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Both timely and timeless, this biography reveals Makhno’s rapidly changing world and his place in it. He moved swiftly from peasant youth to prisoner to revolutionary anarchist leader, narrowly escaping Bolshevik Ukraine for Paris. This book also chronicles the friends and enemies he made along the way: Lenin, Trotsky, Kropotkin, Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman, Ida Mett, and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo Harmless Power\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the first text to fully delve into Makhno’s sympathy for the downtrodden, the trap of personal heroism, his improbable victories, unlikely friendships, and his alarming lack of gun safety in meetings. 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How Ukrainian history might have played out through the 20th century had Trotsky and his fellow Bolsheviks not betrayed Makhno is of particular and urgent interest to today's political students and commentators. Allison's research is both more thorough than anything we have seen for many years and displays the reality behind the myth of a great Ukrainian hero. I cannot recommend it more enthusiastically. To read Allison today is to understand not only yesterday's conflicts but also tomorrow's politics.”\u003cbr\u003e—Michael Moorcock\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eNo Harmless Power\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an exhilarating ride through the revolutionary life and times of Nestor Makhno. 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In interviews by Peter Olney of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Womack’s lively, illuminating thoughts are built upon by ten labor organizers and educators, whose responses create a rich dialogue and open a space for joyful, achievable change. With inspiring stories of triumph, this back-pocket primer is an instant classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors include: Gene Bruskin, Carey Dall, Dan DiMaggio, Katy Fox-Hodess, Bill Fletcher Jr., Jane McAlevey, Jack Metzgar, Joel Ochoa, Melissa Shetler, and Rand Wilson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In Our Revolution we shout, 'When we Organize, We Win,' but organize who and win what?\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLabor Power and Strategy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a great collection of Womack and ten organizers debating strategic workplace organizing versus associational or more general organizing at workplaces or in communities. Womack, in a long initial interview and in the conclusion, argues that without organizing workplace choke points, we are left with the spontaneous movements that come and go. Several of the organizers essentially argue that the spontaneous can become conscious and long-lasting. Grab the book and take up the debate.”\u003cbr\u003e—Larry Cohen, board chair of Our Revolution, past president of Communications Workers of America\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In this fascinating and insightful dialogue, the distinguished historian John Womack and a set of veteran labor activists probe the most fundamental of questions: How do we organize the twenty-first-century working class and give it the power to transform world capitalism? Are workers with vital skills and strategic leverage the key to a labor resurgence, or should organizers wager upon a mobilization of working people whose relationship to the economy’s commanding heights is more diffuse? Or can we arrive at some dialectical symbiosis? Whatever the answer, this is the kind of constructively radical conversation essential to the rebirth of working-class power in our time.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Nelson Lichtenstein, historian and author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCapitalism Contested: The New Deal and Its Legacies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Put this unique collection of strategic insights into the hands of the new generation of militants excited about revitalizing the US labor movement and 'working-class power' might once again become something other than an abstract slogan in this country. Couldn't be more timely.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Max Elbaum, editor at\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eConvergence Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRevolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Labor Power and Strategy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis essential reading for activists and organizers seeking to understand how in a constantly changing world of work workers can marshal power.\u003cbr\u003e—Elaine Bernard, former executive director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The comprehensive campaigns model is essential to labor’s efforts to rebuild power. This book, focusing on workers' positional power in production and distribution, explores a key element of such an overall approach.”\u003cbr\u003e—Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of Labor Education Research and a senior lecturer at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Womack’s focus upon the essential ingredients of effective and strategic organizing resonates today, as elements in labor now attempt to bestir themselves in the midst of unrelenting decline. His view that workers must seek forward movement through their own initiatives, independent of law, political process and formal machinery represents an important clarion call, rooted in the practical historical experience of more than a century. Womack’s instructive views and observation warrant careful attention.”\u003cbr\u003e—William B. Gould IV, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor Labor to Build Upon: Wars, Depression and Pandemic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Womack Jr.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, emeritus, at Harvard University. He served as chairman of the Department of History, 1982–85, and acting chairman, 1991–92. Born and raised in Norman, Oklahoma, he first joined a union, the International Laborers and Hod Carriers, while in high school, earning a union wage in summer construction work. He held his card until he graduated from college and went to work at\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Louisville Times\u003c\/em\u003e—then into graduate studies and later into academic work. His publications include\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eZapata and the Mexican Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1968) and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRebellion in Chiapas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1999).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Olney\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a retired director of organizing for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). He was Associate Director of the University of California’s Institute for Labor and Employment (ILE). Olney holds a master’s in business administration from UCLA and resides in San Francisco. Olney teaches building trades union organizers as a member of the faculty of the Building Trades Academy at Michigan State University. Olney is an editor of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Stansbury Forum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(stansburyforum.com).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGlenn Perušek\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003econducts strategic research for organizing and contract campaigns and is a member of the faculty of the Building Trades Academy at Michigan State University. He directed the Center for Strategic Research at the national AFL-CIO; worked in strategic research and campaigns at the IBEW and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. His work includes\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTragedy and Necessity, From Sarajevo to the Berlin Wall,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eShifting Terrain,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDepth of Field,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTrade Union Politics: American Unions and Economic Change.