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Some thoughts on COVID-19, by Torkil Lauesen

Along with the late Immanuel Wallerstein, I think that globalized capitalism is in a structural crisis economically, politically, and in its relationship with nature, which leads to climate crises and now as we see to pandemics. The structural crisis entails that the system is out of balance, that conjunctures do …

MAINTENANT – LES LIGNES FERROVIAIRES DU CN BLOQUÉES SUR LA RIVE SUD DE «MONTRÉAL» APPEL PUBLIC AUX RENFORCEMENTS// BREAKING – CN RAIL LINES BLOCKED ON SOUTH SHORE OF “MONTRÉAL” PUBLIC CALL FOR REINFORCEMENTS

MAINTENANT – LES LIGNES FERROVIAIRES DU CN BLOQUÉES SUR LA RIVE SUD DE «MONTRÉAL» APPEL PUBLIC AUX RENFORCEMENTS// BREAKING – CN RAIL LINES BLOCKED ON SOUTH SHORE OF “MONTRÉAL” PUBLIC CALL FOR REINFORCEMENTS (english below), CommuniquĂ© reçu par Contrepoints.media Une voie ferrĂ©e du CN traversant la ville de St-Lambert, connectant …

Prospects for Anti-Capitalism in a Divided World, by Yuriy Dergunov

Review of the book: Lauesen T. (2018) The Global Perspective. Reflections on Imperialism and Resistance, Montreal: Kersplebedeb. Torkil Lauesen’s book The Global Perspective. Reflections on Imperialism and Resistance is written from a perspective that can be described as Third Worldist Marxism. For its author, such views are not just theoretical …

Announcing kites: a new journal of communist theory & strategy

As the editorial to this new journal explains: In the American and Canadian prison systems, kites are “contraband” correspondence shared among inmates, and between inmates and those on the outside. Tiny, folded-up pieces of paper, kites are slipped past the watchful eyes of our tormentors, passed through commissary or along …

Further Thoughts on Repression, by Don Hamerquist

About a year ago I reviewed Aaron Leonard and Conor Gallagher’s book, A Threat of the First Magnitude for Kersplebedeb. In my opinion the book’s detailed examination of two largely successful state repressive projects in the sixties and seventies, SOLO and FIRST MAGNITUDE, deserves serious attention. SOLO was a penetration of …

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Perfect for gifts, distros, or just for your own button collection, leftwingbooks.net is now sending out button packs, either of 1, 10, 50 or 100 buttons of our choosing. You can ask for a complete surprise, or select the specific theme for your buttons. Themes include animal rights, anarchism, communism, …

V.I. Lenin On Imperialism & Opportunism

Author: V.I. Lenin Format: Paperback Size: 191 pages ISBN: 978-1-894946-94-0 Publisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing 2019 Price: $17.55 (CAD) or $13.00 (USD) This collection of texts by V.I. Lenin was originally compiled by the Communist Working Circle, a Danish anti-­imperialist group. In the late 1960s, the CWC developed the so-­called “parasite state” theory linking the imperialist …

November 10th: Ottawa’s 6th Annual Feminist Fair

November 10th, 11am-4pm Horticulture Building at Lansdowne Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/493858394771176/ Kersplebedeb and PM Press will be tabling at the 6th Annual Feminist Fair, happening Sunday November 10th at the Horticulture Building at Landsdowne, 11am to 4pm. As the organizers of the Fair explain: First and foremost this event takes place on unceeded, …