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minor compositions @minorcompositions.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's here! Silvia Federici's The Development of Lukács’ Realism is now available for direct order. Written in 1980, never before published. A remarkable early work on Marxism, realism & aesthetics. Shipping now. Trade release April 2027. www.minorcompositions.info/the-developm...

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Sarah Kizuk @smkay.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Actual release day is TODAY!!!

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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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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Ioana Cerasella Chis @cerasellachis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Edited by Robert Ovetz & Kevin Van Meter, ‘Points of Departure - Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: The Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver’ @harrycleaver.bsky.social is now out! Order it from @commonnotions.bsky.social www.commonnotions.org/buy/points-o... #Marxism #Work #Anticapitalism

Points of Departure, placed on a colourful rug, next to a sleepy dog (Toto)

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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We’re thrilled to invite Common Notions sustaining members to join Robert Ovetz and @americanwork47.bsky.social for a celebration and informal conversation.

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dominique routhier @routhier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'll be on the book panel for this at @histmat.bsky.social London ! looking forward to discussing this with the comrades

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American Worker @americanwork47.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New book alert! Gabriel Kuhn's @plutopress.bsky.social book Workers’ Power from Below: Rebuilding Syndicalism in the 21st Century is available for preorder. Check out Robert Ovetz and @americanwork47.bsky.social's chapter Fifteen Theses on the US Labor Movement: www.plutobooks.com/product/work...

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Workers' Power from Below - Pluto Press

Dispatches from the front lines of the global syndicalist resurgence

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Sarah Kizuk @smkay.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

So proud of @americanwork47.bsky.social for the work and dedication that he (and Robert) did on this volume of Harry Cleaver’s work. Can’t wait to dive in! You should all check this title out at @commonnotions.bsky.social !! 🤩🤩🤩

Kevin, one of the editors of a book, stands on a balcony surrounded by plants holding a book up. The book is the one he just edited “points of departure”. Thw cover is grey cracked concrete with a red square with the title in white.

Picture of “Points of departure: refusal of work and the crisis of capitalism: the collected works of Harry cleaver” by common notions press.

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Democracy At Work @democracyatwork.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 09/09/2026

“We are not the only ones to face hard times. Our ancestors who faced such times left us their stories so that we would know what to do now. Don’t let those stories go to waste! There is power in them. We have power in them.” - @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

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Why the stories working people tell ourselves about ourselves matter

“We are not the only ones to face hard times. Our ancestors who faced such times left us their stories so that we would know what to do now. Don't let those stories go to waste! There is power in them...

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American Worker @americanwork47.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What changes if we begin the history of capitalism not with what capital does to workers, but with what workers force capital to do? This reversal helps set Harry Cleaver’s approach to Marxism apart from more traditional accounts of capitalism and labor.

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American Worker @americanwork47.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

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

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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

new from me on the Verso blog: what happened to the U.S. climate movement? what can we learn from it's dissipation? and in a time of quietude, what can be gleaned from contrasts with the data center rebellion? www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/w...

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Where is the U.S. climate movement?

In the United States, there is a pervasive sense that the once-ascendent climate movement is in disarray or has even disappeared. The prior decade saw the actions and ambitions of climate activism bec...

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Justseeds Artists' Cooperative @justseeds.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

New collaborative screenprint by @toosphexy.bsky.social and Sam Wallman drops today! It's the last day of our summer sale- get 20% off with code LEARN at checkout on our site!

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David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

My review of a new collection of Harry Cleaver's writings on the refusal of work, the crisis of capitalism, and Marxist theory, edited by Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter, just published in the Morning Star.

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How refusing to work will always beat capital

Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: The Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver

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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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:

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Nature of the Beast: Harry Cleaver On Capitalism and Work

Harry 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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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We're thrilled for the publication of POINTS OF DEPARTURE in September. Edited by Robert Ovetz and @americanwork47.bsky.social, the reader is a collection of Harry Cleaver’s best unpublished, translated, or little-read writings that powerfully speak to the moment we are in.

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Today’s mail. Thanks Common Notions

Book Points of Departure
Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism The Collected
Writings of
Harry Cleaver
edited by Robert Ovetz & Kevin Van Meter

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American Worker @americanwork47.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

@americanwork47.bsky.social: Staughton Lynd offered that “at moments of social crisis, working-class self-activity would take on new organizational forms, outside the trade union movement.” What is the importance of self-activity and self-organization in ... the class struggle?

