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Presente! Latin@ Immigrant Voices in the Struggle for Racial Justice / Voces de Inmigrantes Latin@s en la Lucha por la Justicia Racial

http://ift.tt/1m6WkII Editor:  Cristina TzintzĂșn 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 …

Craftsmen of World Revolution (by Klaus Viehmann)

What follows is the preface to the upcoming book edited by Gabriel Kuhn, Turning Money into Rebellion: The Unlikely Story of Denmark’s Revolutionary Bank Robbers, to be published by Kersplebedeb and PM Press later this summer. The book tells the story of the “Blekingegade Group” which had emerged from a communist …

Futures, by John Barker

(from the Guardian) Just over 40 years ago, John Barker appeared in the dock at the Old Bailey charged, as a member of the Angry Brigade, with conspiracy to cause explosions. He was jailed for 10 years at the end of what was then Britain’s longest trial. Now he has written …

Demand Medical Care for Kevin “Rashid” Johnson!

Dear Friends: Kevin Rashid Johnson experienced a frightening medical crisis beginning on May 14th, we just got word of it a few days ago. He had crippling pain behind his left eye, blurred vision, and very high blood pressure.  This case of severe hypertension if untreated could cause life threatening medical …

Picabia

by Francis Picabia (22 January 1879 – 30 November 1953)

The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States

The Struggle Within is an accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer about how mass imprisonment has been a tool of repression deployed against diverse left-wing social movements over the last fifty years. Berger examines some of the most dynamic social movements across half a century: black liberation, Puerto Rican independence, Native …

New Webstore at Leftwingbooks.net!

It is with great pleasure that i can tell you that leftwingbooks.net — the webstore associated with kersplebedeb — has been completely overhauled. For the longest time, the previous shopping cart system was giving my grief. It was not flexible enough, and was not able to be tweaked and modified …

Tom Manning, For Love and Liberty

Political prisoner Tom Manning has  a book of his paintings coming out! Who Is Tom Manning? Tom Manning is a freedom fighter, political prisoner and prolific artist. His paintings are stories that jump off the page, revealing the outlook of people who struggle for liberation around the world. His paintings are about …

Historical Materialism 2014, next week in Toronto

Confronting Crisis: Left Praxis in the Face of Austerity, War and Revolution Historical Materialism Conference York University, Toronto, Canada May 8 – 11th, 2014 Download the Program Register for the Conference Confronted with a global context of austerity, exploitation, imperialist aggression, ongoing colonialism, and ecological crises, the world has been …