{"title":"Kersplebedeb","description":"Since 1998 Kersplebedeb has been an important source of radical literature and agit prop materials. Based in Montreal, the project has a non-exclusive focus on anti-patriarchal and anti-imperialist politics, framed within an anticapitalist perspective. A special priority is given to writings regarding armed struggle in the metropole, the continuing struggles of political prisoners and prisoners of war, and the political economy of imperialism.","products":[{"product_id":"basic-politics-of-movement-security-a-talk-on-security-with-j-sakai-plus-g20-repression-and-infiltration-in-toronto-an-interview-with-mandy-hiscocks","title":"Basic Politics of Movement Security: A Talk on Security with J. Sakai plus G20 Repression and Infiltration in Toronto - an Interview with Mandy Hiscocks","description":"\u003cp\u003eby J. Sakai and Mandy Hiscocks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2014\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9781894946520\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere are two “live” discussions by radical activists introducing the issues of movement security: u.s. activist and author J. Sakai \u0026amp; long-time Canadian organizer Mandy Hiscocks.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are many books and articles reporting state repression, but not on that subject’s more intimate relative, movement security. It is general practice to only pass along knowledge about movement security privately, in closed group lectures or by personal word-of-mouth. In fact, when new activists have questions about security problems, they quickly discover that there is no “Security for Dummies” to explore the basics. Adding to the confusion, the handful of available left security texts are usually about underground or illegal groups, not the far larger public movements that work on a more or less legal level.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring Montreal’s 2013 Festival of Anarchy, J. Sakai gave a workshop about the politics of movement security, sharing the results of typical incidents of both the movement’s successes and the movement’s failures in combating the “political police” or state security agencies. He also discussed the nature of those state sub-cultures. This booklet contains a transcript of that talk, and of the subsequent lively question and answer period; along with several after-the-workshop observations by Sakai.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs he explains, “The key thing is, to start with, security is not about being macho vigilantes or having techniques of this or that. It’s not some spy game. Security is about good politics. That’s exactly why it’s so difficult. But everyone will say that they have good politics. So this has to be broken down, this has to be explained.” Which is what he does in this unusual talk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMandy Hiscocks comes at the topic from her personal experiences organizing against the 2010 G20 Summit in Toronto. In this in-depth interview, reprinted from the radical Canadian political journal Upping The Anti, Hiscocks describes how her political scene and groups she worked with were infiltrated by undercover agents over a year before the summit even occurred. These police infiltrators provided information used in the prosecution of anti-Globalization organizers and participants. Hiscocks provides an honest and sobering appraisal of the practical challenge of State infiltration, and of how subsequent decisions played out in regards to the anti-G20 organizing and the repression that resulted. Hiscocks spent a year in prison as a result of these experiences, shortly after this interview was conducted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBe sure to check out the other titles from our friends at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Kersplebedeb Collection\" href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" class=\"text-link\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\"\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":15620964352051,"sku":"Basic Politics of Movement Secu","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/products\/basicpoliticsofmovementsecurity.jpeg?v=1543355627"},{"product_id":"the-struggle-within-prisons-political-prisoners-and-mass-movements-in-the-united-states","title":"The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Dan Berger\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePM Press, Kersplebedeb\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2014, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9781604869552\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Struggle Within\u003c\/em\u003e is an accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer about how mass imprisonment has been a tool of repression deployed against diverse left-wing social movements over the last fifty years. Berger examines some of the most dynamic social movements across half a century: black liberation, Puerto Rican independence, Native American sovereignty, Chicano radicalism, white antiracist and working-class mobilizations, pacifist and antinuclear campaigns, and earth liberation and animal rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBerger's encyclopedic knowledge of American social movements provides a rich comparative history of numerous social movements that continue to shape contemporary politics. The book also offers a little-heard voice in contemporary critiques of mass incarceration. Rather than seeing the issue of America's prison growth as stemming solely from the war on drugs, Berger locates mass incarceration within a slew of social movements that have provided steep challenges to state power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBe sure to check out the other titles from our friends at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" title=\"Kersplebedeb Collection\" class=\"text-link\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Struggle Within\u003c\/em\u003e powerfully demonstrates that the issue of political prisoners is not about individuals but about the deep and enduring bonds of community resistance. Berger's beautiful synthesis of more than fifty years of people's history places the prison at the center of contemporary freedom struggles. This book is necessary reading for all who wish to revive a radical tradition in the face of the prison's coercive attempt at erasure. \u003cem\u003eThe Struggle Within\u003c\/em\u003e is a vital and moving contribution, rooted in the power of collective history.\" -Angela Y. Davis, author and former political prisoner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Before the U.S. had today's mass incarceration, it had political prisoners. Dan Berger's excellent book shows how political repression produced the human rights nightmare that exists today in America's prisons. More, the book tells the history of the hundreds of activists who have been incarcerated here-and most important of all, the stories of those who remain inside. This historical account tells the truth not only about political incarceration but also about how movements can act to dismantle the U.S. prison nation. Wherever you find your place in social justice activism, this much-needed book will help enrich your work and make it more effective.\" -Laura Whitehorn, former political prisoner and editor of \u003ca title=\"The War Before\" href=\"http:\/\/burningbooksbuffalo.com\/products\/the-war-before\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe War Before\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Dan Berger has provided scholars and activists alike an untold and unfortunately too easily forgotten history of political incarceration and the struggle to free political prisoners in the U.S. Berger deftly grapples not only with the resilience of the incarcerated and the movements seeking their freedom, but more importantly with the roots of political incarceration in modern colonialism and its primary justification—racism. More than stirring our hearts and minds, this timely book should move us to action!\" —José López, executive director of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“When the radical New Left crashed and burned, most participants resumed more or less conventional life trajectories. We too often forget that many of our brothers and sisters are still behind bars with no assurance of release. In \u003cem\u003eThe Struggle Within\u003c\/em\u003e we are told about not only Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier but dozens of other political prisoners whose names we may not know. These men and women ’raised the stakes’ in confrontation with the Powers That Be and are behind bars not just for their ideas but because they were ’active participants in resistance movements.’ The author describes this book as an ’introductory and incomplete sketch,’ but it is, in fact, the most comprehensive survey of imprisoned Movement activists known to me. I deeply admire the author’s efforts to tell it like it is without excessive adjectives. While these souls are imprisoned, we are not free.\" —Staughton Lynd, author, educator, prison activist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This vital piece connects not only an insightful academic reflection with lessons which radical movements would do well to learn, it connects past history with current realities in the service of a more just future. All intellectual pursuits should be so rooted in the service of building campaigns and organizations for the people’s liberation; Berger’s must-read book is a gift to social change activists everywhere.\" —Matt Meyer, coeditor of \u003ca title=\"We Have Not Been Moved\" href=\"http:\/\/burningbooksbuffalo.com\/products\/we-have-not-been-moved-resisting-racism-and-militarism-in-21st-century-america\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Contributors: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/strong\u003e is an assistant professor of comparative ethnic studies at the University of Washington Bothell. His work on race, prisons, media, and American social movements has appeared widely in popular and scholarly journals. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eCaptive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era\u003c\/em\u003e, forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press (2014). Berger is also the author or editor of three previous books: \u003ca title=\"Letters From Young Activists\" href=\"http:\/\/burningbooksbuffalo.com\/products\/letters-from-young-activists-todays-rebels-speak-out\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLetters From Young Activists\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca title=\"Outlaws of America\" href=\"http:\/\/burningbooksbuffalo.com\/products\/outlaws-of-america-the-weather-underground-and-the-politics-of-solidarity\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eOutlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca title=\"The Hidden 1970s\" href=\"http:\/\/burningbooksbuffalo.com\/products\/the-hidden-1970s-histories-of-radicalism\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e. A longtime activist, Berger is a cofounder of Decarcerate PA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRuth Wilson Gilmore\u003c\/strong\u003e is a professor of geography at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is a member of the founding collective of Critical Resistance, one of the most important national anti-prison organizations in the United States. She examined how political and economic forces produced California’s prison boom in \u003ca title=\"Golden Gulag\" href=\"http:\/\/burningbooksbuffalo.com\/products\/golden-gulag-prisons-surplus-crisis-and-opposition-in-globalizing-california\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eGolden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, which was recognized by ASA with its Lora Romero First Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003edream hampton\u003c\/strong\u003e has written about music, culture, and politics for twenty years. Her articles and essays have appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Detroit News\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHarper’s Bazaar\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEssence\u003c\/em\u003e, and a dozen anthologies, most recently \u003cem\u003eBorn to Use Mics: Reading Nas’s Illmatic\u003c\/em\u003e, edited by Michael Eric Dyson. A longtime member of the human rights organization Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, hampton helped to organize the Black August Hip Hop Concert Benefit to raise awareness about U.S. political prisoner for ten years. hampton directed The Black August Hip Hop Project, a film about the concert series, political prisoners, and MXGM.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":15857535516723,"sku":"The Struggle Within","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/products\/large_632_struggle_within.jpeg?v=1544223371"},{"product_id":"the-red-army-faction-a-documentary-history-volume-2","title":"The Red Army Faction: A Documentary History Volume 2 - Dancing with Imperialism","description":"\u003cp\u003eby J. Smith and Andre Moncourt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePM Press\/Kersplebedeb\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2013, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9781604860306\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe long-awaited \u003cem\u003eVolume 2\u003c\/em\u003e of the first-ever English-language study of the Red Army Faction-West Germany's most notorious urban guerillas-covers the period immediately following the organization's near-total decimation in 1977. This work includes the details of the guerilla's operations, and its \u003cspan class=\"st\"\u003ecommuniqué\u003c\/span\u003e and texts, from 1978 up until the 1984 offensive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis was a period of regrouping and reorientation for the RAF, with its previous focus on freeing its prisoners replaced by an anti-NATO orientation. This was in response to the emergence of a new radical youth movement in the Federal Republic, the Autonomen, and an attempt to renew its ties to the radical left. The possibilities and perils of an armed underground organization relating to the broader movement are examined, and the RAF's approach is contrasted to the more fluid and flexible practice of the Revolutionary Cells. At the same time, the history of the 2nd of June Movement (2JM), an eclectic guerilla group with its roots in West Berlin, is also evaluated, especially in light of the split that led to some 2JM members officially disbanding the organization and rallying to the RAF. Finally, the RAF's relationship to the East German Stasi is examined, as is the abortive attempt by West Germany's liberal intelligentsia to defuse the armed struggle during Gerhard Baum's tenure as Minister of the Interior.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDancing with Imperialism\u003c\/em\u003e will be required reading for students of the First World guerilla, those with interest in the history of European protest movements, and all who wish to understand the challenges of revolutionary struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBe sure to check out the other titles from our friends at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"text-link\" title=\"Kersplebedeb Collection\" href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\"\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":15831577231411,"sku":"Red Army Faction Vol. 2","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/products\/large_513_RAF02_cover300.jpeg?v=1543967918"},{"product_id":"the-red-army-faction-a-documentary-history-volume-1","title":"The Red Army Faction: A Documentary History Volume 1 - Projectiles for the People","description":"\u003cp\u003eby J. Smith and Andre Moncourt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePM Press\/Kersplebedeb\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2009, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9781604860290\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first in a two-volume series, this is by far the most in-depth political history of the Red Army Faction ever made available in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Projectiles for the People\u003c\/em\u003e starts its story in the days following World War II, showing how American imperialism worked hand in glove with the old pro-Nazi ruling class, shaping West Germany into an authoritarian anti-communist bulwark and launching pad for its aggression against Third World nations. The volume also recounts the opposition that emerged from intellectuals, communists, independent leftists, and then - explosively - the radical student movement and countercultural revolt of the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was from this revolt that the Red Army Faction emerged, an underground organization devoted to carrying out armed attacks within the Federal Republic of Germany, in the view of establishing a tradition of illegal, guerilla resistance to imperialism and state repression. Through its bombs and manifestos the RAF confronted the state with opposition at a level many activists today might find difficult to imagine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the first time ever in English, this volume presents all of the manifestos and \u003cspan class=\"st\"\u003ecommuniqués\u003c\/span\u003e issued by the RAF between 1970 and 1977, from Andreas Baader's prison break, through the 1972 May Offensive and the 1975 hostage-taking in Stockholm, to the desperate, and tragic, events of the \"German Autumn\" of 1977. The RAF's three main manifestos - \u003cem\u003eThe Urban Guerilla Concept\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eServe the People\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBlack September\u003c\/em\u003e - are included, as are important interviews with \u003cem\u003eSpiegel\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ele Monde Diplomatique\u003c\/em\u003e, and a number of \u003cspan class=\"st\"\u003ecommuniqué\u003c\/span\u003es and court statements explaining their actions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProviding the background information that readers will require to understand the context in which these events occurred, separate thematic sections deal with the 1976 murder of Ulrike Meinhof in prison, the 1977 Stammheim murders, the extensive use of psychological operations and false-flag attacks to discredit the guerilla, the state's use of sensory deprivation torture and isolation wings, and the prisoners' resistance to this, through which they inspired their own supporters and others on the left to take the plunge into revolutionary action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on both mainstream and movement sources, this book is intended as a contribution to the comrades of today - and to the comrades of tomorrow - both as testimony to those who struggled before and as an explanation as to how they saw the world, why they made the choices they made, and the price they were made to pay for having done so.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBe sure to check out the other titles from our friends at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" title=\"Kersplebedeb Collection\" class=\"text-link\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":15831577067571,"sku":"Red Army Faction - A Documentar","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/products\/large_49_RAF1final100.jpeg?v=1543967917"},{"product_id":"the-vancouver-five-armed-struggle-in-canada","title":"The Vancouver Five: Armed Struggle in Canada","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Jim Campbell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2007\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 1894946049\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1981 and 1982 several bombings (against a hydro sub-station, an arms manufacturer and three pornographic video stores) were carried out in Canada under the banner of Direct Action and the Wimmin's Fire Brigade. When five members of the Vancouver anarchist scene were arrested for these attacks they became known as the Vancouver Five - this is an account of the politics and practice, successes and errors of the Five and their supporters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBe sure to check out the other titles from our friends at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" title=\"Kersplebedeb Collection\" class=\"text-link\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":15857543086131,"sku":"Vancouver Five - Armed Struggl","price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/products\/large_16_vanc3.jpeg?v=1544223449"},{"product_id":"resistance-is-a-duty-and-other-essays-by-comrades-from-action-directe","title":"Resistance is a Duty! And Other Essays by Comrades from Action Directe","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Action Directe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2009, staple-bound booklet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9781894946339\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree essays from prisoners of the French armed struggle group - \"Short Collective Biography Of Action Directe Prisoners,\" \"Political Prisoners And The Question Of Revolutionary Violence,\" and \"Resistance Is A Duty!