Education, a resource for political organizations on the left and progressive social movements; co-director of Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to abolishing the prison industrial complex; and director of research and training at Creative Interventions a community resource that developed interventions to interpersonal harm that do not rely on policing, imprisonment, or traditional social services. She lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJustin Piché\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology and Director of the Carceral Studies Research Collective at the University of Ottawa, and co-editor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons. He is a recipient of the Aurora Prize from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, which “recognizes an outstanding new scholar who is building a reputation for exciting and original research in the social sciences and humanities.” He lives in Ottawa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMariame Kaba (Foreword)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an organizer, educator, librarian, and prison industrial complex abolitionist who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. She is the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWe Do This 'Til We Free Us\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and the co-author, with Andrea Richie, of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNo More Police \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand, with Kelly Hayes, of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLet This Radicalize You.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42007845208157,"sku":"9798888900833","price":26.53,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9798888900833-f_large-624e75dd7bcc1fcaa34a2dcae089a065.jpg?v=1713552826"},{"product_id":"they-call-it-love","title":"They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe work of love is a feminist problem, and it demands feminist solutions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComforting a family member or friend, soothing children, providing company for the elderly, ensuring that people feel well enough to work; this is all essential labour. Without it, capitalism would cease to function.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThey Call It Love\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e investigates the work that makes a haven in a heartless world, examining who performs this labor, how it is organised, and how it might change. In this groundbreaking book, Alva Gotby calls this work “emotional reproduction,” unveiling its inherently political nature. It not only ensures people’s well-being but creates sentimental attachments to social hierarchy and the status quo. Drawing on the thought of the feminist movement Wages for Housework, Gotby demonstrates that emotion is a key element of capitalist reproduction. To improve the way we relate to one another will require a radical restructuring of society.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\"Intellectually nourished my thinking and language on gender.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Raymond Antrobus, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBest Books of 2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGranta\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating and exhaustive explanation as to why emotions are a political issue.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Brit Dawson, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAnOther Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThey Call It Love\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e shines a light on the invisible labour involved in love, examining who is responsible for performing it, how it can blossom, and why we do it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Adele Walton, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDazed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gotby makes clear our emotional lives are inherently political. Her analysis of the politics of reproductive labour is a cogent criticism of the bourgeois capitalist logics of feeling, of the free labour of intimacy and of normative femininity.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Adele Cassigneul, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMai\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gotby's narrative masterfully outlines how emotions, feelings and their manifestations tend to be portrayed, and understood, as a feminine domain of expertise ... Gotby brilliantly dismantles the silences and abuses surrounding this invisible work by naming it and showing its societal (and capital) worth\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Patrycja Sosnowska-Buxton, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSociological Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThey Call It Love\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a very fine book – one that balances polemical force with careful and rigorous research. In advancing its account of emotional reproduction, it brings together existing bodies of work on unwaged social reproduction and remunerated emotional labour to great effect, shining a light upon a too often overlooked (and heavily gendered) form of work. It is sharp, thoughtful, and well-written, and represents a substantial scholarly achievement. Alva Gotby is a writer and thinker to watch out for.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Helen Hester, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eXenofeminism, co-author of After Work\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This thorough book sheds new light on the critics of the political economy on emotional life. It is a welcome addition to the studies on the social meaning of the immaterial production that takes place in the domestic sphere.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e The Call It Love\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a fascinating insider's account of the hidden, economic dimension of our emotional lives whose subject matter will make for passionate arguments and conversations among feminists and scholars in general.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Leopoldina Fortunati, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Arcane of Reproduction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gotby's book importantly attempts to underscore and theorise the role of emotions within social reproduction theory. Her concept of 'emotional reproduction' is a reminder that fife-making work is not devoid of affect.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Sara Farris, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eIn the Name of Women's Rights\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThey Call It Love\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a call to attention: Alva Gotby astutely maps the work of emotional support and care that is done day in and day out and across everyday life. Gotby not only insists that more value be attributed to emotional reproduction, but makes a sophisticated and compelling case for a radical repurposing of emotions, needs, and desires in the struggle for change - a struggle that is necessarily also a struggle for new ways of being together.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Emma Dowling, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Care Crisis\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAlva Gotby\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e holds a PhD in Media Studies from the University of West London and an MA in Philosophy and Contemporary Critical Theory from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University. Her writing has been published in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMaI: Feminism and Visual Culture, Blindfield: A Journal of Cultural Inquiry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFeminist Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, as well as in outlets in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. She frequently speaks at conferences related to Marxism, feminism and queer politics.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42177172865117,"sku":"9781839767043","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781839767043.jpg?v=1715780115"},{"product_id":"the-jail-is-everywhere","title":"The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration","description":"\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA VITAL COLLECTION FROM A KEY BATTLEGROUND IN THE ABOLITION STRUGGLE: THE COUNTY JAIL\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNearly every county and major city in the United States has a jail, the short-term detention center controlled by local sheriffs that funnels people into prisons and long-term incarceration. While the growing movement against incarceration and policing has called to reform or abolish prisons, jails have often gone unnoticed, or in some cases seen as a \"better\" alternative to prisons.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet jails, in recent decades, have been the fastest-growing sector of the US carceral state. Jails are widely used for immigrant detention by ICE and the U.S. Marshals and as a place to offload people that prisons can't hold. As jails grow, they transform the region around them, and whole towns and small cities see health care, mental health care, substance abuse, and employment opportunities taken over by carceral concerns.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf jails are everywhere, resistance to jails is too. The recent jail boom has sparked a wealth of local activist struggles to resist and close jails all across the United States, from rural counties to major cities. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Jail Is Everywhere\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e brings these disparate voices together, with contributions from activists, scholars, and expert journalists describing the effects of this quiet jail boom, mapping the growth of the carceral state, and sharing strategies from recent fights against jail construction to strengthen struggles against jailing everywhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a foreword by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/ruth-wilson-gilmore\" title=\"Ruth Wilson Gilmore\"\u003eRuth Wilson Gilmore\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5 aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\"The impact of the editors' scholarship, and the relationships they built while carrying it out, are palpable throughout \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Jail Is Everywhere\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, lending the book a groundedness and sense of communal purpose that is all too rare in academic studies of mass incarceration.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJarrod Shanahan, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A collection of writing spotlighting the 'monster' that is the American prison system...Social justice activists and those with an interest in criminal justice issues will especially appreciate these well-researched, thoughtful essays that reveal just how much power government policies have given to the American carceral system.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eKirkus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Jail is Everywhere\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e] paints a vivid picture of a grassroots, nationwide decarceral movement. Activists involved on the ground will find this valuable, while others will receive a substantial education in the politics and economics of incarceration.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With its bevy of perspectives and individual case studies, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Jail Is Everywhere\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a revealing overview of the growing problem of jail expansion in the US, with a survey of approaches to addressing it.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Jail Is Everywhere\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a vibrant collection that equips the reader, and anyone interested in organizing against the many forms of carceral expansion, with a swathe of helpful strategies and tactics ... a crucial anthology, skillfully assembled.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eCarceral Geography Working Group\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A remarkably refreshing read, rooted in the messy but everyday realities of abolitionist organizing. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Jail Is Everywhere\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e demonstrates that knowledge about the function of the carceral state and its multi-tentacled reach into U.S. politics, economy, and culture can only truly be unearthed through active struggle.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCharlotte Rosen,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eInquest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is not only an important book for people who want to understand the operation of the current carceral state. It's a critical read for folks who might be fighting prison expansion or construction in their neighborhoods.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBill Littlefield,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eArts Fuse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJack Norton \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Governors State University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLydia Pelot-Hobbs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an Assistant Professor of Geography and African American \u0026amp; Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky, and author of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e Carceral Crisis: Punitive State Power, Racial Capitalism, and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJudah Schept \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. He is the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCoal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e Progressive Punishment: Job Loss, Jail Growth, and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral Expansion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42177173028957,"sku":"9781804291313","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781804291313.jpg?v=1715780121"},{"product_id":"towers-of-ivory-and-steel","title":"Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom","description":"\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eHow Israeli universities collaborate in Israeli state violence against Palestinians\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIsraeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sources accessible to the international community, Maya Wind shatters this myth and documents how Israeli universities are directly complicit in the violation of Palestinian rights.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs this book shows, Israeli universities serve as pillars of Israel's system of oppression against Palestinians. Academic disciplines, degree programs, campus infrastructure, and research laboratories all service Israeli occupation and apartheid, while universities violate the rights of Palestinians to education, stifle critical scholarship, and violently repress student dissent. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTowers of Ivory and Steel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a powerful expose of Israeli academia’s ongoing and active complicity in Israel’s settler-colonial project.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5 aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\"This book lands like a grenade, detonating comfortable and long held myths about the liberalism and independence of Israel’s university system. In their place, Wind’s rigorous and jaw-dropping research reveals countless ways that the nation’s most celebrated and storied education institutions are utterly entangled in the violent machinery of Palestinian dispossession, occupation, incarceration, surveillance, siege and military bombardment. From the development of deadly weapons to the crafting of state propaganda to the training of officers, there is no escaping the conclusion that these universities are part and parcel of the official infrastructure that has enabled Israel to systematically avoid the political solutions that are the only hope of enduring peace in the region. An explosive contribution from a brilliant young scholar.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTEifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/naomi-klein\" title=\"Naomi Klein\"\u003eNaomi Klein\u003c\/a\u003e, author of\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Shock Doctrine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDoppelganger\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There are no ivory towers! Maya Wind brings this truth to the light with a forensic accounting of Israeli universities and their complete implication in Israel’s occupation and apartheid regime. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTowers of Ivory and Steel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e lays bare Israeli campuses as Jewish settlements of replacement in occupied lands, the knowledge arm for security forces and the local military industry, and as sites of Palestinian intellectual suppression, all co-signed by the “liberal silence” of Israeli academics. Fearless, emphatic, and unflinching. No other work better demonstrates why higher education remains a vital site of struggle over the future of democracy, in Israel, in Palestine, and across the world.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Davarian L. Baldwin, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eIn the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is a must read — meticulously researched, lucidly written, and convincingly argued. Wind deftly illuminates the myriad ways in which the university is a site of meaningful struggle, debunking the deep-seated myths that heretofore have served to normalize Israel’s academic complex as it is part and parcel of the state’s settler colonial projects of both occupation and apartheid that violently dominate and dispossess the Palestinian people. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTowers of Ivory and Steel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e provides a roadmap for Israeli academics to end the institutional complicity and join the movement to remake higher education for liberation.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—J. Kehaulani Kauanui, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eParadoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A devastating analysis of the extensive, insidious ways that the Israeli academy is central to the architecture of occupation, settler colonial violence, and repression of Palestinians. Through meticulous ethnographic and archival research, Wind not only gives lie to the claim that the Israeli academy is a bastion of academic freedom and vigorous debate. She provides a model for the decolonial work we must all do until there is freedom and liberation for all.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Jessica Winegar, co-author with Lara Deeb of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAnthropology's Politics: Disciplining the Middle East\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Drawing on Hebrew sources, Maya Wind shatters the myth of liberal expression in Israeli universities, revealing instead how they prop up apartheid.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Rebecca Ruth Gould, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew Arab\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTowers of Ivory and Steel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a paradigm-shifting book, with incredible insider reporting that provides riveting detail of how Israeli universities serve primarily as centers of military research, propaganda, and command. A must read.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Sarah Schulman, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBookforum\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wind's new book meticulously demonstrates how Israeli academic institutions were created to serve the Zionist colonization of Palestine...a critical tool for anyone affiliated with academic life.\"\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Marcy Newman, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMondoweiss\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One set of universities serves a colonized, brutalized people, and the other, the colonizer, as Maya Wind has documented at length in her indispensable book, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTowers of Ivory and Steel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Esmat Elhalaby, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Baffler\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Maya Wind is the best example of scholar-activist, speaking about her work, making it accessible and useful. Reading and putting into practice the critique made by this book is part of a process of active resistance inside and against Israeli academia, a process that is of a piece with the best most open aspects of scholarly work.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Ian Parker, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAnti-Capitalist Resistance\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMaya Wind\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a scholar of Israeli expertise and militarism. 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Kharmi was born in Jerusalem but her family were forced out in 1948, following the Nakba, when Palestinians were dispossessed of their lands at the hands of the Israeli state. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this moving account of exile, she charts her family's displacement to Jordan, and finally to Golders Green, London, where she initially refused to lay down roots in alien soil. Through this journey, Kharmi charts the personal account of a young woman's search for identity: as a Palestinian far away from home. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpeaking for the millions of displaced people worldwide who have lived suspended between their old and new countries, fitting into neither, this is a nuanced exploration of psychological displacement and loss of identity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42177185448029,"sku":"9781804297094","price":33.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781804297094.jpg?v=1715780266"},{"product_id":"burnout","title":"Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat","description":"\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow to maintain hope in the face of despair\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the struggle for a better world, setbacks are inevitable. Defeat can feel overwhelming at times, but it has to be endured. How then do the people on the front line keep going? To answer that question and to help readers roll with the punches, Hannah Proctor draws on historical resources to find out how revolutionaries and activists of the past kept a grip on hope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBurnout\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e considers former Communards exiled to a penal colony in the South Pacific; a young Bolshevik fleeing the city in despair; an ex-militant on the analyst’s couch relating dreams of ruined landscapes; a trade union organiser seeking advice from a spiritual healer; and a group of feminists padding a room with mattresses to scream about the patriarchy. Jettisoning therapy talk and its stranglehold on our language, Proctor offers a different way forward - neither denial nor despair. Her cogent exploration of the ways militants make sense of their own burnout demonstrates that it is possible to mourn and organise at once, and to do both without compromise.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5 aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\"Hannah Proctor is one of the best writers on the left today, and this is an extraordinary and extremely timely book – a kaleidoscopic work of revolutionary history on what happens when our day doesn’t come and we have to cope with the consequences. Refusing both the easy temptations of left melancholia and forced ‘just another push, comrades!’ optimism, this is a book full of unromantic communist longing, deadpan humour and hard-won wisdom.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOwen Hatherley, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Ministry of Nostalgia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Not since Freud first described war neurosis have we been treated to such an astonishing taxonomy of the human mind. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBurnout\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Hannah Proctor takes that feeling we all have, and names it again and again, helping us to resee the past and present of revolutionary struggle. A must-read.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eHannah Zeavin, Founding Editor,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eParapraxis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Achieves commendable synthesis between its argument and sources ... The more people are writing books like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBurnout\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the better we might overcome our pains, and remain in the struggle.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJuliet Jacques, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eArtReview\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brilliant ... an invigorating reader experience. Activists will find strange comfort in knowing that burnout is a collective affliction that has loomed large over our social movements for centuries ... While its effects can be profoundly personal, it can unite us too.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJaney Starling, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eUnison Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Proctor deftly dismantles contemporary 'self-care' edicts that aim to 'streamline' our participation in capitalism.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDecca Muldowney, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew Internationalist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eHannah Proctor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, interested in histories and theories of radical psychiatry. She is a member of the editorial collective behind Radical Philosophy, and has been published in \u003cem\u003eJacobin, Tribune, The New Inquiry\u003c\/em\u003e and elsewhere.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42177186529373,"sku":"9781839766053","price":33.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781839766053.jpg?v=1715780280"},{"product_id":"constellations-of-care-anarcha-feminism-in-practice","title":"Constellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe world we dream of is already here\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat do we do when the state has abandoned us? From failing health systems to housing crises to cascading ecological collapse, it's increasingly evident that state-centred politics do not protect us from the violence of colonialism and capitalism, fascism and patriarchy. In fact, they actively work to harm us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnarchist feminism—or anarcha-feminism—shows us that the ways we tend to our social relations can build a new world inside the old one. We can take care of each other when nothing else will, supplying communal well-being and liberatory horizons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom communitarian kitchens to medic collectives, squatted social centres to queer theater troupes, Ljubljana to Mexico City, \u003cem\u003eConstellations of Care\u003c\/em\u003e powerfully underscores that we already have everything we need and desire in one another to carve out lives worth living.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/cindy-milstein\" title=\"Cindy Barukh Milstein\"\u003eCindy Barukh Milstein\u003c\/a\u003e is a diasporic queer Jewish anarchist and longtime organizer. They've been writing on anarchism for over two decades, and are the author of \u003cem\u003eAnarchism and Its Aspirations\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTry Anarchism for Life: The Beauty of Our Circle\u003c\/em\u003e. They edited the anthologies \u003cem\u003eRebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDeciding for Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/cindy-milstein\" title=\"Cindy Barukh Milstein\"\u003eCindy Barukh Milstein\u003c\/a\u003e's anthology is care and mutual learning in action. The stories gathered here embrace complexity and challenge, but also hope for new ways forward. This work is nothing less than a transformation.\" Kes Otter Lieffe, author of the \u003cem\u003eMargins\u003c\/em\u003e trilogy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Constellations of Care\u003c\/em\u003e brings together all kinds of veterans of liberatory experiments in comradeship and kin-making, providing valuable insight into obstacles and defeats as well as tales of abundant love saplings, spores, and cuttings for everyone to propagate and grow.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/sophie-lewis\" title=\"Sophie Lewis\"\u003eSophie Lewis\u003c\/a\u003e, author of 'Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Milstein has beautifully woven together an anthology that helps orient us toward care and co-making worlds that shine bright. Constellation's powerful, vulnerable contributions are like embers, lighting up pathways to keep us rooted in life while centering resistance and love.\" carla joy bergman, editor of \u003cem\u003eTrust Kids!: Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With rare candor and rigorous insight, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/cindy-milstein\" title=\"Cindy Barukh Milstein\"\u003eCindy Barukh Milstein\u003c\/a\u003e's anthologies offer the conversations we need to sustain the communal possibility of anarchist, feminist, and queer world-making in the ruins of everyday brutality.\" Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of \u003cem\u003eTouching the Art\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An antidote to the commodification of care, \u003cem\u003eConstellations\u003c\/em\u003e brings together a multiplicity of voices on the subject, in an approach that makes visible the intentionality and diversity of care practices.\" Sundus Abdul Hadi, author of \u003cem\u003eTake Care of Your Self: The Art and Cultures of Care and Liberation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This anthology is like a flower under the rubble insisting on life. It's a window into the beautiful, diverse, and practical world of anarcha-feminism, meaningfully woven from the collective, colorful, courageous threads of believers in a radically free lifenow.\" Dilar Dirik, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Kurdish Women's Movement: History, Theory, Practice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A beautiful gift to communities of freedom-minded people, offering a glimpse into many worlds of possibility. Across the many authors and experiences represented, deeply resonating themes of nurturing love and fierce resilience intertwine in a tapestry of hope.\" Kai Cheng Thom, author of \u003cem\u003eFalling Back in Love with Being Human\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Constellations\u003c\/em\u003e is balm on a collective wound, with each essay offering validation and relief. The feminist world-building illuminated in this collection is heartening and hope giving, providing a mercurial map toward the radical relationality we need to sustain us.\" Raechel Anne Jolie, author of \u003cem\u003eRust Belt Femme\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-tab=\"contents\" class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePrologue: Constellations of Care - \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/cindy-milstein\" title=\"Cindy Barukh Milstein\"\u003eCindy Barukh Milstein\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e1. The Collective as a Crucial Form - \u003cem\u003eTahel Axel, Elias Lowe, Ami Weintraub, Leo Williamson-Rea, and Flip Zang\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Our Affinity Is Our Manifesto - \u003cem\u003eMexico City–based feminist-anarchist affinity group in conversation with and translated by Scott Campbell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Tea, Books, and Thresholds - \u003cem\u003eCorinne, Aurore, Éris, and Tom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Unsanctioned Sanctuaries: A Cross-Continental Exchange - \u003cem\u003eLibertie Valance and Xela De La X\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. Tarps and Gossip: Existing as Resisting -\u003cem\u003e Raani Begum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. Brown Girl Rise: How We Take Care of Our Own \u003cem\u003e- claire barrera\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. Colectiva Mujeres Subversivas: In Solidarity and Friendship - \u003cem\u003eLora Galora\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. Pink Peacock: Lavishly Accessible -\u003cem\u003e Moishe Holleb in conversation with Alice Ross\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9. Solidarity Apothecary: Reclaiming Life - \u003cem\u003eNicole Rose\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10. North Star Health Collective: Tending to the Sparks -\u003cem\u003e Mags Beall and Cory Maria Dack\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11. Stitching Together Other Worlds -\u003cem\u003e \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/cindy-milstein\" title=\"Cindy Barukh Milstein\"\u003eCindy Barukh Milstein\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12. Illustrating Anarcha-Feminism - \u003cem\u003eAddy, Ali Cat, Aman, Andrea Narno, Anouk Kuona, Bree Busk, Erre, Feminist Collages PGH, Kill Joy, N.O. Bonzo, Rayan, Roan Boucher, Sugarbombing World, and Zola\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e13. Remembrance and Subversive Bodies in Motion - \u003cem\u003eBree Busk\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e14. Shakesqueer Tucson: Performing Anarcho-Feminism - \u003cem\u003eWren Awry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e15. Communitarian Kitchens: Stoking the Flames of Memory and Rebellion - \u003cem\u003eVilma Rocío Almendra Quiguanás, translated by Scott Campbell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e16. Supporting the Revolution, One Stew at a Time - \u003cem\u003eAleh Stankova and Fenya Fischler\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e17. An Experiment in Addressing Intraorganizational Violence - \u003cem\u003eBenji Hart\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e18. Collectively Funding Abortion - \u003cem\u003eBayla (aka Bay) Ostrach\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e19. Abortion without Borders - \u003cem\u003eMegan McGee\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e20. Transition and Autonomy - \u003cem\u003eScott\/Shuli Branson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e21. Movement Midwifery - \u003cem\u003eVicky Osterweil\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e22. How We Persisted as a New Anarcha Group in ljubljana - \u003cem\u003ečrne mačke\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e23. Do You Feel the Same? - \u003cem\u003eVilja Saarinen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42211412246621,"sku":"9780745349954","price":33.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/constellationsofcare.png?v=1716400757"},{"product_id":"upping-the-anti-on-palestine-2006-2024","title":"Upping the Anti on Palestine, 2006–2024","description":"\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: start;\"\u003eA collection of essays, interviews \u0026amp; roundtables on Palestine from the pages of anticapitalist journal \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e since 2006!\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: start;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: start;\"\u003eA documentation of debates \u0026amp; struggles around organizing in support of Palestine over the last two decades.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: start;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: start;\"\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGLOBAL INTIFADA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISSUE No 2, JANUARY 2006\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerspectives on Palestine Solidarity Organizing \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003ewith Mordecai Briemberg, Paul Burrows, Samer Elatrash, Adam Hanieh, and Rafeef Ziadah\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISSUE No 3, NOVEMBER 2006\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAijaz Ahmad: The Anti-Imperialism of Our Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISSUE No 5, OCTOBER 2007\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMichael Staudenmaier and Rami El-Amine: The Three Way Fight Debate—Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and the Left\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISSUE No 7, OCTOBER 2008\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNava EtShalom and Matthew N. 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The book uses extensive research and professional and lived experience to illuminate the way the State uses disability and its power to disable to incarcerate multiply marginalized disabled people, especially those who are queer, trans, Black, or Indigenous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause disabled people are much more likely than nondisabled people to be locked up in prisons, jails, and other sites of incarceration, abolitionists, and others critical of carceral systems must incorporate a disability justice perspective into our work. \u003cem\u003eA People's Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice\u003c\/em\u003e gives personal and policy examples of how and why disabled people are disproportionately caught up in the carceral net, and how we can use this information to work toward prison and police abolition more effectively. This book includes practical tools and strategies that will be useful for anyone who cares about disability justice or abolition and explains why we can't have one without the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“An essential movement tool. Tastrom convincingly shows that police and prison abolition and disability justice are core strategies for liberation and that we can't win one without the other.” Alex Vitale, professor of sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and author of \u003cem\u003eCity of Disorder \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe End of Policing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eA People’s Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice\u003c\/em\u003e is a clear, accessible, and invaluable tool for not only dissecting the depths of disability and criminalization but also illustrating how the fights for disability justice and prison abolition are inextricably linked.”Victoria Law, author of \u003cem\u003eResistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e“Prisons Make Us Safer” \u0026amp; 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Reminding us that abolition and disability justice must be, on a molecular level, grown together, Katie Tastrom offers a manifesto, which is also to say an atlas that leads us deeper into this analysis. Pushing against a world where harms lived by some are reproduced under the promise of safety for others, Tastrom insists that we must dream of more. Working from personal experience and a wide genealogy of abolitionist crip thought, this book is a necessary contribution to our collective study.” Eric A. Stanley, author of \u003cem\u003eAtmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans\/Queer Ungovernable\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKatie Tastrom\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e is a disability justice activist and writer who has worked as a lawyer, social worker, and sex worker. Her work has appeared in the anthologies \u003cem\u003eBurn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eNourishing Resistance: Stories of Food, Protest, and Mutual Aid\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as all over the internet including: \u003cem\u003eTruthout\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRewire\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eRooted in Rights\u003c\/em\u003e. She resides in Syracuse, NY.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370132115549,"sku":"9798887440408","price":27.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9798887440408.jpg?v=1719432200"},{"product_id":"defying-displacement","title":"Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA revolutionary new study of gentrification ... and how to stop it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCities around the world are in the midst of a profound transformation as the wealthy price out the remnants of the urban working class, especially people of color. Displacement is neither accidental or inevitable. It happens because a whole range of people and institutions profit handsomely. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDefying Displacement\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, focused on the US but informed by global examples, investigates gentrification from the perspective of the people fighting it, members of communities whose survival is threatened by some of the most powerful institutions on the planet. Andrew Lee names the names and identifies the actual state and corporate forces that work together to enrich a very specific group of people: property developers and real estate investors who make a killing, politicians who watch their tax bases grow, banks that write profitable loans for new businesses and mortgages for new homeowners. Meanwhile, business districts are planned, tax abatements unveiled, redevelopment schemes dreamed up, corporate and university campuses expanded, and ordinary people are driven from their homes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe city has long served as the stage for political life and popular revolt. As mass displacement alters the composition of gentrifying cities, the avenues available for social change become unsettled as well, forcing us to reimagine our strategies for building a better world. Around the world communities are pushing the struggle against forced displacement in new directions, shutting down developments and evictions and bringing cities to a halt, fighting militarized police and the most powerful companies in the world. Activists and residents in struggle—dozens of whom are interviewed by Lee to inform his work—are charting the way forward to affordable and sustainable cities run by the people who inhabit them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“So often gentrification is a process understood in limited terms as a flow of people or the impersonal and inevitable flow of capital. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDefying Displacement\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Andrew Lee analyzes both in tandem, illuminating how gentrification transforms not only housing markets, but the horizon of possibility for revolt. Regardless of where they are reading from, readers will be able to understand this subject with a fresh appreciation of how global struggles past, present, and future are linked by the making and unmaking of cities.