[Marxism] 2nd Issue of the Journal "Upping the Anti" now out

[facing reality <fr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Friends,

The second issue of our journal "Upping the Anti" is now back from the
printer with more exciting articles, interviews and activist roundtables
on anti-oppression, anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist politics in
Canada.

If you would like to help distribute the Journal we would be
very happy to arrange that. We will mail them to you for free, but we
expect that you can send us back five dollars per copy of the journal
that you sell. This issue of the journal is a 188 page paperback and
will be sold on a sliding scale from $5-$10. We have also reprinted the
first issue of the journal in paperback format and it is also available
for sale and distribution.

For all matters concerning distribution of the journal, please e-mail
uta_distro@xxxxxxxxx Individual copies of the journal can be purchased
by sending $7 CND or $5 USD in well concealed cash to: Upping the Anti,
900 Dufferin Street, P.O. Box 24144, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6H 4H6.

For more information on the journal and to see articles as we post them
online please go to http://auto_sol.tao.ca.

In solidarity,


Aidan, Erin, Tom, and Sharmeen, the editors of Upping the Anti.



TABLE OF CONTENTS, UPPING THE ANTI, NUMBER TWO

INTRODUCTION AND EDITORIAL
The editors.

LETTERS TO THE EDITORS:
âAnonymous Workerâ, Danielle Gauld and David Gilbert.

INTERVIEWS:
Himani Bannerji: Singing In Dark Times: The Politics of Race and Class

Grace Lee Boggs: Revolution as a New Beginning (Part 2 of 2)

Nicholas Phebus: The Strike of the General Assembly

ESSAYS:
Tom Keefer: Marxism, Anarchism, and the Genealogy of âSocialism From Belowâ

Taiaiake Alfred and Lana Lowe: Warrior Societies in Contemporary
Indigenous Communities

ROUNDTABLES:
Mordecai Briemberg, Paul Burrows, Samer Elatrash, Adam Hanieh and Rafeef
Ziadah: Perspectives on Palestine Solidarity Organizing in Canada

Chris Arsenault, Honor Brabason & Jessie, Mike DesRoches, Derrick
OâKeefe, Andrea Schmidt and George âMickâ Sweetman: Anti-war Activism in
Canada

Sarita Ahooja, Harsha Walia and Sima Zerehi:  Fighting Borders:
Non-Status (Im)migrant Justice in Canada

REVIEWS:
Adrian Harewood on âA View of Freedom: Alfie Roberts Speaksâ by Dave
Austin and Alfie Roberts.

Kirat Kaur on âTen Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolutionâ
by Judy Rebick.

Karl Kersplebedeb on âCaliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and
Primitive Accumulationâ by Silvia Frederici.

Tyler McCreary on âSettlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariatâ by
J. Sakai.


and here is the introduction for the issue...


INTRODUCTION:

Welcome to the second issue of Upping the Anti. We would like to start
by letting you know that we have made new additions to the editorial
staff of our journal. Erin Gray of Toronto has joined our editorial
collective, and Dave Mitchell of Regina has joined us in the capacity of
reviews editor. We are excited to have our project grow and develop, and
in this issue we again provide you with a collection of writings
addressing a wide variety of issues and debates concerning activists on
the left in Canada. We begin this issue with responses from a number of
readers to our first issue. We welcome this kind of feedback and
encourage you to join in the discussions and respond to the
contributions of others in the pages of Upping the Anti by email or
regular mail.

Our editorial, the space in which we try to develop a common political
perspective for the journal, takes up the question of the politics of
âanti-oppressionâ within the Canadian context, and outlines some of our
thoughts on the historical development of this perspective. In our next
two issues we will take up and examine the politics of âanti-capitalismâ
and âanti-imperialismâ as part of our project of critiquing and
developing our analysis of what we call the âthree antis.â

In this issue we run three different sets of interviews with radical
theorists and organizers. We talk about questions of class and power
with Himani Bannerji, a Marxist and anti-racist feminist who has made
important contributions to understanding and transforming the way we
look at problems of oppression and domination. We also conclude our
interview with Grace Lee Boggs, a Detroit community activist who talks
about her experiences of organizing over the past six decades, her
experience of figures such as Jimmy Boggs and CLR James, and her
reflections of a lifetime of building political organizations. Our third
interview concerns one of the most important education sector struggles
to have occurred over the past several years in North America - the two
hundred thousand strong strike by college and university students in
QuÃbec in the spring of 2005. We speak to Nicolas Phebus, a member of
the Northeastern Federation of Anarchist Communists, who shares his
analysis of this important struggle in QuÃbec.

