Authors

Abolition Collective

The Abolition Collective is the editorial group for Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics. The collective publishes work to advance struggles for 'abolition', understood as a concept, process, and reality that also becomes the common ground upon which we meet, struggle, and join together in solidarity. It refers to all revolutionary movements, insofar as they have abolitionist elements—whether the abolition of patriarchy, capitalism, heteronormativity, ableism, colonialism, the state, or white supremacy. Rather than just seeking to abolish a list of oppressive institutions, the Abolition Collective aims to support studies of the entanglement of different systems of oppression, not to erase the tensions between different movements, but to create spaces for collective experimentation with those tensions.  

Eman Abdelhadi

Eman Abdelhadi is an academic, activist, and artist based in Chicago, IL. Her research as faculty at the University of Chicago focuses on gender differences in the community trajectories of Muslim Americans. Abdelhadi has also spent many years organizing. She has been involved in the movement for Palestinian liberation, Black Lives Matter, counter-surveillance and abolitionism, marxist feminist mobilization as well as workplace struggles. She is currently co-coordinating the Muslim Alliance for Gender and Sexual Diversity, a national organization that provides support and builds community by and for Queer Muslims. Abdelhadi maintains an active creative practice that includes performance art and essay and poetry writing. Her writing has appeared in Jacobin, Muftah, and other publications.

Sundus Abdul Hadi

Sundus Abdul Hadi is an Iraqi-Canadian multimedia artist and writer. Born in the United Arab Emirates, she was raised and educated in Montreal, where she earned a BFA in Studio Arts and Art History and a Masters in Media Studies. Her work critically engages the concepts of care, community and struggle. Her artistic practice is a subversive and sensitive reflection on war, trauma and representation, using manipulated photographic imagery, mixed-media painting, artist books and sound. She is the author-illustrator of Shams, an illustrated book about trauma, transformation and healing (We are the Medium, 2020). Complimenting her studio practice, Abdul Hadi curates exhibitions as artist-curator, most recently with the research-creation exhibit project featured in her book of the same name, Take Care of Your Self. She is the cofounder of We Are The Medium, a global multidisciplinary artist collective, publishing house, and cultural hub.

Her work has been exhibited in Palestine, UAE, Canada, USA, France, New Zealand and the UK. She has given workshops in Australia, Iraq and Kuwait, and has been a speaker at Nuqat, the Nobel Peace Prize Forum, the Aga Khan Museum (Toronto), Telfair Museum (Savannah GA), NYU New York, and multiple universities in Canada and the US. Abdul Hadi is a two time recipient of the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec (CALQ) Vivacite grant, and received the Makers Muse award from Kindle Project (2018). Her work is part of the Barjeel Art Foundation collection.

Elizabeth Adams

Elizabeth Adams, PhD, is a composer, teacher, and caregiver, who has worked at the intersection of art, education, and organizing for over twenty years. As a knowledge worker intent on creating the cultural change that will support social justice, she co-instigated Julie & Elizabeth’s Anti-Capitalist Concert Series, and organized with the Crown Heights Tenant Union, Free University NYC, and What A Neighborhood! She has taught at Columbia University and the School for Designing a Society.

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia Abu-Jamal, America’s most famous political prisoner, is internationally known for his “live from death row” radio broadcasts and writings. In his youth, he helped found the Philadelphia branch of the Black Panther Party, wrote for the national newspaper, and began his lifelong work of exposing the violence of the state as it manifests in entrenched poverty, endemic racism, and unending police brutality. We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party new and expanded, is published in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Black Panther Party. A website dedicated to this visionary book has powerful audio recordings by Mumia, additional photos, and texts about his life and his work. Free Mumia! 

Mizue Aizeki

Mizue Aizeki is the founder and Executive Director of the Surveillance Resistance Lab. For nearly twenty years, Mizue has been organizing to end the injustices at the intersections of the criminal and migration control systems—including criminalization, imprisonment, and exile. While at the Immigrant Defense Project, Mizue led multiple policy and individual case campaigns at the to end the entanglement of local law enforcement and ICE policing, and also built community defense programs to combat ICE raids. 

Mizue is a coeditor of Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence (Haymarket Books, 2024). Mizue’s photographic work appears in Dying to Live, A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid (City Lights Books, 2008) and Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso, 2016).

Sofya Aptekar

Sofya Aptekar is an associate professor of urban studies at the City University of New York School of Labor and Urban Studies. She is the author of Green Card Soldier (MIT, 2023) and a delegate of the Professional Staff Congress.

Stefano Archidiacono

Stefano Archidiacono is an Italian activist, researcher, and development practitioner.

Tracy Berger

Tracy Berger is a mom of two, member of United Campus Workers Colorado, and staff organizer with Higher Education Labor United (HELU). She previously worked as staff at the University of Colorado Boulder and Front Range Community College.

Dhoruba Bin Wahad

Dhoruba Bin Wahad was a leading member of the New York Black Panther Party, a Field Secretary of the BPP responsible for organizing chapters throughout the East Coast, and a member of the Panther 21. Arrested in June 1971, he was framed as part of the illegal FBI Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) and subjected to unfair treatment and torture during his nineteen years in prison. During Dhoruba’s incarceration, litigation on his behalf produced over 300,000 pages of COINTELPRO documentation, and upon release in 1990 he was able to bring a successful lawsuit against the New York Department of Corrections for their criminal activities. Living in both Ghana and the U.S., Dhoruba continues to write and work promoting Pan Africanism, an uncompromising critique of imperialism and capitalism, and freedom for all political prisoners.

Kennedy Block

Kennedy Block is an independent researcher and archivist participating in, documenting, and connecting contemporary struggles for control over our own lives.

Enda Brophy

Enda Brophy is a professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.

karim brown

karim brown is a documentary photographer and teacher from Philadelphia. He has roots both in West and North Philly where he has been committed to documenting Black folks ways of knowing and doing. Keeping the Black Philadelphia community and its people at the forefront of his mind, karim uses photography to intimately engage with folk in the community.

Hagen Blix

Hagen Blix is a New York City-based cognitive scientist whose research spans language, artificial intelligence, and political economy.

Hamilton Borges dos Santos

Hamilton Borges dos Santos is a cofounder and main organizers of Reja ou Será Morto/Reaja ou Será Morta (Rise Up or Die!); Hamilton is a poet, writer, amateur gardener.

Jack Z. Bratich

Jack Z. Bratich is professor in the Journalism and Media Studies Department at Rutgers University. He is author of Conspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Culture and coeditor of Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality.

Noah Brehmer

Noah Brehmer is a political theorist, cultural organizer and founding member of Luna6. He cofounded the Lithuanian critical media platform Life is Too Expensive. He’s published in Blind Field Journal, LeftEast, Mute Magazine, Metropolis M and OpenDemocracy.

George Caffentzis

George Caffentzis is a political philosopher and autonomist Marxist. He is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine and a founding member of the Midnight Notes Collective. His most recent book is In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and the Crisis of Capitalism (Common Notions/PM Press, 2013).

Capacitor Collective

Capacitor Collective is a research collective dedicated to digital worker inquiry rooted in labor organizing within and against digital capitalism. The collective includes: Enda Brophy, Julie Chen, Alessandro Delfanti, Brian Dolber, Lilly Irani, and Tamara Kneese.

Lucía Cavallero

Lucía Cavallero is coauthor of A Feminist Reading of Debt, withVerónica Gago. She has a PhD in Social Science, is a researcher at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and member of the feminist collective Ni Una Menos. Her research focuses on debt and gender. She teaches in the gender studies masters program at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. She is also the coauthor in Spanish of ¿Quien Le Debe A Quien? Ensayos Transnacionales De Desobediencia Financiera, with Silvia Federici and Verónica Gago (Tinta Limón 2021).Liz Mason-Deese holds a PhD in Geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a member of the Counter-Cartographies Collective, the Viewpoint Magazine Editorial Collective, and the translation collective Territorio de Ideas. Among other works, she has translated The Feminist Subversion of the Economy by Amaia Pérez Orozco (Common Notions, 2022), A Feminist Reading of Debt by Luci Cavallero and Verónica Gago (Pluto Press, 2021), and Feminist International: How to Change Everything by Verónica Gago (Verso Books, 2020).

Tings Chak

Tings Chak is based in China and is the art director of the new Tricontinental.

Kalonji Jama Changa

Kalonji Jama Changa, an organizer and founder of the FTP Movement, is author of How to Build a People’s Army and co-producer of the documentary Organizing Is the New Cool. Founder of Black Power Media, Changa serves as co-chair of the Urban Survival and Preparedness Institute.

Julie Yujie Chen

Julie Yujie Chen is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto.

Hiu Fung Chung

Hiu Fung Chung is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto.

