Welcome! Newsletter number 61.
A new year. Sounds good. Will it be better than the last one? Who knows? Maybe if Gen Z gets organized… The pirate flag is a great start!
No new reviews. I looked at a couple of titles but wasn’t impressed or didn’t understand the subject matter. There’d be a wider range if non-English titles qualified as well but I’m not that flexible. English is the smallest common language denominator of the people visiting here, so English books it shall be!
Which doesn’t stop me from listing German articles. (Is that a contradiction? Technically: no.) Sports in junge Welt: luge I (on artificial tracks), ski mountaineering, Formula 1 (season recap), ski jumping I (World Cup in Klingenthal), luge II (on natural tracks), ski jumping II (Four Hills Tournament preview), plus: a long interview with Juli Schütter, the World Cup skier turned climate and pro-Palestine activist.
I also curated the sports special in the December 2025 issue of analyse & kritik. It was an honor, and I think it turned out well. I was also invited to discuss the topic on their podcast.
I helped make possible the translation of a Swedish book into German: Die Revolutionäre Front. Militanter Antifaschismus und Klassenkampf is about the Swedish group Revolutionära Fronten, which was active from 2002 to 2015. The publisher, Immergrün, outdid itself last month with releasing yet another excellent title, namely, an updated edition of the 2004 classic Spitzel [Snitch], edited by Markus Mohr and Klaus Viehmann.
Soccer vs the State is now available in Italian.
Two recent German publications make generous references to my writing: Siegbert Wolf (a Landauer expert who co-wrote the introduction to Revolution and Other Writings) expresses his frustrations with the current state of the anarchist movement in the latest issue of espero, while Franz Heuholz wrote a book-length analysis of syndicalist organizing within the German FAU titled Lieber leben wir als Außerirdische.
Speaking of Landauer and Revolution and Other Writings: Some of the book’s chapters, including the introduction, are now available in Spanish.
My article in analyse & kritik about the Austrian Communist Party’s 2025 congress was translated into Danish.
Quite a bit of fundraising at the end of the year, as per usual. I feel obliged to first mention the fundraiser for Niillas Somby’s In the Hour of the Wolf, the English translation of the fabulous Sámi activist’s autobiography (launching January 5). In addition, PM Press is seeking funds to secure its warehouse; Rise Up is selling T-shirts; and Rote Hilfe is among the many projects targeted by the new insane anti-terrorist legislation, which is spreading across the globe because no politicians other than Sahel junta leaders have the backbone to stand up to the Trump administration’s bullshit.
In better news, PM Press’s latest Christmas punk song list finally includes Poly Styrene’s “Black Christmas.” Now it can be considered definitive!
Happy New Year. Stay safe! More next month.