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"I don't care who you are this book will thrill you." --Dangerous Minds

"Ever since I read the shatteringly great Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980, I am a mess! If I was once nostalgic for a past I wasn’t even alive for, I am now pining for characters and circumstances that never happened at all! Editors and authors Iain McIntyre and Andrew Nette have created something unbelievable with this volume. Something that seems almost unthinkable: it is a reference book for pulp work written in a pulp-style. What I mean by this is that it is addictive, a quick read, and it leaves you wanting more... It’s a bookcase necessity. If you have any interest in rock ‘n roll, lesbians, cult murder, car racing, leather jackets, skinhead violence, surfing spies, girl gangs or adolescents trying pot for the first time, THIS IS YOUR BAG, BABY."—Ariel Schudson, Dangerous Minds

Not a Riot Grrrl Band: Musician Michelle Cruz Gonzales Sounds off on Punk Feminism

“Spitboy, a hardcore punk band formed in 1990 in Berkeley by drummer-lyricist Michelle Cruz Gonzales, was not a Riot Grrrl band — and she won’t let you to forget it. In her memoir, The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band, Gonzales hits all the right notes in the telling of her band’s unique contributions to punk and feminism, with unabashed details of the sexism, classism, and racism they incurred."—Kitty Lindsay, Los Angeles Review of Books

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This Black History Month learn more about the work of the Jim Crow Museum

David Pilgrim is a professor, orator, and human rights activist. He is best known as the founder and curator of the Jim Crow Museum—a ten-thousand-piece collection of racist artifacts located at Ferris State University, which uses objects of intolerance to teach about race, race relations, and racism.

"Undergirding David Pilgrim’s effort is his powerful belief that we, as a society, heal better when we stare down the evils that have walked among us, together."
—Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University

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Buy Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice

A Political Philosophy of Self-Defense by Chad Kautzer

An adapted excerpt from Setting Sights: Histories and Reflections on Community Armed Self-Defense in The Boston Review

"Resistance to domination reveals the deception of this inverted world, destabilizing the practical operations of hierarchy and undermining its myths, for example of masculine sovereignty, white superiority, compulsory heterosexuality, and capital’s self-creation of value. Violence and various forms of coercion support these myths, but such violence would be ineffective if some groups were not socially, politically, and legally structured to be vulnerable to it.

While self-defensive practices can’t eliminate vulnerability, they can undermine it as a structuring principle of oppression."—Chad Kautzer

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Wednesday, Mar 07

G.H. Mosson, Michelle Cruz Gonzales, and Derrick Weston Brown @ AWP in Tampa, FL

Thursday, Mar 08

PM Press @ National Association for Ethnic Studies in Richmond, VA

Saturday, Mar 10

PM Press @ Tucson Festival of Books in Tucson, AZ

Saturday, Mar 10

PM Press @ Raza Educator Conference in San Diego, CA

Sunday, Mar 11

Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats @ Brooklyn, NY

Thursday, Mar 15

PM Press @ American Society for Environmental History in Riverside, CA

Thursday, Mar 15

Michelle Cruz Gonzales (The Spitboy Rule) @ Oakland, CA

Saturday, Mar 17

Victoria Law (Resistance Behind Bars & Don't Leave Your Friends Behind) @ New York, NY

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Vanzetti: A Visual Historical Background for a New Literary Legacy Jon Curley
I am very excited about the imminent publication of Bartolomeo Vanzetti's short story EVENTS & VICTIMS by PM Press. I edited the work and am delighted to share Vanzetti's creative work with readers nearly a hundred years after it was written.&...

Radical Theory and Academia: A Thorny Relationship Gabriel Kuhn
Written with Torkil Lauesen. Originally published by Counterpunch.

Two Wings of the Same Bird - Puerto Rico, Cuba, Hurricanes and Political Prisoners Diana Block
Six months after Oscar López Rivera was released from prison having spent 35 years inside, he traveled to Cuba. “I feel at home, this is a dream come true; for many, many years, I have wanted to come to Cuba and today for the ...

New Classes for a New Class Politics Gabriel Kuhn
A review (of sorts) of the new edition of David Gilbert’s “Looking at the U.S. White Working Class Historically”.

Beware! It is Catching & Can Rot Your Brains Leon Rosselson
Experts say that it is rarely fatal but can cause many unpleasant symptoms including brainrot, selective vision and moral turpitude. I am referring, of course, to zionusitis, a disease that has become increasingly fashionable in these grim times.

Signal:06 Editors' Round-Up Alec Icky Dunn
Fresh from the printers is the sixth and latest issue of Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics & Culture. Signal is edited by Josh MacPhee and I and it is our attempt to document and share compelling and innovative historical a...

Sing a Song of Politics Leon Rosselson
Give me the making of the songs of a nation and I care not who makes its laws. (Andrew Fletcher 18th century Scottish political writer.)