Danielle Chynoweth

Danielle Chynoweth is a local-to-national leader in the Media Justice and Housing Rights movements. As an elected public servant, she has designed alternative crisis response, family shelter, and Solidarity Gardens, and spearheaded public arts, community broadband, solar affordable housing, and police oversight. She was the Organizing Director for Media Justice and cofounded the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center. She teaches social change at the University of Illinois, the School for Designing a Society, and internationally.

Coalition Against Campus Debt

Coalition Against Campus Debt is a collective of educators and organizers active in higher education struggles as well as the debt abolition movement more widely for over a decade. Members include Jason Wozniak, Eleni Schirmer, Dana Morrison, Joanna Gonsalves, Richard Levy, Maria del Mar Rosa Rodriguez, Sofya Aptekar, Tracy Berger, and Barbara Madeloni.

João H. Costa Vargas

João H. Costa Vargas is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside and the author of The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering.

CounterPower

CounterPower is a revolutionary organization committed to building the power of working and oppressed people, from below and to the left. Drawing lessons from past and present movements, we offer an analysis, vision, and strategy to build for social revolution in the heart of empire. We organize to dismantle the imperialist world-system: a system based on the fusion of capitalism, heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, and the state. This system is killing people and the planet. In its place, we want to build a free society where all people have full control over their lives. Revolutionary movements must build the “counterpower” necessary to overthrow and abolish all forms of oppression. We believe that autonomous organizations, from labor and tenant unions to councils and communes, are necessary to advance the struggle for liberation. With branches throughout the United States, CounterPower has more than a decade of experience helping to build the collective power and autonomy of workers and the oppressed. As comrades, we work together to build and practice revolutionary politics in our grassroots organizing, embodying the values of a free society in the present. We care for one another as we work to transform ourselves and the world around us.

Ashon Crawley

Ashon Crawley is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. He is author of Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Fordham University Press), an investigation of aesthetics and performance as modes of collective, social imagination and The Lonely Letters, an exploration of the interrelation of Blackness, mysticism, quantum mechanics and love, published with Duke University Press in 2020. He is currently working on a third book, tentatively titled “Made Instrument,” about the role of the Hammond Organ in the institutional and historic Black Church, in Black sacred practice and in Black social life more broadly. All his work is about otherwise possibility.

Bianca Cunningham

Bianca Cunningham is a DSA member in Brooklyn and chair of the NYC DSA Labor Branch. She led her coworkers to join Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1109 in 2014, becoming the first-ever Verizon Wireless retail workers to unionize.

Mariarosa Dalla Costa

Mariarosa Dalla Costa is professor of Globalization, Human Rights, and the Advancement of Women at the Department of Historical and Political Studies of the University of Padua. An historic figure of international feminism, she had devoted her theoretical and practical efforts to the study of the female condition in capitalist development. She has combined this research with that on social movements organizing around the questions of land, agriculture, fishing, and nutrition. Her book The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community, co-authored with Selma James (Falling Wall Press, Bristol, 1972) has been translated into six languages. Her writings have been published in various languages, including English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese. Many of her articles are available in the web journal The Commoner. In 2009, an anthology of her writings, Dinero perlas y flores en la reproduccion feminista was published in Spain by Akal, Madrid. Her English publications include Women, Development and Labor of Reproduction, co-edited with G.F. Dalla Costa (Africa World Press, Trenton, N. J. and Asmara, Eritrea, 1999) and Gynocide:  Hysterectomy, Capitalist Patriarchy and the Medical Abuse of Women (Autonomedia, New York, 2007). Her most recent books in English are Our Mother Ocean: Enclosure, Commons, and the Global Fishermen’s Movement (Common Notions, 2014), coauthored with Monica Chilese, and Family, Welfare, and the State: Between Progressivism and the New Deal (Common Notions, 2015).

Britney Daniels

Britney Daniels, RN, MSN is a Black queer travel nurse and social advocate who has worked in hospital emergency rooms all over the US. Daniels holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in nursing with a concentration in nursing leadership. She is currently working on her Doctorate of Nursing Practice degree. Britney lives in Chicago with her wife, Saria, and their two dogs, Batman and Momo.

Ashley Dawson

Ashley Dawson is Professor of Postcolonial Studies in the English Department at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York and the College of Staten Island. His latest books include People’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons, Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change, and Extinction: A Radical History.

Alessandro Delfanti

Alessandro Delfanti is a professor at the University of Toronto.

Jennifer Denetdale

Jennifer Denetdale is a citizen of the Navajo Nation. She is a professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and the chair of the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission. She is the author of Reclaiming Diné History: The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita and two Diné histories for young adults. She is a coauthor of Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation and has published numerous journal articles and chapter essays on Indigenous feminisms, Diné nation building, and bordertown studies. She is the recipient of two Henry Luce Foundation grants to mount a Milton Snow Photography exhibition in collaboration with the Navajo Nation Museum.

Wei Ding

Wei Ding is a professor at Shenzhen University.

Brian Dolber

Brian Dolber is an associate professor at California State University San Marcos.

Emory Douglas 

Emory Douglas is former Revolutionary Artist and Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party, from February 1967 until its discon- tinuation in the early 1980s. Douglas’ art and design concepts were always seen on the front and back pages of The Black Panther newspaper, reflecting the politics of the Black Panther Party and the concerns of the community. Joining forces with Black Panther cofounders Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, Douglas was foundational in shaping the Party’s visual and cultural power and sustaining one of its most ambitious and successful endeavors. 

His work has been displayed at the 2008 Biennale of Sydney, Aus- tralia, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles California, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the African American Art & Cultural Complex in San Francisco, California, Richmond Art Center, in Richmond California, Station Museum of Contemporary Art in Houston Texas. Other exhibitions were held at Urbis, in Manchester, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, the Elam School of Fine Art, Auckland, New Zealand, the Beirut Lebanon Art Center, and Showroom MAMA in Rotterdam. His work has appeared in Art in America, PRINT magazine, Juxtapoz, American Legacy magazine and the American Institute of Public Arts. His work is featured in the 2007 publication Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas, edited by Sam Durant.

Emory Douglas was born in 1943 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has been a resident of the Bay Area since 1951 and attended City College of San Francisco where he majored in commercial art. 

Caleb Duarte Piñon

Caleb Duarte Piñon lives and works between the San Francisco Bay Area and San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. He is a contributor to Zapantera Negra: An Artistic Encounter Between the Black Panthers and the Zapatistas. Piñon studied at Fresno City College and is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was appointed as Oakland Arts Commissioner by then Mayor Jerry Brown in 2006. He has exhibited work at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Red Dot Art Fair in New York, The Sullivan Galleries in Chicago, Jack Fisher Gallery in San Francisco, Gallery 727 Los Angeles, the California Museum of Art in Oakland, the Fresno Art Museum and many others. He has given talks in such places as the De Young Museum, SF, the Mexican Museum, SF, the University of the Dirt, Chiapas, the University of Social Science in Tuxla MX, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and the 2012 Creative Time Summit in New York. He has created public works and community performances at the World Social Forum in Mumbai, India, in Santiago de Cuba, Chile, at El Pital, Honduras, in Mexico City, and throughout the US. His work has been reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, Art Ltd, The San Francisco Chronicle, and SPARK public television. Duarte is cofounder and director of EDELO (Where the United Nations Used to Be), a house of art in movement and an intercommunal artist residency of diverse practices. Situated in Chiapas, Mexico, the space invites participants with diverse practices to live and create. He is curator of the Zapantera Negra project. 

Brad Duncan

Brad Duncan is coeditor of Finally Got the News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical left, 1970-1979. Duncan is an activist and a union library worker who has been collecting printed materials related to social protest for twenty years. His work as a collector focuses on the radical movements and liberation struggles of the sixties and seventies, some of which can be seen on his popular blog, The R. F. Kampfer Revolutionary Literature Archive. In 2014 his archive was the focus of an exhibition titled “Power to the Vanguard: Original Printed Materials from Revolutionary Movements Around the World, 1963–1987” at Trinosophes in Detroit, Michigan.

Alexander Dwinell

Alexander Dwinell is an organizer, editor, designer, and artist. He is a former member of the South End Press collective and founding bookseller of The Word Is Change.

Mehdi El Hajoui

Mehdi El Hajoui has been researching and collecting the Situationist International for over a decade. Items from his archive have been exhibited at Princeton University, Indiana University, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain of Geneva, and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, among others. He frequently writes and lectures, and as a board member of Booklyn and ProArts Commons, supports marginalized artists working at the intersection of art and social change.

Silvia Federici 

Silvia Federici is a long-time feminist, writer, and teacher living in Brooklyn, NY. Her most recent book is Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle (Common Notions/PM Press, 2012). Born in Italy, Federici has lectured and taught widely in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the U.S. She has participated in numerous international movements and social struggles, including feminist, education, anti-death penalty, as well as anti-nuclear and anti-globalization movements.