\" - explaining the history, and giving some insight into the politics of this (originally) armed revolutionary organization in France. Now in a new edition, and including a short collective biography of Action Directe prisoners as well as a chronology of their activities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBe sure to check out the other titles from our friends at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" title=\"Kersplebedeb Collection\" class=\"text-link\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":15831580901427,"sku":"Resistance is a Duty","price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/products\/large_5_resistance3.jpeg?v=1543967935"},{"product_id":"coming-of-age-a-new-afrikan-revolutionary","title":"Coming of Age: A New Afrikan Revolutionary","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Safiya Asya Bukhari\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2005\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 1894946189\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead \u003ci\u003eComing of Age\u003c\/i\u003e and become aware of the path taken by one New Afrikan woman as her youthful search for the 'amerikkan dream' led her to conscious participation in the New Afrikan Independence Movement: to the Black Panther Party; the Black Liberation Army; to capture and imprisonment as a New Afrikan Prisoner of War. The story which describes the coming of age of Comrade-Sister Safiya is but one page from the book of New Afrikan life. 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Their struggle for justice is informed by a commitment to reason.\" - Victor Wallis, Professor, Liberal Arts Department, Berklee College of Music\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBe sure to check out the other titles from our friends at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Kersplebedeb Collection\" href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" class=\"text-link\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\"\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":15623480836147,"sku":"Defying the Tomb","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/products\/defying-the-tomb_40766.png?v=1543377078"},{"product_id":"settlers-the-mythology-of-the-white-proletariat-from-mayflower-to-modern","title":"Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern","description":"\u003cp\u003eby J. 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First published in the 1980s by activists with decades of experience organizing in grassroots anticapitalist struggles against white supremacy, the book soon established itself as an essential reference point for revolutionary nationalists and dissident currents within the predominantly colonialist Marxist-Leninist and anarchist movements at that time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlways controversial within the establishment Left, \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e uncovers centuries of collaboration between capitalism and white workers and their organizations, as well as their neocolonial allies, showing how the United States was designed from the ground up as a parasitic and genocidal entity. \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e exposes the fact that America’s white citizenry have never supported themselves but have always resorted to exploitation and theft, culminating in acts of genocide to maintain their culture and way of life. As recounted in painful detail by Sakai, the United States has been built on the theft of Indigenous lands and of Afrikan labor, on the robbery of the northern third of Mexico, the colonization of Puerto Rico, and the expropriation of the Asian working class, with each of these crimes being accompanied by violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition includes “Cash \u0026amp; Genocide: The True Story of Japanese-American Reparations” and an interview with author J. 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Here, Williams maps out some of the conclusions this practice and position imply for our communities and movements, both today and tomorrow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFire the Cops!\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of several essays written in the decade following the publication of \u003ca title=\"Our Enemies in Blue\" href=\"http:\/\/burningbooksbuffalo.com\/products\/our-enemies-in-blue-police-and-power-in-america\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eOur Enemies in Blue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, years in which Williams was heavily involved in the Rose City Copwatch organization in Portland. This book can be read as a supplement to \u003cem\u003eOur Enemies in Blue\u003c\/em\u003e, or on its own, as a series of attempts to apply historical lessons to circumstances as they unfold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncluding both reports from the frontlines and reconnaissance into the plans and practices of our opponents, \u003cem\u003eFire the Cops!\u003c\/em\u003e is intended to help inform future critique, and further struggle. \u003cem\u003eFire the Cops!\u003c\/em\u003e includes several photographs by Bette Lee, documenting protests against the police in Portland, Oregon, during the years these essays were being written.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBe sure to check out the other titles from our friends at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Kersplebedeb Collection\" href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" class=\"text-link\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\"\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":965527899,"sku":"Fire the Cops","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/products\/firethecops_cover.jpg?v=1543551230"},{"product_id":"our-commitment-is-to-our-communities-mass-incarceration-political-prisoners-and-building-a-movement-for-community-based-justice","title":"Our Commitment is to Our Communities: Mass Incarceration, Political Prisoners and Building a Movement for Community-Based Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003eby David Gilbert\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2014, booklet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9781894946650\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the 2014 \u003cem\u003eCertain Days\u003c\/em\u003e calendar, David Gilbert wrote that the “War on Crime” which began in the early 1970s was in fact a conscious government counterinsurgency strategy to decimate and disrupt Black and other people of color communities across the United States. In this pamphlet, interviewed by Bob Feldman, David uses this observation as his starting point to discuss the ongoing catastrophe that is mass incarceration, connecting it to the continued imprisonment of political prisoners and the challenges that face our movements today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis interview was conducted by mail in March 2014, by Bob Feldman. A shorter version originally appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Shadow\u003c\/em\u003e newspaper, issue 56, Spring 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBe sure to check out the other titles from our friends at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"text-link\" title=\"Kersplebedeb Collection\" href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\"\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Gilbert,\u003c\/strong\u003e a longtime anti-racist and anti-imperialist, first became active in the Civil Rights movement in 1961. In 1965, he started the Vietnam Committee at Columbia University; in 1967 he co-authored the first Students for a Democratic Society pamphlet naming the system “imperialism”; and he was active in the Columbia strike of 1968. He went on to spend a total of 10 years underground, building a clandestine resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDavid was been imprisoned in New York State since 10\/20\/81, when a unit of the Black Liberation Army along with allied white revolutionaries tried to get funds for the struggle by robbing a Brinks truck. This tragically resulted in a shoot-out in which a Brinks guard and two police officers were killed. While in prison, he was a pioneer for peer education on AIDS and has continued to write and advocate against oppression. He’s been involved with the annual \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/burningbooksbuffalo.com\/products\/copy-of-certain-days-2015-freedom-for-political-prisoners-calendar\" title=\"Certain Days 2015\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCertain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar\u003c\/a\u003e since 2001 and wrote two books from prison that are available from Kersplebedeb and PM Press: \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/burningbooksbuffalo.com\/products\/no-surrender-writings-from-an-anti-imperialist-political-prisoner\" title=\"No Surrender\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eNo Surrender\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/burningbooksbuffalo.com\/products\/love-and-struggle-my-life-in-sds-the-weather-underground-and-beyond\" title=\"Love and Struggle\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eLove and Struggle\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":965680687,"sku":"Our Commitment is to Our Commun","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/products\/ourcommitmentistoourcommunities_1.jpg?v=1543894326"},{"product_id":"the-communist-necessity","title":"The Communist Necessity","description":"\u003cp\u003eby J. Moufawad-Paul\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2020, paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9781989701003\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field-items\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“There was a time when we proclaimed that we were part of a beautiful and fragmented chaos of affinity groups, conflicted organizations, disorganized rebels, all of whom were somehow part of the same social movement that was greater than the sum of its parts. We were more accurately a disorganized mob of enraged plebeians shaking our fists at a disciplined imperial army. Years ago we spoke of \u003cstrong\u003esocial \u003c\/strong\u003emovementism\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ebut now it only makes sense to drop the ‘social’ since this phase of confusion was incapable of understanding the social terrain. Disparate, unfocused, and divided movements lack a unified intentionality; they have proved themselves incapable of pursuing the necessity of communism.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis second edition of Moufawad-Paul’s first book includes a preface by Dao-yuan Chou and a reflective afterword by the author. New readers can discover why the recognition of communism’s necessity “requires a new return to the revolutionary communist theories and experiences won from history.