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAyesha Siddiqi, editor in chief of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Inquiry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“All too often, gentrification is treated as a kind of moral failure in personal choice or preference, or, even worse, is treated as inevitable. Andrew Lee’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDefying Displacement\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e does the invaluable work of placing gentrification in its proper global economic and political contexts, without losing sight of its devastating personal and local impacts and longstanding role in settler-colonialism and white supremacy. Putting in-depth research in broad social and economic trends alongside interviews with displaced people and reporting on the sites of struggle and resistance against gentrification, the book allows the analyses of those most affected and engaged in struggle to shape its arguments. In doing so, Defying Displacement opens up an exciting theory of the state and capitalism, while showing how people struggling over cities, neighborhoods, and homes are poised to overthrow them. More than a right to the city, this book shows how a fight for the city can mean the fight for total liberation, and is a needful resource for all those who fight for and dream of a better world.” —Vicky Osterweil, author of I\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003en Defense of Looting\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Andrew deftly outlines the urgency of the housing crisis by centering those that should always be at the crux of the conversation, and calls for the radical resistance that displacement deserves.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNicole Cardoza, founder of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAnti-Racism Daily\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“This book could be extremely useful to activists. Keep using the enemy's own history against them. This ain't capitalist 'progress,' it's class warfare and ethnic cleansing. Let's organize the hood! Reclaim the city for the people! All power to the people!” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM3ODA3In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/anarchism-and-the-black-revolution-the-definitive-edition\" title=\"Anarchism and the Black Revolution\"\u003eAnarchism and the Black Revolution\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAndrew Lee\u003c\/strong\u003e has been involved with grassroots anti-displacement campaigns in San José, California. He currently lives in Philadelphia, where he continues to work on similar issues. He has written for \u003cem\u003eYes! Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTeen Vogue\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Progressive\u003c\/em\u003e and serves as Managing Editor for \u003cem\u003eThe Anti-Racism Daily\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370134179933,"sku":"9781849355247","price":23.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/81u9Ugzd4OL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1719432365"},{"product_id":"rattling-the-cages","title":"Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDispatches from behind bars. Political prisoners speak out.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe official story is that the United States has no political prisoners. The reality is that there are hundreds of people rounded up, placed behind bars, and kept there for inordinately long sentences because of their political beliefs and activities. A project of abolitionist Josh Davidson and political prisoner Eric King, this book is filled with the experience and wisdom of over thirty current and former North American political prisoners. It provides first-hand details of prison life and the political commitments that continue to lead prisoners into direct confrontation with state authorities and institutions. The people Josh Davidson has interviewed include former radicals and Black liberation militants from the sixties and seventies, current antifascists, nonviolent Catholic peace activists, Animal and Earth Liberation Front saboteurs, and more. Their stories are moving, often tragic, yet deeply inspiring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCollectively, these people have spent hundreds of years behind bars, and their experiences speak directly to the cruelty and immorality of our prison and so-called criminal justice systems. Although their sentences and the conditions they have endured vary dramatically, this wide range of voices come together to embody what bell hooks called “a legacy of defiance.” It is this legacy—of tirelessly struggling to right today’s wrongs and create a better tomorrow—that the prison system tries, yet fails, to extinguish. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors include: Donna Willmott, James Kilgore, Mark Cook, Rebecca Rubin, Hanif Shabazz Bey, Chelsea Manning, Oso Blanco, Ann Hansen, Sean Swain, Martha Hennessy, Jalil Muntaqim, Jeremy Hammond, Kojo Bomani Sababu, Laura Whitehorn, Eric King, Rattler, Ray Luc Levasseur, Elizabeth McAlister, Malik Smith, David Campbell, Xinachtli, David Gilbert, Susan Rosenberg, Daniel McGowan, Linda Evans, Herman Bell, Jennifer Rose, Ed Mead, Jerry Koch, Michael Kimble, Bill Harris, Jaan Laaman, Jake Conroy, Marius Mason, Bill Dunne, Oscar López Rivera\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"315\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9WZmxTDKxiI\" title=\"Rattling the Cages\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Reading these oral histories from these folks, it's really powerful stuff...this is a really important book. If we don't have a strong political prisoner support movement, our movements are not gonna succeed and they're not gonna persist ... [a] helpful tool for organizers whether they're on the outside [or] on the inside.\"  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJared Ware\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMillennials are Killing Capitalism\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRattling the Cages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e brings the term 'political prisoner' into sharper focus by providing outstanding oral accounts from a wide range of North American political prisoners. In the finest tradition of oral history—'the poetry of the everyday,' the literature of the streets—this book takes us to the source, and shines a bright, illuminating light into the shadowy world of our peculiarly American gulag. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRattling the Cages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e dives head-first into the wide world of direct personal experiences and human meaning-making, offering an important antidote to propaganda, dogma, and stereotype.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBill Ayers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFugitive Days\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePublic Enemy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRattling the Cages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has more wisdom, harder-earned, per page than any other book I've ever read. It is the kind of wisdom most people hope to never know, the kind of wisdom that comes from facing the true nature of our state and what it does to those who resist its power. The lessons of this book force those of us on the outside to ask whether we are walking the way we believe. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRattling the Cages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e will be essential reading for years to come.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBaynard Woods\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eInheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Prison can't win, Huey Newton famously said, because walls and bars cannot hold back ideas. And this book is brimming with ideas from survivors of political repression. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRattling the Cages\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis an intimate intergenerational dialog with movement activists representing sixty years of struggle and too many years of incarceration. In conversations both hopeful and heartfelt, intense and inspiring, they share how they live to fight another day.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dan-berger\" title=\"Dan Berger\"\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eStayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family's Journey  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“As a collection of oral histories, Davidson’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRattling the Cages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e provides an essential archive on both the breathtaking cruelty of American prisons and on the courage and humanity of those locked away. To heed the critiques of its contributors is to accept that all imprisonment is political. But something in these pages throbs even louder than critique. Here, too, one finds love and the joy born from struggle. Those serve as the foundation of this book’s brilliant contributions, of the world they—and we—hope to build.”  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eN. D. B. Connolly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Johns Hopkins University\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eRattling the Cages\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epulls off a virtual prison break. It brings so many of my favorite people together, all in one place, to share their incredibly powerful perspectives on life, politics, and dynamics as political prisoners, and to talk about what the future holds.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLeslie James Pickering\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMad Bomber Melville\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, former Earth Liberation Front spokesman, and co-founder of Burning Books bookstore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370151088221,"sku":"9781849355216","price":39.2,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781849355216-us.jpg?v=1719432711"},{"product_id":"beyond-cop-cities-dismantling-state-and-corporate-funded-armies-and-prisons","title":"Beyond Cop Cities: Dismantling State and Corporate-Funded Armies and Prisons","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***Available for pre-order! We expect to receive copies imminently and will ship as soon as they arrive.*** \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat happens when the police becomes an army?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSince 1997, the US Department of Defense has transferred more than $7.2bn in military equipment to law enforcement agencies. Furthermore, the DOD is legally required to make various equipment items available to local police and school police departments, from flashlights and sandbags to grenade launchers and armored vehicles. This militarisation has, unsurprisingly, been shown to impact Black communities unjustly and is associated with increased killings by police. No wonder there have been calls to ‘defund the police’ echoing across the streets of America.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBeyond Cop Cities\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Joy James and fellow contributors take these calls one step further, highlighting the Stop Cop City movement - one of the most vibrant in the US today. Linking the anti-policing and racial justice movement with radical ecological 'forest defender' activism, the Stop Cop City campaign is a grassroots movement that aims to push back on police militarisation by blocking the construction of Atlanta’s Police Public Safety Training Center.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSharp and concise, including the voices of key figures in the movement along with the mother of murdered activist 'Tortuguita' (shot and killed by Georgia police while protesting), this collection of vital and politically sophisticated writings captures a moment in time, demanding a safer, less brutal, future.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncludes \"\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?p=3554\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHow Prison Officials Manufactured Gangs and Gang Wars in Virginia’s Prisons\u003c\/a\u003e,\" by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, and contributions by numerous other revolutionaries, prisoners, former prisoners, and allies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Editor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoy James, Ebenezer Fitch Professor of the Humanities at Williams College, is a political philosopher who works with organizers. She is editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Angela Y. Davis Reader; Imprisoned Intellectuals\u003c\/em\u003e; and co-editor of\u003cem\u003e The Black Feminist Reader\u003c\/em\u003e. James's recent books include \u003cem\u003eIn Pursuit of Revolutionary Love\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eNew Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (After)Life of Erica Garner\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eContextualizing Angela Davis: The Agency and Identity of an Icon\u003c\/em\u003e. Her edited volumes with Pluto include \u003cem\u003eENGAGE: Indigenous, Black, Afro-Indigenous Futures\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the most brilliant, courageous visionaries of our time. If you don’t know Sister Joy James check her out!\" Cornel West\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The beautiful minds of Joy James and Kalonji Jama Changa come together to form this seminal work. Weaving in art, history, the past and present, Beyond Cop Cities bears a timeless quality. In this age of mounting repression, it is both a prophetic work and constant companion. Serving as a blueprint, it traces the onslaught of the colonial carceral and military state in which citizens, civilians, captives, and organizers transform sites of war, plantations, and enslavement into places of liberation—or the fire next time.\" Jenipher R. Jones, Esq., A People's Law Office\/For the People, Chair of the National Lawyers Guild Mass Defense Committee \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePART I\u003cbr\u003e1. The Rubik’s Cube of Cop City: The Crisis of Colonized Cities and State Criminality,\u003cem\u003e by Joy James and Kalonji Jama Changa\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e2. Urban Warfare and Corporate-Funded Armies: Cop City as a Chapter in the Long History of U.S. Colonialism, \u003cem\u003eby Joy James and Kalonji Jama Changa\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e3.Letter of Concern to Black Clergy Regarding “Cop City”, \u003cem\u003eby Reverend Matthew V. Johnson and Joy James\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e4.Resisting Cop City Corporate and Clergy Colonizers, \u003cem\u003eby Fergie Chambers, Matt Johnson, Kalonji Changa, and Joy James\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e5. Tortuguita’s Mother Speaks: Belkis Teran: BPM\/RSTV Interview with Kalonji Changa\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePART II\u003cbr\u003e6. Combat Police Terror, \u003cem\u003eby Dhoruba bin Wahad and Kalonji Changa\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e7.Assassination Attempts against Mumia Abu-Jamal, \u003cem\u003eby Pam Africa, Noel Hanrahan, Ricardo Alvarez, Kalonji Changa, and Joy James\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8.How Prison Officials Manufactured Gangs and Gang Wars in Virginia’s Prisons,\u003cem\u003e by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e9.The Pendleton 2 Defense Committee\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion, \u003cem\u003eby Joy James\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“We Remember the Attempts to be Free: Part 3”, \u003cem\u003eby James Jones\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQR Code\/Omeka Site\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42483746472029,"sku":"9780745350486","price":21.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/5485.jpg?v=1721141561"},{"product_id":"the-siege-of-the-third-precinct-in-minneapolis","title":"The Siege of the Third Precinct in Minneapolis","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis historical account and analysis was motivated by a discussion that took place in front of the Third Precinct as fires billowed from its windows on Day Three of the George Floyd Rebellion in Minneapolis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Active Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42538583261277,"sku":"9781914567483","price":8.4,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/large_1757_SiegeThirdPrecinctLARGE.jpg?v=1722721050"},{"product_id":"counting-up-the-olive-tree","title":"Counting Up the Olive Tree: A Palestine Number Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCounting Up the Olive Tree: A Palestine Number Book\u003c\/em\u003e is a rhythmic adventure where little Palestinian football (soccer) players--boys and girls--work together to save an olive tree in a race against time. Following on the extraordinary success of \u003cem\u003eP is for Palestine: A Palestine Alphabet Book\u003c\/em\u003e, Golbarg Bashi teamed up with the gifted artist Nabi H. 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Anyone who has ever been to Palestine or who has Palestinian friends, colleagues, or neighbors knows that this proud nation is home to the sweetest oranges, most intricate embroideries, great dance moves (Dabkeh), fertile olive groves, and the sunniest people! This revised edition includes an appendix explaining some of the terms and Arabic words, written in their original language with simplified English pronunciation. Inspired by Palestinian people's own rich history in the literary and visual arts \u003cem\u003eP is for Palestine\u003c\/em\u003e is a book for children of all ages!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42538583457885,"sku":"9798887440767","price":23.73,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9798887440767.jpg?v=1722721077"},{"product_id":"unbuild-walls","title":"Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"facts-addl-detail\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I am going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I’m going to go unbuild walls.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Ursula K. Le Guin, \u003cem\u003eThe Dispossessed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDrawing from over twenty years of activism on local and national levels, this striking book offers an organizer’s perspective on the intersections of immigrant rights, racial justice, and prison abolition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eIn the wake of post-9\/11 xenophobia, Obama’s record-level deportations, Trump’s immigration policies, and the 2020 uprisings for racial justice, the US remains entrenched in a circular discourse regarding migrant justice. As organizer Silky Shah argues in \u003cem\u003eUnbuild Walls\u003c\/em\u003e, we must move beyond building nicer cages or advocating for comprehensive immigration reform. Our only hope for creating a liberated society for all, she insists, is abolition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnbuild Walls\u003c\/em\u003e dives into US immigration policy and its relationship to mass incarceration, from the last forty years up to the present, showing how the prison-industrial complex and immigration enforcement are intertwined systems of repression. Incorporating historical and legal analyses, Shah’s personal experience as an organizer, as well as stories of people, campaigns, organizations, and localities that have resisted detention and deportation, Shah assesses the movement’s strategies, challenges, successes, and shortcomings. Featuring a foreword by Amna A. Akbar, \u003cem\u003eUnbuild Walls\u003c\/em\u003e is an expansive and radical intervention, bridging the gaps between movements for immigrant rights, racial justice, and prison abolition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSilky Shah\u003c\/strong\u003e has been working as an organizer on issues related to racial and migrant justice for over two decades. Originally from Texas, she began fighting the expansion of immigrant jails on the US-Mexico border in the aftermath of 9\/11. In 2009, she joined the staff of Detention Watch Network, a national coalition building power to abolish immigrant detention in the United States, and now serves as its executive director. Her writing on immigration policy and organizing has been published in \u003ci\u003eTruthout\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTeen Vogue\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Inquest\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Forge\u003c\/i\u003e and in the edited volumes, \u003ci\u003eThe Jail is Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e (Verso, 2024), \u003ci\u003eResisting Borders and Technologies of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e (Haymarket Books, 2024), and \u003ci\u003eTransformative Planning\u003c\/i\u003e (Black Rose Books, 2020). She has also appeared in numerous national and local media outlets including \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR, and MSNBC.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"other_contributors\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"press_clippings\"\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eUnbuild Walls\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e is a vital intervention! The freedom to move around and the freedom to stay put are central to abolitionist vision. Silky Shah shows, with lively detail, how abolitionist political analysis is both preparation for and guidance through complex, difficult struggles.\"\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/ruth-wilson-gilmore\" title=\"Ruth Wilson Gilmore\"\u003eRuth Wilson Gilmore\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAbolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\"Silky Shah has written a crucial history of the nexus between draconian immigration enforcement and the criminal legal system. Rather than framing the cruelties of the Trump administration as the result of a single man’s nativist designs, Shah exposes the decades-long bipartisan project to quickly incarcerate and deport immigrants. Shah avoids the all-too easy claim that these two systems should be disentangled, arguing that this narrative pits immigrants against other marginalized groups—including people affected by the prison-industrial complex—and instead deftly argues for abolition.