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American Worker @americanwork47.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"At the heart of the class relation is the imposition of work and the resistance to the imposition of work" Take a viewing of our short Nature of the Beast: @harrycleaver.bsky.social On Capitalism and Work: youtube.com/shorts/jFCCt... via @commonnotions.bsky.social

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Nature of the Beast: Harry Cleaver On Capitalism and Work

YouTube video by Common Notions

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 25/08/2026

“I’m absolutely being imprisoned for a political agenda,” activist Autumn Hill tells Democracy Now! in a phone call from Texas’s Johnson County Correctional Facility, where the 30-year-old trans woman is serving a 50-year prison sentence for protesting outside the Prairieland ICE jail last July.

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Meet Prairieland Protester Autumn Hill: How Her “Act of Solidarity” Became a 50-Year Prison Sentence

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

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minor compositions @minorcompositions.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Happy 92nd birthday to Fredy Perlman – writer, printer, publisher, and enemy of the apparently inevitable. His question still matters: how do we stop reproducing the forms of domination we oppose? Keep reading. Keep printing. Escape Leviathan.

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dgorganize (he/him) @dgorganize.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New Politics has a deep dive interview with me on Unions of Our Own, now free online On the workers' movement, reform caucuses, the 2028 general strike call, continuity and change from work with my late great mentor Staughton Lynd, and more newpol.org/issue_post/c... 🎙️ @americanwork47.bsky.social

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Class Struggle of Our Own - New Politics

In an interview, Daniel Gross discusses strategies for powerful rank-and-file unionism in the United States today.

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American Worker @americanwork47.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Our new @harrycleaver.bsky.social reader—Points of Depature will be out on the Class Compositions series at @commonnotions.bsky.social any day now. Preorder yours here: www.commonnotions.org/buy/points-o...

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American Worker @americanwork47.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“Workers over the last ten, fifteen years in the United States have been in undeniable motion. Not all of that motion has been successful and it’s not all union activity, but there have been breakthrough victories and a definite turn toward unionism.”

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AK Press @akpress.org · 11/08/2026

"As a Panther, and as someone who went underground as an urban guerrilla, I have put my life on the line. I have watched my comrades die and spent most of my adult life in prison. But I still believe that we can win." —Ashanti Alston, 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘞𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪 𝘖. 𝘈𝘭𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯

A photo of the cover of Anarchist Panther: The Selected Writings of Ashanti O. Alston, centered over a rug with floral deep purple and blue tones. "Anarchist Panther" is in sharp, slightly right diagonal upward orange text, almost like a comic book, and stands out on top of the green - black photo portrait of Ashanti.

A scan of a black and white collaged page from one of Ashanti Alston's zines he made in the '90s. There are two columns of photobooth photos of Ashanti with a drawing of a black panther in a cage between them. Below them is a narrow grey portait rectangular column that reads (in Western-style font) "ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!"

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october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

y'all, we are almost halfway to our goal for pre-orders of The Struggle Is Always Worth It! I'm so overwhelmed with the support so far, much of it from folks on this site. There are some new rewards and this week I hope to start highlighting some individual chapters! givebutter.com/SIAWI-presale

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Struggle Is Always Worth It book pre-sale

Pre-sale and fundraiser for the edited collection, The Struggle Is Always Worth It, coming out December 2026.

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American Worker @americanwork47.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

#Solidarity — a painting by Marius Mason circa 2011. Honored to have this displayed on my shelf! #FreeThemAll and support Marius: supportmariusmason.org/support/

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minor compositions @minorcompositions.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

New essay: “The Socialisation Capital Cannot Produce.” Reading Mario Tronti on the gap between social cooperation and capitalist command—and why capital’s dependence on living labour is where struggle begins. nihilistoptimism.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...

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The Socialisation Capital Cannot Produce

Capital cannot produce social cooperation by itself. It must make living labour carry it – and that dependence is where struggle begins. The...

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 02/08/2026

Working with anarchist artist NO BONZO, we've made a support poster to inform people about the Minneapolis 15 case. 15 people are federally charged with conspiracy for allegedly defending their neighborhoods from ICE. Please print these out and post them everywhere! crimethinc.com/posters/supp...

A poster reading:

Support the Minnesota fifteen!

The US Attorney’s Office in Minneapolis has charged fifteen people with “conspiracy to impede federal officers,” accusing them of defending their neighborhoods from ICE.

Across Minnesota and all around the country, hundreds of thousands of people have come together to form rapid response networks and protect their neighbors from mercenaries who are separating parents from their children and brutalizing people regardless of their immigration status. As ICE agents murder people in the streets, federal authorities want to pretend that those who stand up to ICE represent the real threat to the public.

