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Between the Lines is a social movement press founded in 1977. btlbooks.com

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Between the Lines @btlbooks.com · 6d ago

OF WEAPONS AND WORDS is now available to pre-order. Read Lara Sheehi's endorsement below. btlbooks.com/book/of-weap...

Chris Dixon @withmovements.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm delighted to share that I will be traveling regionally to speak at a few launches for my book this fall. If you're in one of these cities, I would love to see you and hear your thoughts about long-haul organizing!

Between the Lines@btlbooks.com · 2w ago

Join @withmovements.bsky.social on his regional tour: with events in Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, and Kingston! More details available here: btlbooks.com/events #AuthorTour #FortheLongHaul

Chris Dixon @withmovements.bsky.social · 7d ago

Next month I'll be in Montreal to launch FOR THE LONG HAUL: HOW TO STAY IN THE FIGHT FOR A BETTER WORLD! Find all the info here: www.concordia.ca/cuevents/art... Many thanks for my publishers, @btlbooks.com and @akpress.org, and to @socialjusticecu.bsky.social for hosting!

The Leveller @theleveller.bsky.social · 7d ago

September 14: @colewebber.bsky.social & Philip Zigman discuss their new book "Renoviction & Resistance in the Capitalist City" in Ottawa @btlbooks.com along with Leveller & local author Andrew Crosby of "Resisting Eviction: Domicide & the Financialization of Rental Housing" No registration required!

Posted for "A book discussion with authors Cole Webber and Philip Zigman - Renoviction and Resistance in the Capitalist City (Between the Lines 2026)" on Monday September 14th at 7pm at JK Wyllie Conference Room, PSAC Head Office, 233 Gilmour St. Sponsored by The Leveller.

Between the Lines @btlbooks.com · 2w ago

Join @withmovements.bsky.social on his regional tour: with events in Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, and Kingston! More details available here: btlbooks.com/events #AuthorTour #FortheLongHaul

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 3w ago

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women by Silvia Federici, @btlbooks.com & Aether and Ego by yours truly, Inanna Publications. See alt-text for book details. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #bookstagram

Book covers for 1. Aether and Ego by Joanne Merriam, Inanna Publications: Elizabeth Bennet is a part of the second generation embarking on a centuries-long flight to Alpha Centauri, working in the signal room and studying engineering aboard a massive centrifugal ship. When she is thrown into the orbit of the conventional Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth finds him haughty and intolerable. But then her younger sister elopes. For all of their progress in the new society of the ship, a woman can still be ruined by an imprudent attachment. Can Elizabeth and Darcy save Lydia’s reputation, learn to like each other, and avoid being convicted of murder? Out 15 September – pre-order now: https://inanna.ca/product/aether-and-ego/ or in the US, https://bookshop.org/a/96356/9781834210261 and 2.
@btlbooks.com Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women by Silvia Federici, Between the Lines: We are witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, including new witch hunts, which have occurred alongside an expansion of capitalist social relations. No less than the witch hunts in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Europe and the “New World,” this new war on women is a structural element of the new forms of capitalist accumulation founded on the destruction of people’s most basic means of reproduction. https://btlbooks.com/book/witches-witch-hunting-and-women‪

Chris Dixon @withmovements.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ottawa friends: I invite you to my FOR THE LONG HAUL book kick-off event on Tuesday, September 22! I'm excited to do this on the official publication day of the book, a joint production of @akpress.org and @btlbooks.com. Find all of the info here: www.eventbrite.com/e/for-the-lo...

Cole Webber @colewebber.bsky.social · 4w ago

Looking forward to this book discussion in Ottawa. We'll be joined by Andrew Crosby, author of Resisting Eviction: Domicide and the Financialization of Rental Housing (Fernwood, 2023).

Between the Lines @btlbooks.com · 2mo ago

Chop chop! Half off all ebooks until the end of July. Load up your ereaders: btlbooks.com/blog/view/ch...

