"Refuse work. Revolt against capitalism. Read Harry Cleaver. In that order. Repeat."

Join us as we welcome organizers and co-editors Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter to the store for a conversation with activist and Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power co-author James Tracy, on their new book Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: The Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver.

Points of Departure is a definitive collection of Harry Cleaver’s best unpublished, translated, or lesser known writings on the refusal of work, class composition and “inversion of the class perspective,” the crisis of capitalism. He shows the ongoing necessity of re-reading Marx theory to understand, find points of departure from, and “finally end capitalism before it ends us.

Points of Departure will be released on Common Notion Press’s new Class Compositions series in September 2026. This special edition and release coincides with the Labor Notes conference.