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eGaby Del Valle, cofounder of BORDER\/LINES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\"This book is an essential tool to build abolitionist analysis within the migrant justice movement, and to bring people who are already mobilizing for police and prison abolition into the fight for migrant justice. Anyone interested in social change and in the most pressing questions about social movement tactics needs to read this book.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dean-spade\" title=\"Dean Spade\"\u003eDean Spade\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eMutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\"Silky Shah’s excellently crafted book, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eUnbuild Walls\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e, refreshingly busts through the persistent and predictable debates about border and immigration enforcement. This fast-paced read is well-written, well-researched, often personal and insightful, and is a must for anyone concerned about immigration and connections to struggles for economic and racial justice.\"\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eTodd Miller, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eBuild Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\"This book is an extraordinary call to action that urges anyone who cares about immigrant justice to embrace abolition. Silky Shah writes from her unique perspective as an organizer and leader in the movement to end immigration detention, sharing the abolitionist lessons she has learned from her journey. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eUnbuild Walls \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eis a gift to those who are ready to learn from the past and build a better future that uplifts the dignity of all people.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAlina Das, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eNo Justice in the Shadows: How America Criminalizes Immigrants\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eUnbuild Walls\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e opens our eyes to the ways the criminal punishment and immigration enforcement systems are fully intertwined. 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The backlash has been swift, beating back efforts to reallocate public funds away from police and other punitive carceral systems and into social welfare programs that provide care, stability, and community. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut as Calvin John Smiley reveals through pointed conversations with academics, activists, and system-impacted individuals, #defund was always more than a brief moment; it is part of an ongoing struggle against white supremacy, capitalism, police state-sanctioned violence, and mass incarceration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough interviews with Marisol LeBrón, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dan-berger\" title=\"Dan Berger\"\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/a\u003e, Zellie Imani, and Olayemi Olurin, among others, Smiley considers how #defund can bridge the divide between reform and abolition, becoming a catalyst to help organizers realize abolitionist visions. Along the way, these rich conversations illuminate the long histories of systems of repression and protests against them; how policing serves as a colonial project in Puerto Rico and beyond; why creativity and music-making are essential to movement-building; and much more. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGiving voice to those committed to abolitionist praxis, \u003cem\u003eDefund \u003c\/em\u003eis an essential tool for organizers as we imagine how defund goes from a hashtag to a movement to a reality. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"other_contributors\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"other_contributors\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eThis is the book we’ve been waiting for! 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Read \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eDefund\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e and prepare to be challenged, educated, and inspired.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eMumia Abu Jamal, author of \u003cem\u003eBeneath the Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eDefund\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e is a rich and valuable contribution to the abolitionist canon. Through impressively wide-ranging and refreshingly radical conversations, Smiley and his comrades dare us to bravely imagine a world beyond prisons, policing, and other state-sanctioned systems of violence, repression, and exploitation. They also provide us with the practical tools and actionable strategies necessary to bring such a world into existence.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eMarc Lamont Hill, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eWe Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e“These conversations offer us an opportunity to interrogate the promise and process of defunding the police from a variety of perspectives. A new world is possible, but this volume reminds us that we have a lot of thinking and organizing to do to achieve it.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAlex S. Vitale, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eThe End of Policing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\"Irresistibly readable. Smiley's engagements with leading abolitionist mobilizers offer tools I did not know I needed. Sharp and often funny, these intimate conversations provoke key questions, spark imagination, and hone our shared liberatory practices.\"\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eErica R. Meiners, coauthor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAbolition.Feminism.Now.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Enacting deep conversation and abolitionist imagination, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eDefund \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eexemplifies the centrality of dynamic study to the ongoing work of radical collectives, organizations, and movements. Smiley builds on his scholarly activist experience to catalyze dialogue with a group of abolition practitioners who understand that the defund mandate “does not refer to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003esome \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003epolice but rather \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eall \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003epolice.” This book makes a vital contribution to post-2020 abolitionist debates around state power, autonomous infrastructure, and insurgent futurity.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eDylan Rodríguez, author of the Frantz Fanon Award-winning \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eWhite Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e“This deeply engaging book puts scholars, activists, and criminal justice survivors in conversation with Calvin John Smiley as together they explore the possibilities of defunding and disempowering state violence. The book’s collaborative structure models the very dynamic needed for confronting the prison and the police: an interplay of inclusive, community-based movements working along a continuum from reformist defunding to radical abolition. In this battle, Smiley argues for hope; his book delivers it.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eJeff Ferrell, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eDrift: Illicit Mobility and Uncertain Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e“The discussions in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eDefund\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e are provocative and inspiring. Smiley, in dialogue with other abolitionist scholar\/activists, presents a vision of a collaborative, caring future where harm-reduction and life-affirming communities are possible.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eLori Gruen, Professor of Philosophy, Wesleyan University, and co-editor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eCarceral Logics: Human Incarceration and Animal Captivity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e“Once again, Smiley tackles a complex topic fraught with racism in our criminal legal system and unpacks it with flawless writing and a bright light. 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In the shadow of a Western-backed annihilationist campaign against Gaza and Palestinians, this volume does more than grant the permission to narrate: It is, without permission or apology, a call to liberate.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjEifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/nick-estes\" title=\"Nick Estes\"\u003eNick Estes\u003c\/a\u003e (Lakota)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"From exploring settler colonialism’s banality to the violence of architecture, this timely highly-recommended book explores through ten innovative essays new insights into ways of understanding and building solidarities with Palestine.\"\u003cbr\u003eRaja Shehadeh\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"other_contributors\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"other_contributors\"\u003e\"All around the world the cry from the street is 'Free Palestine.' This vital and varied collection reveals some of the global solidarities that lie beneath that united cry, and in doing so asks us to consider what connections we can make, and what histories we might re-shape—together.\" Kamila Shamsie\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"other_contributors\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"other_contributors\"\u003e\"\u003cem class=\"\"\u003eTheir Borders, Our World \u003c\/em\u003earrives as a meteor, incandescent, a signal of determination and solidarity in a dark time, assuring that Palestine will be free.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz\" title=\"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\"\u003eRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42538584834141,"sku":"9798888900994","price":34.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9798888900994-c67619307dda1d1c38072d2e7e16011a.jpg?v=1722721393"},{"product_id":"beyond-courts","title":"Beyond Courts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA timely primer for understanding and resisting systems of punishment and reimagining a world beyond them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeyond Criminal Courts\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of resources created for organizers, advocates and community members working together to build the organizing-power we need to defund, divest, and ultimately to dismantle criminal courts for good. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeyond Criminal Courts\u003c\/em\u003e invites readers to learn about criminal court processes and to deepen an abolitionist analysis and critique of criminal courts. 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Their goal was to advance the struggle for a socialist society. In Germany, the Red Army Faction received most attention, but a less well-known, antiauthoritarian and social-revolutionary counterpart operated in its shadows: the 2nd of June Movement, named after the date when, in 1967, the unarmed student Benno Ohnesorg was shot and killed by a Berlin cop during a demonstration. The 2nd of June Movement was composed of working-class youth who got politicized in Berlin’s underground culture. They first emerged as a political collective under the name “Hash Rebels” before forming the 2nd of June Movement as a revolutionary organization. The 2nd of June Movement received most attention for the 1975 kidnapping of conservative politician Peter Lorenz. Lorenz was exchanged for six comrades in prison, one of the biggest successes of any urban guerrilla group in Europe. Dissolved in 1980, the principles of the 2nd of June Movement lived on in the militant network of the Revolutionary Cells and the German autonomist movement. \u003ci\u003eFrom Hash Rebels to Urban Guerrillas\u003c\/i\u003e, the first book to present the 2nd of June Movement in English, documents the group’s history and politics through translations of original documents and reflections by former members. The editors provide an introduction, extensive notes, a timeline, and an overview of key protagonists. This is mandatory reading for anyone interested in the politics of the era and the ongoing quest to challenge the rule of the state and capital.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In the 1970s, the 2nd of June Movement had many fans among the left. It was the guerrilla group with the human face, denounced by the Red Army Faction as ‘hippie lumpen.’” \u003cbr\u003etaz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This well-structured book allows us to revisit—and rethink—the politics, practice, and consequences of the radical left-wing opposition during the 1970s in West Germany.” Geronimo, author of \u003ci\u003eFire and Flames: A History of the German Autonomist Movement\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ten bank robberies, a bombing, resisting arrest, illegal possession of firearms. The defendants? Members of the criminal organization ‘2nd of June Movement.’” \u003ci\u003eDer Spiegel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“No urban guerilla is no solution either.” graffiti, Berlin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoman Danyluk\u003c\/b\u003e is a worker, grassroots labor unionist, and writer from Munich. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBlues der Städte: Die Bewegung 2. Juni—eine sozialrevolutionäre Geschichte\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMDQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gabriel-kuhn\" title=\"Gabriel Kuhn\"\u003eGabriel Kuhn\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is an Austrian-born writer and translator living in Sweden. His numerous authored and edited books include \u003ci\u003eAll Power to the Councils! A Documentary History of the German Revolution of 1918–1919\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eTurning Money into Rebellion: The Unlikely Story of Denmark’s Revolutionary Bank Robbers\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiberating Sápmi: Indigenous Resistance in Europe’s Far North\u003c\/i\u003e; and\u003ci\u003e \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNDgifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/soccer-vs-the-state-tackling-football-and-radical-politics\" title=\"Soccer vs. the State\"\u003eSoccer vs. the State\u003c\/a\u003e: Tackling Football and Radical Politics\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42573534953565,"sku":"9798887440613","price":35.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/large_1665_9798887440613_fc.jpg?v=1723572561"},{"product_id":"safety-through-solidarity","title":"Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo activist journalists present a progressive, intersectional approach to the vital question: What can we do about antisemitism?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAntisemitism is on the rise today. From synagogue shootings by white nationalists, to right-wing politicians and media figures pushing George Soros conspiracy theories, it’s clear that exclusionary nationalist movements are growing. By spreading division and fear, they put Jews, along with other marginalized groups and multiracial democracy itself, at risk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd since the outbreak of war in Gaza, debates around antisemitism have become more polarized and high-stakes than ever. How can we stand in solidarity with Palestinians seeking justice, while also avoiding antisemitism — and resisting those who seek to conflate the two? How do we forge the coalitions across communities that we need, in order to overcome the politics of division and fear?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing personal stories, historical deep-dives, front-line reporting, and interviews with leading change-makers, Burley and Lorber help us break the current impasse to understand how antisemitism works, what’s missing in contemporary debates, and how to build true safety through solidarity, for Jews and all people.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"headline bold\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/2024\/06\/burley-lorber-antisemitism-guide-to-organizing\/\"\u003e\"An essential and timely guide to organizing against antisemitism,\" Review by Paul Messersmith-Glavin on \u003cem\u003eWaging Nonviolence\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"headline bold\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.liveliketheworldisdying.com\/shane-and-ben-on-confronting-antisemitism-pt-i\/\"\u003eInterview with the authors on the \u003cem\u003eLive Like the World is Dying \u003c\/em\u003epodcast\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Safety through Solidarity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eplaces the struggle against antisemitism where it belongs: within a larger constellation of struggles against oppression in all its forms. Scholarly, historical, and politically razor-sharp, this landmark work from Burley and Lorber is an essential tool for fighting back against right-wing efforts to weaponize the rhetoric of 'antisemitism' for racist agendas.\" Mark Bray, author of\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eAntifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Shane Burley and Ben Lorber are two of the most passionate, committed and thoughtful people combating fascism today, and this is just one more installment in their vital work against the cruel march of dark forces in our era.\" Talia Lavin, Author \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eCulture Warlords\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e“The best book I’ve read on contemporary antisemitism and how to combat it. Careful, honest, eloquent, and essential at this terrible moment.” Peter Beinart, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Crisis of Zionism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I don’t think this book could come at a better time… \u003ci\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eSafety Through Solidarity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e is not just an appeal to avoid falling into a trap, it also recognizes how much stronger we all are when we do so. Most importantly, Burley and Lorber show how to build that strength against such odds. Everyone needs to read this book.” Daryle Lamont Jenkins, One People's Project\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Drawing on the experiences and insights of contemporary progressive activists,\u003ci\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eSafety Through Solidarity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eadvocates an alternative approach to fighting antisemitism than that of the American Jewish establishment. At a time of rising antisemitism and white Christian nationalism, such a strategy is urgently needed...This book should be required reading for progressive activists.” Dov Waxman, Professor of Israel Studies and director of the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at UCLA\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It's crucial to see antisemitism not just as a problem for Jews, but as something that impedes social progress and equity for everyone. In deconstructing the poisonous roots of anti-Jewish sentiment, Shane Burley and Ben Lorber show how tropes and myths about Jews running the world through their total control of finance distract us from examining the actual titans of industry and who zealously hoard their wealth, and make sure we don't do anything about them. At this dangerous moment for Jews around the world,\u003ci\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eSafety through Solidarity \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis a book to rely on for real answers and solutions.\" Mike Rothschild, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003cem\u003eJewish Space Lasers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Antisemitism has again become a topic of intense conversation in the Jewish world. New books appear almost weekly analyzing what it is, why it is, and how to fight it. But none are quite like Shane Burley and Ben Lorber’s\u003ci\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eSafety through Solidarity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e In their historically rich and deeply sophisticated analysis, Burley and Lorber, both authors, journalists and activists from the Left, explore a different approach to antisemitism. Distinguishing themselves from those who advocate the eternality of antisemitism and its exclusively Jewish target, they view antisemitism as part of a larger phenomenon of hate that, while targeting Jews, affects myriad others as well. The solution to this ideology of hate is not, for them, Jewish insularity but rather Jewish solidarity with others in search of a society of equality and justice. This is a daring and provocative project of how to combat antisemitism from the Left. It is a desperately needed alternative to the phobic and sometimes shrill nature of the present discourse.” Shaul Magid, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Necessity of Exile \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“What a breath of fresh air to read this book, which offers essential history, sober analysis and courageous vision on how to take on antisemitism, directly from individuals who have been on the front lines of this work with the new generation of the Jewish Left. Lorber and Burley offer clear eyed lessons from our movements about how to keep Jews and all people safe, and timely alternatives to the failed approach of the pro-Israel American Jewish establishment. 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Here, Peter Gelderloos brings to life some of the conflictive and subversive events of the last couple of decades in a radical new criticism of nonviolence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book weaves history, vignettes, interviews and personal reflections to show how our movements suffer from an inability to pass on lessons learned from one generation to the next.