Kersplebedeb is a one-person project devoted to producing and distributing radical books and pamphlets and agit prop materials. Titles we have published over the past year are listed first, followed by our generally more recent acquisitions from other publishers.
Defying the Tomb:
Selected Prison Writings and Art of Kevin "Rashid" Johnson
featuring exchanges with an Outlaw
“Kevin 'Rashid' Johnson has put together an outstanding compendium of political essays and letters that addresses many of the critical issues of today. His intra-prison correspondences with his comrade, Outlaw, is a rewarding study in the determined and ingenious maneuvers that prisoners have to go through to politically educate and organize themselves – and others around them. As a result, just reading the book itself provides one with the basic foundation of a political education.”
New Afrikan political prisoner of war
Follow the author's odyssey from lumpen drug dealer to prisoner, to revolutionary New Afrikan, a teacher and mentor, one of a new generation rising of prison intellectuals. This book consists primarily of letters between Rashid and Outlaw, another revolutionary New Afrikan prisoner, smuggled between the segregation wing and general population over a period of months. These comrades educate themselves - and us as well - on Marxism and Maoism, the Five-Percenters, Dialectical Materialism, Dead Prez, Capitalism, Racism, Imperialism, Class Struggle, Revolutionary Nationalism, New Afrikan Independence, Psychology, and a host of other subjects, as they grapple with how to promote revolutionary consciousness in the most hostile of environments.
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New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings by James Yaki Sayles
“This exercise is about more than our desire to read and understand Wretched (as if it were about some abstract world, and not our own); it’s about more than our need to understand (the failures of) the anti-colonial struggles on the African continent. This exercise is also about us, and about some of the things that We need to understand and to change in ourselves and our world.”
Like the revs that he most considered his teachers—Malcolm X and George Jackson—James Yaki Sayles grew up poor and found his maturity in prison, the place that Malcolm called “the Black man’s university.” A child of Chicago’s South Side streets, Yaki always just thought of himself as a blood, “just another nigger doing a bit” (to borrow the laconic words of one of the Pontiac state prison revolt defendants). And it was in the prison movement that he found his place in the battlefield. Although he made revolutionary theory his work, his life was rooted in a time of urban guerrillas and the armed struggle. Which makes his writing much more difficult to read, but with a warning of danger and commitment that is so often missing in these neo-colonized times between the storms...
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Fire and Flames: A History of the German Autonomist Movement
Black blocs, squats, riots and urban guerillas - but also base groups in the factories, "free spaces", antinuclear occupations, and alternative lifestylism - all of these formed the context, the terrain, and the world of Germany's Autonomous movement duri
price: $19.95 (US)
Arab Spring, Libyan Winter
This brief, timely analysis situates the assault on Libya in the context of the winds of revolt that swept through the Middle East in the Spring of 2011.
price: $14.95 (US)
People Wasn't Made To Burn: A True Story of Race, Murder, and Justice in Chicago
In 1947, James Hickman shot and killed the landlord he believed was responsible for a tragic fire that took the lives of four of his children on Chicago’s West Side. This is the story of the defense campaign that helped win his freedom.
price: $22.95 (US)
Too Many People? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis
Refuting the idea that "overpopulation" is a major cause of environmental destruction and arguing that a focus on human numbers not only misunderstands the causes of the crisis, it dangerously weakens the movement for real solutions.
price: $19.00 (US)
Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working-Class Organizers
The stories of more than two dozen working-class organizers who occupied factories, held sit-down strikes, walked out, picketed, and found other bold and innovative ways to fight for workers’ rights.
price: $20.00 (US)
Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance
Making the Future presents more than fifty of Chomsky's concise and persuasively argued commentaries on U.S. politics and policies, written between 2007 and 2011
price: $16.95 (US)
Rich People Things: Real-Life Secrets of the Predator Class
A humorous and harrowing tale of warped populism, phony reform, and blind deference to the nation's financial elite, laying bare the various dogmas and delusions that prop up plutocratic rule in the post-meltdown age.
price: $16.95 (US)
Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority
Employing the form of direct personal address, Wise points a finger at whites’ race-based self-delusion, explaining how such an agenda will only do harm to the nation’s people, including most whites.
price: $14.95 (US)
Ours to Master and to Own: Workers' Control from the Commune to the Present
With specific examples drawn from every corner of the globe and every period of modern history, this pathbreaking volume comprehensively traces the historical tradition of workers' self-management.