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Communist Necessity\u003c\/em\u003e is a polemical interrogation of the practice of “social movementism” that has enjoyed a normative status at the centres of capitalism. Despite the fact that the name “communism” has been reclaimed by a variety of important intellectuals, J. Moufawad-Paul argues that, due to a failure to grapple with the concrete questions connected to historical moments of actually making revolution, movementist praxis remains hegemonic. More of a philosophical intervention than a historiography or political economy, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Communist Necessity\u003c\/em\u003e engages in a quick and pointed manner with a variety of authors and tendencies including Alain Badiou, Jodi Dean, the Invisible Committee, Tiqqun, Théorie Communiste, and others. Moufawad-Paul argues that a refusal to recognize contemporary revolutionary movements from the 1980s to the present results in the reification of a capitalist “end of history” discourse within this movementist conceptualization of theory and practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOriginally written as a small essay on the left-wing blog \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMLM Mayhem\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Communist Necessity\u003c\/em\u003e was expanded into a pocket-sized treatise in 2015, sketching out the boundaries of the movementist terrain, as well as its contemporary ideologues, so as to raise questions that may be uncomfortable for those still devoted to movementist praxis, particularly if they define themselves as marxist. Aware of his past affinity with social movementism, and with some apprehension of the problem of communist orthodoxy, Moufawad-Paul argues that the recognition of communism's necessity “requires a \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003enew return\u003c\/em\u003e to the revolutionary communist theories and experiences won from history.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBe sure to check out the other titles from our friends at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" title=\"Kersplebedeb Collection\" class=\"text-link\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Contributors:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJ. 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He is the author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAusterity Apparatus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eContinuity and Rupture\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDemarcation and Demystification\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDao-yuan Chou\u003c\/strong\u003e is an organizer and author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSilage Choppers and Snake Spirits\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":982981899,"sku":"Communist Necessity","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/products\/9781989701003.webp?v=1666298376"},{"product_id":"turning-money-into-rebellion-the-unlikely-story-of-denmarks-revolutionary-bank-robbers","title":"Turning Money Into Rebellion: The Unlikely Story of Denmark's Revolutionary Bank Robbers","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Gabriel Kuhn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePM Press\/Kersplebedeb\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2014, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9781604863161\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlekingegade is a quiet Copenhagen street. It is also where, in May 1989, the police discovered an apartment that had served Denmark’s most notorious twentieth-century bank robbers as a hideaway for years. The Blekingegade Group members belonged to a communist organization and lived modest lives in the Danish capital. Over a period of almost two decades, they sent millions of dollars acquired in spectacular heists to Third World liberation movements, in particular the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). 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Perhaps most importantly, it revolves around the cardinal question of revolutionary politics: What to do, and how to do it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBe sure to check out the other titles from our friends at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" title=\"Kersplebedeb Collection\" class=\"text-link\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1194163983,"sku":"Turning Money Into Rebellion","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/products\/large_634_turning_money_into_rebellion.jpg?v=1544223417"},{"product_id":"amazon-nation-or-aryan-nation-white-women-and-the-coming-of-black-genocide","title":"Amazon Nation or Aryan Nation: White Women and the Coming of Black Genocide","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Bottomfish Blues\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKersplebedeb\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2014, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9781894946551\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field-items\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese angry essays show how the massive New Afrikan uprisings of the 1960s were answered by the white ruling class: with the destruction of New Afrikan communities coast to coast, the decimation of the New Afrikan working class, the rise of the prison state and an explosion of violence between oppressed people. Taken on their own, in isolation, these blights may seem to be just more \"social issues\" for NGOs to get grants for, but taken together and in the context of amerikkkan history, they constitute genocide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Kill the Kids First” is a long, bitter rant that factually traces what was happening at street level, in daily events, in New York City in the 1980s. This is important because New York was an early epicenter of the u.s. empire’s new Black Genocide strategy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll the destructive trends that are now being so anxiously talked about in the 21st century, were first surfaced in New York City at that time. The mass incarceration of increasingly unemployed New Afrikans, young adult and child alike. The “stop and frisk” apartheid policing that justified itself by shrill alarms that any New Afrikans at all loose on the streets was the number one public emergency. 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When a thirteen-year-old Mead ends up in the Utah State Industrial School, a prison for boys, it is the first step in a story of oppression and revolt that will ultimately lead to the foundation of the George Jackson Brigade, a Seattle-based urban guerrilla group, and to Mead's re-incarceration as a fully engaged revolutionary, well-placed and prepared to take on both his captors and the predators amongst his fellow prisoners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eThrough his work organizing against conditions in solitary confinement,and then with queer prisoners in the legendary Men Against Sexism, followed by his exile from Washington to the dungeons at Marion, Brushy Mountain, and Florence, Ed Mead's practice stands as a rebuke to the inhumanity and indifference which surround the world's largest prison system.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eAs the late Black Liberation Army soldier Safiya Bukhari observed, \"we must at least write our history and point out the truth of what we did--the good, the bad, and the ugly.\" Ed Mead has done that here, recounting his life's story with unflinching honesty, providing a model of personal integrity and revolutionary creativity and determination for us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBe sure to check out the other titles from our friends at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" title=\"Kersplebedeb Collection\" class=\"text-link\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":10871656771,"sku":"Lumpen","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/products\/lumpen_edmead.jpg?v=1543888727"},{"product_id":"panther-vision-essential-party-writings-and-art-of-kevin-rashid-johnson-minister-of-defense","title":"Panther Vision: Essential Party Writings and Art of Kevin \"Rashid\" Johnson, Minister of Defense","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Kevin \"Rashid\" Johnson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2015, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9781894946766\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKevin \"Rashid\" Johnson entered the u.s. prison system over 20 years ago, one of countless young Black men consigned to lifelong incarceration by the post-civil right policies of anti-Black genocide. While behind bars, Rashid encountered the ideas of revolutionary Black nationalism and Marxism-Leninism, and of the people and organizations who have used and developed these ideas in previous generations, foremost amongst these being the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. Along with other Black\/New Afrikan prisoners, Rashid helped found the New Afrikan Black Panther Party-Prison Chapter, while using both his artwork and his political writings as avenues to advance the cause of liberation for all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere, collected in book form for the first time, are Rashid's core writings as Minister of Defense of the NABPP-PC. Subjects addressed include the differences between anarchism and Marxism-Leninism, the legacy of the Black Panther Party, the timeliness of Huey P. 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We can only hope this book reaches many, and serves to herald and light a means for the next generation of revolutionaries to succeed in building a mass and popular movement.\" --Jalil Muntaqim, Political Prisoner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"All Praise due to Brother Kevin Rashid Johnson, for his courage, determination and commitment from deep within the belly of the beast. For using his pen as a weapon to put forth his vision and perspectives, to inform and enlighten, to be discussed and evaluated.\" --Emory Douglas, Former Minister of Culture, Black Panther Party\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The U.S. is a society that originally based itself on a form of prison labor called slavery. Then it based itself on a form of slavery called racial segregation. Now it sets at the core of its political culture a form of racial segregation called the prison industry, run by a judicial machine. 