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eGlenn earned a BA summa cum laude from Kent State University, where he was Mona Fletcher Award winner. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago, where he was Merriam Fellow and winner of the Baker Prize, a research competition in the social sciences. Glenn was a journeyman member of the Chicago Typographical Union.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e John Womack Jr. • Edited by Peter Olney and Glenn Perušek\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSeries:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e PM Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 9781629639741\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublished:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 01\/24\/23\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSize:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 5x8\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePages:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 208\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55920595697737,"sku":"kgf1787265902295","price":12.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0937\/7185\/7993\/files\/labor-power-and-strategy-john-womack-jr_1.jpg?v=1787265907"},{"product_id":"girls-will-be-boys-will-be-girls-will-be-coloring-book-jacinta-bunnell","title":"Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls Will Be... 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The future is gender fabulous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A perfect alternative to gender-saturated Disney fare.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eBitch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emagazine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A great inexpensive gift for kids age 5 to 95.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eCurve\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emagazine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“If I had had this coloring book when I was little, I think things would have been a little easier for me, and when you’re little a little easier is a lot.”\u003cbr\u003e—Lynda Barry, cartoonist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJacinta Bunnell\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an artist, educator, and coloring book author. 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She has collaborated artistically with the Woodstock Film Festival, Hudson Valley Seed Library, Elizabeth Mitchell, Natalie Merchant, and Neko Case.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Jacinta Bunnell\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e PM Press\/ Reach and Teach\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 9781629635071\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 5\/2018\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSize:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 8.5 x 11\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePage count:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 40\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55920595763273,"sku":"ktj1787265904016","price":6.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0937\/7185\/7993\/files\/girls-will-be-boys-will-be-girls-will-be-coloring-book-jacinta-bunnell_1.jpg?v=1787265908"},{"product_id":"liberating-society-from-the-state-and-other-writings-a-political-reader-erich-muhsam","title":"Liberating Society from the State and Other Writings: A Political Reader – Erich Mühsam","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-info\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"right\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"description\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tab-content\" id=\"tab-description\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-info\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"right\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"description\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tab-content\" id=\"tab-description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"justify\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErich Mühsam (1878–1934), poet, bohemian, revolutionary, is one of Germany’s most renowned and influential anarchists. Born into a middle-class Jewish family, he challenged the conventions of bourgeois society at the turn of the century, engaged in heated debates on the rights of women and homosexuals, and traveled Europe in search of radical communes and artist colonies. He was a primary instigator of the ill-fated Bavarian Council Republic in 1919 and held the libertarian banner high during a Weimar Republic that came under increasing threat by right-wing forces. In 1933, four weeks after Hitler’s ascension to power, Mühsam was arrested in his Berlin home. He spent the last sixteen months of his life in detention and died in the Oranienburg Concentration Camp in July 1934.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMühsam wrote poetry, plays, essays, articles, and diaries. His work unites a burning desire for individual liberation with anarcho-communist convictions, and bohemian strains with syndicalist tendencies. The body of his writings is immense, yet hardly any English translations have been available before now. This collection presents not only\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiberating Society from the State: What Is Communist Anarchism?\u003c\/em\u003e, Mühsam’s main political pamphlet and one of the key texts in the history of German anarchism, but also some of his best-known poems, unbending defenses of political prisoners, passionate calls for solidarity with the lumpenproletariat, recollections of the utopian community of Monte Verità, debates on the rights of homosexuals and women, excerpts from his journals, and essays contemplating German politics and anarchist theory as much as Jewish identity and the role of intellectuals in the class struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn appendix documents the fate of Zenzl Mühsam, who, after her husband’s death, escaped to the Soviet Union where she spent twenty years in Gulag camps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It has been remarked before how the history of the German libertarian and anarchist movement has yet to be written, and so the project to begin translation of some of the key works of Mühsam—one of the great names of German anarchism, yet virtually unknown in the English-speaking world—is most welcome. The struggles of the German working class in the early 20th century are perhaps some of the most bitter and misunderstood in European history, and it is time they were paid more attention. This book is the right place to start.”\u003cbr\u003e—Richard Parry, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Bonnot Gang\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“We need new ideas. How about studying the ideal for which Erich Mühsam lived, worked, and died?”\u003cbr\u003e—Augustin Souchy, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeware! Anarchist! A Life for Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author and Editor:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eErich Mühsam\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1878–1934), poet, bohemian, revolutionary, is one of Germany’s most renowned and influential anarchists. Born into a middle-class Jewish family, he challenged the conventions of bourgeois society at the turn of the century, engaged in heated debates on the rights of women and homosexuals, and traveled Europe in search of radical communes and artist colonies. He was a primary instigator of the ill-fated Bavarian Council Republic in 1919, and held the libertarian banner high during a Weimar Republic that came under increasing threat by right-wing forces. In 1933, four weeks after Hitler’s ascension to power, Mühsam was arrested in his Berlin home. He spent the last sixteen months of his life in detention and died in the Oranienburg Concentration Camp in July 1934.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGabriel Kuhn\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(born in Innsbruck, Austria, 1972) lives as an independent author and translator in Stockholm, Sweden. He received a PhD in philosophy from the University of Innsbruck in 1996. 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Around the world, recent events have seen the creation of a radical phalanx comprising students, the young, workers and immigrants. It is Badiou's contention that the politics of such militants should condition the tasks of philosophy, even as philosophy clarifies the truth of our political condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo resolve the conflicts between politics, philosophy and democracy, Badiou argues for a resurgent communism - returning to the original call for universal emancipation and organizing for militant struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"c-product-reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003e\"One of the most important philosophers writing today.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJoan Copjec\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003e\"A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSlavoj Žižek\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003e\"An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ccite\u003ePaperback \/ 96 pages \/ May 2015 \/ 9781781688694\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-description\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55920597205065,"sku":"ptv1787265912870","price":15.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0937\/7185\/7993\/files\/philosophy-for-militants-alain-badiou_1.webp?v=1787265917"},{"product_id":"a-child-in-palestine-the-cartoons-of-naji-al-ali","title":"A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji al-Ali","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-teaser\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvailable with shipping in the US and UK only.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"t-rte\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNaji al-Ali grew up in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in the south Lebanese city of Sidon, where his gift for drawing was discovered by the Palestinian poet Ghassan Kanafani in the late 1950s. Early the following decade he left for Kuwait, embarking on a thirty-year career that would see his cartoons published daily in newspapers from Cairo to Beirut, London to Paris.\u003cbr\u003eResolutely independent and unaligned to any political party, Naji al-Ali strove to speak to and for the ordinary Arab people; the pointed satire of his stark, symbolic cartoons brought him widespread renown. Through his most celebrated creation, the witness-child Handala, al-Ali criticized the brutality of Israeli occupation, the venality and corruption of the regimes in the region, and the suffering of the Palestinian people, earning him many powerful enemies and the soubriquet “the Palestinian Malcolm X.”\u003cbr\u003eFor the first time in book form,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Child in Palestine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epresents the work of one of the Arab world’s greatest cartoonists, revered throughout the region for his outspokenness, honesty and humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“That was when the character Handala was born. The young, barefoot Handala was a symbol of my childhood. He was the age I was when I had left Palestine and, in a sense, I am still that age today and I feel that I can recall and sense every bush, every stone, every house and every tree I passed when I was a child in Palestine. The character of Handala was a sort of icon that protected my soul from falling whenever I felt sluggish or I was ignoring my duty. That child was like a splash of fresh water on my forehead, bringing me to attention and keeping me from error and loss. He was the arrow of the compass, pointing steadily towards Palestine. Not just Palestine in geographical terms, but Palestine in its humanitarian sense—the symbol of a just cause, whether it is located in Egypt, Vietnam or South Africa.”\u003c\/i\u003e—Naji al-Ali, in conversation with Radwa Ashour\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"c-product-reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003eThis is a ground-breaking book. For the first time, Western readers are beckoned into Palestinian lives by the graphic warmth, inspiration and horror of the cartoonist Naji al-Ali, whose iconic Hanthala is our witness and conscience, imploring, rightly, that we never forget. –\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ccite\u003e\u003cspan class=\"c-product-reviews__author\"\u003eJohn Pilger\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback \/ 117 pages \/ June 2009 \/ ISBN 9781844673650\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-description\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55920597237833,"sku":"cbd1787265913139","price":16.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0937\/7185\/7993\/files\/a-child-in-palestine-the-cartoons-of-naji-al-ali_1.webp?v=1787265918"},{"product_id":"the-angry-brigade-1967-1984-documents-and-chronology","title":"The Angry Brigade 1967-1984: Documents and Chronology","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe eight libertarian militants on trial in the Old Bailey in 1972 who were chosen by the British State to be the `conspirators' of the Angry Brigade, found themselves facing not only the class enemy with all its instruments of repression, but also the obtusity and incomprehension – when not condemnation – of the organised left.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescribed as `mad', `terrorists', `adventurists', or at best authors of `gestures of a worrying desperation', the Angry Brigade were condemned without any attempt to analyse their actions or to understand what they signified in the general context of the class struggle in course. The means used to justify this were simple: by defining the actions of the Angry Brigade as `terrorist', and equating this with `individualist', the movement organisations – whose tendency is to see the relationship between individual and mass as something in contrast – neatly excluded them from their concerns. Strangely enough this attitude was not limited to the broad left but was also prevalent within the anarchist movement, where still today there is a tendency to ignore the role of the individual within the mass, and the role of the specific group within the mass movement. When the question is raised, it is usually in the form of an absolute condemnation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe problems encountered by the comrades of the Angry Brigade were similar to those of other groups active at the time who had refused the limits of struggle delineated by the State – the so-called limits of legality, beyond which the repressive mechanism is is unleashed – and taken as their points of reference the level of mass struggle. This decision was in defiance of the State's definition of the struggle's confines. 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In particular, Pappe examines the way successive generations of historians have framed the 1948 conflict as a liberation campaign, creating a foundation myth that went unquestioned in Israeli society until the 1990s.