Arun Ferreira

Arun Ferreira is an Indian political activist based in Mumbai. In 2007, he was branded as the leader of the propaganda and communications wing of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist). He was acquitted of all charges in 2014. Ferreira also authored Colors of the Cage: A Prison Memoir of India. 

Victoria Fleming

Victoria Fleming is a PhD candidate at York University in Toronto.

Bill Fletcher, Jr.

Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a racial justice, labor, and international activist based in the United States. He is an editorial board member of BlackCommentator.com; senior scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies; the immediate former president of TransAfrica Forum; the coauthor of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice (with Dr. Fernando Gapasin); and the author of They're Bankrupting Us: And Twenty Other Myths about Unions.

Dennis Flores

Dennis Flores is a Nuyorican multimedia artist, activist and educator born and raised in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. He is the cofounder of El Grito de Sunset Park, a grassroots community-based organization that advocates around issues of discriminatory policing and housing rights.

Avram Finkelstein

Avram Finkelstein is a US designer from Silence=Death Project, Gran Fury, ACT UP.Alison Alder is an Australia-based printmaker, member of Redback Grafix, and founder of Megalo print studio.Emory Douglas is former revolutionary artist and designer for the Black Panther Party.

Claire Fontaine

Claire Fontaine is a feminist, conceptual artist, founded in Paris in 2004, currently living and working in Palermo, Sicily.

Verónica Gago

Verónica Gago is the author of Feminist International: How to Change Everything and coauthor of A Feminist Reading of Debt, with Lucí Cavallero. She is a leader in Argentina's #NiUnaMenos movement (Not One More!), as both a theoretician and an activist. She is a Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, Professor at the Instituto de Altos Estudios, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, and Assistant Researcher at the National Council of Research (CONICET). Her work is deeply influenced by active participation in the experience of Colectivo Situaciones, whose 19 and 20 and Genocide in the Neighborhood recorded the Argentine social movements around the 2001 debt crisis with remarkable acuity.

Cailean Gallagher

Cailean Gallagher is an associate lecturer at the University of St. Andrews.

Iman Ganji

Iman Ganji is a writer and scholar in exile and holds a PhD in Performance and Theatre Studies from Freie Universität Berlin. From 2004 to 2012, he lived in Tehran, where he worked as a translator, writer, and activist, cotranslating books by Spinoza, Marx, Benjamin, and others.

Qi Ge

Qi Ge is a taxi driver with the Shenzhen V Fleet.

Ingeborg Glimmer

Ingeborg Glimmer is a tech worker and industry researcher in Germany working on machine learning.

David Luis Glisch-Sánchez

David Luis Glisch-Sánchez is a queer feminist antiracist healer, and is the founder of Soul Support Life Coaching, an individual and organizational coaching practice rooted in the queer Black and Latinx feminist tradition. They are also an interdisciplinary sociologist working in the areas of emotion, race, genders, and sexualities. They currently teach in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Buffalo (SUNY).

Craig Gilmore

Craig Gilmore is an organizer with the California Prison Moratorium Project, which he cofounded in 1998. He was an editor of Prison Focus and is coauthor with Kevin Pyle of Prison Town in The Real Cost of Prisons Project. He has been active for years in Californians United for a Responsible Budget, the No New Jails Coalition, and LA Prison Times newspaper. Gilmore was a board member of A New Way of Life Reentry Project in Los Angeles and in 2003 was awarded the Ralph Santiago Abascal Award for Environmental Justice Activism.

Alyosha Goldstein

Alyosha Goldstein is a professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Poverty in Common: The Politics of Community Action during the American Century, editor of Formations of United States Colonialism (2014), and coeditor (with Jodi A. Byrd, Jodi Melamed, and Chandan Reddy) of “Economies of Dispossession: Indigeneity, Race, Capitalism,” a special issue of Social Text (2018), (with Juliana Hu Pegues and Manu Vimalassery [Karuka]) of “On Colonial Unknowing,” a special issue of Theory & Event (2016) and (with Alex Lubin) of “Settler Colonialism,” a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (2008).

Joanna Gonsalves

Joanna Gonsalves is a psychology professor at Salem State University and president of the Massachusetts State College Association faculty union.

Seamus Bright Grayer

Seamus Bright Grayer is a graduate of the Simon Fraser University School of Communication.

Grupe de Arte Callejero

Grupe de Arte Callejero (GAC), which translates to Group of Street Artists, formed in 1997 out of a need to create a space where the artistic and political could be collectively reappropriated as a single means of production. They authored Thoughts, Practices, Actions with Common Notions. Their work blurs the boundaries between militancy and art and develops confrontational forms and strategies that operate within determined contexts: the street, the occupation, the demonstration. From the beginning, their work has searched for a space for visual communication that escapes the traditional circuit of exhibition and exploitation, taking the appropriation of public spaces as its central axis of production. A large part of their work is anonymous in character, which allows for the continued elaboration of these practices and methodologies by like-minded individuals or groups. 

Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar

Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar is an organizer who has participated in numerous struggles and uprisings in Latin America over the last four decades. From the civil wars in Central America in the 1980s to Indigenous-led uprisings in the Bolivian altiplano, she has contributed to struggles both as an active participant and as a theorist of movement strategies, horizons, and possibilities. She is the author of In Defense of Common Life.

Erik H

Erik H is an organizer, systems engineer, and food service worker in Seattle.

Alex Hanna

Alex Hanna is director of research at the Distributed AI Research Institute.

Lani Hanna

Lani Hanna is a PhD Candidate in Feminist Studies at University of California Santa Cruz. Her research looks at community archives as social movement infrastructure across several rapidly changing cities. She has taken part in organizing several exhibitions at Interference Archive, including Armed by Design. Her article Tricontinental’s International Solidarity: Emotion in OSPAAAL as Tactic to Catalyze Support of Revolution (Radical History Review 2020) was part of a special edition about gender and the Cuban Revolution.

Michael Hardt

Michael Hardt teaches political theory in the Literature Program at Duke University. He is coauthor of several books with Antonio Negri, including Empire. His most recent book is The Subversive Seventies. Together with Sandro Mezzadra, he hosts The Social Movements Lab.

Saidiya Hartman

Saidiya Hartman is the author of Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (1997; Norton, 2022); Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007) and Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments (Norton, 2019), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, and the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, the Mary Nickliss Prize from the Organization of American Historians, the Judy Grahn Prize for Lesbian Nonfiction, and the John Hope Franklin Prize from the American Studies Association. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2019 and was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022. She is a member of the Royal Society of Literature and a University Professor.

Nafis Hasan

Nafis Hasan is the author of Metastasis. He received his PhD in Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology from Tufts University in 2019. He is currently an Associate Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and a labor organizer based in Philadelphia. His writings have appeared in Jacobin, Science for the People, The Trouble, and more. He serves as an editor for the radical science magazine Science for the People and South Asian left media platform Jamhoor, and is a proud member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Read more at nafishasan.com.

Mostafa Henaway

Mostafa Henaway is an organizer with the Immigrant Workers’ Centre in Montreal.

J. M. Holmes

J. M. Holmes was born in Denver and raised in Rhode Island. He is the winner of the Burnett Howe Prize for fiction, the Henfield prize for literature, and a Pushcart prize.

Jen Hoyer

Jen Hoyer is a librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology and has volunteered on collections, exhibitions, and education projects at Interference Archive since 2013. Her writing about the intersections of education, archives, and social movement history is available in The Social Movement Archive (Litwin Books, 2021) and What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom (Libraries Unlimited, 2022).

Mikaiil Hussein

Mikaiil Hussein is the President of United Taxi Workers San Diego.

The Interference Archive

The Interference Archive is an archive from below that explores the relationship between cultural production and social movements. Collectively, members of the Archive coedited Finally Got the News: The Printed Legacy of the Radical Left, 1970-1979. As a space, the Interference Archive is people powered (all volunteer-run) and financially supported by its community. Through its programming, the archive uses its cultural ephemera to showcase histories of people mobilizing for social transformation.

Lilly Irani

Lilly Irani is a professor at the University of California San Diego.

Johanna Isaacson

Johanna Isaacson writes academic and popular pieces on horror and politics. She is a professor of English at Modesto Junior College and a founding editor of Blind Field Journal. She is the author of The Ballerina and the Bull, has published widely in academic and popular journals, and runs the Facebook group "Anti-capitalist Feminists Who Like Horror Films."