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Given the rapid developments of the past few months, however, it was felt important to make his chapter on the alt-right available as soon as possible – therein lies the origin of this publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupplementing “Ctrl-Alt-Delete” is an essay written by comrades from the Its Going Down website, “The Rich Kids of Fascism.” This is a view from activists currently involved in opposing both the far right and the state, on the streets. As its title would imply, \"Rich Kids\" focuses on the elitist class politics of the alt right, and how that sets it apart from other far right phenomenon like boneheads or militias. Looking at the alt-right’s fortunes over the past few years, IGD show the role played by both the media, and white racist fears about the ongoing struggles of Black people and immigrants, in feeding this threat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn appendix, “Notes on Trump,” by Bromma, serves not so much as a counterpoint, as a contextualization. Not directly addressing the alt-right itself, Bromma’s Notes posit that the election of Trump and the rise of the far right are not simple accidents of history, nor the result of some single failure on our side or success on theirs, but are conjoined expressions of a deep shift within the world economy. As he argues, “What’s coming into view, semi-hidden underneath the frenzied soap opera of reactionary populism, is that the tide of globalization has crested and started to recede.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe alt right in one expression of this reactionary moment. We must oppose them, but also prepare ourselves to oppose what might come next. Understanding one’s enemy can only help in this regard, and indeed a thorough understanding of an opposing political force can also help us prepare for future far right iterations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is why this book is being offered now. A tool for work that needs doing. 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Unraveling what this means for antifascists and our strategies is the task at hand, and Hamerquist proceeds to lay down some important preliminary realities that we need to deal with. Almost twenty years later, what is most striking is how prescient so many of Hamerquist's observations were, not only about the ambiguously dynamic appeal of fascism, but also about the specific characteristics of antifascist work and the advantages and disadvantages they confer. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJ. Sakai follows Hamerquist, interrogating his analysis as he pushes it forward. Sakai argues against the idea that fascism comes primarily from the working class, just as he extends the point that fascism is not an inherently or essentially \"white\" ideology. 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Militant antifascist activism constituted an important factor in hemming in and ultimately thwarting the attempts at advance being made by several leading fascist groups at the time -- it was a form of struggle that worked. Without providing any kind of blueprint for the current resurgent antifa movement, they nonetheless provide insights and frameworks that should be examined and integrated, so that those taking up the work today can draw upon what was done before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBreaking with established Left practice,\u003cem\u003e Confronting Fascism\u003c\/em\u003e attempts to deal with the questions of fascism and antifascism in a serious and non-dogmatic manner. Attention is paid to to the class appeal of fascism, its continuities and breaks with the \"regular\" far-right and also even with the Left, the ways in which the fascist movement is flexible and the ways in which it isn't. Left failures, both in opposing fascism head-on, and also in providing a viable alternative to right-wing revolt, are also dealt with at length.The lived experiences of anti-fascist activists inform this work, and more attention is paid to actual historical developments and facts than to neat theories that explain everything but only coincidentally intersect with reality. Understanding the relationship of fascism, the State, left reformism and what it means to be revolutionary are priorities in a world where it seems increasingly true that those who do not advance will have to retreat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 2002, \u003cem\u003eConfronting Fascism \u003c\/em\u003ewas downloaded and purchased by thousands following the Trump election in 2016, making it suddenly \"\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooksbuffalo.com\/products\/confronting-fascism-discussion-documents-for-a-militant-movement\" title=\"Confronting Fascism, First Edition\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eout of print\u003c\/a\u003e\". This new edition consists of the same material as in the 2002 edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text\"\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBe sure to check out the other titles from our friends at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca class=\"text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" title=\"Kersplebedeb Collection\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\"\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37283286339,"sku":"Confronting Fascism 2ED","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/products\/confrontingfascismcover.jpg?v=1543376650"},{"product_id":"night-vision-illuminating-war-class-on-the-neo-colonial-terrain-second-edition","title":"Night-Vision: Illuminating War \u0026 Class on the Neo-Colonial Terrain, Second Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Butch Lee, Red Rover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2017, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9781894946889\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field-items\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA foundational analysis of post-modern capitalism, the decline of u.s. hegemony, and the need for a revolutionary movement of the oppressed to overthrow it all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eNight-Vision\u003c\/em\u003e: \"The transformation to a neo-colonial world has only begun, but it promises to be as drastic, as disorienting a change as was the original european colonial conquest of the human race. Capitalism is again ripping apart \u0026amp; restructuring the world, and nothing will be the same. Not race, not nation, not gender, and certainly not whatever culture you used to have. Now you have outcast groups as diverse as the Aryan Nation and the Queer Nation and the Hip Hop Nation publicly rejecting the right of the u.s. government to rule them. All the building blocks of human culture—race, gender, nation, and especially class—are being transformed under great pressure to embody the spirit of this neo-colonial age.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 2nd edition varies from the first edition in that some passages have been edited out, and two chapters were switched in position.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBe sure to check out the other titles from our friends at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" title=\"Kersplebedeb Collection\" class=\"text-link\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A book that should be read by anyone who gives a damn about a non-racist, non-sexist, non-homoophobic future.”\u003cbr\u003e— Bo Brown (rita d. brown), former political prisoner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Confronted with a world that is disintegrating daily under patriarchy, women need a book like this which begins to challenge us to build a really communal way of life.” — Liz Fink, Attica prison rebellion lawyer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This book gives new insight into the powerful forces of neo-colonialism, a reality of today’s world that is worldwide in scope. Neo-colonialism is revealed as hard to fight for it has found a way to scramble relationships, making it difficult to clearly know one’s enemy. This book also binds together sex, race, and class in a new form, a form which helps one grasp the interlocking nature of these oppressions. Night-Vision is well worth reading and studying.” — Emeritus Professor of Feminist Philosophy, St. John’s University, Mary Buckley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Night-Vision was so compelling to me because it has a spirit of militancy which reformist feminism tries to kill because militant feminism is seen as a threat to the liberal bourgeois feminism that just wants to be equal with men. It has that raw, unmediated truth-telling which I think we are going to need in order to deal with the fascism that’s upon us\" -- bell hooks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":15823624372275,"sku":"Night-Vision 2nd ED","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/products\/nightvision_cover.jpg?v=1492894935"},{"product_id":"jailbreak-out-of-history-the-re-biography-of-harriet-tubman-and-the-evils-of-female-loaferism-second-edition","title":"Jailbreak Out of History: The Re-Biography of Harriet Tubman and \"The Evils of Female Loaferism\", Second Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Butch Lee\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2015, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9781894946704\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eJailbreak Out of History\u003c\/em\u003e, revolutionary Amazon theorist Butch Lee shows how the anticolonial struggles of New Afrikan\/Black women were central to the unfolding of 19th century amerika, both during and \"after\" slavery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book's title essay, \"The Re-Biography of Harriet Tubman\", recounts the life and politics of Harriet Tubman, who waged and eventually lead the war against the capitalist slave system. As Lee explains, \"Harriet Tubman was a radical political figure, someone totally involved as a player in the great political ideas and military storms of her day. She was a guerrilla. Someone who lived and taught others to live by the communal and working-class New Afrikan culture that her people had planted in this difficult ground, and a Black Feminist to the end.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the same time, Lee exposes how the white supremacist patriarchy has distorted the truth of Harriet's life, by both trivializing and exceptionalizing her. Countering this disinformation, \"The Re-Biography of Harriet Tubman\" surveys the reality of struggle before and during the u.s. Civil War, showing how New Afrikan women were repeatedly taking up the task of smashing the slave system that confined them, on their own terms. Lee shows how what was special about Harriet was not that she was unique in resisting, but rather because of her military skill - \"She was one of the most brilliant professional practitioners ever at the art of war. As a guerrilla, so elusive that she could strike fatal blows and never be felt. Lead battles and go unseen. As an Amazon, she conducted warfare in a zone beyond men’s comprehension. But her blows still fell on point.