[This review originally appeared in the November 2021 issue of the The Atlantic. The Dawn of Everything is now available at LeftWingBooks.net] Many years ago, when I was a junior professor at Yale, I cold-called a colleague in the anthropology department for assistance with a project I was working …
[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 …
Butch Lee liked to compare life to a busy transit system, in which people were always coming and going. Butch herself has left, died this passing year 2021, after a long determined battle with terminal illness. She leaves behind comrades and friends and family who cared deeply for her. She …
Hereâs the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/updates-28-dec-2021.pdf NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of war we support. If you consistently mail the latest updates to a specific prisoner, please let us know …
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 …
Robert Biel is the author of Eurocentrism and the Communist Movement (Kersplebedeb, 2015). This interview was originally posted by Ebb Magazine on December 19, 2021. In this interview, Robert Biel recounts his experiences of the British Maoist movement in the 1980s, the positive lessons that can be drawn from it, …
It is with great sadness, anger, and bitterness, that i have learned of the passing of Russell Maroon Shoatz. A prisoner of war for most of his life, Maroon came to symbolize not only the cruelty of the u.s. prison system, but also the indomitable spirit of resistance. In the …
Ici Ă Kersplebedeb, nous venons de recevoir plusieurs livres excellentes de lâEurope, en français, avec un focus sur les luttes anticoloniales et antiracistes, de la Palestine Ă la France, de lâAlgĂ©rie aux Ătats-Unis.Nous espĂ©rons que dans les mois et annĂ©es prochaines, nous allons pouvoir alimenter notre sĂ©lection francophone davantage. En …
Pretty much everything on the leftwingbooks.net site would make for a great gift, if that is your thing this time of year, but here is a selection of some of our favorites. one of the best books i have ever read, or been lucky enough to publish, J. Sakai’s Settlers: …