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May Day and Peter Linebaugh on Democracy Now!, The Laura Flanders Show, ROAR Magazine, and more!

“May Day is about affirmation, the love of life, and the start of spring, so it has to be about the beginning of the end of the capitalist system of exploitation, oppression, war, and overall misery, toil, and moil.” So writes celebrated historian Peter Linebaugh in an essential compendium of reflections on the reviled, glorious, and voltaic occasion of May 1st...

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Read an excerpt of The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day on ROAR Magazine
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Militancy and the Beautiful Game: An interview with Gabriel Kuhn

"...One of the most revealing aspects of the relationship between anarchism and sport is the latter’s almost complete absence from anarchist publications. But there have always been anarchists who criticized the rejection of sports as elitist and who stressed sport’s political potential in terms of uniting people, strengthening communal values, challenging class structures, and so on. Essentially, both leftist anti-sport and pro-sport arguments have remained the same during the past hundred years..."—Recomposition

JJ Wilson's Damnificados in the Library Journal and more!

"Inspired by the 2007 occupation of a skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela, Wilson's debut novel of magic realism is a modern retelling of the classic hero's journey, complete with a two-headed beast, a flood of biblical proportion, miraculous healing, and deus ex machina. The author's elegant language makes even the darkest of situations beautiful. Sure to attract readers who enjoy a touch of magic mixed in with their tales of social justice."—Portia Kapraun, Library Journal

"Demanding the Impossible [is] indispensable… [It] thinks big in mega-history and grand theory."

‘[A] very fine history of anarchist thought… [Peter] Marshall traces the roots of anarchist doctrine to the sixth century BCE, with many excellent biographical portraits, summaries of key events and movements, and long, careful reconstructions of individual philosophies and doctrines. Major trends are plotted chronologically in a spirited, enjoyable narrative that does not presume prior knowledge. All this makes Demanding the Impossible indispensable… [It] thinks big in mega-history and grand theory.’—Gary Roth, Critical Sociology

Upcoming Events

Wednesday, May 04

Alana Apfel (Birth Work as Care Work) @ Burning Books in Buffalo, NY

Thursday, May 05

Robb Johnson (A Reasonable History of Impossible Demands) @ Portslade, UK

Thursday, May 05

Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Revolutionary Mothering) @ Duke University in Durham, NC

Revolutionary Mothering with China Martens & Mai'a Williams @ AF3IRM Los Angeles, CA

Friday, May 06

Michelle Cruz Gonzales (The Spitboy Rule) @ Stories Books in Los Angeles, CA

Saturday, May 07

PM Press authors and tables @ Orange County Anarchist Book Fair in Santa Ana, CA

PM Press @ London Radical Bookfair in London, UK

Michelle Cruz Gonzales (The Spitboy Rule) @ Espacio 1839 in Los Angeles, CA

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Left Forum 2016 Steven
PM Press and our authors are bringing the noise to Left Forum in NYC from May 20th to 22nd. Here's your guide to all the panels you need for this year's conference!

White folks and flies Noel Ignatiev
A column from 2000: Two meetings in one night

The Commons and the Centennial of the Easter Rising Peter Linebaugh
Last year on Earth Day we sang the Digger’s Song and I promised not to come again unless it was with a jackhammer. Here I am with no jack hammer. So it was at best a hope deferred or at worst a false promise. In any case a defeat.

Sober Living for the Revolution: The Song Gabriel Kuhn
In 2010, PM Press published the book Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics. Now the Australian hardcore punk band Rebirth has released a song by the same name.

The Cheapest Way to Get Nowhere Good … and Somewhere to Stay When You Get There Michae lRyan
Uber and Airbnb are perhaps the best known and most heavily used of the new corporate online business platforms that profit from a whole new form of marginalized labour – the permanent subcontractor. The two may seem as different as da...

To those who believe in voting Noel Ignatiev
Why do people vote?

Book review: From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation - by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor JJ Amaworo Wilson
"Mike Brown was ... walking down the street. Eric Garner was standing on the corner. Rekia Boyd was in a park with friends. Trayvon Martin was walking with a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea. Sean Bell was leaving a bachelor party, an...

Poet Mohammed al Ajami released from Qatar prison JJ Amaworo Wilson
After more than four years in prison, Qatari poet Mohammed al Ajami has been pardoned and released.

