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“…Featured are original and extended versions of (Ward Churchill's) most well-known pieces, here entitled “The Ghosts of 9-1-1” and “Some People Push Back,” but recognized foremost as “the little Eichmanns” essays. While the inclusion of four book reviews might be questioned, Churchill’s pieces on Cherokee anthropologist Robert K. Thomas, Standing Rock Sioux luminary Vine Deloria, Jr., and the tragic passing of his wife, Leah Renae Kelly, reward careful rumination…”—D. M. Cobb, Choice

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The Future Generation, Revolutionary Mothering and more in Punk Mama

"I bought this radical parenting anthology several years ago at Atomic Books and instantly fell in love. China talks about being a single mother in the 90’s and how welfare reform affected the lives of single mothers, herself included. She talks about parenting, politics, and survival in a world that sometimes seems like it would sooner see parents drown than extend a hand. This book’s theme is always going to be relevant; we need China’s ideas on community now more than ever. Oh, and she’s reissuing the book, so be on the lookout!" —Punk Mama

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A Blaze in the Desert in The Socialist Review

"...The poems reflect a life filled with challenging political and personal circumstances. They are beautiful and often suffused with strong feelings of great sadness, aching and longing and he moves from anger, sorrow and grief to love, occasionally displaying flashes of wry humour." —
Rebecca Townesend, Socialist Review

Artists in the age of Trump: E. Ethelbert Miller in The Washington Post

Poet, author and former commissioner for the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He has received several fellowships and awards, including the D.C. Mayor’s Arts Award.

"Ethelbert Miller brings an accomplished poet's stunning language to this important memoir, and no one writes more eloquently about the lives--the triumphs and dilemmas--of black American men than he does." --Charles Johnson, author of Middle Passage, on Fathering Words

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Identifying the Enemy Gabriel Kuhn
A review of Alexander Reid Ross's "Against the Fascist Creep".

"I don't give refunds." Eye-popping interviews with writers: PEN America Journal 2017 JJ Amaworo Wilson
Being black in America ...Walter Mosley: "It's hard to feel nostalgic, being black in America. It's not that you don't like it, or remember it, it's just hard to feel nostalgic for it. "I miss those times when they used to lynch us,"...;

Power to the Community: The Black Panthers' Living Legacy of Grassroots Organization John P. Clark
This article is a re-examination of the legacy of the Black Panther Party and an argument for the crucial place of that legacy in our continuing struggle for a free, radically democratic, community-based, ecological society. It was previously post...

The Social Democratic Assassin Gabriel Kuhn
Vienna press Promedia has republished the transcripts from the trial against Friedrich Adler, who shot and killed Austrian minister-president Karl Graf Stürgkh in October 1916.

What I Do: Words about Editing (and Reading and Living) by Chris Dodge Steven
Meditations from a freelance editor, indexer, proofreader, and frequent PM freelancer.

The 'Secret' Anarchist Punk History Of Chumbawamba's Hit Song 'Tubthumping' j. stephanie pasvankias
originally posted on Junkee"...The gamble had worked. Chumbawamba, a collective of anarchists fifteen years deep into a strange career, briefly held the world’s attention — and they made decisive, bold use of it to champion...

To Praise Ginger Goodwin Is to Revere a Radical Mark Leier
Albert "Ginger" Goodwin was active in the coal mining unions of Glace Bay, Nova Scotia and Vancouver Island. Blacklisted from the Island mines after the strike of 1912-14, Goodwin went to Trail to organize smelter workers at Cominco i...

Ecological Thinking and the Crisis of the Earth John P. Clark
If a visitor from another galaxy were sent to Earth to report on the latest news here, it seems rather obvious what the alien observer would take back to the home planet. Our extraterrestrial investigator would certainly report that our planet is ...

A New Class Politics Gabriel Kuhn
Class is back on the agenda of the European left. That is good news. The reasons, however, are unfortunate.

RIP Liu Xiaobo, 1955-2017 JJ Amaworo Wilson
Chinese poet, essayist and activist Liu Xiaobo has died while in custody. Xiaobo was President of the Independent Chinese PEN Center, and in this role he supported writers all over the world in their struggles against tyranny. His death from ca...

The Power of Song Leon Rosselson
Some decades ago, I went to see a Sunday morning Socialist Film Co-op showing of a film about the Wobblies at the Renoir in London. In the discussion afterwards, Tony Benn voiced this criticism: the problem with the Wobblies, he said, was that...

