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Within minutes, nine peace activists were dead, shot by the Israelis. Scores of others were injured. Within hours, outrage at Israel's action echoed around the world. Spontaneous demonstrations occurred in Europe, the United States, Turkey, and Gaza itself to denounce the attack. Turkey's prime minister described it as a \"bloody massacre\" and \"state terrorism.\" In these pages, a range of activists, journalists, and analysts piece together the events that occurred that May night. Mixing together first-hand testimony and documentary record with hard-headed analysis and historical overview, \u003cem\u003eMidnight on the Mavi Marmara\u003c\/em\u003e reveals why the attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla may just turn out to be Israel's Selma, Alabama moment: the beginning of the end for an apartheid Palestine. Contributors include: Ali Abunimah, Omar Barghouti, George Bisharat, Max Blumenthal, Noam Chomsky, Martha B. 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The first book on the flotilla massacre serves accordingly as the general public's introduction to civil society and the Gaza crisis—a collection of eyewitness accounts as well as a useful background reader, and a clarion call to action infused with the energy and efficacy of the activists themselves.\" —Peter Certo, Foreign Policy in Focus\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Moustafa Bayoumi\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781608460656 \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 303 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Haymarket Books\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175055700061,"sku":"9781608461219","price":22.4,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_638_midnight3_0.jpg?v=1654987095"},{"product_id":"blood-on-the-tracks-the-life-and-times-of-s-brian-willson","title":"Blood on the Tracks: The Life And Times of S. 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This book is about a patriot, the kind of patriot you don't find anymore, the kind of patriot who loves and believes in his country so much he surrendered his legs in telling his country it's wrong. Read this book.\" —Edward Asner, actor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Brian Willson's courage, compassion, and commitment to fighting for freedom, and justice, and human rights is an inspiration to the rest of us and a lesson in how to handle Adjustments in our Plans.\" —Kris Kristofferson, actor, songwriter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Brian Willson's courage, integrity, and dedication to peace and justice and to a sustainable society have been an inspiration to all of those who seek to change the course on which we are lurching towards destruction. His memoir should be read and pondered, and its lessons should be taken to heart by those who hope to create a more decent world.\" —Noam Chomsky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Brian Willson has lived one of the more interesting and inspiring lives of any peace activist in recent American history. His story deserves to be read and absorbed by people of all persuasions: militarists as well as anti-militarists.\" —Peter Dale Scott, author of \u003cem\u003eThe War Conspiracy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"No one has gone deeper into the heart of American militarism and moral despair than Brian Willson, paying an immeasurable cost, only to come out intact on the other side. His brilliant extended reflection not only gives us light but also hope: this is what it means to be an upright human being in a world of violence and lies. He can't be stopped! Thank God Brian Willson has written his story: we Americans need it desperately.\" —Mark Rudd, author of \u003cem\u003eUnderground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout S. Brian Willson\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eS. Brian Willson is a Viet Nam veteran whose wartime experiences transformed him into a revolutionary nonviolent pacifist. He gained renown as a participant in a prominent 1986 veterans fast on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. The fast was in response to funding of Reagan's Contra wars in Central America. One year later, on September 1, 1987, he was again thrust into the public eye when he was run over and nearly killed by a U.S. Navy Munitions train while engaging in a nonviolent blockade in protest of weapons shipments to El Salvador. Since the 1980s he has continued efforts to educate the public about the diabolical nature of U.S. imperialism while striving to \"walk his talk\" (on two prosthetic legs and a three-wheeled handcycle) by creating a model of right livelihood including a simpler lifestyle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout Daniel Ellsberg (Introduction)\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel Ellsberg is a former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making about the Vietnam War, to \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e and other newspapers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: S. 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Her writing has appeared in hundreds of publications including the \u003cem\u003eRumpus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePsychology Today\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Mai’a’s ongoing journey is about mothering as a daily revolution, brought into focus by living and loving at major revolutionary sites of our contemporary world. From Palestine to Egypt, Chiapas, Berlin, and especially the U.S. Midwest, Mai’a shares her experiences of navigating the intimate intergenerational impact of a constant state of political and personal war with detail and a crucial side-eye. This book is an opportunity to see the life you are living, and lives you would never see otherwise, in new and interconnected ways.” Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of \u003cem\u003eM Archive: After the End of the World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThis is How We Survive \u003c\/em\u003eredefines revolution beyond the headline grabbing events to the everyday resilience of families living under ever-present threats of bombings, assaults, arrests and disappearances. This book will push you to expand and reimagine your definitions and ideas of revolution.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victoria-law\" title=\"Victoria Law\"\u003eVictoria Law\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eResistance Behind Bars\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Magical, poetic, adventurous, eye-opening tales of global community organizing and resistance. Mai’a breaks the hold of American mind control, despair, and isolation with tales of gatherings around the world of everyday revolutionaries who do not have the privilege to decide whether or not to engage or fight for their lives.” China Martens, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Future Generation: The Zine-Book for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends \u0026amp; Others\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“I drank down Mai’a Williams’ \u003cem\u003eThis Is How We Survive \u003c\/em\u003elike a glass of delicious water hitting me where I was the most thirsty. Williams gives us the story we’ve been waiting for and deeply needing, about the ways Black, Indigenous, and Brown women and mothers across the globe birth freedom struggle as they open their homes, hold late-night cigarette conversations, and insist that everyone be present to the work of liberation. Her work, and her life’s story, is crucial to what will bring us home.” Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, writer and organizer, author of \u003cem\u003eDirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“In reading the work of Mai’a Williams, it’s hard not to be excited by the sense of possibility.” \u003cem\u003eHip Mama\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“The book is a necessary reminder that beyond the headlines, position papers, and generalizations made about mothers are voices from the front lines that we all need to hear.” \u003cem\u003eThe Nation \u003c\/em\u003eon \u003cem\u003eRevolutionary Mothering\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Mai’a Williams\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781629635569\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 224 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175294316637,"sku":"9781629635569","price":25.13,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/this_is_how_we_survive.jpg?v=1654988326"},{"product_id":"a-letter-to-my-children-and-the-children-of-the-world-to-come","title":"A Letter to My Children and the Children of the World to Come","description":"\u003cp\u003eReaders of Vaneigem’s now-classic work \u003cem\u003eThe Revolution of Everyday Life\u003c\/em\u003e, which as one of the main contributions of the Situationist International was a herald of the May 1968 uprisings in France, will find much to challenge them in these pages written in the highest idiom of subversive utopianism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten some thirty-five years after the May “events,” this short book poses the question of what kind of world we are going to leave to our children. “How could I address my daughters, my sons, my grandchildren and great-grandchildren,” wonders Vaneigem, “without including all the others who, once precipitated into the sordid universe of money and power, are in danger, even tomorrow, of being deprived of the promise of a life that is undeniably offered at birth as a gift with nothing expected in return?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Letter to My Children \u003c\/em\u003eprovides a clear-eyed survey of the critical predicament into which the capitalist system has now plunged the world, but at the same time, in true dialectical fashion, and “far from the media whose job it is to ignore them,” Vaneigem discerns all the signs of “a new burgeoning of life forces among the younger generations, a new drive to reinstate true human values, to proceed with the clandestine construction of a living society beneath the barbarity of the present and the ruins of the Old World.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1934, Raoul Vaneigem is a writer and a former member of the Situationist International. 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Tactical media theory at its best.\"- Geert Lovink, founding director of the Institute of Network Culture, author of \u003cem\u003eNetworks Without a Cause\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this innovative and original book, Donatella Della Ratta critically engages with the visualization of violence and the violence inherent to visuality, in the Syrian conflict. 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It also has an immense ecological footprint and a toxic patriarchal, racist, and anti-democratic culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHowever, as this book shows, Canadian militarism has always been contested, as early as opposition to conscription during World War I and as especially during peace activism against the US war in Indochina. More recently, city councils have declared themselves nuclear weapons free zones and prevented hosting of weapons bazaars and, in 2003, antiwar activists stopped Prime Minister Jean Chrétien from leading Canada into the US-led invasion of Iraq.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis book reveals the hidden militarism in Canadian life, and reminds us that the first step to contest it is to recognize its pervasiveness and power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"edition-single--book-reviews-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Yves became a foreign-policy expert by working as a night doorman in Montreal…He’s in the mould of I. F. Stone, who wasted no time with politicians, who all have an agenda, but went instead straight to the public record.” Rick Salutin, \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Truth is often a casualty in politics. Thankfully, there’s Yves Engler — Canada’s version of Noam Chomsky — to set the record straight when political spin morphs into historical fact.” Charlie Smith,\u003cem\u003e Georgia Straight\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Yves Engler is Canada’s foremost feisty contrarian.” Michael Welton, \u003cem\u003eCounterPunch.\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-reviews js-isReadmoreized\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlossary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntro — Is Canadian Military a Force for Good in World?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. British Roots\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Indigenous Resistance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Class and Politics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Canadian Gunboat Diplomacy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. ‘Special’ Forces\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Wars\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Accompanying War\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. Secret and Less Well-Known Programs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. Military and the Environment\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. Nuclear Armageddon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11. Military Culture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e12. Hierarchy versus Democracy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e13. Spying\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e14. The USA’s Junior Partner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e15. NATO\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e16. Veterans\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e17. Promoting the Military and Militarism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e18. Lies and Propaganda\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e19. A Military Industrial Complex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e20. Conclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEndnotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"edition-single--book-reviews-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/yves-engler\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eYves Engler\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e is a Montréal-based activist and author. He has written numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eLeft, Right: Marching to the Beat of Imperial Canada\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Propaganda System: How Canada’s Government, Corporations, Media and Academia Sell War\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Black Rose Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40689659609181,"sku":"9781551647555","price":27.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/Engler_Stand_Guard_9781551647579_470x_74968a74-0d31-44df-811b-b7774005aab4.png?v=1669135160"},{"product_id":"combat-trauma-imaginaries-of-war-and-citizenship-in-post-9-11-america","title":"Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in post-9\/11 America","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-info\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-teaser\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA rigorous and incisive study of combat trauma and American militarism\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Americans have long been asked to support the troops and care for veterans’ psychological wounds. Who, though, does this injunction serve?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As acclaimed scholar Nadia Abu El-Haj argues here, in the American public’s imagination, the traumatized soldier stands in for destructive wars abroad, with decisive ramifications in the post-9\/11 era. Across the political spectrum the language of soldier trauma is used to discuss American warfare, producing a narrative in which traumatized soldiers are the only acknowledged casualties of war, while those killed by American firepower are largely sidelined and forgotten.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this wide-ranging and fascinating study of the meshing of medicine, science, and politics, Abu El-Haj explores the concept of post-traumatic stress disorder and the history of its medical diagnosis. While antiwar Vietnam War veterans sought to address their psychological pain even as they maintained full awareness of their guilt and responsibility for perpetrating atrocities on the killing fields of Vietnam, by the 1980s, a peculiar convergence of feminist activism against sexual violence and Reagan’s right-wing “war on crime” transformed the idea of PTSD into a condition of victimhood. In so doing, the meaning of Vietnam veterans’ trauma would also shift, moving away from a political space of reckoning with guilt and complicity to one that cast them as blameless victims of a hostile public upon their return home. This is how, in the post-9\/11 era of the Wars on Terror, the injunction to \"support our troops,\" came to both sustain US militarism and also shields American civilians from the reality of wars fought ostensibly in their name.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this compelling and crucial account, Nadia Abu El-Haj challenges us to think anew about the devastations of the post-9\/11 era.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A bracing, riveting, and vitally important critique of American empire and the ideological mechanisms for normalizing permanent warfare. Few authors have considered the psychosocial and ethical instruments of imperial warfare with such clarity or looked so directly at US culpability in the War on Terror. Every single US taxpayer should read this book.” Joseph Masco, author of The Future of Fallout\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “In this path-breaking book, Abu El-Haj examines changes in the understanding of combat trauma to demonstrate that psychiatry, operating in tandem with imperial interventions, helps create the political conditions necessary for the reproduction of U.S. militarism. With her finger on the pulse of American political life, she shows how perpetrators become victims, while the primary casualties of American military violence are ignored, dismissed, and forgotten.” Lisa Wedeen, author of Authoritarian Apprehensions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-reviews js-isReadmoreized\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40689671143517,"sku":"9781788738422","price":39.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/Combat_Trauma-4d80707f5bbbfd565007d094bcee44ea.jpg?v=1669135069"},{"product_id":"war-primer","title":"War Primer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA terrifying series of short poems by one of the world’s leading playwrights, set to images of World War II\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this singular book written during World War Two, Bertolt Brecht presents a devastating visual and lyrical attack on war under modern capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe takes photographs from newspapers and popular magazines, and adds short lapidary verses to each in a unique attempt to understand the truth of war using mass media.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePictures of catastrophic bombings, propaganda portraits of leading Nazis, scenes of unbearable tragedy on the battlefield — all these images contribute to an anthology of horror, from which Brecht’s perceptions are distilled in poems that are razor-sharp, angry and direct.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is an outstanding literary memorial to World War Two and one of the most spontaneous, revealing and moving of Brecht’s works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“An album of pity and anger which fixes the evil of war for all time.” \u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--readmoreized-reviews\" style=\"display: block;\" data-mce-style=\"display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“A handsome edition of \u003ci\u003eWar Primer\u003c\/i\u003e, a series of short poems illustrated and inspired by war photographs Brecht clipped from newspapers.” David Edgar, \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Tender, angry and incisive.” \u003cem\u003eIndependent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“A modern equivalent of Goya.” \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Brecht reprinted photographs from wartime mass-circulation magazines, replacing the captions with short poems about the essential truth of each image.” \u003cem\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Deserves a place of the shelves of every public and school library.” \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“By themselves the images are disturbing, often terrifying. The four lines of poetry make them devastating. They achieve this through what