The Thousand and One Nights
Humans have always been storytellers. From the time when humans first developed language around 100,000 years ago, we have been telling one another stories. Long before we could write, we…
Book review
Looking for something to read? I have some suggestions
Hello, dear reader(s). Are you ready for one last look back at 2025? I hope so, because that’s this blog’s topic, specifically a list of the best books I read…
A Brilliant Red Thread named one of the Portland Mercury’s favorite books of 2024
Available from LeftWingBooks.net Good political writing is incendiary. It strikes a balance between the historian and the propagandist, while also (ideally) not coming off as the ravings of a complete…
Some reading suggestions for the new year
Welcome, dear reader(s) to my annual look at the best books I read last year. I do this not to brag about how many books I read (22, but who’s…
Insurgent Trajectory of Antifascist Genealogies: Review of Devin Z. Shaw’s latest book [Brotherwise Dispatch]
Devin Z. Shaw, Genealogies of Antifascism: Militancy, Critique and the Three Way Fight, (Montreal, Canada: Kersplebedeb, 2024). by A. Shahid Stover Devin Z. Shaw’s Genealogies of Antifascism insightfully works towards…
This is the blog we need right now
We all have little things that irk us, things that other, more normal people would never notice or care about. In my case, it’s lazy and/or stupid media blather. I…
Revisiting “Antifascism Against Machismo” [D.Z. Shaw, ThreeWayFight]
Tammy Kovich, Antifascism Against Machismo With an introduction by El Jones and commentary by Butch Lee and Veronica L. Montreal: Kersplebedeb, 2023 153pp.; ISBN: 9781989701232 Review by D. Z. Shaw…
Against Orthodoxy and Despotic Rule: A Review of Islam and Anarchism [The Commoner]
Against Orthodoxy and Despotic Rule: A Review of Islam and Anarchism Javier Sethness The first part in a series on Islam, humanism, and anarchism. Originally written by Javier Sethness, this…
Review of “The Rise of Ecofascism” by Sam Moore and Alex Roberts [ThreeWayFight]
Sam Moore and Alex Roberts, The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2022 160 pages; paperback $19.95, ISBN 9781509545384; hardback $59.95, ISBN 9781509545377 Review…
Revolution in Our Lifetime A Review of “Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072” [Spectre Journal]
Everything For Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072 by M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi Common Notions 2022 Review by Phil Kaplan Unless you’re rich, it’s fairly…
Never Content: On Don Hamerquist’s “A Brilliant Red Thread” [Jarrod Shanahan in the LA Review of Books]
A Brilliant Red Thread: Revolutionary Writings from Don Hamerquist (Kersplebedeb, 2023) “TODAY WE FACE a bewildering conundrum,” writes Luis Brennan. “illions of people are ready to engage in active combat…
McAntiwar and More: Gabriel Kuhn on J. Sakai’s “The Shape of Things to Come” [LeftTwoThree.org]
A review of J Sakai, The Shape of Things to Come (Montreal: Kersplebedeb, 2023). Last month, we looked at the Kersplebedeb release A Brilliant Red Thread, an anthology of writings…
Living with the Lower Case [Gabriel Kuhn reviews A Brilliant Red Thread]
A review of Don Hamerquist, A Brilliant Red Thread (Montreal: Kersplebedeb, 2023). There is much to like about Montreal publisher Kersplebedeb. One thing is the political positioning. Introducing a list…
Reading Animal Fairm
Animal Fairm is a 2022 translation into Scots of George Orwell’s classic satire on Stalinist (and in far too many ways, modern conservative) politics and ideology. As the cover of…
Not the Chaucer You’re Looking For
I received a couple of new Chaucer books recently and, despite my love of reading Chaucer, frankly, I was disappointed by both. My expectations for both greatly exceeded what little…
Their Anti-Imperialism and Ours [ThreeWayFight]
Their Anti-Imperialism and Ours (guest post) by Linda Mann Editors’ note: Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is now in its eleventh month, and the war has no end in sight.…
Torkil Lauesen’s Riding the Wave, reviewed by Adam Grey [RevolutionaryCommunist.org]
Riding the Wave: Sweden’s Integration into the Imperialist World System, Torkil Lauesen, Kersplebedeb Publishing, 2021, 268pp. Reviewed by Adam Grey. This important book by the Danish anti-imperialist activist Torkil Lauesen…
Breaking up Families: How Medical Colonialism in Canada is Retraumatizing Indigenous People [Fifth Estate]
Breaking up Families How Medical Colonialism in Canada is Retraumatizing Indigenous People by Marieke Bivar Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021 a review of Fighting for A Hand to Hold:…
‘The Dawn of Everything’ gets human history wrong [ClimateAndCapitalism.com]
Is inequality inevitable? Is freedom just a choice? Two materialist critiques of a widely-praised book. Introduction It’s not often that a book by radical authors gets reviewed — let alone…