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It includes contributions – in the form of in-depth interviews, essays, and manifestos – by numerous artists and activists connected to straight edge, from Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat\/Fugazi) and Mark Andersen (\u003cem\u003eDance of Days\u003c\/em\u003e\/Positive Force DC) to Dennis Lyxzén (Refused\/The (International) Noise Conspiracy) and Andy Hurley (Racetraitor\/Fall Out Boy), from bands such as ManLiftingBanner and Point of No Return to feminist and queer initiatives, from radical collectives like CrimethInc. and Alpine Anarchist Productions to the Emancypunx project and many others dedicated as much to sober living as to the fight for a better world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003e\"Perhaps the greatest reason I am still committed to sXe is an unfailing belief that sXe is more than music, that it can be a force of change. 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By proliferating a profound and resonant set of myths, symbols, and grand historical gestures calculated to reflect their ideologies, organizing methodologies, and cultural values, the Zapatistas helped set into motion a global uprising, and the awareness that behind this uprising is a renewed vision of history. Jeff Conant's engaging and innovative examination of the Zapatistas' communication strategies will be an important tool for movements everywhere engaged in creating a world where many worlds fit; in demolishing History in order to construct histories; and in unseating not only the powerful, but Power itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJeff Conant is a writer and activist in the San Francisco Bay Area and the author of \u003cem\u003eA Community Guide to Environmental Health\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Conant has an ear for story, poetry, and wonder; his new telling of the Zapatista struggle is full of delights.\" —Raj Patel, author of \u003cem\u003eStuffed and Starved\u003c\/em\u003e \"Conant's engrossing book distills critical lessons about the Zapatistas' use of storytelling, spectacle and truly revolutionary marketing. 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Voeten is a contributing photographer for organizations such as the International Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, Human Rights Watch and the United Nations. He has published three books in the Netherlands: \u003cem\u003eTunnel People\u003c\/em\u003e, an journalistic\/anthropological account of 5 months living in an underground community of homeless in New York; \u003cem\u003eA Ticket To\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of Voeten’s hard hitting war photography along with a much cited essay on war photography; and in 1998, Voeten went to Sierra Leone to work on a project on child soldiers. His first trip nearly ended in disaster when he was hunted down by rebels intent on killing him, but eventually resulted in the headline \u003cem\u003eHow de Body? Hope and Horror in Sierra Leone\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Meulenhoff, Amsterdam in 2000. 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It's an opportunity for organizers, theorists, strategists, and movement elders to share and connect, to speak honestly of the challenges before us, to articulate new demands and possibilities in the ongoing war against state and capital. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeam Colors Collective invites voices from today's myriad currents, and in so doing generates common understandings of radical community organizing, movement building, and the impetus and inspiration toward making a revolution possible. The essays collected here come from very different places: farms, forests, bookstores, streets and street corners, homes, corporate chains. Their authors organize in very different ways: art and media, mapping and research, theory and discussion, popular education, and road blockades. Yet they are all moved by the same desire: to create new worlds and new ways of being, and demanding nothing less. We are in the middle of a whirlwind of struggle and opportunities for fundamental change abound; it's just a question of how we use them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors: Malav Kanuga|Bluestockings Books \u0026amp; Activism Center, Direct Action to Stop the War, Roadblock Earth First!, Starbucks Workers Union, Marina Karides|United States Social Forum, Student\/Farmworker Alliance, City Life\/Vida Urbana, Picture the Homeless, Take Back the Land, United Workers, Harmony Goldberg|Domestic Workers United \u0026amp; Right to the City Alliance, Basav Sen, John Peck|Family Farm Defenders, Brian Tokar, Benjamin Shepard, Julie Perini, Dorothy Kidd, Daniel Tucker|AREA Chicago, Maribel Casas-Cortes \u0026amp; Sebastian Cobarrubias, Brian Marks, Michael Hardt \u0026amp; El Kilomobo Intergaláctico, George Caffentzis, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e, Peter Linebaugh, \u0026amp; Chris Carlsson. 