[Originally posted to the ThreeWayFight on June 3, 2023.] 3WF: Trans and other gender-nonconforming people have become a major target of right-wing political attacks in recent years, and they continue to be major targets of systemic oppression and physical violence in U.S. society. How do you apply a three way
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Kersplebedeb: Presentation & Discussion of Don Hamerquist’s “A Brilliant Red Thread” in Brooklyn, NY
WHAT IS IT: A free presentation and discussion about the recently released book entitled A Brilliant Red Thread: Revolutionary Writings of Don Hamerquist WHERE IS IT: The Word is Change Book Store, 368 Tompkins Avenue (at Putnam), Brooklyn, NY WHEN IS IT: Wednesday, June 21, 2023, 7pm
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates May 30, 2023
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of war we support. If you consistently mail the latest updates to a specific prisoner, please let us
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates May 16, 2023
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of war we support. If you consistently mail the latest updates to a specific prisoner, please let us
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Revolution in Our Lifetime A Review of “Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072” [Spectre Journal]
[Originally posted to SpectreJournal.com on September 1, 2022] Everything For Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072 by M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi Common Notions 2022 Review by Phil Kaplan Unless you’re rich, it’s fairly hard living your life in today’s world. It’s hard to go out
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Never Content: On Don Hamerquist’s “A Brilliant Red Thread” [Jarrod Shanahan in the LA Review of Books]
[Mirrored from lareviewofbooks.org, where it was posted May 12, 2023.] A Brilliant Red Thread: Revolutionary Writings from Don Hamerquist (Kersplebedeb, 2023) “TODAY WE FACE a bewildering conundrum,” writes Luis Brennan. “[M]illions of people are ready to engage in active combat with the ruling capitalist order, but we have not seen
Continue readingKersplebedeb: McAntiwar and More: Gabriel Kuhn on J. Sakai’s “The Shape of Things to Come” [LeftTwoThree.org]
[Originally posted to LeftTwoThree.org] A review of J Sakai, The Shape of Things to Come (Montreal: Kersplebedeb, 2023). Last month, we looked at the Kersplebedeb release A Brilliant Red Thread, an anthology of writings by Don Hamerquist. This month, we’re looking at a somewhat similar release by Kersplebedeb, The Shape
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates May 2, 2023
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of war we support. If you consistently mail the latest updates to a specific prisoner, please let us
Continue readingKersplebedeb: A Brilliant Red Thread Book Launch, at Mother Foucault’s Bookshop in Portland OR, April 29
Near Portland? Come celebrate the launch of A Brilliant Red Thread: Revolutionary Writings from Don Hamerquist. The event will include discussions of experienced revolutionary organizers about the legacy of Hamerquist’s ideas and the future of our movement for human freedom. SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 2023 at 7 PM Mother Foucault’s Bookshop
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Too Many Struggles Under One Roof: A review of Sophie Lewis’s Abolish the Family by Veronica L.
Sophie Lewis, Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation, (New York: Verso Books, 2022). By Veronica L. When I was twenty-two, my then girlfriend and I put out a zine about polyamory. We were newly anarchists, newly dating, and excited about zines. This Is About More Than Who
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates April 18, 2023
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of war we support. If you consistently mail the latest updates to a specific prisoner, please let us
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Living with the Lower Case [Gabriel Kuhn reviews A Brilliant Red Thread]
[Originally posted to Gabriel Kuhn’s blog at LeftTwoThree.org] A review of Don Hamerquist, A Brilliant Red Thread (Montreal: Kersplebedeb, 2023). There is much to like about Montreal publisher Kersplebedeb. One thing is the political positioning. Introducing a list of “Texts for leninists with an anti-authoritarian critique of leninism, and for
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates April 4, 2023
NOTE: If you send the updates to Casey Brezik, he must now receive mail digitally, handled by a corporate intermediary: Casey M Brezik #1154765 c/o Digital Mail Center–Missouri DOC Post Office Box 25678 Tampa, Florida 33622-5678 Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates March 21, 2023
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of war we support. If you consistently mail the latest updates to a specific prisoner, please let us
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates March 7, 2023
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of war we support. If you consistently mail the latest updates to a specific prisoner, please let us
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates February 21, 2023
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of war we support. If you consistently mail the latest updates to a specific prisoner, please let us
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Anti-Imperialism is for Everyone [Gabriel Kuhn]
Intro A recent book on the Revolutionary Cells of Germany, a network of militant left-wing radicals active in the 1980s and 90s, includes a curious exchange. An interviewer asks three former RC members about anti-imperialism, insisting that it was a “Leninist concept”. Eventually, one of the former RC members
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates February 7, 2023
NOTE: If you send the updates to Alex Stokes, he has been moved: Alexander Contompasis 22-B-5028 Upstate Correctional Facility Post Office Box 2001 Malone, New York 12953 Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Call for Art & Essay Submissions for 2024 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoner Calendar
The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar collective is releasing its 23rd calendar in 2024. With twelve pieces of beautiful art and twelve essays, these radical calendars have a history of hanging in thousands of homes, workplaces, prison cells, and community spaces around the globe—both educating and reminding us
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates January 24, 2023
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of war we support. If you consistently mail the latest updates to a specific prisoner, please let us
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