price: $19.00 (US)
Kivalina: A Climate Change Story
For the people of Kivalina, Alaska, the price of further climate change denial could be the complete devastation of their lives and culture. Their village must be relocated to survive, and neither the fossil fuel giants nor the U.S. government are willing
price: $16.00 (US)
Cinderella's Big Score: Women of the Punk and Indie Underground
Celebrating punk's oft-overlooked female artists, exploring the latent - and not so latent - sexism of indie rock, and telling the story of how these women created spaces for themselves in a sometimes limited or exclusionary environment.
price: $20.00 (US)
Redefining Black Power: Reflections on the State of Black America
Interviews with Black intellectuals and activists on the Obama white house. Has the first black presidency helped move things forward for people of color? Has it delivered the "change we can believe in" and "deepening of democracy" that communities of col
price: $16.95 (US)
Class Warfare
A new edition of this extraordinary collection of stories rooted in the politics and culture of 1970s Vancouver; a gloriously written call to arms addressed to the disenfranchised about the possibilities of "the sweetness of life."
price: $15.95 (US)
Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada's First War on Terror
Examining Canada's interwar Red Scare in a global context, including state repression in the United States and western Europe, as well as its ramifications for the contemporary war on terror.
price: $26.95 (US)
queersexlife: Autobiographical Notes on Sexuality, Gender & Identity
Delving into questions both fraught and explicit, revealing subtle, fluid truths about human sexuality and desire: drag queens, feminism, cross-cultural sex, bisexuality, gay youth, and the concept of being "out," among others.
price: $19.95 (US)
The Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book
In this new graphic novel, Gord Hill documents the history of capitalism as well as anti-capitalist and anti-globalization movements around the world, from the 1999 "Battle of Seattle" against the World Trade Organization to the Toronto G20 summit in 2010
price: $12.95 (US)
The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics
he Accumulation of Freedom brings together economists, historians, theorists, and activists for a first-of-its-kind study of anarchist economics.
price: $21.00 (US)
West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California
Explores the deep historical roots and the enduring, though often disavowed, legacies of the extraordinary pulse of radical energies that generated forms of collective life beyond the nuclear family and the world of private consumption.
price: $24.95 (US)
London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction
The best of Moorcock's published, unpublished, and uncensored essays, articles, reviews, and opinions covering a wide range of subjects: books, films, politics, reminiscences of old friends, and attacks on new foes.
price: $23.95 (US)
The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
The high-velocity adventures of a trans-human teenager in a toxic post-Disney dystopia, battling wireheads and wumpuses until he meets the girl of his dreams. Plus Cory's historic 2010 World SF Convention address.
price: $12.00 (US)
The Power of the People is the Force of Life
David Berry's study is the first English-language evaluation of the development and lessons of the French anarchist movement between the wars.
price: $21.95 (US)
Ned Ludd & Queen Mab: Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the Several Commons of 1811-12
Peter Linebaugh enlists the anonymous and scorned 19th century loom-breakers of the English midlands into the front ranks of an international crew of commoners resisting dispossession in the dawn of capitalist modernity.
price: $6.95 (US)
Sex, Race, and Class--The Perspective of Winning: A Selection of Writings 1952–2011
Spanning six decades, Selma James' work set a new political perspective for millions of unwaged women, redefining the working class to include sectors previously dismissed as marginal.
price: $20.00 (US)
23 Shades of Black: A Filomena Buscarsela Mystery
Set in NYC during the early 1980s, and written partly in response to the reactionary discourse of the time, this kick-ass and conscious crime novel was nominated for the Edgar and the Anthony Awards, and made Booklist's Best First Mystery.
price: $17.95 (US)
The CNT in the Spanish Revolution Volume 2
Jose Peirats' account of Spain's "Generation of '36," who led what many consider the most audacious, far-reaching, but ultimately failed revolution of the 20th century. Volume 2 focuses on the battles raging at both the front and rear guards.
price: $22.95 (US)
The CNT in the Spanish Revolution Volume 3
Jose Peirats' brilliant account of Spain's "Generation of '36," who led what many consider the most audacious, far-reaching, but ultimately failed revolution of the 20th century. Volume 3 tells of the CNT's last push for the anarchist revolution.
price: $22.95 (US)
Asia's Unknown Uprisings Volume 1: South Korean Social Movements in the 20th Century
A detailed analysis of the social movements and major uprisings that have patterned South Korea's politics and society.
price: $28.95 (US)
