@kersplebedeb.bsky.social
Several hundred titles are 50% off (or more!) until the end of the year! See them all at LeftWingBooks.net/kersplember
November 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Several hundred titles are 50% off (or more!) until the end of the year! See them all at LeftWingBooks.net/kersplember
Check out the latest releases from Verso, now available at leftwingbooks.net/collections/all/verso?sort_by=created-descending
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Check out the latest releases from Verso, now available at leftwingbooks.net/collections/all/verso?sort_by=created-descending
(NEW!) Post-Man: Essays on Being a Neurodivergent Non-Binary Person
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In this divisive moment in the history of gender politics, Alex Manley navigates life as a neurodivergent non-binary person and explores their dislocations from the norm.
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In this divisive moment in the history of gender politics, Alex Manley navigates life as a neurodivergent non-binary person and explores their dislocations from the norm.
November 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
(NEW!) Post-Man: Essays on Being a Neurodivergent Non-Binary Person
leftwingbooks.net/products/post-man
In this divisive moment in the history of gender politics, Alex Manley navigates life as a neurodivergent non-binary person and explores their dislocations from the norm.
leftwingbooks.net/products/post-man
In this divisive moment in the history of gender politics, Alex Manley navigates life as a neurodivergent non-binary person and explores their dislocations from the norm.
(NEW!) Chicago '68: A board game for 1-4 players about the DNC protests & policing
"This is play not only as history, but as a mirror." Dan Thurot, spacebiff.com/2024/08/19/chicago-68/
leftwingbooks.net/products/chicago-68 (free shipping to QC/ON, get a 2nd thing for free shipping to RoC)
"This is play not only as history, but as a mirror." Dan Thurot, spacebiff.com/2024/08/19/chicago-68/
leftwingbooks.net/products/chicago-68 (free shipping to QC/ON, get a 2nd thing for free shipping to RoC)
November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
(NEW!) Chicago '68: A board game for 1-4 players about the DNC protests & policing
"This is play not only as history, but as a mirror." Dan Thurot, spacebiff.com/2024/08/19/chicago-68/
leftwingbooks.net/products/chicago-68 (free shipping to QC/ON, get a 2nd thing for free shipping to RoC)
"This is play not only as history, but as a mirror." Dan Thurot, spacebiff.com/2024/08/19/chicago-68/
leftwingbooks.net/products/chicago-68 (free shipping to QC/ON, get a 2nd thing for free shipping to RoC)
(NEW from Kersplebedeb!) Our Gun, Our Consciousness & the Collective: Letters from the Discussion in Prison
leftwingbooks.net/products/our-gun-our-consciousness-and-the-collective
Letters Ulrike Meinhof wrote for the RAF’s internal discussion in prison, as well as texts from their main trial.
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Letters Ulrike Meinhof wrote for the RAF’s internal discussion in prison, as well as texts from their main trial.
November 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
(NEW from Kersplebedeb!) Our Gun, Our Consciousness & the Collective: Letters from the Discussion in Prison
leftwingbooks.net/products/our-gun-our-consciousness-and-the-collective
Letters Ulrike Meinhof wrote for the RAF’s internal discussion in prison, as well as texts from their main trial.
leftwingbooks.net/products/our-gun-our-consciousness-and-the-collective
Letters Ulrike Meinhof wrote for the RAF’s internal discussion in prison, as well as texts from their main trial.
Come say hi at Expozine this weekend!
Saturday and Sunday (Nov 15-16)
11h30–19h both days
1025 Bélanger (Métro Jean-Talon)
Free admission
expozine.ca
Saturday and Sunday (Nov 15-16)
11h30–19h both days
1025 Bélanger (Métro Jean-Talon)
Free admission
expozine.ca
November 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Come say hi at Expozine this weekend!
Saturday and Sunday (Nov 15-16)
11h30–19h both days
1025 Bélanger (Métro Jean-Talon)
Free admission
expozine.ca
Saturday and Sunday (Nov 15-16)
11h30–19h both days
1025 Bélanger (Métro Jean-Talon)
Free admission
expozine.ca
Great write-up of a great event!
thelinknewspaper.ca/article/books-and-belonging-at-la-courtepointe
thelinknewspaper.ca/article/books-and-belonging-at-la-courtepointe
Books and belonging at La Courtepointe | Fringe Arts
On Nov. 8, La Courtepointe in Villeray hosted its first Leftist Book Fair, transforming the bar into a living library where ideas, art and activism shared the same table.
thelinknewspaper.ca
November 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Great write-up of a great event!
thelinknewspaper.ca/article/books-and-belonging-at-la-courtepointe
thelinknewspaper.ca/article/books-and-belonging-at-la-courtepointe
(NEW!) Seahorses: Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender-Expansive Pregnancy
leftwingbooks.net/products/seahorses
A groundbreaking anthology that shares the experiences of trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people who have navigated pregnancy.
leftwingbooks.net/products/seahorses
A groundbreaking anthology that shares the experiences of trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people who have navigated pregnancy.
