Last year saw the 40th anniversary of the 1978 Spring Campaign of the Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse, or BR), a month-Âlong offensive against the Italian state initiated by the kidnapping of Aldo Moro. May 16th, 1978, was the date on which a new cabinet, one which included for the first …
In the transition from armed peace to war, the revolution/counter-Ârevolution confrontation grows increasingly direct and generalized, but there is not, as some claim, a transformation of the democratic state into a fascist state. Instead we find ourselves confronted by a state which through restructuring has experienced a modification in the …
Tom Manning’s death on July 30 has me in the grip of an emotional riptide. I feel like part of me died with him. Tom was imprisoned at USP-Hazelton, WV at the time of his death. The ostensible cause of death, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, was a …
Spring is finely here, and so is our next big book sale; titles from AK Press, PM Press, Common Notions, Haymarket, and of course Kersplebedeb Publishing — time to get your summer reading books, now! We have knocked up to 50% off on dozens of titles at at Kersplebedeb Leftwingbooks.net — anarchist, …
A new zine, as big as a book, that we are very pleased to now carry at Kersplebedeb leftwingbooks.net — “Reflections on Illness /Â RĂ©flections sur la maladie.” Critical, poignant and at times witty, “Reflections on Illness” is a collection of pieces by activists facing life-threatening illness based in Canada (occupied/unceded …
For those of you who don’t know, Treyf is one of the best podcasts out there — “A debatably Jewish podcast. Recorded at CKUT in Montreal (on occupied Kanien’kehá:ka territory), in the shadow of the cross of secularism, Sam Bick and David Zinman reflect on the political discussions that are …
What happened to Prisoner Justice Day? is a podcast mini series about the history of prisons in canada focusing on differences in the prison system in the 1960s-1980s versus today. The podcast features interviews with former and current prisoners, as well as supporters on the outside; the miniseries is all …
Kuwasi Balagoon was a participant in the Black Liberation struggle from the 1960s until his death in prison in 1986. A member of the Black Panther Party and defendant in the infamous Panther 21 case, Balagoon went underground with the Black Liberation Army (BLA). Captured and convicted of various crimes …
Many years ago, when working on what was originally envisaged as a pamphlet, a short collection of writings by Kuwasi Balagoon, i was told of a television interview with Balagoon, conducted while he was incarcerated following the failed Brinks expropriation of 1981. These were in the days before youtube or …
When Strike One to Educate One Hundred was written, Italy’s Red Brigades were crashing out of our daily newspapers into everyone’s awareness. Yet, almost no real information about them was available here.  Strike One was written for that need. It was not an academic study. It was written by people who were doing …