Divided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism is a book published by Kersplebedeb as part of the Kalikot Book Series (and available from leftwingbooks.net) back in September of last year. Divided World Divided Class charts the history of the ‘labour aristocracy’ in the capitalist world …
We are living in exciting times, with large numbers of people clearly fed up and taking action, no longer content to wait for the right moment or the right ideas or the right leadership to tell them what to do. Whether we think of Occupy, the Arab Spring, or the …
The transformation to a neo-colonial world has only begun, but it promises to be as dramatic, as disorienting a change as was the original european colonial conquest of the human race. Capitalism is again ripping apart & reconstructing the world, and nothing will be the same. Not race, not nation, …
This interview originally appeared in Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture, 5:2, 259-270. For a PDF of the interview, go here. Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and Mass Incarceration: An Interview on Contemporary Social Movements with David Gilbert David Gilbert interviewed by Dan Berger, 2012 In the 1960s …
After Election, Need for Independent Antiwar Movement by David Gilbert , 2004 What a grim time it is politically when the reality of 100,000 Iraqi civilians slaughtered in an illegal war isn’t even a minor issue in U.S. politics and media. The presidential campaign was the gross insult on top …
When i picked up a copy of Caliban and the Witch back in 2005, it was one of the most exciting books i had read all year. In many ways similar to Maria Mies’ Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale, Caliban and the Witch focuses much more on Europe, while …
Short Collective Biography of Action Directe Prisoners Joëlle Aubron, July 1996 available from leftwingbooks.net We, members of Action Directe, have been incarcerated since February 1987. When the four of us were arrested it became a symbol for the government of its fight against the guerilla on this territory. It brought …
Resistance is a Duty! Jean Marc Rouillan, January 27th 2000 available from leftwingbooks.net The death penalty still exists inside French prisons. It is true that the condemned no longer have their heads chopped off. That bloody spectacle was too obscene for the tragicomedy of our asceptic societies. And yet today …
Political Prisoners and the Question of Violence June 19th 1998 – Joëlle Aubron, Nathalie Ménigon, Jean-Marc Rouillan available from leftwingbooks.net “There is no revolution without violence. Those who don’t accept violence can cross out the word revolution from their dictionary.” -Malcolm X Working to free political prisoners is not a …
The Vancouver 5: armed struggle in Canada by Jim Campbell available from leftwingbooks.net Linking anarchism to deliberate acts of violence might seem very natural to most people if they think about anarchism at all. But for most younger anarchists, it must be difficult to imagine that in the early 1980s, …