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: @btlbooks.com’s For the Long Haul: How to Stay in the Fight for a Better World by Chris Dixon @withmovements.bsky.social & Invested in Crisis: Public Sector Pensions Against the Future by Tom Fraser. See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #bookstagram

Book covers for Between the Lines’s For the Long Haul: How to Stay in the Fight for a Better World by Chris Dixon: Written in a compact and accessible manner, For the Long Haul takes up the question of activist longevity through five chapter-length propositions. Each chapter names a key obstacle to movement durability and then elaborates practical tools for contending with the obstacle and nourishing long-haul organizing. Focusing on the US and Canada, the book is based on interviews with and writings by seasoned organizers, experiences of past and present-day political organizations, and a broad range of movement histories. Forthcoming 22 September 2026. https://btlbooks.com/book/for-the-long-haul and Invested in Crisis: Public Sector Pensions Against the Future by Tom Fraser: Tom Fraser traces the rise of the province’s mega-pension-funds by melding history, geography, and political economy to situate this growth in the context of Ontario’s deindustrialization, the rise of finance, and the global politics of the built environment. Fraser delves deep into the sordid stories of the public sector pension fund investment world: the massive real estate projects, the infrastructure privatization debacles, how unions fight back, and what needs to be done so we can all save for a better future. https://btlbooks.com/book/invested-in-crisis

Chris Dixon @withmovements.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My book *For the Long Haul: How to Stay in the Fight for a Better World* is part of the fall line-up from @btlbooks.com!

Between the Lines@btlbooks.com · 2mo ago

Between the Lines is thrilled to unveil our Fall 2026 titles! Learn more: btlbooks.com/blog/view/fa...

Between the Lines @btlbooks.com · 2mo ago

Chop chop! Half off all ebooks until the end of July. Load up your ereaders: btlbooks.com/blog/view/ch...

Between the Lines @btlbooks.com · 2mo ago

Between the Lines is thrilled to unveil our Fall 2026 titles! Learn more: btlbooks.com/blog/view/fa...

Between the Lines @btlbooks.com · 3mo ago

Upcoming author talk at the Toronto Public Library on Renoviction and Resistance in the Capitalist City by Cole Webber and Philip Zigman! 📆 July 7, 7 pm 📍Toronto Reference Library 🚪Beeton Hall, 1st Floor Learn more: tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/events/6a...

Between the Lines @btlbooks.com · 3mo ago

Shop our 25% off sale! Support radical indie publishing today. 💪 Learn more: btlbooks.com/blog/view/pr...

Cole Webber @colewebber.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We're doing another book event at the Toronto Reference Library on July 7 at 7pm

Between the Lines@btlbooks.com · 3mo ago

Between the Lines @btlbooks.com · 3mo ago

Out now! Renoviction and Resistance in the Capitalist City by Cole Webber and Philip Zigman. Learn more: btlbooks.com/book/renovic...

Between the Lines @btlbooks.com · 3mo ago

Karen Dubinsky's Strangely, Friends is the winner of the 2026 Wilson Prize! @kdubin.bsky.social Learn more: wilson.humanities.mcmaster.ca/news/2026-wi...

Between the Lines @btlbooks.com · 3mo ago

Celebrating queer, trans and Two-Spirit lives goes hand in hand with celebrating the history of Indigenous nations. To shine a light on these topics and promote broader access to our list, Between the Lines will be offering three giveaways on our Instagram. Learn more: btlbooks.com/blog/view/pr...

Between the Lines @btlbooks.com · 4mo ago

Book launch for Renoviction and Resistance in the Capitalist City! Featuring @colewebber.bsky.social and Philip Zigman in conversation with Kevin Laforest. 🗓️ June 18, 2026 ⏱️ 6:30pm–8:30pm ET 📍 Queen Books, Toronto, ON 🔗 Register via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-launc...

Between the Lines @btlbooks.com · 4mo ago

Spring is chilly this year but our schedules are heating up! Find us tabling at Constellation, the CUPE Ontario Convention, and the TCAF - The Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Learn more on our website's blog: btlbooks.com/blog/view/sp...

