Ill Will

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Big news: We're very pleased to announce a distribution partnership with @mitpress.bsky.social . All our books will be widely available as part of the MIT catalogue. Beginning on September 1, you'll be able to walk into nearly any bookstore and put in an order for Ill Will Editions books.

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"There are very few voices in our field capable of seeing the whole picture and what’s at stake: the future, and nothing less. Leijia Hanrahan, through a layer of wit and sometimes withering irony, could see that future." – Kate Wagner, architecture critic for The Nation

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"If the Marblehead Bonfire is less well known than the Boston Tea Party as an act building toward the American revolution, it is perhaps because the target of this act of property destruction was not unjust taxation on colonial merchants, but the property of wealthy colonial elites themselves."

On the night of January 26, 1774, about twenty people from Marblehead, Massachusetts rowed out to a small island where stood a privately owned, for-profit inoculation hospital, and burned it to the ground.

The few who were arrested after the fact were jailed in nearby Salem — a notorious British loyalist stronghold. Hundreds of people from Marblehead marched to the jail and broke them out. Salem's sheriff then raised a posse of five hundred men to invade the neighboring town and bring the arsonists to the law's version of justice. In turn, the people of Marblehead raised their own posse of one thousand to defend a different and deeper principle of justice. The sheriff, wisely, let the matter drop.

This happened a year before and less than thirty miles away from where the opening shots of the American war of independence were fired at the battle of Lexington.

-Depose: Luigi Mangione, the Right to Health, and the Unfinished American Revolution, by the December 4 Legal Committee, forthcoming from Ill Will Editions.

If you watch the full interview, Chris Cuomo draws a moral equivalency between the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr and the assassination of health insurance billionaire Brian Thompson. That’s a new one.

Ill Will@illwill.bsky.social · last mo.

Chris Cuomo had a December 4th Legal Committee spokesperson on his show (again) to harass her about Luigi's defense strategy - she took the opportunity to spread the word about jury nullification and shout out our upcoming Luigi book.

Chris Cuomo had a December 4th Legal Committee spokesperson on his show (again) to harass her about Luigi's defense strategy - she took the opportunity to spread the word about jury nullification and shout out our upcoming Luigi book.

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This is a brilliant argument - that the nation-state developed as a response to the abolition of slavery, moving the direct violence from the plantation to the border without damaging the owning-class capacity to exploit & abuse. A perspective from the Americas but with world-wide relevance.

Ill Will@illwill.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Supporting people's liberation needn't require that we endorse nationalism. Why, then, is it still so prevalent within anti-imperialist struggles today? In conversation with Ralf Ruckus, Nandita Sharma exposes the link between "the migrant" and the nation from a perspective that aims to abolish both

Supporting people's liberation needn't require that we endorse nationalism. Why, then, is it still so prevalent within anti-imperialist struggles today? In conversation with Ralf Ruckus, Nandita Sharma exposes the link between "the migrant" and the nation from a perspective that aims to abolish both

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We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Ben Morea (1941-2026), one of the most profound, courageous, and singular comrades to emerge from the 1960s revolutionary movement.

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