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLearning from the antiracist rebellions triggered by police murders from Minneapolis to Bristol, and the climate campaigns that often fail to centre an anticolonial consciousness, we can understand nonviolence as a symptom of social amnesia, an inability to remember our places in this world and what we have learned from past episodes of resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCautioning against future waves of pacification and forgetting, this book urges us to collectivise memory and develop the methods we need to fight for our survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeter Gelderloos is a writer and social movement participant. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Solutions are Already Here: Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHow Nonviolence Protects the State\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAnarchy Works, The Failure of Non-Violence, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eWorshiping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation\u003c\/em\u003e. He has contributed chapters to anthologies \u003cem\u003eKeywords for\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eRadicals\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRiots and Militant Occupations\u003c\/em\u003e. His books have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Russian, German, Greek and Serbo-Croat. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Maintaining and sharing revolutionary love, we strengthen intergenerational memories of creative resistance. Despite the beatings and burnings meted out by states, schools, corporations, police, prisons and militaries, our communities continue to weave overlapping concentric circles of care and resistance. This striking book reveals collective memories of freedom struggles, despite attempts to blur, distort or steal our inheritance.\" Joy James, editor of \u003cem\u003eBeyond Cop Cites: Dismantling State and Corporate-Funded Armies and Prisons\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'As more and more people are mobilizing against war, genocide, poverty, and extraction, this book is right on time. Gelderloos' decades of participating in and studying resistance movements grounds this book's practical analysis of common misunderstandings cultivated by liberals to stifle resistance efforts. This book shows the costs—to our boldness, our effectiveness, our solidarity, our survival—of forgetting lessons learned in our struggles. A much needed tool for the difficult times we are in and the worse ones that are coming.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dean-spade\" title=\"Dean Spade\"\u003eDean Spade\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eMutual Aid\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Peter\\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Peter Gelderloos reminds us that for our survival, we must keep the flame of memory alive, ensuring that the radical roots of our movements are not whitewashed by the gatekeepers of history. In remembering, we resist; in forgetting, we risk erasing our future.\" Franklin Lopez, anarchist filmmaker, founder of subMedia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A much-needed intervention in this time of profound loss and erasure, \u003cem\u003eThey Will Beat the Memory Out of Us\u003c\/em\u003e is an impassioned counterattack against forgetting. An inspiring, intergenerational invitation to dig deep for a “memory of our roots” of resistance. Woven together from street-smart rebel voices, Gelderloos’s book is a powerful read from start to finish.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzgifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/cindy-milstein\" title=\"Cindy Milstein\"\u003eCindy Milstein\u003c\/a\u003e, editor of \u003cem\u003eConstellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Once again, Peter Gelderloos offers us an important book coming from the frontlines of numerous struggles. A must read for all aspiring trouble makers and those wanting to free themselves from the grips of exploitation and state terrorism. While the authorities try to terrorize people into forgetting who they are, and what really matters, Gelderloos offers us memory, discussion and care to transform the world, but also ourselves and our neighborhoods which is where it all begins.\" Xander Dunlap, Research Fellow at Boston University and author of\u003cem\u003e This System is Killing Us\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A bold, eloquent, and timely account of the powerful role collective memory plays in toppling the lies that uphold structures of injustice and inequality. Gelderloos also shows how the forces of counterinsurgency erase or manipulate collective memory as a form of social control. \u003cem\u003eThey Will Beat the Memory Out of Us\u003c\/em\u003e brings into sharp relief the urgency of building social movements that have continuity and intergenerational memory. The social movement novice and the seasoned veteran alike will find this book a useful tool to think with.\" Tariq D. Khan, author of The\u003cem\u003e Republic Shall Be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Memory, Disembodied\u003cbr\u003e1. They Will Beat the Memory Out of Us\u003cbr\u003eThe Tipping Point\u003cbr\u003eStatues\u003cbr\u003eSparks\u003cbr\u003e2. They Will Promise a Future They Can Never Deliver\u003cbr\u003eThe Snare\u003cbr\u003eRegeneration\u003cbr\u003eThe Reset\u003cbr\u003e3. But We are Here, Surviving, Remembering, Passing On the Torch\u003cbr\u003eAccompaniment or Loss?\u003cbr\u003eLearning From Our Ancestors\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Surviving Together\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42713254035549,"sku":"9780745349770","price":27.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/5415.jpg?v=1726502615"},{"product_id":"empire-of-normality-neurodiversity-and-capitalism","title":"Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis is the rise of the anti-capitalist neurodiversity movement\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003cp element-id=\"89\"\u003e\"Groundbreaking ... [provides] a deep history of the invention of the 'normal' mind as one of the most oppressive tools of capitalism. To read it is to see the world more clearly.\" Steve Silberman, author of \u003cem element-id=\"88\"\u003eNeuroTribes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp element-id=\"89\"\u003eNeurodiversity is on the rise. Awareness and diagnoses have exploded in recent years, but we are still missing a wider understanding of how we got here and why. Beyond simplistic narratives of normativity and difference, this groundbreaking book exposes the very myth of the 'normal' brain as a product of intensified capitalism. \u003cbr element-id=\"85\"\u003e\u003cbr element-id=\"84\"\u003eExploring the rich histories of the neurodiversity and disability movements, Robert Chapman shows how the rise of capitalism created an 'empire of normality' that transformed our understanding of the body into that of a productivity machine. \u003cbr element-id=\"83\"\u003e\u003cbr element-id=\"82\"\u003eNeurodivergent liberation is possible - but only by challenging the deepest logics of capitalism. \u003cem element-id=\"81\"\u003eEmpire of Normality\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential guide to understanding the systems that shape our bodies, minds and deepest selves - and how we can undo them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 element-id=\"89\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp element-id=\"89\"\u003eRobert Chapman is a neurodivergent philosopher, writing on neurodiversity theory, madness and disability. They have taught at King’s College London, the University of Bristol, Sheffield Hallam and Durham University where they are currently an Assistant Professor in Critical Neurodiversity Studies. They blog at \u003cem\u003ePsychology Today\u003c\/em\u003e and at \u003cem\u003eCritical Neurodiversity\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 element-id=\"89\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\"This groundbreaking book fills a crucial gap in the discourse about neurodiversity, providing a deep history of the invention of the 'normal' mind as one of the most damaging and oppressive tools of capitalism, while not succumbing to the myths of the 'anti-psychiatry' movement. To read it is to see the world more clearly.\"\u003c\/span\u003e Steve Silberman, author of \u003ci\u003eNeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eEmpire of Normality\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eargues that a radical politics of neurodiversity needs to be central to the struggle against capitalism. Chapman explains why this is necessary, not only for neurodivergent folk, but for our collective liberation. Thought provoking, challenging and compelling.\" \u003c\/span\u003eProfessor Hel Spandler, Editor, \u003ci\u003eAsylum: the radical mental health magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\"Engaging, impeccably researched, and a vital step in the emergence of a new social paradigm. Chapman uncovers the origins of the stifling norms that limit our collective potentials, and points the way toward a better and more creative future.\"\u003c\/span\u003e Nick Walker, author of \u003ci\u003eNeuroqueer Heresies \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\"A vital book that kindles the flames of a Marxist neurodivergent revolution. Chapman boldly challenges us to envision a world liberated from neuronormative oppression, where dismantling capitalism is central to disabled, Mad, and neurodivergent liberation—a new radical approach to neurodiversity that is explicitly anti-capitalist.\" \u003c\/span\u003eBeatrice Adler-Bolton, co-author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjE0MDU5In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/health-communism-a-surplus-manifesto\" title=\"Health Communism\"\u003eHealth Communism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An instant seminal text, \u003cem\u003eEmpire of Normality\u003c\/em\u003e takes on the huge task of crafting a coherent, radical, Marxist approach to neurodivergence. Chapman impressively and critically assembles disparate philosophical, scientific and activist currents across time to carve out a new politics that pushes beyond liberal rights-based approaches, and guides us towards a liberated future.\" Micha Frazer-Carroll, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjI2OTAyIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/mad-world-the-politics-of-mental-health\" title=\"Mad World\"\u003eMad World\u003c\/a\u003e: The Politics of Mental Health \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Outstanding\" \u003ci\u003eForbes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A vitally needed theoretical framework for neurodivergent anti-capitalism.\" \u003ci\u003eRed Pepper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePreface \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Rise of the machines \u003cbr\u003e2 The invention of normality \u003cbr\u003e3 Galton’s paradigm \u003cbr\u003e4 The eugenics movement \u003cbr\u003e5 The myths of anti-psychiatry \u003cbr\u003e6 Fordist normalisation \u003cbr\u003e7 The return of Galtonian psychiatry \u003cbr\u003e8 Post-Fordism as a mass disabling event \u003cbr\u003e9 The neurodiversity movement \u003cbr\u003e10 Cognitive contradictions \u003cbr\u003e11 After normality\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eBibliography \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIndex\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42744691687517,"sku":"9780745348667","price":27.1,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9780745348667.jpg?v=1727369142"},{"product_id":"autism-is-not-a-disease-the-politics-of-neurodiversity","title":"Autism Is Not A Disease: The Politics of Neurodiversity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow to build a fairer, more neuro-inclusive society\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNeurodiversity is one of the most urgent political issues of our time. As the number of diagnoses of autism, ADHD, and other types of neurodivergence rises, we are starting to understand that there is no such thing as a 'normal' brain. But society is still organised around neuronormativity, and autism is treated as a disease.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJodie Hare, diagnosed with autism at twenty-three, argues it is time to redefine the politics of who we are. She calls for the recognition of diversity as part of natural variation, rather than a departure from sameness. This will have an impact on the places where we learn, work, and socialise - and Hare shows how these can be adapted to be more inclusive and accessible. She shows how we might commit to building a world where we can all thrive, one that works to combat discrimination based on race, class, gender, and disability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A fascinating exploration of the politics of neurodiversity. Hare has delivered a persuasive and inspiring manifesto that calls on us all to rethink what it really means to be 'normal'.\" Grace Blakeley, author of \u003cem\u003eVulture Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A formidable contribution to neurodiversity movement. Sharp, accessible and unflinchingly radical, this book is perfect for those who are looking for a political introduction to neurodiversity. It also makes a unique contribution to the conversation in its own right. Thoroughly cited, Hare makes links between a wide range of revolutionary thinkers and movements to politicise an issue that is being increasingly co-opted under neoliberal capitalism. It is the perfect book to meet this political moment, and helps us see that neurodiversity is connected to all of our liberation struggles.\" Micah Frazer-Carroll, author of \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjI2OTAyIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/mad-world-the-politics-of-mental-health\" title=\"Mad World\"\u003eMad World\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A perfect foundational book encouraging us to challenge misconceptions we have on neurodiversity.\" Beauty Dhlamini, \u003cem\u003e Red Pepper\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJ\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003eodie Hare\u003c\/b\u003e was diagnosed with autism at twenty-three years old. She has an MA in Modern Languages, Literature, and Culture from King’s College, London. She has written for publications such as \u003ci\u003eNovara Media\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRefinery29\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e. She works as a copywriter. She tweets at @jodslouise\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42767406104669,"sku":"9781804291535","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/614BqUVijSL._SL1500.jpg?v=1728146459"},{"product_id":"abolishing-fossil-fuels","title":"Abolishing Fossil Fuels: Lessons from Movements That Won","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClimate destruction is a problem of political power.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe have the resources for a green transition, but how can we neutralize the influence of Exxon and Shell? Abolishing Fossil Fuels argues that the climate movement has started to turn the tide against fossil fuels, just too gradually. The movement's partial victories show us how the industry can be further undermined and eventually abolished. Activists have been most successful when they've targeted the industry's enablers: the banks, insurers, and big investors that finance its operations, the companies and universities that purchase fossil fuels, and the regulators and judges who make life-and-death rulings about pipelines, power plants, and drilling sites. This approach has jeopardized investor confidence in fossil fuels, leading the industry to lash out in increasingly desperate ways. The fossil fuel industry's financial and legal enablers are also its Achilles heel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe most powerful movements in US history succeeded in similar ways. The book also includes an in-depth analysis of four classic victories: the abolition of slavery, battles for workers' rights in the 1930s, Black freedom struggles of the 1950s and 1960s, and the fight for clean air. Those movements inflicted costs on economic elites through strikes, boycotts, and other mass disruption. They forced some sectors of the ruling class to confront others, which paved the way for victory. Electing and pressuring politicians was rarely the movements' primary focus. Rather, gains in the electoral and legislative realms were usually the byproducts of great upsurges in the fields, factories, and streets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThose historic movements show that it's very possible to defeat capitalist sectors that may seem invulnerable. They also show us how it can be done. They offer lessons for building a multiracial, working-class climate movement that can win a global green transition that's both rapid and equitable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Of the many present crises facing the future of humanity, climate change and its threat of mass extinction appears to be the most daunting. Kevin Young argues compellingly, however, that electoral strategies to fight climate change are a dead end. Rather, his study of past successful movements suggests that radical upsurges, the building of disruptive mass movements, including demonstrations, civil disobedience, and large strikes, are more compelling alternatives for stemming the tide, while ultimately only the end of capitalism will save us. A tour de force!“ Michael Goldfield, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eAbolishing Fossil Fuels: Lessons from Movements that Won\u003c\/em\u003e, Kevin A Young makes a compelling and well-researched case for the kinds of disruptive grassroots tactics that are required to address the climate crisis. He dives into the history of several key movements that have succeeded and disabuses the reader of some well-accepted myths about them. Young focuses on the strategies needed to take to take power from the fossil fuel industry, and lead to a livable world. This is required reading for anyone interested in thinking strategically about how to address the climate crisis. Which should be all of us.” Cynthia Kaufman, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Sea Is Rising and So Are We: A Climate Justice Handbook\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Want to get rid of the fossil fuels that are destroying our future but are baffled about how to do so? Is climate protection an impossible dream? Are the fossil fuel forces just too powerful to take down? If you want honest, realistic, but also hopeful answers to those questions, read Kevin A. Young's \u003cem\u003eAbolishing Fossil Fuels\u003c\/em\u003e. Young presents a careful analysis of the powers that are purveying fossil fuels—and of how ordinary people can defeat them by inflicting sustained disruption on the elites that are perpetuating climate destruction. If the original Abolitionists could take down the slaveholders—the greatest power in the land—why can't we abolish fossil fuels? Kevin Young's answer is we can. I hope this book will become the strategic handbook for the climate protection movement.” Jeremy Brecher, author of \u003cem\u003eAgainst Doom: A Climate Insurgency Manual \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The climate crisis will continue for as long as combustion capitalism reigns. Kevin A Young’s magisterial \u003cem\u003eAbolishing Fossil Fuels\u003c\/em\u003e explains how we’ll end that reign. With lucid and thorough historical analysis, Young shows how to win against the oil companies and their politicians. It’s a tour de force, and a gift to anyone lacking faith in the possibility of radical change.” Raj Patel, author of \u003cem\u003eStuffed and Starved\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Kevin Young's \u003cem\u003eAbolishing Fossil Fuels\u003c\/em\u003e is the kind of book the US climate movement desperately needs. The historic victories against slavery, the auto industry, and Jim Crow offer us the chance to build on more than the moral successes of past movements for justice, but also the wealth of tactical lessons that helped working people wrench concessions out of the clutches of yesterday's elites. Today's activists and organizations must ask not only principled questions about what they stand for, but also practical questions about how to deal with those who stand against progress. \u003cem\u003eAbolishing Fossil Fuels\u003c\/em\u003e provides a tremendous place to start and should be highly encouraged reading especially for young climate activists.” Olúf\u003cspan\u003eẹ́\u003c\/span\u003emi O. Táíwò, author of \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEzNzMwIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/elite-capture-how-the-powerful-took-over-identity-politics-and-everything-else\" title=\"Elite Capture\"\u003eElite Capture\u003c\/a\u003e: How the Powerful Took over Identity Politics (and Everything Else)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It's all in the vowels. Capital with an \u003cem\u003ea\u003c\/em\u003e means money while capitol with an \u003cem\u003eo\u003c\/em\u003e means law. Capital summarizes economic accumulation; capitol is the location of legislation. Fossil fuel capitalists lead us to impending deaths for the planet and the people, and a ‘genocidal consensus’ in the acceptance of those extinctions. History shows that local strikes, boycotts, demos, and riots against capital succeed while national electioneering and lobbying against capitols do not. This is a powerful argument, densely researched, and entirely convincing to avoid the clear and present danger.