Celebrate people's history by helping us publish Jeremy Brecher's Strike! 50th Anniversary Edition, the updated, expanded, and definitive history of American labor. Since its original publication in 1972, no book has done as much as Strike! to bring U.S. labor history to a wide audience. Now this fiftieth anniversary edition brings the story up to date with chapters covering the “mini-revolts of the twenty-first century,” including Occupy Wall Street and the Fight for Fifteen. The new edition contains over a hundred pages of new materials and concludes by examining a wide range of current struggles, ranging from #BlackLivesMatter, to the great wave of teachers' strikes “for the soul of public education,” to the global “Student Strike for Climate” that may be harbingers of mass strikes to come. This anniversary edition has a Preface by Sara Nelson, the International President of the Association of Flight Attendants–CWA, AFL-CIO, and a Foreword by labor journalist Kim Kelly. We're raising funds on Kickstarter to help bring this important book to life and to new audiences. Any amount raised over our goal will get the book into more hands. Learn more, preorder the book, and check out all the rewards.

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“Jeremy Brecher’s Strike! is a classic of American historical writing. This new edition, bringing his account up to the present, comes amid rampant inequality and growing popular resistance. No book could be more timely for those seeking the roots of our current condition.” —Eric Foner, Pulitzer Prize winner and DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University “Magnificent—a vivid, muscular labor history, just updated and rereleased by PM Press, which should be at the side of anyone who wants to understand the deep structure of force and counterforce in America.” —JoAnn Wypijewski, author of Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence “An exciting history of American labor. Brings to life the flashpoints of labor history. Scholarly, genuinely stirring.” —New York Times “Splendid . . . clearly the best single-volume summary yet published of American general strikes.” —Washington Post “A magnificent book. I hope it will take its place as the standard history of American labor.” —Staughton Lynd, author of Solidarity Unionism and coauthor of Labor Law for the Rank and Filer

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As governments and corporations fail to protect ordinary people from the ravages of the crisis, community networks are organizing their own communities around the principles of mutual aid, solidarity, and autonomous direct action. Their aim is solidarity not charity. Cooperation and interdependence, not competition. Learn from longtime mutual aid organizers on how to protect each other during coronavirus and how to build long-term, liberatory, and resilient communities beyond this pandemic and the death cult of capitalism and settler colonialism. Mariame Kaba is an organizer, abolitionist, educator, founder of Project NIA, and author of Missing Daddy Dean Spade is associate professor at Seattle University School of Law, founder of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and creator of the mutual aid resource website BigDoorBrigade.com Klee Benally is a Diné (Navajo) anarchist, direct action tactician with Indigenous Action Media, and co-creator of the Indigenous Mutual Aid network Kali Akuno is a longtime organizer, cofounder and codirector of Cooperation Jackson Moderated by Tim Holland, host of Solecast and revolutionary hip hop artist. Sponsored by PM Press, Haymarket Books, Verso Books, and A Radical Guide. This event is free, but we are asking for solidarity contributions which will be donated to Mutual Aid groups chosen by the panelists.

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