Don Hamerquist’s A Brilliant Red Thread: A Discussion (Chicago/Online, Oct. 11, 2023)

Register here for zoom: https://rb.gy/ihqfn

Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St
Chicago, IL
Wed. October 11 @ 8pm EST, 7pm CST

Don Hamerquist’s A Brilliant Red Thread (Kersplebedeb 2023) marks the long-overdue publication of essays by one of the sharpest and most provocative communist intellectuals in the US today. Drawing on nearly seventy years of social movement activity, including stints in the Communist Party, the New Left, and the co-founding of the Sojourner Truth Organization, Hamerquist brings a unique and supremely practical perspective to bear on questions of political organizing, class struggle, the threat of fascism, and the possibility of proletarian revolution. Befitting Hamerquist’s position outside the academy and in tune with working-class struggles, many of these texts originated as correspondences with organizers on the ground. Accordingly, they are short, concise, unpretentious, and concerned with the pressing matters attendant to taking action.

Zhandarka Kurti and Jarrod Shanahan (authors of States of Incarceration and editors of Noel Ignatiev’s Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity and the journal Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life) will screen pre-recorded remarks from Hamerquist, followed by a discussion of the book and the lessons (and provocations) it offer a new generation of organizers, agitators, and would-be revolutionaries.
(GDC is a non-sectarian anti-capitalist organization that welcomes discussions from many of our currents. promotion of this event is to help foster those discussions and is not intended as an endorsement of any particular current)