Forthcoming, ships September 2026
Harry Cleaver
Edited by Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter
Capitalism / Labor / Philosophy
Class Compositions
End capitalism before it ends us.
Harry Cleaver is one of the most expansive Marxist theorists of the global class struggle over work of the last fifty years. Points of Departure is the definitive collection of Cleaver’s best unpublished, translated, or lesser known writings—both historical and current—on working class refusal, class composition, unwaged work, debt, and what he calls the “inversion of the class perspective.” This book puts an essential theoretical weapon into the hands of a new generation of militant workers and organizers re-energizing the class struggle. In these essays, Cleaver rereads Marx to address the crisis of capitalism, articulate strategy for the international anticapitalist movement, and to advance our collective search for points of departure from capitalism, so we can end it before it ends us.
Forthcoming, ships October 2026
Seraj Assi
Fiction / Anticolonial Politics
Nonaligned
A Palestinian novel about witnessing a massacre, and worse still, surviving it.
Resurrected in Heaven, a bewildered survivor of a massacre flashes back to harrowing events unfolding in an unnamed besieged town, a camp ravished by hunger and swollen with displaced people and starving children, where a hopeful euphoria building at a breadline culminates in a tragedy and bleak dissolution. Centered on the theme of hunger, the essence of bread, and the magic of flour in a place on the brink of mass starvation, Red Flour is essentially a love story that takes place in a breadline. “But can love blossom in a place ravished by hunger?”
Languishing under an unending siege and constant bombardment, the camp soon dwindles into a necropolis where bone-thin children wither away in the arms of hapless parents, dying a most agonizing death, before being loaded hurriedly into waiting wagons and buried in haste. And beyond starvation a flour massacre unfolds, leading to the protagonist’s cry: “Even our bread is massacred, murdered before it’s leavened.”
This is a compelling story of death and survival, of bread and roses, in a world in which humanity is at a brink.
Forthcoming, ships November 2026
Edited by Carla Orendorff, Anthony Orendorff, Lupita Limon Corrales, Ananya Roy, and Marisa Lemorande
Preface by Robin D. G. Kelley
Urban Studies / Health & Care / Organizing
Written by unhoused people and their allies, We Live in Public is an invitation to revolutionary care in a time of class war.
Los Angeles is one of the richest and most unequal cities in the world, where nine unhoused people die every day. As rent rises, evictions increase, and houselessness grows, the homeless encampment becomes both a symptom of organized abandonment and a site of insurgent knowledge and practice. We Live in Public was conceptualized and written by residents and organizers of one such encampment, Aetna Street, whose experiences offer strategies for solidarity and survival in the face of escalating state violence.
Many people’s worst fear is to be homeless, equating it with social death. But within the encampment, we see people living with wisdom and maps to offer. Throughout this book, Aetna residents and organizers generously share such insights and analysis. We Live in Public insists that these histories provide crucial lessons in modes of collective living and must be at the center of public history and knowledge.
Centering those who care for others on the street, it is an invitation to revolutionary care in the time of war. That war is the more immediate criminalization of homelessness and the longer arc of the unrelenting settlement of the US. We Live in Public is a refusal of such settler-colonial logics in the making of home and place.
Forthcoming, ships December 2026
Josh MacPhee
Preface by Grégory Pierrot
Art & Culture / Capitalism / Labor / Social Movements
In this short, graphic volume, Josh MacPhee explores the role of music and sound in the student and worker revolt on May 1968 in France through the lens of the vinyl records that emerged out of—and were produced to comment on—the struggle. From the chanson enrages that sung on the barricades, the birth of an independent and politicized music infrastructure in France, the explosive emergence of free jazz and rock scenes, and the enduring legacy and embedding of the sounds and aesthetics of '68 into experimental and pop music to this day, this book shows the impact of liberatory politics and action on our audio landscape.
Forthcoming, ships January 2027
Stavros Stavrides
Could we see in today’s urban movements the seeds of an emancipatory future? And could their experiments in collective life teach us that another city and world are imminently possible?
In more than thirty short, aphoristic texts, architect, activist, and theorist Stavros Stavrides explores the “thresholds” of the urban commons in the present. Drawing primarily on three years of documentation from Athens during and after COVID—originally written as monthly contributions to Stavrides’ commissioned column “Thresholds to Emancipation” for Desinformémonos – Periodismo de abajo—these essays examine how practices of commoning shape subjectivity, space, and political imagination.
Stavrides focuses on affective solidarity, “polyrhythmic” urban life, resistance to the domestication of nature and behavior, and the collective cultivation of what he calls “emancipatory habits.” Across these short texts, the city emerges as a site of struggle and experimentation, where everyday practices can open pathways toward autonomy, radical imagination, and democratic life in common.
This new Common Notions edition is a pocket-sized, interventionist volume, with several texts appearing here for the first time. Situating the project in dialogue with thinkers from Benjamin and Barthes to contemporary media theorists—and with Stavrides’ own earlier work on cities as thresholds—the book balances theoretical framing with political urgency. From Thresholds to Emancipation offers both a conceptual entry point to Stavrides’ work and an open field for the experimental and performative directions the essays pursue.
Forthcoming, ships February 2027
Stefan Christoff
Art & Culture / Anticolonial Politics
Freedom Frequencies takes the reader on a journey to the global frontlines of the Palestine solidarity movement where art and activism intersect.
Rooted in a series of conversations broadcast from Palestine on Radio AlHara, this set of interviews offers a window into the contemporary culture of the global Palestine solidarity movement.