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
(NEW!) Seahorses: Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender-Expansive Pregnancy
leftwingbooks.net/products/seahorses
A groundbreaking anthology that shares the experiences of trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people who have navigated pregnancy.
leftwingbooks.net/products/seahorses
A groundbreaking anthology that shares the experiences of trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people who have navigated pregnancy.
(NEW!) Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis
leftwingbooks.net/products/read-this-when-things-fall-apart
A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes
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A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes
November 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
(NEW!) Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis
leftwingbooks.net/products/read-this-when-things-fall-apart
A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes
leftwingbooks.net/products/read-this-when-things-fall-apart
A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes
(NEW!) Solidarity with Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy
leftwingbooks.net/products/solidarity-with-children
A revolutionary feminist case for child liberation, a utopian project that helps us imagine ways to build insurgent, collective forms of care.
leftwingbooks.net/products/solidarity-with-children
A revolutionary feminist case for child liberation, a utopian project that helps us imagine ways to build insurgent, collective forms of care.
November 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
(NEW!) Solidarity with Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy
leftwingbooks.net/products/solidarity-with-children
A revolutionary feminist case for child liberation, a utopian project that helps us imagine ways to build insurgent, collective forms of care.
leftwingbooks.net/products/solidarity-with-children
A revolutionary feminist case for child liberation, a utopian project that helps us imagine ways to build insurgent, collective forms of care.
(NEW!) How to End Family Policing: From
Outrage to Action
leftwingbooks.net/products/how-to-end-family-policing
From leading abolitionist organizers, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that purport to protect children make them—and our communities—less safe.
Outrage to Action
leftwingbooks.net/products/how-to-end-family-policing
From leading abolitionist organizers, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that purport to protect children make them—and our communities—less safe.
November 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
(NEW!) How to End Family Policing: From
Outrage to Action
leftwingbooks.net/products/how-to-end-family-policing
From leading abolitionist organizers, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that purport to protect children make them—and our communities—less safe.
Outrage to Action
leftwingbooks.net/products/how-to-end-family-policing
From leading abolitionist organizers, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that purport to protect children make them—and our communities—less safe.
(NEW!) Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary
Confinement
leftwingbooks.net/products/ending-isolation
Covering juveniles in solitary, mental illness, racial injustice & environmental issues, the book makes the case that the practice is a cruel & unusual punishment that must be abolished.
Confinement
leftwingbooks.net/products/ending-isolation
Covering juveniles in solitary, mental illness, racial injustice & environmental issues, the book makes the case that the practice is a cruel & unusual punishment that must be abolished.
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
(NEW!) Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary
Confinement
leftwingbooks.net/products/ending-isolation
Covering juveniles in solitary, mental illness, racial injustice & environmental issues, the book makes the case that the practice is a cruel & unusual punishment that must be abolished.
Confinement
leftwingbooks.net/products/ending-isolation
Covering juveniles in solitary, mental illness, racial injustice & environmental issues, the book makes the case that the practice is a cruel & unusual punishment that must be abolished.
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4/6... Genealogies of Antifascism by @dzshaw.bsky.social (@kersplebedeb.bsky.social): kersplebedeb.com/posts/new-bo... & Loving Corrections by @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social (@akpress.org): www.akpress.org/loving-corre...
Alt-text for details. #SmallPress #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #bookish
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November 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
4/6... Genealogies of Antifascism by @dzshaw.bsky.social (@kersplebedeb.bsky.social): kersplebedeb.com/posts/new-bo... & Loving Corrections by @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social (@akpress.org): www.akpress.org/loving-corre...
Alt-text for details. #SmallPress #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #bookish
Alt-text for details. #SmallPress #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #bookish
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I was interviewed for a piece in @prismreports.org about Read This When Things Fall Apart.
‘Solidarity is always the way forward’
In a Q&A with Prism, abolitionist organizer Kelly Hayes discusses her new anthology “Read This When Things Fall Apart,” featuring encouraging letters from movement leaders, writers, and activists
prismreports.org
November 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I was interviewed for a piece in @prismreports.org about Read This When Things Fall Apart.
