What a lot has changed in just a couple of weeks. Plans have changed, lives have changed. We’d best gear up quickly, the dress rehearsal is over. Hic Rhodus, Hic Salta, indeed. The following COVID-19 resources may be useful to many of you; if you know of similar resources not
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Kersplebedeb: The Bigger Plague is Capitalism (repost)
Experiencing a pandemic in real time is surreal. The culture industry machine has pre-transcribed such events in multiple movies, books, and comics. Read the rest of this post on the original site at The Bigger Plague is Capitalism
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Noel Ignatiev’s Conflicted Antifascism (repost)
Noel Ignatiev1 left a conflicted antifascist legacy. As a member of the Sojourner Truth Organization (sto), Ignatiev made important contributions to understanding fascism, above all its autonomous political character and contradictory relationship with capitalist interests. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Noel Ignatiev’s Conflicted Antifascism
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Some thoughts on COVID-19, by Torkil Lauesen
Along with the late Immanuel Wallerstein, I think that globalized capitalism is in a structural crisis economically, politically, and in its relationship with nature, which leads to climate crises and now as we see to pandemics. The structural crisis entails that the system is out of balance, that conjunctures do
Continue readingKersplebedeb: L’humanité à l’heure de COVID-19: comment s’entraider
(ceci est une traduction non-autorisé de l’article Humanity in times of COVID-19: How to help each other properly par le medecin Ben F. Maier) Tout d’abord, pour que tout cela soit clair, je suis un scientifique qui fait des recherches sur la façon dont les maladies infectieuses se propagent et je travaille
Continue readingKersplebedeb: MAINTENANT – LES LIGNES FERROVIAIRES DU CN BLOQUÉES SUR LA RIVE SUD DE «MONTRÉAL» APPEL PUBLIC AUX RENFORCEMENTS// BREAKING – CN RAIL LINES BLOCKED ON SOUTH SHORE OF “MONTRÉAL” PUBLIC CALL FOR REINFORCEMENTS
MAINTENANT – LES LIGNES FERROVIAIRES DU CN BLOQUÉES SUR LA RIVE SUD DE «MONTRÉAL» APPEL PUBLIC AUX RENFORCEMENTS// BREAKING – CN RAIL LINES BLOCKED ON SOUTH SHORE OF “MONTRÉAL” PUBLIC CALL FOR REINFORCEMENTS (english below), Communiqué reçu par Contrepoints.media Une voie ferrée du CN traversant la ville de St-Lambert, connectant
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Prospects for Anti-Capitalism in a Divided World, by Yuriy Dergunov
available from leftwingbooks.net Review of the book: Lauesen T. (2018) The Global Perspective. Reflections on Imperialism and Resistance, Montreal: Kersplebedeb. Torkil Lauesen’s book The Global Perspective. Reflections on Imperialism and Resistance is written from a perspective that can be described as Third Worldist Marxism. For its author, such views are
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Announcing kites: a new journal of communist theory & strategy
As the editorial to this new journal explains: In the American and Canadian prison systems, kites are “contraband” correspondence shared among inmates, and between inmates and those on the outside. Tiny, folded-up pieces of paper, kites are slipped past the watchful eyes of our tormentors, passed through commissary or along
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Further Thoughts on Repression, by Don Hamerquist
About a year ago I reviewed Aaron Leonard and Conor Gallagher’s book, A Threat of the First Magnitude for Kersplebedeb. In my opinion the book’s detailed examination of two largely successful state repressive projects in the sixties and seventies, SOLO and FIRST MAGNITUDE, deserves serious attention. SOLO was a penetration of
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Zines!
Besides books, leftwingbooks.net also stocks dozens of zines (or as we used to call them, pamphlets). Subjects vary from anarchism to maoism, feminism, antifascist and labour history, political theory, and much more. Some of our favorites are: You can check them all out here!
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Button Packs!
Perfect for gifts, distros, or just for your own button collection, leftwingbooks.net is now sending out button packs, either of 1, 10, 50 or 100 buttons of our choosing. You can ask for a complete surprise, or select the specific theme for your buttons. Themes include animal rights, anarchism, communism,
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Radical Politics Colouring Book
The Radical Politics Colouring Book is a collection of illustrations and games for radical social change. Mixing entertainment, craft and education, it’s a great way to bring politics to family friendly activities for all ages. The 50 pages of activities and illustrations touch a diversity of subjects such as anticapitalism,
Continue readingKersplebedeb: V.I. Lenin On Imperialism & Opportunism
available from leftwingbooks.net Author: V.I. Lenin Format: Paperback Size: 191 pages ISBN: 978-1-894946-94-0 Publisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing 2019 Price: $17.55 (CAD) or $13.00 (USD) This collection of texts by V.I. Lenin was originally compiled by the Communist Working Circle, a Danish anti-imperialist group. In the late 1960s, the CWC developed the so-called “parasite state” theory
Continue readingKersplebedeb: November 10th: Ottawa’s 6th Annual Feminist Fair
November 10th, 11am-4pm Horticulture Building at Lansdowne Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/493858394771176/ Kersplebedeb and PM Press will be tabling at the 6th Annual Feminist Fair, happening Sunday November 10th at the Horticulture Building at Landsdowne, 11am to 4pm. As the organizers of the Fair explain: First and foremost this event takes place on unceeded,
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Nov. 16-17 in Montreal: Expozine!
Gratuit – Free! La plus grande foire annuelle bilingue de petits éditeurs en Amérique du Nord est de retour ! The largest bilingual small press fair in North America is back! Nov 16 and Nov. 17, 11 AM – 6 PM 1025 Rue Bélanger, Montréal, QC H2S 1H1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/451179855750803/ With nearly
Continue readingKersplebedeb: 2020 Certain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar
Now in its 19th 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, with proceeds going to support prisoners and grassroots organizations. Each calendar has 12 thought-provoking essays and 12 pieces of beautiful
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Canzine Ottawa, Sunday, October 6!
Sunday, October 6, 2019, 12-6pm Ottawa Art Gallery • Galerie d’Art d’Ottawa 50 Mackenzie King Bridge & 10 Daly Av facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/906594449689214/ read more at: https://brokenpencil.com/canzine/canzineott/canzine-ottawa-events/ Check out the Canzine Ottawa Vendor List! Free admission Get the new issue of Broken Pencil Magazine with a donation at the door The festival of zine culture
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Freedom for Political Prisoners and the Fight Against Imperialism and White Supremacy: A Certain Days Calendar Launch with Matt Meyer and Friends
WHEN: Wednesday October 9, 6:30-8:30pm WHERE: 1440 Rue Mackay (Le Frigo Vert), metro Guy Concordia Now in its 19th 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. The Certain
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Certain Days Calendar Launch with Matt Meyer and Friends
Freedom for Political Prisoners and the Fight Against Imperialism and White Supremacy: A Certain Days Calendar Launch with Matt Meyer and Friends WHEN: Wednesday October 9, 6:30-8:30pm WHERE: 1440 Rue Mackay (Le Frigo Vert), metro Guy Concordia Now in its 19th year of publication, the Certain Days: Freedom for Political
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Rote Zora
PM Press has several titles relating to militant currents within the German left of the 1970s and 80s. Two volumes document the history of the Red Army Faction, the pamphlet Prison Round Trip was written by former Movement 2 of June member Klaus Viehmann, and Fire and Flames is a classic account of the German autonomous
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