There is both a wide geographic and political scope to these conversations; there is a root in a shared focus on supporting the Palestinian struggle for liberation, but the exchange also touches on the energy of artists finding ways to be on the streets and in the studio at once.
This series is about bringing the vitality of the contemporary wave of online radio platforms, at the frontlines of experimental culture around the world, into print. As Radio AlHara is the platform, the collection positions Palestine as the moral compass while exploring intersecting points of struggle and cultural expression, both today and in the past.
Sit with these conversations to really get a reading of the multitude of cultural expressions that thrive at intersecting grassroots levels globally and engage with the contemporary edges of the intersections of art and activism today.
Forthcoming, ships March 2027
George Caffentzis
Introduction by Silvia Federici
Co-edited by Joey Mauro
Labor / Capitalism / Philosophy
Class Compositions
A profound class struggle account of the historic and ongoing crises of capitalism from the preeminent anticapitalist philosopher George Caffentzis.
George Caffentzis has been the leading philosopher of the anticapitalist movements for over a half-century. With unrivaled clarity and political sharpness, his “reading of the struggles” offer anticapitalist movements worldwide a way of thinking and speaking about capitalism that points to the autonomy and resistance driving its crises, and the points of connection between different sectors of the planetary struggles that result in greater class power in their resistance to capital and in their creation of post-capitalist worlds in common.
More than an explanation of historical events or an interpretation of the present crises, wars, and devastations wrought by capitalist accumulation, these writings are weapons meant to advance the political thinking, strategies and actions of those who struggle to defend their livelihoods, dignity, and autonomy from capital’s exploitation and its destruction.
Organized around key themes of his life’s work, this collection brings the militant writings and scholarship of the planetary class struggle’s most profound thinker together for the first time.
George Eastman
Philosophy / Science & Technology
The Digital Revolution: Loss of Self and Humanity explores how digital algorithms reshape our minds, lives, and society and offers a powerful call to reclaim time, attention, and humanity in an AI-driven world.
Digital algorithms are reshaping our minds and lives, trading convenience for a loss of self, agency, connection, and humanity. The Digital Revolution, based on more than sixty years of research across multiple fields—including psychology, technology, and philosophy—pursues a holistic approach to answering the question of how digitization affects us and our relation to the world around us.
The Digital Revolution takes the reader on an unexpected journey, starting from the great tech revolutions of the early twentieth century and the invention of the first modern computers in the post-World War II era to inside our very own minds, exploring the neural mechanisms of addiction, altered states of consciousness, and age-old questions around perception versus reality.
Today, despite accelerated digital connectivity and access to information, we feel lonelier, adrift in an era that consumes our time and attention. By college, most young people have already spent tens of thousands of hours on screens, immersed in a silent Digital Revolution that has quietly established a subversive foothold in our previously analog lives. You want to put down your phone, but you can’t. You want to quit social media, yet you vacillate. You want to read a book but keep picking up your phone instead. You feel like time is slipping away. These devices promise to save us time and make life more convenient, but all they do is keep us busy—and not with the tasks we want to do. Though we sense the negative impact, breaking free is difficult.
Despite clear evidence of harm, the people most affected—parents, teachers, children, and adolescents—lack accessible information on this topic. Drawing on George’s long career as a philosopher and educator, this book offers insights from personal lived experience, tracing technological shifts from the 1930s to today. It aims to empower readers to become intentional participants in this revolution, reclaiming time, connection, and self-awareness. As AI is becoming increasingly dominant in shaping our daily lives, professional endeavors, and social interactions, The Digital Revolution is both a warning and a guide to conscious change.
The Digital Revolution seeks not only to understand this development—what is “artificial intelligence” and how should we understand its role in our lives?—but also suggests how we can maintain human control in a world where digital algorithms set the tone and the pace of work, leisure, communication, consumption, and so much more.
Neil Gray
Urban Studies / Capitalism / Philosophy
Take Over the City provides the first comprehensive spatial analysis of Italian operaismo and the extraordinary urban struggles of 1970s Italy.
Take Over the City is the first systemic spatial account of Italian operaismo. Drawing on the Marxist urban theory of Henri Lefebvre and others, the book situates the struggles of operaismo, especially in the 1970s, within an incipient-yet-tendential phase of global urbanization. In doing so, the book draws attention to previously neglected urban struggles in the wider social factory, recognizing these as immanent to the new spatial composition of capital in Italy.
The book argues that these innovative urban struggles carry important lessons for contemporary forms of organization and social conflict in the sphere of social reproduction. They drew attention to, and acted within, a tendency that has only become more entrenched since the 1970s: the centrality of urbanization and real estate to national political economies. If urbanization has become increasingly central for capital accumulation processes, it follows that urban struggle must become increasingly central to anti capitalist struggle. The struggles to ‘Take Over the City’ in 1970s Italy provide an important marker of how this might be done in the current era.
By excavating the urban struggles of 1970s Italy with a spatialized understanding of operaismo’s signature theoretical contribution—class composition—the book provides both an important contribution to radical urban history and a window into how current urban struggles might be theorized. It seeks to both spatialize readings of operaismo through the concept of spatial composition and to radicalize urban theory with Italian autonomist Marxist thought and practice. This should be of interest to those interested in autonomist praxis more generally, and those interested in radical urban history, contemporary urban struggles and social reproduction.
Abolition Journal Working Group
The inaugural issue of the movement-focused and future-forward Abolition Journal quarterly after it was relaunched by the Philadelphia-based Abolition School.