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another incredibly timely & necessary intervention is "Antifascism Against Machismo" from @kersplebedeb.bsky.social & several longtime movement commentators - this text is easy to find online and you should read it very soon
leftwingbooks.net/en-us/produc...
leftwingbooks.net/en-us/produc...
Antifascism Against Machismo
An intergenerational dialogue on the meaning of feminist antifascism. Anti-Fascism Against Machismo collects and continues a conversation begun by Tammy Kovich (as “Petronella Lee”) in 2019. Four femi...
leftwingbooks.net
November 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
another incredibly timely & necessary intervention is "Antifascism Against Machismo" from @kersplebedeb.bsky.social & several longtime movement commentators - this text is easy to find online and you should read it very soon
leftwingbooks.net/en-us/produc...
leftwingbooks.net/en-us/produc...
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"Confronting Fascism" from @kersplebedeb.bsky.social was first published in 2002 but it's theoretical engagements of fascism & anti-fascism remain as relevant and necessary as ever. Of particular interest is Don Hamerquist's essay "Fascism & Anti-Fascism
leftwingbooks.net/en-us/produc...
leftwingbooks.net/en-us/produc...
Confronting Fascism: Discussion Documents for a Militant Movement
Confronting Fascism: Discussion Documents for a Militant Movement is a series of documents that came out of conversations revolutionaries in and around Anti-Racist Action were having at the highpoint ...
leftwingbooks.net
November 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"Confronting Fascism" from @kersplebedeb.bsky.social was first published in 2002 but it's theoretical engagements of fascism & anti-fascism remain as relevant and necessary as ever. Of particular interest is Don Hamerquist's essay "Fascism & Anti-Fascism
leftwingbooks.net/en-us/produc...
leftwingbooks.net/en-us/produc...
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THREAD: been seeing some threads of anti-fascist textual sources that were overwhelmingly academic, so here's a list of non-academic, rooted in radical/revolutionary politics & community, literature on anti-fascism in the United States (and in some cases Canada), in no order whatsoever
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November 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
THREAD: been seeing some threads of anti-fascist textual sources that were overwhelmingly academic, so here's a list of non-academic, rooted in radical/revolutionary politics & community, literature on anti-fascism in the United States (and in some cases Canada), in no order whatsoever
A Trans Man Walks Into a Gay Bar: A Journey of Self (and Sexual) Discovery
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Navigating the sometimes fraught & contradictory worlds of gay culture as a trans gay man, from Grindr & gay bars, to saunas, sex &, ultimately, falling in love.
leftwingbooks.net/products/a-trans-man-walks-into-a-gay-bar
Navigating the sometimes fraught & contradictory worlds of gay culture as a trans gay man, from Grindr & gay bars, to saunas, sex &, ultimately, falling in love.
November 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
A Trans Man Walks Into a Gay Bar: A Journey of Self (and Sexual) Discovery
leftwingbooks.net/products/a-trans-man-walks-into-a-gay-bar
Navigating the sometimes fraught & contradictory worlds of gay culture as a trans gay man, from Grindr & gay bars, to saunas, sex &, ultimately, falling in love.
leftwingbooks.net/products/a-trans-man-walks-into-a-gay-bar
Navigating the sometimes fraught & contradictory worlds of gay culture as a trans gay man, from Grindr & gay bars, to saunas, sex &, ultimately, falling in love.
