{"title":"Italy","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"italian-anarchism-1864-1892","title":"Italian Anarchism: 1864-1892","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the First International to the 1872 Anti-Authoritarian International, from government suppression and anarchist insurrection to Errico Malatesta's prominent role in resurrecting the anarchist movement, Nunzio Pernicone's \u003cem\u003eItalian Anarchism\u003c\/em\u003e provides a critical examination of early anarchist practices across three decades of Italian history. Nurtured by Michael Bakunin, and expanded and refined by Errico Malatesta, Carlo Cafiero, Andrea Costa, and Francesco Saverio Merlino, among others, anarchist ideas and modes of action played a central role in the development of Italian socialism, at times reigning triumphant over Marxism and all other revolutionary doctrines. On the basis of his own extensive research, Pernicone explores questions of strategy and tactics, anarchism's uneasy relationship with the Left, government repression, internal dissension, and the role of leadership in revolutionary movements—drawing out lessons that are sure to be of interest to contemporary readers. In fact, Pernicone's book may well tell us as much about our own age as it does those three decades long since past. Nunzio Pernicone's book is the most comprehensive and balanced study to date of the Italian anarchist movement. —\u003cem\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/em\u003e \"[This book] fills a conspicuous gap in the historiography of both anarchism and nineteenth-century Italy… Pernicone writes with an eye for the apt quotation and telling detail, and has organized a complex subject into a coherent and effective narrative.\" —Paul Avrich, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Modern School Movement: Anarchism and Education in the United States\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background\u003c\/em\u003e Nunzio Pernicone is professor of History at Drexel University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eCarlo Tresca: Portrait of a Rebel\u003c\/em\u003e, editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Autobiography of Carlo Tresca\u003c\/em\u003e, and has published numerous articles on Italian and Italian-American radicalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Nunzio Pernicone\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781904859970\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 321 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: AK Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175040364637,"sku":"9781904859970","price":30.73,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_386_italanar3_0.jpg?v=1654986968"},{"product_id":"gynocide-hysterectomy-capitalist-patriarchy-and-the-medical-abuse-of-women","title":"Gynocide: Hysterectomy, Capitalist Patriarchy and the Medical Abuse of Women","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow much of contemporary medical practice still derives from a practice rooted in the witch-hunts that plagued Europe from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, and burned at the stake, after horrible torture, hundreds of thousands of midwives and healers along with other poor women — the greatest sexocide in recorded history? Women’s bodies and their medical knowledge were burned on those stakes to be replaced by a male “science” and a male gynecological profession controlled by the state and church. Has history run its course? Or, among the many reasons given today for hysterectomies, does its abuse still conceal, more or less covertly, a yearning for male domination over women’s bodies that reaches this most lethal form of conquest because it expropriates and destroys what makes a body a woman’s body? The powerful essays (and accompanying glossaries and testimonials) collected in \u003cem\u003eGynocide\u003c\/em\u003e examine the historical, legal, ethical, psychological and medical aspects of deeply sexist practices in defining and treating these issues of contemporary women’s health. Contributors draw on the important theoretical insights and perspectives developed in recent decades by radical Italian feminism, revealing the complicity of widespread assumptions about the structures and roles of gender, the nuclear family, educational practices, and the state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/women-and-the-subversion-of-the-community-a-mariarosa-dalla-costa-reader\" title=\"Mariarosa Dalla Costa\"\u003eMariarosa Dalla Costa\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-57027-176-2\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 150 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Autonomedia\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autonomedia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175062450269,"sku":"9781570271762","price":20.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_759_gynocide3_0.jpg?v=1654987144"},{"product_id":"the-work-of-love-unpaid-housework-poverty-and-sexual-violence-at-the-dawn-of-the-21st-century","title":"The Work of Love: Unpaid Housework, Poverty and Sexual Violence at the Dawn of the 21st Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis classic \"manifesta\" of radical Italian feminism helped define the autonomist-inspired \"wages for housework\" movement, and identified the capitalist complicity of both the traditional nuclear family as well as the \"liberation\" of the woman as wage-earner. It is finally available in English translation. Translated from the Italian by Enda Brophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Giovanna Franca Dalla Costa\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-57027-132-8\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 122 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Autonomedia\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autonomedia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175065956445,"sku":"9781570271328","price":19.53,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_756_workoflove3_0.jpg?v=1654987165"},{"product_id":"after-the-future","title":"After the Future","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfter the Future \u003c\/em\u003eexplores our century-long obsession with the concept of \"the future.\" Beginning with F. T. 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Drawing on his own involvement with the Autonomia movement in Italy and his collaboration and friendship with leading thinkers of the European political left, including Félix Guattari and Antonio Negri, Berardi presents a highly nuanced analysis of the state of the contemporary working class, and charts a course out of the modern dystopian moment. Franco Berardi, better known in the United States as \"Bifo,\" is an Italian autonomist philosopher and media activist. One of the founders of the notorious Radio Alice, a pirate radio station that became the voice of the autonomous youth movement of Bologna in the late 1970s, Bifo is the author of multiple works of theory, including the recently published \u003cem\u003eThe Soul at Work\u003c\/em\u003e and \"The Post-Futurist Manifesto.