\u003cbr\u003eThe\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eIdea of Israel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a powerful and urgent intervention in the war of ideas concerning the past, and the future, of the Palestinian–Israeli conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"c-product-reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003ePappe's book explores is whether Zionism as the cornerstone of Israel has in fact been manipulated by the state and institutions such as universities and the media to provide a justification for the reality on the ground. The book comes at an interesting time for Israel and its neighbours. John Kerry's peace process refuses to die, despite elements on both sides seemingly united only in their opposition to it, and realities in a turbulent Middle East mean that Israel and traditional foes, especially those in the Persian Gulf, find themselves in rare agreement, especially in relation to the thorny issues of Syria and a nuclear Iran. –\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ccite\u003e\u003cspan class=\"c-product-reviews__author\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003eIlan Pappé is a scholar and a pro-Palestinian political activist. He is one of the most prominent Israeli political dissidents living in exile, having moved from the University of Haifa to the University of Exeter. He is also one of the few Israeli students of the conflict who write about the Palestinian side with real knowledge and empathy. Pappé places Zionism under an uncompromising lens… The Idea of Israel is not a history book but a close study of the role of Zionist ideology in the making of modern Israel and of the continuing relevance of this ideology today in politics, the education system, the media, the cinema and Ashkenazi-Sephardi relations.–\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ccite\u003e\u003cspan class=\"c-product-reviews__author\"\u003eAvi Shlaim\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003eAlong with the late Edward Said, Ilan Pappe is the most eloquent writer of Palestinian history. – \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003eEven those who are familiar are likely to find Pappé's elegantly narrated account useful and stimulating... An excellent overview of the Israeli field of knowledge production and its relationship to the making of (the idea of) Israel. – \u003cspan class=\"c-product-reviews__author\"\u003eGil Hochberg\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJournal of Palestine Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003eIsrael's bravest, most principled, most incisive historian. –\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ccite\u003e\u003cspan class=\"c-product-reviews__author\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Pilger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003eAn angry, polemical, eloquent, and often mordantly witty book… [an] uncompromising rebuttal of the foundation myths on which Israeli historiography has been based. –\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ccite\u003e\u003cspan class=\"c-product-reviews__author\"\u003eDavid Goldberg,\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJewish Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003eAn essential read for anyone trying to understand the politics and history of the Middle East. –\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ccite\u003e\u003cspan class=\"c-product-reviews__author\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrontline\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ccite\u003ePaperback \/ 288 pages \/ January 2016 \/ ISBN 9781784782016\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-description\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55920597336137,"sku":"xkn1787265913564","price":26.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0937\/7185\/7993\/files\/the-idea-of-israel-a-history-of-power-and-knowledge-ilan-pappe_1.webp?v=1787265918"},{"product_id":"remembering-the-armed-struggle-my-time-with-the-red-army-faction-margrit-schiller","title":"Remembering the Armed Struggle: My Time with the Red Army Faction – Margrit Schiller","description":"\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"product-info\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"right\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"description\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"tab-content\" id=\"tab-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMargrit Schiller was an early member of the Red Army Faction, the West German urban guerrilla group. In 1971 she was captured and charged with a murder she did not commit, and upon her release she returned to the underground, being captured again in early 1974. She would spend most of the 1970s in prison, enduring isolation conditions meant to break the human spirit, and participating hunger strikes and other acts of resistance along with other political prisoners from the RAF.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRemembering the Armed Struggle\u003c\/em\u003e, Schiller recounts the process through which she joined her generation’s revolt in the 1960s, going from work with drug users to joining the antipsychiatry political organization the Socialist Patients’ Collective and then the RAF. She tells of how she met and worked alongside the group’s founding members, Ulrike Meinhof, Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe, Irmgard Möller, and Holger Meins; how she learned the details of the May Offensive and other actions while in her prison cell; about the struggles to defend human dignity in the most degraded of environments, and the relationships she forged with other women in prison.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlso included are a foreword by Ann Hansen, who situates the draconian prison conditions inflicted on the RAF within the context of a global counterinsurgency program that would help spawn the plague of mass incarceration we still face today, an afterword by the late Osvaldo Bayer, and an appendix by J. Smith and André Moncourt summarizing the politics and history of the RAF in the 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePraise\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Margrit Schiller’s life story\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRemembering the Armed Struggle\u003c\/em\u003e, is not meant to mark a hard break with the Red Army Faction, but is more of a critical reflection in the spirit of solidarity. Even those who do not share Schiller’s perspective well find it interesting to join her as she looks back on her years underground and in prison.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ediesseits\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Schiller’s recollections are profoundly honest and to the point. She neither glorifies the Red Army Faction nor does she repent or distance herself from her past.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003etaz\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“I am moved by the honesty of this story, showing the limits, doubts, and uncertainties. Margrit is far from pretending to be a hero or providing a heroic tale. May Margrit’s experiences and those of her comrades help us to continue the battle for the freedom of political prisoners in any corner of the world. May they also allow us to radically question the prison system, which is used as a space to discard the excluded and to criminalize poverty. . . . Memory, freedom, and desire are part of the experience of resistance of our bodies, of our lives. And Margrit, stripping away her own history in this book, with pain but with courage, helps us to continue spinning colors, flavors, sounds and aromas in this mild time of attempts.