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJailbreak Out of History\u003c\/em\u003e's second essay, written in 2014, picks up the story where The Re-Biography leaves off, showing how New Afrikan women's labor and resistance remained central to how the global class struggle played out in the united states after the white men's Civil War came to an end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The Evil of Female Loaferism\" details New Afrikan women's attempts to withdraw from and evade capitalist colonialism, an unofficial but massive labor strike which threw the capitalists North and South into a panic. The ruling class response consisted of the \"Black Codes\", Jim Crow, re-enslavement through prison labor, mass violence, and ... the establishment of a neo-colonial Black patriarchy, whose task was to make New Afrikan women subordinate to New Afrikan men just as New Afrika was supposed to be subordinate to white amerika.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBe sure to check out the other titles from our friends at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Kersplebedeb Collection\" href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" class=\"text-link\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\"\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eButch Lee\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Amazon theorist. Her work deals with the need to understand women's struggles in both their class and military dimensions, as well as the fundamental importance of grasping the relationship between colonialism, neo-colonialism, and patriarchy. Her other books include \u003ca title=\"The Military Strategy of Women and Children by Butch Lee\" href=\"https:\/\/burningbooksbuffalo.com\/products\/military-strategy-of-women-and-children\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Military Strategy of Women and Children\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca title=\"Night-Vision by Butch Lee\" href=\"https:\/\/burningbooksbuffalo.com\/products\/night-vision-illuminating-war-class-on-the-neo-colonial-terrain-second-edition\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNight-Vision: Illuminating War and Class on the Neo-Colonial Terrain\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":15646537318451,"sku":"Jailbreak Out of History 2nd ED","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/products\/jailbreak_out_cover.jpg?v=1492895701"},{"product_id":"learning-from-an-unimportant-minority-race-politics-beyond-the-white-black-paradigm","title":"Learning from an Unimportant Minority: Race Politics Beyond the White\/Black Paradigm","description":"\u003cp\u003eby J. Sakai\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2015, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9781894946605\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRace is all around us, as one of the main structures of capitalist society. Yet, how we talk about it and even how we think about it is tightly policed. Everything about race is artificially distorted as a white\/Black paradigm. Instead, we need to understand the imposed racial reality from many different angles of radical vision. In this talk given at the 2014 Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, J. Sakai shares experiences from his own life as a revolutionary in the united states, exploring what it means to belong to an “unimportant minority.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQuoting from the book:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Race is notoriously slippery, awkward to hold onto as a subject, yet totally all around us. Totally. All the time, every day, we breathe it; after all, it is us, so we can’t ever be far from it. This seeming contradiction of what should be so simple being endlessly complicated in society is because how we think about race, how we talk about race … capitalism is constantly trying to police this. They don’t want to neaten it, they actually want to constrict it and keep remaking it in their own distorted images and stamping it on our faces.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSo in u.s. society ...  capitalism pushes thinking and talking about race into the dominant form of a white\/Black paradigm. Where everything is supposed to be arranged according to the relationship between white men—who are defined as: What’s “normal”, the standard—and New Afrikan people—who are indirectly or covertly depicted as incomplete or deficient models of the first. So that the supposed goal of capitalistic “antiracism” is that eventually at some point everyone will be exactly like white men.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWell, we don’t have to comment really on that.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInto this paradigm, everyone else—“unimportant minorities”—are essentially crammed and flattened into that two-dimensional story, according to some always shifting order that they have, judging by how important or unimportant they think we are.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis raises a question: What is an unimportant minority? Am not going to answer that, but let me point you in a certain direction ...\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBe sure to check out the other titles from our friends at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca class=\"text-link\" title=\"Kersplebedeb Collection\" href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\"\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40076838211,"sku":"Learning from an Unimportant Mi","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/products\/learning_from_cover.jpg?v=1496112833"},{"product_id":"chican-power-and-the-struggle-for-aztlan","title":"Chican@ Power and the Struggle for Aztlan","description":"\u003cp\u003eby a MIM(Prisons) Study Group, Cipatli, Ehecatl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2015, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9781894946742\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the Amerikan invasion and theft of Mexican lands, to present day migrants risking their lives to cross the U.S. border, the Chican@ nation has developed in a cauldron of national oppression and liberation struggles. This book presents the history of the Chicano movement, exploring the colonialism and semi-colonialism that frames the Chican@ national identity. It also sheds new light on the modern repression and temptation that threaten liberation struggles by simultaneously pushing for submission and assimilation into Amerika.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChicano Power and the Struggle for Aztlan\u003c\/em\u003e is a must read for all involved in national liberation struggles in the United States today. Integrating gender and class into the discussion of the Chican@ nation, this book frames the struggle in a much needed analysis of history. \u003cem\u003eChicano Power and the Struggle for Aztlan\u003c\/em\u003e lays the groundwork for the way forward for our struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead about: the true history of Mexico and Amerika and the birth of the Chican@ nation; many revolutionary heroes of the Chican@ people; modern torture methods used against conscious Chican@s; the class makeup of the nation today; and the way forward for the national liberation movement\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBe sure to check out the other titles from our friends at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca class=\"text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" title=\"Kersplebedeb Collection\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\"\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40185623555,"sku":"Chican@ Power and the Struggle","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/products\/chican_power_and_the_struggle_for_aztlan_cover.jpg?v=1496267321"},{"product_id":"divided-world-divided-class-global-political-economy-and-the-stratification-of-labour-under-capitalism","title":"Divided World, Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Zak Cope\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2015, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9781894946681\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDivided World Divided Class\u003c\/em\u003e charts the history of the 'labour aristocracy' in the capitalist world system, from its roots in colonialism to its birth and eventual maturation into a full-fledged middle class in the age of imperialism. It argues that pervasive national, racial and cultural chauvinism in the core capitalist countries is not primarily attributable to 'false class consciousness', ideological indoctrination or ignorance as much left and liberal thinking assumes. Rather, these and related forms of bigotry are concentrated expressions of the major social strata of the core capitalist nations' shared economic interest in the exploitation and repression of dependent nations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book demonstrates not only how redistribution of income derived from super-exploitation has allowed for the amelioration of class conflict in the wealthy capitalist countries, it also shows that the exorbitant 'super-wage' paid to workers there has meant the disappearance of a domestic vehicle for socialism, an exploited working class. Rather, in its place is a deeply conservative metropolitan workforce committed to maintaining, and even extending, its privileged position through imperialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis second edition includes new material such as data on growing inequality between the richest and poorest countries; data illustrating rising real wages in Imperial Britain; explication of the concepts of value, monopoly capital and unequal exchange and their ramifications for the global class structure; discussion of social imperialism on the left; responses to critiques surrounding the thesis of mass embourgeoisement through imperialism; as well as further information on a range of subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBe sure to check out the other titles from our friends at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Kersplebedeb Collection\" href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" class=\"text-link\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\"\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40186029507,"sku":"Divided World Divided Class","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/products\/divided_world_divided_class.jpg?v=1496268329"},{"product_id":"looking-at-the-u-s-white-working-class-historically","title":"Looking at the U.S. White Working Class Historically","description":"\u003cp\u003eby David Gilbert\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2017, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9781894946919\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLooking at the U.S. White Working Class Historically\u003c\/em\u003e tackles one of the supreme issues for our movement, the contradiction embodied in the term \"white working class.