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175069102173,"sku":"9781849350594","price":23.73,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_810_afterfuture3_0.jpg?v=1654987184"},{"product_id":"carlo-tresca-portrait-of-a-rebel","title":"Carlo Tresca: Portrait of a Rebel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"I have sought with all my strength to elevate the moral and material conditions of the Italian workers here, and I have sought to instill in their souls the same faith in their emancipation that is alive in me. 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Pernicone has brought to light and clarified myriad twists and turns of a sleepless fight, with a no-nonsense attitude which points straight to the nitty-gritty.\"―\u003cem\u003eJournal of Modern Italian Studies\u003c\/em\u003e \"Based on an extraordinary amount of research in primary and secondary Italian and American sources, [Pernicone] has written the definitive biography of this charismatic and fearless rebel. For anyone interested in Italian-American studies, labor history, and radical politics―or who seeks an in-depth understanding of early twentieth century United States history―Pernicone's biography of Tresca is must reading.\"―Spencer M. Di Scala, author of \u003cem\u003eItaly: From Revolution to Republic, 1700 to the Present\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNunzio Pernicone is professor of History at Drexel University. 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In the 1970’s when hundreds of politically minded people folded back into the comforts of American society, Silvia deepened her conviction to revolutionary struggle.She became the national leader of the May 19th Communist Organization, a radical group of white, North Americans.May 19th was a key element in a fragile but growing alliance of revolutionaries, African American, Puerto Rican and white who worked relentlessly to organize people to view the U.S. Imperialist system as the leading source of world oppression.Most threatening to the government was their support for the Republic of New Afrika, a group fighting to win land in the south on which to build a socialist nation under Black rule. Members of the alliance were targets of the U.S. government’s counter insurgency program, COINTELPRO. Using an array of tactics, the government put an end to the alliance; many activists were arrested and imprisoned; Silvia was one of them. In 1983, under the RICO law, Silvia was given a 40-year prison sentence for helping to free former Black Panther, Assata Shakur from prison.She was additionally charged with criminal contempt of court for refusing to answer questions to a Grand Jury investigating the Puerto Rican Independence Movement and given another three years. After seventeen years in U.S. prisons, in 1999, following a ten-year campaign culminating in one million Italian signatures, Silvia won the right to serve out the remainder of her sentence in her homeland, Italy and was transferred to Rebbibia prison in Rome \u003cem\u003eFreeing Silvia Baraldini\u003c\/em\u003e presents Silvia’s side of the story, the side that was not supposed to be told. PLEASE NOTE that this DVD is priced for personal use. Educational institutions which wish to purchase a copy should do so via the film's producers, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thinedgefilms.com\/projects_silvia.html\"\u003eThin Edge Films\u003c\/a\u003e. 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However, the same principle could also be read in the opposite direction: our ends should not be disconnected from our action; our ideals should not be so lofty as to make no difference to what we do here and now. The anarchist whose deeds and words have best illustrated both sides of that principle—the “idealist” and the “pragmatist”—is Errico Malatesta. Never one to divorce thought from action, or retreat into dogmatism, his life and ideals remain an inspiration the world over. \u003cem\u003eThe Method of Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e is the first collection to capture the full range of Malatesta’s thought over sixty years as an anarchist propagandist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDesigned as a companion volume to the ten-volume set of \u003cem\u003eMalatesta's Complete Works\u003c\/em\u003e (forthcoming!), \u003cem\u003eThe Method of Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e collects Malatesta's most enduring long-form essays--including \"Anarchy\" and \"Our Program\"--together with previously untranslated articles from the numerous journals he edited over his long newspaper career. In fact, nearly two-thirds of the collected texts have been newly translated into English.Written in Malatesta's clear, accessible style, these essays are sure to excite a new generation of radicals.  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The question is: How do we stop it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to M. Testa, the fight against it must be aggressive and unrelenting. Using a mixture of orthodox history, eyewitness accounts, and unflinching analysis, he makes the case for a resolutely militant anti-fascism, one that gives no quarter and tolerates no excuses. Unlike other partisan accounts of contemporary battles against fascism and ultra-nationalism, Militant Anti-Fascism takes us from proto-fascists in nineteenth-century Austria to modern-day street-fights in London, providing a broad context for its arguments and looking at numerous countries over a longer period of time. The result is both a serious historical study and a story of victory and struggle, past and present, designed to inspire and energize militants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLay aside, as M. Testa does, your faith in liberal, legislative, and state-approved approaches to today’s fascist threat. Start by reading this provocative and unapologetic overview of militant anti-fascism and the strategies that have successfully confronted the far right when it has reappeared in its many guises.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eM. Testa, undercover anti-fascist blogger, has analyzed the changing fortunes of the British far right since 2009. 