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2021 Is Here, So Is Our New Year’s Book Sale!

The New Year, of course, comes with a New Year’s Sale at leftwingbooks.net/sale A new calendar year always makes me aware of all the things that are unknown about the future, but 2021 even more so than most. One of the goals of this book project it to help facilitate the …

A Few New Titles to Start the New Year

Three new titles from PM Press just came in, which is a nice way to start the New Year! Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly (Second Edition): In the early twentieth century, when many US unions disgracefully excluded black and Asian workers, the Industrial Workers of the …

Ecological Leninism: Friend or Foe? by Gabriel Kuhn

A joint review by Gabriel Kuhn of Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century (Verso, 2020) and How to Blow up a Pipeline (Verso, 2021) by Andreas Malm, both of which are distributed by leftwingbooks.net. This review first appeared on Kuhn’s new website https://lefttwothree.org/   Andreas Malm first received wider recognition …

Prison Covid Newsletter (vol 2, no 1), Jan. 2021

The Prison Covid-19 Information Project provides COVID-19 news and resources for prisoners and their families and loved ones on the outside. Their latest newsletter is here.

NYC-ABC PP/POW updates Dec. 29, 2020

Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/updates-29-dec-2020.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 …

Torkil Lauesen Interviewed on Manifestering Podcast

Torkil Lauesen, author of The Global Perspective and The Principal Contradiction, was recently interviewed by the Manifestering podcast.  The discussion touches on contemporary and historical Maoism in Western Europe and North America, the principal contradictions in the capitalist world system, the prospects for neoliberalism under Biden, and much more. Check it …

Interview with the Certain Days collective

If you haven’t gotten your calendar yet, you’d better hurry! We’re down to our last box and the price has dropped to $15 CAD. Get yours before they’re gone! What is the Certain Days Calendar? The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar is a joint fundraising and educational project …

NYC-ABC PP/POW updates Dec. 15, 2020

Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/updates-15-dec-2020.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 …

NYC-ABC PP/POW updates Dec. 1, 2020

NOTE: If you send the updates to Jeremy Hammond, please stop, as he has been released to a halfway house! If you send the updates to Doug Wright, his address has changed: Douglas Wright #57973-060 USP Florence – High Post Office Box 7000 Florence, Colorado 81226 Here’s the latest compilation …