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Tolkien’s \u003cem\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile researching early twentieth-century French anarchist plays translated into Italian, Santo Catanuto discovered interesting information on the literary side of the Communard Louise Michel, indicating that she was the author of \u003cem\u003eTwenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen Schwartz, a longtime critic of the detective novel, evaluates the arc of French writer Leo Malet from anarchist to arabophobe and in “Between Libel And Hoax,” counters Miguel Mir’s libelous depiction of the Spanish anarchist movement, \u003cem\u003eEntre el roig i el negre\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his discourse on B. Traven’s \u003cem\u003eThe Death Ship\u003c\/em\u003e, Ernest Larsen looks at the intractable modern problem of identity. Larsen’s short story “Bakunin At The Beach” is about Mr. and Mrs. Bakunin holidaying at Lake Maggiore under the watchful eyes of Inspector Dupin of the Swiss Department of Justice and Police. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph Conrad’s short story “An Anarchist: A Desperate Tale” is republished here from\u003cem\u003e A Set of Six \u003c\/em\u003e(1908). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Anarchists in Fiction” is a collection of idiosyncratic reviews of books in which anarchists are portrayed as an eclectic group of villains and criminal degenerates. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinally, we conclude this second issue of \u003cem\u003eArena\u003c\/em\u003e with an article by our cinema editor Richard Porton on Dušan Makavejev’s playful, allusive 1971 film \u003cem\u003eWR: Mysteries of the Organism\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editor\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyMTEzIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/stuart-christie\" title=\"Stuart Christie\"\u003eStuart Christie\u003c\/a\u003e was born in Glasgow in 1946. 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Dave Zirin is the author of four books, including \u003cem\u003eBad Sports\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eA People's History of Sports in the United States\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eWhat's My Name, Fool?\u003c\/em\u003e He writes the popular weekly online sports column \"The Edge of Sports\" and is a regular contributor to SportsIllustrated.com, \u003cem\u003eSLAM\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e, where he is the publication's first sports editor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: John Carlos with Dave Zirin\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Cloth\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-60846-127-1\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 220 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Haymarket Books\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175072313437,"sku":"9781608461271","price":32.13,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_864_johncarlos3_0.jpg?v=1654987211"},{"product_id":"clenched-fists-empty-pockets","title":"Clenched Fists Empty Pockets","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eClenched Fists Empty Pockets \u003c\/em\u003esix working-class activists from Sweden discuss their experiences with class and middle-class hegemony in a variety of left-wing scenes and organizations. In doing som they flesh out the complexities and limits of what in Sweden is referred to as a “class journey.” Dealing with more than economic realities, the authors grapple with the full gamut of cultural and social class hierarchies that are embedded in the society and the left. As Fredric Carlsson-Andersson and Atilla Pişkin explain in their introductory essay: \u003cem\u003e\"The texts gathered here deal with the left as well, but in a different way: they address an alternative movement that regularly talks about the working class, but often in circles that lack even a single working-class member. In particular, though, the texts are about us: comrades from the working class who find themselves on the left, and who find themselves feeling lost and out of place – obviously, not always, but often enough. It’s easy to imagine the left as unconditionally welcoming. However, that’s not the case. As in all other scenes, the left has strict standards of right and wrong. It can take years to learn all of the rules.\"\u003c\/em\u003e This english-language edition contains a new preface by translator \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMDQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gabriel-kuhn\" title=\"Gabriel Kuhn\"\u003eGabriel Kuhn\u003c\/a\u003e, and an introduction by former Montreal activist Michael Ryan. Translated by Gabriel Kuhn and André Moncourt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Fredric Carlsson-Andersson, Atilla Pişkin\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Saddle-stitched pamphlet\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-894946-34-6\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 36 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175074738269,"sku":"9781894946346","price":4.69,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_885_cfep3_0.jpg?v=1654987232"},{"product_id":"defying-the-tomb-selected-prison-writings-and-art-of-kevin-rashid-johnson-featuring-exchanges-with-an-outlaw","title":"Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and Art of Kevin  \"Rashid \" Johnson featuring exchanges with an Outlaw","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollow the author's odyssey from lumpen drug dealer to prisoner, to revolutionary New Afrikan, a teacher and mentor, one of a new generation rising of prison intellectuals. This book consists primarily of letters between Rashid and Outlaw, another revolutionary