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Claudia Korol, author of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLas Revoluciones de Berta\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2019) from the Prologue to the Spanish edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“The book challenges prejudices and dares to address subjects that are taboo, especially in these latitudes so plagued by silences about the human aspects that mark the reality of the struggle to free ourselves. This story is the story of hundreds of antisystem militants . . . [It] contains that old but not perished left-wing argument from the 1960s about how words should have some connection to actions . . .”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGrupo de ex presas politicas: Memoria v testimonios\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMargrit Schiller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas a member of the Red Army Faction in the early 1970s, and as a result spent most of the decade in West German prisons. Released in 1979, she moved to Cuba in 1985, and then to Uruguay in 1993. After ten years in Montevideo she returned in Germany. She is now living in Berlin. She described her experiences in Cuba and Uruguay in her memoir\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSo siehst du gar nicht aus!\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e(2011).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnn Hansen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eserved seven years of a life sentence in federal prisons for acts carried out as part of the group Direct Action in Canada. She is a prison abolition activist and author of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDirect Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTaking the Rap: Women Doing Time for Society’s Crimes\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOsvaldo Bayer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1927–2018) was an author, journalist, and scriptwriter who was exiled from Argentina during the years of military dictatorship. 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Just kick it till it breaks.”\u003cbr\u003e— Angry Brigade, communiqué.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween 1970 and 1972 the Angry Brigade used guns and bombs in a series of symbolic attacks against property. A series of communiqués accompanied the actions, explaining the choice of targets and the Angry Brigade philosophy: autonomous organization and attacks on property alongside other forms of militant working class action. Targets included the embassies of repressive regimes, police stations and army barracks, boutiques and factories, government departments and the homes of Cabinet ministers, the Attorney General and the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. These attacks on the homes of senior political figures increased the pressure for results and brought an avalanche of police raids. From the start the police were faced with the difficulty of getting to grips with a section of society they found totally alien. 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This approach has jeopardized investor confidence in fossil fuels, leading the industry to lash out in increasingly desperate ways. The fossil fuel industry’s financial and legal enablers are also its Achilles heel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe most powerful movements in US history succeeded in similar ways. The book also includes an in-depth analysis of four classic victories: the abolition of slavery, battles for workers’ rights in the 1930s, Black freedom struggles of the 1950s and 1960s, and the fight for clean air. Those movements inflicted costs on economic elites through strikes, boycotts, and other mass disruption. They forced some sectors of the ruling class to confront others, which paved the way for victory. Electing and pressuring politicians was rarely the movements’ primary focus. Rather, gains in the electoral and legislative realms were usually the byproducts of great upsurges in the fields, factories, and streets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThose historic movements show that it’s very possible to defeat capitalist sectors that may seem invulnerable. They also show us how it can be done. They offer lessons for building a multiracial, working-class climate movement that can win a global green transition that’s both rapid and equitable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Of the many present crises facing the future of humanity, climate change and its threat of mass extinction appears to be the most daunting. Kevin Young argues compellingly, however, that electoral strategies to fight climate change are a dead end. Rather, his study of past successful movements suggests that radical upsurges, the building of disruptive mass movements, including demonstrations, civil disobedience, and large strikes, are more compelling alternatives for stemming the tide, while ultimately only the end of capitalism will save us. A tour de force! “\u003cbr\u003e—Michael Goldfield, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbolishing Fossil Fuels: Lessons from Movements that Won\u003c\/em\u003e, Kevin A Young makes a compelling and well-researched case for the kinds of disruptive grassroots tactics that are required to address the climate crisis. He dives into the history of several key movements that have succeeded and disabuses the reader of some well-accepted myths about them. Young focuses on the strategies needed to take to take power from the fossil fuel industry, and lead to a livable world. This is required reading for anyone interested in thinking strategically about how to address the climate crisis. Which should be all of us.”\u003cbr\u003e—Cynthia Kaufman, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sea Is Rising and So Are We: A Climate Justice Handbook\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Want to get rid of the fossil fuels that are destroying our future but are baffled about how to do so? Is climate protection an impossible dream? Are the fossil fuel forces just too powerful to take down? If you want honest, realistic, but also hopeful answers to those questions, read Kevin A. Young's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbolishing Fossil Fuels\u003c\/em\u003e. Young presents a careful analysis of the powers that are purveying fossil fuels—and of how ordinary people can defeat them by inflicting sustained disruption on the elites that are perpetuating climate destruction. If the original Abolitionists could take down the slaveholders—the greatest power in the land—why can't we abolish fossil fuels? Kevin Young's answer is we can. I hope this book will become the strategic handbook for the climate protection movement.”\u003cbr\u003e—Jeremy Brecher, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAgainst Doom: A Climate Insurgency Manual\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The climate crisis will continue for as long as combustion capitalism reigns. Kevin A Young’s magisterial\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbolishing Fossil Fuels\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eexplains how we’ll end that reign. With lucid and thorough historical analysis, Young shows how to win against the oil companies and their politicians. It’s a tour de force, and a gift to anyone lacking faith in the possibility of radical change.”\u003cbr\u003e—Raj Patel, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eStuffed and Starved\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Kevin Young's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbolishing Fossil Fuels\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the kind of book the US climate movement desperately needs. The historic victories against slavery, the auto industry, and Jim Crow offer us the chance to build on more than the moral successes of past movements for justice, but also the wealth of tactical lessons that helped working people wrench concessions out of the clutches of yesterday's elites. Today's activists and organizations must ask not only principled questions about what they stand for, but also practical questions about how to deal with those who stand against progress.