From She to Sheena: can modern audiences ignore the jungle queen's racist roots? Gary Phillips
A scantily-clad white woman ruling over black men titillated Victorian readers and minted an archetype still used in comics, novels and movies. But should it be?

A Critical Introduction to Bookchin's Theses on Libertarian Municipalism John P. Clark
This text was written as a preface for the new edition of “Pour un municipalisme libertaire,” the French translation of “Theses on Libertarian Municipalism,” published by the Atelier de Création Libertaire in Lyon.&n...;

The Fortress World of Capitalism vs. the Beautiful Possibilities of Cooperation Cynthia Kaufman
Our beloved world is entering an increasingly unstable period, full of dangers and also full of possibilities. In many countries, old political parties are crumbling faster and anyone thought imaginable. Old geopolitical alliances have come ung...

Between Capital and Volk Gabriel Kuhn
Germany's AfD poses as a defender of the "common man," but seeks to impose an authoritarian form of neoliberalism.

Spitboy Rule Author, Michelle Cruz Gonzales Featured in Green Day Produced Documentary Michelle Cruz Gonzales
I was interviewed for Turn it Around: Story of East Bay Punk in 2014. I never worried that the movie wouldn’t see the light of day because if there’s someone you can have faith in, it’s the director, Corbett Redford, but I did wo...

Another Sun Is Possible: Solstice Reflections John P. Clark
The Solstice is about the power of nature, and focuses specifically on the power of the Sun, the major source of life on Earth, and on the relationship between this Great Source and all the changes and cycles of life on the planet.

"Rad Women Worldwide" - by Kate Schatz, illustrated by Miriam Klein Stahl JJ Amaworo Wilson
I'm reading Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History with my 8-year-old son, who won it in a raffle. It's awesome.

Is Zionism Antisemitic? Leon Rosselson
In the current furore over supposed antisemitism in the Labour Party and the suspension of Ken Livingstone for asserting that Hitler supported Zionism, the crux of the problem seems to have been somewhat obscured.

Oppressor and Oppressed Nations: Sketching a Taxonomy of Imperialism Gabriel Kuhn
If we want to combat imperialism – which is necessary to combat capitalism – we need to have an understanding of what it looks like, how it functions, and where we need to hit it.

CLIMATE STRATEGY WEBINARS Steven
CLIMATE STRATEGY WEBINARS:How Can We Realize the Paris Climate Protection Targets in the Trump Era? Climate Insurgency. Public Trust. Just Transition.

Lessons from the School of Radical Change: Notes of a Slow Learner John P. Clark
In this expanded version of a presentation at a PM Press authors session at the Left Forum, I try to summarize some of the lessons I’ve learned about radical change over the past fifty years.

Getting on with the Game Gabriel Kuhn
A review of Jonathan Matthew Smucker's "Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals".

Activists in the Philippines and the Mindanao Crisis Gabriel Kuhn
The Philippine Local Autonomous Network (LAN) wants to provide support for people displaced due to the armed conflict in the country’s south.

Fuck History: Are Greek Anarchists Leading the Way? Gabriel Kuhn
A review of Nicholas Apoifis's "Anarchy in Athens: An Ethnography of Militancy, Emotions and Violence".

The way to defend free speech is to exercise it Noel Ignatiev
The Constitution, the Bible, and a 44 caliber revolver

Hooray, hooray, the first of May j. stephanie pasvankias
Originally published in Historical Journalism Journal by Phil Hedges Phil Hedges is a trade union organiser and an alumnus of the International Labour and Trade Union Studies Masters (MA ILTUS) at Ruskin College, Oxford. This essay is dedicated ...

Venezuelan Enantiadromia: A Sequel Clifton Ross
Venezuela a yin-yang in motion and it's not so obvious what's white and what's black as forces transform and realign.

Remembering Gustav Landauer Gabriel Kuhn
The Gustav Landauer monument in Munich will be reerected in June 2017, while a new initiative demands another in Berlin.

No Sanctuary for Palestinian Scholarship Diana Block
At a March 2017 conference of the National Association of Ethnic Studies held at San Francisco State University (SFSU), President Leslie Wong boasted about the University’s role as a sanctuary campus. He referenced SFSU’s prou...

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