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Living with the Lower Case [Gabriel Kuhn reviews A Brilliant Red Thread]

Living with the Lower Case [Gabriel Kuhn reviews A Brilliant Red Thread]

[Originally posted to Gabriel Kuhn's blog at LeftTwoThree.org] A review of Don Hamerquist, A Brilliant Red Thread (Montreal: Kersplebedeb, 2023). There is much to like about Montreal publisher Kersplebedeb. One thing is the political positioning. Introducing a list of “Texts for leninists with an anti-authoritarian critique of leninism, and for anarchists with a pro-rev critique of anarchism” they write: “Here at Kersplebedeb, some of of our favourite radical theory occurs where anarchists (broadly speaking) who are critical of anarchism – and are therefore charged with being Leninists – intermingle with Leninists (broadly speaking) who are critical of Leninism – and...

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Review of "We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti Racist Action" [ThreeWayFight]

Review of "We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti Racist Action" [ThreeWayFight]

[Originally posted to the ThreeWayFight blog.] Kdog reviews the new book, We Go Where They Go: the Story of Anti-Racist Action   I spent a good part of my teens and twenties building ARA... It was my university... its rewarding to have the history treated as something significant, even crucial. More than giving props to the OG antifas tho—what's really meaningful is that this book will help a new generation, confronting new forms of the fascist threat, find inspiration and lessons in both our successes and failures. In February I read the excellent new book We Go Where They Go:...

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Torkil Lauesen's Riding the Wave, reviewed by Adam Grey [RevolutionaryCommunist.org]

Torkil Lauesen's Riding the Wave, reviewed by Adam Grey [RevolutionaryCommunist.org]

Riding the Wave: Sweden’s Integration into the Imperialist World System, Torkil Lauesen, Kersplebedeb Publishing, 2021, 268pp. Reviewed by Adam Grey. [Originally published on RevolutionaryCommunist.org, 1 Dec 2022.] This important book by the Danish anti-imperialist activist Torkil Lauesen charts the history of Sweden ‘from 16th-century colonialism to the present day’ (p7). It is a description of the bloody foundations of what was in the 1980s one of the most socially and economically equal countries in the capitalist world. The book also places contemporary Swedish political economy in a global context: examining how Swedish capital operates today, how the Swedish working class...

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