This pilot issue of the revived Abolition Journal is produced by the Philadelphia-based W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction. It brings together two dozen urgent and timely interventions in political debates around abolition and aims to show how this abstract idea manifests itself in our daily lives.
These interventions, authored by a diverse cast of contributors, including academics and attorneys, so-called felons and physicians, artists and educators, and parents, playwrights and poets, explore the everyday experiences that come with trying to live out an abolitionist politics. In the words of the editors, these experiences include “the daily victories and errands, reflections and runarounds, gestures and drama, habits and heartbreaks, setbacks and surrenders, excuses and evasions, breakdowns and breakthroughs.”
The issue curates a variety of content, including political essays, short stories, poetry, interviews, and speeches, each resonating and reflecting in their own unique way on the central theme “Everyday Sh!t.” They offer thoughts and reflections on structure, practice, care, and direction to deepen existing movement knowledge and invite new audiences to see themselves mirrored within this work.
Without exception, these are stories of sincere experience mixed with radical poetic visions culled from the issue contributors’ plurality of pasts, presents, and prefigurative futures. Grounded in Philadelphia, yet looking out onto the whole wide world, Abolition Journal aims to reflect the lived complexity that can be messy and self-defeating, but equally authentic and inspiring.
Radhika Singh
Fiction / Anticolonial Politics
Love and revolution in a crumbling world order.
Roma has a steady job, a mortgage, and a surrogate family in Queens. But as she moves through her daily routines, the powerful Empire that rules her world bares its teeth elsewhere—crushing freedom movements across the planet, including the Punjabi farmers’ uprising where her younger brother struggles on the frontlines.
Roma’s life is upended when her older brother entrusts her with a strange gift: an ordinary-looking plant that manifests a sophisticated bioengineered technology. The ‘cell’ opens a portal for an extraterrestrial spirit-body bearing news of a liberated future–and the potential to hack AI warfare—propelling Roma and her family into the core of a rising resistance.
As dreams and dialectics converge, Roma meditates on the role of faith, ruminating on mystic poetics and anticolonial legacies while yearning for a bewitching woman whose heart will only ever belong to the revolution.
João França and The Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH)
Preface by Rob Robinson
Afterword by Silvia Federici
Organizing / Social Movements / Urban Studies
A handbook for achieving social change through collective action based on lessons from a revolutionary movement’s struggle for housing justice in Spain.
Founded in Spain in 2009 as an immediate response to the devastating effects of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca – PAH) has since grown into a nationwide movement with over two hundred local chapters. Together, they have stopped thousands of evictions, negotiated with banks, forced legislative change, occupied fifty buildings, and, most importantly, rescued thousands of people from the edge of the abyss. It achieved all of this without backing from any party, union, or major NGO, and without full-time staff or external funding.
As the PAH faced off some of the country’s most powerful institutions, its members learned how to organize themselves, how to look after one another, how to do politics from the street, and how to bring about legislative reform. They managed to change the dominant narrative that blamed the victims of speculation on the housing market, they’ve won broad popular support, and through civil disobedience, they forced political parties to pass laws and pressured wealthy property owners and international corporations to negotiate and accept their demands.
How did they do this? This handbook collects and curates more than a decade-and-a-half worth of experience in social movement and community organizing. The lessons offered here, ranging from how to run a citizens’ assembly and manage conflicts to reflections on negotiation tactics, street-level organizing, and collective care, are drawn from the PAH’s struggle for housing justice, but can be useful for groups of citizens fighting collectively anywhere in the world. The PAH’s message to the world? “Only by organizing in the streets can we force legislative change, and only through legislative change can we gain more rights.”
Danielle Chynoweth & Elizabeth Adams
How can we empower ourselves and our communities to make lasting social change?
Remaking Democracy is a guidebook for social change. We are at a watershed moment of rising fascism and rising seas: our institutions are failing us, health crises ravage our communities, and the natural world has been thrust into catastrophic climate freefall. Despair threatens to overtake hope in our visions of the future.
In these pages, organizers and teachers Danielle Chynoweth and Elizabeth Adams offer analysis and strategy for sustainable transformation. This accessible and practical resource presents case studies alongside a design toolkit that equips readers to participate in creating the abundant worlds we want. Remaking Democracy empowers us—individually and in groups—to make lasting social change on every level, so that we who are affected by systems can become their creators.
Josh MacPhee
Art & Culture / Partner Publisher
In 1962, Penguin Books carried out an unprecedented experiment in Anglophone paperback book cover design. Deploying a new design grid created by Romek Marber, they released a flood of crime and mystery novels wrapped in simple, efficient, green and black covers. An unheralded peak of late-Modernist design, many of these covers still stand out today as some of the most interesting and compelling ever created for Penguin—or any press!
This publication, in which Josh MacPhee tells the history of this design experiment, includes nearly 70 cover reproductions as well as a bibliography and bios of key designers. In addition, it features a 2-sided poster with a giant grids of 128 book covers.
The content draws on earlier research MacPhee had done on the Penguin Crime series for his Judging Books By Their Covers blog post series on Justseeds.
Josh MacPhee
Art & Culture / Social Movements / Partner Publisher
Apartheid? Hell No! is a zine collecting over 100 anti-apartheid graphics from South Africa and the anti-apartheid solidarity movement in the 1980s, and it really feels like there is really no better time to recirculate this treasure box of potent graphics.
I originally found much of this content in an large photocopied document I unearthed from the library of the University of Colorado back in the late 1990s. While I photographed a lot of the imagery, the larger frame for it has been lost to time—I have no documentation of who originally assembled the content, although I suspect it was a grad student project from the late 1980s.