Joy James

Joy James, Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College, is the author of Resisting State Violence; Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics; Transcending the Talented Tenth; Seeking the Beloved Community; and In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love. James’s numerous political theory articles on policing, prisons, abolitions, feminisms; and anti-Black racism include “The Womb of Western Theory,” an exploration of the Captive Maternal. James is editor of The New Abolitionists; Imprisoned Intellectuals; Warfare in the American Homeland; The Angela Y. Davis Reader; and coeditor of The Black Feminist Reader.

Selma James

Selma James is a women’s rights and anti-racist campaigner and author. From 1958 to 1962 she worked with C.L.R. James in the movement for West Indian federation and independence. In Padova 1972, she helped co-found the International Wages for Housework Campaign with a number of women whoformed the International Feminist Collective, and in 2000 helped launch the Global Women’s Strike whose strategy for change is “Invest in Caring not Killing”. Her most recent book is Sex, Race, and Class—The Perspective of Winning: A Selection of Writings 1952–2011 (Common Notions/PM Press, 2012).

Anselm Jappe

Anselm Jappe is a philosopher and social critic who explores the intersection between contemporary capitalism, art, and subjectivity. He currently teaches aesthetics at the Accademia di Belle Arte in Rome. His books have been translated into several languages. Books in English include Guy Debord (University of California Press/PM Press) and The Writing on the Wall: On the Decomposition of Capitalism and Its Critics (Zero Books). In 2015, Le Magazine Littéraire listed Jappe as one of “Thirty Names in French Thought to Watch Out For.”

Krystal K and Phil

Krystal K and Phil are organizers at Turkopticon.

Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba is the founder of Project NIA, and has received numerous honors and awards, including the 2019 Morton Deutsch Award for Social Justice, 2019 Visionary Voice Award, and Essence Magazine 2018 #Woke100; an acknowledged expert on the topic of youth incarceration she’s had appearances on NBC News, the Guardian, and Vice.

Saúl Kak

Saúl Kak is an artist based in El Rayón, Chiapas. Born in 1985 in Guayabal, Rayón, he is of Indigenous descent and a representative of the Zoque communities in Chiapas. He contributed to Zapantera Negra: An Artistic Encounter Between the Black Panthers and the Zapatistas. Kak studied painting at the School of Art and Science in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, the state capital of Chiapas, and completed a B.A. in Arts at the University of Guanajuato. He has participated in numerous exhibitions, making performances, lms, and community paintings with both Zapatista and immigrant communities throughout Mexico. His work combines the knowledge and stories of the Zoque people to the effects of globalization and hyper-capitalism. He is currently working on a feature lm about the Zoque and is trav- eling throughout Mexico, following the Central American migration routes to the United States.

Mustapha Khayati

Mustapha Khayati was a member of the Situationist International between 1966 and 1969. Though On the Poverty of Student Life was a collective endeavor, Mustapha Khayati is one who put pen to paper and was the pamphlet's primary author.

Tamara Kneese

Tamara Kneese is a research director at Data & Society.

Arun Kundnani

Arun Kundnani is a writer based in Philadelphia. Born in London, he moved to the US in 2010. His books include What is Antiracism? And Why it Means Anticapitalism (Verso, 2023), The Muslims are Coming! (Verso, 2014) and The End of Tolerance (Pluto, 2007). He is currently working on a biography of Jamil Al-Amin. A former editor of the journal Race & Class, Arun has been described by the Guardian as “one of Britain’s best political writers.”

Madeline Lane-McKinley

Madeline Lane-McKinley is a writer, professor, and Marxist-feminist with a PhD in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a founding member of Blind Field: A Journal of Cultural Inquiry. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, The New Inquiry, Entropy, GUTS, and Cultural Politics. She is also the author of the chapbook Dear Z and a contributor to The Museum of Capitalism.

Marc James Léger

Marc James Léger is coeditor of Zapantera Negra: An Artistic Encounter Between the Black Panthers and the Zapatistas, and an independent scholar based in Montreal. His essays in art criticism and cultural theory have appeared in Afterimage, Art Journal, C Magazine, Etc, FUSE, Inter, Parachute, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Journal of Canadian Studies, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, RACAR, Third Text, and Creative Industries Journal. He is editor of the collected writings and interviews of Bruce Barber in Performance, [Performance] and Performers (YYZBBOKS, 2007) and Littoral Art and Communicative Action (Common Ground, 2013). He is also editor of Culture and Contestation in the New Century (Intellect, 2011), a series of A essays on radical cultural practice, creative industries, and neoliberal governmentality. He is author of Brave New Avant Garde: Essays on Contemporary Art and Politics (2012) and The Neoliberal Undead: Essays on Contemporary Art and Politics (2013), both published by Zero Books. Other projects include the edited text The Idea of the Avant Garde—And What It Means Today (Manchester University Press, 2014) as well as Drive in Cinema: Essays on Film, Theory and Politics (Intellect, 2015). Léger has exhibited artwork in Canada, the US, and the UK.

Rich Levy

Rich Levy is a professor of Political Science emeritus at Salem State University and a member of Educators for a Democratic Union. He and Joanna Gonsalves are coordinators of the Massachusetts Campus Debt Reveal and the Massachusetts Anti-Privatization Project, both funded by the Massachusetts Teachers Association.

Liaisons Collective

Liaisons Collective is more than just a collective, it is an inclination, a tangent, a crossroads of confrontations, encounters, and links, with authors from the United States, France, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lebanon, Mexico, Quebec, Russia, and Spain. It assembles analyses and theorizations directly from the ongoing struggles of affiliated groups, based in different parts of the planet and seeking a common ground. Liaisons is editor of In the Name of the People.

Diana Limbaga

Diana Limbaga is a graduate student at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.

Fiore Longo

Fiore Longo is a Research and Advocacy Officer at Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples. She is also the director of Survival International France and Spain. She coordinates Survival’s conservation campaign and has visited many communities in Africa and Asia that face human rights abuses in the name of conservation. She has also visited Indigenous communities in Colombia and worked on Survival’s Uncontacted Tribes campaign.

Since 1969, Survival International has worked in partnership with tribal communities around the world, and together with supporters from over one hundred countries worldwide, to lead hundreds of successful campaigns for tribal peoples’ rights. The movement is helping to build a world where tribal peoples are respected as contemporary societies and their human rights protected.

Josh MacPhee

Josh MacPhee has been collaboratively making, researching, and collecting political art for over twenty years. In 2011, he cofounded the Interference Archive, a library, exhibition, event, and research space in Brooklyn dedicated to the exploration of social movement culture. He is also a member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, and the author/editor of multiple books including Celebrate People's History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution (Feminist Press, 2010 and 2020), An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels (Common Notions, 2019), and Graphic Liberation: Perspectives on Image Making and Political Movements (Common Notions, 2023). His solo exhibition, We Want Everything, was hosted by the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2022.

Barbara Madeloni

Barbara Madeloni is an organizer and writer for Labor Notes.

Firoze Manji

Firoze Manji, a Kenyan with more than forty years’ experience in international development, health and human rights, is the founder and publisher of Daraja Press, including host of the online interview series Organizing in the time of Covid-19. He is Adjunct Professor at the Institute of African Studies and Contract Instructor, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Manji is the founder and former editor-in-chief of the prize-winning pan African social justice newsletter and website Pambazuka News and Pambazuka Press and the founder and former executive director of Fahamu: Networks for Social Justice, a pan-African organization with bases in Kenya, Senegal, South Africa and the UK. He has published widely in politics, health and development. He is coeditor, with Sokari Ekine, of African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions.

Liz Mason-Deese

Liz Mason-Deese is an editor at Viewpoint Magazine, a member of the Counter-Cartographies Collective, and a member of the translation collective Territorio de Ideas. She is a long-time translator of and participant in feminist movements in Latin America.

Sandro Mezzadra

Sandro Mezzadra teaches political theory at the University of Bologna, Department of Arts. He is the author of In the Marxian Workshops: Producing Subjects and coauthor of Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor and The Politics of Operations: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism.

E Morales-Williams

E Morales-Williams is a Black nonbinary femme originally from East Harlem and the Bronx, and has been based in Philadelphia for the past fifteen years. They write as a veteran youth worker, a former Social Studies teacher at an alternative HS, an abolitionist, and as a survivor of sexual assault and police violence. They have facilitated and directed a range of programming in the Bronx, Harlem, and Binghamton, NY; Ghana, West Africa; and North Philadelphia, PA within community centers, middle and high schools, and university campuses such as Temple University, where she taught for six years in their College of Education and was awarded in 2012 for her teaching. The focus of their programming has ranged from Black history, community organizing, urban agriculture, and healing justice. Youth leadership development and decolonizing futures has been a consistent through line of their work.

Dana Morrison

Dana Morrison is an associate professor in the Educational Foundations and Policy Studies Department at West Chester University of Pennsylvania and chapter secretary of the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties.

