The 2020 Slingshot organizers should be arriving in Canada in late October! By far the most popular way for anarchists to stay organized, complete with mini-calendar, daybook planner, address book section, international radical contact list, and nifty what happened on this day notes scattered throughout. The artwork is always wonderful
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Kersplebedeb: Fall Sale at Leftwingbooks.NET!
It is that time of year again — we are putting lots of books on sale at leftwingbooks.net — both Kersplebedeb titles and ones from our friends at PM Press, Haymarket, AK Press, Pluto, and more … It is a lot a lot of books Check them all out at https://www.leftwingbooks.net/sale
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Certain Days 2020 Calendar: Knitting Together the Struggles
AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER FROM LEFTWINGBOOKS.NET! 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
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Autonomous Groups Set up Hubs Across Several States to Mobilize Dorian Aid
Reposted from Its Going Down While Trump baffles the nation with Tweets and sharpie drawings, and the State cuts disaster relief funds to pay for a border wall, autonomous and anarchist groups are mobilizing to provide direct relief to people hit by hurricane Dorian, especially poor, immigrant, homeless, and working class
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Halifax Anarchist Bookfair Postponed Until Sunday Because of Hurricane Dorian
Organizers of the 2nd Annual Halifax Anarchist Bookfair have decided to postpone the bookfair, which was to take place tomorrow, to Sunday September 8th, due to the impending landfall of Hurricane Dorian in Halifax sometime tomorrow afternoon. We arrived in Halifax today not really sure what the situation would be.
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Manhattan DA Made Google Give Up Information on Everyone in Area as They Hunted for Antifa (repost)
When Gavin McInnes—founder of the violent, far-right group The Proud Boys—spoke to a Manhattan Republican club last October, the neighborhood response was less than welcoming. Protesters took to the normally sedate Upper East Side block with chants and spray paint. Read the rest of this post on the original site
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Anti-Fascism Against Machismo: Gender, Politics and the Struggle Against Fascism
available from leftwingbooks.net Antifascism Against Machismo is one of the strongest antifascist political interventions to address the intersection of patriarchal politics with both the far right and trends within the antifascist movement itself, from a firm historically informed theoretical basis in militant anarchism. Sections address the political misogyny of the contemporary
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Tom Manning—Words of Remembrance, by Jaan Laaman
Class war prisoner, Freedom fighter, Man of the People, long held political prisoner, Thomas William Manning, died on July 30, of a heart issue at the federal penitentiary in Hazelton, Kentucky. Tom—Tommy to his many comrades, family, friends, people that knew him, was a life long Revolutionary Freedom Fighter. From
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Sept. 7th: 2nd Annual Halifax Anarchist Bookfair
We are living in a world where ecological collapse is imminent, and fascist forces militarize borders, destroy land and livelihoods; a world where basic freedoms are a further and further reality for most people, a world where prisons still incarcerate our loved ones. In this spirit of rebellion, we invite
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Saturday August 18: 12th Annual Queer Between the Covers Bookfair in Montreal
The 12th Queer Between the Covers Bookfair in Montreal is happening on Pride Parade day this year! Kersplebedeb is very happy to be tabling at QBTC again this year! Come and check us out, we will be sharing a table with PM Press! This year’s bookfair is happening on Sunday, August
Continue readingKersplebedeb: THE GUERRILLA AND PROLETARIAN POWER (Red Brigades, February 1978)
What does it mean to build the organization of proletarian power in the current period of the class war? In this period in which the restructuring of the state has reached a point where it can no longer tolerate any proletarian struggle that steps outside the operational schema of capital
Continue readingKersplebedeb: WOMEN WORKERS (Red Brigades, February 1978)
Women from all sections of the proletariat occupy an inferior, subordinate, and worse paid position in relation to men. Moreover they suffer from the serfdom of domestic labor. Women’s labor, including that performed in the home, is therefore antagonistic to capitalist society. The awakening of women’s struggles and the implicit
Continue readingKersplebedeb: On Via Fani on March 16th it was no mysterious “007s” from who knows where who went into battle (Red Brigades, March 1979)
We want to be clear: On Via Fani on March 16th it was no mysterious “007s” from who knows where who went into battle; it was comrades from the political vanguard. Tempered in the struggles of the working class and the proletariat in our country. They were communist fighters who
Continue readingKersplebedeb: THE IMPERIALIST STATE OF THE MULTINATIONALS IS NEITHER FASCIST NOR SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC (Red Brigades, 1978)
In the transition from armed peace to war, the revolution/counter-revolution confrontation grows increasingly direct and generalized, but there is not, as some claim, a transformation of the democratic state into a fascist state. Instead we find ourselves confronted by a state which through restructuring has experienced a modification in the
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Statement on passing of Tom Manning, by Ray Luc Levasseur
Tom Manning’s death on July 30 has me in the grip of an emotional riptide. I feel like part of me died with him. Tom was imprisoned at USP-Hazelton, WV at the time of his death. The ostensible cause of death, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, was a
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Philippines ships 69 containers of dumped rubbish back to Canada (repost)
A cargo ship carrying tonnes of rubbish dumped in the Philippines by Canada more than five years ago, causing a festering diplomatic row, has left the Southeast Asian country, as nations in the region increasingly reject serving as dumpsites for wealthier states. Read the rest of this post on the
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Spring Sale at Leftwingbooks.NET :)
Spring is finely here, and so is our next big book sale; titles from AK Press, PM Press, Common Notions, Haymarket, and of course Kersplebedeb Publishing — time to get your summer reading books, now! We have knocked up to 50% off on dozens of titles at at Kerslebedeb Leftwingbooks.net — anarchist,
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Court Reporters May Be Writing Down Black People’s Testimonies Wrong (repost)
In 2013, Rachel Jeantel, a close friend of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, testified during the trial of George Zimmerman. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Court Reporters May Be Writing Down Black People’s Testimonies Wrong
Continue readingKersplebedeb: How “Pick-Up Artists” Morphed Into The Alt-Right (repost)
Support our comics! Become a Nib member and get our print magazine full of amazing artists. Read the rest of this post on the original site at How “Pick-Up Artists” Morphed Into The Alt-Right
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Reflections on Illness / Réflections sur la maladie
available from leftwingbooks.net A new zine, as big as a book, that we are very pleased to now carry at Kersplebedeb leftwingbooks.net — “Reflections on Illness / Réflections sur la maladie.” Critical, poignant and at times witty, “Reflections on Illness” is a collection of pieces by activists facing life-threatening illness based
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