I've collaged the material in a similar manner to my Free Leonard Peltier zine (Pound the Pavement #22) from years back, but have also attributed the content whenever possible.
Colleen Asper
A Brief History of the Workers’ Inquiry introduces and reinvigorates the long tradition of research and inquiry coming from workers’ initiative, as part of their self-activity and organizing against their bosses, and ultimately as the sharpest tool in the arsenal of class struggle: collective intelligence wielded in solidarity against the exploitative and oppressive conditions that extract our time, power, and value from our very laboring together. In this short pamphlet, we enter the “hidden abode” of production, where everywhere our knowledge as workers’ haunts the boss—from contemporary offices and networked workplaces, to the factories where Karl Marx first employed the technique in 1880 in search of “an exact and postive knowledge” of the class struggles, to its uses by the Johnson-Forest Tendency in 1947 in the auto factories of New Jersey and Detroit, to postwar France, where it was again taken up by Socialism ou Barbarie, and then again in the militant struggles of Italy in the 60s and 70s. This long tradition has accompanied many moments of worker militancy, including recent ones, and it's a hypothesis worth testing that it will continue to be an essential tool of struggles to come.
Katal Center
Josh MacPhee
Abolition / Social Movements / Art & Culture / Partner Publisher
Back in print in a new 2nd Edition with 4 additional pages of material and updated introductions.
Part history lesson, part organizing tool, part sticker set, this publication traces the ark of reproducible political graphics over the past 100 years via a collection of 15 examples. Each of these—from the Russian Revolution's "Red Wedge Beats The Whites" to an 1980s squatting flyer featuring Bart Simpson—have been re-imagined as graphics mobilized to shut Rikers Island Jail Complex.
The Katal Center provides a brisk introduction to Rikers Island and why it is one of the country's most notorious jails. MacPhee draws on both his extensive knowledge of political graphic history and his 30 years of designing within social movements to deftly connect the two via the bridge of the campaign to Shut Rikers.
In addition, each zine comes with a set of 16 stickers, ready to use!
The Capacitor Collective
First-hand accounts from the tech sector’s resurgent labor movement as artificial intelligence gains ground in every facet of our lives.
As tech billionaires align with Trump, they are also launching a renewed assault on labor through artificial intelligence and alienating tactics. But for now, it still takes workers to make fortunes for the bosses, and collective action is again on the rise. The rank and file are now coming from precarious new “gig jobs” and drawing strength from a class of worker who does what computers still cannot. Previously thought to be “unorganizable,” these workers are part of a North American movement that is reaffirming faith in collective revolutionary action through new methods of organizing, new ways of association, and a new synthesis of traditional labor activities with original research.
To capture this growing class consciousness, the Capacitor Collective has conducted ten illuminating interviews with platform workers and organizers whose efforts align traditional motives with new tactics in a text that shakes up the worker inquiry tradition and imagines new ways to produce knowledge with and for the movement.
Andrew Ross
Ecology / Anticolonial Politics
From acclaimed public scholar Andrew Ross, groundbreaking reporting on climate change and the horizons of a just future from Palestine, UAE, Arizona, and China.
Between the summers of 2023 and 2024, temperatures rose, coastal areas flooded, and droughts and fires raged inland. Unprecedented tornadoes, hurricanes, and typhoons of astonishing force revealed the disturbances roiling the air and the oceans. More species than ever before disappeared from the planet in what scientists are calling Earth’s Sixth Great Extinction. Reports from the front lines of the climate crisis have always been grim, but this past year was worse than any other, measurably more catastrophic in more ways for more animals and more people.
In his travels during this tumultuous year, public intellectual and noted scholar Andrew Ross criss-crossed the world, visiting Ramallah (Palestine), Dubai (UAE), Phoenix (USA), and Shanghai (China)—some of the landscapes most disturbed by human activity, whether through active warfare or massive development projects. But rather than offering another eco-polemic or recalling for us the dread prognostications of Malthus in the 19th century or Ehrlich in the 20th, The Weather Report is a clear-eyed and essentially optimistic book that proposes a pragmatic, just, and urgent new common ground reestablishing scalable projects of mutual aid and care as a new, essential center for our economic, ecological, and social well-being.
John Redhouse
Foreword by Jennifer Denetdale
Introduction by Melanie K. Yazzie
Copublished with Red Media
Anticolonial Politics / Social Movements / Ecology
A one-of-a-kind lyrical and fast-paced memoir of the frontlines and trenches of Native liberation in the Four Corners and Southwest in the 1970s.
From the late summer of 1972 to the late summer of 1974, John Redhouse and many other Navajo and Indian rights activists threw all they had into mass movement organizing and direct action. And they were pretty good at it too in terms of effectiveness and impact.
Written in the first-person and above all, with a collective spirit of generosity and witness, John Redhouse describes the hot temper of the times in the racist and exploitative border towns in the Four Corners area of the Southwest region.
As John Redhouse says, “Without the People, you have nothing. But back then, we had a lot of people WITH us.” Yes, the Power of the People, the collective human spirit of the emerging local and regional Indian civil movement, thousands of us marching in the streets of Gallup and Farmington in northwestern New Mexico with our demands. A bold citizens arrest at city hall, a downtown street riot, burning images of enemy leaders in effigy. And more marches, demonstrations, and direct actions.
Above all, though, there was that Spirit—that unbroken, unconquerable spirit—that moved us, that drove us, that led us. And that was just in the border towns. In that turbulent decade, there was also the rapidly rising and spreading with-the-people, on-the-land resistance struggles in the coal, uranium, and oil and gas fields, and in disputed territories in the San Juan and Black Mesa basins that were targeted for ethnic cleansing and mineral extraction.
Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, Contested Territories: The Four Corners in the Turbulent 1970s brings readers to the enduring issues of the day, traced over half a century ago, where John Redhouse and many more were in the middle of a revolution that unfolds to this day.
Dhoruba Bin Wahad
Edited by Kalonji Jama Changa
Foreword by Joy James
Black Liberation / Antifascist Politics
Lessons for the antifascist fight now and to come rooted in well-learned lessons from Black liberation.
Revolution In These Times delivers veteran Black Panther Party member, Black Liberation Army leader, and former political prisoner Dhoruba Bin-Wahad direct in his own words to offer us an analysis of how today's resurgent right-wing agenda is an outgrowth of the ongoing and historical political struggle between the oppressed masses and settler-colonialism of America and Europe. Bin-Wahad not only explores how white supremacist politics have recaptured the American imagination but also prescribes a radical grassroots response to counter this ideology and supplant the violent state repression that keeps it in power.
Bin Wahad pieces together fight-back strategies against the police and the state through a process of mobilizing in the streets, on the block, and in our communities, while gathering mass through antifascist coalition-building in a manner unrealized since the 1960s and 1970s. In this series of interviews, Bin Wahad grounds us in the now, seamlessly weaving together firsthand accounts of his own and other’s revolutionary past in the history of struggle, alongside lessons for today.
Interference Archive, Lani Hanna, Jen Hoyer, Josh MacPhee, Vero Ordaz, Sarah Seidman
Anticolonial Politics / Latin America / Art & Culture
Graphic design and political solidarity work in revolutionary Cuba through the lens of OPSAAAL (Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America) and its cultural production.
Armed by Design reflects on the intersection of graphic design and political solidarity work in revolutionary Cuba through the lens of the production of OSPAAAL, the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
OSPAAAL developed out of the 1966 Tricontinental Conference in Havana, a meeting of delegates representing national liberation movements and leftist political parties almost exclusively from the Global South. Based in Havana, OSPAAAL produced nearly five hundred posters, magazines, and books beginning in the late 1960s, with most of their work ceasing by the late 1980s. Until 2019, OSPAAAL was a political organization focused on fighting US imperialism and supporting liberation movements around the world through poster production, regularly produced publications, and a series of books featuring the writings of the intellectual leadership of these movements.
Armed By Design brings together artists and thinkers from around the world whose work has been impacted by the legacy of OSPAAAL. These contributions reflect on impacts of OSPAAAL’s work on regional movements, including in the Arab world and Korea, design iconography, the evolution of tricontinentalism, our present-day relationship to OSPAAAL posters as a commodity, and authorship and reproduction.
This full-color multilingual edition includes ten international contemporary political poster-makers, artists, and designers commissioned to produce OSPAAAL-inspired prints in solidarity with today’s movements: Friends of Ibn Firnas (USA), Yuko Tonohira (Japan/USA), Ganzeer (Egypt/USA), Un Mundo Feliz (Spain), Steven Rodriguez (USA), Dignidad Rebelde, Tomie Arai (USA), Sublevarte Colectivo (Mexico), Jamaa Al-Yad (Lebanon/Worldwide), and A3CB (Japan).
Annie Xibos Spencer
What the opioid epidemic teaches us about the addiction at the root of our social life—and how we free ourselves from it.
How To Break An Addiction paints an original and dynamic portrait of the nature of the opioid crisis while offering original commentary on what the crisis portends about the present historical conjuncture. Interrogating long- and short-run, macro and micro, national and global, structural and personal factors, it takes the ongoing US opioid crisis as a jumping off point to illustrate the profound conclusion: capitalism at its core is an addiction.
In a blend of memoir, historical record, original research, and theoretical and cultural analysis, critical geographer and harm reduction activist Annie Spencer argues against a dominant ‘progressive’ presumption of the need to reform (or ‘save’) capitalism, demonstrating instead the imperative to think, organize, and enact new ways of being and provisioning together on a living Earth.
How To Break An Addiction renders visible the extent to which the world we inhabit today is made by addiction—in capital’s image—and against life and well-being. Spencer calls for redress of the deepening crisis of addiction and the so-called ‘epidemic’ of pain at its root; for a paradigm shift away from the dominant economic logic in favor of new kinds of ecosystemic social practice and provision. We must innovate a new way of being human together in the here and now. Spencer’s first-person narration anchors rigorous and far-reaching research and theory, making for an original and impactful tour through capital’s addiction to crisis and our ability—and need—to break from it.
Sasha Warren
Storming Bedlam reimagines mental health care and its radical possibilities in the context of its global development under capitalism.
We live in a world oversaturated by new mental health programs, methods, and shifts that simply pile up and seem to lead nowhere. Storming Bedlam: Madness, Mental Health, and Revolt suggests that psychiatry must face its repeated failures in the light of its utopian aspirations. Only by doing so can the intense contradictions that animate the world of mental health care be adequately conceptualized and situated as the basis for a future therapeutic practice.
In a radical rereading of the history, theory, and practice of psychiatry under capitalism that emphasizes the utopian thrust of the psychiatric revolution, Storming Bedlam pushes totalizing and often idealistic visions of mental health care to their limits to chart another path. This is the first global and comparative reflection on radical psychiatric currents that ties them directly to the original founding acts of the field. Here, in an original and compelling account of the field’s radical history, moral treatment is read in the light of the utopian socialist movement, as the French Institutional Psychotherapy of Félix Guattari is put into conversation with Brazilian art therapy of Nise da Silveira, Mexican antipsychiatry’s reflections on violence are compared with Argentinian psychoanalysis and Frantz Fanon’s anticolonial psychiatric practice, and the Italian Democratic Psychiatry movement and Brazilian anti-institutional politics are contrasted with the North American anti-psychiatry currents beginning in the 1960s–70s counterculture, and more.
Josh MacPhee
Art & Culture / Partner Publisher
In 1962, Penguin Books carried out an unprecedented experiment in Anglophone paperback book cover design. Deploying a new design grid created by Romek Marber, they released a flood of crime and mystery novels wrapped in simple, efficient, green and black covers. An unheralded peak of late-Modernist design, many of these covers still stand out today as some of the most interesting and compelling ever created for Penguin—or any press!
This publication, in which Josh MacPhee tells the history of this design experiment, includes nearly 70 cover reproductions as well as a bibliography and bios of key designers. In addition, it features a 2-sided poster with a giant grids of 128 book covers.
The content draws on earlier research MacPhee had done on the Penguin Crime series for his Judging Books By Their Covers blog post series on Justseeds.
Josh MacPhee
Art & Culture / Social Movements / Partner Publisher
Apartheid? Hell No! is a zine collecting over 100 anti-apartheid graphics from South Africa and the anti-apartheid solidarity movement in the 1980s, and it really feels like there is really no better time to recirculate this treasure box of potent graphics.
I originally found much of this content in an large photocopied document I unearthed from the library of the University of Colorado back in the late 1990s. While I photographed a lot of the imagery, the larger frame for it has been lost to time—I have no documentation of who originally assembled the content, although I suspect it was a grad student project from the late 1980s.
I've collaged the material in a similar manner to my Free Leonard Peltier zine (Pound the Pavement #22) from years back, but have also attributed the content whenever possible.
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This issue explores armed resistance from the vantage point of South Asia. It delves into debates surrounding revolutionary violence and seeks answers in the subcontinent. Thanks to the glorification of Gandhi and his non-violent tactics, South Asia occupies a prominent place in the alleged success story of pacifism. Yet it is also a region where numerous national liberation and anti-imperialist struggles show that revolutionary violence has often been a key instigator and driver of history’s so-called locomotive. The issue presents the political and historical contexts that necessitated such revolutionary violence in lesser-known liberation movements across South Asia, from Balochistan to Bangladesh.
Launched in 2018, Jamhoor is a Left media platform for South Asia and its diasporas. Our name — “the people” in Urdu — distills our commitments: we are for the people. To be for the people means understanding and combating the structures that weigh us down: imperialism, capitalism, patriarchy, casteism, racism, and queerphobia. To be for the people is to refuse the borders that divide us: it is internationalism. To be for the people is to imagine and build radical alternatives that let us thrive: it is to remake the world.
Josh MacPhee
Abolition / Art & Culture / Partner Publisher
Part history lesson, part organizing tool, part sticker set, this publication traces the ark of reproducible political graphics over the past 100 years via a collection of 15 examples. Each of these—from the Russian Revolution's "Red Wedge Beats The Whites" to an 1980s squatting flyer featuring Bart Simpson—have been re-imagined as graphics mobilized to shut Rikers Island Jail Complex.
Katal Center
Josh MacPhee
Abolition / Social Movements / Art & Culture / Partner Publisher
Back in print in a new 2nd Edition with 4 additional pages of material and updated introductions.
Part history lesson, part organizing tool, part sticker set, this publication traces the ark of reproducible political graphics over the past 100 years via a collection of 15 examples. Each of these—from the Russian Revolution's "Red Wedge Beats The Whites" to an 1980s squatting flyer featuring Bart Simpson—have been re-imagined as graphics mobilized to shut Rikers Island Jail Complex.
The Katal Center provides a brisk introduction to Rikers Island and why it is one of the country's most notorious jails. MacPhee draws on both his extensive knowledge of political graphic history and his 30 years of designing within social movements to deftly connect the two via the bridge of the campaign to Shut Rikers.
In addition, each zine comes with a set of 16 stickers, ready to use!
Josh MacPhee
Black Liberation / Art & Culture / Social Movements / Partner Publisher
The Liberation Support Movement (LSM) was a North American solidarity organization which existed from 1968 to 1982. Marxist and anti-imperialist in orientation, they primarily sought to build support within the U.S. and Canada for African liberation movements. They built direct connections with representatives of movements from Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and more. With their own print shop and an ambitious political program, they published dozens of pamphlets, newsletters, posters, buttons, and even record albums featuring the stories, theories, and culture of African revolutionaries. In addition they booked tours, film screenings, and collected money for direct material aid. At a time when most political groups in N. America were either focused on the domestic sphere or Vietnam, LSM brought the struggles of people from across Africa into the consciousness of the Left.
Josh MacPhee
Art & Culture / Anticolonial Politics / Partner Publisher
This is a slightly-updated reprint of a small zine I created for the Librarians and Archivists With Palestine Box Set that was compiled for Booklyn back in 2014. Previously it was unavailable outside of this exclusive box set.
It was a perfect little project to use to learn how to run our new Risograph here in Brooklyn! The cover is 2-color, and the insides are printed in two different spot colors on multiple kinds of paper. The zine itself is a compilation of 29 photos of cartoonist Naji al-Ali's Handala character painted, pasted, stenciled, and screenprinted around the Palestinian Occupied Territories.