Fajr Muhammad

Fajr Muhammad is a writer and editor whose work has been awarded fellowships by the Tin House Writers’ Workshop, Rhode Island Writers’ Colony, and the Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat.

Dr. Joshua Myers

Dr. Joshua Myers is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Howard University. He is the author of Of Black Study, Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition, and We are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Protest of 1989.

Ata Nahai

Ata Nahai is a Kurdish novelist and short story writer who writes in Sorani Kurdish. His writing has been translated into Persian, Arabic, Kurdmanji, and English. He has been awarded the Aras Prize for Kurdish literature and the Ahmad Hardi Prize for Creativity in Sulaymaniyah. The Persian translations of Birds in a Gale and his latest novel, Dealing Helaleh's Destiny, won the prestigious Mehregan Prize for Best Novel of the Year in Iran in consecutive years.

Donald Nicholson-Smith

Donald Nicholson-Smith was a member of the Situationist International between 1965 and 1967. He has translated a number of their texts (and much more) into English.

M. E. O'Brien

M. E. O'Brien writes on gender freedom and communist theory. She co-edits two magazines: Pinko, on gay communism, and Parapraxis, on psychoanalytic theory and politics. Her work on family abolition has been translated into Chinese, German, Greek, French, Spanish, and Turkish. Previously, she coordinated the New York City Trans Oral History Project, and worked in HIV and AIDS activism and services. She completed a PhD at New York University, where she wrote on how capitalism shaped New York City LGBTQ social movements. She is currently in training to be a psychoanalyst, and works as a therapist.

Marcela Olivera

Marcela Olivera is a water commons organizer based in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Since 2004 she has been helping to develop and consolidate an inter-American citizens’ network on water justice named Red VIDA. She is also member of the Platform for Public and Community Partnerships of The Americas (PAPC), an organization that promotes knowledge exchange among water utilities based on solidarity and horizontal cooperation.

Oscar Olivera

Oscar Olivera, then Executive Secretary of the Federation of Factory Workers of Cochabamba, Bolivia (1999), actively participated in creating the Coordinadora de Defensa del Agua y de la Vida, a key organization in the movement against water privatization in Bolivia and Cochabamba in 2000. He is recipient of the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award (2000), the Goldman Environmental Prize (2001), the James Lawson Award for nonviolent activism (2013) as well as numerous recognitions from rural and urban organizations in Bolivia.

Anna O’Meara

Anna O’Meara is a Ph.D. Candidate in Art History & Visual Studies at the University of Victoria. Her dissertation research investigates how the Situationist concept of Spectacle relates to World. Anna is coeditor of On the Poverty of Student Life: Considered in Its Economic, Political, Psychological, Sexual, and Particularly Intellectual Aspects, and a Modest Proposal for Its Remedy (Common Notions, 2022). Her translations have been published by Three Rooms Press, Verso, and Annex Press, among others.

Vero Ordaz

Vero Ordaz is a collaborative focused community member. She weaves her broad life and professional experiences to help bring people together. With a background in American Studies and Labor Studies, she is a higher education administrator and active rank-and-file member of the PSC-CUNY union.

Vicky Osterweil

Vicky Osterweil is a writer, organizer, and brick-mason based in Philadelphia. Her first book, In Defense of Looting, was an account of historical struggles for liberation in the United States. She has written about the intersections of film, politics and culture for a variety of outlets, including The Paris Review, Art in America, Al Jazeera America, The Baffler, Dissent, Lux Magazine, and The New Inquiry, where she was also a culture editor for many years. Her series on the political economy and cultural role of videogames, “Well Played,” which ran in Real Life Magazine from 2019–2020, won her the Blogger of the Year award from prestigious video game criticism outlet Critical Distance.

Otras Negras . . . y ¡Feministas!

Otras Negras . . . y ¡Feministas! is a Black Afrodescendent feminist women’s collective from Cali, Colombia. Members include Elba Mercedes Palacios Córdoba, María Campo, Martha Liliana Rivas Orobio, Natalia Andrea Ocoró Grajales, and Betty Ruth Lozano Lerma.

Out of the Woods

Out of the Woods is a transnational political research and theory collective, a loose grouping of decolonial, small-c communist, antiracist queer-feminist thinkers working together to think through the problem of ecological crisis.

Chiya Parvizpur

Chiya Parvizpur is a Kurdish writer and translator working in both Kurdish and English. His work has been published by Transnational London Press, Whisper House Press, Henar Press, and Common Notions. He is currently writing his third novel.

Paul Robeson House & Museum

Paul Robeson House & Museum, a project of the West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, is an internationally recognized center that preserves the legacy of Paul Robeson.

Nelly Perez

Nelly Perez has a degree in Social Communication and Journalism, pro- duces multimedia reports with a social and environmental focus, and she is also an activist that focuses on the revalorization of knowledge and wisdom of the Quechua nation in Bolivia.

Amaia Pérez Orozco

Amaia Pérez Orozco has a PhD in Economics and is activist in social and feminist movements. She is a long time educator and advocate of feminist economic concepts, theory, and practice all around Spain and Latin America

Andreas Petrossiants

Andreas Petrossiants is a writer and associate editor of e-flux journal. His work has appeared in Historical Materialism, Social Text, New Inquiry, AJ+ Subtext, Frieze, Bookforum.com, Roar Magazine, the Verso blog, the Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic. He is a PhD candidate in performance studies at NYU where he is researching anti-eviction, squatting, and tenants’ movements as they relate to the production of social space.

Sharam Qawami

Sharam Qawami is an Iranian-Kurdish writer and literary critic, born in Sine (Sanandaj), Iran, in 1974. He was expelled from the university for political reasons. Qawami has been actively writing short stories, poetry, novels, and literary critiques for many years, navigating state censors and political exile. He is the author of several books and whose work holds a special place among Kurdistan’s literary class.His first collection of short stories is entitled My Mother's Most Historical Wound. In 2003, the license for his first novel, Soveyla, was rejected by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, which he published in Iraq. His second novel, Birba, was deemed too radical, and led to his arrest and imprisonment at the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Sanandaj Intelligence Prison. In 2007, he published a book of literary criticism, The City of Groups and Bands, in Iran. In 2008, he published his third novel, Long Overcoat, in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. Iranian security forces prevented the Persian translation. In 2010, he published a collection of poems entitled We Are Just Getting Old and Lonely without permission.Sharam Qawami settled in Frankfurt, Germany after being forced to leave Iran in 2010 where he resides to this day. In 2017, he published his first novel written in German, Brücke des Tanzes, which was subsequently published in Kurdish. Sharam Qawami's latest work of fiction, Rojava, was written in both Kurdish and German simultaneously. The Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Iran refused publishing permission for the Kurdish and Farsi manuscripts due to their breach of Iranian laws. Quwami decided to publish Rojava in both Kurdish and Farsi without permission. The book is now available in both languages within Iran. Rojava is his first work to be published in English.

Hourieh Maleki Qouzloo

Hourieh Maleki Qouzloo is a Kurdish writer, translator, and researcher with over two decades of teaching experience across language and literature. She is currently pursuing research on cultural hybridity in migration literature.

Michael Rakowtiz

Michael Rakowtiz is an Iraqi-American artist working at the intersection of problem-solving and troublemaking. His work has appeared in arts and cultural venues worldwide. He was awarded the 2018–2020 Fourth Plinth commission in London’s Trafalgar Square. From 2019-2020, a survey of Rakowitz’s work traveled from Whitechapel Gallery in London, to Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Torino, to the Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai. Rakowitz is represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; Jane Lombard Gallery, New York; and Barbara Wien Galerie, Berlin; Pi Artworks, Istanbul; and Green Art Gallery, Dubai. He lives and works in Chicago.

The Red Nation

The Red Nation is a coalition of Native and non-Native activists, educators, students, and community organizers advocating Native liberation that formed to address the marginalization and invisibility of Native struggles within mainstream social justice organizing, and to foreground the targeted destruction and violence towards Native life and land. www.therednation.org.

John Redhouse

John Redhouse was born and raised in Farmington, New Mexico and graduated from Farmington High School in 1969. He was a longtime Navajo and Indian rights activist. Redhouse worked with the Indians Against Exploitation in Gallup, N.M. in 1972–1973 and the Coalition for Navajo Liberation in Farmington in 1974. He was Associate Director of the National Indian Youth Council in Albuquerque, N.M. from 1974 to 1978. Redhouse also served on the City of Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Air Quality Control Board in 1978 and the New Mexico State Advisory Committee to the United States Civil Rights Commission in 1978-79. In 1979–1980, he worked with the American Indian Environmental Council in Albuquerque; Reno, Nevada; and Flagstaff, Arizona. Redhouse was a writer and consultant from 1981 to 1987. In 1988–1989, he worked with the Tonantzin Land Institute in Albuquerque. Redhouse was a consultant from 1990 to 2012. He is a graduate of the University of New Mexico and a U.S. Army veteran.