This prosecution is a part of NSPM-7, the Trump administration’s initiative to turn the War on Terror against “antifa”—which is to say, against anyone who opposes fascism. The goal of these charges is to intimidate people out of standing up for each other. Make no mistake, this prosecution is directed at all who do not welcome authoritarianism. If it succeeds, they will repeat this strategy again, targeting more and more people.

In the face of fascist violence, the only route to safety is collective organizing. Solidarity is self-preservation. The harder it is for them to capture today’s targets, the longer it will take them to target the rest of us.

Support the Minnesota fifteen!

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American Worker @americanwork47.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"At first, [James] Baldwin was shy, but we soon had long discussions. It was not just the talk and the good food that quickly laid the basis for our friendship. The Calypso was catching on fast with a unique segment of the public, especially among radical intellectuals. C.L.R. James, for example..."

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American Worker @americanwork47.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"Armored cars and tanks and guns came to take away our sons; but every man must stand behind the men behind the wire" Tunes: youtu.be/WvGC6QroaEM?...

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American Worker @americanwork47.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

New book days! Today its Matthew Quest's CLR James: Cultivator of the Popular Will: A Study of the History and Politics of World Revolution. Excited to dig into all 1114 pages and for the paperback edition out on @haymarketbooks.org next year.

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AK Press @akpress.org · 16/07/2026

Over the years, many of us have had the privilege of hearing Ashanti Alston speak on Black anarchism, political prisoners, Zapatismo, and lessons from organizing. With the help of @williamcson.bsky.social we've compiled his writings, speeches, and interviews into a volume we can all learn from.

A standing copy of the book Anarchist Panther: The Selected Writings of Ashanti O. Alston, featuring a grayscale photograph of the author with a green overlay, and the title in slanted light orange diagonal text.

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American Worker @americanwork47.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Reading @mollycrabapple.bsky.social’s rich and triumphant ‘Here Where We Live is Our Country.’ Perfect for waiting rooms and social clubs (where I’ve been enjoying it), grange halls and union halls, bookshops and infoshops, and community centers of all kinds. Pick it up if you haven’t already!

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minor compositions @minorcompositions.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Raoul Vaneigem has died. He leaves us no instruction manual, thankfully – only an insistence that everyday life can still be stolen back from work, boredom and obedience: in argument, song, drink, dance, love, revolt and the invention of new poetry.

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Sarah Kizuk @smkay.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

New book day! Thanks @americanwork47.bsky.social!

Photo of book. Title is The Selected writing of Ashanti O Alston: anarchist panther

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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

POINTS OF DEPARTURE is "essential reading for anyone fed up with capitalism’s endless crises and wars.” Coming this fall. Edited by Robert Ovetz and @americanwork47.bsky.social. ⚡️ tinyurl.com/End-Capitalism

Yellow background with the blurb in the post and the front cover of the book

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Justseeds Artists' Cooperative @justseeds.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Love to All the Freedom Fighters! New riso from Josh MacPhee. justseeds.org/product/love...

A simple poster with a simple slogan. Much love to everyone fighting for freedom!
(with hand drawn type)

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American Worker @americanwork47.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"@harrycleaver.bsky.social has long been an innovative interlocuter of the most pugnacious anti-work tendencies of Italian workerism."

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American Worker @americanwork47.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

"For more than fifty years now, Harry Cleaver has provided profound insights into contemporary class struggles, thanks to an expressly *political* reading of the critique of political economy."

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American Worker @americanwork47.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

“Harry Cleaver’s essays collected in this wonderfully edited volume demonstrate the continuing political relevance and urgency of concepts such as the refusal of work and the self-valorization of the working class.” —Michael Hardt, The Subversive Seventies

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American Worker @americanwork47.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Attn! Upstate New York labor organizers! Rust Belt Rising, Building Solidarity and Worker Power is coming up in a few weeks. I'll be giving a workshop on "Labor Education for All Workers: based on my @NewPoliticsMag article . More info: www.readingstruggles.info/post/worksho...

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Workshop: Labor Education for All Workers at Rust Belt Rising in Rochester, NY 8/15

Rust Belt RisingBuilding Solidarity and Worker Power in Rochester, New York Saturday, August 15th, 9am-6pmSunday, August 16th, 9am-2pmJoin author, labor educator, and union organizer Kevin Van Meter f...

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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This Sunday at 2 pm et/11 am pt! Watch it here: tinyurl.com/PeopleDoComeHome

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