Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World Plowshares into Swords: From Zionism to Israel Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China Share the Wealth: How to End Rentier Capitalism Overtime: Why We Need A Shorter Working Week We’re Here Because You Were …
[This review originally appeared in the Boston Review, November 3, 2021.] The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity David Graeber and David Wengrow [Available now at LeftWingBooks.net] The standard history of humanity goes something like this. Roughly 300,000 to 200,000 years ago, Homo sapiens first evolved somewhere on …
The Dawn of Everything is now available at LeftWingBooks.net NATIONAL BESTSELLER,NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Renowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with professor of comparative archaeology David Wengrow to deliver a trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution–from the development of agriculture …
As the pandemic transitioned from science fiction to reality in early 2020, a number of writers and thinkers in the imperialist metropoles declared the impossibility of writing in the face of a future that is foreclosed. The M.I. Asma writing group came together to stake out a different terrain, thinking …
The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero is Not Enough Uncomputable: Play and Politics In the Long Digital Age Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space Salvage #10: The Disorder of the Future …
Surviving Justice: America’s Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism Deport, Deprive, Extradite: 21st Century State Extremism Poets of the Chinese Revolution The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work Butter Honey Pig Bread F: Hu Feng’s Prison Years Deja Vu and the End of History …
Anarchy! An Anthology of Emma Goldman’s Mother Earth Lenin: A Study on the Unity of His Thought Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism The World Turned Inside Out: Settler Colonialism as a Political Idea Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make …
As part of the Peoples Social Forum, on August 23rd, J. Moufawad-Paul, author of MLM Mayhem! (http://moufawad-paul.blogspot.ca/) will be in Ottawa to attend the launch of his book, The Communist Necessity. A sleek and punchy treatise about the problems of social movementism and the need for a “new return” to …
These angry essays show how the massive New Afrikan uprisings of the 1960s were answered by the white ruling class: with the destruction of New Afrikan communities coast to coast, the decimation of the New Afrikan working class, the rise of the prison state and an explosion of violence between oppressed people. …
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 …