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John Brown was born 226 years ago today. An ardent and uncompromising abolitionist, he spent the last years of his life engaged in armed struggle against slavery, first in the Bleeding Kansas struggle, then in the raid on Harper's Ferry, for which he was executed.
"He done more in dying than 100 men would in living.” —Harriett Tubman
Against Creativity
https://leftwingbooks.net/products/against-creativity
In this brilliant, counter intuitive blast Oli Mould demands that we rethink the story we are being sold. Behind the novelty, he shows that creativity is a barely hidden form of neoliberal appropriation.
As every year, we're looking forward to Montreal's @constellation@kolektiva.social Anarchist Bookfair on May 16!
https://constellationmtl.net
The author of After the Fall (hot off the presses!) will be giving a workshop at 1pm with a Syrian Kurdish comrade, a kind of book launch by way of an update on the situation in Rojava.
https://leftwingbooks.net/afterthefall
(NEW!) A Right to Housing?
https://leftwingbooks.net/products/a-right-to-housing
Drawing on his own experience of on-the-ground organizing, Samuel Stein presents practical policies for enacting a right to shelter, a right to a home, and a right to the city itself.
(NEW!) Visions and Interventions: Thirty Years of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory
https://leftwingbooks.net/products/visions-and-interventions
Three decades of critical anarchist thought on major historical moments and social issues.
(NEW!) Anarchist Panther: The Selected Writings of Ashanti O. Alston
https://leftwingbooks.net/products/anarchist-panther
Alston helped nurture & define a distinct form of anarchism rooted in the Black experience through his experiences in the BPP & BLA, through social movements from the late 60s to today.
(NEW!) From Riot to Insurrection: The G8 Summit of 2001 & The Battle of Genoa
https://leftwingbooks.net/products/from-riot-to-insurrection
Tomas Rothaus escorts the reader through those explosive days, recounting the street battles, the sense of possibility & the heart-wrenching moments of triumph & loss.
A sampling of novels newly available at https://LeftWingBooks.net/fiction!
Struggling to Breathe: The Diary of a Psychiatric In-Patient
https://leftwingbooks.net/products/struggling-to-breathe
At 24, Niamh Brownlee was admitted to hospital. Although at rock bottom mentally, she kept a diary of the 31 days she spent in 2 psychiatric hospitals. This helped her survive & begin the tentative process of recovery.
5 years later, Niamh has decided to share her diary of those days in the hope that others will feel less alone and come to believe that recovery is possible, and help is out there.
(NEW!) The Great Driving Right Show: Cars, Crisis, and the Rise of Fossil Fascism
https://leftwingbooks.net/products/the-great-driving-right-show
How the far right rises through climate conspiracism and pro-car politics.
Montreal Left-Wing Book Sale!
August 23, noon to 5pm
Bâtiment 7 (1900 rue Le Ber)
Us, Archives Révolutionnaires, and other rad publishers, distros, organizing project!
FINAL DAY of our July sale! 20% off any and all books with code JULY20 at checkout!
Here's a couple books we just added to the site:
My Dad Thinks I'm a Boy?! https://leftwingbooks.net/products/my-dad-thinks-i-m-a-boy
Surviving Transphobia https://leftwingbooks.net/products/surviving-transphobia
Two Cheers For Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, & Meaningful Work & Play, by James C. Scott
https://leftwingbooks.net/products/two-cheers-for-anarchism
* 20% off all books till the end of tomorrow with code JULY20 at checkout! *
(NEW!) Workers and the World: Fighting Ecological Crisis from Within
https://leftwingbooks.net/products/workers-and-the-world
* 20% off any and all books till Friday w code JULY20 at checkout! *
Connecting workplace struggles with community movements to confront today’s ecological crisis.
(NEW!) The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood
https://leftwingbooks.net/products/the-iron-cage
From British colonization to Israeli occupation, an essential primer on the nearly century-long fight for Palestinian liberation
* 20% off all books w/ code JULY20 (ends Friday)! *
(NEW!) Working for Nothing: A Wages for Housework Anthology
https://leftwingbooks.net/products/working-for-nothing
In the mid-1970s, a Marxist-feminist movement with revolutionary aims shook up resurgent feminism...
* 20% off all books with code JULY20 at checkout! *
(NEW!) Femmephilia: Love Letters to Trans Mermaids, Queer Mothers, and Marilyn Monroe
https://leftwingbooks.net/products/femmephilia
From the author of Enemy Feminisms and Abolish the Family, an original diagnosis of femmephobia in our culture, and a vision of a life-giving femme feminism for all.
*** 20% off all books for the rest of the month with code JULY20 at checkout! ***
Billionaires & Guillotines: A Game
https://leftwingbooks.net/products/billionaires-guillotines
2-5 players take on the roles of rival plutocrats, competing tooth and nail to accumulate the wealth of the world before their actions trigger a revolution.
Notes Towards a Digital Worker Inquiry
https://leftwingbooks.net/products/notes-towards-a-digital-worker-inquiry
First-hand accounts from the tech sector’s resurgent labor movement as artificial intelligence gains ground in every facet of our lives.