• Maroon the Implacable

    Russell Maroon Shoatz is a political prisoner who has been held unjustly for over thirty years, including two decades in solitary confinement. He was active as a leader in the Black Liberation Movement in Philadelphia, both above and underground. His successful escapes from maximum-security prisons earned him the title “Maroon.” This is the first published collection of his accumulated written works, and also includes new essays written expressly for this volume.… Read the rest

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  • Montreal, May 27: J. Sakai on The Politics of Security

    The Politics of Security
    a presentation by J. Sakai

    Monday, May 27th, 6:30 pm
    @ QPIRG Concordia
    1500 de Maisonneuve O., suite 204
    (metro Guy-Concordia)

    The recent f.b.i. and grand jury repression against anarchists in the Northwest USA, as well as the continued police repression of the Anti-Globalization resistance, has reawakened questions about movement security.… Read the rest

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  • Action Alert for Russell Maroon Shoats: Call to demand his IMMEDIATE release from solitary confinement!

    Former Black Panther Russell Maroon Shoats has been held in torturous conditions of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons for the past thirty years. He has not had a serious rule violation for more than two decades. Maroon’s role as an educator, human rights defender, writer, and critical intellectual of liberation movements is widely renowned.… Read the rest

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  • Geronimo ji Jaga

    Geronimo ji Jaga was a freedom fighter who spent almost three decades behind bars in the united states, as a New Afrikan prisoner of war.

    In 1968, Geronimo returned to the U.S. as a decorated war veteran after three years in Vietnam.… Read the rest

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  • Montreal Anarchist Bookfair 2013! May 25-26

    The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair includes both introductions to anarchism and in-depth workshops on both Saturday, May 25 & Sunday, May 26. For introduction to anarchism, click HERE. There is more info below about in-depth workshops & presentations at the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair.… Read the rest

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  • Video Interview with Sanyika Shakur

    In this interview, New Afrikan Communist Sanyika Shakur discusses his personal social development, his time in Pelican Bay-SHU, the 2011 California prisoners’ hunger strikes, the effects of long-term isolation torture, New Afrikan nationalism, communism, and the struggle against gender oppression.

    In a biographical note written while in PB-SHU, Shakur explained:

    i was born Nov 13, 1963.… Read the rest

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New Titles At Kersplebedeb Leftwingbooks.NET

From the Bottom of the Heap (paperback)

“For a person to go through 29 years in one of the most brutal prisons in America and still maintain his sanity and humanity, that’s what makes people want to listen to Robert.” –Malik Rahim Co-Founder of Common Ground Collective

price: $17.95 (US)

Click here to order or for more information.… Read the rest

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Settlers: Chp VI, Part 2

VI. The U.S. Industrial Proletariat
2. Industrial Unionism

As U.S. imperialism stumbles faster and faster into its permanent decline, once again we hear the theory expressed that some poverty and the resulting mass economic struggles will create revolutionary consciousness in Euro-Amerikan workers.… Read the rest

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COINTELPRO Murders (Intervention by Geronimo ji Jaga)

The following is Geronimo ji Jaga’s intervention at a September 14, 2000 forum that Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) hosted during the Congressional Black Caucus’s legislative weekend in Washington, DC. It was initially included in a pamphlet published in 2001 by the Human Rights Research Fund (founded by activist attorneys Kathleen Cleaver and Natsu Saito) in collaboration with Release 2001, which was subsequently reprinted in full in the book Let Freedom Ring, available from Kersplebedeb Left-Wing Books.… Read the rest

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Snapshot of Genocide

An excerpt from Loic Wacquant’s Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity (Duke University Press 2009), pages 59-73:

The Gaols of the Subproletariat: An Experimental Verification

It suffices, to discern the extrapenological functions served by the outsized extension of the US carceral apparatus even as crime plummeted for over a decade, to sketch in broad strokes the sociological profile of the “clientele” it accommodates at its entry point.… Read the rest

Fear Of The Shivers Of Freedom

The following text was written by West German feminist Ingrid Strobl in the 1980s. It was translated into English and published in the European anti-imperialist magazine Clash #6 and was subsequently reprinted in the North American anti-imperialist magazine Breakthrough #23 – Fall 1992.… Read the rest