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Through a biographical account of Errico Malatesta’s revolutionary exploits over a decade, \u003cem\u003eMaking Sense of Anarchism \u003c\/em\u003eis simultaneously a critique of how history is written and an outline of political tensions and debates that continue to this day. An antidote to studies that equate anarchism with disorder and irrationality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDavide Turcato is a computational linguist with an interest in history. 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That fact that Vanzetti, an Italian immigrant, learned to write in English while jailed for a capital crime is remarkable enough. What is even more astonishing is that he chose to use his new language skills to write creatively, inventing a parable about worker exploitation and environmental disaster that is as relevant today as it was almost one hundred years ago when this prisoner took up his pen. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Events and Victims” allows Vanzetti a new literary and historical voice, an important document that narrates the very injustice that its author suffered and fought. In a time of assault on immigrants, dissidents, radicals, and the environment, “Events and Victims” is as timely as ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“To encounter Vanzetti’s ‘Events and Victims’—written in the 1920s while awaiting his own execution—is to return to that world of man vs. machine, to witness yet another wave of humanity uprooted from its commons and forced to live against the infernal clamor of mechanized death. Lovingly edited and introduced by Jon Curley, this reclamation from the archive is yet another reminder of just how far we have gone in the name of progress, and just how high the cost is.” —Ammiel Alcalay, author of \u003cem\u003eMemories of Our Future\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A mordant critique of modern industrial life told through the story of a workplace accident, an accident that is in fact the logical outcome of social and economic imperatives. 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In recent years there has been both a renewed interest in theories of social reproduction and an explosion of women’s struggles and strikes across the world. The collection offers both historical and contemporary Marxist feminist analysis of how the reproduction of labour and life functions under capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDalla Costa’s essays, speeches, and political interventions provide insight into the vibrant and combative women’s movement that emerged in Italy and across the world in the early 1970s. Since the publication of \u003cem\u003eWomen and the Subversion of the Community \u003c\/em\u003e(1972), Dalla Costa has been a central figure in the development of autonomist thought in a wide range of anticapitalist and feminist social movements. Her detailed research and provocative thinking deepens our understanding of the role of women’s struggles for autonomy and control over their bodies and labour. 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Her research has been translated into multiple languages and published in journals, edited collections, and monographs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHarry Cleaver is an American scholar, Marxist theoretician, and professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. He is best known as the author of \u003cem\u003eReading Capital Politically, an autonomist reading of Karl Marx’s Capital\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCamille Barbagallo is a feminist activist and researcher. Her research, situated within Marxist feminist theory, gender, and black studies, explores how the reproduction of labour-power is valued, what it costs, and who pays the bill. She is the coeditor of \u003cem\u003eThe Commoner no. 15, Care Work and the Commons\u003c\/em\u003e, with \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e. Before migrating to London in 2005, she lived and worked in Australia and was active in labour struggles, the national student movements, and in radical social movements that focused on ending the mandatory detention of asylum seekers and campaigns to close the refugee camps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRichard Braude is a translator in Palermo, Italy who has translated works by left-wing Italian authors including Lea Melandri, Rossana Rossanda, Nanni Balestrini and Furio Jesi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This book is a further testimony to the great contribution Mariarosa Dalla Costa has made to feminist thought. It will be read for years to come.” Silvia Federici, author of \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM0MDE4In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/revolution-at-point-zero-housework-reproduction-and-feminist-struggle-second-edition\" title=\"Revolution at Point Zero\"\u003eRevolution at Point Zero\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This publication is a major step in the constitution of a subversive feminist historiography. Mariarosa Dalla Costa’s contribution has been at the vanguard of the theorization of the relation between the oppression of women and capitalism.” Morgane Merteuil, researcher, coeditor of \u003cem\u003ePour un féminisme de la totalité\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“That capitalism organizes society to be divided into a ‘private’ sphere of the home and a ‘public’ sphere of the workplace is commonly acknowledged by all. 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Tiny, folded-up pieces of paper, kites are slipped past the watchful eyes of our tormentors, passed through commissary or along with items moving in and out of prison. Their contents range from everyday survival shit to the fragments of plans to strike an enemy. In all cases, the kite is a clandestine form of exchange and dialogue invented by our class in the most brutal conditions known to the North American proletariat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a symbol of proletarian resilience and a cultural form from which we have much to learn, we can find no better name for a journal whose mandate is the exchange of a very different kind of contraband created by our class and even more necessary to survive present and future conditions: revolutionary theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe also found in our title another symbol: the resistance of the occupied Palestinian nation, wherein kites painted with the Palestinian flag have been flown in defiance above the Israeli military occupation and invading settler garrisons far below them. So like the kites of Gaza, we communists must reach for the sky while remaining grounded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe journal kites comes into existence at a