was Brecht’s greatest strength as a writer: his ability to coax out the twisted, icy rationale of a world whose overriding logic is self-justification. The bitter chuckle brought on in the reader by these words reveals unsettling machinations. War, capital and fascism are made mundane before that very mundanity is turned inside out by dint of its own force.” Alexander Billet, \u003cem\u003eRed Wedge Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"byline\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBertolt Brecht\u003c\/strong\u003e (1898–1956) was a German poet, playwright and theatre director. One of his country’s most famous writers, he was forced into exile in 1933, returning from the United States to Switzerland in 1947, and to East Berlin in 1949. Some of his most famous plays are \u003cem\u003eThe Threepenny Opera\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMother Courage\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLife of Galileo\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Caucasian Chalk Circle\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40866191802461,"sku":"9781784782085","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9781784782085.jpg?v=1673717180"},{"product_id":"national-insecurity-the-cost-of-american-militarism","title":"National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUpon leaving the White House in 1961, President Eisenhower famously warned Americans about the dangers of a \"military industrial complex,\" and was clearly worried about the destabilizing effects of a national economy based on outsized investments in military spending. As more and more Americans fall into poverty and the global economy spirals downward, the United States is spending more on the military than ever before. What are the consequences and what can be done?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMelvin A. Goodman, a twenty-four-year veteran of the CIA, brings peerless authority to his argument that US military spending is indeed making Americans poorer and less secure while undermining our political standing in the world. Drawing from his firsthand experience with war planners and intelligence strategists, Goodman offers an insider's critique of the US military economy from President's Eisenhower's farewell warning to Barack Obama's expansion of the military's power. He outlines a much needed vision for how to alter our military policy, practices and spending in order to better position the United States globally and enhance prosperity and security at home.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"In this impassioned expose of the astronomical costs of America’s defense policy, former CIA analyst Goodman demonstrates how post–cold war neoconservatives . . . promoted a pugnacious militarism that has led to a string of foreign policy debacles and unprecedented levels of military spending. Few will finish this precisely argued polemic without the uneasy feeling that military spending is out of control.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"'We have hundreds of military bases all over the world,' Melvin A. Goodman observes in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNational Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (City Lights). 'Few countries have any.' Goodman, a former Army cryptographer and a longtime C.I.A. analyst who taught at the National War College for eighteen years, is one of a growing number of critics of U.S. military spending, policy, and culture who are veterans of earlier wars.\" Jill Lepore, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Goodman's value added is his focus on the role of the militarization of intelligence. . . . crucial to establishing that mortal threats to America perennially loom--out there--demanding bloated military budgets and frequent wars. . . . With a convincing accumulation of examples, Goodman reveals how our political leadership's occasional impulse to arms-control accords or defense budget cuts have come to be thwarted by an ever more powerful Pentagon.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"With a focus on the most recent such 'adventures' in Iraq and Afghanistan, Goodman summarizes much of what any impartial informed view of these wars, especially the Iraq disaster, must conclude—they have been a 'monumental blunder,' as former \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e editor Bill Keller, a former supporter, had to conclude from the evidence a decade into the war.\" Steve Heilig, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Goodman, currently director of the National Security Project at the Center for International Policy and an adjunct professor of government at Johns Hopkins University, has firsthand experience with war planners and intelligence strategists, and critiques the military economy from President Eisenhower through President Obama.\" \u003cem\u003eE\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003east Bay Express\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A 25-year CIA veteran examines how recent presidents have handled the military and defense spending. Engaging reading for those interested in foreign policy and military spending.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Melvin A. Goodman is a damn fine author, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNational Insecurity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a damning assessment of U.S. defense spending and covert operations.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Formidably well informed and written with exceptional clarity, Mel Goodman makes a compelling case that now is the time to return the U.S. military to its constitutional role of defending the nation.\" Robert White, Former Ambassador to El Salvador and Paraguay, and Senior Fellow, Center for International Policy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNational Insecurity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Mel Goodman shows how every president since Eisenhower has ceded authority to the Pentagon, to the detriment of our security and our democracy. But he doesn't just lament this dangerous condition—he provides a road map for demilitarizing our security policy at abroad \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e at home.\" William D. Hartung, author\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eProphets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Beyond his prescriptions for finally curbing the money that feeds the military-industrial complex, Goodman also recommends a national recognition that the United States must finally see itself realistically as part of the community of nations, not as a self-directed policeman.\" Robert Parry, Consortiumnews.com\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePraise for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Failure of Intelligence\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"An important and eye-opening account for policy makers and concerned citizens alike.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Starred Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"In this study, Mel Goodman tells us that of the misunderstandings, mistakes, and misapplications of American intelligence and force that we've seen since 9\/11 are nothing new—our CIA has been at it since the early days of the Cold War. But Goodman also tells us, with fresh information and insight, about the CIA's successes in those years and, most importantly, he names names again and again. His purpose is not payback, or 'Gotcha,' but to right a dangerous wrong.\" Seymour Hersh, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Mel Goodman's career in intelligence has positioned him perfectly to document the Failure of Intelligence, as he has in this critical, timely book. Mel Goodman thoroughly details the Bush administration's lies and manipulations in the lead up to the invasion and occupation of Iraq, as only a CIA insider could. As the lame duck Bush Administration beats the drum for war with Iran, Mel Goodman's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFailure of Intelligence\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is essential reading.\" Amy Goodman, Democracy Now\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“One of the agency's prickliest and most highly regarded analysts, Melvin A. Goodman, has given us an insider autopsy. . . . What is most valuable here is the amassing of insider details.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBookforum\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMelvin A. Goodman is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington, D.C. and an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University. He has been a senior analyst at the CIA and the State Department as well as a professor of international security at the National War College and an intelligence adviser to strategic disarmament talks in the 1970s. He has authored several works, his most recent is the critically acclaimed The Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"City Lights","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40866192523357,"sku":"9780872865891","price":22.82,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9780872865891.jpg?v=1673717239"},{"product_id":"the-shape-of-things-to-come-selected-writings-interviews","title":"The Shape of Things to Come: Selected Writings \u0026 Interviews","description":"\u003cp\u003eJ. 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. Empire” (2005)\u003c\/strong\u003e, previously unpublished, is an examination of developments in the capitalist world-system and the crisis of imperialism, in the context of the Bush presidency (2001-2009) and its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. “The Iraq wars don’t begin with oil, they begin in neo-colonial ‘Globalization.’ Iraq was invaded and Saddam’s local franchise was overthrown not for oil (and certainly not because of any threat that they posed to Saks Fifth Avenue). It was conquered just so that the Bush regime could do it. Not p.r. campaigns to justify a war—as radicals unthinkingly echo liberals in saying—but a war that is the p.r. campaign. 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. This is the final success of neo-colonial subversion of the armed struggle.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“The Shape of Things to Come”\u003c\/strong\u003e is an extensive (over 100 pages!) new interview with Sakai, conducted between 2020 and 2022, and presented here in two parts. 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But, as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Progressive\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’s Anne-Marie Cusac observed, “Abu Ghraib shock[s] us because our soldiers abroad seem to have acted out behaviors that we condone, yet don’t face up to, at home.” On the heels of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOur Enemies in Blue\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Kristian Williams’ controversial chronicle of policing, the writer\/activist gives us \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAmerican Methods\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, once again upsetting the notion that the use of “excessive force” by the state is aberrant rather than altogether American.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAmerican Methods\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reveals torture not as a recent or rogue phenomenon, but a veteran tool of the American state. 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The global COVID-19 pandemic continues apace, aided by vaccine nationalism and the impossibility for capitalist accumulation to stop for even a second—in this case to pause patents and the deepening of Big Pharma’s coffers. The people are left bewildered and adrift in the absence of the most basic of health and social welfare. At the same time, billionaires blast themselves off into space while the world burns. It’s hard not to feel rage and grief in equal measure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe also continue to witness the rise of the far-right across the globe. As we write this, Hungary’s Victor Orbán has secured another term. Here in Canada, we saw the culmination of simmering far-right sentiment, under the banner of “freedom,” in the form of the trucker convoy. Surprising many liberal and mainstream spectators, it came as no shock to leftist movements: the convoy symbolizes a resurgence of the far-right that has been fomenting for several years in this part of Turtle Island. Alongside comrades at Alberta Advantage, Briarpatch, and Midnight Sun, Upping the Anti cohosted a two-part event in the spring of 2022, titled “After the Convoy: Confronting the Far Right in Canada.” On April 9th and May 7th respectively, our panelists discussed: the historical context for the rise of fascist movements on Turtle Island, how to make sense of, and challenge this (in the context of decolonial and anti-imperial organizing), as well as the connections between the pandemic, disability, and racism. We encourage readers to watch the discussions on our YouTube channel. For many, the convoy also crystallized the role of the police and policing apparatus in protecting the far-right and maintaining the stronghold of the ruling classes. It is with this firmly in our minds that we write our editorial, “The Same That Burn Crosses” which explores why an abolitionist politic is a necessary facet of international communism. We see how policing is vital to the expansion of imperialism, fascism, and authoritarian rule, as well as why the call for increased state policing undermines us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the trucker convoy ended, the invasion of Ukraine began. Putin and his inner circle continue to destroy Ukrainian homes, villages, and cities. We grieve with our siblings and comrades in Ukraine, facing the merciless ambition of authoritarian rulers and those who profit from war. We also continue to grieve with our siblings and comrades in Yemen, Palestine, Syria, Afghanistan, and many other places across the globe that live daily under the horrors of war, imperialism, and so-called US democracy. We wish for all peoples the ability to exercise self-determination and sovereignty, from Ukraine to Palestine to Turtle Island.