What: A call for art and article submissions on Health/Care for the 2019 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar. Deadline: May 18, 2018 The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar collective (www.certaindays.org) is releasing its 18th calendar this coming fall. The theme for 2019 is ‘Health/Care,’ reflecting on
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Kersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Radical Theory and Academia: a Thorny Relationship (Torkil Lauesen, Gabriel Kuhn)
This article is about radical theory, in particular its relationship with academia. We, the authors, have been involved in relevant discussions for many years. We have academic training and we use academic sources and methods in some of our work. But we do not have academic careers. We are interested
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Gabriel Kuhn Reviews: J. Sakai, The “Dangerous Class” and Revolutionary Theory: Thoughts on the Making of the Lumpen/Proletariat (Montreal: Kersplebedeb, 2017)
to purchase a copy from leftwingbooks.net click here There are people who write a lot of books, hoping that somewhere down the line they’ll have a winner. Then, there are people who write a book every thirty years and make sure it’s groundbreaking. J. Sakai belongs to the latter category. Settlers:
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: BUNDLE of Eight Issues of Uprising, Journal of Revolutionary Initiative (2006-2017)
The unnamed first issue, and subsequent seven issues of Uprising, the Journal of Revolutionary Initiative, at a discounted price from leftwingbooks.net. Revolutionary Initiative is a revolutionary communist party-building organization based in the northern half of Turtle Island, or the territories held or occupied by imperialist Canada. RI’s goal is to creatively
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Empêchons la Déportatin de Lucy Granados, une organisatrice communautaire pour les droits des femmes sans-papiers!
#LUCYDOITRESTER #LETLUCYSTAY LUCY FRANCINETH GRANADOS, UNE ORGANISATRICE COMMUNAUTAIRE POUR LES DROITS DES FEMMES SANS-PAPIERS, RISQUE LA DÉPORTATION – AIDEZ-NOUS À BLOQUER LES LIGNES TÉLÉPHONIQUES POUR ARRÊTER SA DÉPORTATION https://www.facebook.com/events/209485126474388/ Notre amie, voisine et organisatrice communautaire dans le Collectif des Femmes Sans Statut et dans l’Association des Travailleurs et Travailleuses Temporaires (ATTAP),
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Stop the Deportation of Lucy Granados, Montreal Community Organizer for the Rights of Undocumented Women!
#LUCYDOITRESTER #LETLUCYSTAY MONTREAL COMMUNITY ORGANIZER FOR THE RIGHTS OF UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN, LUCY FRANCINETH GRANADOS, FACES DEPORTATION – HELP US JAM THE LINES TO STOP HER DEPORTATION https://www.facebook.com/events/209485126474388/ Our friend, our neighbour, and community organizer with the Non Status Women’s Collective and ATTAP (the Temporary Workers Association), Lucy Francineth
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Race Traitors Wanted: Apply Within (A Review of David Gilbert’s ‘Looking at the U.S. White Working Class Historically’ by Colin Jenkins, The Hampton Institute)
click here to purchase via the leftwingbooks.net website The term “white working class” captured much of the media analysis which sought to explain Trump’s meteoric rise and subsequent victory to the highest office in the United States. The obsession with polling and voting trends based in demographics is certainly nothing
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Support Herman Bell!
Last week the New York State Board of Parole granted Herman Bell release. Since the Board’s decision, there has been significant backlash from the Police Benevolent Association, other unions, Mayor De Blasio and Governor Cuomo. They are demanding that Herman be held indefinitely, the Parole Commissioners who voted for his
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Herman Bell Granted Parole!
A respected elder, Herman Bell, was granted parole having met all the criteria for release according to his sentence. The parole commissioners recognized his progress after serving nearly 45 years in prison and granted his parole application. He is looking forward to being reunited with his family and friends. We
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: March Sale at Leftwingbooks.net
A number of books from Kersplebedeb (and other publishers!) are on special on the leftwingbooks.net website for the rest of the month of March, 25% off or more — some of the books on special include: Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire by Matthew N. Lyons
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Prosecutors Say A Woman Who Went Undercover With An “Anarchist Extremist Group” Will Testify At Inauguration Protest Trials (repost)
In the next round of trials against people charged with rioting during President Donald Trump’s inauguration, federal prosecutors want to put a witness on the stand under an alias who spent two years undercover with “an anarchist extremist group” in New York. Read the rest of this post on the
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Assembly of First Nations, RCMP co-operated on response to mass protests in 2007 (repost)
The Assembly of First Nations worked closely with the Mounties and provincial police to exchange information about protests and develop common stances before a national aboriginal day of action in the summer of 2007, according to RCMP documents. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Assembly
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Montreal Screening: The Gentleman Bank Robber
when: Friday, March 9 at 7 PM – 10 PM where: qpirg concordia, 1500 de maisonneuve ouest (montreal) facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1065764840275933/ The Gentleman Bank Robber is a portrait of revolutionary rita bo brown, a white working class butch from rural Oregon who became known as “The Gentleman Bank Robber” in the 1970s for
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Winter Pride Mini Queer Between the Covers
Tuesday, February 27 at 12 PM – 4 PM Concordia University’s EV Atrium (the building glued on to the metro; you can enter via the metro or Guy though the official address is 1515 Saint-Catherine St W) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/914229078746543/ As part of Concordia University’s first Winter Pride//Fierté en Hiver celebration, QBtC
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Hamilton Anarchist Bookfair: March 3rd and 4th
The Hamilton Anarchist Bookfair – Saturday, March 3 and Sunday, March 4, 2018 – takes place at Westdale Secondary School (700 Main St. W. MAP) Easily accessible from the 403 and a quick bus ride from MacNab Terminal in the downtown Hamilton area. At the bookfair there is dozens of booksellers,
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: New Classes for a New Class Politics (Gabriel Kuhn)
I spent the past weekend writing a German review of the new Kersplebedeb edition of David Gilbert’s Looking at the U.S. White Working Class Historically, originally published in 1984. While the original piece mainly consisted of reviews of three relevant publications – Ted Allen’s pamphlet White Supremacy in the U.S./Slavery and the
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Organizing the lumpenproletariat: Cliques and communists in Berlin during the Weimar Republic – Eve Rosenhaft (repost)
During the Weimar Republic, popular anxieties about the state of society became focused on a field of problems in which youth, political radicalism and a general brutalisation of social and political relations were assumed to be directly linked with one another in peculiarly threatening ways. Read the rest of this
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Reality has a surprising amount of detail (repost)
My dad emigrated from Colombia to North America when he was 18 looking looking for a better life. For my brother and I that meant a lot of standing outside in the cold. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Reality has a surprising amount of
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: The Terrifying Rise of Alt-Right Fight Clubs (repost)
Anastasia Yankova, a Russian model-turned-mixed martial artist who has appeared in a Nike commercial, was a month away from her professional debut when she took to Instagram to post a cartoon of Adolph Hitler. Read the rest of this post on the original site at The Terrifying Rise of Alt-Right
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: 5 Ways to Support FL Prisoners Going on Strike Tomorrow (repost)
Tomorrow, prisoners across the state of Florida plan to launch a work strike against prison slavery, high canteen prices, and to fully return parole – among other demands. Read the rest of this post on the original site at 5 Ways to Support FL Prisoners Going on Strike Tomorrow
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