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SUMMARY:The War on Drugs and the Global Colour Line
DESCRIPTION:Tickets available here\n  \nJoin Kojo Haram and Ash Sarkar for a very special “celebratory bookshop takeover” by Pluto Press to mark its 50th anniversary. Join Kojo and Ash to discuss this collection which reveals the racist impact of the War on Drugs across multiple continents and in numerous situations. An essential collection for all people fighting racism today.\n  \nThe War on Drugs has led to millions of people dead\, displaced and incarcerated. Disproportionately enforced on oppressed races\, international drug prohibition has reinforced the colour line across the globe. \nWhile laws prohibiting the production\, sale and use of particular drugs are presented as politically neutral and objective\, this collection reveals the racist impact of the war on drugs across multiple continents and in numerous situations. From racialised drugs policing at festivals in the UK to the necropolitical wars in Juarez\, Mexico and from the exchange of drug policing programs between the United States and Israel to the management of black bodies in Brazil\, this collection proves that the regulation of drugs and race is an international\, and intentional\, disaster. \nPushing forward the debate and activism led by groups such as Black Lives Matter and calling for radical changes in drug policy legislation and prison reform\, both nationally and internationally\, this collection cuts deep and rings true for all people fighting racism today. \n“A monumental study of the transnational circuits of racist policing etched out through the War on Drugs\, the immeasurable toll of human suffering they have induced\, and the resistances mounted against them.” Arun Kundnani\, author of The Muslims are Coming \nKojo Koram is lecturer at the School of Law\, University of Essex. \nAsh Sarkar is a British journalist and political activist. She is a senior editor at Novara Media and teaches at Anglia Ruskin University and the Sandberg Institute \nShare this:\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n				Insta\n			Like this:Like Loading...
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SUMMARY:Cooperation Jackson: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson\, Mississippi
DESCRIPTION:Get tickets\n  \nOn a rare visit to London from Mississippi\, we are delighted to welcome a co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson\, Kali Akuno\, to discuss the inspiring work they have been undertaking to create sustainable community development\, economic democracy\, and community ownership\, within the confines of a historically structurally racist state.\n  \nMississippi\, the poorest state in the U.S. with the highest percentage of Black people\, and a history of vicious racial terror and concurrent Black resistance is the backdrop and context for this programme of community organising. \nUndeterred by the uncertainty\, anxiety and fear brought about by the steady deterioration of the neoliberal order over the last few years\, the response from Black activists of Jackson\, Mississippi has been to organise. Inspired by the rich history of struggle and resistance in Mississippi and committed to the vision of the Jackson-Kush Plan\, these activists are building institutions rooted in community power that combine politics and economic development into an alternative model for change\, while addressing real\, immediate needs of the people. \nCooperation Jackson’s basic theory of change is centered on the position that organizing and empowering the structurally under and unemployed sectors of the working class\, particularly from Black and Latino communities\, to build worker organized and owned cooperatives will be a catalyst for the democratisation of our economy and society overall. \nThe experiences and analyses in this compelling collection reflect the creative power that is unleashed when political struggle is grounded by a worldview freed from the inherent contradictions and limitations of reform liberalism. \nKali Akuno is also co-editor of ‘Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson\, Mississippi’ (2017) \nTHIS EVENT IS PART OF THE ANARCHIST FESTIVAL 2019 \n  \nShare this:\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n				Insta\n			Like this:Like Loading...
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SUMMARY:The Anarchist Imagination:  Anarchism Encounters the Humanities and the Social Sciences
DESCRIPTION:This event is free but please reserve a ticket here \n  \nAUTONOMY NOW PRESENTS\n  \nOur panel discuss the continuous role of the anarchist imagination as muse\, provocateur\, goading adversary\, and catalyst in the stimulation of research and creative activity in the humanities and social sciences\, including anthropology\, art\, feminism\, geography\, international relations\, political science\, postcolonialism\, and sociology.\n  \nAt the event two books will be launched: \nThe Anarchist Imagination\nAnarchism Encounters the Humanities and the Social Sciences\, 1st Edition\nEdited by Carl Levy\, Saul Newman\nhttps://www.routledge.com/The-Anarchist-Imagination-Anarchism-Encounters-the-Humanities-and-the/Levy-Newman/p/book/9781138782761 \nThe Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism\nEditors: Levy\, Carl\, Adams\, Matthew (Eds.)\nhttps://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319756196 \nCarl Levy is a Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations\, Goldsmiths\, University of London. He is currently writing two books\, ‘Anarchists and the City’ and a biography of Errico Malatesta: ‘Errico Malatesta: The Rooted Cosmopolitan\, the Life and Times of an Anarchist in Exile’. \nConstance Bantman is Senior Lecturer in French and Director of Teaching and Learning and author of ‘The French Anarchists in London\, 1880-1914: Exile and Transnationalism in the First Globalisation’ \nOle Birk Laursen is a literary critic and historian of Black and South Asian people in Britain and Europe\, researching and writing about race\, resistance\, and revolution\, focusing particularly on Indian anticolonialism\, nationalism\, and anarchism\, as well as the contemporary legacies of colonialism\, racism\, riots\, and human rights. \nCarne Ross is best known for once working as a British diplomat before leaving the civil service in disgust over the Iraq war\, and testifying against the government at the Butler Review. He has gone on to become an advocate for anarchist organising. \nTHIS EVENT IS PART OF THE ANARCHIST FESTIVAL 2019 \nShare this:\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n				Insta\n			Like this:Like Loading...
