ARP Books now at @arpbooks.bsky.social

“None of this system of social service is about our welfare. We are not meant to fare well.” —Idil Abdillahi, Black Women Under State

In 2025 we’re thrilled to be publishing a collection of queer northern Indigenous writing, new experimental poetry and fiction, a Gazan daybook, and a radical proposal of wages for schoolwork +++

Thanks for supporting us here. We’ll no longer be posting on x but find us on ig and now bluesky

Help save Community Connections at Millennium Library. Its 100 daily “patrons include newcomers from other countries & Indigenous communities, those without access to basic technologies [..] those more vulnerable, lower income, or at risk of homelessness.” instagram.com/p/DEk7_oqzdRI/…

"If police-reported crime rates go down, they are leveraged as proof that policing works and that police deserve more money, while if these rates go up, they become evidence of insufficient funding and resources." Good stuff from James Wilt thewalrus.ca/the-winnipeg-p…

"People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster." J. Baldwin

Han VanderHart lists my World's End, (ARP Books) in their "Ten Remarkable Small Press Titles I Read This Year" list! / @arpbooks ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2024/12/han-va…

The always excellent @RevLeftRadio's latest episode interview is with Torkil Lauesen on the topic of his recent book 'The Long Transition...' revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/the-long-trans… Free PDF and print copies available: iskrabooks.org/the-long-trans…

For @PalStudies, I wrote about Canada’s literary sector—its complicity in the genocide in Gaza, and the fierce resistance of Canadian authors in dismantling the sector's connections to the families and corporations that enable oppression and injustice. palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656619

Every day, another extraordinary text comes to our inbox. This is from a short essay by Gazan poet & playwright Yousef el Qedra.

“rob mclennan is one of the best prose and monostich poets writing today”@hmvanderhart on World’s End by @robmclennanblog poetrynotesfromhan.beehiiv.com/p/ten-remarkab…

7,000 authors and book workers have now joined the boycott of complicit Israeli literary institutions Upon its release on October 28th, 2024, the public letter announcing the campaign already constituted the largest boycott against Israeli cultural institutions in history. Now, with thousands more signing on, this letter signals a watershed moment in the international movement for Palestinian rights. Among the new signatories are Khaled Hosseini, Piper Kerman, Ling Ma, Robin Coste Lewis, Michael Rosen, Peter Carey, Omar El Akkad, Chris Kraus, R.O. Kwon, V (fka Eve Ensler), Annie Baker, Brandon Taylor, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Akwaeke Emezi, adrienne maree brown, Bette A. & Brian Eno, John Cusack, Sapphire, and Greta Thunberg. The signatories include winners of the Nobel Prize, Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Giller Prize, MacArthur Fellowship, Miles Franklin Award, and National Book Award—including three of this year’s winners: Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Percival Everett and Shifa Saltagi Safadi—and editors at each of the Big Five publishing houses, and many independent publishers. palfest.org/press-release-…

Outstanding statement from the Manitoba Library Association on the importance of continual funding of the Community Connections space at the Millenium Library. mla.mb.ca/2024/12/09/sta…

This is so funny to me. Like, "We'd like to dispel the circulating rumors that we've grown a conscience. We reassure our members that we remain as cowardly as ever." No PACBI for PEN.

Union representing 72K faculty & academic staff in Canada upholds right to criticize Israel’s crimes against Palestinians and to call for “boycott and/or divestment and/or sanctions of the State of Israel." 18 Canadian faculty associations have passed boycott/divestment motions.

Check out this conversation with @EllenGabriel1 and @SamirS_H happening tomorrow at the Quebec Book Fair:

This is why the academic boycott is necessary. Tel Aviv University is the largest and highest ranked university in Israel. It partners with 280 academic institutions in 46 countries TAU has produced more venture capital backed company founders than any university outside the US

Maysam Abu Khreibeh, a Palestinian writer and organizer whose criminal charges were dropped this week, speaks publicly about her arrest for the first time. She calls on Giller Foundation to end its partnerships with Scotiabank, Indigo and other companies “complicit in genocide”

Iskra Books' 'advent calendar': each weekday get a FREE pdf of our of our 2024 publications. 📘Day 3 - Internationalism in Practice: Claudia Jones, Black Liberation, and the "Bestial" War on Korea.📘 A groundbreaking collection of Jones’ writings from the early 1950s, and includes essays on militarism, national chauvinism, and resistance to the Korean war—all of which were written under the looming threat of McCarthyist repression in the US. This excellent and timely collection of writings is accompanied by a lesser-known writing from Kim Il Sung, as well as a brilliant new collection of contemporary contributions from @tionneparris, Gerald Horne, @DeniseLynn13, and Betsy Yoon! FREE PDF and print editions available: iskrabooks.org/internationali…

Solidarity with the library staff whose #ReadPalestineWeek display in in Van Nuys, CA was destroyed