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On The Fly in The Washington Post

“In an era when tent cities spring up in prosperous American metropolitan areas, the lives captured in “On the Fly” feel less comfortably distant than we might like. That is perhaps why the best of these classic accounts of “bumming around” retain all their simmering anger and desperate optimism." —Ernest Hilbert, The Washington Post

“This book is a tantalizing boxcar ride back through the history of the hobo, all told from the hobo’s point of view. What more could anyone ask?”
—Paul Garon, coeditor of What’s the Use of Walking If There’s a Freight Train Going Your Way? Black Hoboes & Their Songs and author of Blues and the Poetic Spirit

PM Press: Ten Years of Literary Molotovs in the Fifth Estate

"Anti-authoritarian books garner plenty of attention within the modern anarchist movement, but building lasting alternatives to capitalism is what we have to do, not just churn out books. The ideas and examples contained in these books must inspire the doers who create community lending libraries, food-growing and sharing co-ops, non-capitalist child and elder care, prisoner support networks—and yes, as dated as it sounds, revolution against oppression by any means necessary." —Craig O'Hara, Fifth Estate

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"This book is an informative, insightful introduction to a complex topic." -Publishers Weekly

"In this trenchant and accessible diagnosis of the ills plaguing American healthcare, Fine, a family physician and former director of the Rhode Island Department of Health, argues that America has “a healthcare market, not a healthcare system”—and everyone is worse off because of it. Fine persuasively demonstrates that the profit motive built into the patchwork of federal, state, and local programs that pass for healthcare in the U.S. leads to ballooning costs, gross inefficiency, and treatment for the privileged few instead of cost-effective prevention for the many...This book is an informative, insightful introduction to a complex topic."—Publishers Weekly

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Buy Health Care Revolt: How to Organize, Build a Health Care System, and Resuscitate Democracy—All at the Same Time

Richard Walker, Pictures of a Gone City in Citylab, NYT

"Walker’s new book is urban geography for our times. It illuminates the basic crisis and contradiction of the San Francisco Bay Area, which is an example of capitalism at its most innovative and dynamic, and simultaneously the site of severe inequality and failing public policies and infrastructure..."—Richard Florida, CityLab

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SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWERLESSNESS: THE MAD ACTIVIST GOES PUNDIT Susie Day
"But, Mabel, you really think The New York Times will review my book? Masha Gessen will write a blurb? WOW!"

Bartolomeo Vanzetti: The Immigrant Writes! Steven
By Jon Curley, New Jersey Institute of Technology. A requiem for Sacco and Vanzetti on the ninety-first anniversary of their execution in Cambridge, MA on Wednesday, August 22nd.

The Guardian hack, lies and distortions Leon Rosselson
Though we resist oppression, still our dream is peaceTheirs is the mask of hatred, ours the human face

How One Woman Became an Activist With the Hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion j. stephanie pasvankias
Founder Amelia Bonow started a movement with just one post.

Punks Boycotting Punks Gabriel Kuhn
An open letter to the coordinators of Maximumrocknroll (MRR), who have decided to no longer feature Israeli punk bands, citing the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement.

Sankara Gabriel Kuhn
A review of "A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara".

Workers of the World Indeed Gabriel Kuhn
A review of "Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW".

Searching For Rhythms: Small Town Reading Tune Up G.H. Mosson
A PM Press poet muses on reading in the small town of Crisfield, Maryland, while searching for rhythms to make this thing we call art.

Antiimperialist Comeback Gabriel Kuhn
An interview with Torkil Lauesen, author of "The Global Perspective: Reflections on Imperialism and Resistance".

The Perils of 'Dropping Knowledge': Dr. Aziz Choudry interviewed by Erika Massoud j. stephanie pasvankias
Dr. Aziz Choudry interviewed by Erika Massoud Summary: Based on shared interests around social justice activism and research, our conversation focused on navigating the tensions, challenges, and contradictions of activist research in academia.

'1968' and all that: Left legacies and the counter culture of remembrance j. stephanie pasvankias
There is an old saw about the so-called swinging sixties: if you can remember it you weren’t there. This has the rather interesting corollary that if you were’nt there, if you have to consult the archive or rely on second h...

Shakespeare in the Age of the Tyrant JJ Amaworo Wilson
Stephen Greenblatt's new book, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power, is a timely tome. As Greenblatt well knows, we're living in an age of ruthless strongmen. The world's recent and lamentable swing to the right is embodied by all-powerful authoritarians.