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbolishing Fossil Fuels\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eprovides a tremendous place to start and should be highly encouraged reading especially for young climate activists.”\u003cbr\u003e—Olúf\u003cspan\u003eẹ́\u003c\/span\u003emi O. Táíwò, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eElite Capture: How the Powerful Took over Identity Politics (and Everything Else)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It's all in the vowels. Capital with an\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ea\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emeans money while capitol with an\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emeans law. Capital summarizes economic accumulation; capitol is the location of legislation. Fossil fuel capitalists lead us to impending deaths for the planet and the people, and a ‘genocidal consensus’ in the acceptance of those extinctions. History shows that local strikes, boycotts, demos, and riots against capital succeed while national electioneering and lobbying against capitols do not. This is a powerful argument, densely researched, and entirely convincing to avoid the clear and present danger.”\u003cbr\u003e—Peter Linebaugh, coauthor of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Many-Headed Hydra\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“As authoritarian states increasingly criminalize ‘fossil fuel refugees,’ Kevin A. Young provides an abolitionist analysis of the climate crisis. Young not only demonstrates the ‘structural power’ of antiracist, climate justice, and labor movements to confront the fossil fuel industry, but also explores strategies to advance its abolition. An urgent read.”\u003cbr\u003e—Jordan T. Camp, author\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eIncarcerating the Crisis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Kevin Young’s fast-moving and wise study combines a terrific idea for a book and fine execution of that idea.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbolishing Fossil Fuels\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecalls for just that, and in doing so reminds us that the great abolitions—for example, of male monopoly on political rights, of management autocracy in the workplace, and above all of chattel slavery—have stressed dreaming and acting equally. In inspired moments based on long patterns of direct action, they have won. Young draws the lessons of those victories for climate justice and planetary survival, emphasizing how much success grew from a protest tradition and how little from any simple identification of change with electoral politics.”\u003cbr\u003e—David Roediger, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbolishing Fossil Fuels\u003c\/em\u003e, Kevin A. Young delineates how social movements have unpicked and can defeat the fossil fuel industry’s stranglehold not by focusing on politicians but by directly confronting the polluting companies and the financial institutions that support them. He nimbly weaves this analysis together with the history of other social movements, such as the work to abolish slavery, the labor struggles of workers in the automobile industry, the fight against white supremacists and how coal miners fought against air polluters both using and pinpointing limits of federal clean air laws. Young concludes by discussing how to build an intersectional climate movement, one that fights back against racism and engages the working class. A must read for anyone interested in ending our reliance on fossil fuels.”\u003cbr\u003e—Christina Gerhardt, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKevin A. Young\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eteaches history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has published several other books, including\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLevers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do About It\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(with Tarun Banerjee and Michael Schwartz) and the edited volume\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaking the Revolution: Histories of the Latin American Left\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Kevin A. Young\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSeries:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e PM Press \/ Spectre\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 9798887440330\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 05\/14\/2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSize:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 6 x 9\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePages:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 264\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55920597598281,"sku":"ylo1787265919657","price":14.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0937\/7185\/7993\/files\/abolishing-fossil-fuels-lessons-from-movements-that-won-kevin-a-young_1.jpg?v=1787265924"},{"product_id":"the-communist-hypothesis-alain-badiou","title":"The Communist Hypothesis – Alain Badiou","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-teaser\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvailable with shipping in the US\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand UK only.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"t-rte\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"t-rte\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"t-rte\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new program for the Left by the inimitable Marxist theorist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy - the form of state suited to capitalism - and to the inevitable and \"natural\" character of the most monstrous inequalities.\"\u003cspan\u003e - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eAlain Badiou\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlain Badiou's 'communist hypothesis', first stated in 2008, cut through the cant and compromises of the past twenty years to reconceptualize the Left. The hypothesis is a fresh demand for universal emancipation and a galvanizing call to arms. Anyone concerned with the future of the planet needs to reckon with the ideas outlined within this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"c-product-reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003e\u003ccite\u003e\"A Little Red Book for our time?\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePlatypus\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003e\u003ccite\u003e\"An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLucy Wadham, New Statesman\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003e\u003ccite\u003e\"A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003ccite\u003eSlavoj Zizek\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ccite\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ccite\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003e\u003ccite\u003e\"Shaking the foundations of Western liberal democracy.\"\u003cbr\u003eTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ccite\u003ePaperback \/ 224 pages \/ May 2015 \/ 9781781688700\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-description\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55920597631049,"sku":"bgs1787265922434","price":20.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0937\/7185\/7993\/files\/the-communist-hypothesis-alain-badiou_1.webp?v=1787265927"},{"product_id":"greece-and-the-reinvention-of-politics-alain-badiou","title":"Greece and the Reinvention of Politics – Alain Badiou","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-teaser\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvailable with shipping in the US\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand UK only.