20 years from now, Los Angeles struggles in ‘It’s Not the End of the World’

From The Orange County Register by Michael Schaub

LA-based writer Jonathan Parks-Ramage says a sense of dread led him to write his bleakly comic novel.

Jonathan Parks-Ramage knows well that we’re living in anxious times, and that the future looks less than rosy. That’s apparent in the latest novel from the author, “It’s Not the End of the World,” out now from Bloomsbury. The book is set in a Los Angeles 20 years in the future — and things aren’t going well.

We, Too, Remember Aleksei Sutuga

From CrimethInc.

The Life of a Russian Anarchist and Anti-Fascist

Aleksei Sutuga grew up deep in Siberia, in Irkutsk—the city to which Mikhail Bakunin was once exiled, not to mention many other Russian rebels. Known to his friends as Socrates, Aleksei became involved in the Russian anarchist and anti-fascist movements. He is the subject of a new book, Socrates the Skinhead: The Life of a Russian Anti-Fascist.

[Greece] Book presentation – Alfredo Cospito: Which International?

From Anarchist Hangout Nadir

“Go on, comrades: There is a whole world to be demolished!”
Alfredo Cospito – Nicola Gai

Book presentation of the book by Alfredo Cospito "Which International?"
(Interview and discussion with Alfredo Cospito from Ferrara prison, Italy).

Disaster Anarchy

From Void Network by Rhiannon Firth

The growth of autonomous disaster relief efforts, grassroots anarchist initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic, and collective responses to climate change, both in the UK and in the US. Written by Rhiannon Firth, author of Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action, the article was published in two parts, in issues 21 (Spring) and 22 (Summer) 2023 of the anarchist street newspaper Dope Magazine.

Protest Nostalgia

A review of 'Red Squared Montreal' by Norman Nawrocki

The 2012 student strike deserves its own literature, and Red Squared Montreal succeeds at least in capturing the dizzy heights of the protests. As both anarchist and poet, Nawrocki often knows just the right words to capture the elation, camaraderie, and terror of marching in the street and facing off against contemptuous police. However, the lack of curiosity about the people behind the conflict means the novel ultimately fails to communicate the stakes and experiences of the 2012 strike in human terms.

Book Launch: Anarchist Popular Power

From Black Rose Federation

Full title: Book Launch: Anarchist Popular Power – Dissident Labor and Armed Struggle in Uruguay 1956-76

We are excited to announce the launch event for Troy Andreas Araiza Kokinis’ new book ‘Anarchist Popular Power: Dissident Labor and Armed Struggle in Uruguay 1956-76’ published by AK Press.

The FAL interviews Alejandro Civantos, author of 'Reading in red...'

From Anselmo Lorenzo Foundation, English translation by Anarchist News

We interviewed Alejandro Civantos Urrutia, a researcher who specializes in anarchist books. We talked with him about his work "Leer en rojo. Auge y caída del libro obrero (1917-1931)" [Reading in Red: The rise and fall of the worker's book (1917-1931)] , published by the Anselmo Lorenzo Foundation in 2017; an essential book to understand the importance of anarchist books, and the key role of anarchist culture played when it was at its peak.

Plant Anarchy

New book available now. A fuller, much expanded treatment of the iteration/repetition/deixis framework that Sascha Engel first introduced in his Breaking The Alphabet, expanding it to analyses of - and techniques against - institutionalized domestication in everyday life, the state, machinery and computation (including of the "AI" variety).

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