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Tomorrow!

10.10.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Black cover showing the title repeated, becoming increasingly degraded in the style of old VHS tapes

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World (paperback edition)

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Part tragicomic memoir, part chilling reportage & cobweb-clearing analysis, Klein invites readers on a wild ride, charting a path beyond despair towards true solidarity.

10.10.2025 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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(NEW!) Elon Musk: American Oligarch

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An unvarnished, critical graphic biography of the tech innovator & former presidential confidant by the author/illustrator of Putin’s Russia: The Rise of a Dictator and Billionaires: The Lives of the Rich & Powerful.

10.10.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The People Make the Peace: Lessons from the Vietnam Antiwar Movement

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9 US activists discuss the parts they played in opposing the War at home & their risky travels to Vietnam in the midst of the conflict to engage in people-to-people diplomacy.

08.10.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hey Toronto! Fri Oct 10th, 7pm, launching Squat the City! with a stellar lineup of community activists also! It's free but you need to get tickets.

www.facebook.com/events/32466...

www.eventbrite.ca/e/squat-the-...

#torontolife #bookstagram #artistic #activist #housing #tenantrights #solidarity

11.09.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My Voice Sought the Wind: Poems

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Susan Abulhawa, esteemed Palestinian American author & social activist, on the timeless themes of love, loss, identity, & family, brought to life through her vivid observations & intimate personal reflections.

08.10.2025 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance

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A collection of Palestinian poetry originally published in 1970 that resonates with liberation and civil rights struggles around the world.

05.10.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Housing Monster, 2nd ed. A house is more than four walls and a roof. From its design and production to the way it is sold, used, resold, and eventually demolished, it is crisscrossed by conflict. The Housing Monster is a scat...

(NEW!) The Housing Monster, 2nd ed.

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From intensely personal thoughts to large-scale political & economic forces, a scathing illustrated essay that takes one everyday thingβ€”a houseβ€”& looks at the social relations that surround it.

02.10.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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(NEW!) Confronting Counterinsurgency: Cop Cities and Democracy’s Terrors

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As we step into an era of rising fascism and normalized genocide, Confronting Counterinsurgency is an invaluable contribution to the fightback. Edited by Joy James.

01.10.2025 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Toronto book launch for Squat the City: How to Use the Arts for Housing Justice

Friday, October 10, 7pm
Another Story Bookshop (315 Roncesvalles Ave.)

RSVP: squatthecity.eventbrite.ca
Order the book : leftwingbooks.net/squatthecity

30.09.2025 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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(NEW!) Sound System: The Political Power of Music

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A book of raves, riots & revolution. From Glastonbury to Palestine, The X Factor to Trinidadian Carnival, Randall finds political inspiration across the musical spectrum

30.09.2025 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A CUPW picketer yells at a cop during the 1981 strike which won paid maternity leave for postal employees and led to a much wider availability of these benefits for workers across the country.

A CUPW picketer yells at a cop during the 1981 strike which won paid maternity leave for postal employees and led to a much wider availability of these benefits for workers across the country.

CANADA POST STRIKE

Solidarity with the striking workers! Deliveries outside of Montreal are delayed indefinitely. Orders still very much appreciated.

See the popup on LeftWingBooks.net for more details

30.09.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
BULLOCK: DEPRIVATION & DESPAIR IN AN AMERICAN PRISON (w/Matthew Vernon Whalan)
YouTube video by The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow BULLOCK: DEPRIVATION & DESPAIR IN AN AMERICAN PRISON (w/Matthew Vernon Whalan)

Check out this new interview with
@hardtimesreviewer.bsky.social & @eskow.bsky.social to discuss his new book from @kersplebedeb.bsky.social
"Bullock: Chronicles of Deprivation and Despair in an #American #Prison" here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEnv...

28.09.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What we know so far about the fatal police shooting of 15-year-old Nooran Rezayi The shooting of a Longueuil teen has left his family demanding answers and a community in shock.

A police officer in Longueil, Quebec shot and killed 15-year-old Nooran Rezayi on Sunday

The govt office investigating the shooting has neither released the officer's name nor indicated why Rezayi was shot. Police took over 5 hours to notify his family

www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...

25.09.2025 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ•ŠοΈβš‘JUSTICE POUR NOORAN, NI OUBLI NI PARDONβš‘πŸ•ŠοΈ
"Nous appelons toutes celles et ceux qui ont le cΕ“ur lourd Γ  se rassembler pour s'indigner et soutenir la famille et les proches du jeune Nooran."