Conor ‘Coco’ Tomás Reed

Conor ‘Coco’ Tomás Reed is a Puerto Rican/Irish gender-fluid scholar-organizer of radical cultural movements at the City University of New York. Conor is codeveloping the quadrilingual anthology Black Feminist Studies in the Americas and the Caribbean, and is the current comanaging editor of LÁPIZ Journal and a contributing editor of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. Conor is a cofounding participant in Free CUNY, Rank and File Action, and Reclaim the Commons, and a member of CUNY for Abortion Rights.

Rigo 23 (Ricardo Gouveia)

Rigo 23 (Ricardo Gouveia) is a visual artist and activist who works in diverse media, often in collaborative and public settings. He is a contributor to Zapantera Negra: An Artistic Encounter Between the Black Panthers and the Zapatistas. Born on the Portuguese Island of Madeira, Rigo 23 has been based in California since the mid 1980s. For three decades he has worked closely with individuals and communities dealing with the consequences of ongoing institutional and historical injustice. He is particularly known for work that highlights the politics and political prisoners of the Black Panthers, from the Angola Three to Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the American Indian Movement’s Leonard Peltier. He is one of the founding members of the Clarion Alley Mural Project and is an occasional professor at the San Francisco Art Institute. 

Cheryl Rivera

Cheryl Rivera is a Brooklyn-based organizer with NYC-DSA and Abolition Action and an editor of Lux.

Sarah Lynne Roberts

Sarah Lynne Roberts is a PhD student in Art History Visual Studies at the University of Victoria. She studies surrealist intersections with Latin American film from a feminist perspective. She holds an MA in Art History Visual Studies from the University of Victoria and a BA in Art History and Visual Culture with proficiency in French from the University of Exeter. Born in Watford, England, she lives in Victoria, BC, on the unceded territories of the Lekwungen peoples.

Shellyne Rodriguez

Shellyne Rodriguez is an artist, educator, writer, and community organizer based in the Bronx. Her practice utilizes text, drawing, painting, collage and sculpture to depict spaces and subjects engaged in strategies of survival against erasure and subjugation.

Nic Rodriguez-Villafañe

Nic Rodriguez-Villafañe is a non-binary transmasculine Boricua poet, writer, and DJ. They are currently an adjunct professor of American Studies and Writing Arts at Jefferson University in Philadelphia. They have been an organizer for over 15 years and are a researcher with the Philadelphia Participatory Research Collective (PPRC). Their poems have been described as an "eclectic blend of spanglish hip hop rhythms and Puerto Rican jabería, born out of the southern swamps of Florida." Their writing has been featured in The Gordian Review, Philly Inquirer and N.A.S.W Journal. They are a 2012 Leeway Foundation Arts & Change grant recipient and hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers Newark. Like most writers they have three jobs to pay bills and six side hustles to stay busy but their main love is always the poems.

Christopher R. Rogers

Christopher R. Rogers, Ph.D is a Philadelphia-based cultural organizer and educator hailing from Chester, PA with more than a decade of experience in supporting radical arts, culture, and community-building. He’s currently a Facilitator with the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction and co-coordinates the Friends of The Tanner House, incubating a revitalized National Historic Landmark rowhome that Dr. Carter G. Woodson once dubbed the “center of Black intellectual life in Philadelphia.” He’s previously published with Common Notions as Lead Editor for How We Stay Free: Notes on a Black Uprising (2022) alongside novelist Fajr Muhammad.

Mia Eve Rollow

Mia Eve Rollow is a project-based artist who works with social sculpture, performance, installation, video, sound, drawing and cartoons. She is a contributor to Zapantera Negra: An Artistic Encounter Between the Black Panthers and the Zapatistas. Rollow is also an organizer and curator and has created both solo and community works for projects in Mexico, the United States, Italy, Portugal, Canada and Hong Kong. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland and The School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, where she received a Master’s degree in Sculpture. In 2007 she suffered a spinal cord injury and subsequently undertook seven months of healing and survival by bringing together the resources of art and life. Much of her work is informed by this experience. In 2009 she moved to Chiapas, Mexico, where she cofounded EDELO with her collaborator Caleb Duarte. She is currently artistic codirector in rotation for the Red Poppy House in San Francisco, California. 

María del Mar Rosa-Rodríguez

María del Mar Rosa-Rodríguez is an associate professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, and the president of the faculty union of the UPR, Asociación Puertorriqueña de Profesores Universitarios (APPU). She is also the cofounder of the Junte de Mujeres Sindicalistas, bringing together feminism and syndicalism.

Jose Rosales

Jose Rosales is a journalist and independent researcher working on the history of revolutionary theory and its relationship to the collective practices that have recently emerged within contemporary social movements. Their writing can be found in Double Binds of Neoliberalism: Theory and Culture After 1968, Unworking (August-Verlag), Angry Workers of the World, Blind Field: A Journal for Cultural Inquiry, La Deleuziana, Deleuze and Guattari Studies Journal, Revista Punkto, SŪNZǏ BĪNGFǍ, and e-flux Notes among others.

Andrew Ross

Andrew Ross is a social activist and Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. A contributor to The Guardian, The New York Times, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, and Al Jazeera, he is the author or editor of more than twenty-five books, including, most recently, Abolition Labor: The Fight to End Prison Slavery. He has published more than 300 articles in a wide variety of outlets. 

More details about Ross’s work are at https://andrewtross.com.

Eric-John Russell

Eric-John Russell is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institut für Philosophie, Universität Potsdam. He is the author of Spectacular Logic in Hegel and Debord: Why Everything Is as it Seems and an editor of Cured Quail. He lives in Berlin.

Steven Salaita

Steven Salaita is an award-winning scholar, writer, and activist. He is the author of ten books about Arab Americans, Indigenous peoples, race and ethnicity, and literature, most notably Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine, Anti-Arab Racism in the USA: Where it Comes From and What it Means for Politics, and An Honest Living. He currently teaches at the American University of Cairo. This is his first work of fiction. He tweets at @stevesalaita.

Sarah Jean Salman

Sarah Jean Salman is a Communication PhD student at Cornell University.

Tyler Sandness

Tyler Sandness is a member of Rideshare Drivers United and former Lyft driver.

Eleni Schirmer

Eleni Schirmer is a writer living in Montréal. She organizes with the Debt Collective.

Dread Scott

Dread Scott is a visual artist who makes revolutionary art to propel history forward. He is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2020 United States Artists Fellow, whose work has been included in exhibitions at MoMA PS1, the Walker Art Center, Jack Shainman Gallery, and Gallery MOMO in South Africa. It is in the collection of the Whitney Museum and the Brooklyn Museum. The New York Times selected his art as one of The 25 Most Influential Works of American Protest Art Since World War II. In 2019 he presented Slave Rebellion Reenactment, a project that reenacted the largest rebellion of enslaved people in US history. The project was featured in Vanity Fair and on CNN.

Alain Segura

Alain Segura was born in 1949, in Bellac, a town near Limoges, France, where his father, active as an anarchist militant in Spain, settled after the Civil War of 1936–1939. In his teens, he was a member of several small anarchist groups, including the Anarchist International.

Sarah Seidman

Sarah Seidman is an historian and curator. As the Puffin Foundation Curator of Social Activism at the Museum of the City of New York, she curates the ongoing exhibition Activist New York, which explores two centuries of activist histories in New York City. She has also curated the exhibitions Beyond Suffrage: A Century of New York Women in Politics, and co-curated PRIDE: Photographs of Stonewall and Beyond by Fred W. McDarrah and King in New York, and the exhibition and catalog Armed by Design at Interference Archive. Dr. Seidman holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Brown University. She has received fellowships from the University of Rochester, New York University, and the American Council of Learned Societies, and her writing has appeared in Radical History Review, the Journal of Transnational American Studies, and The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture, among other places.

Christina Sharpe

Christina Sharpe is a writer, Professor, and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University in Toronto. She is also a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender & Class (RGC), at the University of Johannesburg. Sharpe is the author of Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects (2010) and In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016). Her third book, Ordinary Notes (2023) won the Hilary Weston Writer’s Trust Prize in Nonfiction and the Hodler Prize, and was a finalist for The National Book Award in Nonfiction, The National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Current Interest Book Award, and the James Tait Black Prize in Biography. Sharpe is currently working on What Could a Vessel Be? (FSG/Knopf, Canada 2025) and Black. Still. Life. (Duke 2027). In April 2024, she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize in Nonfiction and was named a Guggenheim Fellow. In May 2024 she received the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize for the Sciences and Humanities.