American Worker @americanwork47.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"They say it is love. We say it is unwaged work." New book days are the best days, especially when its the new Wages for Housework anthology out on @btlbooks.com and available in the US via @akpress.org. #wagesdue #wagesforhousework

Samir S-H @samir0s-h.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Once again humbled by & grateful to Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel for having opened the course w/ the Ohén:ton Karihwatéhkwen & having spoken w/ the students about "When The Pine Needles Fall" (both her award-winning documentary & her best-selling book with @seancarleton.bsky.social @btlbooks.com) 🙏🏽✊🏽

AK Press @akpress.org · 4mo ago

We're so excited to publish FOR THE LONG HAUL: How to Stay in a Fight for a Better World, a guide to sustaining long-term activism by movement veteran @withmovements.bsky.social and with @btlbooks.com! The book comes out this September →→ ⁠ www.akpress.org/for-the-long...

The cover of "For the Long Haul: How to Stay in the Fight for a Better World" by Chris Dixon, Foreword by Rachel Herzing. The cover has a lilac background and shows a black and white illustration of a stream of protestors marching forward, carrying signs. The title text is in a bright pale yellow.

A guide to sustaining long term activism from a social movement veteran

For The Long Haul addresses the question of how to sustain long-term involvement in transformative social movements. Chris Dixon takes up this question with a particular focus on our time of compounding crises and widely felt urgency. This urgency, the book argues, is warranted; created a just and habitable future requires dramatic social transformation.

Chris Dixon is an activist, writer, and educator with more than three decades of experience in social movements in the US and Canada. Originally from Alaska, he now lives in Ottawa, on unceded Algonquin territory. Dixon is a member of Punch Up Collective and serves on the advisory board for the activist journal Upping the Anti. Formally trained as a scholar of social movements, he writes and speaks regularly about radical organizing, left history, and movement-based research. His first book was Another Politics: Talking Across Today's Transformative Movements. Find more of Dixon's work on his website, Writing With Movements.

“For the Long Haul is an invaluable resource. Drawing on meticulous research and extensive political experience, Chris Dixon offers practical tools for building durable liberatory movements that can meet the challenges of our time." —Angela Davis, author of Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

American Worker @americanwork47.bsky.social · 4mo ago

An extremely generative and generous book, Chris Dixon’s For the Long Haul: How to Stay in the Fight for a Better World will be released by @akpress.org and @btlbooks.com later this year.

For the Long Haul (Preorder)

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Chris Dixon@withmovements.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My book FOR THE LONG HAUL: HOW TO STAY IN THE FIGHT FOR A BETTER WORLD is now available for pre-order! In the U.S., order from @akpress.org. In Canada, order from @btlbooks.com. It will be out in September! Find all the info at www.writingwithmovements.com/long-haul/

Chris Dixon @withmovements.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Cole Webber @colewebber.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Read about what housing researchers, tenant lawyers, and radical thinkers are saying about Renoviction and Resistance in the Capitalist City, out June 16 from @btlbooks.com btlbooks.com/book/renovic...

Photo of book cover "Renoviction and Resistance in the Capitalist City—Cole Webber and Philip Zigman"

“Essential reading for people who care about radical housing justice. Webber and Zigman offer us a rigorous study of renoviction deeply rooted in organizing wisdom and experience, which exposes mainstream myths about our housing system, and offers an energizing guide for tenants who want to fight displacement and build community power.” – Martine August, associate professor, School of Planning, University of Waterloo

“A crucial guide to the class struggle that exists in the home, not just the workplace. Renoviction and Resistance in the Capitalist City is an accessible and indispensable handbook on the strength of autonomous tenant organizing and the weakness of relying on legalistic and non-profit approaches.” – Mike Gouldhawke, contributor to Briarpatch and the Yellowhead Institute

Feminist City @feministcity.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Working for Nothing: A #WagesForHousework Anthology" edited by Louise Toupin 😍 btlbooks.com/book/wages-f... @btlbooks.com

Between the Lines @btlbooks.com · 4mo ago

Out now! Action-packed and beautifully illustrated, Blood on the Snow uncovers this little-known episode in labour history when workers divided resulted in tragedy. Learn more: btlbooks.com/book/blood-o... #GraphicHistory #ReesorSiding #NorthernOntario #Labour #Workers