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"t-rte\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"t-rte\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"t-rte\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the world's leading radical philosophers analyses the failure of the Syriza experience in Greece\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a series of seven trenchant interventions Alain Badou analyses the decisive developments in Greece since 2011. Badiou considers this Mediterranean country “a sort of open-air political lesson”, with much to tell us about the wider situation. Greece is exemplary of “our fundamental contradictions in Europe, which are also ultimately the fundamental contradictions of the world such as it is—the world served up to the authoritarian anarchy of capitalism.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotwithstanding the Greeks’ heartening opposition to the financial markets’ hegemony, Badiou considers it also important to address the reasons why this opposition failed. “Movementist” politics may arouse widespread sympathy, but for the French philosopher they have “absolutely no effect other than to temporarily trap the movement in the negative weakness of its affects.” Badiou argues that a consequential opposition inspired by the emancipatory politics of the past—or by what he calls “the communist hypothesis”—should set its compass by the “orienting maxims” proposed in this book, defining a direction for political action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In the past few years, Alain Badiou's oeuvre has imposed itself as the most significant philosophical import from the Continent.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlberto Toscano, author of Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea, The British Journal of Sociology\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Whatever his pessimistic assessments of the contemporary situation (St Paul in the place of Lenin?), Badiou’s emphasis on activity and production, his insistence on fidelity as the resurrected of the dormant Events of a seemingly extinct political praxis, can only be energizing for us.\"\u003cbr\u003eFredric Jameson, New Left Review\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"One of the most important philosophers writing today.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJoan Copjec\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSlavoj Žižek\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew Statesman\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Badiou’s sardonically compressed style is never less than pungent.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGuardian\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Shaking the foundations of Western liberal democracy.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Times Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A thinker of tremendously invigorating moral fervour, able to rise to Swiftian scorn or fine Cocteau-like flourishes. 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A characteristically lucid polemic from a philosopher who is far from willing to abandon humanity to the vicissitudes of so-called global capitalism.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMark Fisher, Frieze\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Badiou has been an intellectual hero of France's anti-capitalist left since the Paris street protests of 1968.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBBC HARDtalk\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Greece has long been a country with ‘too much history,’ a harbinger of broader developments in Europe. In the course of its recent crisis it provided the testing ground for several political approaches. Failure was general, but none was greater than the abject capitulation of Syriza. Alain Badiou surveys the wreckage calmly and with sadness, seeking the reinvention of a radical and class-based politics. This is indeed what Europe needs today, and the only positive outcome from the Syriza debacle.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCostas Lapavitsas, SOAS, University of London\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"c-product-reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ccite\u003ePaperback \/ 112 pages \/ January 2018 \/ 9781786634177\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-description\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55920597663817,"sku":"dhl1787265922542","price":13.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0937\/7185\/7993\/files\/greece-and-the-reinvention-of-politics-alain-badiou_1.webp?v=1787265927"},{"product_id":"a-peoples-guide-to-abolition-and-disability-justice-katie-tastrom","title":"A People’s Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice – Katie Tastrom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c!----\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-info\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"right\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"cart\"\u003e\u003cform id=\"product_form\" name=\"product_form\" action=\"https:\/\/pmpress.org\/index.php?l=addtocart\" method=\"post\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"ebcode\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"hideebook\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/form\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"tab-description\" class=\"tab-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eDisability justice and prison abolition are two increasingly popular theories that overlap but whose intersection has rarely been explored in depth.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA People’s Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eexplains the history and theories behind abolition and disability justice in a way that is easy to understand for those new to these concepts yet also gives insights that will be useful to seasoned activists. The book uses extensive research and professional and lived experience to illuminate the way the State uses disability and its power to disable to incarcerate multiply marginalized disabled people, especially those who are queer, trans, Black, or Indigenous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause disabled people are much more likely\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethan nondisabled people\u003c\/span\u003e to be locked up in prisons, jails, and other sites of incarceration, abolitionists, and others critical of carceral systems must incorporate a disability justice perspective into our work.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA People’s Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003egives personal and policy examples of how and why disabled people are disproportionately caught up in the carceral net, and how we can use this information to work toward prison and police abolition more effectively. This book includes practical tools and strategies that will be useful for anyone who cares about disability justice or abolition and explains why we can’t have one without the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“An essential movement tool. Tastrom convincingly shows that police and prison abolition and disability justice are core strategies for liberation and that we can't win one without the other.”\u003cbr\u003e—Alex Vitale, professor of sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCity of Disorder \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe End of Policing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eA People’s Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a clear, accessible, and invaluable tool for not only dissecting the depths of disability and criminalization but also illustrating how the fights for disability justice and prison abolition are inextricably linked.”