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(NEW!) Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis

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A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes
November 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
(NEW!) Solidarity with Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy

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A revolutionary feminist case for child liberation, a utopian project that helps us imagine ways to build insurgent, collective forms of care.
November 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
(NEW!) How to End Family Policing: From
Outrage to Action

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From leading abolitionist organizers, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that purport to protect children make them—and our communities—less safe.
November 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
(NEW!) Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary
Confinement

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Covering juveniles in solitary, mental illness, racial injustice & environmental issues, the book makes the case that the practice is a cruel & unusual punishment that must be abolished.
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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I was interviewed for a piece in @prismreports.org about Read This When Things Fall Apart.
‘Solidarity is always the way forward’
In a Q&A with Prism, abolitionist organizer Kelly Hayes discusses her new anthology “Read This When Things Fall Apart,” featuring encouraging letters from movement leaders, writers, and activists
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November 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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another incredibly timely & necessary intervention is "Antifascism Against Machismo" from @kersplebedeb.bsky.social & several longtime movement commentators - this text is easy to find online and you should read it very soon
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Antifascism Against Machismo
An intergenerational dialogue on the meaning of feminist antifascism. Anti-Fascism Against Machismo collects and continues a conversation begun by Tammy Kovich (as “Petronella Lee”) in 2019. Four femi...
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November 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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"Confronting Fascism" from @kersplebedeb.bsky.social was first published in 2002 but it's theoretical engagements of fascism & anti-fascism remain as relevant and necessary as ever. Of particular interest is Don Hamerquist's essay "Fascism & Anti-Fascism
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Confronting Fascism: Discussion Documents for a Militant Movement
Confronting Fascism: Discussion Documents for a Militant Movement is a series of documents that came out of conversations revolutionaries in and around Anti-Racist Action were having at the highpoint ...
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November 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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THREAD: been seeing some threads of anti-fascist textual sources that were overwhelmingly academic, so here's a list of non-academic, rooted in radical/revolutionary politics & community, literature on anti-fascism in the United States (and in some cases Canada), in no order whatsoever
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November 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
A Trans Man Walks Into a Gay Bar: A Journey of Self (and Sexual) Discovery

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Navigating the sometimes fraught & contradictory worlds of gay culture as a trans gay man, from Grindr & gay bars, to saunas, sex &, ultimately, falling in love.
November 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
(NEW!) The Long Sixties: Conversations with a Lifelong Revolutionary

A wide-ranging dialogue tracing the journey of militant & Marxist Loren Goldner, from Berkeley 1968 through decades of critique & action

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October 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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We’re one week away from the Read This When Things Fall Apart release! Tune into the @haymarketbooks.org virtual event tonight, the @boston-a-bookfair.bsky.social event tomorrow, and the events coming up in November! 🎉 Chicago will have not one but two in-person launch events 🎉🎉
October 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
“Resistance Has Become Thinkable Again”—Torkil Lauesen & the Global Perspective on OCT 7 [comra]

Discussing the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood & the Decline of Western Hegemony

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October 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
(NEW!) The Palestinian Left: Past, Present, & Future

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Torkil Lauesen's sweeping assessment of 50 years of revolutionary struggle, decline & possibility, beginning with the PFLP’s 1969 "Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine"
October 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We're looking forward to Expozine, as we do every year. See you in Montreal, Nov 15–16 at 1025 Bélanger, 11:30am–6:30pm!
October 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
2026 Certain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners calendars are back from the printer and shipping out now!

Full of essays, beautiful artwork and important dates in social justice history!

Order yours: leftwingbooks.net/cd2026
October 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
(NEW!) Anthropocene Communism: Land & Capital in the Age of Disaster

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Philosopher & activist Paul Guillibert proposes a brand-new communism for life: biocommunism. With this system, he hopes to move us beyond the ecological crisis of late capitalism
October 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
We'll be tabling at the FungiFest Mushroom Market at Concordia this Thursday!

1400 de Maisonneuve, 11am–6pm
October 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Today marks the anniversary of John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry. His attempt to seize the federal armory and spark a slave uprising ended in defeat, but the raid has endured as a symbol of radical resistance.
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October 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
(NEW!) Guardianas: Dispatches from the Association of Midwives Rosa Andrade / Despachos de la Asociación de Parteras Rosa Andrade

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Midwives in El Salvador who delivered babies during the 12-year civil war & today fight to protect community reproductive health
October 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
(NEW!) Gaza: The Story of a Genocide

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A powerful, urgent collection of personal testimony, poetry, art & frontline reportage. Together, they bear witness to the vast & ongoing destruction in­flicted on the Palestinian people—their lives, their land & their future
October 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Tomorrow!
October 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World (paperback edition)

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Part tragicomic memoir, part chilling reportage & cobweb-clearing analysis, Klein invites readers on a wild ride, charting a path beyond despair towards true solidarity.
October 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
(NEW!) Elon Musk: American Oligarch

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An unvarnished, critical graphic biography of the tech innovator & former presidential confidant by the author/illustrator of Putin’s Russia: The Rise of a Dictator and Billionaires: The Lives of the Rich & Powerful.
October 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The People Make the Peace: Lessons from the Vietnam Antiwar Movement

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9 US activists discuss the parts they played in opposing the War at home & their risky travels to Vietnam in the midst of the conflict to engage in people-to-people diplomacy.
October 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM