http://www.pmpress.org/content/index.php?topic=bl Feed of latest blog entries from PM Press Copyright 2012 PM Press GeekLog Mon, 14 May 2012 19:54:57 -0700 en-gb http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120514181432868 Cindy Milstein http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120514181432868 Mon, 14 May 2012 18:14:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120514181432868#comments PM Press Blogs Every since this occupy “movement” began, it has surprised me like a package I didn’t order appearing on my doorstep, gifting me some sweet little zines written by a near stranger I met long ago. http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120508150730290 Nicky Garratt http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120508150730290 Tue, 08 May 2012 15:07:30 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120508150730290#comments PM Press Blogs Would you, assuming you had the money, pay $1,000 to operate on your dog if you knew he would get two more years of quality life? http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120508125401893 Nicky Garratt http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120508125401893 Tue, 08 May 2012 12:54:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120508125401893#comments PM Press Blogs The second level of opposition to the inconvenient truth about the horrors of the meat industry is often the naturalistic notion; we evolved as hunter-gatherers. This common augment seeks to demonstrate that it is natural for us to kill other mamm... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120508124342418 Nicky Garratt http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120508124342418 Tue, 08 May 2012 12:43:42 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120508124342418#comments PM Press Blogs My upcoming book Mango & Mint Arabian: Indian and North African Inspired Vegan Cuisine, is almost as free from rhetoric as it is from tofu. It just doesn’t seem like a reasonable platform for a sermon or a tangle of clauses and opin... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120508090931483 James Kilgore http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120508090931483 Tue, 08 May 2012 09:09:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120508090931483#comments PM Press Blogs Here's a link to an interview I did with South African reporter and activist Andre Marais for the magazine Amandla. It mainly focuses on the political background to Freedom Never Rests, my second novel. http://www.amandlapublishers.co.za/maga... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120501173052793 Susie Day http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120501173052793 Tue, 01 May 2012 17:30:52 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120501173052793#comments PM Press Blogs NEW YORK, NY – Millennial Christians and godless communists alike were stunned when nineteenth-century economist and revolutionary Karl Marx suddenly returned from the dead about two hours ago to land, in bodily form, at the corner of Nassau... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120501085903586 James Kilgore http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120501085903586 Tue, 01 May 2012 08:59:03 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120501085903586#comments PM Press Blogs I'm writing now on a new aspect of mass incarceration: the use of electronic monitors. While they give people a sort of "partial freedom" there are some problems with this technology and where it's heading. Link to my piece in Counterpun... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120430160419751 Kenneth Wishnia http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120430160419751 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:04:19 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120430160419751#comments PM Press Blogs OK, kids, it's time to give a shout-out to fellow PM Press author Nick Mamatas for his hilariously deranged novel, Sensation. In fact, I was reading Sensation on the Long Island Railroad, sitting next to a woman who was reading Fifty Shades of Gra... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120422211519871 Gabriel Kuhn http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120422211519871 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:15:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120422211519871#comments PM Press Blogs A review of Deric Shannon, Anthony J. Nocella II, and John Asimakopoulos, eds., The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics. http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120415200211353 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120415200211353 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:02:11 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120415200211353#comments PM Press Blogs help save the lives of five imprisoned Moroccan student demonstrators http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120414002055125 Gabriel Kuhn http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120414002055125 Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:20:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120414002055125#comments PM Press Blogs On the first complete edition of Erich Mühsam's diaries, the new online magazine Stir, and the future of radical publishing. http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2012040621271212 Gabriel Kuhn http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2012040621271212 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:27:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2012040621271212#comments PM Press Blogs A review of Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120316030526668 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120316030526668 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:05:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120316030526668#comments PM Press Blogs My previous posting consisted of an exchange I had with Gilad Atzmon, plus a comment from longtime antizionist Jeff Blankfort. http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120314153431220 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120314153431220 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:34:31 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120314153431220#comments PM Press Blogs an exchange with Gilad Atzmon, plus a comment by longtime anti-Zionist Jeff Blankfort http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120309134533970 Chris Crass http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120309134533970 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:45:33 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120309134533970#comments PM Press Blogs We had no idea Michelle Obama was even in Ohio, let alone going to the same Museum. My partner, Jardana Peacock, and our son River, and I had been traveling in Louisville, KY and now we were in Cincinnati with family. http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120308145106423 James Kilgore http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120308145106423 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:51:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120308145106423#comments PM Press Blogs The New Operation Wetback is phase two of mass incarceration. Since 2000 the number of Latinos in prison has escalated by more than 50 percent while the number of African-Americans has declined slightly. This is a new target group for the mass inc... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120303062340829 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120303062340829 Sat, 03 Mar 2012 06:23:40 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120303062340829#comments PM Press Blogs responding to Staughton Lynd's talk in Toledo. http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120208154156983 Penny Mickelbury http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120208154156983 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:48:56 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120208154156983#comments PM Press Blogs I'm a writer. A story teller. The people of my stories—the trajectories of their lives and the places they live—this is my reality when I'm writing. http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120225110111838 David McNally http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120225110111838 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:01:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120225110111838#comments PM Press Blogs It is a truism to say that democracy began with the Greeks—less so to say that it originated in popular rebellion against debt and debt-bondage. Yet, with the Greek people ensnared once more in the vice-grip of rich debt-holders, it may be u... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120217070759666 Gabriel Kuhn http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120217070759666 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:07:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120217070759666#comments PM Press Blogs Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt’s book Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism published by AK Press in 2009 has caused considerable debate within the anarchist movement. While the debate itself i... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120213051943755 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120213051943755 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:19:43 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120213051943755#comments PM Press Blogs The Greeks can only be defeated if they must fight alone  http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2012020504562094 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2012020504562094 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:56:20 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2012020504562094#comments PM Press Blogs It isn't possible to know in advance http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120131224800823 Sasha Lilley http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120131224800823 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:48:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120131224800823#comments PM Press Blogs The final installment of a two week long Inkwell interview with Sasha Lilley about Capital and Its Discontents, headed up by broadcaster Angie Coiro. http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120131002418589 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120131002418589 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:24:18 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120131002418589#comments PM Press Blogs an erudite critique of identity politics http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2012013100125146 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2012013100125146 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:12:51 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2012013100125146#comments PM Press Blogs The distance between revolutionaries and reformers is greater... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120120121747222 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120120121747222 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:17:47 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120120121747222#comments PM Press Blogs DID SLAVES PAY FOR THE COST OF THEIR TRANSPORTATION FROM THEIR HOMES TO THE FIELDS? http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120120025821771 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120120025821771 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:58:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120120025821771#comments PM Press Blogs i wish there was a raised-fist emoticon we could type out... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120118022601284 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120118022601284 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:26:01 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120118022601284#comments PM Press Blogs The IWW included people who were briefly active in great strikes as well as those who dedicated their lives to the cause of revolution. http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120116080727615 Gabriel Kuhn http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120116080727615 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:07:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120116080727615#comments PM Press Blogs This essay was written in the summer of 2011 after Slavoj Žižek sported a Lenin T-shirt during his talk with Amy Goodman and Julian Assange in London. The talk was held on July 2, 2011, and hosted by the Frontline Club. http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120116012916149 Barry Graham http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120116012916149 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:29:16 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120116012916149#comments PM Press Blogs Obama would have shaken hands with the Klan