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April 2012
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April News at PM Press
This month we offer an original translation of the history of the German Autonomist Movement (and the Black Bloc), volume one of Michael Moorcock's magisterial Pyat Quartet, and the new novel from Derrick Jensen's Flashpoint Press, a cautionary tale of courage and cowardice. We have a full catalog available and our webstore has been updated with book previews, e-Books, and even books signed by your favorite authors.
We can't list everything happening in one email, but click on the relevant images for more info or check it all out HERE. The next several weeks are going to bring many more new PM releases, so this is the perfect time to join the Friends of PM (which also makes a great gift!).
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Fire and Flames: A History of the German Autonomist Movement
Geronimo with an introduction by George Katsiaficas and afterword by Gabriel Kuhn
PB | ISBN: 9781604860979 | $19.95
Fire and Flames was the first comprehensive study of the German autonomous movement ever published. The author, writing under the pseudonym of Geronimo, has been an autonomous activist since the movement burst onto the scene in 1980-81. In this book, he traces its origins in the Italian Autonomia project and the German social movements of the 1970s, before describing the battles for squats, "free spaces," and alternative forms of living that defined the first decade of the autonomous movement. Tactics of the "Autonome" were militant, including the construction of barricades and throwing molotov cocktails at the police. Because of their outfit (heavy black clothing, ski masks, helmets), the Autonome were dubbed the "Black Bloc" by the German media, and their tactics have been successfully adopted and employed at anti-capitalist protests worldwide.
Fire and Flames is no detached academic study, but a passionate, fully illustrated, hands-on account of the beginnings of one of Europe's most intriguing protest movements of the last thirty years. An introduction by George Katsiaficas, author of The Subversion of Politics, and an afterword by Gabriel Kuhn, a long-time autonomous activist and author, add historical context and an update on the current state of the Autonomen.
"Fire and Flames is the best book about the movement that we have."
----Düsseldorfer Stadtzeitung für Politik und Kultur
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Byzantium Endures: The First Volume of the Colonel Pyat Quartet
Michael Moorcock with an introduction by Alan Wall
PB | ISBN: 9781604864915 | $22.00
Meet Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski, also known as Pyat. Tsarist rebel, Nazi thug, continental conman, and reactionary counterspy: the dark and dangerous anti-hero of Michael Moorcock's most controversial work.
Byzantium Endures, the first of the Pyat Quartet, is not a book for the faint-hearted. It's the story of a cocaine addict, sexual adventurer, and obsessive anti-Semite whose epic journey from Leningrad to London connects him with scoundrels and heroes from Trotsky to Makhno, and whose career echoes that of the 20th century's descent into Fascism and total war. This is Moorcock at his audacious, iconoclastic best: a grand sweeping overview of the events of the last century, as revealed in the secret journals of modern literature's most proudly unredeemable outlaw. This authoritative U.S. edition presents the author's final cut, restoring previously forbidden passages and deleted scenes "A tour de force, and an extraordinary one. Mr. Moorcock has created in Pyatnitski a wholly sympathetic and highly complicated rogue... There is much vigorous action here, along with a depth and an intellectuality, and humor and color and wit as well." ----The New Yorker |
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Three
Annemarie Monahan
PB | ISBN: 9781604866315 | $16.95
One yellow April morning, a seventeen-year-old girl makes a trivial decision. But is it trivial? What she decides will set her life on one of three radically different paths. That morning is long past. Now she is forty-one. On one life path, she calls herself Ántonia. She's barely survived the implosion of a lesbian Utopian commune, one built on an abandoned oil rig. On another path, she is Katherine, a physician. After the death of an old lover, she contacts the only woman who still haunts her: the deeply religious Amanda. On a third, she is Kitty. She's been happily married for twenty-three years. Happily enough. Until she meets Faye. The parallel lines of their lives are about to converge. "Three is a novel for the radical heart. It's a story for both the brave and the weary, lush with our passions, poignant with loss. It's a map through the territory we must travel to find that shining world of our dreams, a world that a tiny few refuse to abandon despite our endless defeats."
----Lierre Keith, author of The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability |
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PM Combo Packs!
For frugal PM shoppers, we've teamed up some of our bestselling items in discounted "Combo Packs" of like-minded books, CDs, and DVDs. You can choose from a wide range of groovy Combos that save up to 50% on the list price, including the Autonomous Art Combo, the Outspoken Authors Combo, the Big Noise Dispatches DVD Combo and more.
See the Combo Packs HERE.
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| e-Books Now Available!
For technophiles, paper savers, and those without much shelf space, PM releases are also available as instantly downloadable e-Books. We are adding new PDF, ePUB, and MOBI files daily to work with all e-Book readers and personal computers. Read about our e-Books and file formats HERE and see the latest releases HERE. |
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PM Press is on Twitter and Facebook
PM Press is now Twittering HERE.
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PM Press Catalog
We have a new PM Press catalog! So take a look, and start working on your wish lists now. Full color, 104 pages, viewable and downloadable online or request a free print copy HERE for yourself, or multiple copies to distribute at your workplace, bookstore, school, or gigs.
To view upcoming releases including Fall 2012 (and beyond) please visit the "Upcoming" section of our webstore HERE.
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 | Selma James on Democracy Now!
