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Upping The Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action is looking for new editors and advisory board members.

Position descriptions and application procedures are included below.

Published twice a year, Upping the Anti is dedicated to publishing radical theory and analysis about struggles against capitalism, imperialism, and all forms of oppression. We publish theoretical and critical articles, interviews, and roundtables. Upping the Anti also publishes book reviews where activists assess new writing on and about the Left. Back issues can be read at http://uppingtheanti.org

If you have any questions, please contact us at uppingtheanti@gmail.com

Applications are due November 30, 2008

In solidarity and struggle,
The Upping The Anti Editorial Committee

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CALL OUT FOR ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

We are currently seeking new advisory board members.

The Upping The Anti advisory board is an exciting body that brings together a network of committed radicals across North America. As a member of the advisory board, you will help to shape the content of Upping the Anti by participating in story meetings and reviewing and editing submissions. You will develop and discuss ideas, gain writing and publishing skills, and produce a publication aimed at strengthening our movements.

Note: this list is still under construction. Please be patient.

UTA is available at the following bookstores in Canada and the US.

Chicago

• 57 St. Bookstore
• Heartland Café
• Women and Children First Bookstore

Halifax

Toronto

Toronto Women's Bookstore
Habord St.

Sudbury

Vancouver

Hamilton

Guelph

Montreal

Regina

Upping the Anti is proud to present INTERVENTIONS

What are INTERVENTIONS?

INTERVENTIONS are pamphlets produced by UPPING THE ANTI
INTERVENTIONS are available as PDFs that you can download and distribute.
INTERVENTIONS are opportunities for sharp engagement with movement debates.

To download INTERVENTIONS, visit http://uppingtheanti.org/node/3070

We encourage you to use INTERVENTIONS as a fundraising tool for
your political organizations and campaigns. You can help
UPPING THE ANTI by sending us half of what you make.

Send cheques, money orders, or well concealed cash to “UTA Publications”
998 Bloor St. W., P.O. Box 10571, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M6H 4H9.

Alternately, you can pay by PayPal or credit card
at http://uppingtheanti.org/node/2784

For more information, contact uppingtheanti@gmail.com
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ROUNDTABLE ON G8 RESISTANCE
Perspectives for the Next Phase of
Global Anti-Capitalist Uprisings

Moderated by Kriss Sol (Amsterdam);
with Hanne Jobst (Germany), Sabu & Go
(Japan), Miranda (Italy), and Jaggi
Singh (Canada)

The G8 is more than a place where neoliberal
trade agreements are authored. It is also a
space where the legitimacy of global governance

Black Power From the Inside

Chris Harris

Muhammad Ahmad. We Will Return in the Whirlwind: Black Radical Organizations, 1960-1975. Charles H. Kerr Publishing, 2007

Toronto’s Black community has long suffered a crisis of increasing poverty, racism, and violence. This is largely the result of the oppression that African-Canadian people have endured through the implementation of neoliberal policies and the expansion of both the police state and the prison industrial complex. In Canada, African-Canadian people (the majority of whom are located amongst the lowest ranks of the working class) are confronted with two primary problems. First, a growing Black underclass is unable to compete for scarce decent paying jobs. Second, the Canadian ruling class – responding to the crisis of neoliberal globalization with their wars on drugs, guns, and gangs – is criminalizing Black working-class youth and expanding the prison industrial complex. In recent years, the Black left has responded to this crisis by trying to organize Black youth at the grassroots level, and by trying to build new mass organizations that can continue the legacy of militant
anti-racist struggle that characterized the Toronto-based Black Action Defense Committee (BADC) in the 1980s and 1990s.

You Can’t Jail the Spirit

The Movement to Free Political Prisoners

Bryan D. and Tom K.

All too often, when activists raise the issue of our movements’ Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War, it is done with a sense of guilt for how they have suffered. That is not what this roundtable is about. Though the lack of support that PPs and POWs receive from contemporary movements is unfortunate, this roundtable is no guilt trip. The image of martyred revolutionaries languishing forgotten in cages is not our focus here. Men and women on the inside and their comrades on the outside are not charity cases but revolutionaries with hard-learned experiences and present-day perspectives that need to be acknowledged by those of us with less experience.

The Three Way Fight Debate

For over a generation, the decline of anti-colonial liberation struggles inspired by socialism has coincided with the rise of new forms of anti-imperialist mobilization in Western Asia. Beginning in 1979 with the Iranian revolution, and continuing in the present with national liberation struggles led by Hezbollah and Hamas, these movements have mixed religious fundamentalism with the hopes of millions striving for a better life. It is thus not surprising that leftists in the West have had a difficult time figuring out how to relate to these movements. On the one hand, they seem to represent the strivings of oppressed people seeking to free themselves from imperialist domination. On the other hand, the religious ideologues of the Iranian revolution tortured, imprisoned, and murdered tens of thousands of leftists and radicals. The program of these new Islamic movements has often been avowedly patriarchal and politically regressive.

