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🚨 PUBLICATION DAY 🚨
Voices for African Liberation presents 38 interviews with African socialists conducted by the
@ROAPEjournal
, featuring interviews with Samir Amin, Issa Shivji, and Hakim Adi as well as more local and less well-known activists.
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The first physical issue of Ebb Magazine ‘For Palestine’ is now out and available to buy. Full details here:
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When the PFLP safely released Western hostages in 1970, its leader, George Habash, explained the group’s actions from a Palestinian revolutionary perspective. 53 years on, with unprecedented Palestinian resistance, his words should be listened to closely.
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We are happy to announce that the first physical issue of Ebb Magazine ‘For Palestine’ will be available from January 10th 2024.
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We are very excited to have received the first copies of this - out on July 8th to mark the 50th anniversary of Kanafani's killing by Israel. Available to pre-order now:
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Solidarity with Bikrum Gill - author of vital analysis like this - who has been arrested at Virginia Tech University overnight.
Here Bikrum Gill (
@bikrumsinghgill
) analyses the broader context of the Palestinian Resistance’s war of national liberation and its attempt to overturn the material equation of force that underpins both colonialism and the broader imperialist world order:
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For Godard, "US colonization of cinema was a crucial aspect of US imperialism as a whole, and it coincided with, and perhaps even caused, the death of cinema..."
@Dr_Sportello
reflects on the films and political principles of Jean-Luc Godard:
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We have just made a donation of over £850 to
@Pal_action
’s legal defence fund using proceeds from the sale of our first issue “For Palestine”. Thank you very much to all those who have bought a copy so far. And if you’d still like to, the details are here:
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We're excited to announce our first edited collection, On Imperialism, which brings together writing from Ebb that deals with the urgency of imperialism from the limits of a Green New Deal to the British left’s inability to broach the topic at all.
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Placing Refaat Al-Areer alongside the likes of Hanna Mikhail & Fathi Al-Shiqaqi as examples of Cabral’s class suicide in action,
@AmeedIsTyping
assesses how Palestinian intellectuals have sought to advance the liberation struggle through their work.
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Here,
@maxajl
deconstructs two widely repeated but false tropes related to Palestine: the misguided notion that Netanyahu conspired with Hamas, & the oft-repeated falsehood that Israel & its lobby push the US into irrational wars against its own interests.
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🚨 Publication day 🚨
Ghassan Kanafani's On Zionist Literature is now available for £12, with a portion of the profits going directly to the Ghassan Kanafani Cultural Foundation.
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Here Bikrum Gill (
@bikrumsinghgill
) analyses the broader context of the Palestinian Resistance’s war of national liberation and its attempt to overturn the material equation of force that underpins both colonialism and the broader imperialist world order:
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In this interview,
@Louis_Allday
speaks to Palestinian writer
@HHamayel2
about October 7th, the political aims of Palestinian resistance, the reactionary dismissal of those aims by many Western intellectuals, international solidarity & possible futures.
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In this essay Mahmoud Najib, the translator of Kanafani's On Zionist Literature, places the book in a revolutionary tradition in the colonised world that centres the colonial subject - refusing to appeal to any idea of the West’s collective conscience.
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As part of the Publishers for Palestine Campaign, we have made an e-book of ‘On Zionist Literature’ by Ghassan Kanafani, that we released last year in collaboration with
@LiberatedTexts
, free to download. Available through the Palestine Book Awards, details here:
Palestine Book Awards joins publishers to offer books for free to shed light on Gaza
The initiative, which comes hand in hand with the Publishers for Palestine Campaign, hopes to provide readers with an understanding of Palestine’s past, present and future and the life and
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We’re delighted that “Voices for African Liberation” by
@ROAPEjournal
is available to pre-order.
A 532-page collection of 38 interviews with & about African & Africanist radicals engaged in struggle past & present to reshape Africa. Get your copy now!
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In this interview, Palestinian writer
@HHamayel2
speaks to
@Louis_Allday
about October 7th, the political aims of Palestinian resistance, the reactionary dismissal of those aims by many Western intellectuals, international solidarity & possible futures.
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The military assault on October 7th shocked everyone, breaking Gaza’s 16-year siege. Ameed Faleh (
@amfaleh_
) writes that these events mark the death of the Oslo Accords and the era of pseudo-state building –with liberation now on the horizon instead.