New Afrikan prisoner, smuggled between the segregation wing and general population over a period of months. These comrades educate themselves—and us as well—on Marxism and Maoism, the Five-Percenters, Dialectical Materialism, Dead Prez, Capitalism, Racism, Imperialism, Class Struggle, Revolutionary Nationalism, New Afrikan Independence, Psychology, and a host of other subjects, as they grapple with how to promote revolutionary consciousness in the most hostile of environments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRashid has been in prison for twenty years—the past eighteen of which in segregation (solitary confinement). Shortly after this correspondence between himself and Outlaw, he and his comrade Shaka Sankofa Zulu founded the New Afrikan Black Panther Party–Prison Chapter. The NABPP-PC has since developed branches in various prisons across the u$ empire and has its own newsletter, Right On! A number of Rashid's essays written as Minister of Defense of the NABPP-PC are also included in this book. For more about Rashid, including links to his writings available online, please visit his website at \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/rashidmod.com\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.rashidmod.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Kevin 'Rashid' Johnson has put together an outstanding compendium of political essays and letters that addresses many of the critical issues of today. His intra-prison correspondences with his comrade, Outlaw, is a rewarding study in the determined and ingenious maneuvers that prisoners have to go through to politically educate and organize themselves – and others around them. As a result, just reading the book itself provides one with the basic foundation of a political education.\" — from the Afterword by Sundiata Acoli, New Afrikan political prisoner of war\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Your mission (should you decide to accept it) is to buy multiple copies of this book, read it carefully, and then get it into the hands of as many prisoners as possible. I am aware of no prisoner-written book more important than this one, at least not since George Jackson’s Blood In My Eye. Revolutionaries and those considering the path of progress will find Kevin “Rashid” Johnson’s Defying The Tomb an important contribution to their political development.\" — Ed Mead, former political prisoner, George Jackson Brigade\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The correspondence of Rashid and Outlaw, carried on within the tenuous cracks of a supermax prison, offers the reader a compelling blend of psychological insight, political analysis, and passion for learning. Their defiance in the face of oppression is matched by their broad human solidarity. As they grapple with ideas, they also think as organizers, probing the dispositions and motivations of their fellow prisoners. Their struggle for justice is informed by a commitment to reason.\" — Victor Wallis, Professor, Liberal Arts Department, Berklee College of Music\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Kevin Rashid Johnson\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-894946-39-1\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 386 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175075491933,"sku":"9781894946391","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_893_defying3_0.jpg?v=1654987243"},{"product_id":"meditations-on-frantz-fanons-wretched-of-the-earth-new-afrikan-revolutionary-writings","title":"Meditations on Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003e“This exercise is about more than our desire to read and understand Wretched (as if it were about some abstract world, and not our own); it’s about more than our need to understand (the failures of) the anti-colonial struggles on the African continent. This exercise is also about us, and about some of the things that We need to understand and to change in ourselves and our world.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout James Yaki Sayles\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike the revs that he most considered his teachers—Malcolm X and George Jackson—James Yaki Sayles grew up poor and found his maturity in prison, the place that Malcolm called “the Black man’s university.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA child of Chicago’s South Side streets, Yaki always just thought of himself as a blood, “just another nigger doing a bit” (to borrow the laconic words of one of the Pontiac state prison revolt defendants). And it was in the prison movement that he found his place in the battlefield. Although he made revolutionary theory his work, his life was rooted in a time of urban guerrillas and the armed struggle. Which makes his writing much more difficult to read, but with a warning of danger and commitment that is so often missing in these neo-colonized times between the storms…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYaki soon became a leading activist in the small prison collectives in his state. First in the Stateville Prisoners Organization, which quickly grew into the New Afrikan Prisoners Organization. There were groups in Stateville, Pontiac, and Menard prisons, as well as individual members in other prisons outside Illinois and rads on the street. Yaki also became an influence in less public organizations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne thing he never became was well-known. There were definite reasons for this. In part, because Yaki was a very private person who rarely talked about his inner life or childhood, and who never wanted to write about his own past to a curious public. Becoming a radical celebrity was not anywhere in his plans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYaki was also unknown because of the role he chose for himself. Much of his writings were not for the public, or even the community as a whole. Most of them were cadre teachings. Typically, Yaki wrote and spoke as a teacher for those already New Afrikan revolutionaries who were cadre. Those who had accepted the responsibility of being organizers and local teachers themselves. Although he was often repeating or underscoring basic political lessons, sometimes these were almost technical discussions. Craft discussions. In the same way that young Five-percenters proudly talk about, “i can do the math,” “i know the numbers.” And as such his words weren’t meant to be entertaining, and rads often complained of finding them as hard to read as some textbook. Far from easy reading. But it’s like, if you wanted to be able to design the flow of water through a hydoelectric plant or do brain surgery on an infant, at the very start you’d be cracking the books late into the night and studying for all you were worth. Yaki didn’t think that trying to transform society was any easier…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Yaki started out in prison, he had amassed a real library of political and history books, together with magazines and files of documents and correspondence. And he spent hours and hours studying and writing. This gradually became more and more choked off by prison authorities. As he put it: “Inside it only grows worse, not better. Because they keep changing wardens, and every warden has to prove that they’ve made some change or new shit they can point to. Which is only more restrictions.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the start of the 21st century, he was limited to one thin cardboard case, only a few inches high, which had to hold any books, magazines, newspapers, notebooks, files, letters, blank paper, pencil and pens he had in his cell. And he had to work mandatory eight-hour shifts every day at the usual makework prison jobs (such as counting out and counting in the checkers pieces in the day room), which cut down on his intellectual hours. All this led him to decide to center himself on one major project which only required two books, a reappraisal and explanation of Frantz Fanon’s great revolutionary writing, \u003cem\u003eWretched of the Earth\u003c\/em\u003e…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere, Yaki is on a mission. To make up for the misunderstanding of Fanon’s politics that he and so many of his young rebel comrades once had. To help guide the study by newer rebels of this complex and difficult reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“i got out of Folsom \u0026amp; one of the first things i got was a kalishnikov ak-47, 7.62x39 … Needless to say, without the requisite consciousness, the gun \u0026amp; i soon parted company. The gun fell into the hands of invading pigs \u0026amp; i fell in the same hands. Was sent back to a cell … That’s when i got at the ’rad Atiba Shanna [aka James Yaki Sayles] \u0026amp; told him i’d been captured and why. He said, ‘i’d rather have one cadre free than 100 ak-47’s.’ It took me years to overstand \u0026amp; appreciate that one sentence. For this comrad has done more to de-criminalize and de-colonize my mind than any one person, book or event in my life.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyOTY0In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/sanyika-shakur\" title=\"Sanyika Shakur\"\u003eSanyika Shakur\u003c\/a\u003e, author of the best-selling book, \u003cem\u003eMonster: Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Here is an authentic voice of the Black Revolution from the times of violent ghetto uprisings, re-learning the lessons of Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth. Uncut, undiluted.” J. 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This full color book showcases print art that uses themes of social justice and global equity to engage community members in political conversation. Based on an art exhibition which has traveled to a dozen cities in North America, Paper Politics features artwork by over 200 international artists; an eclectic collection of work by both activist and non-activist printmakers who have felt the need to respond to the monumental trends and events of our times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaper Politics\u003c\/em\u003e presents a breathtaking tour of the many modalities of printing by hand: relief, intaglio, lithography, serigraph, collagraph, monotype, and photography. In addition to these techniques, included are more traditional media used to convey political thought, finely crafted stencils and silk-screens intended for wheat pasting in the street. Artists range from the well established (Sue Coe, Swoon, Carlos Cortez) to the up-and-coming (Favianna Rodriguez, Chris Stain, Nicole Schulman), from street artists (BORF, You Are Beautiful) to rock poster makers (EMEK, Bughouse).