Pierre Ramus Collected Works Gabriel Kuhn
Vienna publisher Monte Verità has launched an eight-volume series of the collected works of Pierre Ramus, Austria's best-known anarchist.

DISRUPT J20 AND THE REAL COST OF VIOLENCE Susie Day
Donald Trump's presidential inauguration on January 20 in Washington, DC last year is something that most of us who read rags like this try to forget. The arrest of over 230 protesters at "Disrupt J20" that same day in DC, and the chargi...

Unity--At Whose Cost? Noel Ignatiev
Again, that unity question

The Legacy of the Comintern and the Global South Gabriel Kuhn
A review of Arun Kumar Sinha's “Formative Years of Communist International and the Metamorphosis of Bolshevism”.

Straight Edge Oral History Gabriel Kuhn
Tony Rettman gives us “Straight Edge: A Clear-Headed Hardcore Punk History”.

When Love Could Kill Us- Marge Piercy on BillMoyers.com j. stephanie pasvankias
By Marge Piercy and Originally posted on BillMoyers.comJanuary 18th, 2018 Writer Marge Piercy recalls what it was like for young women before Roe v. Wade was the law of the land.

Publishers' Statement on Trump Visit to World Economic Forum j. stephanie pasvankias
The United States and its empire is presently ruled by a belligerent and deranged narcissist. A racist. A warmonger. A xenophobe. A misogynist.

The First Rule of Punk: The Most Important Book Published During the First Year of the Trump Presidency Michelle Cruz Gonzales
Growing up, Speedy Gonzales was, literally, the only children’s character (cartoon, book or otherwise) who was anything like me. Since I’m not a mouse or from Mexico, the only thing Speedy and I actually share is a surname.

Bavarian Council Republic Gabriel Kuhn
Two new books recall a historical event that continues to serve as an inspiration for radicals.

Tales from Rojava Gabriel Kuhn
Lower Class Magazine reports on the struggle in Kurdistan.

Which Side Are You On? Leon Rosselson
Terror is the checkpoint on my way to school, the robbery of my land, the torture of my mother, the imprisonment of my innocent father. (Ahed Tamimi)

Anarchist Liberation Army Gabriel Kuhn
A new group in Germany aims to revive the spirit of the Schwarze Scharen, anarcho-syndicalist workers' militias portrayed in the PM Press release "Setting Sights: Histories and Reflections on Community Armed Self-Defense".

New Year's Gratitude G.H. Mosson
Embracing gratitude as a theme of resolution, the blog muses a bit and ends with a poem.

World accumulation & Planetary life, or, why capitalism will not survive until the 'last tree is cut' j. stephanie pasvankias
Why does it seem easier to imagine the end of the world than to see the end of capitalism? Part of the answer turns on a rift between radical economic and ecological thought.

KETTLING FREE SPEECH, OR WHY UNICORN RIOT HAS IT ALL OVER THE NY TIMES Susie Day
Does anybody have enough strength left to pop a cork in celebration that we've made it through Trump's first year in office? I don't. There is stuff to celebrate, such as the December 21 jury-trial acquittal of six of the 194 defendants facing dec...

Capitalism: The Elephant in the Room Thomas Linzey
While I shouldn’t be surprised anymore when someone at a conference asks why CELDF’s community organizing doesn’t take on capitalism directly, the question still startles me. The intimation is that our work nibbles around the ...

Of LADY BIRD, REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES, and Revisiting the Question of Plagiarism Michelle Cruz Gonzales
When I confront my writing students about plagiarizing, they usually launch the same series of defenses and in roughly the same order:It’s just a coincidence that I had the same exact idea.I did read that book, article and/or see the movie...

Year's End in Venezuela Clifton Ross
It's been a troubled year in Venezuela, and 2018 looks like it will be much, much worse.

Emily in La-La Land Leon Rosselson
On 28 November, Emily Thornberry, Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary, delivered a speech to Labour Friends of Israel Annual Lunch in the presence of the Chief Rabbi and Mark Regev, the Israeli Ambassador.

Rumi and the Fall of the Spectacular Commodity Economy John P. Clark
Rumi’s “Muhammad and the Huge Eater” is a story that tells us how obsessive desires devastate the soul and rob us of things of true value.

Review of "In the Wake: On Blackness and Being" by Christina Sharpe JJ Amaworo Wilson
Part memoir, part thesis, and part lyrical examination of what it means to be black in the 21st century, In The Wake is simply a great, great book. It bridges so many fields - social justice, poetry, fiction, Critical Race Theory, semiotics, seman...

TRUMP'S THUG-POWER, OR DOES ANYBODY STILL LIKE WOODY ALLEN? Susie Day
Let's go back to when we were all a little younger and less terrified. Obama is president. I am talking to a slightly older, white, heterosexual male, highly esteemed by the academic world and by me. I, a lesbian, admire and trust this guy....

10 Children and a Goat Leon Rosselson
This is a true story. Or maybe it isn’t. Who knows and anyway does it matter? Every story has its roots in an unreliable memory.

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