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SUMMARY:Coiled Verbal Spring/Devices of Lenin's Language
DESCRIPTION:Tickets available here \n  \nThis event has been called by AMM All-Stars to launch\, draw attention to\, celebrate\, perform\, discuss\, worship\, use\, abuse\, fondle\, publicise – what you will – Coiled Verbal Spring/Devices of Lenin’s Language\, a book edited by Sezgin Boynik and published by Rab-Rab Press in Helsinki.\n  \nThe core of this shiny blue slab (21cm x 13cm x 2.3cm; 530g; 468pp) is the entire contents of the LEF (Left Front of the Arts) Journal (no. 5)\, published just after Lenin’s death in January 1924: texts by Mayakovsky\, Shklovsky and other Zaum Formalists which have never appeared in English before. They begin with a newspaper advert for marble busts of Lenin\, and say – directly\, clearly and unequivocally – WE OPPOSE THIS. Aware that the epigones are threatening the revolution\, the writing is fierce\, analytical\, funny and cutting. It proves that Great Literature and Revolution cannot be separated\, and whoever separates them is a Stalinist\, and a liar to boot. Far from being the “dilettantes” denounced by the Perpetrators of Leftwing Boredom\, AMM All-Stars and Psychedelic Bolsheviks are prescient in their refusal to separate art and revolution\, subject and object\, chicken and egg. We are funky time-travellers who refuse to be crucified on the cross of calendar time. We existed in 1924 and we exist in 2019. Sezgin’s publication proves this. If Debord had known these texts\, he wouldn’t have allowed the French Communist Party to dictate his reading of Lenin\, and Situationist politics would have avoided the swamps of anarchism and the crap pictures of Ralph Rumney. \nSezgin’s 135-page introduction\, “Out of Synch with the Thing” is a book in itself\, using the vogue terms “contemporaneity” and “conjuncture” to expound the class nature of Lenin’s politics. His bootnotes smash the pretensions of the bourgeois academy to understand Shklovsky and the Formalists (the one for Marjorie Perloff deserves a bottle of vodka). Craig Brandist\, arise! Also included is a pamphlet by Alexei Kruchenykh from 1928\, and there’s an afterword by Darko Suvin (like Sezgin\, although from a previous generation\, Suvin is a product of Tito’s Yugoslavia\, where Cold War cliches held less sway) pointing out that we live in a war economy and that to stop war you need class politics. For fuck’s sake\, can’t people stop gassing on about Brexit and talk about something important for a change? Thomas Campbell’s translations are fab. This book is a conceptual explosion. It even smells of paraffin. You want to lick the cover! \nAMM All-Stars are a musical unit\, a survival boatload from the goode shyppe Association of Musical Marxists\, a groupuscule founded by Ben Watson and Andy Wilson\, which between 2010 and 2015 ruffled the smooth surface of London life by daring to suggest that without pertinent art Revolutionary Politics are void\, and that without politics Avant is a disposable charade for hipsters\, snobs and posers. At the time of going to press\, the worthy constituents were Peter Baxter on punk drums; Dave Black on Northumbrian blues guitar; Paul Shearsmith (our Rico) on situational trumpet; Helen Tate on east-european violin; Graham Davis on krautrock synth & like absurdities; Out To Lunch on google-gargle; Jair-Rohm Parker Wells on bass; Esther Leslie on text – but there are other strange entities in orbit (Luke Davis\, Kit Mackintosh\, Rob Goldsmith …) who may be persuaded to come down. Tune in to hear AMM All-Stars on Resonance 104.4FM between 2pm and 3pm on Wednesdays\, by all means\, but don’t expect us to sound like that again. Oh yes\, if you need any Unkant books we’ll probably have a selection. \n  \nShare this:\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n				Insta\n			Like this:Like Loading...
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