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We Are the Crisis of Capital: A John Holloway Reader

We Are the Crisis of Capital collects articles and excerpts written by radical academic, theorist, and activist John Holloway over a period of forty years. This collection asks, “Is there a way out?” How do we break capital, a form of social organisation that dehumanises us and threatens to annihilate us completely? How do we create a world based on the mutual recognition of human dignity?

Holloway’s work answers loudly, “By screaming NO!” By thinking from our own anger and creativity. By trying to recover the “we” buried under the categories of capitalist thought. By opening those categories and discovering the antagonism they conceal and by discovering that behind the concepts of money, state, capital, crisis, and so on, there moves our resistance and rebellion.

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"...an homage to the outsiders of all places and periods ... wonderful and magical."

"The place names (Minhas, Hajja Xejn, Hildako Lapur, Bieb to ‘Niket) and the tales of battles, catastrophes, vengeance and redemption that carry the story along in one short chapter after another, seem to set the book on the borderlines between fantasy and social fiction, westerns and the post-apocalyptic novel. There are so many genres to which J.J. Amaworo Wilson gives new life in what reads like an homage to the outsiders of all places and periods, while at the same time it is a reflection on history, on forgetting, and on the role of fiction in our lives."—Gladys Marivat, Le Monde

Komiks from the Underground: the Radicalism of Gilbert Shelton in Counterpunch

"By a happy coincidence, I received a review copy of “Radical America Komiks” from PM Press on the very day my review of Allen Young’s autobiography appeared on CounterPunch. Allen Young worked for Liberation News Service (LNS), a radical version of the Associated Press that forwarded articles to SDS chapters around the country, while Radical America was an official SDS publication launched by Paul Buhle meant to raise awareness on the left about the long history of anti-capitalist resistance in the USA. Unlike the old left, LNS and Radical America absorbed the counter-culture of the period. The one-off publication of Radical America Komiks in 1969 was arguably the most fully developed expression of this cross-fertilization and as such we are grateful to PM Press for publishing a replica of the ground-breaking comic book."

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Pictures of a Gone City Audiobook -- Out Now!

Narrated by Martin Nicolaus, "Pictures of a Gone City is a brilliant, richly informed, and cleverly written...tour of these hidden undersides...Pictures of a Gone City is a remarkably instructive, richly researched, and masterfully crafted reflection on the perils of what passes for progress and prosperity under the modern system of class rule that we call capitalism."—Paul Street, NY Journal of Books

“Debunking the Horatio Alger promotional blather of self-flattering tech moguls, the real Bay Area comes into view, based on nurses and teachers, drivers and clerks, homeless and the desperate. Real estate bubbles have given way to tech bubbles which have given way to housing bubbles, and now have given way to a chimerical prosperity that is as fragile as any of the prior ones.”
—Chris Carlsson, San Francisco historian and cofounder of Critical Mass

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France: Yellow Vests and Red Unions Strike Together Richard Greeman
As Macron Prepares New Repressive Measures Yellow Vests and Red Unions Strike Together

BIG TRUMP SCIENCE: AMERICANS ARE WORLD'S ONLY HUMANS Susie Day
According to top anthropologists at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, only United States citizens – unique among any other people on planet Earth – possess qualities identifying them as true Homo sapiens.

Random Chess Thoughts Leon Rosselson
Surely chess is a sad waste of brains. (Sir Walter Scott)The game of chess is the touchstone of the intellect. (Goethe)Chess makes men wiser and clear-sighted. (Vladimir Putin)I failed to make the chess team because of my height. (Woody Allen)

Every Woman Is a Working Woman: Silvia Federici in The Boston Review j. stephanie pasvankias
Silvia Federici interviewed by Jill Richards in The Boston Review

The Yellow Vests Movements, an update 1/15/19 Richard Greeman
The Yellow Vests Movement in France: Richard Greeman Reports from Montpellier to the Future Historians group on 1/15/19. For more information visit www.futurehistorians.org

Class War in Sweden Gabriel Kuhn
The social democratic paradise is not quite what it seems.

"IF YOU MEET THE PRESIDENT ON THE ROAD, KILL HIM": THE MAD ACTIVIST GOES ALL BUDDHIST Susie Day
DEAR TRUMP DIARY,7:34 a.m., Tuesday. I just signed another online petition. One of the 250 social-change outfits I connect with shot me an urgent text 45 seconds ago, so away I clicked.... How often must I do this, before I die of despair?