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"the agenda seems to be more land grabbing in the Global South in the name of carbon offsets, and the pursuit of ‘net-zero’ through mono-cultural tree planting on land which has been cleansed of its indigenous people."
@ZNabolsy
&
@arbarbaro
on COP27:
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With the West greenlighting genocide, Hassan Harb analyses how the Palestinian resistance has exposed the weaknesses of the Zionist state as he emphasises the centrality of Palestine's liberation to world anti-imperialism.
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From May 1st,
@Pal_action
will lay siege to Leicester’s Israeli arms factory. Here they detail their tactics, targeting the supply chain in Britain to limit the death and destruction in Palestine, and call for the mobilisation of the British left.
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Written in a moment of Zionist triumphalism in 1967, 'Kanafani’s fierce counterpoint to Zionist literature aims to show that Palestinian revolutionary sentiment and national liberation are indispensable to the creation of a better world.' –
@stevesalaita
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"The election may mark the symbolic end of the nationalist people being denied a seat at the table, but Irish republicanism is about constructing Ireland’s own table – not eating at Britain’s."
@odranwaldo
on the meaning of Sinn Féin's electoral success.
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We are happy to see the
@Ebb_Magazine
and
@LiberatedTexts
publications that we sent to the
@cam4palestine
encampment library have arrived.
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'Our path is not simple; it is full of danger and difficulties. Imperialism is lying in wait at every bend of the road, hoping for a moment of weakness in order to launch itself against us…' - Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, who was born on this day in 1928
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In their article on Varoufakis and Sanders' Progressive International,
@Louis_Allday
recalls Engels: 'One must not allow oneself to be misled by the cry for "unity." Those who have this word most often on their lips are those who sow the most dissension.'
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The thoughts of
@m7mdkurd
on Ghassan Kanafani's 'On Zionist Literature' published in English for the first time by Ebb and
@LiberatedTexts
this Friday July 8th - 50 years since Kanafani's assassination by Israel.
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Liam Doherty, an activist with
@Pal_action
, discusses the context, rationale and urgency of its direct action work against the Israeli arms industry in the UK.
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@maxajl
@bikrumsinghgill
@HHamayel2
@AmeedIsTyping
@Shepherds4Good
@amalsaad_lb
@ImReadinHere
@Louis_Allday
For every copy of the issue sold, a £1 donation will be made to
@Pal_action
’s legal defence fund.
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"The idea that social democracy is, by default, a purely consensual mode of governance is part of its ideological halo"
@full_communist
places Starmer's leadership of Labour in the broader context of the historical patterns of British social democracy:
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In an interview with Max Ajl (
@maxajl
) on his recent book, A People's Green New Deal, we discuss ecologically unequal exchange, the Palestinian national liberation struggle, China’s model of agrarian revolution, and what to make of Malm’s 'eco-Leninism'
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Detailing Brendan "The Dark" Hughes' role in the changing Republican movement in Northern Ireland,
@malaiseforever
writes about a life which took Hughes from urban guerrilla, political prisoner, hunger striker and hero to reluctant dissident and outcast.
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Here, secondary school teacher Austin Bilal reflects on the shocking depth of the arms industry and UK military’s involvement in British schools and what educators can do to resist it.
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Here,
@maxajl
deconstructs two common but ultimately false tropes related to Palestine: the misguided notion that Netanyahu conspired with Hamas, and the oft-repeated falsehood that Israel and its lobby push the US into wars against its own interests.
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This special issue for Palestine features contributions from
@maxajl
@bikrumsinghgill
@HHamayel2
@AmeedIsTyping
@Shepherds4Good
@amalsaad_lb
@ImReadinHere
& many others, as well as relevant archival material by George Habash & Mahmoud Darwish. Edited by
@Louis_Allday
.
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It's publication day! You can now order Volume One of
@LiberatedTexts
' reviews, collecting together book reviews of works that have been forgotten, suppressed or misinterpreted in the cultural mainstream since their release.
#RedBooksDay2022
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'Bastani ignores the gains of communism while attempting to do-battle with capitalism over consumer culture; rather than the people raised out of poverty, he instead looks to Silicon Valley and space' |
@lewishodder_
on Fully Automated Luxury Communism
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Ebb Magazine is seeking pitches for essays to be included in a special issue on the topic of ‘The legacies of Black radicalism in Britain’, edited by Azfar Shafi, to be published in late 2023.
