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. đź“ŤPhiladelphia đź“ŤNYC www.commonnotions.org
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...
The Shadeless Border
Over 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…
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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
Starting soon at 2 pm et: People Do Come Home—An Event for the @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social and All Political Prisoners Mc’d by Matt Meyer, Ashanti Alston, Diana Block, Josh Harper, Ray Luc Levasseur, &Julie Herrada Watch the event: buff.ly/ZBPoJOB
This Sunday at 2 pm et/11 am pt! Watch it here: tinyurl.com/PeopleDoComeHome
Common Notions Press@commonnotions.bsky.social · 2mo agoOne day our comrades will come home. Leonard came home last year; Marius came home this year. And one day our Prairieland and Anti-Fascist Prisoners will return to our communities too. Join @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social and friends for a virtual event JULY 26TH.
Only a few more days until People Do Come Home—An Event for the @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social and All Political Prisoners with Matt Meyer, Ashanti Alston, Diana Block, Josh Harper, Ray Luc Levasseur, Julie Herrada. Watch live and thereafter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhcf...
People Do Come Home - An Event for the Prairieland Defendants and All Political Prisoners
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“Every day, Michael Geoffrey Asia spent eight consecutive hours at his laptop in Kenya staring at porn, annotating what was happening in every frame for an AI data labeling company.” www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
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The first novel about the Palestinian genocide since escalations in 2023: RED FLOUR by Seraj Assi. It's a fictionalized story of the Flour Massacre. Written using first-hand testimonies with a dash of fantasy and magical realism rooted in Palestinian faith. DRCs available on Edelweiss.
We invite you to participate in Summer of Ludd! Take heed of the lessons offered by George Eastman's THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION. Reclaim your sense of self and humanity with a week of free, public, and participatory events. Get off big tech, into Public Space, and re-enchant each other!
Very Handmaid's Tale, but with trans/enby rep! I loved it. <3
Common Notions Press@commonnotions.bsky.social · last mo.Not Dying Here is the latest story in the Project 2052 series, edited by the authors of EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE @genderhorizon.com and @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social. Read the full story:
Our latest monthly story for Project 2052! It’s a suspenseful narrative story of a pregnant trans person and a detained midwife escaping from new age fascist-aligned TERFs! It’s sexy, it’s adventurous, it’s a page turner
Common Notions Press@commonnotions.bsky.social · last mo.Not Dying Here is the latest story in the Project 2052 series, edited by the authors of EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE @genderhorizon.com and @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social. Read the full story:
also don't sleep on the collection of Cleaver's writings lovingly edited by robert Ovetz and @americanwork47.bsky.social !
Common Notions Press@commonnotions.bsky.social · last mo.New books coming this fall! POINTS OF DEPARTURE, edited by Robert Ovetz and @americanwork47.bsky.social The definitive collection of Harry Cleaver’s best unpublished, translated, or lesser known writings. An essential theoretical weapon for a new generation of militant workers and organizers.
New books coming this fall! POINTS OF DEPARTURE, edited by Robert Ovetz and @americanwork47.bsky.social The definitive collection of Harry Cleaver’s best unpublished, translated, or lesser known writings. An essential theoretical weapon for a new generation of militant workers and organizers.
Set at the contested Kurdish frontier between Iran and Iraq, Jiyar Jahan Fard’s THE SHADELESS BORDER is a work of haunting intensity. Written along the delicate line between Kafka and Kundera. Translated by Chiya Parvizpur Available 8/18/26 Preorders save 25% with SHADELESS: buff.ly/Wpizbof
New story alert! We're excited to share Not Dying Here by @r-newell.bsky.social.
If urbanization has become increasingly central for capital accumulation processes, it follows that urban struggles must become increasingly central to the fight against capitalism.
Looks to be an important and meaningful event
Common Notions Press@commonnotions.bsky.social · 2mo agoOne day our comrades will come home. Leonard came home last year; Marius came home this year. And one day our Prairieland and Anti-Fascist Prisoners will return to our communities too. Join @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social and friends for a virtual event JULY 26TH.
One day our comrades will come home. Leonard came home last year; Marius came home this year. And one day our Prairieland and Anti-Fascist Prisoners will return to our communities too. Join @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social and friends for a virtual event JULY 26TH.
"He [Dhoruba Bin-Wahad] is a strategist teaching us how to move on the chessboard of this ongoing struggle. Pick up REVOLUTION IN THESE TIMES and keep it moving." —Chuck D, Public Enemy Listen to Chuck D and pick this book up for lessons in the fight against fascism: buff.ly/7te4ALR
A Love Letter to the Revolution: Zara Dershowitz reviews Radhika Singh's EARTHLY PLAYING FIELD (@commonnotions.bsky.social)
A Love Letter to the Revolution: Review of Radhika Singh’s Earthly Playing Field
Zara Dershowitz Under Review:Earthly Playing Field. Radhika Singh. Common Notions Press, May 2026. In Earthly Playing Field, Radhika Singh delivers a genre-defying love story where the lovers never…
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Appreciation post! After a week in Chicago with events at #LaborNotes2026 and Pilsen Community Books—I “feel the warmth of the workers’ and proletarian community.”
Huang is telling you that AI is a form of enclosure, turning something public into something privately owned
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2mo ago“.. He said cars were once portrayed as killing children, but the world changed its norms by having sidewalks and crosswalks .. “When I was growing up, I used to play in the streets,” Huang said. “When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now.” apnews.com/article/nvid...
Twelve contributors share a variety of work—from essays to poems—reflecting on the "everyday shit" of movement work. EVERYDAY SH!T by the Abolition Journal Working Group is officially available today!
Everyday Sh!t: Notes on Abolition and Reconstruction — Common Notions Press
The inaugural issue of the movement-focused and future-forward Abolition Journal quarterly after it was relaunched by the Philadelphia-based Abolition School.
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Don't miss this event tomorrow!
Common Notions Press@commonnotions.bsky.social · 2mo agoDon't miss Armed by Design: Cuban and Salvadoran Agit Prop Internationalism at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social! Alma de Izote and Josh MacPhee on political posters and agit prop as movement tools. 6/16 - 7PM More on ARMED BY DESIGN and Alma de Izote: www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/20260616
Don't miss Armed by Design: Cuban and Salvadoran Agit Prop Internationalism at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social! Alma de Izote and Josh MacPhee on political posters and agit prop as movement tools. 6/16 - 7PM More on ARMED BY DESIGN and Alma de Izote: www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/20260616
TONIGHT! 7pm. POINTS OF DEPARTURE Release Party Robert Ovetz, Kevin Van Meter, and James Tracy at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social
American Worker@americanwork47.bsky.social · 2mo agoGuerrillas of Desire in the field at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social and excited for our event tomorrow night here with our forthcoming @commonnotions.bsky.social Cleaver reader!
New zine! Colleen Asper introduces and reinvigorates the long tradition of workers' inquiry.
A Brief History of the Workers’ Inquiry — Common Notions Press
A Brief History of the Workers’ Inquiry introduces and reinvigorates the long tradition of research and inquiry coming from workers’ initiative, as part of their self-activity and organizing against t...
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Heading to @labornotes.bsky.social in Chicago this weekend? Come by and say hi to the @commonnotions.bsky.social table and catch a great book event on Saturday at 4:30 too! www.readingstruggles.info/post/points-...
Points of Departure at Labor Notes 2026
Join Points of Departure editors Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter at Labor Notes 2026 in Chicago as we celebrate the release of this new collection.Meet the Authors Saturday, 4:30 - 6:15pmGrand Ballro...
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Looking forward to the Labor Notes! We're especially excited for the limited edition, early release of POINTS OF DEPARTURE. Join Robert Ovetz and @americanwork47.bsky.social at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social where they will be in conversation with @jtofthebay.bsky.social. Friday 6/12 at 7PM ⚡️
