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COVID-19 Resources

What a lot has changed in just a couple of weeks. Plans have changed, lives have changed. We’d best gear up quickly, the dress rehearsal is over. Hic Rhodus, Hic Salta, indeed. The following COVID-19 resources may be useful to many of you; if you know of similar resources not …

Some thoughts on COVID-19, by Torkil Lauesen

Along with the late Immanuel Wallerstein, I think that globalized capitalism is in a structural crisis economically, politically, and in its relationship with nature, which leads to climate crises and now as we see to pandemics. The structural crisis entails that the system is out of balance, that conjunctures do …

L’humanitĂ© Ă  l’heure de COVID-19: comment s’entraider

(ceci est une traduction non-autorisĂ© de l’article Humanity in times of COVID-19: How to help each other properly par le medecin Ben F. Maier) Tout d’abord, pour que tout cela soit clair, je suis un scientifique qui fait des recherches sur la façon dont les maladies infectieuses se propagent et je travaille …

MAINTENANT – LES LIGNES FERROVIAIRES DU CN BLOQUÉES SUR LA RIVE SUD DE «MONTRÉAL» APPEL PUBLIC AUX RENFORCEMENTS// BREAKING – CN RAIL LINES BLOCKED ON SOUTH SHORE OF “MONTRÉAL” PUBLIC CALL FOR REINFORCEMENTS

MAINTENANT – LES LIGNES FERROVIAIRES DU CN BLOQUÉES SUR LA RIVE SUD DE «MONTRÉAL» APPEL PUBLIC AUX RENFORCEMENTS// BREAKING – CN RAIL LINES BLOCKED ON SOUTH SHORE OF “MONTRÉAL” PUBLIC CALL FOR REINFORCEMENTS (english below), CommuniquĂ© reçu par Contrepoints.media Une voie ferrĂ©e du CN traversant la ville de St-Lambert, connectant …

Announcing kites: a new journal of communist theory & strategy

As the editorial to this new journal explains: In the American and Canadian prison systems, kites are “contraband” correspondence shared among inmates, and between inmates and those on the outside. Tiny, folded-up pieces of paper, kites are slipped past the watchful eyes of our tormentors, passed through commissary or along …

Zines!

Besides books, leftwingbooks.net also stocks dozens of zines (or as we used to call them, pamphlets). Subjects vary from anarchism to maoism, feminism, antifascist and labour history, political theory, and much more. Some of our favorites are:     You can check them all out here!  

Button Packs!

Perfect for gifts, distros, or just for your own button collection, leftwingbooks.net is now sending out button packs, either of 1, 10, 50 or 100 buttons of our choosing. You can ask for a complete surprise, or select the specific theme for your buttons. Themes include animal rights, anarchism, communism, …

V.I. Lenin On Imperialism & Opportunism

Author: V.I. Lenin Format: Paperback Size: 191 pages ISBN: 978-1-894946-94-0 Publisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing 2019 Price: $17.55 (CAD) or $13.00 (USD) This collection of texts by V.I. Lenin was originally compiled by the Communist Working Circle, a Danish anti-­imperialist group. In the late 1960s, the CWC developed the so-­called “parasite state” theory linking the imperialist …

November 10th: Ottawa’s 6th Annual Feminist Fair

November 10th, 11am-4pm Horticulture Building at Lansdowne Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/493858394771176/ Kersplebedeb and PM Press will be tabling at the 6th Annual Feminist Fair, happening Sunday November 10th at the Horticulture Building at Landsdowne, 11am to 4pm. As the organizers of the Fair explain: First and foremost this event takes place on unceeded, …

Nov. 16-17 in Montreal: Expozine!

Gratuit – Free! La plus grande foire annuelle bilingue de petits Ă©diteurs en AmĂ©rique du Nord est de retour ! The largest bilingual small press fair in North America is back! Nov 16 and Nov. 17, 11 AM – 6 PM 1025 Rue BĂ©langer, MontrĂ©al, QC H2S 1H1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/451179855750803/ With nearly …