The following is our writer's guide which we have produced to give some suggestions about what kind of articles we are interested in publishing and what kind of things you should keep in mind when you are writing an article that you want to publish in our journal.

Please see the attached word document for the latest version of the UTA style guide. If you're planning to submit an article to the journal, please consult the guide.

UPPING THE ANTI: A JOURNAL OF THEORY AND ACTION | Frequently Asked Questions

(Revised Fall 2007)
PDF Version

What is Upping the Anti?

UPPING THE ANTI is a radical journal published twice a year by a pan-Canadian
collective. We can be contacted at uppingtheanti@gmail.com or found online at
http://uppingtheanti.org.

What kinds of stories does Upping the Anti publish?

In every issue of UPPING THE ANTI, contributors reflect on the state of political
organizing in Canada. We publish theoretical and critical articles, interviews, and
roundtables. UPPING THE ANTI also includes a book review section where activists
assess new writing on the Left. “Upping the Anti” refers to our interest in assessing
the interwoven tendencies that define the politics of today’s radical left: anti-
capitalism, anti-oppression, and anti-imperialism.

Although inexact in their proclamations, these positions point toward a radical
politics outside of the “party building” exercises of the sectarian left and the dead-
end of social democracy. We are interested in stories that reflect these concerns. We
publish pieces that actively engage with and intervene in contemporary movement
debates.

UPPING THE ANTI: A JOURNAL OF THEORY AND ACTION is a radical journal published twice a year by a pan-Canadian collective of activists and organizers. We are dedicated to publishing radical theory and analysis about struggles against capitalism, imperialism, and all forms of oppression.

We are currently looking for story ideas for ISSUE SEVEN, which will be released in October of 2008. If you have an idea for a story you would like to see published in our journal, please send us a one page pitch by Monday, April 14, 2007. In addition to the pitch, please submit a short writing sample (max 1,000 words).

January 1st 2008.

Upping The Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action , is looking for new editors and advisory board members. Position descriptions and application procedures are included below.

Published twice a year, Upping the Anti is dedicated to publishing radical theory and analysis about struggles against capitalism, imperialism, and all forms of oppression. We publish theoretical and critical articles, interviews, and roundtables. Upping the Anti also publishes book reviews where activists assess new writing on and about the Left. Back issues can be read at http://uppingtheanti.org

We can now securely accept credit card and paypal payments for UTA online. If you have any problems or issues with your payment please contact us. Please note that the mailing address you provide with your credit card or PayPal payment will be the one that we use to send you copies of the journal.

Our mailing address is Upping the Anti, 998 Bloor St. West, P.O. Box 10571, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6H 4H9.

You can send us an email, request copies of the journal for distribution, or submit an article abstract to us through our contact form by clicking here.

Our main email address is uppingtheanti [-at-] gmail.com.

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On the last Friday of every month,
the Toronto Women's Bookstore donates
10% of sales to a selected community group.

In the past, they have supported organizations
including the South Asian Women's Centre, the
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, Wen Do Women's
Self-Defense Corp., Voices of Positive Women,
the Triangle Program, the Black Coalition for
AIDS Prevention, the Native Women's Resource Centre,

Issue #4 of Upping the Anti is being launched in Toronto on May 1st, 2007. If you would like to receive a hard copy of the journal or to distribute the journal in your community or organizations, please email uta_distro@yahoo.ca so that we can add you to our list of local distributors. This issue of the journal is 182 pages long and we are selling single copies for $10 including postage. If you want 5 or more copies for distribution, the journal is $5 per copy, and we'll cover the postage. Journal articles and PDF files will be uploaded to the website in a staggered process over the next few months.

Our mailing address where you can send your $10 in well concealed cash to for a copy of the journal is: Upping the Anti, 998 Bloor St. West, P.O. Box 10571, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6H 4H9. If you live in the US or elsewhere, please order our journal through AK Press as it costs us too much to mail it to you from Canada. Please continue reading this post for the full table of contents of this issue and the introduction to this issue.

The third issue of Upping the Anti was printed in November with our usual print run of 2000 copies. If you would like to receive a hard copy of the journal or to distribute the journal in your community or organizations, please email uta_distro@yahoo.ca so that we can add you to our list of local distributors. This issue of the journal is 186 pages long and we are selling single copies for $8 plus $2 postage. If you want 5 or more copies for distribution, the journal is $5 per copy, and we'll cover the postage. The full text of our first issue is available here. Journal articles and PDF files will be uploaded to the website in a staggered process over the next few months.

Our mailing address where you can send your $10 in well concealed cash to for a copy of the journal is: Upping the Anti, 998 Bloor St. West, P.O. Box 10571, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6H 4H9. If you live in the US or elsewhere, please order our journal through AK Press as it costs us too much to mail it to you from Canada.