Benjamin H. Shepard

Benjamin H. Shepard, PhD, LMSW, works as Professor of Human Services at City Tech/CUNY. He has organized protests for leading social reform groups: ACT UP (The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power ), SexPanic!, Reclaim  the  Streets, the  Clandestine  Rebel  Clown  Army, Absurd Response, CitiWide Harm Reduction, Housing Works, More Gardens Coalition, Time’s UP!, Right of Way, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy the Pipeline, Resist AIM, Public Space Party, and the Professional Staff Congress of the City University of New York, where he is a chapter chair at New York City College of Technology. 

Shepard has authored or edited ten books: White Nights and Ascending Shadows: An Oral History of the San Francisco AIDS Epidemic (1997), From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization (2002), Queer Political Performance and Protest (Routledge, 2009), The Beach Beneath the Streets: Contesting New York’s Public Spaces (with Greg Smithsimon, SUNY Press), Play, Creativity, and Social Movements: If I Can’t Dance, It’s Not My Revolution (Routledge, 2011), Community Projects as Social Activism (Sage, 2014), Rebel Friendships: “Outsider” Networks and Social Movements (Sage, 2015), Sustainable Urbanism (Roman and Littlefield, 2017), Brooklyn Tides with Mark Noonan (Transcript, 2017), and Narrating Perspectives on Childhood and Adolescence (Columbia University Press, 2018). 

In 2010, he was named to the Playboy Honor Roll as one of twenty professors “who are reinventing the classroom.” He was trained at the University of Chicago School of Social Services Administration, the City University of New York Graduate Center, and the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology. Today, he remains involved in organizing efforts around transportation, HIV/AIDS, labor, public spaces, environmental policy, and efforts around sustainability.

Anuj Shrestha

Anuj Shrestha is an illustrator and cartoonist currently residing in Philadelphia after having lived in nearly all four corners of the United States. His illustration work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, ProPublica, Wired and Playboy, among others; and has been featured in the Society of Illustrators and American Illustration annuals. He has won two gold medals for his comics from the Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art Festival Awards of Excellence and a gold medal from The Society of Illustrators. His most recent zine is Both/And (Issue Press, 2022).

Stevphen Shukaitis

Stevphen Shukaitis is Senior Lecturer at the University of Essex, Centre for Work and Organization, and a member of the Autonomedia editorial collective. Since 2009 he has coordinated and edited Minor Compositions. He is the author of Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Day (2009) and The Composition of Movements to Come: Aesthetics and Cultural Labor After the Avant-Garde (2016), and editor (with Erika Biddle and David Graeber) of Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations // Collective Theorization (AK Press, 2007). His research focuses on the emergence of collective imagination in social movements and the changing compositions of cultural and artistic labor.

Brooke Darrah Shuman

Brooke Darrah Shuman is a video producer at More Perfect Union covering labor and workers' rights. Her video and writing has appeared in HuffPost, Bon Appétit, The New Yorker and the Southern Foodways Alliance. She is a volunteer at Interference Archive, an open stacks archive of political movement material, where she has worked on exhibitions on antifascism in the United States and disability/crip activism

Andréia Beatriz Silva dos Santos

Andréia Beatriz Silva dos Santos is a cofounder and main organizers of Reja ou Será Morto/Reaja ou Será Morta (Rise Up or Die!). She is trained as a medical doctor.

Kate Sim

Kate Sim is a researcher and organizer with No Tech for Apartheid and TWC.

Roberto Sirvent

Roberto Sirvent is an educator interested in race, law, and social movements who has taught at Hope International University, Pomona College, Scripps College, Claremont School of Theology, and Yale’s Summer Bioethics Institute. He is Coordinator of Outreach and Mentoring for the Political Theology Network and currently serves as Associate Editor of the Political Theology journal. With Linn Tonstad, he edits the Political Theology Undisciplined book series for Duke University Press. He is coauthor (with Danny Haiphong) of the book, American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People’s History of Fake News—From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror (Skyhorse).

Colectivo Situaciones

Colectivo Situaciones is a collective of militant researchers based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They have participated in numerous grassroots coresearch projects with unemployed workers, peasant movements, neighborhood assemblies, and alternative education experiments.

The Situationist International

The Situationist International was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists. It was prominent in Europe from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution in 1972.

Annie Xibos Spencer

Annie Xibos Spencer was born in North Philadelphia and grew up in Venice, Florida. They studied economics and international studies at New College of Florida and Latin American political economy at La Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires. Their undergraduate honors thesis on the role of the IMF in the Argentine Peso Crisis earned them a job at the World Bank Institute where they worked as a writer and program evaluator while obtaining a MA in International Trade and Investment Policy at George Washington University. Spencer spent two summers in Dhaka, Bangladesh on a fellowship where she studied Bengali language and culture at the Independent University of Bangladesh and learned from feminist-Marxist agrarian movement, Naya Krishi Andolon. Spencer was an active participant in Occupy Wall Street and a founding member of the Occupy Student Debt Campaign and STRIKE Debt.

Spencer has worked extensively in mutual-aid harm reduction and organized on the opioid epidemic and against state abandonment of people who use drugs in Maine. In 2020 they completed a PhD in human geography from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, where they won the 2017 Provost’s Award for Scholarship in the Public Interest and the 2016 Revolutionizing American Studies dissertation award. Spencer was a doctoral fellow with the Center for Place, Culture and Politics and the Mellon Committee on Globalization and Social Change. They have taught economic geography, economics and cultural studies at Hunter College CUNY, the University of Southern Maine, and Bates College. They live in Sweden.

Stavros Stavrides

Stavros Stavrides is an architect teaching at the National Technical University of Athens on social housing and the meaning of metropolitan experience. Stavrides’ work on political autonomy in our contemporary crises-governed cities, illuminated by an experience and knowledge of protest and rebellion in Athens since 2008, provide timely urban theory to theorize forms of emancipating spatial practices and urban commoning. In addition to Towards the City of Thresholds, he has published six books and numerous articles. His recent books include: Common Space: The City as Commons (2016) and Suspended Spaces of Alterity (2010).

Strike Debt 

Strike Debt emerged out of assemblies held in May 2012 in solidarity with the student strikes in Montreal. Working groups such as Occupy Theory, Occupy Student Debt Campaign, and Free University collaborated to hold an assembly on Education and Debt. Several weeks later, the group continued to meet under the name “Strike Debt,” which quickly realized that organizing around all forms of debt provided much-needed energy and systematic analysis to the movement. The Debt Resisters’ Operations Manual is a project of Strike Debt, which is building a movement of debt resistance and liberation based on principles of anti-oppression, autonomy, democratic decision-making, and direct action.

Marcello Tarì

Marcello Tarì is a “barefoot” researcher of contemporary struggles and movements. He is author of numerous essays and books in French and Italian including Il ghiaccio era sottile: Per una storia dell’autonomia and Autonomie!: Italie, les années 1970, and is the translator of The Invisible Committee’s The Coming Insurrection. Marcello Tarì has lived in the last few years between France and Italy. There Is No Unhappy Revolution is his first book published in English.

Mary N. Taylor

Mary N. Taylor is a militant researcher whose praxis is grounded in anthropology, urbanism and dialogical art. She works with the internationalist East European platform LeftEast, and the affiliated roving summer school hosted by different social movement formations in the ‘post-socialist’ region; Brooklyn Laundry Social Club, and KnowWastelands Community Garden.

Tasos Theofliou

Tasos Theofliou is an ananarchist-communist and political prisoner in Greece, from 2012 to 2017. He is the author of six books in Greece, as well as Writings from a Greek Prison with Common Notions. Through speculative fiction, noir, and graphic novel genres, he illuminates the conditions of exploitation and social conflict in Greece. While in prison, Theofilou also authored a book on Attica as part of the international solidarity with the U.S. prisoners’ strike on the forty-fifth anniversary of the prison uprising.

David Tomas 

David Tomas is coeditor of Zapantera Negra: An Artistic Encounter Between the Black Panthers and the Zapatistas. He is an artist, anthropologist, and writer whose production in the visual arts has its roots in a post-1970s critique of conceptual art’s disciplinary infrastructure. For the last forty years, Tomas’ work has explored the nature and functions of different forms of knowledge that are produced at the interface of the history of contemporary art, the history and the anthropology of media and the cultures and transcultures of imaging technologies. Both in visual work and his writings Tomas has conducted this exploration within a framework in which art is considered to be a discipline that operates in tension with the other disciplines that constitute the university’s knowledge matrix. He has exhibited in Canada, the US, and Europe and has held visiting research and fellowship positions at the California Institute of the Arts, Goldsmiths College, and the National Gallery of Canada. He is the author of several books, including Transcultural Space and Transcultural Beings (1996), A Blinding Flash of Light: Photography Between Disciplines and Media (2004), Beyond the Image Machine: A History of Visual Technologies (2004), and more recently, Escape Velocity: Alternative Instruction Prototype for Playing the Knowledge Game (2012) and Vertov, Snow, Farocki: Machine Vision and the Posthuman (2013). Tomas is Professor in Visual Arts at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Massimiliano Tomba

Massimiliano Tomba’s work focuses on time and temporalities, Marxism, critical theory (especially the first generation of the Frankfurt School), and modern and contemporary political thought. He is author of Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity.

