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So many new books....
by v/a
It's been a pretty great week for new radical books - just in at the store is David Roediger's brand new anthology of the work of groundbreaking antiracist/autonomist theorist George Rawick, Listening to Revolt, published by our friends at Charles H. Kerr, the world's oldest left publisher. PM Press has also been good to us this week, with a reissue of mid-century American anarchoqueer legend Paul Goodman's anarchist writings and William Blizzard's definitive insider's history of the battle of Blair Mountain and Appalachian class struggle, When Miners March. Plus we've got Jordan Flaherty's new book on Haymarket Press, Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena 6.
And if that's not enough, there's three new super-exciting titles out this week from AK Press as well: Jeff Conant's new study of the Zapatista movement, The Poetics of Resistance, Kolya Abramsky's long-awaited (and massive!) compendium Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World, and Team Colors' essential Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement, Movements and Contemporary Radical Currents in the United States, which includes a nice piece with some Baltimore contributions coming out of the City From Below conference, as well as dozens of amazing pieces charting the depth and breadth of struggle and struggles in the US today, and, on top of all of that, three great interviews with Robin D.G. Kelley, Ashanti Alston, and Grace Lee Boggs. A few of us had the privelege of seeing Whirlwinds released this past week at the US Social Forum in Detroit - and we're really excited that Team Colors will be coming through town to present the book on the 17th of July.
And speaking of the US Social Forum, we brought back two amazing books from our trip, both published by Urban Guerilla Entertainment, the publishing wing of Urban Network, an African-American owned bookstore, social center, and organizing nexus that's making trouble in Detroit. Yusef Shakur's The Window 2 My Soul is a political autobiography chronicling the author's radical awakening while incarcerated (squarely in the tradition of the autobiography of Malcolm X) - you can check out a great interview with Yusef via Critical Moment, the free Detroit radical newspaper. We've also got Stop Snitching Volume 1: To the Neighbors, by Urban Network co-conspirator Kwasi Akwamu, which takes a hard look at the way policing tends to reinforce rather than reduce crime and argues instead for a radical and neighborhood based system of self-determination.
And if all this isn't enough for you, check out what else we brough back from the USSF: this amazing video of Grace Lee Boggs and Immanuel Wallerstein laying out the big picture for us:
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