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e:\u003cp\u003e\"Let's face it, most collections of activist art suck. Either esthetic concerns are front and center and the politics that motivate such creation are pushed to the margin, or politics prevail and artistic quality is an afterthought. With the heart of an activist and the eye of an artist, Josh MacPhee miraculously manages to do justice to both. \u003cem\u003ePaper Politics\u003c\/em\u003e is singularly impressive.\" —Stephen Duncombe, author of \u003cem\u003eDream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"For all of those who claim that poster art is dead in the age of YouTube and Blogs, \u003cem\u003ePaper Politics\u003c\/em\u003e will wheatpaste another message over your computer monitor. This exhibition and book is a testament to the vibrant trajectory of printmaking in the service of social change, including examples of earlier movements and artists as well as the graphics popping up right now. Obscure and familiar subjects are presented with wit, joy, and searing satire, guaranteed to snap your senses and challenge your opinions. 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We have no doubt that \u003cem\u003eSignal \u003c\/em\u003ewill come to serve as a unique and irreplaceable resource for activist artists and academic researchers, as well as an active forum for critique of the role of art in revolution. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the U.S. there is a tendency to focus only on the artworks produced within our shores or from English speaking producers. \u003cem\u003eSignal\u003c\/em\u003e reaches beyond those bounds, bringing material produced the world over, translated from dozens of languages and collected from both the present and decades past. Although a full color printed publication, \u003cem\u003eSignal \u003c\/em\u003eis not limited to the graphic arts. 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Acknowledging these concerns, alternative perspectives on the game are explored, down to practical examples of egalitarian DIY soccer! \u003cem\u003eSoccer vs. the State\u003c\/em\u003e serves both as an orientation for the politically conscious football supporter and as an inspiration for those who try to pursue the love of the game away from television sets and big stadiums, bringing it to back alleys and muddy pastures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat People Saying\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"There is no sport that reflects the place where sports and politics collide quite like soccer. Athlete-activist \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMDQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gabriel-kuhn\" title=\"Gabriel Kuhn\"\u003eGabriel Kuhn\u003c\/a\u003e has captured that by going to a place where other sports writers fear to tread. Here is the book that will tell you how soccer explains the world while offering means to improve it.\" \u003c\/em\u003e—Dave Zirin, author \u003cem\u003eBad Sports\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003cem\u003eHow Owners are Ruining the Games We Love\u003c\/em\u003e “\u003cem\u003e\"I was greatly encouraged by this work. It provided me with alternative ways to play, enjoy, and talk about football, leaving behind nationalism and the exclusiveness of elite athletes. When we applied the clues and tips included here to the anti-G8 football matches in Japan in 2008, we were able to communicate, interact, and connect with many people, regardless of nationality, race, and religion. I recommend this book to all who seriously hope for an alternative space in sports. Unite the world through football, and reclaim sports!\"\u003c\/em\u003e” —Minobu, Rage Football Collective (RFC), Japan “\u003cem\u003e\"Gabriel Kuhn illustrates compellingly how many radicals use soccer as a cathartic gas station, and how they integrate the game into their political beliefs and struggles. Has this to do with the game or with the people? The work ties both aspects together and is indispensable reading for those who want to know how important and how passionate activism in sports can be.\" \u003c\/em\u003e” —Gerd Dembowski, Bündnis aktiver Fussballfans (BAFF) \u0026amp; Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGabriel Kuhn was born in Innsbruck, Austria, in 1972. He was deeply immersed in soccer culture as a teenager, and became one of the country's youngest semi-professional players. 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As an intellectual (and author of the seminal utopian \u003cem\u003eNews From Nowhere\u003c\/em\u003e), his concern with artistic and human values led him to cross what he called the ‘river of fire’ and become a committed socialist—committed not to some theoretical formula but to the day by day struggle of working women and men in Britain and to the evolution of his ideas about art, about work and about how life should be lived. Many of his ideas accorded none too well with the reforming tendencies dominant in the Labour movement, nor with those of ‘orthodox’ Marxism, which has looked elsewhere for inspiration. Both sides have been inclined to venerate Morris rather than to pay attention to what he said. Originally written less than a decade before his groundbreaking \u003cem\u003eThe Making of the English Working Class\u003c\/em\u003e, E.P. Thompson brought to this biography his now trademark historical mastery, passion, wit, and essential sympathy. 