\" On the one hand there is the class designation that should imply, along with all other workers of the world, a fundamental role in the overthrow of capitalism. On the other hand, there is the identification of being part of a (\"white\") oppressor nation. Gilbert seeks to understand the origins of this contradiction, its historical development, as well as possibilities to weaken and ultimately transform the situation. In other words, how can people organize a break with white supremacy and foster solidarity with the struggles of people of color, both within the United States and around the world?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGilbert began this project in the early 1980s, while in jail facing charges stemming from his activities in the revolutionary underground. It  started as a pamphlet reflecting on writings about race and class by Ted Allen, W.E.B. DuBois, and J. Sakai.  In the 1990s, Gilbert added a retrospective essay, reviewing lessons from the 1960s and the New Left he had been active in at the time. Over the years, \u003cem\u003eLooking at the White Working Class Historically\u003c\/em\u003e (as it was known in previous editions) has been widely circulated across multiple waves and generations of activists. As Gilbert writes in the introduction to this 2017 edition, this text remains the most popular of his writings for younger radicals seeking to build movements against racism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition contains all the material from previous versions (including an essay by J. Sakai), along with a new introduction, Gilbert's take on the election of Donald Trump, and an extensive new text surveying changes in the global political order since the 1960s. More than ever, \u003cem\u003eLooking at the U.S. White Working Class Historically\u003c\/em\u003e explores and illuminates perspectives for radical change and resistance to racism in the United States today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBe sure to check out the other titles from our friends at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" title=\"Kersplebedeb Collection\" class=\"text-link\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Gilbert\u003c\/strong\u003e, a longtime anti-racist and anti-imperialist, first became active in the Civil Rights movement in 1961. In 1965, he started the Vietnam Committee at Columbia University; in 1967 he co-authored the first Students for a Democratic Society pamphlet naming the system “imperialism”; and he was active in the Columbia strike of 1968. He later joined the Weather Underground and spent a total of 10 years underground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDavid was imprisoned in New York State since October 20th, 1981, when a unit of the Black Liberation Army along with allied white revolutionaries tried to get funds for the struggle by robbing a Brinks truck. This tragically resulted in a shoot-out in which a Brinks guard and two police officers were killed. While in prison, he was been a pioneer for peer education on AIDS and has continued to write and advocate against oppression. He’s been involved with the annual Certain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar since 2001 and has written two books from prison that are available from Kersplebedeb: \u003ca title=\"No Surrender\" href=\"https:\/\/burningbooksbuffalo.com\/products\/no-surrender-writings-from-an-anti-imperialist-political-prisoner\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo Surrender \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eand \u003ca title=\"Love and Struggle\" href=\"https:\/\/burningbooksbuffalo.com\/products\/love-and-struggle-my-life-in-sds-the-weather-underground-and-beyond\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLove and Struggle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, as well as the pamphlet \u003cem\u003e\u003ca title=\"Our Commitment is to Our Communities\" href=\"https:\/\/burningbooksbuffalo.com\/products\/our-commitment-is-to-our-communities-mass-incarceration-political-prisoners-and-building-a-movement-for-community-based-justice\"\u003eOur Commitment is to Our Communities: Mass Incarceration, Political Prisoners and Building a Movement for Community-Based Justice\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":4908360237093,"sku":"Looking at the White Work BOOK","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/products\/looking_at_the_white_whorking_class_cover.jpg?v=1511807509"},{"product_id":"insurgent-supremacists-the-u-s-far-rights-challenge-to-state-and-empire","title":"Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right's Challenge to State and Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Matthew N. Lyons\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePM Press, Kersplebedeb\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6\/1\/2018, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: \u003cspan id=\"titleId\" data-title-id=\"54449181\"\u003e9781629635118\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA major study of movements that strive to overthrow the U.S. government, that often claim to be anti-imperialist and sometimes even anti-capitalist yet also consciously promote inequality, hierarchy, and domination, generally along explicitly racist, sexist, and homophobic lines. Revolutionaries of the far right: insurgent supremacists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Matthew N. Lyons takes readers on a tour of neonazis and Christian theocrats, by way of the patriot movement, the LaRouchites, and the alt-right. Supplementing this, thematic sections explore specific dimensions of far-right politics, regarding gender, decentralism, and anti-imperialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntervening directly in debates within left and antifascist movements, Lyons examines both the widespread use and abuse of the term “fascism,” and the relationship between federal security forces and the paramilitary right. His final chapter offers a preliminary analysis of the Trump presidential administration relationship with far-right politics and the organized far right’s shifting responses to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth for its analysis and as a guide to our opponents, \u003cem\u003eInsurgent Supremacists\u003c\/em\u003e promises to be a powerful tool in organizing to resist the forces at the cutting edge of reaction today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBe sure to check out the other titles from our friends at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Kersplebedeb Collection\" href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" class=\"text-link\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\"\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-title-id=\"54449181\"\u003e\u003cspan data-title-id=\"54449181\"\u003e\u003cspan id=\"titleId\" data-title-id=\"54449181\"\u003e\"Writing by writing, Matthew Lyons has filled in the face of the new far right for us. It's facts he brings, not internet hot air. In this strange moment, we all need Lyons's work more than ever.\" --J. Sakai, author, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooksbuffalo.com\/products\/settlers-the-mythology-of-the-white-proletariat-from-mayflower-to-modern\" title=\"Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eSettlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-title-id=\"54449181\"\u003e\u003cspan data-title-id=\"54449181\"\u003e\u003cspan data-title-id=\"54449181\"\u003e\u003cspan id=\"titleId\" data-title-id=\"54449181\"\u003e\"A brilliant exploration of the U.S. far right today and its many different strains. In wonderfully clearheaded, deeply researched prose, Matthew N. 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A vital resource for anyone who wants to fight the alt-right and other 'insurgent supremacists' in our midst.\" --Donna Minkowitz, author, \u003ci\u003eFerocious Romance: What My Encounters with the Right Taught Me about Sex, God, and Fury\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8028706439219,"sku":"Insurgent Supremacists","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/products\/insurgent_supremacists_cover.jpg?v=1526503725"},{"product_id":"dangerous-class-and-revolutiona","title":"The \"Dangerous Class\" and Revolutionary Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003eby J. Sakai\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12\/5\/2017, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9781894946902\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe crisis of revolutionary theory right now is that it’s plain too old and obsolete. Meaning that in practice it’s largely unusable. This is understood as a practical reality, and we usually leave revolutionary theory behind us in the attic when people go out to play. Nowhere is this more true than when it comes to the lumpen\/proletariat, that most dramatic, most elusive of maybe-­or-­maybe-­not “classes.” This matters because the revolutionary movement and the lumpen have a much longer and more involved relationship than we’ve fully owned up to. Whether revolutionaries think it’s good or not, the lumpen are going to play a big part in everyone’s future. No better place, then, to start remaking the tool of theory.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJ. Sakai’s ground-breaking \u003cem\u003eThe “Dangerous Class” and Revolutionary Theory: thoughts on the making of the lumpen\/proletariat\u003c\/em\u003e is a major exploration of this most controversial and least understood “non-class” in revolutionary politics. It is an attempt to unknot the puzzle. It encompasses the threads of criminality as well as gender, of breaking social boundaries and eating the bitterest of class politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt all times, the author interrogates the forming of left theory on this “dangerous class” by the highway flare of his own experiences, and more importantly the mass violent liberation wars of the 1950s-1960s. This is not a memoir, though, but an explanation of how anti-capitalist class theory is hammered out while red-hot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the day Marx \u0026amp; Engels’ \u003cem\u003eCommunist Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e first lit up the “dangerous class” of jumbled criminals and outcasts on the far margins of society — those stickup-boys and sex workers and thieves and mercenaries whom they named the lumpen\/proletariat–radicals have been uncertain what their role should be, and even how they should be discussed. In no other area of the class structure has there been such widely divergent anti-capitalist viewpoints. Who are allies, who are enemies?