time when growing numbers of people in North America are coming into motion against the horrors of the present and the bleakness of the future. Resurgent fascism, artificial intelligence in the hands of our oppressors, escalating inter-imperialist rivalries, and climate catastrophe all pose existential threats to much of humanity and certainly to the proletariat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe extent of the crisis of capitalism-imperialism can be gleaned from the extent to which social decay and misery has spread from the periphery to the very heart of the imperialist countries. Stable jobs and the prospect of home ownership are impossibilities for a swelling majority. Bourgeois politicians in every jurisdiction from “left” to right enact one neoliberal policy after another that transfers wealth from the popular classes to capital. Personal debt is crushing most people. More children in the US die to gun violence than do US soldiers in imperialist wars. The US and Canada are in the midst of an opioid overdose crisis manufactured by pharmaceutical capital carving out profitable new markets by any means necessary. In some regions, archaic Christian (and other) fundamentalist moralities are resurgent as they are succeeding in restoring oppressive gender and sexuality norms and in making abortion and reproductive health increasingly inaccessible; while in other regions bourgeois feminisms co-exist and sanction new forms of patriarchy that objectify women’s bodies and turn romantic and sexual relations into a market exchange of commodities. Both forms of patriarchy reinforce a widespread culture of rape. The children of Mexican and Central American migrants are living in cages by the thousands. The state-sanctioned and extrajudicial killing and mass incarceration of proletarians, especially of the US’s and Canada’s oppressed nations and nationalities, continue unabated, but with the cover and legitimacy provided by state-sanctioned celebrations of diversity, anti-oppression optics, and the inclusion (though not without conflict and struggle) of substantial petty-bourgeois segments of oppressed nationalities and nations into media, culture, academia, and bourgeois politics. And against the backdrop of all the violence perpetrated by the bourgeois state apparatus, we can add a generation of downwardly mobile white men steeped in fascist ideas and culture who are deputizing themselves in greater numbers to further terrorize against North America’s oppressed nationalities and nations, Muslims, women, and LGBTQ people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe are entering (if not already finding ourselves well within) a period of protracted crisis from which the bourgeoisie has no exit strategy that the popular classes will find bearable. Against the backdrop of the social decay and fascist resurgence gripping the imperialist countries, popular rebellion is punctuating business-as-usual both inside and outside the imperialist countries: the mass rebellions against police terror in Ferguson (2014) and Baltimore (2015); anti-fascist mobilization dogging fascists wherever they mobilize since 2016; and popular disruptions to the ICE body snatchers across the US throughout 2019. More recently, we have seen mass rebellions in Puerto Rico that toppled a governor, in Ecuador that halted brutal IMF austerity, and in Haiti that persists against the corrupt lackeys of North American imperialism who destroyed and stole from the PetroCaribe program with Venezuela, and which reflects two centuries of unabated revolutionary struggle by the Haitian masses. And yet, despite these courageous and sometimes successful acts of resistance, in most places – especially in North America – there has yet to emerge a consolidated subjective force that can lead this rising rebelliousness in an escalating and successful direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe reason for this is simple: the lack of consolidated revolutionary organization, leadership, and strategy to effectively confront the imperialist ruling classes that make up the North American imperialist powers of the United States and Canada. In recent years, a growing mass of young people have become thoroughly disillusioned with capitalism. This disillusionment has resulted in growing attraction to “socialism” (though, unfortunately, a socialism thoroughly imbued with a bourgeois anti-communist sentiment that denies the need for revolution, proletarian dictatorship, and the complete dismantling of capitalism-imperialism). The spontaneous tendency for resistance and discontent to be brought under the wing of one section of the ruling class or another is no surprise considering that the bourgeoisie has constructed what the (new) Communist Party of Italy calls a regime of preventive counterrevolution over the last century adept at deflating opposition to its rule. A revolutionary movement will not spontaneously emerge out of the growing mass discontent. A communist organization with a scientific strategy capable of diverting resistance and discontent towards revolution does not arise simply from economic, political, and social crises, but must be consciously forged through the hard work of theory and practice.Were a revolutionary force to emerge, an oppressive system that now seems unassailable and existential crises that appear inevitable could anchor our convictions that a socialist world that serves the people and rehabilitates a dying biosphere is not only necessary but also possible. Without a revolutionary force, we are left pleading at the feet of the perpetrators of history’s greatest mass murders to find it in their hearts to change their ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs we see it, the subjective situation – the dispersal of revolutionary forces and their lack of strategic unity, and the insufficiently contested dominance of postmodernism, social democracy, identity politics activism, and liberalism – is what can and must be transformed to open the door to seizing on future opportunities for revolutionary advances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo that end, \u003cem\u003ekites\u003c\/em\u003e aims to constitute a theoretical exchange among revolutionary-minded people looking for a way forward across the territories held by the decaying imperialist powers of the US and Canada. To all revolutionaries who understand that we need to find a common strategy to defeat capitalism-imperialism and establish an ecological and socialist society moving towards communism, we appeal to your support and assistance in this project. Please share, comment on, and engage with our materials. Write us. Propose contributions. And if you are part of a revolutionary organization, consider establishing a relationship with our Editorial Committee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"rtecenter\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Editorial Committee of \u003cem\u003ekites \u003c\/em\u003eis composed of a handful of communist revolutionaries from across North America, and at its founding emerges from the initiative of two organizations: Revolutionary Initiative (RI) in Canada and the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries (OCR) in the US. Although we three entities constitute independent collectives, we are firmly united on the need for communist revolutionaries across North America to struggle and work towards the constitution of a new communist party.