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This special Palestine-focussed issue features contributions from
@maxajl
@bikrumsinghgill
@HHamayel2
@AmeedIsTyping
@Shepherds4Good
@amalsaad_lb
@ImReadinHere
& others, and also includes relevant archival material by George Habash & Mahmoud Darwish. Edited by
@Louis_Allday
.
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The occupations, blockades, and attacks carried out by
@Pal_action
on Elbit's infrastructure has shone a light on what successful anti-imperialist resistance can look like in the imperialist core, writes Palestine Action's Ethan Murphy (
@fagxolotl
)
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The war in Ukraine has given a new urgency to the question of multipolarity, and so
@iskra_maria
looks to the history of multipolarity and the Non-Aligned Movement as the history of class struggle in our current phase of global relations.
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Tracing Palestine’s role as a vanguard for Third World struggles,
@suleimanhodali
details how its diverse set of triumphs, lessons, & tactics of resistance formed a set of theories & practices upon which others modelled their own struggles.
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In this interview, Robert Biel recounts his experiences of the British Maoist movement in the 1980s, the positive lessons that can be drawn from it, and the need for Marxists to transcend Eurocentrism and connect with diverse struggles against oppression.
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40 years ago today, the Bradford 12 walked free after a landmark case about the right to self-defence against racist attacks. We sat down with Tariq Mehmood to discuss the legacy of the trial and the British left's failure to come to terms with imperialism
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@maxajl
@bikrumsinghgill
@HHamayel2
@AmeedIsTyping
@Shepherds4Good
@amalsaad_lb
@ImReadinHere
@Louis_Allday
For every copy of the issue sold, a £1 donation will be made to
@Pal_action
’s legal defence fund.
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Join us in London next Friday for the 50th anniversary of
@ROAPEjournal
and book launch of Voices for African Liberation, with Hakim Adi, Esther Xosei, and Hannah Cross.
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Left-wing patriotism carries the shameful legacy of the Second International, and even a progressive patriotism presents workers of colour as ‘good immigrants’ rather than resisters of colonialism, writes
@full_communist
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Several of the amazing contributors to our recent ‘For Palestine’ issue will be speaking at this online event tomorrow, Sunday 28th, 2pm GMT (London).
Join us for a discussion this Sunday on the geopolitical economy of the anti-imperialist struggle in Palestine. The discussion builds from
@Ebb_Magazine
special issue "For Palestine," where several of the speakers contributed articles.
Register here:
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Ebb Magazine is seeking pitches for essays to be included in a special issue on the topic of ‘The legacies of Black radicalism in Britain’, edited by Azfar Shafi, to be published in late 2023.
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In advance of the release of “Neglect in the North of Ireland” this Thursday,
@Louis_Allday
spoke to its author, Odrán de Bhaldraithe (
@ancamansoluis
) about the book’s main arguments, the ‘peace process’ and the parallels between Ireland and Palestine.
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Health Communism is a call to action, urging us to raise the bar beyond calls to save the NHS, recognising that the populations that capital has marked as ‘surplus’ must be centred in our struggle for global health justice, writes
@AlexHeffron20
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'The Yankees can’t destroy the revolutionary process, because we have an entire nation that, despite our errors, has a high degree of culture, knowledge, and awareness that it will never, ever again allow this country to become a colony of theirs.' - Fidel Castro, My Life, p. 624
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Responding to
@lewishodder_
's review on Marxism and Transgender Liberation,
@RedFightback
's AJ writes that 'under the guise of deconstructing performance', performativity heightens the transmisogynistic scrutiny of gender non-conformity
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🚨 Publication day🚨
"Neglect in the North of Ireland" by Odrán de Bhaldraithe (
@ancamansoluis
) is now out and available to purchase directly from the Ebb site for just £8:
Link and details here:
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To put the confirmation of the first republican First Minister in the North of Ireland in context & make sense of the limitations of present day Sinn Fein more broadly, reading "Neglect in the North of Ireland" by Odrán de Bhaldraithe (
@ancamansoluis
) is an ideal place to start.