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Thompson as author, are conjoined in this immense biographical-historical-critical study, and both of them have gained in stature since the first edition of the book was published… The book that was ignored in 1955 has meanwhile become something of an underground classic—almost impossible to locate in second-hand bookstores, pored over in libraries, required reading for anyone interested in Morris and, increasingly, for anyone interested in one of the most important of contemporary British historians… Thompson has the distinguishing characteristic of a great historian: he has transformed the nature of the past, it will never look the same again; and whoever works in the area of his concerns in the future must come to terms with what Thompson has written. So too with his study of William Morris.” —Peter Stansky, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e “An absorbing biographical study… A glittering quarry of marvelous quotes from Morris and others, many taken from heretofore inaccessible or unpublished sources.” —Walter Arnold, \u003cem\u003eSaturday Review\u003c\/em\u003e “Thompson’s is the first biography to do justice to Morris’s political thought and so assemble the man whole… It is not only the standard biography of Morris; it makes us realize, as no other writer has done, how completely admirable a man this Victorian was—how consistent and honest to himself and others, how incapable of cruelty or jargon and, above all, how free.” —Robert Hughes, \u003cem\u003eTime Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEdward Palmer Thompson (1924–1993), was an English historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner. He is probably best known today for his historical work on the British radical movements in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in particular his seminal work \u003cem\u003eThe Making of the English Working Class\u003c\/em\u003e (1963). Published almost two decades before Howard Zinn’s \u003cem\u003eA People’s History Of The United States\u003c\/em\u003e, he popularized the concept, and practice, of ‘history from below’. He published influential biographies of William Morris and William Blake and was a prolific journalist, polemicist and essayist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Peter Linebaugh (Foreword)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMjAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/peter-linebaugh\" title=\"Peter Linebaugh\"\u003ePeter Linebaugh\u003c\/a\u003e is a social historian. He's a graduate of the University of Warwick where he became a friend, a colleague, and a comrade of E.P. Thompson. He has taught at Harvard U. and Attica Penitentiary. Currently he teaches at the University of Toledo. He has authored and co-authored numerous books, including \u003cem\u003eThe London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century\u003c\/em\u003e (1991), with Marcus Rediker \u003cem\u003eThe Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic\u003c\/em\u003e (2001) and \u003cem\u003eThe Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All\u003c\/em\u003e (2008).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: E.P. Thompson\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-60486-243-0\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 8803 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175088566365,"sku":"9781604862430","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_980_romrev3_0.jpg?v=1654987332"},{"product_id":"on-the-ground-an-illustrated-anecdotal-history-of-the-sixties-underground-press-in-the-u-s","title":"On the Ground: An Illustrated Anecdotal History of the Sixties Underground Press in the U.S.","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn four short years (1965–1969), the underground press grew from five small newspapers in as many cities in the U.S. to over 500 newspapers—with millions of readers—all over the world. Completely circumventing (and subverting) establishment media by utilizing their own news service and freely sharing content amongst each other, the underground press, at its height, became the unifying institution for the counterculture of the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrustrated with the lack of any mainstream media criticism of the Vietnam War, empowered by the victories of the Civil Rights era, emboldened by the anti-colonial movements in the third world and with heads full of acid, a generation set out to change the world. The underground press was there documenting, participating in, and providing the resources that would guarantee the growth of this emergent youth culture. 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Why is an outlaw from fourteenth century England still a hero today, with films, festivals and songs dedicated to his living memory?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the mysteries, the historical evidence, and the trajectory that led to centuries of village festivals around Mayday and the green space of nature unconquered by the forces in power. Great revolutionaries including William Morris adopted Robin as hero, children’s books offered many versions, and Robin entered modern popular culture with cheap novels, silent films and comics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere, in the world of popular culture, Robin Hood continues to holds unique and secure place. The “bad-good” hero of pulp urban fiction of the 1840s-50s, and more important, the Western outlaw who thwarts the bankers in pulps, films, and comics, is essentially Robin Hood. 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