The anarchists’ slogan, “Destroy what destroys you,” is aimed at mobilizing the base, young people in prisons and reformatories, in high schools and training centres. It reaches out to all of those in the shittiest situations. It is meant to be spontaneously understood, and is a call for direct resistance.
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Kersplebedeb: Inge Viett, 1944-2022
Several weeks ago, we learned that Inge Viett had died. She passed on May 9, at the age of 78. We offer the following notes to English-speaking readers, so that they can know something of this former guerilla and her legacy. Inge Viett was a central participant in armed left
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Call for Art and Article Submissions for the 2023 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar
The Certain Days collective will be releasing our 22nd calendar this coming autumn. In lieu of a 2023 theme, we are doing an open call for abolition-related art and article submissions to feature in the calendar, which hangs in more than 6,000 homes, workplaces, prison cells, and community spaces around the world. We
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Butch Lee / 1940-2021
Butch Lee liked to compare life to a busy transit system, in which people were always coming and going. Butch herself has left, died this passing year 2021, after a long determined battle with terminal illness. She leaves behind comrades and friends and family who cared deeply for her. She
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Russell Maroon Shoatz, Rest in Power
It is with great sadness, anger, and bitterness, that i have learned of the passing of Russell Maroon Shoatz. A prisoner of war for most of his life, Maroon came to symbolize not only the cruelty of the u.s. prison system, but also the indomitable spirit of resistance. In the
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Livres Anticoloniales et Antiracistes en français, à leftwingbooks.net
Ici à Kersplebedeb, nous venons de recevoir plusieurs livres excellentes de l’Europe, en français, avec un focus sur les luttes anticoloniales et antiracistes, de la Palestine à la France, de l’Algérie aux États-Unis.Nous espérons que dans les mois et années prochaines, nous allons pouvoir alimenter notre sélection francophone davantage. En
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Gift Ideas from Leftwingbooks.net
Pretty much everything on the leftwingbooks.net site would make for a great gift, if that is your thing this time of year, but here is a selection of some of our favorites. one of the best books i have ever read, or been lucky enough to publish, J. Sakai’s Settlers:
Continue readingKersplebedeb: International campaign for the release of Georges Abdallah
At the end of a month-long international campaign for the release of Georges Abdallah, a large demonstration will be held on October 23 in front of the Lannemezan prison in the South of France, where he is incarcerated. October 24 it will be 37 years that he has been in
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Kersplebedeb Statement on Writings of Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
It has come to the attention of Kersplebedeb Publishing that claims are being made that two books we have published by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson — Defying the Tomb and Panther Vision — were really “ghostwritten” by Tom Watts. Given that Kersplebedeb published both of these books and has plans to
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Kasim Ali Tirmizey reviews Fighting for a Hand to Hold, from Race & Class
Fighting for a Hand to Hold: confronting medical colonialism against Indigenous children in Canada By SAMIR SHAHEEN-HUSSAIN (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2020), 360 pp. £23.50. As I was in the middle of reading Fighting for a Hand to Hold, Joyce Echaquan, a 37-year-old woman from the Atikamekw nation, died in
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Interview with Margit Schiller, former Red Army Faction Political Prisoner and Author of Remembering the Armed Struggle
available from leftwingbooks.net Margrit Schiller was an early member of the Red Army Faction, the West German urban guerrilla group. In 1971 she was captured and charged with a murder she did not commit, and upon her release she returned to the underground, being captured again in early 1974. She
Continue readingKersplebedeb: The Red Nation on The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth
available from leftwingbooks.net A powerful guide to Indigenous liberation and the fight to save the planet, published by Common Notions, now available from leftwingbooks at https://www.leftwingbooks.net/book/content/red-deal-indigenous-action-save-our-earth One-part visionary platform, one-part practical toolkit, The Red Deal is a platform that encompasses everyone, including non-Indigenous comrades and relatives who live on Indigenous land.
Continue readingKersplebedeb: We Move Together, a new disability justice children’s book
A bold and colorful exploration of all the ways that people navigate through the spaces around them and a celebration of the relationships we build along the way. We Move Together follows a mixed-ability group of kids as they creatively negotiate everyday barriers and find joy and connection in disability
Continue readingKersplebedeb: spring comes (poem by Kuwasi Balagoon)
spring comes and mail trickles in and trickles out as if written in blood winter’s talk hangs unresolved and useless as smoke and well-reasoned routines are questioned with a runaway mind that doesn’t stop to sleep and has come to expect the bare minimum for the sake of an argument
Continue readingKersplebedeb: The Dangerous Class by J. Sakai: Original Flipbook Print Run Sold Out
We are happy to say that the original print run of J. Sakai’s The Dangerous Class and Revolutionary Theory: thoughts on the making of the lumpen/proletariat has sold out. Originally published in 2017, this book provided a unique examination of the concept of the lumpen/proletariat in Marxist thought, combined with a
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Spring is Sprung: April Book Sale at Leftwingbooks.net
It’s another month, and another season, with snow melting (though also falling, as i type this), and as always, lots of possibilities of what the next season may bring. We put new books on sale every month, for the month — no particular theme, so no matter what you’re interested
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Mending The World As Jewish Anarchists: Book Launch & Discussion April 29
Event by Independent Jewish Voices Canada Online: ijvcanada.zoom.us Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 7 PM EDT Price: Free Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/475037173664163 Join Independent Jewish Voices Canada for the launch of the brand-new anthology of contemporary Jewish anarchist writing, “There is Nothing So Whole As a Broken Heart: Mending The World As
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Fanzine sobre vacunas contra COVID 19 // Zine about COVID 19 vaccines
Queridxs compas, Ante los temores que existen respecto a las vacunas contra COVID 19, las dudas y preguntas múltiples, desde la Escuela de Salud Comunitaria Alina Sánchez, preparamos como esfuerzo colectivo este fanzine para hacer más accesible información concreta y actualizada con la esperanza de ayudar a nuestrxs compas y
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Why Tronti? Why Now? Interview with Andrew Anastasi
available from leftwingbooks.net Mirrored from https://spectrejournal.com/why-tronti-why-now/ The philosopher and politician Mario Tronti remains one of the most important Marxists and political theorists in postwar Italy, yet until now, no critical edition of his work has appeared in English. This is why Andrew Anastasi‘s edited volume The Weapon of Organization is so crucial: it presents Tronti
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Winter Is Almost Done and We Have So Many New Books @Leftwingbooks.net!
It is always exciting to see what comes in the mail … here are some new titles we picked up in February, all available (and many of them discounted as part of our February Sale) at leftwingbooks.net
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