Common Notions

A memoir of the infamous "last Surrealist" amid the heady militancy of May '68.Alain Segura was a teenage anarchist in Paris during the mid-to-late 1960s when he hung around with members of the...

A stunning full-color, multilingual exploration of the profound graphic and intellectual legacy of the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (OSPAAAL) for...

A militant reading of struggles and developments in Bolivia form a balance sheet of possibility for a Left program in the country, hemisphere, and the world. Bolivia beyond the Impasse sketches the...

Colors of the Cage: A Memoir of an Indian PrisonAuthor: Arun Ferreira, Siddhartha DebPublisher: Common NotionsPublication Date: February 09, 2021Number of Pages: 176 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Work is a joke. Laughing at it is political.Humor, Groucho Marx asserted, is "reason gone mad." For Walter Benjamin, laughter was "the most revolutionary emotion." In a moment when great numbers of...

Joining a long line of speculative writing that helps us to understand worlds not yet existing An Oral History of the New York Commune will appeal to readers of Octavia Butler, Ursula LeGuin, Kim...

Family, Welfare, And The State: Between Progressivism And The New Deal, Second EditionAuthor: Mariarosa Dalla CostaPublisher: Common NotionsPublication Date: 7-Sep-21Number of Pages: 160...

Author: Silvia Federici, Susana Draper, Liz Mason-DeesePublisher: Common NotionsPublication Date: Oct 26, 2021Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 194217344XISBN-13:...

Another justice is possible. Genocide in the Neighborhood documents the theories, debates, successes, and failures of a rebellious tactic to build popular power and transformative justice.Genocide in...

From the fight against the AIDS crisis to the struggle for Black liberation and international solidarity, Graphic Liberation! digs deep into the history, present, and future of revolutionary...

What the opioid epidemic teaches us about the addiction at the root of our social life--and how we free ourselves from it.How To Break An Addiction paints an original and dynamic portrait of the...

The essential political and theoretical work of one of Latin America's most important contemporary theorists. Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar is one of the foremost Latin American political thinkers. From...

In this searing, honest memoir, a Black queer emergency-room nurse works the front lines of care during COVID-19. "Can I have a white nurse?" the patient asked Britney Daniels. "Sorry ma'am," Britney...

The future of public higher education is held hostage by a nearly invisible set of financial institutions and actors. How did it get this way? Lend and Rule reveals the "shadow governance" of debt...

Joy James has a long, well regarded career marked by praise from author/activists including Angela Davis, Robin D.G. Kelly, Howard Zinn, Manning Marable and reviews in trade, academic, and popular...

Author: Jack Z. BratichPublisher: Common NotionsPublication Date: Jan 04, 2022Number of Pages: 288 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1942173490ISBN-13: 9781942173496

"How can we get free? How can we free ourselves, our communities, our environments, our society? And what will this freedom look like? While the present moment holds incredible possibilities to...

A young Kurdish woman discovers a commitment to liberation, both personal and collective, through a harrowing journey to Rojava and the heart of armed struggle.J?n?in is a young professor living in...

Storming Bedlam reimagines mental health care and its radical possibilities in the context of its global development under capitalism. We live in a world oversaturated by new mental health programs,...

Take Care of Your Self : The Art and Politics of Care and LiberationAuthor: Sundus Abdul HadiPublisher: Common NotionsPublication Date: Dec 01, 2020Number of Pages: 176 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

How do we move from defensive tactics that respond to the latest stages of capitalist urbanization, to transformative, strategic revolts, attacking the root causes and putting into practice...

The home has become a laboratory for capital but also for forms of financial disobedience. It has become increasingly clear that home is not a site of private life and isolation, but a battleground...

The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our EarthAuthor: The Red NationPublisher: Common NotionsPublication Date: April 20, 2021Number of Pages: 144 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Liberals smirk at Trump's narcissism, but, as renowned theorist Anselm Jappe explains, contemporary capitalism has turned everyone into a narcissist.The Greek myth of Erysichthon describes the fate...

Author: Andrew AnastasiPublisher: Common NotionsPublication Date: Sep 15, 2020Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1942173229ISBN-13: 9781942173229

A pioneering study of the new forms of emancipatory urbanism emerging in these times of global crisis. An activist and architectural account of urban life that passionately reveals cities as the...