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Join us in half an hour for a solidarity night with Gaza and the 2023 Palestine Book Awards, where Ghassan Kanafani's On Zionist Literature is nominated 🇵🇸
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In 2018, the CPGB-ML were able to mobilise more members than ever before for May Day. This year they were nowhere to be seen. 'Inside the last days of the CPGB-ML' recounts the contradictions in the party that led to its downfall
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Worth revisiting in light of recent events:
Here Bikrum Gill (
@bikrumsinghgill
) analyses the broader context of the Palestinian Resistance’s war of national liberation and its attempt to overturn the material equation of force that underpins both colonialism and the broader imperialist world order:
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We're at the Goldsmiths Radical Bookfair till six, come and say hi!
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Anti-communism's constant presence in Britain has ebbed and flowed with crises of the state and the capitalist economy. Evan Smith (
@evansmithhist
) traces this history of British anti-communism ahead of the Tory leadership battle and a Summer of strikes.
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Zemmour & Gaullism,
@MarlonEttinger
's upcoming book on Éric Zemmour, assesses the place he has come to occupy in the bourgeois French political sphere and how his affinity with Charles de Gaulle and the question of colonialism has come to define his ideology.
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This year alone, 223 social leaders in Colombia have been massacred. But we are not calling for Western society to come and save us, write
@RedCondors
. Instead, Westerners must put an end to the violence made possible by their governments
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Join
@Louis_Allday
and
@dromarzahzah
as they discuss On Zionist Literature and commemorate today as the 50th anniversary of Ghassan Kanafani's assassination by Israel, hosted by
@SamidounPP
at 4pm BST
Register online at
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We're saddened to see
@wcmlibrary
's failure to put solidarity into practice, attacking
@revsoc21
's pamphlet on trans liberation that was written by trade union and socialist activists. We’ve signed this open letter calling WCML to change their policy:
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Following the recent demise of Red Fightback,
@full_communist
reflects here on what happened, their experience of it and what lessons can be drawn from this episode.
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Reviewing A Nation of Shopkeepers,
@full_communist
praises its insights on the social realities of post-Blairite Britain but highlights how Evans nevertheless lacks a crucial awareness of the most pressing tasks facing the British left.
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We're thrilled to be working with
@Louis_Allday
and
@LiberatedTexts
to bring this essential book by Kanafani into English for the first time!
I’m excited to say the inaugural publication in a collaborative series between
@LiberatedTexts
&
@Ebb_Magazine
will be the first English language edition of Ghassan Kanafani’s “On Zionist Literature”, one of many superb non-fiction works of his yet to be translated & published.
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Neglect in the North of Ireland
@ancamansoluis
's first book, out early 2023, details how 'Neglect has become a defining feature of society in the North of Ireland', in its economy, politics, housing, and healthcare, all with a clear cause: Britain.
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Ezra Otieno (
@OtienoNgala
) of the Revolutionary Socialist League of Kenya reviews Caroline Elkins' Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire, writing that this colonial legacy still informs Kenya's political present where independence is a mirage
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In attempting to outline how to defeat fascism, Paul Mason pins his hopes to the bourgeois state – reflecting trends within the British left unable to contain their admiration for Starmer’s ‘ruthless pragmatism’, writes
@full_communist
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On the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, we have republished Aijaz Ahmad's essential essay 'Imperialism of Our Times' on the new phase of imperialism after the fall of the USSR when the US' forces could be exercised without any restraint.
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Our most read article of the past year - published 1 year ago today - was this still relevant piece by
@Louis_Allday
on how leaders of countries that oppose the US are routinely compared to Hitler in order to generate support for belligerence against them.
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If you still haven't picked up our edited collection, On Imperialism, now you can head over to
@Aelita_Books
to get a copy!
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Investigating a UK teachers’ resource on the topic of Palestine, Alex Turrall (
@ImReadinHere
) details its misleading & disingenuous ‘both sides’ messaging & finds it is funded by & connected to a conspicuous number of Zionist organisations & individuals.
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To celebrate
#RedBooksDay
, the e-book edition of our and
@LiberatedTexts
publication of 'On Zionist Literature' by Ghassan Kanafani is available half price:
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Responding to Isaac Rose’s 'Against the Manchester Model', Ignatz Maria criticises the over-emphasis on foreign capital in urban development that obscures the city's role in British capitalism and masks the local council's complicity in the crisis.