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRI is a party-building formation formed out of mass work in proletarian neighbourhoods in Toronto tracing back to the mid-2000s. OCR was formed in 2017 as a handful of revolutionaries with experience in previous communist organizations came together to sum up past experiences, initiate mass work among the proletariat, and revitalize revolutionary strategy. And the Editorial Committee of \u003cem\u003ekites \u003c\/em\u003ebrings together a handful of communist revolutionaries into a distinct collective that is in conversation with RI, OCR, and other communist forces across the continent who we hope will become future contributors to this particular project as well as the broader work of proletarian revolution against this dying capitalist-imperialist order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat binds us is a common love, hate, and humility: love for the people, hate for the present order and those who preside over it, and the humility to subject ourselves to the long process of figuring out how to make revolution. Spiritual bonds aside, we share the perspective that revolutionary civil war is necessary to overthrow the rule of capitalism-imperialism; a dictatorship of the proletariat must be established thereafter to prevent the restoration of capitalism; socialist society must be a transition, driven by class struggle, towards the ultimate goal of communism on a world scale; and a vanguard party is necessary to lead the revolution and the socialist transition period and unite all who can be united at each step of the process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe would be remiss if we were not clear that we ground and guide ourselves with the revolutionary theory that the history of proletarian revolution has to offer. Principally, this means assimilating the major advances in communist theory developed by Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Mao, but also studying the contributions (as well as shortcomings or errors!) of many other proletarian revolutionary leaders over the past century and a half, such as Rosa Luxemburg, Antonio Gramsci, Che Guevera, Amilcar Cabral, Huey P. Newton, Thomas Sankara, George Jackson, and yes, Stalin too. Beyond these leaders and the theories they developed, we are grounded in studying the historical experiences and roles of the masses in revolutionary struggle and transformation. We do not, however, treat these experiences dogmatically, but rather as vital experiments from which we can and must learn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat said, these cannot be our only sources of guidance. We would know nothing of contemporary developments in global politics and economics, scientific discovery, technological developments, philosophical debates, ideological trends, and popular culture if we restricted our reading and theoretical engagement to thinkers whose times are many, many decades behind us. Sound revolutionary strategy can only arise from measuring our guiding theories up against the ongoing study of and engagement with the changing realities around us, and we wholeheartedly plan for kites to be a space for the study, debate, and reporting on the ground that continues to shift under our feet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"rtecenter\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is no red textbook we can turn to for clear cut answers to the crises we face today. We uphold and study revolutionary theory and experience so years and decades are not wasted leading our organizations and movements into dead-ends that past revolutionary experiences have long ago exposed to be bankrupt. But the dogmatic drivel and politics of proclamation that flood the internet should not be confused with the painstaking, critical intellectual work of living, breathing revolutionary theory. And revolutionary theory needs to be grounded in the practical work of communists leading mass struggle, undertaking empirical research, and engaging deeply with many different schools of thought. Instead of circling around within closed and insular ideological systems, \u003cem\u003ekites \u003c\/em\u003eaims to be in dialogue with revolutionary political currents immersed in the people and with comrades, thinkers, artists, and organizers undertaking the hard work of analyzing and confronting the challenges before us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThough \u003cem\u003ekites \u003c\/em\u003ewill be focused on questions facing revolutionaries from within the North American imperialist powers, we are internationalists, and we are obliged to play our part in contributing to advancing the entire international proletarian revolution and supporting revolutionary struggles worldwide. From our standpoint as proletarian internationalists, we welcome and will enter all necessary exchanges and debates with the international communist movement (ICM) as a whole, and kites will in time also become a place for exchanging views and analyses with comrades internationally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e In this issue\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe opening issue of kites takes on some crucial questions facing revolutionary-minded people today: what exactly is the proletariat today, what are some mass struggles in recent history that we can learn something from, and just what the fuck is up with this debate among Maoists in 2019 on the question of protracted people’s war (PPW)?