This is Pound the Pavement #15, part of a series of zines I've been producing for over a decade now. See others here.
Josh MacPhee
Antifascist Politics / Art & Culture / Partner Publisher
This zine developed out of a series of images I started making after the white supremacist attacks on antiracist protestors in Charlottesville, VA in August 2017, including the murder of Heather Heyer. The re-purposing of El Lissitsky's Red Wedge seemed perfect here, not simply re-using historical political imagery, but giving it new life. The zine includes ten different wedge drawings. Printed on a Risograph at Bright Spot, in Brooklyn. This is Pound the Pavement #17.
Josh MacPhee
Abolition / Art & Culture / Partner Publisher
This book documents the student occupations in support of Palestine in the Spring of 2024—through the lens of the barricades constructed at the encampments. 54 photographs of barricades from 10 different campuses are culled from social media, the press, and the phones of occupiers themselves, and these images run alongside a collection of texts about barricades and occupations pulled from text threads, interviews with occupiers, and historical writings about barricades. Together, image and text narrate the struggle via the space between affect and effect.
Arun Kundnani and Mizue Aizeki
Illustrations by Anuj Shrestha
Capitalism / Fiction & Literary Nonfiction / Art & Culture
Copublished with Surveillance Resistance Lab
This is the century of homeland security.
The federal government created a monster. They said it would keep us safe. The monster hatched in November 2002. It was named the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). An appetite for control and conquest was in its DNA. Its early influences, in the years after 9/11, were paranoia and vengeance.
The DHS is the only new department the United States has spawned in this century. With its birth, issues that were previously seen as separate—immigration control, policing, and counter-terrorism—were brought into a single, sprawling entity. Twenty-two preexisting agencies were absorbed into what became the nation’s third largest government department. Today it has a budget of over $100 billion and employs a quarter of a million people. Every danger is now conceived of as a threat to “homeland security,” and as the 9/11 Commission said in 2003, “the American homeland is the planet.”
Dear reader, this newspaper can become a political brick, a manifestation of vulgar materialism for those who share our politics. It can destroy everything with which you disagree or it can make barricades. We agree with those who say NO to one thing and YES to many things. Our enjoyment of life is inexhaustible; no one can take it away, no one can reduce it to anything smaller than that.
We live in a time where catastrophes (which will intensify) and war against humanity have taken place in the establishment of a New New New World Order. War is the last whip on humanity, controlling the political by violent, military means.
Our newspaper has been published irregularly for three years now and our friends are happy with what we are doing. The materials presented here offer those within the struggle a hope that might lift them out of despair so that together we can create an environment in which we want all want to live.
From the publisher:
Violence is arrayed against me because I’m Black, or female, or queer, or undocumented. There is no rescue team coming for us. With that knowledge, we need a different operational base to recreate the world. It is not going to be a celebrity savior. Never was, never will be. If you’re in a religious tradition that is millennia-old, consider how the last savior went out. It was always going to be bloody. It was always going to be traumatic. But there’s a beauty to facing the reality of our lives. Not our lives as they’re broken apart, written about and then sold back to us in academic or celebrity discourse. But our lives as we understand them. The most important thing is showing up. Showing up and learning how to live by and with others, learning how to reinvent ourselves in this increasing wasteland. That’s the good life.
Foreword by Da’Shaun L. Harrison
Afterword by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Art & Culture / Anticolonial Politics / Partner Publisher
Graphics from the Sleeves of Vinyl Records of Palestinian Resistance and Existence
This booklet compiles almost 60 examples of graphics, typography, and photography culled from the sleeves of Palestinian vinyl records. It also features a short essay and a full discography of the records the images are culled from.
Art Workers’ Inquiry
Labor / Art & Culture / Abolition
When the pandemic hit it was clear that art workers’ conditions had changed dramatically. The composition of the working class is vastly different than it was two years ago, and it’s likely to continue changing. Jobs in “arts, entertainment and recreation” fell by 66% in 2020—the largest decline among the city’s economic sectors. This swelling of the reserve army of labor put pressure on those still employed to take on numerous additional tasks, from hastily developing online classes from scratch to participating in elaborate cleaning protocols that allowed museums and other institutions to justify reopening.
To help understand these changes Art Workers’ Inquiry decided to draft an inquiry, Art Work During a Pandemic. It asked art workers to elaborate on exactly how their working conditions had changed. Are you receiving unemployment? Is it adequate? It also asked what changes art workers would like to see in their lives after the pandemic. Many of the answers received reflected fundamental changes that would impact the lives of all people, not just art workers. The responses overwhelmingly expressed a desire for a socially just world in which everyone would have the time and freedom to create and live an unalienated, fulfilling life.
The responses and artwork from many of the respondents were collected in this full color zine to help us understand where we are and where we could go.
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A Full Color Print Edition of Big Brick Energy, authored by Unity & Struggle.
Big Brick Energy takes a step beyond anecdotes and hot takes. For a year, members of Unity and Struggle studied the uprising by interviewing fifteen comrades in five cities, compiling news coverage from the same cities, and surveying official reports from local governments and police departments in seventeen cities nationwide. We drew out common dynamics across locations, identified tactics and strategies that the movement and the ruling class used, explored what worked or didn't, and highlighted important challenges and questions that a future uprising will likely encounter.