Fairness Hearing Takes Place on Abusive NYPD Spying Kris Hermes
Federal Judge Charles S. Haight heard oral comments Tuesday in what was referred to as a “Fairness Hearing.” The hearing, which was open to any New York City resident or organization concerned about NYPD spying, stemmed from two clas...

Capitalism Is Organized Crime – Meet the Victims Michae lRyan
In spite of substantially increased productivity, the growing income gap is pushing greater numbers of people into marginality and poverty in the First World, as capitalism’s neoliberal age quite literally destroys lives and kills people.

What a Relief, the City of Cleveland Won't Be Using Nerve Gas on RNC Protesters Kris Hermes
Wednesday, the Cleveland Police Department (CPD) allegedly unveiled its Republican convention security "plans" to the city's Safety Committee, but it left the public with a lot more questions than it answered.In addition to the vague...

The Game is Fixed - Meet the Winners Michae lRyan
Remember that old saw: “The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.” Ends up it’s true.

I obeyed my conscience Andre Moncourt
To some people, she’s a whistleblower who passed on essential information to those who would be negatively affected. To others, she is a revolutionary who broke her country’s law to prevent harm from coming to a neighbouring coun...

An Ideology of Greed and Cruelty Michae lRyan
The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.[1] Ludwig von Mises

New Landauer Online Bibliography Gabriel Kuhn
A new "online participative bibliography" provides an excellent tool for investigating the work and legacy of Gustav Landauer.

Court Offers Rare Opportunity for Public Comment on NYPD Spying Kris Hermes
There’s little dispute today that we live in a National Security State. Unlawful police surveillance and infiltration of religious and political groups has become so common that it barely evokes outrage. Perhaps the most notorious perpet...

Money, Sex and Power: On a Sham Biography of Guy Debord Donald Nicholson-Smith
Our age is the first in world history to claim as its sole enemies those that it manufactures itself, on its own terms and for its own spectacular purposes. Projecting all its characteristic infamy and brutality onto these simulated foes, it cl...

A review of “Frantz Fanon – The Militant Philosopher of Third Word Revolution” – by Leo Zeilig JJ Amaworo Wilson
Jean-Paul Sartre described Che Guevara as “the most complete man of our time.” Like Martin Luther King, Guevara was martyred by the forces of conservatism at the age of thirty-nine. But before Guevara there was Fanon.

CLR James Replies to Atticus Finch Noel Ignatiev
Who are the Backward Ones?

Perimenopunk Michelle Cruz Gonzales
It’s not that I don’t give a fuck. I give a fuck plenty. It’s just that something new but oddly familiar has come over me. I feel both forty-six and sixteen. After years of mothering, schooling, cooking dinner, sorting socks, hel...

First Woman President Nukes Iran Susie Day
WASHINGTON – President Hillary Clinton, making good on her 2008 threat to “totally obliterate” Iran, celebrated her first week in office by ordering a nuclear strike on Iran's capital city of Tehran. As a squa...

A Sneak Peek of The Liberal Politics Of Adolf Hitler by John King John King
It is sometime in the future and the individual nations of Europe no longer exist. The EU’s mission has reached its final stage and the United State Of Europe has been formed. Power is fully centralised, and this corporate-driven, closet ...

HARD CRACKERS Noel Ignatiev
Chronicles of Everyday Life

How a Former Black Panther Could Change the Rules of Solitary Confinement Vikki Law
The case of Russell Maroon Shoatz, who spent nearly 30 years in solitary confinement, could set a precedent for others held in prolonged isolation.

Making Up with Punk Rock Michelle Cruz Gonzales
I broke up with punk rock, but it appears I’m back, having never really left at all. Still, I feel I have some explaining to do.

Slaves and Workers, Workers and Slaves Noel Ignatiev
How slavery is taught

Great Writers, Great Lives: Those We Lost in 2015 JJ Amaworo Wilson
Six great writer/activists we lost in 2015 ...

To my Chavista Friends Clifton Ross
In the December 6 elections for the National Assembly in Venezuela, the opposition won an astounding 2/3 majority, giving them extraordinary powers of governance which would even include the possibility of writing a new constitution. Effectively t...

Violations of Attorney-Client Privilege: Unconstitutional and Nothing New Kris Hermes
Politically motivated surveillance is a prominent feature of today’s National Security State and is part of a playbook of tactics aggressively used by police against Muslims, dissidents, social change movements, and other targeted groups and...

Many Thousand Gone: New Orleans 10 years on JJ Amaworo Wilson
When the levees broke in New Orleans in 2005, so did the veneer of racial harmony in the United States.

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