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Check out Peter Linbaugh on The Takeaway

"Today, May Day, is also known as International Workers' Day. It commemorates the 1886 Haymarket Affair, when nearly a quarter of a million workers nationwide went on strike to demand an eight hour work day.

Historically, May 1st became a day to march in favor of worker's rights. But back in 2006, immigration became part of the May Day platform after one million people marched in opposition to a proposed bill on immigration enforcement. Immigration has again become a rallying point this May Day, with nationwide marches planned to as a move of resistance to the Trump Administration's anti-immigrant policies."—The Takeaway

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The Bonnot Gang: Two Reviews in Briarpatch Magazine

"...Both books are great individually, but when read together, they fill gaps created by the other’s genre. Where Parry gives a detailed and documented history, Cacucci articulates emotion and subjectivity through his narrative. The only thing I found wanting in the texts was their treatment of the women involved as background subjects. These women were writers, journal co-editors, and active proponents of free love. They were also, importantly, involved in clandestine activities, and these two books would be richer if they engaged with the strong history of individualist-anarchist women. That said, both authors have a deep understanding of and sympathy for the philosophies and desires of the individuals involved in the Bonnot Gang, bringing out powerful accounts of this too-often ignored group in anarchist history..."—Chris Kortright, Briarpatch Magazine

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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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Reassessing the Transnational Turn —Out Now!

In the context of resurgent populist nationalism across the global North, especially Europe, as well as parts of the Global South, Reassessing the Transnational Turn is a timely and welcome exploration focusing on the high point of the historical anarchist movement, approximately between the 1870s and 1939. In it, some of the more problematic, politically ambiguous, and underexplored relationships between anarchist movements and (trans)nationalism are interrogated by a range of historians and political scholars.

Contributors include Davide Turcato, Ruth Kinna, Isabelle Felici, Kenyon Zimmer, Pietro Di Paola, Raymond Craib, Nino Kühnis, and Martin Baxmeyer.

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Upcoming Events

Wednesday, May 03

PM Press @ IUAES & CASCA in Ottawa, Canada

Saturday, May 06

Leon Rosselson & Robb Johnson performing The Liberty Tree @ Totnes, UK

Ward Churchill & PM Press @ Another Carolina Anarchist Book Fair in Asheville, NC

Gabriel Kuhn (Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety) book launch @ Montreal, QC

Chris Robe (Breaking the Spell) @ Interference Archive in Brooklyn, NY

Sunday, May 07

PM Press @ Honoring Our Heroes & Martyrs: Lynne Stewart & Mumia Abu-Jamal in Oakland, CA

PM Press @ Asheville Zine Fest in Asheville, NC

Thursday, May 11

Chris Robe (Breaking the Spell) @ Anarchist Film Festival in Montreal, QC

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Communism for Kids Prompts Right-Wing Media Frenzy Gabriel Kuhn
The recently released book “Communism for Kids” has become the target of an alt-right online campaign.

Here there is no why: on re-reading Primo Levi JJ Amaworo Wilson
Desperate times call for great books. Primo Levi, a Jewish prisoner arriving at Auschwitz, is thirsty. He reaches to break off an icicle with which to sate his thirst and a guard snatches it away. Levi asks, “Warum?” (Why?) The guard...

Wienke Zitzlaff Obituary Andre Moncourt
Last May i published here what would prove to be the last interview given by RAF co-founder Ulrike Meinhof's sister Wienke Zitzlaff. Wienke died at the age of 85 on Saturday, March 4, 2017. I publish below an obituary written by former...

Prospects for Social Democracy in the US: Insights From a Syndicalist in Sweden j. stephanie pasvankias
Originally posted on Truhtout By Enrique Guerrero-López and Adam Weaver April 10th, 2017 In the era of Trump, there's a clear and growing interest in socialism, especially among young people. The first measurable shift began to peek over ...

Review of "We the People: Stories from the Community Rights Movement in the United States" JJ Amaworo Wilson
“Communities are saying to the government and corporations, “We’re no longer willing to be fracked, poisoned and polluted.” They are mobilizing against a system of law that empowers corporations over communities …...

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 ...

ACTIVISTS, ORGANIZERS, AND AMIN HUSAIN ON HOW WE HANDLE TRUMP Susie Day
The only good thing Donald Trump has done is to galvanize millions of people into political outrage. For months we've gone to dozens of marches and rallies. Of course, this isn't enough, but what more to do? Then I happened on a Facebook post...

Antiwar Activists Challenge Army's Domestic Spying Apparatus in Ninth Circuit Kris Hermes
With the militarization of police on the rise, the necessarily stark line between the military and domestic law enforcement is becoming increasingly blurred. And it’s not entirely surprising—given ongoing revelations around mass su...

"The End of Imagination" by Arundhati Roy JJ Amaworo Wilson
"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...

HIPPIED0M AND THE NEW SOCIETY Peter Marshall
Neo-Hippies’ are back, it seems, in fashion. But I suspect many are like ‘neo-capitalists’ with little conscience.

Federal Judge Approves Landmark Settlement, But Is It Enough To Curb NYPD Spying Kris Hermes
As the nation gears up for further legal battles surrounding President Trump’s second Muslim travel ban, on Monday a federal judge in New York City approved a long-awaited settlement stemming from widespread New York Police Department spying...

Let's get our Strike on 3/8: International Women's Day j. stephanie pasvankias
In honor of Women's History Month, International Women's Day, and the Day Without a Woman/General Strike on March 8th, 2017, we've put together a selection of our favorite titles that can offer a historical topography of what has led to this mo...

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...

Speaking OUT against hate Rachelle Lee Smith
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
Yusef Shakur is a Detroit community organizer who spent several years in Michigan State prisons. "The prison industrial complex has found the right person to feed it," he told Truthout in response to the election results. Trump is of ...

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...

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