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May 24 & 25: Montreal Anarchist Bookfair 2014

Mark your calendars … MONTREAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR 2014 Two days: Saturday, May 24 & Sunday, May 25 10am-5pm on both days The Anarchist Bookfair will take place in two buildings across from each other in Parc Vinet: – Centre Culturel Georges-Vanier (CCGV), 2450 rue Workman – Centre d’éducation populaire de …

Red Army Faction Talk @ AKA in Kingston!

AKA Autonomous Social Centre Kingston, Ontario Tuesday, May 13th at 6pm (facebook event page) J. Smith, co-editor of the Red Army Faction Documentary Histories volumes 1 and 2 (Projectiles for the People and Dancing with Imperialism), will be speaking in Kingston, Ontario, about Europe’s most famous and controversial urban guerilla organization from the 1970s and …

Historical Materialism 2014, next week in Toronto

Confronting Crisis: Left Praxis in the Face of Austerity, War and Revolution Historical Materialism Conference York University, Toronto, Canada May 8 – 11th, 2014 Download the Program Register for the Conference Confronted with a global context of austerity, exploitation, imperialist aggression, ongoing colonialism, and ecological crises, the world has been …

Basic Politics of Movement Security

Here are two “live” discussions by radical activists introducing the issues of movement security: u.s. activist and author J. Sakai & long-time Canadian organizer Mandy Hiscocks. There are many books and articles reporting state repression, but not on that subject’s more intimate relative, movement security. It is general practice to …

The Worker Elite: Notes on the “Labor Aristocracy”

Revolutionaries often say that the working class holds the key to overthrowing capitalism. But “working class” is a very broad category—so broad that it can be used to justify a whole range of political agendas. The Worker Elite: Notes on the “Labor Aristocracy” breaks it all down, criticizing opportunists who …

SPARC Calls for Support for Comrade Outlaw!

from SPARC: Dear supporters, We at SPARC have taken on the task of providing re-entry support for our comrade Outlaw. This includes housing, employment, and financial resources. We are more than willing to cover much of the costs associated with this effort, but we are everyday working class people with …

East Coast Red Army Faction Speaking Tour, March 23-April 8

Between March 23 and April 8, J. Smith, co-editor of the Red Army Faction Documentary Histories volumes 1 and 2 (Projectiles for the People and Dancing with Imperialism), will be speaking throughout the North East about Europe’s most famous and controversial urban guerilla organization from the 1970s and 80s, West Germany’s Red Army Faction. …

Countering Colonization (and other great books)

So University of California Press has just made 700 of its books available for online reading (to read on a tablet you have to copy paste into some other program and do some conversions). One of these titles, which i can’t recommend highly enough, is Carol Devens’s Countering Colonization: Native …