The following review is reposted from DCSC, a website devoted to “thinking critically about security, surveillance, and counterinsurgency”. J. Sakai and Mandy Hiscocks’s Basic Politics of Movement Security is available from leftwingbooks.net. This review is written by geoff, a new father and an editor of Red Skies at Night: A Journal …
Settlers is a uniquely important book in the canon of the North American revolutionary left and anticolonial movements. First published in the 1980s by activists with decades of experience organizing in grassroots anticapitalist struggles against white supremacy, the book soon established itself as an essential reference point for revolutionary …
Turning Money into Rebellion, recently released by PM Press and Kersplebedeb, has received much attention in Denmark. Telling “the unlikely story of Denmark’s revolutionary bank robbers”, the book focuses on the exploits of the so-called Blekingegade Group, a circle of antiimperialist Marxists responsible for a series of robberies stretching from …
In case you haven’t heard, the People’s Social Forum —Â part of the global movement of social forums that have emerged at different levels since the first World Social Forum (WSF) was held in Porto Alegre (Brazil) in January 2001 — will be happening in Ottawa from August 21-24, i.e. next …
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 …
In Terry Bisson’s interview with Ken MacLeod in The Human Front (PM Press, 2013), there’s this great answer to Bisson’s question “How come so many UK leftists are Trots?” : Short answer: because Trotskyists in Britain moved fast on the CP’s crisis in the 1950s, and moved with the times …
20100128 Out numbered. If you’re curious what the smaller signs say, there is an All Sizes button. If you’re wondering why we have some interesting signs, this article might help you. I’m the unicorn. Edrabbit has created an awesome sign generating thing. Check it out. Remember, god hates retweets. Hello …
http://ift.tt/1q6wTZg Author: Breanne Fahs Format: Paperback Size: 352 pages ISBN: 9781558618480 Publisher: The Feminist Press at the CUNY Year: 2014 Price: $22.95 (USD) List price: $22.95 (USD) Quantity * Too drastic, too crazy, too “out there,” too early, too late, too damaged, too much—Valerie Solanas has been dismissed but never …
Interestingly, both of the Boston area Banksy pieces are on Essex St: • F?O?L?L?O?W? ?Y?O?U?R? ?D?R?E?A?M?S? CANCELLED (aka chimney sweep) in Chinatown, Boston • NO LOITRIN in Central Square, Cambridge. Does that mean anything? It looks like he favors Essex named streets & roads when he can. In 2008, he …
http://ift.tt/1m6WkII Editor: Cristina TzintzĂşn Carlos PĂ©rez de Alejo Arnulfo ManrĂquez Format: Paperback Size: 270 pages ISBN: 9781849351669 Publisher: AK Press Year: 2014 Price: $17.95 (USD) List price: $17.95 (USD) Quantity * Mainstream media in the US tend to frame Latin@ immigrants in two ways. Right-wing pundits demonize them as a …