{"product_id":"the-anarchist-review-of-books-issue-11","title":"THE ANARCHIST REVIEW OF BOOKS ISSUE #11","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e295 x 430mm - folded in half, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e24 pages, Colour printing, Unbound, 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWelcome to the 11th issue of the Anarchist Review of Books, produced by a collective based in Atlanta, Baltimore, Belfast, Brussels, Chicago, Detroit, Dublin, Exarchia, London, New York, Oakland, and Richmond. We bring you this issue at the heart of a bitter cold winter as U.S. federal troops hunt, detain, deport and murder human beings in the name of the law.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe word fascism is everywhere right now, but what is emerging around the globe today should not be mistaken for the industry-fueled state mobilization which characterized 20th century fascist movements. What we are facing today is more slippery, moves more quickly, and is inseparable from digital technology. Again and again, it destroys the bonds between humans and the world around them, and obliterates any feeling of consensus reality using a blindingly bright device which is already in your pocket. It is the rhizome in its destructive, world-devouring manifestation and a force that would create a utopia for a tiny handful of people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new techno-authoritarian push (which sees no irony in describing ANTIFA as an organization that has “dangerous roots” fighting fascism in 1930s Germany) is a multi-class, multi-ethnic, and multigenerational movement that, as Joe Schmidbauer describes in this issue, has itself grown from liberal utopian ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut whether one is fighting fire or fighting ICE, the material reality is this: it is not safer at the front, no matter what the memes say. Those at the front of every conflict understand the risk of harm, arrest, and death is greater. It is safer when risk is collectivized, when there are multiple points of engagement and shelter, when communication is clear and the foundation is steady. Those at the front know that to take up that position is to live on the edge of a great wave. To ride it we must remain absolutely present, as if on the edge of time itself, not knowing what will come next. The wind in our faces is terrifying, and it is fresh, and in it together, we are alive and strong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn every issue we declare the power of the imagination. In this issue we bring you interviews and profiles of those who have put that declaration into action. We contemplate utopias past and present; heavens and hells, art movements, shared delusions, and struggles for liberation. T Fleischmann illuminates the bravery of Claude Cahun; Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin and Joe Schmidbauer muse on the fire, failings, and future of the counter culture; Shellyne Rodriguez eulogizes Assata Shakur; Ella Ray witnesses resurrection with Bread and Puppet; Jules Bentley unleashes his wit on a purveyor of anarchist chic; and Carrie-Edmund Laben’s fiction puts the fear of Pan in us all. Plus reviews, and art by Narsiso Martinez, Élan Cadiz, Ben Durham, Molly Crabapple, N. Masani Landfair, and Elektra KB; and dispatches from the West Bank, Minnesota, Rojava, and the Edge of Order and Chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Anarchist Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56676610474370,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/5338\/0582\/files\/IMG_3043032.jpg?v=1779983060","url":"https:\/\/goodpress.co.uk\/products\/the-anarchist-review-of-books-issue-11","provider":"Good Press — good books \u0026 more","version":"1.0","type":"link"}