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a time for grieving. Indigenous peoples continue to face the traumas inflicted by the ongoing 500-year settler colonial assault on their lands and relations. Over this last year, many have been dealing with the pain of uncovering the unmarked graves of children taken from their families and communities to residential schools, including Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc and Williams Lake First Nations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStill, Indigenous activists continue to push back against the colonial machine in many ways. Recently, Toronto Metropolitan University in Canada was forced to change its name due to its ties to Egerton Ryerson, the architect of Canadian residential schools. A statue of Ryerson outside the university was also brought down, joining the list of toppled colonial statues across the world. Wet’suwet’en land defenders keep fighting in the face of continued assault on their sovereignty, colonial capitalist property regimes, and extractive expropriation. It is within this context that Upping the Anti hosted an online reading group during the fall of 2021 and early winter of 2022 focussing on Leanne Betasamsoke Simpson’s \u003cem\u003eAs We Have Always Done\u003c\/em\u003e, to learn together about anti-capitalism and Indigenous resurgence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this issue, our letters section begins with a piece by Kata Bohus. Bohus, responding to Beauduin and Swerdlyk’s article in Issue 22, shares her lessons learned from the recent election in Hungary and reflects on where the Left might go next. Next, Jacob Laba argues why nonhumans are central to the fight for liberation. Leslie Solomonian responds to S. Awâsis’ piece on the existence and possibilities of anarchism within Indigenous political thought and practice. Solomonian reflects on the possibilities for organizing that can occur when anarchism, understood in tandem with Indigenous practice, can offer a counter to white supremacy and offer a vision of decoloniality by centring relationship-building and relationality. Paulina Posadas Benuto, responds to our Issue 22 interview with Yásnaya Elena A. Gil. Posadas argues that we need to think more about terms that broaden and define self-determination from the perspective of multiple communities, while reflecting on the cultural and state-imposed meaning of “Indigenous.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe honour and remember the work and legacy of two inimitable thinkers in this issue: Lee Maracle and Dorothy Smith. In two pieces in memory of Lee Maracle, Glen Coulthard and Riley Yesno poignantly share how Maracle’s influence continues to shape their own thinking and political work, as well as that of generation after generation of writers, activists, and artists. Himani Bannerji reflects on the legacy of Dorothy Smith and, crucially, how Smith’s work is of great value to activists who want to get closer to understanding what actually happens in the everyday life of people and how we can use this knowledge to build a better future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe kick off our interviews section with “To Centre Indigenous Knowledge.” Lana Goldberg interviews Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, co-founder and Executive Director of Indigenous Climate Action—Canada’s only Indigenous-led climate justice organization. Deranger reflects on the birth, growth, and decolonial approach of Indigenous Climate Action within the context of the current struggles against climate devastation. Sharmeen Khan interviews Sam Salour from the Marxist Education Project to discuss why reading Capital is important for activists. In “Revolutionary Horizons and the Role of Theory,” Salour inspires readers and organizers with how Marx’s Capital offers lasting education and theory to fight the violence of waged labour. Lastly, in “Shut Down the War Machine,” Sakura Saunders interviews Rachel Small from World Beyond War and Simon Black from Labour Against the Arms Trade to discuss contemporary anti-war organizing in Canada. Together, they discuss Canada’s role in war profiteering, the legacies of previous anti-war organizing, current direct action strategies, and the importance of the labour movement in challenging imperialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe are thrilled to present to you a comic strip this issue on Palestinian liberation from prisons, surveillance, and apartheid—all part and parcel of the brutal colonial Israeli state apparatus. Writer Yazan Al-Saadi and artist Sirène Moukheiber are the creators of “From Palestine to Turtle Island: The Caged Bird Sings of Freedom.” Inspired by the recent escape of six Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails as well as the united global uprisings in May 2021, the creators illustrate a brief history of colonization, land theft, and imprisonment, reflect on the work of activist Khalida Jarrar, and highlight the violence of the Israeli and Canadian carceral systems. As such, this comic clearly displays the parallels between the Canadian and Israeli state and how the fight for liberation in Palestine is mirrored in Turtle Island. We encourage readers to also read our Palestine roundtable collaboration with Kashmir Gulposh. You can find this transcribed on our blog.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe continue the issue with our articles section. Kicking us off is “Cultivating a Long View” by Chris Dixon. Dixon discusses the importance of developing a “long view” of social movement organizing. Major changes to the conditions of our lives don’t happen overnight but are the result of decades of organizing on the ground. As such, Dixon urges lefitst organizers to invest in long-term visioning while building upon generations of social movement organizing that has laid the groundwork for making another world possible. Jennie Long, in “‘Pockets of Resistance’ in Padova,” discusses communist organizing in the northern Italian city of Padova. There, organizers of la Casa del Popolo provide a refreshing example of solidarity, activism, and mutual aid offered to fellow comrades and migrants, from food markets, to legal aid clinics, to housing and shelter. We end our articles section with “Feeding Toronto.” Isabel Armiento discusses the contemporary contradictions of the “sharing economy” and the impact of major technology corporations on the food industry. Armiento juxtaposes the rise of the food app with the apparent decline in food co-ops in the city, arguing that a socially just future requires fundamentally shifting how we value our food systems—away from alienating apps and towards collective practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe have two roundtables for you in this issue. In the first, “Building an Abolitionist Ethic,” Karl Gardner talks with four members of the Toronto Prisoners’ Rights Project (TPRP) as they collectively reflect on their work during the pandemic, and the importance of abolition as an organizing principle. In our second roundtable, “Unit 2 is Our Home,” Darian Razdar sat with Rosina Kazi, Nicholas Murray, Brawk Hessel, and Max ZB. Together, participants reflect on the vital role that Unit 2 has played in Toronto’s QTBIPOC communities and movements. They discuss the history of Unit 2 as a venue, living space, community hub, and recording studio, as well as the work of the Unit 2 collective in transformative justice, queer, and abolitionist struggles. This piece is especially near and dear to our hearts because of our long relationship with Unit 2 and the many wonderful memories we as editors have shared with our writers, readers, and supporters during many Upping the Anti launch parties (remember when those were a thing) in the amazing Unit 2.