The article section begins with a piece by Tom Keefer in which he looks
at the genealogy of âsocialism from below,â and questions its usefulness
in contributing to the renewal of socialist politics today. Taiaiake
Alfred and Lana Lowe provide an outline of the historical and
contemporary nature and role of indigenous warrior societies in First
Nations communities and struggles in the Canadian context. We continue
with a series of roundtables that bring together various activists
struggling in a number of important campaigns. Mordecai Briemberg, Paul
Burrows, Rafeef Ziadah, Adam Hanieh and Samer Elatrash explore the
problems and opportunities confronting Palestinian solidarity activism
today; Chris Arsenault, Mike DesRoches, Derrick OâKeefe, Andrea Schmidt,
George âMickâ Sweetman, Honor Brabazon & Jessie X. discuss their
experiences of the Canadian antiwar movement; and Sarita Ahooja, Sima
Zerehi and Harsha Walia talk about the state of immigrant and refugee
solidarity activism.

The final section of the journal consists of a series of reviews put
together by our book reviews editor Dave Mitchell. Adrian Harewood
assesses A View for Freedom: Alfie Roberts Speaks, an interview with the
late Alfie Roberts, a remarkable activist and organizer in the MontrÃal
area. Kirat Kaur reviews Judy Rebickâs latest book Ten Thousand Roses:
The Making of a Feminist Revolution and discusses the strengths and
weaknesses of Rebickâs understanding of the Canadian feminist movement.
Karl Kersplebedeb writes on Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and
Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici which provides a historical
account of the connection between patriarchy, dispossession and the
development of capitalism. Finally, Tyler McCreary reviews J. Sakaiâs
classic Settlers: the Myth of the White Proletariat and kicks off what
we hope will be an ongoing debate on the relevance of Sakaiâs analysis
to understanding the relationship of race and class in North America today.

Finally, we canât finish talking about this issue of our journal without
thanking our advisory board members and all the other people that made
the first issue of Upping the Anti a success, and who have ensured the
continuing viability of this project. To date we have sold over 700
copies of our first issue and recouped our initial publishing and
mailing costs. Our many distributors ensured that hard copies of Upping
the Anti were available in every province and in over 30 different
Canadian cities as well as reaching countries as far away as Australia,
Argentina, Cuba, England, France, Norway, Germany, India, Kenya, New
Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Spain, and Venezuela. Copies of the
journal were also distributed to several US-based political prisoners
and prisoners of war, and we also take this opportunity to extend our
greetings of solidarity to them.

With evidence in hand that a project such as ours can be financially
sustainable and politically relevant, we are reprinting 1000 copies of
our first issue and publishing this second issue in a perfect bound
format with a print run of 2000 copies. As we prepare the third issue of
the journal for publication in the spring of 2006 we welcome further
assistance in helping to distribute the second issue of the journal even
more widely than the first. To this end, we have put up a web page with
an up to date list of local distributors from whom you can get hard
copies of the journal. If you are interested in joining this list of
distributors please e-mail us at uta_distro@xxxxxxxx to make
arrangements and to receive discounted bulk copies of the journal. We
are also open to running exchange advertisements with other radical
publications and catalogs. If you have a project that you would like to
promote in Upping the Anti, or if you would like to publicize our
journal please get in touch with us.

Copies of the first issue of the journal remain available for download
and distribution, and if you are using the PDF file of our first or
second issue for distribution, we would appreciate a note from you
letting us know where you are from and how you will be using the
journal. The deadline for articles and letters for the third issue of
the journal is March 15, 2006.

In Solidarity,


The Editors.



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