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe open \u003cem\u003ekites\u003c\/em\u003e #1 with an essay that’s been studied within RI and OCR for a few years now and the importance of which has only grown with time. Part I of Kenny Lake’s The Specter That Still Haunts: Locating a Revolutionary Class within Contemporary Capitalism-Imperialism provides a conception of the proletariat and its potential to lead the revolutionary transformation of society that is in sharp contrast to outdated interpretations that emphasize factory work and exploitation in the labor process and fetishize struggles between the exploited and their immediate exploiters. Expect to find the remaining parts of the Specter series in the back pages of kites alongside contemporary pieces on the urgent questions before us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second piece, Kilmore and John Albert’s From the Masses, To the Masses: A Summation of the October 22 Coalition’s Resistance to Police Brutality in the Late 1990s, offers a people’s history of a significant resistance movement to the epidemic of police murders of Black men and other oppressed people that was building prior to the events of 9\/11. As seductive as it is to turn to the ’60s and ’70s as the main repository for inspiration and guidance for revolutionaries in North America, Kilmore and John Albert draw out some important lessons from a major wave of mass struggle from a time and place not so distant from our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClosing with a hot take from Kenny Lake, \u003cem\u003ekites\u003c\/em\u003e enters the fray of the PPW debate. However, Lake cuts away from the existing universality: yes \/ no shape of the debate by drawing our attention to the actual historical experience of the people’s war in Peru and addressing some of the strategic innovations of Chairman Gonzalo and the Communist Party of Peru that go ignored or unstudied by what Lake trenchantly refers to as the “church of PPW universalism.” Lake’s intervention also addresses the overall legacy of dogmatism within the Maoist movement, the disarray caused by the loss of socialism in China in 1976, the relationship between the subjective forces for revolution and the “objective situation,” and other questions of revolutionary strategy being confronted practically today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHit us up\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe’re making \u003cem\u003ekites \u003c\/em\u003eas accessible as possible by posting each article online along with downloadable PDFs, but we both welcome and encourage you to order one or many copies of the bounded edition available from our distributor Kersplebedeb at LeftWingBooks.net (where bulk-pricing options will be made available to encourage group study and local distribution). For purchases of 10 or more, please contact us directly at \u003ca href=\"mailto:kites-journal@protonmail.com\"\u003ekites-journal@protonmail.com\u003c\/a\u003e. Any proceeds from the sale of \u003cem\u003ekites \u003c\/em\u003ewill be ploughed directly back into efforts to expand its circulation, organizational capacity, and political endeavours being undertaken by those revolutionaries engaging with its contents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe offer \u003cem\u003ekites \u003c\/em\u003ein these various formats to project revolutionary communist politics far and wide, but we also want to allow for engagement with this material in a way that minimizes attracting the attention of the repressive-surveillance apparatuses. We definitely encourage those with active social media presences to critically engage with and discuss our materials on their platforms and raise the level of debate above the personal attacks and arrogant posturing that often suffocate revolutionary politics on the Internet. Indeed, we are looking forward to hearing your feedback directly and beginning a conversation around any questions that may arise. That said, let’s be clear that all Internet communication can potentially be viewed by our enemies. So if you are seeking to develop a connection with us, especially if you are writing on behalf of an organization, we encourage the use of end-to-end encryption methods (you can find instructions for this in the Contact Us section of our website).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe mandate \u003cem\u003ekites \u003c\/em\u003eto develop a form through which the theory, strategy, historical and practical summation, and concrete analysis of contemporary conditions – all crucial necessities for building a revolutionary movement aimed at overthrowing capitalism-imperialism North America and throughout the world – is developed, disseminated, and debated. We take this responsibility seriously and with humility, and will do our utmost to rise to the tasks in front of us. We hope others will join us on this endeavour to fly high while staying grounded in the people and with all the challenges ahead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e***********************************************************\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe contents of issue #1 can be read on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kites-journal.org\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/kites-journal.org\/\u003c\/a\u003e website:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kites-journal.org\/2019\/12\/10\/revolutionary-contraband\/\"\u003eThe contraband of revolutionary theory\u003c\/a\u003e (editorial)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kites-journal.org\/2019\/12\/10\/specter-part1\/\"\u003eThe Proletariat: What It Is, What It Ain't\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kites-journal.org\/2019\/12\/11\/from-the-masses-to-the-masses-a-summation-of-the-october-22-coalitions-resistance-to-police-brutality-in-the-late-1990s\/\"\u003eFrom the Masses, To the Masses: A Summation of the October 22 Coalition’s Resistance to Police Brutality in the Late 1990s\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kites-journal.org\/2019\/12\/11\/on-infantile-internet-disorders-and-real-questions-of-revolutionary-strategy-a-response-to-the-debate-over-the-universality-of-protracted-peoples-war\/\"\u003eOn Infantile Internet Disorders and Real Questions of Revolutionary Strategy: A Response to the “Debate” over the Universality of Protracted People’s War\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ekites \u003c\/em\u003e#1 will be 136 pp. and will be available to ship later in January, but for now it can be pre-ordered from leftwingbooks.net; bulk orders of more than 3+ can be more discounted, email \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/kites-journal@protonmail.com\"\u003ekites-journal@protonmail.com\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: kites\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kites Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175305228381,"sku":"KITES1","price":17.64,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/kites1-cover-SecondEd.jpg?v=1677756985"},{"product_id":"luigi-galleani-the-most-dangerous-anarchist-in-america","title":"Luigi Galleani: The Most Dangerous Anarchist in America","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn in Vercelli in 1861, Luigi Galleani is considered, with Errico Malatesta, the most influential militant of Italian-speaking anarchism. 