Seasons Greetings from France's Yellow Vests: "We are not tired" Richard Greeman
(Montpellier, France, Dec. 29) Is the Yellow Vest rebellion, now in its seventh week, “petering out?” Such was the near-unanimous pronouncement of the mainstream media, when I returned home to Montpellier, France, eager to pa...

"The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse" ed. Marjorie Cohn JJ Amaworo Wilson
"Experience, we are told, is a great teacher. If this is so, then my classroom was a clandestine prison and my teachers, experts in the commission of crimes against humanity." (Sister Dianna Ortiz, from Preface)

Who are the main killers of football? Gabriel Kuhn
An interview about "Soccer vs. the State" for a Russian book that might have come out or not.

Yellow Vests Richard Greeman
Ignored by Macron, distorted by the media, courted by the Right, snubbed by the Left, the self-organized mass movement known as the Yellow Vests is seriously challenging the political and economic order in France.

Who is this man? Part 1 Saku Pinta
What a black and white photograph of an unidentified man found in the Lakehead University Archives tells us about violent class relations in the twentieth century.

State Repression in India Gabriel Kuhn
Support political prisoners and anticapitalist resistance!

Max Zirngast Gabriel Kuhn
Austrian journalist detained in Turkey.

Be Vewy, Vewy Quiet, Good Old Boys Are Hunting Susie Day
In a recent New York Times column titled "White Male Victimization Anxiety," Charles Blow described how President Trump publicly apologized to Justice Brett Kavanaugh for "the terrible pain and suffering you have been forced to endu...

FDA Investigates Feminist Abortion Pill Site Aid Access Jenny Brown
As U.S. states restrict abortion, more people are going online to get abortion pills. For years, the Netherlands-based feminist organization Women on Web has been mailing abortion pills (a combination pack of mifepristone and misoprostol...

Food Not Bombs Activists Murdered in the Philippines Gabriel Kuhn
President Rodrigo Duterte’s hardhandedness directly affects the country’s anarchist community.

Islamic Anarchism Gabriel Kuhn
An updated version of Anthony T. Fiscella’s zine “Varieties of Islamic Anarchism: A Brief Introduction” has been made available.

Theodor Herzl - Visionary or Antisemite Leon Rosselson
Herzl is everywhere in Israel. It would be difficult to find a town without a street named after him. He is memorialised in the names of boulevards, parks, squares, a city (Herzliya), a forest, a sprinkling of restaurants, a museum and even a ...

Sneak Peak of Slaughterhouse Prayer John King
Little Michael Tanner is shocked to discover that the adults are killing animals and that he has been eating their bodies.

"Best to Do What We Can" Gabriel Kuhn
A review of "Can the Working Class Change the World?" by Michael D. Yates.

Matthew N. Lyons at the Peace and Justice Studies Association 2018 Matthew Lyons
The theme of this conference is “revolutionary nonviolence in violent times.”

Muehsam Goes Graphic Novel Gabriel Kuhn
A new graphic novel about the life of German anarchist Erich Mühsam has been released.

For Brett Kavanaugh: Beer and Sympathy Susie Day
Dear Brett,Now that you’re a confirmed Supreme Court justice, it must be a huge relief to realize that whatever you did or did not do to Christine Blasey Ford never really mattered.

French Labor's Historical Defeat; U.S. Teachers' Surprising Victories Richard Greeman
As the French get ready for the “rentrée” – the annual back-to-school/back-to-work day following the August vacation – social peace appears to reign in the land.

The Instinct for Cooperation: A Graphic Novel Conversation with Noam Chomsky & Jeffrey Wilson JJ Amaworo Wilson
How about this for a hybrid: take an 80-something professor, sit him down for a conversation, and turn it into a graphic novel. It really shouldn't work, but it does.Noam Chomsky has long been the world's foremost intellectual, an unrivaled author...

The Other 9/11: Chile in the time of Pinochet JJ Amaworo Wilson
A few days ago, my 10-year-old son asked me why I’d scheduled an event on 9/11. “Bad timing!” he said. He knew about the Twin Towers. But he didn’t know about 9/11/73, a date of infamy in Latin America.9/11/73 was the day...

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o: "The scars of history are on every writer" JJ Amaworo Wilson
The great Kenyan writer Ngugi Wa Thiong’o is known for at least four things: writing a series of superb novels such as The River Between and A Grain of Wheat while still in his twenties;writing the novel Devil on the Cross on toilet paper wh...

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.

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