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Silvia Federici
We are witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, including new witch hunts. This surge of violence has occurred alongside an expansion of capitalist social relations. In this new work that revisits some of the main themes of Caliban and the Witch, Silvia Federici examines the root causes of these developments and outlines the consequences for the women affected and their communities. She argues that, no less than the witch hunts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe and the “New World,” this new war on women is a structural element of the new forms of capitalist accumulation. These processes are founded on the destruction of people’s most basic means of reproduction. Like at the dawn of capitalism, what we discover behind today’s violence against women are processes of enclosure, land dispossession, and the remolding of women’s reproductive activities and subjectivity.
As well as an investigation into the causes of this new violence, the book is also a feminist call to arms. Federici’s work provides new ways of understanding the methods in which women are resisting victimization and offers a powerful reminder that reconstructing the memory of the past is crucial for the struggles of the present.
Saidiya Hartman, Vicky Osterweil, Christina Sharpe, and Rinaldo Walcott
Edited by Andreas Petrossiants and Jose Rosales
Art & Culture / Black Liberation / Social Movements
Diversity of Aesthetics is a multi-volume editorial project started with the goal of facilitating conversations between radical thinkers and cultural workers about artistic production, aesthetics, struggles against racialized capitalism, and revolutionary theory through our shared experiences.
The first volume, titled Inside and Outside: Infrastructures of Critique features Michael Rakowitz, Shellyne Rodriguez, and Stevphen Shukaitis in conversation with Andreas Petrossiants mapping connections between social movements and artistic work.
The second volume, Foreigners Everywhere, presents a lesser-known account of Claire Fontaine’s reception outside of the university and the museum in the Global South and features a conversation between Claire Fontaine, Iman Ganji, and Jose Rosales ranging from the 2021 strikes in Iran to the internationalist potential of the practice of translation.
Lastly, volume 3 is titled Looting and is a conversation between Saidiya Hartman, Christina Sharpe, Rinaldo Walcott, and Vicky Osterweil. They discuss looting as a modality of Black struggle and a form of contesting whiteness, property, politics, and modes of governance. Looting is discussed via aesthetic theory, but also in the ways it has been and is used by states to protect constituent modes of power and to cultivate Western culture. It is an engagement with centuries of Black radical thought, history, and social movements.
Build Power From Below!
This pin was designed by Josh MacPhee to accompany the publication of Yes, It’s Possible! A Handbook For Building Power From Below by João França and The Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH).
Designed by Josh MacPhee to accompany the publication of Take Over the City by Neil Gray.
Kennedy Block & Josh MacPhee | Pound the Pavement #39/PIT Tapes #3
Strike While the Needle Is Hot! is a 60-minute cassette collecting 24 songs detailed in the book Strike While the Needle Is Hot: A Discography of Workers' Revolt (Common Notions, 2025), mixed from vinyl records by me (Josh MacPhee) and Kennedy Block, and mastered to tape by Jim McHugh at The P.I.T. in Los Sures, Brooklyn.
Workers have been engaged in a culture of resistance for as long as there have been bosses. Across every movement and in every language, we have joined our voices together in rebellion and solidarity, singing songs that still echo through the history of organized labor. But in the last hundred years, new technology has allowed these militant rhythms and rebellious melodies to be recorded as they were sung–the voices of miners in Northern England, fieldworkers in California, autoworkers in France, and many others–etched into wax, shellac, and vinyl as strike records.
Poster featuring images of records from Strike While The Needle Is Hot by Josh MacPhee and Kennedy Block.
Risograph printed poster featuring the cover art for Letters From A Living Utopia: Reclaiming Liberation From Palestine to the World by Yaffa As.
Risograph printed poster featuring cover art from Rise Up Or Die!: The Struggle Against the Genocide of Black People in Brazil.
Two-sided, offset printed broadside. One side is black and white with text from Andrew Ross’s book THE WEATHER REPORT. The other side is full color and features the cover of the book.
Full color poster promoting Armed By Design. This four-language book preserves the legacy of OSPAAAL poster design.
Risograph printed poster featuring the cover art for Homeland Security: Myths and Monsters.
Tell the world "We Want Freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal" with this hand-printed poster (limited edition)
Tell the world "We Want Freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal" with this limited edition hand-printed tote bag.
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By any media necessary, we seek to nourish the imagination and generalize common notions about the creation of other worlds beyond state and capital. Our publications trace a constellation of critical and visionary meditations on the organization of freedom. Inspired by various traditions of autonomism and liberation—in the U.S. and internationally, historically and emerging from contemporary movements—our publications provide resources for a collective reading of struggles past, present, and to come.
Jiyar Jahan Fard
Translated by Chiya Parvizpur
Fiction & Literary Nonfiction
Forthcoming, ships September 2026
Over a single day, a family faces grief and exile and history in a surreal tale set at contested borders.
On one side of the border, Azad’s mother stands in her grief, waiting to bury her son. On the other side, his uncle and cousins wait with his body, barred by unrelenting guards from bringing him home without a passport. Borders are a thousand kinds of violence, a vicious declaration of who belongs and who does not. For generations, the Kurdish people have lived divided by these cruelties, carved out amid the ruins of war and empire. This is The Shadeless Border.
Over the next twenty-four hours at the crossing, an uncanny tale unfolds through a chorus of surprising voices: Death and the Border speak to us like old friends; a coffin and a stringed instrument, both carved from the same tree, remember Azad’s family history. Set at the contested frontier between Iran and Iraq, Jiyar Jahan Fard’s masterpiece is a work of haunting intensity, written along the delicate line between Kafka and Kundera, and tracing the man-made boundaries that define the reality of modern-day Kurdistan.