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMjAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/peter-linebaugh\" title=\"Peter Linebaugh\"\u003ePeter Linebaugh\u003c\/a\u003e, coauthor of \u003cem\u003eThe Many-Headed Hydra\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“As authoritarian states increasingly criminalize ‘fossil fuel refugees,’ Kevin A. Young provides an abolitionist analysis of the climate crisis. Young not only demonstrates the ‘structural power’ of antiracist, climate justice, and labor movements to confront the fossil fuel industry, but also explores strategies to advance its abolition. An urgent read.” Jordan T. Camp, author \u003cem\u003eIncarcerating the Crisis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Kevin Young’s fast-moving and wise study combines a terrific idea for a book and fine execution of that idea. \u003cem\u003eAbolishing Fossil Fuels\u003c\/em\u003e calls for just that, and in doing so reminds us that the great abolitions—for example, of male monopoly on political rights, of management autocracy in the workplace, and above all of chattel slavery—have stressed dreaming and acting equally. In inspired moments based on long patterns of direct action, they have won. Young draws the lessons of those victories for climate justice and planetary survival, emphasizing how much success grew from a protest tradition and how little from any simple identification of change with electoral politics.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjI2OTY3In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/david-r-roediger\" title=\"David Roediger\"\u003eDavid Roediger\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eAbolishing Fossil Fuels\u003c\/em\u003e, Kevin A. Young delineates how social movements have unpicked and can defeat the fossil fuel industry’s stranglehold not by focusing on politicians but by directly confronting the polluting companies and the financial institutions that support them. He nimbly weaves this analysis together with the history of other social movements, such as the work to abolish slavery, the labor struggles of workers in the automobile industry, the fight against white supremacists and how coal miners fought against air polluters both using and pinpointing limits of federal clean air laws. Young concludes by discussing how to build an intersectional climate movement, one that fights back against racism and engages the working class. A must read for anyone interested in ending our reliance on fossil fuels.” Christina Gerhardt, author of \u003cem\u003eSea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKevin A. Young\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e teaches history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has published several other books, including \u003cem\u003eLevers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do About It\u003c\/em\u003e (with Tarun Banerjee and Michael Schwartz) and the edited volume \u003cem\u003eMaking the Revolution: Histories of the Latin American Left\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42781609066589,"sku":"9798887440330","price":32.13,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9798887440330.width-1000.jpg?v=1728673746"},{"product_id":"why-would-feminists-trust-the-police","title":"Why Would Feminists Trust the Police?: A Tangled History Of Resistance And Complicity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eA tangled history of feminism’s complicity and resistance\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery week it seems there is a fresh scandal involving abhorrent, racist, misogynist behaviour by police officers. Yet these are the very people women are supposed to approach for help when faced with violence. And many feminists, hoping to use the criminal justice system to protect women, fight for stronger laws and longer sentences for those who harm them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy Would Feminists Trust the Police?\u003c\/i\u003e traces the history of British feminism’s alliances and struggles with the law and its enforcers. Drawing on the legacy of Black British feminism, Leah Cowan reminds us of the vibrant and creative alternatives envisioned by those who have long known the truth: the police aren’t feminist, and the law\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 does not keep women safe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\"An urgent call to dismantle carceral feminism rooted in a powerful historical analysis that centers the lived experiences and movements of those left out of mainstream feminism.\" Alex Vitale, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eThe End of Policing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Leah Cowan exposes the historical links between carceral feminism and policing with eloquent persuasion. Immaculately researched, her critique centres Black Feminism, while inviting us to dream of a world free of truncheons and jail cells\" Stella Dadzie, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eA Kick in the Belly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Confidently expounds the fundamental antagonism between the armed wing of the state and gender freedom for all. Here is a beautiful voice, guaranteed to recruit many\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/sophie-lewis\" title=\"Sophie Lewis\"\u003eSophie Lewis\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAbolish the Family\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Cowan pulls no punches here. For those feminists who consider policing a useful weapon in the struggle, expect a thorough account of complicity in state violence that will have you questioning what you’ve long taken for granted. A revelatory and humbling read for anyone who holds out some extant belief that the police are, or could ever be, our comrades\" Juno Mac, co-author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eRevolting Prostitutes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This unflinching history of mainstream British feminism's entanglements with the police deserves to be read by all feminists. Cowan tackles crucial questions, from why some suffrage campaigners eventually became fascists, to why some feminists demanded more police power after Sarah Everard was murdered by a serving police officer. She also explores the still-marginalised history of working class, women of colour feminist organising which has sought transformation instead of control. This is essential reading to help us out of the quagmire in which gains for some women are still achieved at the expense of others.\" Alison Phipps, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eMe, Not You: the trouble with mainstream feminism\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eWhy Would Feminists Trust the Police?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e is the book we've been waiting for. Leah combines forensic research with a rare and generous clarity of thought. I learned so much about the history of policing and the pioneering attempts to build something different and better in the future. This should be required reading, especially for white women.\" Emily Kenway, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eWho Cares\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eWhy Would Feminists Trust the Police?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e illuminates the arguments taking place among radicals and liberals in a key flashpoint in feminist struggle: policing. Drawing on vivid accounts from the front lines of resistance to policing, Cowan provides clarity and vision in tackling one of the most urgent issues of our time.\" Adam Elliott-Cooper, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eBlack Resistance to British Policing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There has always been an ideological struggle between feminisms from below, and feminisms of the status quo. While the former is about freeing us all, the latter only seeks to free some of us. Leah's vital intervention comes at a crucial time, where violence against women is once again being weaponised to legitimise violence against racialised others. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eWhy Would Feminists Trust the Police?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e provides an essential antidote, and points us towards a real feminist revolution.\" Shanice Octavia McBean, co-author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAbolition Revolution\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eWhy Would Feminists Trust the Police?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e meticulously deconstructs much feminist common sense about safety, opening the way to brilliant abolitionist horizons that might genuinely give the word meaning.\" Gracie Mae Bradley, co-author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAgainst Borders\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Leah writes urgently, persuasively and with a laser-like focus, using her expertise to carve open the limitations of carceral feminism in a British context, making it legible to those newly encountering it. 'Timely' barely does justice to the necessity of this book right now.\" Paula Akpan, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eWhen We Ruled: The Rise and Fall of Twelve African Queens and Warriors\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eWhy Would Feminists Trust the Police?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e is a brilliant and much-needed book, which offers vital analysis of how British feminism became entangled in policing and why we urgently need a different approach. Tracing the complex history of feminist alliances with law enforcement and providing powerful insights into the pitfalls of carceral feminism, this remarkable book offers important lessons for anyone seeking to end gender, racial, and economic violence. A beautifully written, carefully researched, and highly engaging read that interweaves historical analysis with cogent political insights, Leah Cowan builds a crucial vision for feminism that addresses gender-based violence without relying on harmful alliances with police. This is the book we all need to untangle ourselves from the traps of carceral politics and to envision a feminism that truly serves us all.\" Sarah Lamble, Professor of Criminology and Queer Theory, Birkbeck\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A persuasive call for feminists everywhere to reconsider how women's well-being is used to justify oppression\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Through frameworks of Black British feminism and abolition, writer and editor Leah Cowan disrupts the notion that women could-or should-ever trust or depend on the police. While some women still hold out for police protection, Cowan dispels this myth and provides clear-eyed and convincing alternatives to keeping ourselves safe.\" Karla J. Strand, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Impressive ... Cowan approaches her abolitionist arguments with a clear expertise and care, and her exploration of the ways in which carceral policies impact marginalised communities reflects her career in the sector. Her searing critiques of the state are calm and cutting, but her visions of an alternative are tender and hopeful.\" Paula Lacey, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eThe Skinny, 5* Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Provides incisive answers to the question of what one can do when the people tasked with protecting you are also your assailants.\" Angel Lambo, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eFrieze, Summer Book Picks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Makes a critical intervention at a critical point in time for British feminism - challenging its tendency to erase, mask and overlook the tangled history of both resistance and complicity between feminists and the police ... Why Would Feminists Trust the Police? offers a crucial examination of the complex relationship between British feminism and the state, and presents a roadmap for the understanding and dismantling the entanglements between feminism, patriarchy, and state violence.\" Isabella Kajiwara, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eRed Pepper\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eWhy Would Feminists Trust the Police?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e offers a crucial examination of the complex relationship between British feminism and the state ... Cowan's work serves as a guide for feminists of today to confront the underlying structures of carceral feminism that infiltrate our movements in the present - paving the way for an eventual abolitionist future.\" Isabella Yasmin Kajiwara, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eRed Pepper\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eWhy Would Feminists Trust the Police?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e adds new insights to well-known histories, and shines a light on lesser known tales of the British feminist movement.\" Larissa Kennedy, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eShado Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42781638590557,"sku":"9781804293034","price":33.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781804293034.jpg?v=1728673929"},{"product_id":"going-against-the-tide-2-fall-2024","title":"Going Against the Tide #2 (Fall 2024): A journal charting a path for communist revolution in the US","description":"\u003cp\u003eGATT writes about #2: Introducing our pamphlets series, addressing the so-called migrant crisis, conspiracy theories, and healthcare under capitalism, and featuring a manual on the art of propaganda, revolutionary songs, and part 2 of “With a few exceptions, colonialism is over” by Kenny Lake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe journal can be contacted at: goingagainstthetide AT proton.me\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCheck out the journal's website at: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroducing our pamphlet series\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProletarian identity crisis:\u003cbr\u003eBlame the migrants or blame the bourgeoisie?\u003cbr\u003eGATT pamphlet series\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConspiracy theories cloud the enemy class\u003cbr\u003eGATT pamphlet series\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow the bourgeoisie keeps us sick\u003cbr\u003eGATT pamphlet series\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeepening proletarian class-consciousness and addressing the key questions: a manual on propaganda\u003cbr\u003eOrganization of Communist Revolutionaries \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow long?\u003cbr\u003ea revolutionary song \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe November deception\u003cbr\u003ea revolutionary song\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelf-righteous woke capitulation or revolutionary resolve?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eGATT editorial\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a few exceptions, colonialism is over: postmodernist idiocy, neodevelopmentalist  fantasy, and the past and present of capitalism-imperialism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eKenny Lake\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 2: Capitalism keeps on rockin’ in the free world (1945–1975)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Going Against the Tide","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42832613277789,"sku":"GATT2","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/gatt_iss_2_cover_web.jpg?v=1730402371"},{"product_id":"the-struggle-against-police-brutality-a-collection-of-articles-from-kites-journal","title":"The Struggle Against Police Brutality: A collection of articles from kites journal","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection, published in 2024 by \u003cem\u003eGoing Against the Tide\u003c\/em\u003e, brings together articles, coming from a communist perspective, on the struggle against police brutality that were published in the journal \u003cem\u003ekites \u003c\/em\u003eand on its website from 2020–23. \u003cem\u003ekites \u003c\/em\u003ejournal was a collaboration between communists in the US and Canada, and was the predecessor of \u003cem\u003eGoing Against the Tide\u003c\/em\u003e, a journal charting a path for communist revolution in the US. 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Scholar-activist Emily L. Thuma traces the making of this anticarceral feminism at the intersections of struggles for racial and economic justice, imprisoned and institutionalized people's rights, and gender and sexual liberation. All Our Trials chronicles the organizing, ideas, and influence of those who placed criminalized and marginalized women at the heart of their antiviolence mobilizations. This activism confronted a \"tough on crime\" political agenda and clashed with the mainstream women's movement's strategy of resorting to the criminal legal system as a solution to sexual and domestic violence. Drawing on extensive archival research and first-person narratives, Thuma weaves together the stories of mass defense campaigns, prisoner uprisings, coalition organizing, and radical print cultures that cut through prison walls. In the process, All Our Trials reveals a vibrant culture of opposition to interpersonal and state violence that both transforms our understanding of 1970s social movements and illuminates the history of present struggles for transformative justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eA rich, vital, vibrant, and uncompromising history of rebellion.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eSarah Haley, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eNo Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAll Our Trials\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e offers us a robust history of late twentieth-century radical feminist antiviolence organizing. Thuma reminds us that the activism of the present is built upon an important legacy of work that traversed movements and prison walls. If we are to build an abolitionist feminist future, we would be wise to pay attention to the antiracist queer feminist politics of these activists. We owe a debt of gratitude to them for paving the way, and to Thuma for chronicling their struggles.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAngela Y. Davis, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAbolition: Politics, Practices, and Promises\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“To understand the history of abolition feminism, read this book. Emily Thuma brilliantly reconstructs the little-known insurgencies of half-a-century ago that rejected carceral feminism and reform in favor of antiracism, class politics, self-determination, abolition and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003erevolution\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e—a revolution that remains unfinished. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAll Our Trials\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e shows us a way forward.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eRobin D. G. Kelley, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eFreedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e“All Our Trials\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e reminds us that abolition feminism is not a new concept and is deeply rooted in organizing. Emily Thuma gives us a beautifully documented history of the people and organizations that laid the foundation for resistance to using the prison industrial complex as a response to sexual violence. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAll Our Trials\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e helps us see the steps taken by organizers, activists, and artists to build the anti-prison, anti-violence movement.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eRachel Herzing, coauthor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eHow to Abolish Prisons\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e“A meticulously researched intervention into histories of feminist antiviolence activism. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAll Our Trials\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e is a profoundly optimistic and inspiring book. Thuma demonstrates the real power of activism and the way that organizations that are often easily dismissed as too radical or utopian can have far-reaching impacts.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003ePriya Kandaswamy, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eFeminist Formations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAll Our Trials\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e transports readers to an electrifying era of grassroots feminist resistance to prisons and other systems of state punishment. Through first-hand activist accounts, unforgettable images, and vivid storytelling, Emily Thuma teaches us that feminist calls for prison abolition did not just suddenly emerge — we are part of an insurgent legacy of Black feminist strategic organizing, campaigns to defend survivors of violence, and networks of resistance that prison walls could not repress. Since its first publishing, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAll Our Trials\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e has become an essential contribution to feminist social movement history, but it has also achieved the rare distinction of being a work of scholarship that is circulated as an indispensable resource for grassroots organizers, inside prisons and out. Be galvanized by the stories in this special book and be assured that we are part of a groundswell of calls for freedom.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAlisa Bierria, cofounder of Survived \u0026amp; Punished, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAbolition Feminisms\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAll Our Trials\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e offers a vital history for contemporary prison abolitionists seeking to make the world anew... Thuma provides today’s abolitionist activists with a highly usable past to learn from, as we strive to redirect our collective capacities away from prisons and policing and towards transformative justice and care.