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[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:...

Intro   A recent book on the Revolutionary Cells of Germany, a network of militant left-wing radicals active in the 1980s and 90s, includes a curious exchange. An interviewer asks three former RC members about anti-imperialism, insisting that it was a “Leninist concept”. Eventually, one of the former RC members says: “The term ‘anti-imperialism’ was widely used within the left at the time, it didn’t necessarily indicate Leninism. ... It meant that liberation cannot be reduced to the national frame; it needs to be international and the result of fighting an international system of exploitation.”   The questions by the...

The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar collective is releasing its 23rd calendar in 2024. With twelve pieces of beautiful art and twelve essays, these radical calendars have a history of hanging in thousands of homes, workplaces, prison cells, and community spaces around the globe—both educating and reminding us of those behind bars in the struggle for a better world. Having your work featured in the Certain Days calendar is a prestigious honor and a unique opportunity to use your words and your creative abilities to create a vision of an abolitionist future free of prisons, power structures, and...

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...

Kersplebedeb is excited to be tabling at next Saturday’s Teach-in Against the COP15 in Montreal. If you’re around come check it out! [English below.] Teach-in contre la COP15 samedi le 26 Novembre dès midi à l’université McGill (3480 McTavish) Le sommet international de la COP15 arrive à grands pas. Pour affuter nos luttes et bien préparer notre résitance à ce sommet, la Coalition anticapitaliste et écologiste contre la COP15 vous invite à un teach-in. Au menu, on vous propose une série d’ateliers, dont sécurité en manifestation, sécurité informatique, autodéfense juridique, pourquoi s’opposer à la COP15, entre autres! Ce teach-in est...