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Thus the book's most notable value is to offer us some perspective on how to limit the damaging effects of global capitalism on our lives.\"—Susanne Peters, University of Giessen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"AK Press's republication of George Katsiaficas's \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/the-antifa-comic-book-100-years-of-fascism-and-antifa-movements\" title=\"The Subversion of Politics\"\u003eThe Subversion of Politics\u003c\/a\u003e comes at a good moment: when autonomous social movements are redefining the politics of the Americas from Mexico to Argentina. Katsiaficas's book is a unique history of autonomists in Italy, Germany and other parts Europe from the 1970s on. It affords a better understanding of the similarities (and differences) between the autonomy of the American and European movements. 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Tronti’s work in the 1960s also furnished important building blocks for a Marxist feminist critique of unwaged labor—as developed by Mariarosa dalla Costa, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e, and many others working on social reproduction theory—as Tronti showed how capitalist control extends beyond the factory to all of society. Fred Moten and Stefano Harney have echoed Tronti’s calls for a radical antagonism “within and against” institutions and the state. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Weapon of Organization \u003c\/em\u003eis a crucial introduction to Tronti, presenting a variety of never-before-translated texts—personal letters, public talks, published articles. 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Featuring more than 140 images of artworks, many published here for the first time, this volume provides an original perspective on post-war Italian culture and new insights into some of the most influential Marxist movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-reviews js-isReadmoreized\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“A tremendous achievement: through critically exploring what it terms \"visual practices and communicative strategies\", \u003ci\u003eImages of Class\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers crucial, hitherto ignored dimensions of the workerist adventure.” Steve Wright, author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/storming-heaven-class-composition-and-struggle-in-italian-autonomist-marxism-second-edition\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eStorming Heaven Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"display: block;\" class=\"edition-single--readmoreized-reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“The 1970s in Italy were a decade of social conflicts and intense cultural and aesthetic innovation, but only now, thanks to the Galimberti’s book we can have a glimpse of the visual dimension of the movement of Autonomia and of the cultural field that is generally known as “operaismo”.” \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/franco-bifo-berardi\"\u003eFranco \"Bifo\" Berardi\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Masterful in sweep and molecular in detail, Jacopo Galimberti’s volume draws upon thorough archival work and a nuanced understanding of Italy’s post-war extraparliamentary left. As the book’s incisive case studies reveal, the period’s proliferating images of class were matched by an assault upon established classes of imagery. The defiance of capitalist wage relations found an equivalent not merely in the iconography of social contestation, but new formats and forums, new means of circulation and dissemination, from architectural interventions to graphic novels to ephemera which refused institutionalization. Galimberti shows us a time and place when the collective “class vernacular” of operaismo and autonomia had not yet ceded to something else. We can still rail against that something else, in Italy and elsewhere: urban gentrification, critical grandstanding, a bloated art market, the aesthetic apotheosis of the individual. But this book helps us remember what came first and what might, one day, come again.” Ara H Merjian, New York University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Rich in innovative insights, \u003ci\u003eImages of Class \u003c\/i\u003eproposes a fresh approach to a tumultuous historical period that generated original political theories and social movements. This inspiring and beautiful volume is a must-read.” Leopoldina Fortunati, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Arcane of Reproduction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"edition-single--book-reviews-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"contributors-single--info-bio\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJacopo Galimberti\u003c\/strong\u003e is an art historian and Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at IUAV (Venice).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\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":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40689678123101,"sku":"9781839765292","price":47.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9781839765292-88395b668ec7337644aec521cc53e038.jpg?v=1669135105"},{"product_id":"the-italian-glass-blowers-takeover-of-1910","title":"The Italian Glass Blowers Takeover of 1910","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn optimistic but fascinating glimpse into early Italian syndicalism, pointing to the self-management by the glassblowers as an example of syndicalism in action. 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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":"cazzarola-anarchy-romani-love-italy-a-novel","title":"Cazzarola!: Anarchy, Romani, Love, Italy : a Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCazzarola!\u003c\/em\u003e is a gripping political, historical and romantic novel spanning 130 years in the life of the Discordias, a fictional family of Italian anarchists. 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Patients were frequently restrained for long periods, and therapy was largely a matter of electric and insulin shocks. The corridors stank, and for many of the interned the doors were locked for life. This was a concentration camp, not a hospital.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBasaglia, the new Director, was expected to practise all the skills of oppression in which he had been schooled, but he would have none\u003cspan class=\"atm_keep-reading-flag\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e\u003ci class=\"fa fa-arrow-down\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e of this. The place had to be closed down by opening it up from the inside, bringing freedom and democracy to the patients, the nurses and the psychiatrists working in that “total institution.