{"product_id":"a-continuous-struggle-the-revolutionary-life-of-martin-sostre-preorder-1","title":"A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre - PREORDER","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Garrett Felber\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAK Press\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5\/5\/2026, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: \u003cspan\u003e9781849356374\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e**THIS IS A PREORDER**\u003c\/strong\u003e All orders containing this title will be held until its arrival in May. If you need the rest of your order right away, please consider ordering this title separately.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe're partnering with our friends at AK Press for another rad preorder campaign! \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003ePreorder \u003cem\u003eA Continuous Struggle (PB)\u003c\/em\u003e along with the new \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/i-cannot-submit-to-injustices-collected-works-of-martin-sostre-preorder\"\u003eI Cannot Submit to Injustices: Collected Works of Martin Sostre\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cspan\u003eand get a free copy of our in-house published zine \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/letters-from-prison-martin-sostre-defense-committee\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLetters from Prison\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, also by Martin, plus we'll send a free copy of\u003cem\u003e I Cannot Submit... \u003c\/em\u003eto an incarcerated reader!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreorder just \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/i-cannot-submit-to-injustices-collected-works-of-martin-sostre-preorder\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eI Cannot Submit to Injustices\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, and you'll still get the zine!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is still currently available in hardcover and you can order it \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/a-continuous-struggle-the-revolutionary-life-of-martin-sostre-preorder\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*******\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe biography of an underappreciated legend in the history of anti-prison and Black freedom movements.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Continuous Struggle\u003c\/i\u003e is a political biography of one of the most important--if since forgotten--revolutionary figures of the twentieth century in the United States. Martin Sostre (1923-2015) was a Black Puerto Rican from East Harlem who became a politicized prisoner and jailhouse lawyer, winning cases in the early 1960s that helped secure the constitutional rights of incarcerated people. He opened one of the country's first radical Black bookstores and was scapegoated and framed by police and the FBI following the Buffalo rebellion of 1967. He was sentenced by an all-white jury to thirty-one to forty-one years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout his nine-year imprisonment, Sostre transformed himself and the revolutionary movements he was a part of, eventually identifying as a revolutionary anarchist and laying the foundation for contemporary Black anarchism. During that time, he engaged in principled resistance to strip frisks for which he was beaten eleven times, raising awareness about the routinized sexual assault of imprisoned people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe decade-long Free Martin Sostre movement was one of the greatest and most improbable defense campaign victories of the Black Power era, alongside those to liberate Angela Davis and Huey Newton. Although Sostre receded from public view after his release in 1976, he lived another four decades of committed struggle as a tenant organizer and youth mentor in New York and New Jersey. Throughout his long life, Martin Sostre was a jailhouse lawyer, revolutionary bookseller, yogi, mentor and teacher, anti-rape organizer, housing justice activist, and original political thinker. The variety of strategies he used and terrains on which he struggled emphasize the necessity and possibility of multi-faceted and continuous struggle against all forms of oppression in pursuit of an egalitarian society founded on the principles of \"maximum human freedom, spirituality, and love.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I've been waiting for years for a biography of Martin Sostre worthy of its subject. This is it. Garrett Felber tells an engrossing story of a complex and committed man who dedicated his life to the struggle for liberation of the oppressed with depth and revolutionary love. A new generation will now get to know someone whose contributions have made all our lives more possible. A Continuous Struggle will be a mainstay on my shelf and my book recommendations.\" --Mariame Kaba, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eLet this Radicalize You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Now that Garrett Felber has given us such a deeply researched and compelling biography of Martin Sostre, Sostre's pivotal and far-reaching contributions to the movement against prisons and the broader abolitionist movement can no longer be ignored. This book is more than a biography of a single individual--it charts the collective work that guides us today.\" --Angela Y. Davis, political activist and author of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eFreedom Is a Constant Struggle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Continuous Struggle\u003c\/i\u003e is urgent reading for organizers everywhere. Martin Sostre's project-oriented revolutionary vision gifts us with insights. Garrett Felber vividly shows how Sostre understood the consciousness-expanding power of frequently modest 'objective examples.' As a result, the man's life and this book encourage us to notice the many unsung people who work towards a new society in militantly practical ways.\" --Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of \u003ci\u003eAbolition Geography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A rigorous examination of Sostre's revolutionary life that offers vital lessons for those seeking to carry on the struggle.\" --Orisanmi Burton, author of \u003ci\u003eTip of the Spear\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The radical, indeed revolutionary life of Martin Sostre, a Black Puerto Rican political prisoner, is a remarkable one. He entered prison thinking himself nonpolitical, but learned, through hard-fought struggles and experience, that every time we wrestle with the State (Leviathan) we are engaged with politics. . . . His bio tells the tale of a man who transformed when faced with new challenges, becoming more radical with each transformation. Those students of the '60s, the Black nationalist and the prisoners' rights movement would do well by reading his work.\" --Mumia Abu-Jamal, political prisoner and coeditor of Beneath the Mountain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Contributors:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGarrett Felber\u003c\/b\u003e is an educator, writer, and organizer. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThose Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State\u003c\/i\u003e, and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Malcolm X Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, with Manning Marable. Felber is a cofounder of the abolitionist collective Study and Struggle and is currently building a radical mobile library, the Free Society People's Library, in Portland, Oregon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobin D. G. Kelley\u003c\/b\u003e is author or coeditor of numerous award-winning books including \u003ci\u003eFreedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRace Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class\u003c\/i\u003e, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51916797182235,"sku":"Continuous Struggle PB","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/files\/continuous_struggle_pb.jpg?v=1774009538","url":"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/a-continuous-struggle-the-revolutionary-life-of-martin-sostre-preorder-1","provider":"Burning Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}