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe close our issue with three thought-provoking book reviews. Kate Klein reviews Andreas Malm’s How to Blow up a Pipeline. Klein assesses Malm’s work, which questions the climate movement’s commitment to strategic pacifism in the face of multiple climate crises. Next, Ian Liujia Tian reviews Bogdan Popa’s De-centering Queer Theory: Communist Sexuality in the Flow During and After the Cold War. In “Queer Eye for a Commie Person,” Tian discusses why Popa’s argument to decentre queer liberation and sexuality from the realm of queer theory is important to activists everywhere, not just in Eastern Europe. Tian also explains the importance of understanding queer socialism in Left liberation movements. Finally, Élise Thorburn reviews Samir Shaheen-Hussain’s Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada. Thorburn describes Shaheen-Hussain’s successful campaign to end the medical practice of separating sick children and young people from their caregivers when flying from remote parts of Northern Québec to southern care centres for treatment. As Thorburn notes, the campaign also sets the stage for Shaheen-Hussain to place this practice within the broader context of a colonial and unjust medical system.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs multiple demands continue to compound on people’s time and resources we are immensely grateful to our contributors and participants for taking the time to share their insights, knowledge, and experience. We’re thrilled to be able to share them with you, dear reader. We are also thrilled to be able to pay all our writers and contributors for this issue, thanks to a generous grant from the Indigenous Education Network to our writers’ fund—thanks IEN! Gratitude must also go to our advisory board, and we are excited to welcome Chrys Papaioannou, Jennie Long, Natalie Kivell, and Leslie Solomonian. We also welcome Anita Castelino to the editorial collective. Sara Swerdlyck and Tara Rajabi also join us as associate editors. We would also like to thank Stacey Berquist for copyediting this issue. Lastly, we thank you, dear reader, for your continued support and engagement as you read issue 23 of Upping the Anti.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe would love to hear more from you! Have an idea for an article? Read a book that you want to review? Have some folks you want to gather and talk to as part of a roundtable? Found something interesting or infuriating from one of our pieces and want to write a letter? Send your pitches to uppingtheanti@gmail.com. You can also reach us here if you want to know more about joining our editorial collective, advisory board, or to get involved in other ways. Also, see what we get up to by following us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and our website.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe know times are tough. As a radical print journal, times are getting tougher for us too. We always send free copies to our incarcerated comrades and friends in US prisons. We want to regularly pay our contributors. And we are only able to keep going with support from our subscribers and donations. If you can contribute in either of these ways we encourage you to do so! You can find out how to become a sustainer and subscribe to our journal (we make great gifts) at \u003ca href=\"uppingtheanti.org\/subscribe\"\u003euppingtheanti.org\/subscribe\u003c\/a\u003e and donations can be made at \u003ca href=\"uppingtheanti.org\/donate\"\u003euppingtheanti.org\/donate\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe hope you enjoy Issue 23 as much as we do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn solidarity,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnita, Devin, Jasmine, Niloofar, Sable, and Sharmeen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction Issue 23\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLetters to the Editors \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLessons from the 2022 Hungarian Election \u003cbr\u003eKata Bohus, Tromsø, Norway\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe Can’t Ignore Nonhumans in the Fight for Liberty \u003cbr\u003eJacob Laba, El Cerrito, California\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDecolonizing Principles of Organizing Leslie Solomonian, Tkaronto\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Cognitive and Territorial Defense of Native Peoples \u003cbr\u003ePaulina Posadas Benuto, Santa María la Ribera, Mexico City\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Editorials\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Same That Burn Crosses: Abolition as Class Struggle\u003cbr\u003e Editorial Committee\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Special Feature\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Palestine to Turtle Island: The Caged Bird Sings of Freedom \u003cbr\u003eWritten by: Yazan Al-Saadi, Art by: Sirène Moukheiber\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRemembering Dorothy Smith (1926-2022) \u003cbr\u003eBy Himani Bannerji\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReading, Writing, and Thinking Alongside Lee Maracle \u003cbr\u003eBy Glen Coulthard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow Do We Hold Our Heroes? A Personal Essay on Lessons From Lee Maracle \u003cbr\u003eBy Riley Yesno\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Interviews \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo Centre Indigenous Knowledge From Pipelines to Land Back to Just Transition \u003cbr\u003e By Lana Goldberg an Interview with Eriel Tchekwie Deranger\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRevolutionary Horizons and the Role of Theory: An Interview with Sam Salour of the Marxist Education Project \u003cbr\u003eBy Sharmeen Khan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShut Down the War Machine: Building a Grassroots Anti-War Movement\u003cbr\u003e An Interview with Simon Black \u0026amp; Rachel Small\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArticles \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCultivating a Long View\u003cbr\u003e Chris Dixon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Pockets of Resistance” in Padova: Hopeful Reflections on Italy’s Communist Refoundation Party \u003cbr\u003eJennie Long\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFeeding Toronto: The Fall of the Food Co-op and the Rise of the Delivery App Economy\u003cbr\u003e Isabel Armiento\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoundtables \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuilding an Abolitionist Ethic\u003cbr\u003e A Roundtable with the Toronto Prisoners’ Rights Project\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Unit 2 is Our Home” \u003cbr\u003eA Roundtable on the Pasts, Presents, and Futures of a Queer Community Space\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook Reviews \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“We Will Behave Calmly and Carefully”; On the Perils of Strategic Pacifism at the End of the World: Book review of \u003cem\u003eHow to Blow Up a Pipeline\u003c\/em\u003e by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTIifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/andreas-malm\" title=\"Andreas Malm\"\u003eAndreas Malm\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cbr\u003eKate Klein\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQueer Eye for a Commie Person: Toward a Queer Left Liberation \u003cbr\u003eBook review of \u003cem\u003eDe-centering Queer Theory: Communist Sexuality in the Flow During and After the Cold War\u003c\/em\u003e by Bogdan Popa\u003cbr\u003e Ian Liujia Tian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRevealing the Myth of Canadian Health Care: A Decolonial Practice\u003cbr\u003e Review of Shaheen-Hussain’s book, \u003cem\u003eFighting for a Hand to Hold\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eÉlise Thorburn\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41053396992093,"sku":"UTA 23","price":13.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/UTA23_Cover_340_560_s_c1.jpg?v=1685643196"},{"product_id":"militarized-global-apartheid","title":"Militarized Global Apartheid","description":"\u003cp\u003eMilitarized Global Apartheid Catherine Besteman offers a sweeping theorization of the ways in which countries from the global north are reproducing South Africa's apartheid system on a worldwide scale to control the mobility and labor of people from the global south. Exploring the different manifestations of global apartheid, Besteman traces how militarization and securitization reconfigure older forms of white supremacy and deploy them in new contexts to maintain this racialized global order. Whether using the language of security, military intervention, surveillance technologies, or detention centers and other forms of incarceration, these projects reinforce and consolidate the global north's political and economic interests at the expense of the poor, migrants, refugees, Indigenous populations, and people of color. By drawing out how this new form of apartheid functions and pointing to areas of resistance, Besteman opens up new space to theorize potential sources of liberatory politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMilitarized Global Apartheid\u003c\/i\u003e, Catherine Besteman brings together two worlds that are as separate as possible yet shape each other in a dynamic they cannot quite escape. Even though inevitably the powerful have killer instruments that those without power lack, Besteman finds the many ways in which they also mark each other. She emphasizes the extent to which Western modes of production and labor force management generally did not bring a better world to the workers of Africa. 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Futures  126\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  137\u003cbr\u003e Notes  139\u003cbr\u003e References  157\u003cbr\u003e Index  187\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/article\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41053399253085,"sku":"9781478011507","price":36.33,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/978-1-4780-1150-7_pr.jpg?v=1695854331"},{"product_id":"albert-saint-martin-militant-d-avant-garde-hochelaga-1856-faubourg-saint-jacques-1947","title":"Albert Saint-Martin, militant d’avant-garde: Hochelaga 1856 – Faubourg Saint-Jacques 1947","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"main__presentation-content\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"main__presentation-book\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLivre mythique introuvable, portrait d’un militant non moins mythique, voici enfin réédité cet essai biographique et historique, enrichi d’une préface réactualisée par l’auteur.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLe parcours d’Albert Saint-Martin offre une compréhension des aspects toujours méconnus de l’histoire sociale du -Québec du début du XXe siècle : les revendications ouvrières liées aux enjeux sociaux de l’époque, les questionnements idéologiques et théoriques face aux influences radicales diverses, les formes pratiques et organisationnelles des luttes ouvrières, l’impact de la crise de 1929 sur la condition de vie des prolétaires de Montréal et de la province, les difficiles célébrations populaires des 1er mai au Québec, les différentes formes de répression policières, judiciaires et religieuses, les attaques des instances dévotes et des groupes fascistes qui leur étaient liés, jusqu’aux désinformations systématiques de la presse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eClaude Larivière fait revivre la riche personnalité d’Albert Saint-Martin, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ele p’tit gars de l’est de Montréal\u003c\/i\u003e, adversaire infatigable du pouvoir ecclésial et du nationalisme, méfiant à l’égard des bolcheviques, antimilitariste et pacifiste, fervent défenseur de l’éducation populaire, propagandiste de l’esperanto, professeur auprès des ouvriers et des chômeurs, grand orateur du mouvement social et créateur de coopératives d’alimentation. On suit ici ce personnage atypique constamment insurgé dans un cheminement qui le mène du Parti ouvrier au mouvement des sans-travail, de la lutte anticonscriptionniste à la création de l’Université ouvrière. Cette recherche témoigne également de la présence au Québec de très nombreux militants politiques allemands, français, anglais, ukrainiens, etc., chassés d’une Europe suspendue entre deux guerres mondiales, et des luttes et des idées de la première moitié du XXe siècle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section__separator\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e***\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section__separator\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"main__presentation-author\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eClaude Larivière est travailleur social et sociologue. 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