(NEW!) The Long Sixties: Conversations with a Lifelong Revolutionary
A wide-ranging dialogue tracing the journey of militant & Marxist Loren Goldner, from Berkeley 1968 through decades of critique & action
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A wide-ranging dialogue tracing the journey of militant & Marxist Loren Goldner, from Berkeley 1968 through decades of critique & action
leftwingbooks.net/products/the-long-sixties-conversations-with-a-lifelong-revolutionary
October 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
(NEW!) The Long Sixties: Conversations with a Lifelong Revolutionary
A wide-ranging dialogue tracing the journey of militant & Marxist Loren Goldner, from Berkeley 1968 through decades of critique & action
leftwingbooks.net/products/the-long-sixties-conversations-with-a-lifelong-revolutionary
A wide-ranging dialogue tracing the journey of militant & Marxist Loren Goldner, from Berkeley 1968 through decades of critique & action
leftwingbooks.net/products/the-long-sixties-conversations-with-a-lifelong-revolutionary
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We’re one week away from the Read This When Things Fall Apart release! Tune into the @haymarketbooks.org virtual event tonight, the @boston-a-bookfair.bsky.social event tomorrow, and the events coming up in November! 🎉 Chicago will have not one but two in-person launch events 🎉🎉
October 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
We’re one week away from the Read This When Things Fall Apart release! Tune into the @haymarketbooks.org virtual event tonight, the @boston-a-bookfair.bsky.social event tomorrow, and the events coming up in November! 🎉 Chicago will have not one but two in-person launch events 🎉🎉
“Resistance Has Become Thinkable Again”—Torkil Lauesen & the Global Perspective on OCT 7 [comra]
Discussing the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood & the Decline of Western Hegemony
leftwingbooks.net/blogs/news/resistance-has-become-thinkable-again-torkil-lauesen-and-the-global-perspective-on-oct-7-comra
Discussing the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood & the Decline of Western Hegemony
leftwingbooks.net/blogs/news/resistance-has-become-thinkable-again-torkil-lauesen-and-the-global-perspective-on-oct-7-comra
October 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
“Resistance Has Become Thinkable Again”—Torkil Lauesen & the Global Perspective on OCT 7 [comra]
Discussing the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood & the Decline of Western Hegemony
leftwingbooks.net/blogs/news/resistance-has-become-thinkable-again-torkil-lauesen-and-the-global-perspective-on-oct-7-comra
Discussing the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood & the Decline of Western Hegemony
leftwingbooks.net/blogs/news/resistance-has-become-thinkable-again-torkil-lauesen-and-the-global-perspective-on-oct-7-comra
(NEW!) The Palestinian Left: Past, Present, & Future
leftwingbooks.net/products/the-palestinian-left-past-present-and-future
Torkil Lauesen's sweeping assessment of 50 years of revolutionary struggle, decline & possibility, beginning with the PFLP’s 1969 "Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine"
leftwingbooks.net/products/the-palestinian-left-past-present-and-future
Torkil Lauesen's sweeping assessment of 50 years of revolutionary struggle, decline & possibility, beginning with the PFLP’s 1969 "Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine"
October 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
(NEW!) The Palestinian Left: Past, Present, & Future
leftwingbooks.net/products/the-palestinian-left-past-present-and-future
Torkil Lauesen's sweeping assessment of 50 years of revolutionary struggle, decline & possibility, beginning with the PFLP’s 1969 "Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine"
leftwingbooks.net/products/the-palestinian-left-past-present-and-future
Torkil Lauesen's sweeping assessment of 50 years of revolutionary struggle, decline & possibility, beginning with the PFLP’s 1969 "Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine"
We're looking forward to Expozine, as we do every year. See you in Montreal, Nov 15–16 at 1025 Bélanger, 11:30am–6:30pm!
October 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
We're looking forward to Expozine, as we do every year. See you in Montreal, Nov 15–16 at 1025 Bélanger, 11:30am–6:30pm!
2026 Certain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners calendars are back from the printer and shipping out now!
Full of essays, beautiful artwork and important dates in social justice history!
Order yours: leftwingbooks.net/cd2026
Full of essays, beautiful artwork and important dates in social justice history!
Order yours: leftwingbooks.net/cd2026
October 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
2026 Certain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners calendars are back from the printer and shipping out now!
Full of essays, beautiful artwork and important dates in social justice history!
Order yours: leftwingbooks.net/cd2026
Full of essays, beautiful artwork and important dates in social justice history!
Order yours: leftwingbooks.net/cd2026
(NEW!) Anthropocene Communism: Land & Capital in the Age of Disaster
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Philosopher & activist Paul Guillibert proposes a brand-new communism for life: biocommunism. With this system, he hopes to move us beyond the ecological crisis of late capitalism
leftwingbooks.net/products/anthropocene-communism
Philosopher & activist Paul Guillibert proposes a brand-new communism for life: biocommunism. With this system, he hopes to move us beyond the ecological crisis of late capitalism
October 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
(NEW!) Anthropocene Communism: Land & Capital in the Age of Disaster
leftwingbooks.net/products/anthropocene-communism
Philosopher & activist Paul Guillibert proposes a brand-new communism for life: biocommunism. With this system, he hopes to move us beyond the ecological crisis of late capitalism
leftwingbooks.net/products/anthropocene-communism
Philosopher & activist Paul Guillibert proposes a brand-new communism for life: biocommunism. With this system, he hopes to move us beyond the ecological crisis of late capitalism