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kersplebedeb.bsky.social @kersplebedeb.bsky.social · 23h

(NEW!) Gaza: The Story of a Genocide

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A powerful, urgent collection of personal testimony, poetry, art & frontline reportage. Together, they bear witness to the vast & ongoing destruction inflicted on the Palestinian people—their lives, their land & their future

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kersplebedeb.bsky.social @kersplebedeb.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow!

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kersplebedeb.bsky.social @kersplebedeb.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Black cover showing the title repeated, becoming increasingly degraded in the style of old VHS tapes

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kersplebedeb.bsky.social @kersplebedeb.bsky.social · 2d

(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.

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kersplebedeb.bsky.social @kersplebedeb.bsky.social · 4d

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.

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Norman Nawrocki @normannawrocki.bsky.social · Sep 11

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

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kersplebedeb.bsky.social @kersplebedeb.bsky.social · 4d

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.

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kersplebedeb.bsky.social @kersplebedeb.bsky.social · 7d

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.

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kersplebedeb.bsky.social @kersplebedeb.bsky.social · 10d

(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 thing—a house—& looks at the social relations that surround it.

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...

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kersplebedeb.bsky.social @kersplebedeb.bsky.social · 11d

(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.

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kersplebedeb.bsky.social @kersplebedeb.bsky.social · 12d

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

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kersplebedeb.bsky.social @kersplebedeb.bsky.social · 12d

(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

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kersplebedeb.bsky.social @kersplebedeb.bsky.social · 12d

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

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.

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Democracy At Work @democracyatwork.bsky.social · 14d

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...

BULLOCK: DEPRIVATION & DESPAIR IN AN AMERICAN PRISON (w/Matthew Vernon Whalan)

YouTube video by The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow

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Negro Frolics @desmondcole.bsky.social · 18d

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...

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.

www.montrealgazette.com

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Montréal Antifasciste @montrealantifa.bsky.social · 19d

🕊️⚡JUSTICE POUR NOORAN, NI OUBLI NI PARDON⚡🕊️
"Nous appelons toutes celles et ceux qui ont le cœur lourd à se rassembler pour s'indigner et soutenir la famille et les proches du jeune Nooran."

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

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d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 20d

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-...

On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal Ebook (Mobi and Epub)

“A 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...

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d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 20d

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...

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...

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The Valley Labor Report @tvlrfm.bsky.social · 27d

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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kersplebedeb.bsky.social @kersplebedeb.bsky.social · 22d

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!

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Democracy At Work @democracyatwork.bsky.social · 23d

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...

BULLOCK: DEPRIVATION & DESPAIR IN AN AMERICAN PRISON (w/Matthew Vernon Whalan)

YouTube video by The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow

www.youtube.com

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kersplebedeb.bsky.social @kersplebedeb.bsky.social · 23d

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

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kersplebedeb.bsky.social @kersplebedeb.bsky.social · 23d

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

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kersplebedeb.bsky.social @kersplebedeb.bsky.social · 24d

(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

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kersplebedeb.bsky.social @kersplebedeb.bsky.social · 26d

The Certain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar is full of essays, beautiful art & important dates in social justice history!  Required reading for leftists, radicals, and abolitionists.

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

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