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eLydia Pelot-Hobbs, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAgainst the Current\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAll Our Trials\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e is not just an account of brutal conditions in which many women face abusive relationships and the violence of incarceration but a testament to the indomitable spirit of those who refuse to be defined by their circumstances. Their trials are not merely legal battles but deeply personal and collective journeys of resilience, resistance, liberation, and survival. As someone who has lived through and alongside these struggles, I invite you to witness the courage, hope, and unwavering fortitude that defines this book. It is a call to action, urging readers to confront the injustices within our criminal legal system and to join in the fight for a more equitable and humane future.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eRomarilyn Ralston, California Coalition for Women Prisoners\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e“This book is a much-needed antidote to carceral feminism. Thuma chronicles movements and the brilliant, angry, and determined organizers who might otherwise be lost to time and forgetting. In doing so, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAll Our Trials\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e reminds us of the unrepentant resistance to caging and confinement—and that you can fight the carceral state and win.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victoria-law\" title=\"Victoria Law\"\u003eVictoria Law\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eResistance Behind Bars\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eCorridors of Contagion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e“With deep compassion, Thuma offers one of the most compelling historical analyses of how feminist activism of Black, queer, and criminalized women has worked to resist the long and dangerous reach of the carceral state. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAll Our Trials\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e is an important text in the growing fields of critical prison studies and anti-carceral feminism and a critical addition to activist reading lists.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eBeth E. Richie, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eArrested Justice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e and coauthor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAbolition. Feminism. Now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAll Our Trials\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e transforms our understanding of both the history of feminism and of the carceral state. In her deeply compelling account, Thuma documents the work of activists who centered the lives of the most marginalized in their social justice imaginary and their political agenda, producing an anticarceral feminist politics and an expansive analysis of the interconnections between interpersonal and state violence. A crucial and timely read.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eRegina Kunzel, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eCriminal Intimacy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eIn the Shadow of Diagnosis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e“A refreshing antidote to critiques of the feminist anti-violence movement that have ignored the activism of women of color. Highly readable and deeply archival, with many fascinating images of activists, fliers, posters, and newsletters, Thuma’s book reveals a previously neglected history of important ideological and social movement roots of the current feminist abolition movement.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eCarrie Baker, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e“Thuma’s text is not only a tour de force—which it surely is—but also a reflection of the author’s attunement to her own role as a true teacher and a subtly powerful, generous contributor to abolition feminism. It is an invaluable contribution to the combined scholarship and activism that is our practice in social movements today. It is a resource and a guide for anti-carceral feminist action, the sustenance of abolition movements.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eBrooke Lober, co-editor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAbolition Feminisms\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42848060145757,"sku":"9798888902639","price":27.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9798888902639-f_medium-2abaa065409a5070be31eabd9f57b913.jpg?v=1730771204"},{"product_id":"dialectics-of-revolution","title":"Dialectics of Revolution: Hegel, Marxism, and Its Critics Through a Lens of Race, Class, Gender, and Colonialism","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book collects four decades of writings on dialectics, a number of them published here for the first time, by Kevin B. Anderson, a well-known scholar-activist in the Marxist-Humanist tradition. The essays cover the dialectics of revolution in a variety of settings, from Hegel and the French Revolution to dialectics today and its poststructuralist and pragmatist critics. In these essays, particular attention is given to Lenin's encounter with Hegel and its impact on the critique of imperialism, the rejection of crude materialism, and more generally, on world revolutionary developments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMajor but neglected works on Hegel and dialectics written under the impact of the struggle against fascism like Lukács's The Young Hegel and Marcuse's Reason and Revolution are given full critical treatment. Dunayevskaya's intersectional revolutionary dialectics is also treated extensively, especially its focus on a dialectics of revolution that avoids class reductionism, placing gender, race, and colonialism at the center alongside class. In addition, key critics of Hegel and dialectics like Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Antonio Negri, Pierre Bourdieu, and Richard Rorty, are themselves analysed and critiqued from a twenty-first century dialectical perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book also takes up the dialectic in global, intersectional settings via a reconsideration of the themes of Anderson's Marx at the Margins, where nationalism, race, and colonialism were theorized alongside capital and class as key elements in Marxist dialectical thought. As a whole, the book offers a discussion of major themes in the dialectics of revolution that still speak to us today at a time of radical transformation in all spheres of society and of everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKevin B. Anderson is a Professor of Sociology at University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eLenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism: A Critical Study\u003c\/em\u003e (University of  Illinois Press, 1995), \u003cem\u003eFoucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism \u003c\/em\u003e(with Janet Afary, University of Chicago Press, 2005), and \u003cem\u003eMarx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity and Non-Western Societies \u003c\/em\u003e(University of Chicago Press, 2010\/2016), and is the coeditor of the \u003cem\u003eRosa Luxemburg Reader\u003c\/em\u003e (with Peter Hudis, 2004), \u003cem\u003eKarl Marx\u003c\/em\u003e (with Bertell Ollman, 2012), and the \u003cem\u003eDunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence\u003c\/em\u003e (2012, with Russell Rockwell). Currently, he is working on a study of Marx’s late writings on non-Western and precapitalist societies and gender.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daraja Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42848064634973,"sku":"9781988832753","price":25.2,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781988832753.jpg?v=1730771258"},{"product_id":"how-nonviolence-protects-the-state-1","title":"How Nonviolence Protects the State (3rd edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSince the civil rights era, the doctrine of nonviolence has enjoyed near-universal acceptance by the US Left. Today protest is often shaped by cooperation with state authorities--even organizers of rallies against police brutality apply for police permits, and anti-imperialists usually stop short of supporting self-defense and armed resistance. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow Nonviolence Protects the State\u003c\/em\u003e challenges the belief that nonviolence is the only way to fight for a better world. In a call bound to stir controversy and lively debate, Peter Gelderloos invites activists to consider diverse tactics, passionately arguing that exclusive nonviolence often acts to reinforce the same structures of oppression that activists seek to overthrow.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cspan data-title-id=\"60014064\"\u003e\u003cspan data-title-id=\"45677502\" id=\"titleId\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-title-id=\"60014064\"\u003e\u003cspan data-title-id=\"45677502\" id=\"titleId\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Gelderloos\u003c\/strong\u003e is an anarchist writer originally from Virginia. He is author of \u003ca class=\"text-link\" title=\"Worshiping Power\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/worshiping-power\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorshiping Power\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConsensus\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ca class=\"text-link\" title=\"Anarchy Works\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/anarchy-works\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnarchy Works\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Detritus Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42861955285085,"sku":"9781948501019","price":23.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/HowNonviolenceProtectstheState3ed_360x_3b9f4032-b48c-4514-a13b-8b20521e8ed7.png?v=1731182447"},{"product_id":"how-to-break-an-addiction-a-method-in-a-manifesto-for-quitting-capitalism","title":"How to Break an Addiction: A Method-in-a-Manifesto for Quitting Capitalism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-excerpt\" data-content-field=\"excerpt\" id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1731333331239_135\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat the opioid epidemic teaches us about the addiction at the root of our social life—and how we free ourselves from it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow To Break An Addiction\u003c\/em\u003e paints an original and dynamic portrait of the nature of the opioid crisis while offering original commentary on what the crisis portends about the present historical conjuncture. Interrogating long- and short-run, macro and micro, national and global, structural and personal factors, it takes the ongoing US opioid crisis as a jumping off point to illustrate the profound conclusion: capitalism at its core is an addiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eIn a blend of memoir, historical record, original research, and theoretical and cultural analysis, critical geographer and harm reduction activist Annie Spencer argues against a dominant ‘progressive’ presumption of the need to reform (or ‘save’) capitalism, demonstrating instead the imperative to think, organize, and enact new ways of being and provisioning together on a living Earth. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow To Break An Addiction \u003c\/em\u003erenders visible the extent to which the world we inhabit today is made by addiction—in capital’s image—and against life and well-being. Spencer calls for redress of the deepening crisis of addiction and the so-called ‘epidemic’ of pain at its root; for a paradigm shift away from the dominant economic logic in favor of new kinds of ecosystemic social practice and provision. We must innovate a new way of being human together in the here and now. Spencer’s first-person narration anchors rigorous and far-reaching research and theory, making for an original and impactful tour through capital’s addiction to crisis and our ability—and need—to break from it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Annie Spencer’s bravery to speak the truth offers us a model and path forward, away from both the ‘suffering addict’ and victim-blaming discourses that surround the opioid crisis, and reminds us that there is so much more behind the death and destruction of illicit opioid use and accidental overdose in the United States. Weaving together personal experiences, socioeconomic analysis, and historical insight, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Break an Addiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e invites us to look at this whole mess differently and reframes addiction and chaotic substance use as a consequence of systemic, calculated, and intentional choices. I hope every classroom across the country reads this book and I hope every harm reductionist embraces it. With its publication, we finally have a book that represents us degenerates, drug users, sex workers, queer people in a way that honors our experiences and celebrates our wisdom.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eZoe Odlin-Platz\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Director of Operations, Church of Safe Injection\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Break an Addiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is brilliant, gutting, miraculous, uncategorizable. It will crowbar-open neglected parts of your brain and set your heart on fire. It is not so much a book about addiction or the opioid crisis, as a book about our pain under capitalism and what it means to be an Earthling. Annie Spencer guides us gently through the centuries, the science, the Marxist theory, the contours of the precipice otherwise known as our times in poetic prose that is easy to understand, that sings, that transports, that reminds us about the best aspects of ourselves, that we have purpose and we have possibility.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOwen Toews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eIsland Falls\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eStolen City: Racial Capitalism and the Making of Winnipeg\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“An essential corrective to overdetermined narratives of addiction that locate the opioid crisis in either the damaged brains of users or in the unscrupulous hands of doctors, dealers, and pharma reps, Annie Spencer centers a capitalist logic that alienates us from forms of solidarity and violently clears ground for extractive profit. Clear-eyed in their outrage and grief, Spencer promiscuously moves between form, discipline and context in this essential indictment of a global system that keeps us in pain in order to sell us the fix.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBenjamin Haber\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Wesleyan University \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“As a mutual aid and harm reduction project committed to sharing resources and redistributing wealth throughout the Kensington community, we think \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Break An Addiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is essential reading for anyone involved in similar work. This book humanizes our community members through its analysis, compellingly arguing that addiction is not a moral failing but a failure of a society reliant on capitalism. Dr. Spencer expertly identifies the pernicious ways the capitalist mode of production accumulates wealth through dispossession, especially for those that capital must fail in order to grow.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCommunity Action Relief Project\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a mutual aid organization in Philadelphia, PA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “Annie Xibos Spencer, whose prose indicates that she could have just as likely been a rapper than a geographer, gives us a scholarly and accessible map of the people, policies, and corporations behind the opioid epidemic as well as our collective social pain. Our space-age materialist tour guide reveals the economic causes of chronic pain and morbidity and reveals that our recovery is predicated on a revolution that is more powerful than the chemicals. Substance users of the world, unite! We have nothing to lose but our chronic existential and physical pain!” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCassie Thornton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Hologram: Feminist, Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “This beautiful, forcefully argued book wrestles our understanding of addiction away from pathology and punishment, placing it exactly where it must be: in a history of capital, an extractive economic system which is fundamentally against life. Across these pages, Spencer argues that if our social movements strive, on the other hand, to be for life, then we must without question be on the side of those who have been treated as disposable and discarded as ‘addicts.’ Far from a call to rescue people from drug use, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow To Break an Addiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reveals that understanding the political economy of the opioid epidemic’s devastation is a necessary step to saving ourselves from the death-making and deadening forces of capitalism today.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCraig Willse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Value of Homelessness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Break an Addiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a stellar analysis on the unavoidable poisons in the framework of survival. The wiring of our consciousness, our access to wellness, and our cognitive ability to separate truth from trauma, deteriorates under capitalism, destroying our voice and our purpose. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Break an Addiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, studying the opioid epidemic becomes the axis between surviving systemic abuse and accessing self-care.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjI3Mjk0In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/cristy-c-road\" title=\"Cristy Road Carrera\"\u003eCristy Road Carrera\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author, artist; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNext World Tarot, Spit \u0026amp; Passion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “We know that capitalism is about the reign of abstractions, of surplus value over life, of abstract labor over the laboring body. These abstractions are codified and reified in the discipline of economics, which abstract itself from the lives that are wrecked in the wake of the pursuit of profit. What would it mean to think concretely? How can we locate thought in our bodies, in our struggle, and this moment? Annie Xibos Spencer’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Break an Addiction: A Method-in-a-Manifesto for Quitting Capitalism\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is not just a book on the opioid epidemic and its situation with late-capitalist strategies of exploitation and extraction, but a demonstration of how one can think in-and-through the specificity of one’s situation, one’s struggles, and even one’s pain to produce a common strategy for struggle and liberation.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJason Read\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “This book isn’t just a story about the so-called ‘addict,’ the demon drug of OxyContin, or, even, the most evil people in the pharmaceutical industry (meet the Sacklers!). It is, at its core, a crime story about capitalism: how capitalism makes addicts of all of us but how the true addict is capital itself; how this dead but dominant paradigm destroys personal lives, but also planetary life. Damning as it is, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Break an Addiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is also deeply funny, generous, personal, moving—and, dare I say, healing! In short: this is the book about the opioid epidemic you want to hold in your hand to make sense of the world and the book you want holding your hand too as you break free.” Mikkel Frantzen, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGoing Nowhere, Slow: The Aesthetics and Politics of Depression\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “Spencer’s work is a tour de force that effortlessly moves between the personal and the structural and thereby evokes the best of critical theory while at the same time producing an altogether novel approach to the most pressing societal issues of our time.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBjörn Karlsson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, organizer and scholar activist, IT University of Copenhagen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “The ongoing opioid ‘epidemic’ is a racialized class war. It is capitalism feeding on the misery it has created, presenting a gory scene full of murderous contradictions. What would an epic detective story read like if the victim were a whole society, if the killer were a system, and if the sleuth was not a cop but a comrade? This remarkable book offers us a model. It moves with precision, grace, and compassion between theory, testimony, political economy, history, biography, science, and vision. File it under a radical forensics, but rippling with a quiet, queer hope. It not only shows us the bodies, the motive, and the method of this monumental crime. Like the best of such stories, this one invites us to see the glint of solidarity in the grit and darkness, and by that light to find our way through the long night back to day.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMax Haiven\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRevenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAnnie Xibos Spencer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was born in North Philadelphia and grew up in Venice, Florida. They studied economics and international studies at New College of Florida and Latin American political economy at La Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires. Their undergraduate honors thesis on the role of the IMF in the Argentine Peso Crisis earned them a job at the World Bank Institute where they worked as a writer and program evaluator while obtaining a MA in International Trade and Investment Policy at George Washington University. Spencer spent two summers in Dhaka, Bangladesh on a fellowship where she studied Bengali language and culture at the Independent University of Bangladesh and learned from feminist-Marxist agrarian movement, Naya Krishi Andolon. Spencer was an active participant in Occupy Wall Street and a founding member of the Occupy Student Debt Campaign and STRIKE Debt.