Common Notions

A book for our comrades with an interest in radical urban history!

TAKE OVER THE CITY places the struggles of Italian operaismo within the rise of global urbanization in the 1970s. In doing so, the book draws attention to previously neglected urban struggles.

The book argues that these innovative urban struggles carry important lessons for contemporary forms of organization and social conflict in the sphere of social reproduction. If urbanization has become increasingly central for capital accumulation processes, it follows that urban struggle must become increasingly central to anti capitalist struggle. The struggles to ‘Take Over the City’ in 1970s Italy provide an important marker of how this might be done in the current era.

An incredible book, highly recommended by Leopoldina Fortunati, author of THE ARCANA OF REPRODUCTION.

TAKE OVER THE CITY will be available July 7.

Preorders via our website save 25% with discount code TAKEOVERTHECITY.

ME AND MINE is a novel about family, scarcity, and what it means to sell out as the world ends.

Irenosen Okojie, author of CURANDERA, says "J.M. Holmes is a voice to get excited about."

ME AND MINE is available now.

THE SHADELESS BORDER by Jiyar Jahan Fard will be available in August!

Over a single day, a family faces grief and exile and history in a surreal tale set at contested borders. We're so excited to publish another Kurdish novel translated by Chiya Parvizpour.

Preorder with SHADELESS to save a few bucks!

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