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Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines editors guest-host The Laura Flanders Show

Inspired by the legacy of radical and queer black feminists of the 1970s and ’80s, Revolutionary Mothering places marginalized mothers of color at the center of a world of necessary transformation. The challenges we face as movements working for racial, economic, reproductive, gender, and food justice, as well as anti-violence, anti-imperialist, and queer liberation are the same challenges that many mothers face every day.

Listen to Revolutionary Mothering editors on The Marc Steiner Show
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The Spitboy Rule reviewed on Feministing, Hip Mama, KQED Arts, & Latino Rebels.

"We are all punks, but we are not all punks the same.” Nguyen’s introduction captures the sometimes invisible differences in punk communities at the heart of Spitboy,
I think there are echoes of this sentiment in feminism more broadly. We are all feminists, but we are not all the same. Feminism has done its fair share of excluding intersectional approaches to issues such as race, sexuality, class, ability, migration status, etc. It is that difference within community that is essential and heartbreaking in Gonzales’s journey."—Chanelle Adams, Feministing

Watch Michelle at the 11/4/15 Punk Panel in Oakland, CA
Review: KQED Arts
Listen to Michelle on La Raza
Review: Hip Mama
Buy The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band

May Day and Peter Linebaugh on Al Jazeera, Democracy Now! 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..."

Watch Peter Linebaugh on Al Jazeera
Watch Peter on Democracy Now!
Watch Peter on The Laura Flanders Show
Buy The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day

"This collection on birth is truly rare and precious." —Squat Magazine

"Break out the tissues and breathe deeply. Alana Apfel imbues Birth Work As Care Work with intimacy, empathy, and buckets of love.

I had the great honor to witness the development of this anthology. While working towards our Master’s degrees in Anthropology and Social Change at California Institute of Integral Studies, I cried tears of awe on many a train ride as I read the drafts of these stories..." —Angela Anderson, SQUAT

Upcoming Events

Thursday, May 12

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

Michelle Cruz Gonzales (The Spitboy Rule) @ Alley Cat Books in San Francisco, CA

Friday, May 13

Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore (Songs of Freedom) Easter Rising 2016 Tour @ East Coast U.S.

Friday, May 13

PM Press @ Exile and Enclosure Conference at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY

PM Press & Peter Linebaugh (History of May Day) @ Historical Materialism in Toronto, Canada

Saturday, May 14

Mai’a Williams (Revolutionary Mothering) @ Mayday and Boneshaker in Minneapolis, MN

Saturday, May 14

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

Tuesday, May 17

Alana Apfel (Birth Work as Care Work) @ Wooden Shoe in Philadelphia, PA

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Breaking Our Dependency on the Old Economy as We Build the New Cynthia Kaufman
People all around the world are working to build solidarity economies, based on worker-owned collectives, the creation of local currencies, and making one’s own things and sharing them.

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!

“…because my sister and I were very close” Andre Moncourt
Today is the fortieth anniversary of the death in of RAF founding member Ulrike Meinhof. To mark the anniversary, former RAF member Ron Augustin interviewed Ulrike’s sister Wienke.

The Other Damnificados: "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" - by Matthew Desmond JJ Amaworo Wilson
One hundred years from now, historians will want to describe African American life in the 21st century. They may well use Matthew Desmond's formulation: "Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out."

Revolution Is More Than a Word: 23 Theses on Anarchism Gabriel Kuhn
"...it seems as good a time as any to reflect on anarchism’s role in the overall political arena and to examine its strengths and weaknesses."

Shopping in the Security State Michae lRyan
Most people would likely consider the idea that their shopping practices serve to advance the security state absurd, but they would be wrong. The interconnection between security concerns and shopping is more than ideological, it’s pra...

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.

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