Working Class Heroes project Mat Callahan
Dear Friends: Two important items this month. First, progress with Songs of Slavery and Emancipation. Second, progress with a new project: Working Class Heroes.

ON THE OTHER SIDE OF OUTRAGE: MOHAMMAD HAMAD AND HOPE Susie Day
I wanted to talk to Mohammad Hamad because, in the midst celebrating Gay Pride, it may be time to look at some of our prejudices....

TRUMP, LYNCH, AND WHO WE CALL ANIMALS: A SAFETY ALERT Susie Day
Did you hear Trump call undocumented immigrants animals? It's stirring up – rightly – a lot of concern. Among humans, "animal" is the essential, go-to word to deprive people of their humanity. It's the permission some people ...

The Day the Black Panthers Came to Town (with Tupac Shakur's Step-Uncle) Kenneth Wishnia
In March 1970, Jean Genet, the radical French author, lifelong rebel and supporter of deviant causes, began touring US college campuses known for their activism with members of the Black Panther Party, hoping to win support for the Black Panthe...

Human Flow: a film by Ai WeiWei JJ Amaworo Wilson
For a film with ‘flow’ in its title, the only surprise in this superlative documentary is that the most powerful images are those of stillness. An old refugee woman sits incongruously on a bench in the middle of nowhere. A young man...

Israel & The Labour Party - A Love Story Leon Rosselson
In my last blog I suggested that Israel’s staunch supporters are infected with a brain disease called Zionusitis. It was, of course, a joke. Or maybe it wasn’t. Since then, there has been another enactment of the absurdist farce ca...

The Federation of Revolutionary Socialists "International" (F.R.S.I.) Gabriel Kuhn
New book portrays a short-lived organization of “council communists, left radicals, syndicalists, and anarchists” in post-World War I Austria.

HERMAN BELL AND THE FUTURE OF NEW YORK PAROLE Susie Day
Only a couple of years ago, the New York State Parole Board was a draconian gimmick to keep people in prison – regardless of how they had grown and changed over their years inside – until they died of systemic abuse or neglect or, if t...

The Center Falls Out:[1] The Role of the Faculty in the Columbia Strike Richard Greeman
The Center Falls Out:[1] The Role of the Faculty in the Columbia StrikeBy Richard Greeman Most of us who teach English, Philosophy, or History of foreign languages to Columbia College undergraduates have our offices and classrooms in Ham...

Fifty Years After: The Sixties in historical perspective Richard Greeman
Nineteen sixty-eight (sigh!)… What a wonderful year that was! Rebellions breaking out all over the f–king place. From Paris to Prague, from Berkeley to Berlin, from Mexico City to Chicago -- in the ghetto, on the campus, in the jungle...

1968: 'What Did You Do in the Columbia War, Dad?' Richard Greeman
Jenny: So, Dad, the 50th Reunion of the Columbia University Strike is coming up, and it’s all over the papers again. A book of reminicences has just been reviewed in the Times, and the Columbia library is holding a three-day conferen...

On and On Do They Imprison the Strong Jon Curley
The dynamic power of so many prison memoirs, acounts, and anecdotes is paradoxically reliant on the monotony and stasis of the prison environment. The fertile conscience keeps mobile despite the body forced to be stuck and remote.

Disney Labor Unions Announce $15 Living Wage Campaign for Anaheim Resort Gabriel San Roman
The banquet hall of the Sheraton Park Hotel in Anaheim overflowed with hundreds of Disneyland Resort workers. They gathered last night to hear the findings of “Working for the Mouse,” an Occidental College and Economic Roundtable s...

#MeToo Behind Bars: When the Sexual Assaulter Holds the Keys to Your Cell Vikki Law
In January, Strawberry Hampton, a trans woman incarcerated in Illinois, settled a lawsuit about repeated sexual and physical abuse she'd experienced by prison staff in the state's men's prisons. What she endured isn't limited to Illinois prison...

Review of "Extracting Profit: Imperialism, Neoliberalism, and the New Scramble for Africa" by Lee Wengraf JJ Amaworo Wilson
Here's a quote from the Berlin Conference of 1885, in which the European powers set out their goals for Africa:"... all the powers bind themselves to watch over the preservation of the native tribes, and to care for the improvement of the con...

Insurgent Supremacists -- a new book about the U.S. far right Matthew Lyons
My book Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire is due out this May and is being published jointly by Kersplebedeb Publishing and PM Press. I want to highlight some of what’s distinctive about this b...

Thoughts on Creative Writing and Highway Hymn G.H. Mosson
Reflecting on the creative writing process, this blog muses a bit about creativity and ends with a poem.

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