Common Notions Press

Common Notions Press

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Nonprofit, movement-based, and worker-run publisher of books that provide timely reflections, clear critiques, and inspiring strategies that amplify movements for social justice. 📍Philadelphia 📍NYC www.commonnotions.org

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Big day for book news with the third RCP edition forthcoming and copies of Points of Departure circulating the planet too. Can’t wait for the new RCP? Then get a hold of Points of Departure here: www.commonnotions.org/buy/points-o...

commonnotions.orgPoints of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism — Common Notions PressEnd capitalism before it ends us. Points of Departure is the definitive collection of Harry Cleaver’s best unpublished, translated, or lesser known writings on working class refusal, class compositio...

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Preview Seraj Assi's novel RED FLOUR with Inverse Journal. "In this particular excerpt, the narrator ventures from a bitter fantasy, survivor’s guilt and painful recollection to face the moral devastation caused by enforced starvation and war." buff.ly/yZyHEWn

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Written by unhoused people & their allies, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC offers a first-person account of life under state violence. Throughout this book, Aetna residents & organizers use essays, interviews, & photographs to share strategies for solidarity and survival in a time of class war. buff.ly/OyRwSsM

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Tending to inspiration from the cultural intifada and seeds gifted during a visit to a liberated Palestine, Désirée, Mia, and Adelaide reminisce on a precarious collaboration. In a dire time, they have irresistible fun, learning from sparkles in the eyes of crowds of children.

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Six months before the Hunts Point Insurrection, three trans women gather on Samhain to reconnect and reflect on the three anti-imperialist theatre companies that led them to sustain their own collective from 2042-2049.

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"This collection of Harry Cleaver’s published essays is invaluable for socialist organizers and theoreticians to re-center the working-class as the protagonist of struggle within late capitalist society." Julian Assele reviewed POINTS OF DEPARTURE for COSMONAUT.

buff.lyPoints of ArrivalJulian Assele reviews Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver, edited by Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter. While Cleaver rightly seeks…
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Harry Cleaver on the impact of computer technology on the workplace and working class. One of the most compelling Marxist theorists of class struggle over work of the last 50 years, his lesser known writings continue to be invaluable, especially as we face the rise of global fascism.

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We're thrilled to share POINTS OF DEPARTURE, @harrycleaver.bsky.social's best unpublished, translated, or little-read writings that powerfully speak to the moment we're in. Edited by Robert Ovetz and @americanwork47.bsky.social. Available at your favorite bookstore today!

buff.lyPoints of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism — Common Notions PressEnd capitalism before it ends us. Points of Departure is the definitive collection of Harry Cleaver’s best unpublished, translated, or lesser known writings on working class refusal, class…
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With capitalism endlessly imposing work—which, as Harry argues, remains our “central issue”—the struggle against work is not only vital to creating spaces in our own lives for other activities and politics but for going beyond capitalism.

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POINTS OF DEPARTURE is the definitive collection of Harry Cleaver’s best unpublished, translated, or lesser known writings—both historical and current—on working class refusal, class composition, unwaged work, debt, and what he calls the “inversion of the class perspective.”

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Some folks have been waiting for the digital publications of some of our most recent titles. That moment has arrived! BORDERTOWN CLASHES, RESOURCE WARS, CONTESTED TERRITORIES; REMAKING DEMOCRACY; YES, IT'S POSSIBLE!; ME AND MINE; and MY CITY NEED SOMETHING are all available as EPUBs.

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Upcoming Marxist Education Project event with @americanwork47.bsky.social, Robert Ovetz, @harrycleaver.bsky.social & @commonnotions.bsky.social RSVP below:

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Upcoming Book Talk from friends at Marxist Education Project on Robert Ovetz and @americanwork47.bsky.social's new book on the work of @harrycleaver.bsky.social from @commonnotions.bsky.social RSVP here: marxedproject.org/event/writin...

marxedproject.orgRefusal of Work: The Writings of Harry Cleaver - Marxist Education ProjectJoin editors Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter for a discussion of Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: The Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver, a definitive collection of...

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...what is even worse is that it is not even consistently applied. AI promises to destroy millions of jobs, way more than majoring in anthropology or art history, and somehow it gets a pass. It is the accumulation of wealth (by a few) and not work that is actually worshipped.

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Join the Common Notions community, support our radical publishing efforts, and read some fantastic books too!

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Common Notions exists through the support of our community. By community, we mean you! Every book you purchase or mention to a friend. Every event you attend. Every newsletter you open. It all adds up, and keeps us going. Thank you!

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Democracy At Work
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Upcoming Book Talk from friends at Marxist Education Project on Robert Ovetz and @americanwork47.bsky.social's new book on the work of @harrycleaver.bsky.social from @commonnotions.bsky.social RSVP here: marxedproject.org/event/writin...

marxedproject.orgRefusal of Work: The Writings of Harry Cleaver - Marxist Education ProjectJoin editors Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter for a discussion of Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: The Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver, a definitive collection of...
Common Notions Press
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Common Notions exists through the support of our community. By community, we mean you! Every book you purchase or mention to a friend. Every event you attend. Every newsletter you open. It all adds up, and keeps us going. Thank you!

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Over a single day, a family faces grief, exile, and history in a surreal tale set at contested borders. Narrated by characters like a stringed instrument and even death itself, the book follows Azad's family as they try to lay his body to rest.

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Cleaver's central focus on the refusal of work, the crisis of capitalism, and the how and why of Marxist theory is invaluable to our struggles today. Here we have Cleaver explaining how capitalism uses imposed work to organize society:

buff.lyNature of the Beast: Harry Cleaver On Capitalism and WorkHarry Cleaver at Hofstra University. Cleaver explains how capitalism uses work as a form of social control. #capitalism #work #9to5life #9to5 #independentpublishing #smallpress #harrycleaver…
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Freedom’s Ballad is a new collaboration that features three stories exploring the theme of Freedom Past, Freedom Now, and Freedom to Come. Each showcasing how freedom and safety are woven together in Philadelphia’s past, present, and in the community acts that are seeding freer futures.

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These stories showcase community building and center collective solutions, lived experiences, and the everyday practices that help communities thrive. Read the stories:

commonnotions.orgFreedom's Ballad is a project of the D.U.B. community newsroom — Common Notions PressFreedom’s Ballad features three stories (Freedom's Past, Freedom Now, and Freedom to Come), each showing how freedom and safety are woven together in Philadelphia’s past, present, and in the…
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"Lyrical, formally daring, and emotionally resonant, THE SHADELESS BORDER is a poignant exploration of Kurdish experience and a compelling reflection on the fragility of home." —Essmat Sophie, author of DANCING AMID FIRE, RISING ABOVE RUINS

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Set at the contested frontier between Iran and Iraq, Jiyar Jahan Fard’s masterpiece is a work of haunting intensity, written along the delicate line between Kafka and Kundera, and tracing the man-made boundaries that define the reality of modern-day Kurdistan.

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"When you have these [small everyday victories], you are showing the movement that we do win things, and we know we can build bigger things." Great interview with @fedivers.joao.cat on @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social!

counterpunch.orgYes, It’s Possible! A Handbook from Building Power from BelowInterview with João França Building movements is an arduous and involved process. It takes organising people, building morale, and grit, and that isn’t
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New #Project2052 story alert! "The Fall of Carceral Psychiatry" reminds us that there is no revolution without mad and disabled folks. Meet Gregory Barbie, a mad and blind man from rural Idaho as he recounts his time in a locked psych ward and the eventual fall of carceral psychiatry.

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The story follows his journey to a commune in Chicago, illustrating the disabled world-building that was essential to liberation movements. Story by @anniesinger.bsky.social Edited by @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and @genderhorizon.com Read the full story: buff.ly/AIR7Wia

commonnotions.orgProject 2052 (Everything for Everyone) — Common Notions PressProject 2052 is a website of revolutionary speculative short fiction, visual art and poetry, set in the world of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

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And last but not least, THE SHADELESS BORDER by Jiyar Jahan Fard (tr. Chiya Parvizpur, @commonnotions.bsky.social ) uses both human and nonhuman narrators to illustrate the impact of borders on the nations and people they divide. bookshop.org/a/169/978194...

bookshop.orgThe Shadeless BorderOver a single day, a family faces grief and exile and history in a surreal tale set at contested borders.On one side of the border, Azad's mother stands in her grief, waiting to bury her son. On the…