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This English translation, published in collaboration with
@LiberatedTexts
, has involved the Kanafani family from the outset & has a new preface by Ghassan's widow Anni, who to this day runs the foundation established in his name (to which a portion of the book's proceeds will go)
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The Tory leadership election has cemented the fact that all the Tories can offer is warmongering, escalating attacks on trans people, on migrant workers, and zero solutions to the cost-of-living crisis, writes
@iskra_maria
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🚨 TOMORROW 🚨
5-8pm at the Pavillion, University of Westminster for the 50th anniversary of
@ROAPEjournal
and book launch of Voices for African Liberation
Join us in London next Friday for the 50th anniversary of
@ROAPEjournal
and book launch of Voices for African Liberation, with Hakim Adi, Esther Xosei, and Hannah Cross.
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Call for Editors! Ebb is currently looking to form its first Editorial Board, which will oversee the content it publishes both online and in print, so if you're interested in working with us as an Editor then get in touch!
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From 10-12 April 1981 Black youth in Brixton rose up against the Met Police and its Special Patrol Group, sparking uprisings across the country. As Darcus Howe explained in his essay 'Bobby to Babylon: Brixton Before the Uprising', the roots of the Brixton uprisings ran deep.
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'Recognising LGBT struggles is incredibly simple. It doesn’t require conceding ground to anyone – to the middle class, to reactionary politics, to postmodernism – and with Marxism and Transgender Liberation,
@RedFightback
recognises this.'
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🚨 Publication day 🚨
Zemmour & Gaullism is now available for £8 as a paperback and ebook.
@MarlonEttinger
looks at the pundit-come-politician Éric Zemmour's ideological lineage to Charles de Gaulle and the question of French colonialism.
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With Marcos Jr. spending his first year in power ramping up extrajudicial killings and crackdowns, Sonia Remontada describes the Philippines' fascist dictatorships and the popular struggles and insurgency that have brought them down, time and again.
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Daniel Lindley surveys the balance of forces between Israel, its allies, and those of the Palestinian resistance and its supporters that have been revealed in the aftermath of the Al Aqsa Flood operation.
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Mutual aid is a start but ultimately more enduring revolutionary organisations are necessary to secure a decent future for all, writes
@Anothergreen
on
@VersoBooks
' Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
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If you still haven't picked up a copy of Neglect in the North of Ireland, you can find bookstores in your country to order it from using Ethical Book Search below.
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The Progressive International stands in marked contrast to the earlier internationalist alliances, and much like the original New Deal it is an attempt to save capitalism and support the very institutions and ideologies that are pushing the planet to the point of no return.
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The deadline for our issue on ‘The legacies of Black radicalism in Britain’, edited by Azfar Shafi, has been extended for another month until August 31st!
More details on the issue and how to submit can be found below:
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In routinely comparing its rivals to Hitler, the US obscures any broader political context and whitewashes its direct role in causing conflict – allowing the West to maintain the fiction that it uses its military power for justice |
@Louis_Allday
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We are very excited that "Neglect in the North of Ireland" by Odrán de Bhaldraithe (
@ancamansoluis
) is out in two weeks' time on June 22nd.
Pre-order is already available, details here:
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Luca Wright raises the question of workers' councils, writing that British communists have overlooked the Bolsheviks’ central demand – 'All power to the Soviets' – as they revert to a Blanquism that holds the party as the arbiter of revolution.
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You can also order the book from retailers, if you're based in the UK you can order the book from any of these:
And from these if you're based in the US:
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Publishing tomorrow 🚨
@MarlonEttinger
's critical assessment of Éric Zemmour's ideology and how it fits into the ecosystem of far-right French politics.
You can preorder below for £8.
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Featuring writing from
@Louis_Allday
,
@maxajl
,
@agent_of_change
, and more, On Imperialism is available to preorder ahead of its publication on the 20th of November.
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An extensive look into the current COVID-19 and capitalist crisis,
@RedFightback
argues that socialists and communists must 'unite currently-disunified struggles into a single revolutionary wedge.'
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Deprived of PPE, threatened with funding cuts, and an enforcement of DNR notices, what has taken place in care homes amounts to social murder, and one that was a long time in the making, writes
@pitchforkcosmo
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