Interview by Amy Goodman
For six decades, James has been on the front lines of working-class movements for women's liberation and against racism. She launched the International Wages for Housework Campaign three decades ago, controversially arguing that women should be paid for housework. In this extended interview, Selma James takes us through six decades of her trailblazing activism, from the writing of her seminal 1952 essay "A Woman's Place," which she penned with encouragement from the late West Indian scholar C.L.R. James, who later became her husband, to today's SlutWalk protests in London, England.
Watch the interview HERE.
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 | Robert King on Democracy Now!
Interview by Amy Goodman
It's been 40 years to the day that Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox have been held in solitary confinement in Louisiana. The state says they were guilty of murdering a guard at Angola Prison, but Wallace, Woodfox and their network of supporters say they were framed for their political activism as members of the Black Panthers... We speak to Robert King, the only freed member of the Angola 3. He spent 29 years in solitary confinement for a murder he did not commit. "We want the state of Louisiana and we want the world to know that we are still focusing on this case. This is a total violation of human rights and civil rights," King says. "And it is ongoing."
Watch the interview HERE.
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 | Love and Struggle reviewed in Booklist
Review by Vanessa Bush
In this fascinating memoir, Gilbert chronicles his journey to activism from youthful indignation at social injustices ranging from religious and racial bigotry to the inequities of capitalism. He analyzes the politics of the era, discusses the revolutionary fervor that crystallized against the Vietnam War, explores the mistakes and triumphs of the radical Left, and offers encouragement to those still engaged in progressive causes... As the Occupy movement gains in cachet, readers will appreciate this intensely personal and historical perspective on the protest movement that defined a generation, offered by one of its leading activists.
Read the full review and see an exciting video trailer for the book HERE.
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 | London Peculiar reviewed in the Guardian (UK)
Review by PD Smith
This collection of Moorcock's nonfiction spans more than half a century... It includes some wonderfully intimate articles about Moorcock growing up in south London during the blitz. The bombed out cityscape, colonised by rosebay willowherb, was "a wonderland," a terra incognita to be explored. Whether he is describing the bleakness of 1950s London ("all my girlfriends wore black and thought a lot about suicide") or the "smugness" and conformity of modern London ("I like my classes mixed"), Moorcock writes with genuine love for the city.
Read the full review along with many more new reviews HERE.
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 | Global Slump wins the ASA's 2012 Paul Sweezy Book Award
"The Paul Sweezy Book Award is presented by the American Sociological Association-Marxist Section and goes to the author of the best book published in the past two years in the area of Marxist theory and research. The Committee will select the book that best demonstrates the most thoughtful, competent or innovative analysis of a theoretical, empirical, or activist issue(s) that is germane to Marxism, Marxist Sociology, and Marxist Praxis." Congratulations to author David McNally and his book, Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance.
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Barred for Life featured in Vice Magazine
Article by Greg Pike
Like Sublime suns or Insane Clown Posse portraits, most band tattoos look like complete shit. But Black Flag transcends this rule because even the shoddiest stick 'n' poke versions of the punk band's logo, four rectangular bars, somehow always look great. In fact, a chance meeting between strangers sporting time-weathered versions of the iconic bars prompted geologist Stewart Ebersole and friends to travel North America and Europe for five years shooting photos of others inked with the cult insignia for the upcoming book Barred for Life.
Read the full article and see some pics HERE. |
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 | New American Vegan reviewed and tested on My Face is on Fire blog
The little extras in this book leave it rising (far) above most of the vegan cookbooks on the market these days. There are a lot of them and many of these books, sadly, are missed opportunities for their authors to actually educate others a little about veganism and about what it's like to go and to be vegan. Vincent not only shares his own experience going vegan, but provides some pretty useful advice... He also goes over and above most other vegan cookbook authors in conveying to his readers how flexible and forgiving recipes can be.
Read the full review plus interview HERE.
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Remembering Joel Olson
In his teaching profession, Joel was a colleague of great kindness and decency; a teacher of unquenchable passion and inspiration; a foremost scholar of critical race studies; and an eloquent spokesman for the oppressed. We also knew him as a revolutionary anarchist punk rocker. Above all, he was a loving husband and father, and a much-loved brother and son. Whether one knew him as a friend or as a teacher, Joel will always be a role model for a life fully and nobly lived.
See more about Joel Olson on Facebook HERE and also how you can donate to his memorial fund HERE.
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| The 5th Inning Book Release Party at Busboys and Poets (Washington DC, 5th and K) April 28
Now in paperback! Join author and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller in conversation with his wife, Dr. Denise King-Miller. It will be a public discussion of memoir writing, marriage, and baseball. |
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| Love and Struggle Northwest Tour April 29-May 6
Join editor Terry Bisson, poet Walidah Imarisha, and community organizer Mic Crenshaw to talk about David Gilbert's new memoir Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond, and explore how the 1960s relate to current social movements like Occupy. The events will be taking place in Portland, Eugene, Seattle, Olympia, Bellingham, and Tacoma. |
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 | Organizing Cools the Planet Book Release Party at The Green Arcade (San Francisco, CA) May 9
Join us for the official launch of Organizing Cools the Planet. Co-authors Hilary Moore and Joshua Kahn Russell will talk about the booklet, where it came from, and how it's been used as a climate change organizing tool. There will be cupcakes and wine, interactive conversation, book signings, and debate!
See event details HERE.
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