L.A. Anarchist Bookfair 2011

Originally published by AL Burian on June 15, 2011 in Berlin.Re-posted on June 20, 2011. DR. PAZMINSKI from the Skeleton (2006) When I moved to Chicago I could still, technically,  count myself in the category of &ldqu...

The second installment of a two week long Inkwell interview with Sasha Lilley about Capital and Its Discontents, headed up by broadcaster Angie Coiro.

Judging Books by Their Covers: 62Posted June 13, 2011 by jmacphee in Justseeds & Member Projects Reposted:June 17, 2011 In January 1994 I made my first visit to the UK and to London. At the time there were two functional anarchist s...

DEMOCRACY NOW!FBI to Expand Domestic Surveillance Powers as Details Emerge of Its Spy Campaign Targeting Activists: An interview w/ scott crow and Mike German

As I wait for my first three boxes of books to arrive on Friday, June 17, I am wondering what it will feel like to actually hold one of those books in my hands—the product of eight years of writing that has been an emotional roller-coaster r...

Two weeks ago I was asked by the nice litblog Largehearted Boy to compile a "playlist" of songs for my novel SENSATION. This list is more for the sort of thing you should listen to while reading the novel, not what I was listening to ...

I had my first van breakdown of the tour last night around midnight. Well, that is if you don’t count the tire blowout I had right before getting to Ottawa. My comrade and I were just saying that it was 12:05 AM, and the world hadn’...

Not for decades have we seen such a global uprising from below. Not for decades, except for perhaps in Latin America, where, over the last thirteen years, social movements have lifted leftist presidents to power across the region

Gary Phillips, Paul Reekie, me

My upcoming book 'Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy and the Common Ground Collective' was highlighted as todays pick by the journal Left Eye on Books  

Here is a recent profile piece on my life and the long term government/ corporate spying on my life over the last 10 years.  It misses many details, but touches on the absurdity and depth to which the state will go to label people as 'domesti...

The Killer Inside Me, how the state validated Donald Beatty by killing him, how right-wingers think everyone is bixexual, why Oprah Winfrey is dangerous, why Scots should rule Scotland, and Bob Dylan turns 70.

Here's a game I like to play with my students in the writing classes I teach. "Without contemplating it, without thinking hard, just say the word your tongue forms," I tell them.

I have just returned from an inspiring trip to Rabat and Marrakech...

Is Chris Hedges becoming the left's Glenn Beck? There is no such thing as money.

If to the oppressor all forms of resistance are illegitimate, to those who side with the oppressed no form of resistance is illegitimate.

Reviews of Jean-Patrick Manchette and Karin Slaughter, commentary on class prejudice among book reviewers, and excerpts from three of my books.

The first installment of a two week long Inkwell interview about Capital and Its Discontents, headed up by broadcaster Angie Coiro.

The Book of Man as an e-book, Scotland, U.S. terrorism, Lynne Tillman

Ha’aretz (the soft-zionist Israeli newspaper) said, "Obama murdered bin Laden for a fistful of votes."