Lieu : Parc des Mille Fleurs, Γ  l'intersection des rues Monaco et Joseph-Daigneault, Γ  Saint-Hubert

14h

23.09.2025 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal Ebook (Mobi and Epub) β€œA virus is haunting the globe, one of pandemic proportions, whose threat has necessitated unprecedented measures to forestall death and violence worse than the present crisis. But the cruelty, violen...

As a treat, you can also check out the collectively authored volume (including others such as @mlmmayhem.bsky.social) On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal, also published by @kersplebedeb.bsky.social: leftwingbooks.net/products/on-...

23.09.2025 03:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism What’s the relationship between combating the far right and working for systemic change? What does it mean when fascists intensify racial oppression and patriarchy but also call for the downfall of ec...

My essay "Seven Theses on the Three Way Fight" appears in this essential volume (on account of the other entries) edited by @threewayfight.bsky.social (from @kersplebedeb.bsky.social): leftwingbooks.net/products/thr...

23.09.2025 03:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Sickening Conditions of Prisons in Alabama

@EddieBurkhalter, Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, and @VernonWhalan, journalist and author, join us to talk about the inhumane conditions of Alabama's prisons.

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15.09.2025 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Revolutionary Bookfair in Montreal
Oct 5, 12–6pm
Batiment 7 (1900 rue Le Ber) in the Grand Atelier

Us and other radical left publishers and distributors!

20.09.2025 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
BULLOCK: DEPRIVATION & DESPAIR IN AN AMERICAN PRISON (w/Matthew Vernon Whalan)
YouTube video by The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow BULLOCK: DEPRIVATION & DESPAIR IN AN AMERICAN PRISON (w/Matthew Vernon Whalan)

Check out this new interview with @hardtimesreviewer.bsky.social and @eskow.bsky.social to discuss his new book from @kersplebedeb.bsky.social "Bullock: Chronicles of Deprivation and Despair in an #American #Prison" here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEnv...

20.09.2025 00:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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2026 Slingshots now available for pre-order!

176-page planner, radical history for all 365 days, space for phone numbers, a contact list of radical groups around the globe, menstrual calendar, info on police repression, extra note pages, & more

leftwingbooks.net/products/slingshot-organizer-2026

19.09.2025 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Come find our table at the Victoria Anarchist Bookfair this weekend! victoriaanarchistbookfair.ca

Catch Norman Nawrocki, author of Squat the City: How to Use the Arts for Housing Justice (Kersplebedeb 2025) giving a workshop based on the book on Sunday at 12pm! leftwingbooks.net/squatthecity

19.09.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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(NEW!) The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded edition

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With fascism in our midst, Indigenous artist Gord Hill revises and expands his brilliant graphic history of fascism and anti-fascist movements

18.09.2025 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Certain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar is full of essays, beautiful art & important dates in social justice history!β€― Required reading for leftists, radicals, and abolitionists.

2026 pre-order: leftwingbooks.net/products/certain-days-freedom-for-political-prisoners-calendar-2026

16.09.2025 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Anarchists Don't Vote: Radical Criticisms of Representative Government

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This collection of classic writings highlights and explains the anarchists' enduring critique of electoralism and representative government.

14.09.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hamilton Anarchist Bookfair!

Sept 27, 10am–5pm
Workers Arts & Heritage Centre (51 Stuart St.)
Books! Zines! Art! Workshops!
Free Admission, Free Childcare, Free Lunch from Food Not Bombs
hamiltonanarchistbookfair.noblogs.org

14.09.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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(NEW!) Revolutionary People's War: What Does Life Look Like in Rojava/NE Syria Today?

What’s going on in Rojava? What is the role of women? How is Γ–calan involved? What does the 2025 ceasefire deal mean? A timely, frontline explanation & update

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08.09.2025 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Learning from Movements – Norman Nawrocki Norman Nawrocki got his start in grassroots political work as a Vancouver high school student protesting the Vietnam War in the 1970s. From there, he got involved in a broad spectrum of issues as a un...

Check out my interview with @normannawrocki.bsky.social, a long-time activist and prolific musician and writer in Montreal. He talks about housing struggles, strengthening movements through the arts, being inspired by Zapatistas and Palestinian youth, and his new book.

mediacoop.ca/node/119300

28.07.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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(NEW!) The Outspoken and the Incendiary: Interviews with Radical Speculative Fiction Writers

Showcases insightful and long-form explorations into the lives and minds of some of today’s most politically charged fiction writers.

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08.09.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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(NEW!) The Savage Road: Rage & Revolt on the Ecuadorian Oil Frontier

A first-hand chronicle of a fluid and rapidly evolving battle against seemingly impossible odds that was destined to achieve a remarkable victory.

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06.09.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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