\u003cbr\u003e—Victoria Law, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eResistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Prisons Make Us Safer” \u0026amp; 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Reminding us that abolition and disability justice must be, on a molecular level, grown together, Katie Tastrom offers a manifesto, which is also to say an atlas that leads us deeper into this analysis. Pushing against a world where harms lived by some are reproduced under the promise of safety for others, Tastrom insists that we must dream of more. Working from personal experience and a wide genealogy of abolitionist crip thought, this book is a necessary contribution to our collective study.”\u003cbr\u003e—Eric A. Stanley, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAtmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans\/Queer Ungovernable\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKatie Tastrom\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a disability justice activist and writer who has worked as a lawyer, social worker, and sex worker. Her work has appeared in the anthologies\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBurn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNourishing Resistance: Stories of Food, Protest, and Mutual Aid\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as all over the internet including:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTruthout\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRewire\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRooted in Rights\u003c\/em\u003e. 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A genuine celebration of the historical diversity of Palestine, the book does a stellar job of reminding Westerners, many of whom believe Christianity is a Western religion, that it is Palestine that is the birthplace of Christianity.”\u003cbr\u003e—Nada Elia, Palestinian author and journalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Parenting is hard enough. Now add to the mix raising Palestinian children to be proud of their heritage, history, and homeland amidst an onslaught of negative and demeaning messages. . . . The book presents a beautifully illustrated, unapologetically proud narrative of Palestinian identity. . . . The racist portrayal of us as violent, angry, irrational, uncivilized, and incapable of living in peace with their neighbors is far too common. . . . \u003ci\u003eP Is for Palestine\u003c\/i\u003e is exactly the kind of positive reinforcement needed by children whose identity is constantly under attack.”\u003cbr\u003e—Yousef Munayyer, executive director of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I was excited to spot \u003ci\u003eP Is for Palestine. . \u003c\/i\u003e. . The book is fantastic on so many different levels: it features a little girl with curly black hair, big eyes, and brown skin; the illustrations are gorgeous; and it teaches the alphabet through egalitarian and multicultural words from both Arabic and English.”\u003cbr\u003e—Radhika Sainath, American author and civil rights lawyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“When does a children’s book get coverage in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e (‘Page Six,’ no less), the \u003ci\u003eForward\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHa’aretz\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBreitbart\u003c\/i\u003e? . . . Teaching and learning about Palestine has been a sore spot for Zionists. 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Shaheen, author of \u003ci\u003eReel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book provides an attractive and thoughtful introduction to the heritage and culture of Palestine that will be appreciated by children whose families come from Palestine, and by children everywhere.” \u003cbr\u003e—Rashid Khalidi, globally renowned Palestinian-American scholar, author, and the Edward Said professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eP Is for Palestine\u003c\/i\u003e is a colorful manifestation of all that is beautiful about the land of my parents and ancestors. 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I cannot wait to give a copy to my niece, nephew, and every other little Arab American child, who will not only be able to learn from this book but will also be able to feel proud of where she is from, and, consequently, rooted deeply in the world.”\u003cbr\u003e—Najla Said, Palestinian-American playwright, actress and author of \u003ci\u003eLooking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“G for great . . . P for peace in Palestine.” \u003cbr\u003e—Marwan Bishara, internationally renowned Palestinian author, broadcaster, and chief political analyst at Al Jazeera Media Network\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I wish I had a book like this when I was a child! Fantastic and fun . . . a great way to show children another world and open their minds. It’s especially exciting to me as a Palestinian, as I always want to find ways to show my baby she can feel proud of her culture and have fun at the same time. Colorful, truly original and a delight for young and old!” \u003cbr\u003e—Annemarie Jacir, Palestinian filmmaker of \u003ci\u003eWhen I Saw You\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A book for our children that teaches self-love and pride. A book for our friends that shares a central piece of our lives. A book for ourselves that sings without apology: \u003ci\u003eP is for Palestine\u003c\/i\u003e and all of its wonders that make it home.” \u003cbr\u003e—Noura Erakat, internationally renowned Palestinian-American human rights attorney, academic and activist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Golbarg Bashi takes children (and parents) into Palestine, illustrated beautifully with Golrokh Nafisi drawings. \u003ci\u003eP Is for Palestine\u003c\/i\u003e is a must for anyone who grew up with fragmented past and is looking to changing today’s stereotypes.” \u003cbr\u003e—Najwa Najjar, award-winning Palestinian filmmaker of \u003ci\u003eEyes of a Thief: Pomegranates and Myrrh\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Palestine is our story, and our story begins with the alphabet. Every letter a direction. Stunningly illustrated. 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He does this by revisiting and attempting to draw lessons from the history of the revolutionary movement from the French Revolution, through the conflicts between anarchists and Marxists in the International Workingmen’s Association and the Russian and Spanish revolutions, to the social revolution of 1968. These are not just abstract theoretical reflections, but are informed by the experiences of a lifetime of revolutionary commitments and by his constant willingness to challenge orthodoxies of all kinds: “Far from allowing ourselves to sink into doubt, inaction, and despair, the time has come for the left to begin again from zero, to rethink its problems from their very foundations. 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He was also one of the first in France to warn of the rising dangers of fascism, publishing\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Brown Plague\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein 1933 and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFascism and Big Business\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein 1936. He met Leon Trotsky in 1933, and would work with the Trotskyist resistance during the war; a respected member of the Fourth International during the 1940s, he was a close, personal friend of Michel Raptis (alias Pablo) until his death. His controversial, libertarian Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eClass Struggle in the First Republic, 1793–1797\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1945, 2nd ed. 1968) was judged by his friend C.L.R. 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