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile great 20th century rebels of the capitalist periphery from Mao Z to Huey Newton forced the sharp evolution of left work with the lumpen, the general uncertainty has only persisted. Confusing not only our immediate practice but even larger anti-capitalist theory about class politics. Sakai’s work comes at a time when there has been renewed interest in politically locating the lumpen — as they assume a larger and larger role at the cutting edge of world upheaval.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe “Dangerous Class” and Revolutionary Theory\u003c\/em\u003e is not only novel for its subject but in its approach. The author shows how the vulgar “socialist” picture of noble working people on one side of a divide and unsavory criminals and outcasts on the other, has never been true. But, rather, that the emerging outcast lumpen\/proletariat and the new capitalist lower working class that they painfully grew out of — were both criminalized at birth in the rise of euro-capitalism. In all this, Sakai follows the actual “non-class” development of the lumpen in capitalism alongside the development of left theory on these declassed elements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe “Dangerous Class” and Revolutionary Theory\u003c\/em\u003e starts with the paper of that name, on the birth of the modern lumpen\/proletariat in the 18th and 19th centuries and the storm cloud of revolutionary theory that has always surrounded them. Going back and piecing together both the actual social reality and the analyses primarily of Marx but also Bakunin and Engels, the paper shows how Marx’s class theory wasn’t something static. His views learned in quick jumps, and then all but reversed themselves in several significant aspects. While at first dismissing them in the \u003cem\u003eCommunist Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003eas “that passively rotting mass” at the obscure lower depths, Marx soon realized that the lumpen could be players at the very center of events in revolutionary civil war. Even at the center in the startling rise of new regimes. Like his was at times almost a post-modern understanding. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second part takes over on the flip side of the book, in the detailed paper \u003cem\u003eMao Z’s Revolutionary Laboratory and the Role of the Lumpen Proletariat\u003c\/em\u003e. This, too, is ground-breaking work. If the major revolutionary theory we have about the lumpen was first roughly assembled in 19th century Europe, these ideas weren’t put to the test then. As Sakai points out, the left’s euro-centrism here prevented it from realizing the obvious: that the basic theory from European radicalism was first fully tested not there or here but in the Chinese Revolution of 1921-1949. Under severely clashing political lines in the left, the class analysis finally used by Mao Z was shaken out of the shipping crate from Europe and then modified to map the organizing of millions over a prolonged generational revolutionary war. One could hardly wish for a larger test tube, and the many lessons to be learned from this mass political experience are finally put on the table.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition, there are also two lively Addendums: The first is an informal correspondence, a back and forth of questions raised by an early draft of The “Dangerous Class” and Revolutionary Theory, between the book’s editor and J. Sakai. It starts with the question of how to place the traditional gay community in this? The second Addendum is a reprint of J. Sakai’s 1976 covert intelligence paper, “U.S. Experiment Using Black “Gangs” to Repress Black Community Rebellions” (circulated under the earlier title “The Lumpenproletariat and Repression”). 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At the time that he wrote this essay, Day was a leading intellectual within the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation. In it he posits that anarchism has eschewed its revolutionary responsibilities, being an ideology of feeling good about oneself and one's ability to \"keep your hands clean\", while willfully overlooking the fact that this ability is largely a consequence of having failed to carry out a single successful revolution in the 20th century. As such, anarchism has retreated to a role of the perennial gadfly, ever ready to explain where those who carried out revolutions went wrong, while never actually able to explain its own frustrating lack of success.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDay goes on to claim that unequal development in different countries, the realities of military defense, and the requirement for an anti-statist anticapitalist revolution to be international, all constitute serious challenges to some of the axioms of anarchist ideology, regardless of the strengths or weaknesses of individual anarchists. “The Historical Failure of Anarchism” was written for a conference on anarchist strategy in 1996 and subsequently became the object of controversy within the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation where it was seen as a break with anarchism. The resulting debates were one of several factors that precipitated the breakup of Love and Rage in 1998. 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Firmly rooted in the New Afrikan Communist tradition, he skillfully uses the tools of dialectical materialism to lay bare the deeper connections between racism, sexism, and homophobia and how these mental diseases relate to the ongoing capitalist (neo-)colonial catastrophe we remain trapped within.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDefending the legacy of New Afrikans' historic struggle for Land, Independence, and Socialism, Shakur spells out a uniquely liberatory Revolutionary Nationalist vision. Annihilating the \"amerikan\" mental fog that has new generations continuing to self-defeat rather than coming together against the real enemy, Stand Up, Struggle Forward serves as a battle cry against all forms of oppression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStand Up, Struggle Forward\u003c\/em\u003e also contains a valuable account of political repression in the California prison system, including several of the intelligence memoranda they were used to condemn Shakur to years of solitary confinement in Pelican Bay. These internal prison documents clearly show that this prolonged solitary confinement was a direct result of Shakur's continuing promotion of New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalist politics. As such, they provide a clear example of the way in which solitary confinement continues to be used as a tool of political repression against thousands of prisoners in California today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBe sure to check out the other titles from our friends at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" title=\"Kersplebedeb Collection\" class=\"text-link\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/kersplebedeb\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKersplebedeb\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":15831593484339,"sku":"Stand Up Struggle Forward","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/products\/51XqeU2EqqL._SX353_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1611348673"},{"product_id":"they-never-crushed-his-spirit","title":"They Never Crushed His Spirit","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdited by the \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInterfaith Prisoners of Conscience Project\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKersplebedeb Publishing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2005, paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSKU: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e9781894946223\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eRichard Williams was a lifelong anti-imperialist and socialist, one of the Ohio 7 convicted in 1984 of having carried out armed actions against racism and imperialism as a member of the United Freedom Front. 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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\u003eIn \u003cem\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\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. 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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.\" -- Claudia Korol, author of \u003cem\u003eLas Revoluciones de Berta\u003c\/em\u003e (2019) from the Prologue to the Spanish edition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-title-id=\"78584251\" id=\"titleId\"\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...\" -- \u003cem\u003eGrupo de ex presas politicas: Memoria v testimonios\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMargrit Schiller\u003c\/strong\u003e was 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. 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An inspiring read.\" -- Jasbir K. Puar, Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University and author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTerrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Contributors:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eM.I. Asma\u003c\/strong\u003e is the collective designation for six authors from Canada and the United States, representing a variety of revolutionary anticapitalist theoretical persuasions: J. Moufawad-Paul, Devin Zane Shaw, Mateo Andante, Johannah May Black, Alyson Escalante, and D. W. 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Lenin was originally compiled by the Communist Working Circle, a Danish anti-­imperialist group. In the late 1960s, the CWC developed the so-­called “parasite state” theory linking the imperialist exploitation and oppression of the proletariat in the Global “South” with the establishment of states in the Global “North” in which the working class lives in relative prosperity. In connection with studies of this division of the world, CWC published these texts by Lenin with the title “On Imperialism and Opportunism.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is the relevance of these texts today? Firstly, the connection that Lenin posits between imperialism and opportunism — that is, the sacrifice of long-­term socialist goals for short-­term or sectional gains — is more pronounced than ever. Second, imperialism may, in many respects, have changed its economic mechanisms and its political form, but its content is fundamentally the same, namely, a transfer of value from the Global South to the Global North, with the political outcome being that the working class is divided into a highly-­exploited proletariat in the South and a working class in the North which lives in relative prosperity. 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