Dear friends,

The editors of “Upping the Anti” invite you to submit abstracts or proposals for potential articles to be published in the next issue of Upping the Anti which will be launched in September of 2006.

“Upping the Anti” is a radical journal published by a collective of activists and organizers from across Canada. We are dedicated to developing and publishing radical theory and analysis, debates, roundtables and interviews on questions facing struggles against capitalism, imperialism, and oppression. Our first two issues have been distributed in dozens of cities across Canada and the US and have also found their way to countries as far away as Australia, Argentina, Cuba, England, France, Norway, Germany, India, Kenya, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Singapore, Spain, and Venezuela.

This review is from http://burning.typepad.com/burningman/2006/01/upping_the_anti.html the website of "Red Flags: News and Views from the Revolutionary Left"

Upping The Anti: New Radical Journal from Canada

Upping the Anti is an exciting new journal printed in Canada that does one of my very favorite things: they argue. Not in a mean-spirited way, but by printing a number of contradictory opinions side-by-side. Located at the nexus of what the editors describe as the "three antis" that guide the Canadian far-left -- anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism and anti-oppression -- they are constructing a dialog among activists and sharing it with the rest of us. Putting the toughest arguments to print means we move forward, or at least open the door. Too much of the left press is dedicated to singularly selling one vision, or on the flip side, producing generic activisty content that is neither challenging nor rigorous.

This is a review of the Journal by our comrade Karl in Montreal from his blog
http://sketchythoughts.blogspot.com

I feel guilty.

It has been almost three weeks since i received my box of Upping the Anti – the Toronto journal of radical theory and action, put out by comrades from Autonomy and Solidarity – and still nothing on this blog about it…

…the problem is that the journal is actually really good. Lots of interesting interviews and “panel discussions,” and some good articles to boot - it feels like it deserves a thorough review, and as with any such daunting task the easiest way to approach it is procrastination.

Nevertheless, one can’t procrastinate for ever, and it really is a good journal… so why don’t we just begin at the beginning?

The editorial to UTA #1 explains that “Upping the Anti refers to our interest in engaging with three interwoven tendencies which have come to define much of the politics of today’s radical left in Canada: anti-capitalism, anti-oppression, and anti-imperialism.”

The second issue of Upping the Anti is now out and ready for distribution. We have printed 2000 copies of the second issue along with another 1000 copies of the first issue in a "perfect bound" (paperback) format. If you would like to receive a hard copy of the journal or to distribute the journal in your community or organizations, please email uta_distro@yahoo.ca so that we can add you to our list of local distributors. The second issue of the journal is 190 pages long and we are selling it for $5 plus $2 postage (where applicable). The full text of our first issue is available here. Journal articles and PDF files will be uploaded to the website in a staggered process over the next few weeks.

Our mailing address where you can send your $7 in well concealed cash to for a copy of the journal is: Upping the Anti, 998 Bloor St. West, P.O. Box 10571, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6H 4H9. If you live in the US or elsewhere, please order our journal through AK Press as it costs us too much to mail it to you from Canada.

October 7th, 2005

We would like to thank all of the people that have made the first issue of our journal a success. To date we have sold over 700 copies of the first issue of Upping the Anti and recouped our initial publishing costs. While our two main printing areas were in Toronto and Vancouver, copies of the journal for local distribution were made from the online PDF files in Fredericton, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Orange County California, and a number of other places. The journal homepage has been viewed online over 7000 times, and, while we do not have statistics for the numbers of times that the PDF files were downloaded or printed off, most articles of the journal were read online by approximately a thousand people. To our knowledge, a number of activists are using articles from the journal in local reading and discussion groups. Activists in Vancouver, as well as activists in Sudbury Ontario, are using the article by Selma James and the editorial of our first issue as part of a reading circle. The article introducing Autonomist Marxism was also used in a recent study group in New York City.

Welcome to the first issue of Upping the Anti. We have been working on bringing you this issue since September of 2004. We have been torn between the desire to get something out according to our original timeline (February of 2005) in order to establish the journal as a timely and viable project, and our wish to produce the most politically relevant publication that we can. In this, our first issue of the journal, we feel that we have done our best to strike an appropriate balance between these two objectives. So here is Upping the Anti, our first effort in an ongoing project of trying to engage with and understand the political conjuncture facing radical activists in the Canadian state today.

Upping the Anti is a resource that we hope you will appropriate in your own activism and distribute in your schools, workplaces, and communities. The complete file that makes up this copy of the journal is available as a PDF file that you can download at http://auto_sol.tao.ca/node/view/1277. We are compiling a list of official distributors for Upping the Anti, who we will keep in regular contact with and whose emails we will make public on our website so you can get in touch with them for a copy of the journal in your own community. If you would like to be an official distributor for Upping the Anti, please fill out the form on our website and download the PDF of the journal.

For the purposes of distribution, this journal can be reproduced in the following easy steps.