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired by the writings of authors such as Primo Levi, R.D. Laing, Erving Goffman, Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon, and the practices of experimental therapeutic communities in the UK, Basaglia’s seminal work as a psychiatrist and campaigner in Gorizia, Parma and Trieste fed into and substantially contributed to the national and international movement of 1968. In 1978 a law was passed (the “Basaglia law”) which sanctioned the closure of the entire Italian asylum system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first comprehensive study of this revolutionary approach to mental health care, \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Closed the Asylums\u003c\/i\u003e is a gripping account of one of the most influential movements in twentieth-century psychiatry, which helped to transform the way we see mental illness. Basaglia’s work saved countless people from a miserable existence, and his legacy persists, as an object lesson in the struggle against the brutality and ignorance that the establishment peddles to the public as common sense.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Peopled by a cast of extraordinary characters—patients, colleagues, friends and enemies—revolving around the charismatic and now legendary psychiatrist Franco Basaglia, John Foot’s sympathetic account de-mythologises the reform by uncovering little-known precedents, distancing Basaglia from anti-psychiatry and situating his work within Italian radical politics of the late 1960s. Indispensable reading for anyone interested in psychiatric reform.” Howard Caygill, author of \u003ci\u003eOn Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “An important work … should put to rest the badly-informed, lazy narrative that still prevails to the effect that Franco Basaglia was an idealist—an ‘anti-psychiatrist’—who, at a stroke, disempowered doctors to certify someone as insane with disastrous results.” Adrian C. Laing, author of \u003ci\u003eR.D. Laing: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “The anti-asylum movement in 1960s and ’70s Italy forms one of the most fascinating episodes in western psychiatry. John Foot’s richly documented and revealing study of this movement and its pioneer figure, the charismatic radical psychiatrist Franco Basaglia, adds immeasurably to our understanding of the troubled history of mental health care in modern times.” Barbara Taylor, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Asylum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A brilliant historical reconstruction of the work and ideas of one of the world’s leading exponents of critical psychiatry.” David Forgacs, author of \u003ci\u003eItaly’s Margins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “It is fashionable in some quarters to laugh at the radical left of the 1960s. \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Closed the Asylums\u003c\/i\u003e feels refreshing in that regard—as a portrait of imperfect people who had the passion and pragmatism to put an end to a brutal and broken system.” Sarah Wise, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “In Italy, the literature on Basaglia tends towards either idealisation or demonisation—he’s considered either a secular saint or a dangerous radical. 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This volume is a contribution greatly to be welcomed for the understanding of a major figure of the modern world, and the turbulent period of his impressive contributions.\" \u003cstrong\u003eNoam Chomsky\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This extraordinarily comprehensive project, gathering both Malatesta’s writings and those of the context around him, not only gives us access to his radical thought but also allows us to experience the trials and triumphs of the life of a committed revolutionary.” \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Hardt\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Subversive Seventies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Errico Malatesta was one of the most influential activists and thinkers in the history of global anarchism. His approach to revolutionary social change was grounded, perceptive, and sincere. 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This one (volume three chronologically) focuses on two very important years in Errico Malatesta’s life, when he returned to Italy to edit \u003cem\u003eL’Agitazione\u003c\/em\u003e, considered the most important of his many periodicals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume focuses on the crucial years in Errico Malatesta’s life when he returned to Italy from his London exile to elaborate his ideas in the columns of \u003cem\u003eL’Agitazione\u003c\/em\u003e. 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However, his evolving anarchism—pragmatic, theoretically coherent, and as relevant today as it was a century ago—is best illustrated by the myriad of articles scattered in the anarchist press and collected for the first time in these \u003cem\u003eComplete Works\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavide Turcato\u003c\/strong\u003e (Editor) is a historian of Italian anarchism and the author of Making Sense of Anarchism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaul Sharkey\u003c\/strong\u003e is one of the most well-known and highly respected translators of anarchist writings of the past thirty years. He has translated works by Kropotkin, Malatesta, Proudhon, and many more. 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Des révoltes de prisonniers aux Brigades rouges en passant par les Noyaux armés prolétaires, ce récit inédit, décrivant le monde des détenus politiques, les luttes sociales et les débats internes des organisations révolutionnaires, rompt l'épais silence qui étouffe encore cette période durant laquelle l'Italie devait composer avec l'insurrection armée.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e« À un moment de ma vie, j’ai réalisé que je pouvais comprendre qui j’étais. Je ne suis jamais revenu en arrière. Je suis devenu un voyou politisé, un voyou communiste. Ceci est mon histoire. »\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePasquale Abatangelo naît en 1950 à Florence, en Italie. Après une série d’expériences de rue qui le conduisent plusieurs fois en prison, il participe aux soulèvements du mouvement des prisonniers prolétaires et aux manifestations de la gauche révolutionnaire italienne. 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