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Caliban and the Witch

When i picked up a copy of Caliban and the Witch back in 2005, it was one of the most exciting books i had read all year. In many ways similar to Maria Mies’ Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale, Caliban and the Witch focuses much more on Europe, while …

The Arcane of Reproduction

by Leopoldina Fortunati A book that is truly difficult to read, steeped in the verbiage of autonomist marxist theory, this book is nevertheless an interesting attempt to integrate feminist appreciation of the economic value of housework and prostitution into Marxist theory.

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“I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to talk about the fact that we cannot educate for critical consciousness if we have a group of people who cannot access Fanon, Cabral, or Audre Lorde because they …

Caliban and the Witch Reviewed in Upping The Anti

Caliban and the Witch Women the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Sylvia Federici, Autonomedia 2004) reviewed by Karl Kersplebedebto view as PDF click here Women’s oppression is a subject at the center of our struggle for human liberation, but serious discussions as to why women suffer distinct forms of oppression, and …

Decolonizing Anarchism: An Anticolonial Critique

There was an “anti-colonial Victoria Day” book launch in Montreal on May 21, where Maia Ramnath presented her new book Decolonizing Anarchism, published by AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies (and available from leftwingbooks.net). What made this launch special, and different from most such events, was that the …