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpencer has worked extensively in mutual-aid harm reduction and organized on the opioid epidemic and against state abandonment of people who use drugs in Maine. In 2020 they completed a PhD in human geography from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, where they won the 2017 Provost’s Award for Scholarship in the Public Interest and the 2016 Revolutionizing American Studies dissertation award. Spencer was a doctoral fellow with the Center for Place, Culture and Politics and the Mellon Committee on Globalization and Social Change. They have taught economic geography, economics and cultural studies at Hunter College CUNY, the University of Southern Maine, and Bates College. They live in Sweden.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42865988010077,"sku":"9781945335198","price":33.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781945335198_FC.jpg?v=1731334556"},{"product_id":"gandhis-assassin","title":"Gandhi's Assassin: The Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe life of Nathuram Godse, the man who shot Gandhi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDhirendra Jha's deeply researched history places Nathuram Godse's life as the juncture of the dangerous fault lines in contemporary India: the quest for independence and the rise of Hindu nationalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn a wintry Delhi evening on 30 January 1948, Nathuram Godse shot Gandhi at point-blank range, forever silencing the man who had delivered independence to his nation. Godse’s journey to this moment of international notoriety from small towns in western India is, by turns, both riveting and wrenching. Drawing from previously unpublished archival material, Jha challenges the standard account of Gandhi’s assassination, and offers a stunning view on the making of independent India.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn to Brahmin parents, Godse started off as a child\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 mystic. However, success eluded him. The caste system placed him at the top of society but the turbulent times meant that he soon became a disaffected youth, desperately seeking a position in the infant nation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn such confusing times, Godse was one of hundreds, and later thousands, of young Indian men to be steered into the sheltering fold of early Hindutva, Indian nationalism. His association with early formations of the RSS and far-right thinkers such as Sarvakar proves that he was not working alone. Today he is considered to be a patriotic hero by many for his act of bravery, despite being found guilty in court and executed in 1949.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Dhirendra K. Jha has anatomized, with calm resourcefulness, the politics and psychology of a fanatic. He has also written a secret and sinister history of modern India-the one we need to understand our ruinous present\" Pankaj Mishra\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book goes beyond the plot that resulted in Mahatma Gandhi's assassination, which the author meticulously analyses. It is indeed highly revealing of the omnipresence of the RSS on the Indian political scene in the 1940s. 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With social justice as one of its unshakable pillars, the Turkmen council movement took back land as commons and abolished capitalist private ownership of land, providing an alternative to top-down politics until it was defeated by the state through a combination of military terror and assimilation. Although short lived, the radically democratic movement connected with global struggles of Indigenous Peoples and autonomous movements that had broken away from patriarchal state forms and capitalist domination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Revolutions are not just about the change of regimes and state institutions. They are also expressed at the base of society– in schools, farms, factories, and families. This original study highlights one of the most neglected aspects of the 1979 Iranian revolution—the peasant council movement of Turkmen Sahra. By underlining its struggles for land and cultural revival, Vahabzadeh brings the Iranian experience into a productive conversation with the current indigenous movements around the globe.” Asef Bayat, bastian professor of global and transnational studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“An engaging yet scholarly counter-history of the Turkmen council movement – the remarkable experiment in radical democracy repressed and vilified by Iran’s Islamic regime, and largely ignored by left scholars. Vahabzadeh meticulously probes the struggle for land, culture, autonomy and the commons, placing it in a transnational context and exploring it’s profound lessons for those interested in collectively creating change from below.” William K. Carroll, professor of sociology, University of Victoria\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeyman Vahabzadeh is a professor of sociology at the University of Victoria. He is the author of several books, including \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Defiance: Dissident Culture and Militant Resistance in 1970s Iran; Violence and Nonviolence: Conceptual Excursions into Phantom Opposites;\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Rebel’s Journey: Mostafa Sho‘aiyan and Revolutionary Theory in Iran\u003c\/em\u003e. He is also editor of \u003cem\u003eIran’s Struggles for Social Justice: Economics, Agency, Justice, Activism\u003c\/em\u003e and co-editor, with Samir Gandesha, of \u003cem\u003eCrossing Borders: Essays in Honour of Ian Angus\u003c\/em\u003e. He has published nine books of poetry, fiction, literary criticism and memoir in Persian and his works have appeared in English, Persian, German, Kurdish, French and Spanish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"collapsing-block-content\" style=\"display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eAgainst Oblivion \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003eChapter 1:\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eHistorical and Conceptual Preparations for the Study\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003eChapter 2:\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eDispossession, Appropriation and Repressive Development\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003eChapter 3:\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eLand Is Life: The Prolonged Dispossession of Turkmens\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003eChapter 4:\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eThe Turkmen Council Movement: Advent, Challenges, Thriving\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003eChapter 5:\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eExpansion, Repression, Assimilation \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003eConclusion:\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eA World-Historical Movement: Turkmens’ Radical Democratic Experience\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fernwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43025513775197,"sku":"9781773636658","price":32.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781773636658.jpg?v=1737147572"},{"product_id":"trafficking-harms","title":"Trafficking Harms: Critical Politics, Perspectives and Experiences","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book brings together a stellar collection of scholars, activists and affected individuals who offer a much-needed critical perspective on Canada's ever-expanding anti-trafficking efforts and their wide-ranging impacts, including on migrant, sex-working and racialized communities.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmid the proliferating scholarship and often sensational public campaigns, \u003cem\u003eTrafficking Harms\u003c\/em\u003e offers fresh insights and critical analyses. The collection’s four thematic areas — Discourses and Representations; Law and Prosecutions; Policing and Surveillance; Migrant Labour Exploitation — examine an array of issues, including the contested definitions of human trafficking, the application of trafficking law and policy, the conflation of sex work and trafficking, the impacts of anti-trafficking frameworks on racialized communities, questions around “victims” and “traffickers” and much more. Showcasing a mix of scholarly research, public advocacy and first-person narratives, this book is the first of its kind in Canada. The authors include a diverse group of academics, legal advocates, frontline activists who work with migrant and sex-working communities, individuals who have been charged and\/or convicted of trafficking offences and those who are directly impacted by trafficking law and policing, such as domestic and migrant sex workers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTrafficking Harms\u003c\/i\u003e provides a long-overdue critical assessment of Canada’s dominant anti-trafficking approaches. What makes the volume particularly valuable is that it features stories of people with first-hand experience of anti-trafficking responses. The book should be read not only by academics and practitioners but also by decision-makers who are in a position to reduce the harms of anti-trafficking policies and practices in Canada.” Borislav Gerasimov, editor, \u003cem\u003eAnti-Trafficking Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This collection provides an opportunity to foreground the excellent and radical work being done on Indigeneity\/settler-colonialism and anti-trafficking.” Leslie Jeffrey, professor, Comparative Politics and International Relations, University of New Brunswick Saint John\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-detail-author-block\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-detail-author-bio\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKatrin Roots is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University. She has researched Canada’s anti-trafficking efforts for over a decade and is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Domestication of Human Trafficking: Law, Policing and Prosecution in Canada\u003c\/em\u003e. She is also the co-author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on trafficking law, enforcement and policing technologies and the co-editor (with Mariful Alam and Patrick Dwyer) of \u003cem\u003eViolence, Imagination and Resistance: Socio-Legal Interrogations of Power.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fernwoodpublishing.ca\/authors\/view\/ann-de-shalit\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-detail-author-block\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-detail-author-bio\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnn De Shalit is an assistant professor in the Department of Gender and Social Justice at Trent University. Her primary research uses labour and migrant justice approaches to expose the broadly defined impacts of anti-trafficking policy, discourse and practice. She has published peer-reviewed articles, community reports and a co-edited special journal issue on trafficking and has presented at numerous conferences and government consultations at all levels on the topic. She has taught an upper-year undergraduate course on human trafficking at York and Ontario Tech Universities. She has also been involved in community-based research, campaigns and publications in the areas of migration, sex work, precarious labour, prison health and harm reduction, housing, social work and police collaborations, and political advocacy by charities.\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fernwoodpublishing.ca\/authors\/view\/emily-van-der-meulen\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-detail-author-block\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-detail-author-bio\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmily van der Meulen is a professor in the Department of Criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University. She conducts research in the areas of sex work and human trafficking, prison and community-based harm reduction and gendered and transnational surveillance. She is co-editor of numerous books, including \u003cem\u003eRed Light Labour: Sex Work Regulation, Agency, and Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e (with Elya M. Durisin and Chris Bruckert), \u003cem\u003eMaking Surveillance States: Transnational Histories\u003c\/em\u003e (with Robert Heynen) and \u003cem\u003eDisability Injustice: Confronting Criminalization in Canada\u003c\/em\u003e (with Kelly Fritsch and Jeffrey Monaghan).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"collapsing-block-content\" style=\"display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eUnderstanding Human Trafficking: An Examination of Discourses, Laws, Policing and Migrant Labour (Katrin Roots, Ann De Shalit and Emily van der Meulen)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003eSection One: Trafficking Discourses and Representations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eBeyond Carceral Humanitarianism: Antiblackness as the Structure of Anti-Trafficking Discourse (Lyndsey P. Beutin)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eEmergence and Convergence of the Pimp and Trafficker in Media Discourse: Creating a New Super Folk Devil (Stacey Hannem and Chris Bruckert)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eA Narrative on Anti-Trafficking Discourse and Advocacy in Newfoundland (Laura Winters)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003eSection Two: Trafficking Law and Prosecutions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eProsecuting Trafficking in Persons Offences: Problems and Pitfalls in the Post-PCEPA Era (Tamara O’Doherty and Hayli Millar)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eHuman Trafficking Law and Policy: Exacerbating Racial and Gendered Violence in Ontario (Sandra Ka Hon Chu and Robyn Maynard)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eTargeting Asian Massage Parlours in the Name of Anti-Trafficking: Experiences of Asian Women in Toronto (Elene Lam)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eA Narrative on Defending People Charged with Human Trafficking (Mash Frouhar)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eA Narrative on Being Charged with Human Trafficking (Anonymous)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003eSection Three: Trafficking Policing and Surveillance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eAnti-Trafficking and Data-Driven Policing: A Whole-of-Society Strategy (Robert Heynen)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eAnti-Trafficking Policing in Vancouver: The Denial of Crimes Against Asian Sex Workers (Alison Clancey and Julie Ham)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eChallenging Notions of Benevolence and Protection: Settler Colonial Anti-Trafficking Policing in Manitoba (Julie Kaye and Cerah Dubé)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eA Narrative on Being an Indigenous and Trans Sex Worker in Winnipeg (Victoria Erin Flett)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003eSection Four: Trafficking and Migrant Labour Exploitation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eDiscretionary Decisions in Immigration: Accessing Temporary Resident Permits as a Victim of Trafficking (Jessica Templeman)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eRedefining “Exploitation”: Reconciling Human Trafficking Provisions with Canada’s Migrant Farm Work Program (Shane Martínez)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eA Narrative on Organizing for Migrant Farm Worker Justice (Chris Ramsaroop)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fernwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43025514299485,"sku":"9781773636689","price":35.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781773636689.jpg?v=1737147579"},{"product_id":"thyme-travellers","title":"Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThyme Travellers\u003c\/em\u003e brings together fourteen of the Palestinian diaspora’s best voices in speculative fiction, the first collection of its kind in Canada.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThyme Travellers \u003c\/em\u003ecollects fourteen of the Palestinian diaspora’s best voices in speculative fiction. Speculative fiction as a genre invites a reconfiguring of reality, and here each story is a portal into realms of history, folklore and futures. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA man stands on the shore waiting to commune with those who live in the ocean. Pilgrims stretch into the distance, passing a stone cairn with a mysterious light streaming from it. Two Australian women fervently dig a tunnel to Jerusalem. Men from Gaza swim in the sea until they drown, still unconcerned. A father and son struggle to connect over the AI scripts prompting their conversation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuilding on the work of trailblazing anthologies such as \u003cem\u003eReworlding Ramallah\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePalestine +100\u003c\/em\u003e, this volume is the first of its kind in Canada. Editor Sonia Sulaiman brings together stories by speculative fiction veterans and emerging writers from Australia to Egypt, Lebanon to Canada. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Editor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSonia Sulaiman writes short speculative fiction inspired by Palestinian folklore. Her work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eArab Lit Quarterly, Beladi, FANTASY, FIYAH\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eMagazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eXenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth, Seize the Press, Lackington’s Magazine \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Ask the Night for a Dream\u003c\/em\u003e. Her stories have been nominated for Pushcart, Lammy and Best New Weird awards. In her spare time, she curates the Read Palestinian Spec Fic Reading list. She is also the editor of a collection of short stories, \u003cem\u003eMuneera and the Moon: Stories Inspired by Palestinian Folklore\u003c\/em\u003e. Visit \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.soniasulaiman.com\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ewww.soniasulaiman.com\u003c\/a\u003e for more details.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"collapsing-block-content\" style=\"display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003ePreface \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003e— Sonia Sulaiman\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003eDown Under \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003e— Jumaana Abdu\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003eThe Third or Fourth Casualty \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003e— Ziyad Saadi\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003eThe Generation Chip \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003e— Nadia Afifi\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003eSoul Searching \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003e— Rana Othman\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003eThe Heart Knows the Truth\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003e— Layla Azmi Goushey\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003eCyrano de AI \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003e— Karl El-Koura\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003eThe Frontrunner \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003e— JD Harlock\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003eA Table Set for Two \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003e— Emad Al-Din Aysha\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003eIn the Future, We Can Go Back Home \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003e— Sara Solara\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003eThe Forty \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003e— Sonia Sulaiman\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003eRemembrance in Cerulean \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003e— Elise Stephens\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003eGaza Luna \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003e— Samah Serour Fadil\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003eOrlando’s Wolf \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003e— Rasha Abdulhadi\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003eThe Centre of the Universe \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003e— Nadia Shammas\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-label\"\u003eContributor Bios\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Within this beautiful, heartbreaking, inspiring book you’ll find some of the best speculative fiction I’ve read in years. Every story is alive, a living breathing thing, and they have collectively stayed with me since I read them and will for many years to come. Simply magnificent.” Daniel José Older, New York Times bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eBallad \u0026amp; Dagger\u003c\/em\u003e and story architect of \u003cem\u003eStar Wars: The High Republic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This is a collection of astonishingly brave, imaginative, and unapologetic stories that neither compromise on the integrity of their origin nor pander to a myopic audience. Reading this melancholy folklore of oppression and exile — of an inheritance of pain and countless loves dared and lost—stunned me and moved me to tears over and over. May these tales shatter the walls of every prison the world imposes upon them.” Usman T. 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