Mario Tronti

Mario Tronti is a philosopher and politician. In the 1960s he was among the founders of operaismo (Italian “workerism”), a heterodox school of Marxist thought, and later he played a leading role in the Italian Communist Party. He has been a newspaper editor, university professor, president of the Centro per la Riforma dello Stato, and Senator of the Italian Republic. He is the author of Workers and Capital and many other books in Italian.

RK Upadhya

RK Upadhya is an electrical engineer based in San Antonio and an organizer with TWC and IWW.

Sónia Vaz Borges

Sónia Vaz Borges is a militant interdisciplinary historian and socialpolitical organizer. She received her PhD in History of Education from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU). She is the author of the book, Militant Education, Liberation Struggle, Consciousness: The PAIGC education in Guinea Bissau 1963–1978 (2019). As a result of her research Vaz Borges coauthored the short films, Navigating the Pilot School (2016) and Mangrove School (2022). Vaz Borges is also the author of the book Na Pó Di Spéra. Percursos nos Bairros da Estrada Militar, de Santa Filomena e da Encosta Nascente (2014), and editor of the Zines, Caderno Consciência e Resistência Negra (2007-2011). Vaz Borges is currently an Assistant Professor in the History and Africana Studies Program at Drexel University in Philadelphia (USA). Vaz Borges continues to write on education and liberation struggles and is now working on her concept of the “walking archive.”

Maria Isabel Vaz

Maria Isabel Vaz was born and raised in Cabo Verde in the Santiago Island, in the municipality of Santa Catarina. She migrated to Portugal with all her family in 1972 during the colonial occupation in Cape Verde and the PAIGC liberation struggle in Guinea Bissau. In Portugal she worked as a domestic worker, where she married and became a mother of five. A humble and caring woman with strong values and beliefs, she made sure to transmit her knowledges, life experience, and social justice principles to her daughters. Gardening and farming are her passions, an inheritance brought from her life in the countryside in Cabo Verde. Maria Isabel Vaz is now retired and lives in Amadora, Portugal.

Simón Ventura Trujillo

Simón Ventura Trujillo is an assistant professor in the English Department at New York University and the author of Land Uprising: Native Story Power and the Insurgent Horizons of Latinx Indigeneity (2020).

Milla Vodello

Milla Vodello is the pseudonym of an organizer with the Amazon Worker Solidarity group in Toronto.

Wages for Students

Wages for Students was anonymously authored and published in the fall of 1975 by George Caffentzis, Monty Neill, and John Willshire-Carrera, three activists associated with the journal Zerowork and later with the Midnight Notes Collective. Wages for Students / Sueldo para estudiantes / Des salaires pours les étudiants is a new trilingual edition that includes an introduction by the pamphlet's original authors alongside a transcript of a collective discussion organized by Jakob Jakobsen, Malav Kanuga, Ayreen Anastas, and Rene Gabri, following a public reading of the pamphlet by George Caffentzis, Silvia Federici, Cooper Union students, and other members and friends of 16 Beaver.

Rinaldo Walcott

Rinaldo Walcott is Professor and Chair of Africana and American Studies at the University of Buffalo. He holds the Carl V. Granger Chair in Africana and American Studies. He is a writer and critic. His research is in the area of Black Diaspora Cultural Studies, gender and sexuality with interests in nations, nationalisms, multiculturalism, policy and education broadly defined. As an interdisciplinary Black Studies scholar, Walcott has published in a wide range of venues on everything from literature to film, to theater to music to policy. His articles have appeared in scholarly journals and books, as well as popular venues like newspapers and magazines and media online sources. He often comments on black cultural life for radio and TV. Walcott has edited or co-edited multiple works including Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism (Insomniac, 2000). Walcott is the author of Black Like Who: Writing Black Canada (Insomniac Press, 1997 with a second revised edition in 2003). He is also the author of Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora and Black Studies (Insomniac Press, 2016) and co-author of Black Life: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom (Arbeiter Ring, 2019). In 2021, Walcott published The Long Emancipation: Moving Towards Freedom (Duke University Press) and On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition (Biblioasis).

Sasha Durakov Warren

Sasha Durakov Warren is a writer based in Minneapolis. His experiences within the psychiatric system and commitment to radical politics led him to cofound the group Hearing Voices Twin Cities, which provides an alternative social space for individuals to discuss often stigmatized extreme experiences and network with one-another. Following the George Floyd Uprising in 2020, he founded the project Of Unsound Mind to trace the histories of psychiatry, social work, and public health's connections to policing, prisons, and various disciplinary and managerial technologies.

W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School

The W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction is a political education program for aspiring revolutionaries and movement leaders from those communities most impacted by poverty, policing, and mass incarceration.

Our home is Philadelphia, crossroads of Harriet Tubman and Octavius Catto, W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson, Mumia Abu-Jamal and Maroon Shoatz, a critical hub for abolitionist militancy in the past and a thriving and powerful movement ecosystem today.

Through participatory and collective study of political economy, the history of global resistance movements, and the theoretical and practical aspects of social change, we aim to teach a new generation of organic intellectuals not only how to understand the world, but more importantly, how to change it.

Brian Whitener

Brian Whitener is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Alabama and author of Crisis Cultures: The Rise of Finance in Mexico and Brazil (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019). Other writing or translation projects include Face Down (Timeless Infinite Light, 2016), De gente común: Arte, política y rebeldía social, edited with Lorena Méndez and Fernando Fuentes (Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, 2013) and the translation of Grupo de Arte Callejero: Thoughts, Actions, Practices (Common Notions, 2019). He is an editor at Displaced Press and has been investigating new political and artistic movements in Latin American and autonomist political theory for the past twenty years.

Jawanza Williams

Jawanza Williams has won awards including Citizen Action of New York 2019 Everyday Hero Award and 2020 Village Independent Democrats Honor for Progressive Activism. He has been featured in The New York Times, The Nation, Slate Magazine, NBC News and Vice.

Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a prison abolitionist and prison scholar. She is the author of Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation, Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition, and the award-winning Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California. Gilmore is the Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics and professor of geography in Earth and Environmental Sciences at The City University of New York.

Jason Thomas Wozniak

Jason Thomas Wozniak is an associate professor in the Educational Foundations and Policy Studies Department, Coordinator of the Transformative Education and Social Change Program, and Co-Director of The Latin American Philosophy of Education Society (LAPES) at West Chester University. He is also a long-term organizer with Debt Collective.

Mx. Yaffa

Mx. Yaffa (they/she) is a disabled, autistic, trans, queer Muslim and indigenous Palestinian culture worker and organizer. The author of Blood Orange, Whispers Beneath the Orange Grove, and Desecrated Poppies, Yaffa is also editor of Inara: Light of Utopia and executive director of the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD).

Melanie Yazzie

Melanie Yazzie (Diné) is Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and coauthor of Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation and The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save the Earth. She cohosts and produces the podcast Red Power Hour, which is sponsored by Red Media, a Native-led media organization she cofounded in 2019. She also does community organizing with The Red Nation, a grassroots Native-run organization she cofounded in 2014 that is committed to Indigenous liberation and decolonization.

Kiyoumars Zamani

Kiyoumars Zamani is a translator of Kurdish and Farsi literature and labor activist born in Sanandaj, Iran, 1977. He has written and translated from English into Farsi widely on topics including financialization, illiberal hegemony, revolution and counterrevolution in Syria, Marx’s materialist conception of history, as well as articles on Rojava, Russia and Ukraine-NATO war, feminist, popular, and working class uprisings in Iran (Jin-Jiyan-Azadi), and Kurdish politics.

Patrick Germain lives in Philadelphia, by way of a small town in Connecticut, Montreal, New York, and Taipei. He graduated from McGill University with a bachelors in Philosophy and East Asian Studies, the latter focusing on Chinese language. An autodidact trained in several languages, including Kurdish, his study of philosophy, cultures, languages, and history is motivated by those bright flashes in time when people transcend the current system and find ways to live more freely and cooperatively.

Raul Zibechi

Raul Zibechi is a radio and print journalist, writer, militant and political theorist. He has contributed to the weekly newspaper Brecha. He is author of Constructing Worlds Otherwise.

Peter Zschiesche

Peter Zschiesche is a founder of the Employee Rights Center in San Diego.