Full of essays, beautiful artwork and important dates in social justice history! Now in its 21st year of publication, the Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar is required reading for radicals, leftists, and all who support political prisoners and advocate the end of mass incarceration. Each calendar has 12
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Kersplebedeb: Anti-Asian Hate & Resistance: Jackson Heights Immigration Solidarity Network Newsletter, August 7, 2021
[This post is mirrored from JHImmigrationSolidarity.Org, where it was originally published on August 7, 2021.] Dear friends, Warm greetings in late summer to all our generous readers. We begin with two pieces of good news. On July 29, the City Council finally passed legislation that protects over 300,000 domestic workers
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Transsexuals Against Empire: Trans Women And The Fracturing Of Whiteness
Kersplebedeb received this article by Valerie, who explained that “it was written in the context of a local collective attempting to organize trans women specifically to struggle for our liberation as part of the broader struggle against capitalism-imperialism and settler colonialism in the so-called USA.” We are happy to publish
Continue readingKersplebedeb: “Create a fire in you to fight injustice”: How some Christian theocrats co-opt liberatory themes – Matthew N. Lyons [3WF]
Cindy Jacobs, one of NAR’s top leaders, wants to “put steel in [women’s] backbone” [This essay originally appeared on Three Way Fight: An Insurgent Blog On the Struggle Against the State and Fascism on September 26, 2021.] New Apostolic Reformers advocate Christian dominance through spiritual warfare, yet some of them
Continue readingKersplebedeb: 2022 Slingshot Organizers (Agendas) are HERE!
By far the most popular way for anarchists to stay organized, the Slingshot 2022 organizers are here! The 176-page planners/agendas come complete with mini-calendar, daybook planner with radical occasions (both historical and contemporary!) for every day of the year, address book section, international radical contact list, and a menstrual calendar,
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates September 7, 2021
Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: PDF 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 know
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Struggles from Below in the People’s Republic of China: An Interview with Ralf Ruckus, Author of “The Communist Road to Capitalism”
Onlookers watch cars burning after hundreds rioted in Xintang town, a district of Guangzhou, on June 12, 2011. Hong Kong television on June 13 showed scenes from the previous night of cars engulfed in flames and police out in force to quell rioting . The riots were reportedly sparked by
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Saturday, Sept 4, 2021: Halifax Anarchist Bookfair!
Come and visit us this weekend, at our first tabling event in over 18 months! We will be tabling at the Halifax Anarchist Bookfair for both PM Press and Kersplebedeb; we will have copies of Necrocapitalism, Riding the Wave, False Nationalism False Internationalism, and all of the other titles we
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Race & Racism in Ancient & Medieval Studies, Part One: the Problem [The Endless Knot podcast]
What are the problems surrounding race and racism in the fields of Classics and Medieval Studies today? Where did these fields come from, and how does that affect the way we think about the past, and how we construct the present? For this episode (and the next) we interviewed eight
Continue readingKersplebedeb: MTL, 12 sept: Invitation to Anarchist Gathering // Invitation au Rassemblement anarchiste!
Kersplebedeb will be among the tablers at this event! Come check it out! Invitation au Rassemblement anarchiste! [English below] Date: dimanche le 12 septembre 2021 Heures: midi à 17h Lieu: Parc La Fontaine (autour du Centre Culturel Calixa-Lavallée) Êtes-vous nostalgique des salons du livre, et des conversations et de l’inspiration
Continue readingKersplebedeb: The Writings of Anti-Imperialist Political Prisoner David Gilbert
David Gilbert is an ex-Weather Underground member imprisoned after filling a support role in a failed attempt to expropriate an armed truck’s currency for the support of the revolutionary Black underground in 1981. This week he was granted clemency by the outgoing governor of New York, which will allow him
Continue readingKersplebedeb: David Gilbert, Ex-Weather Underground Member, Granted Clemency by Cuomo. Will Parole Board Free Him? [DemocracyNow]
This post is mirrored from DemocracyNow.org. Outgoing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo used his final hours in office to grant clemency to six men, including former Weather Underground member David Gilbert, who was sentenced to 75 years to life in prison for his role in a 1981 robbery of an
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates August 24, 2021
If you send the updates to Clare Grady or Patrick O’Neill, please stop as they have been released! Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/updates-24-aug-2021.pdf NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Harm Reduction Guided by the Goal of the Abolition of Prisons and Capitalism: An interview with former Direct Action member and ex-prisoner Ann Hansen
The now closed P4W (Prison for Women) in Kingston, Ontario. Ann Hansen was imprisoned in 1983 for her involvement in the urban guerilla group Direct Action. She is the author of Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerilla and Taking the Rap: Women Doing Time for Society’s Crimes. She wrote
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Afghanistan: The End of the Occupation [AnneBonnyPirate.org]
The US Embassy in Kabul being evacuated. [This article was originally posted to the authors’ website, AnneBonnyPirate.org, on August 17, 2021] Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale A lot of nonsense about Afghanistan is being written in Britain and the United States. Most of this nonsense hides a number of important
Continue readingKersplebedeb: The Attica Liberation Faction Manifesto of Demands and Anti-Depression Platform, 1971 [mirrored from BlackAgendaReport.com]
Remembering the Attica prisoner demands as the 50th anniversary approaches. [This article was originally posted by Black Agenda Report on August 18, 2021. For more on the Attica Rebellion, check out the book A Time To Die: The Attica Prison Revolt. For audio with the words of participants and fellow
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Reflections about “On Necrocapitalism” – J. Moufawad-Paul
This piece was originally posted on Medium on August 15, 2021. On Necrocapitalism is available now from LeftWingBooks.net. Reflections about “On Necrocapitalism” J. Moufawad-Paul With the book version of On Necrocapitalism about to be released by Kersplebedeb, I felt it would be worth reflecting on my participation in this collective
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Torkil Lauesen on Social Democracy & Imperialism [Manifestering Podcast]
Torkil Lauesen—long-time anti-imperialist, former bankrobber, and author of The Principal Contradiction and The Global Perspective: Reflections on Imperialism and Resistance (both of which are on sale this month at LeftWingBooks.net!)—was on the Manifestering podcast recently to talk about his new book, Riding the Wave: Sweden’s Integration into the Imperialist World
Continue readingKersplebedeb: S1
From the archives: S1 was a revolutionary research journal which came out in the 1980s. S1.pdf
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates August 10, 2021
If you send the updates to Loren Reed, please stop as he has been released! Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/updates-10-aug-2021.pdf 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.
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