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Jeremy Brecher's Against Doom —Out Now!

Before the election of Donald Trump the world was already speeding toward climate catastrophe. Now President Trump has jammed his foot on the global warming accelerator. Is there any way for the rest of us to put on the brakes?

Against Doom: A Climate Insurgency Manual tells how to put that strategy into action—and how it can succeed. It is a handbook for halting global warming and restoring our climate—a how-to for climate insurgents.

“A crisp, clear, and savvy synthesis of key concepts and ideas that will help the global climate justice movement to succeed. Brecher outlines many feasible climate solutions that should give all of us hope, despite the odds.” —Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

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The Football Factory; one of Irvine Welsh's 10 Favorite Books

Irvine Welsh chooses John King’s The Football Factory as one of his 10 Favorite Books in The New York Times and on One Grand Books.

"“Coventry are fuck all. They’ve got a shit team and shit support. Hitler had the right idea when he flattened the place.” Yes, I was hooked from the opening sentences too. This is the most important English novel since Orwell put pen to paper."—Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh roared on to the literary scene with his 1993 novel, Trainspotting, a blisteringly funny and impassioned novel about a young junkie, Mark Renton, and his lunatic friends in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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30th Anniversary of Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America —Out Now!

Ward Churchill and Michael Ryan's Pacifism as Pathology has long since emerged as a dissident classic. Originally written during the mid-1980s, the seminal essay “Pacifism as Pathology” was prompted by veteran activist Ward Churchill’s frustration with what he diagnosed as a growing—and deliberately self-neutralizing—”hegemony of nonviolence” on the North American left. The essay’s publication unleashed a raging debate among activists in both the U.S. and Canada, a significant result of which was Michael Ryan’s penning of a follow-up essay reinforcing Churchill’s premise that nonviolence, at least as the term is popularly employed by white “progressives,” is inherently counterrevolutionary, adding up to little more than a manifestation of its proponents’ desire to maintain their relatively high degrees of socioeconomic privilege and thereby serving to stabilize rather than transform the prevailing relations of power.

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Other Avenues's author in The San Francisco Chronicle

In the 1970s, the Bay Area developed a vibrant, interactive network of cooperatively run enterprises called the People’s Food System. Though it lasted only a few years, the movement gave birth to Other Avenues Food Co-op, Rainbow Grocery and Veritable Vegetable (now for-profit), all of which are still open. (Chronicle gardening columnist Pam Peirce started writing as one of the editors of the group’s newsletter.)

Shanta Nimbark Sacharoff, a longtime member of the worker collective at Other Avenues in the Sunset District, has told this story in her new book, Other Avenues Are Possible. The Chronicle asked Nimbark Sacharoff to outline the movement’s arc.

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Review: The Progressive Populist
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U.S. Army Tries to Suspend Disbelief During Ninth Circuit Oral Arguments in Case Challenging Its Domestic Spying Kris Hermes
The Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments last Friday in Panagacos v. Towery, the most important case of the US military spying on political activists in decades. The lawsuit brought by seven activists in 2010 challenges a sweeping surveillance and ...

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"Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease." (Arundhati Roy, The End of Imagination)Arundhati Roy is a superhero. She wears a sari instead of a cape. She has written one novel - The God of Small Things - and it won the Booker Prize. She...

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Federal Judge Approves Landmark Settlement, But Is It Enough To Curb NYPD Spying Kris Hermes
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Labor Must Embrace the Anti-Trump Resistance to Fight for the Working Class Jeremy Brecher
While Trump’s actions will be devastating for organized labor, they may also have a silver lining. The Trump era is seeing the emergence of what has been called “social self-defense,” a massive self-organization of millions o...

The Gong of History; Or, What Is a Human? Peter Linebaugh
Every great historical epoch in the freedom struggle raises the question: what is a human? The answer changes, to quote Askia Muhammad Toure of the Revolutionary Action Movement, with “the Gong of History.” Amid all the confusing din o...

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Bending the arc back towards justice for LGBTQ youth by Rachelle Lee Smith.

Margaret Atwood on the role of the artist in testing times JJ Amaworo Wilson
I met Margaret Atwood last year. It was at an author party at the Brooklyn Book Festival. She appeared to be quite shy – although maybe it was just me boring her to death – and her physical stature was in inverse proportion to...

U.S. Anarchists: Idiots or Inspirators? Gabriel Kuhn
A review of Andrew Cornell's "Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the 20th Century".

Criticism and Self-Criticism for Anarchists Gabriel Kuhn
A review of Matthew Wilson's "Rules Without Rulers: The Possibilities and Limits of Anarchism".

Mandela, Oscar Lopez Rivera, and a Special Day Beyond the Myths Matt Meyer
The privilege of knowing both Nelson Mandela and Oscar Lopez Rivera, as men and not just idealized, mythologized figures, has afforded me the opportunity to look beyond the rhetoric calling Oscar “the Mandela of the Americas.” Osc...

It worked! Owen Hill
I was at the action (demonstration, whatever) last week. I used to find them exciting but I’ve grown weary.

Berlins Taiga Gabriel Kuhn
An antifascist football supporter as Soviet history tour guide.

Global Workers' Struggles Beyond Unions? Gabriel Kuhn
A review of Immanuel Ness's "Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class".

Big City Skiing Gabriel Kuhn
As a PM envoy at the World Cup race in Stockholm.

VISITING HERMAN IN THE AGE OF TRUMP Susie Day
This past year was good for prison activists. Those who advocated for high-profile political prisoners in the federal system celebrated when President Obama commuted the sentences of Chelsea Manning and Oscar Lopez, both n...

"Socialism or Nothing" Gabriel Kuhn
A review of John Smith's "Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism's Final Crisis".

Trump and May Peter Marshall
Donald Trump is truly absurd. He is not only a racist and misogynist and believes in torture but an extreme right -winger who denies the existence of climate change.

Fighting Mass Incarceration Under Trump: New Strategies, New Alliances James Kilgore
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Propaganda Football Gabriel Kuhn
More European books on soccer and politics.

To Praise Ginger Goodwin Is to Revere a Radical Mark Leier
Feisty miner reminds that comfortable compromisers are easily forgotten.The broad outline of Ginger Goodwin's story is well known to many of The Tyee's readers. Albert "Ginger" Goodwin was active in the coal mining unions of Glace Bay,...

'Al-Mutanabbi Street' 2017: As Long As We Need To Remember j. stephanie pasvankias
Next March marks the tenth anniversary of the bombing of Baghdad’s al-Mutanabbi Street, the city’s historic bookselling corridor. The “Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here” movement has started to organize readings on or...

HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE DONALD Susie Day
I was blue the other day, thinking how little power I have over my life. Like, how I didn’t vote for you, but how you’re going to be president anyway? Bummer....

On the Labour of Activist Birth Work Alana Apfel
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Kämpa Showan! Gabriel Kuhn
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Review of "The Football Factory" by John King JJ Amaworo Wilson
John King’s novel was first published in the UK twenty years ago. It has recently been reissued by PM Press in a handsome and suitably eye-catching edition for North American readers. Curious then that the title remains The Football Facto...

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This dream. Something is in the house, something's breaking, the things I love are going away. I reach for Laura, she becomes translucent, evaporates. I wake up, telling myself this dream means I'm worried about how tired and worn Laura has grown ...

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