The anarchists’ slogan, “Destroy what destroys you,” is aimed at mobilizing the base, young people in prisons and reformatories, in high schools and training centres. It reaches out to all of those in the shittiest situations. It is meant to be spontaneously understood, and is a call for direct resistance. …
Several weeks ago, we learned that Inge Viett had died. She passed on May 9, at the age of 78. We offer the following notes to English-speaking readers, so that they can know something of this former guerilla and her legacy. Inge Viett was a central participant in armed left …
The Certain Days collective will be releasing our 22nd calendar this coming autumn. In lieu of a 2023 theme, we are doing an open call for abolition-related art and article submissions to feature in the calendar, which hangs in more than 6,000 homes, workplaces, prison cells, and community spaces around the world. We …
Butch Lee liked to compare life to a busy transit system, in which people were always coming and going. Butch herself has left, died this passing year 2021, after a long determined battle with terminal illness. She leaves behind comrades and friends and family who cared deeply for her. She …
It is with great sadness, anger, and bitterness, that i have learned of the passing of Russell Maroon Shoatz. A prisoner of war for most of his life, Maroon came to symbolize not only the cruelty of the u.s. prison system, but also the indomitable spirit of resistance. In the …
Ici Ă Kersplebedeb, nous venons de recevoir plusieurs livres excellentes de l’Europe, en français, avec un focus sur les luttes anticoloniales et antiracistes, de la Palestine Ă la France, de l’AlgĂ©rie aux États-Unis.Nous espĂ©rons que dans les mois et annĂ©es prochaines, nous allons pouvoir alimenter notre sĂ©lection francophone davantage. En …
Pretty much everything on the leftwingbooks.net site would make for a great gift, if that is your thing this time of year, but here is a selection of some of our favorites. one of the best books i have ever read, or been lucky enough to publish, J. Sakai’s Settlers: …
At the end of a month-long international campaign for the release of Georges Abdallah, a large demonstration will be held on October 23 in front of the Lannemezan prison in the South of France, where he is incarcerated. October 24 it will be 37 years that he has been in …
It has come to the attention of Kersplebedeb Publishing that claims are being made that two books we have published by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson — Defying the Tomb and Panther Vision — were really “ghostwritten” by Tom Watts. Given that Kersplebedeb published both of these books and has plans to …
Fighting for a Hand to Hold: confronting medical colonialism against Indigenous children in Canada By SAMIR SHAHEEN-HUSSAIN (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2020), 360 pp. ÂŁ23.50. As I was in the middle of reading Fighting for a Hand to Hold, Joyce Echaquan, a 37-year-old woman from the Atikamekw nation, died in …