A Brilliant Red Thread: Revolutionary Writings from Don Hamerquist

with editor Luis Brennan, Portland organizer Amelia Cates, and John Garvey and Mike Morgan from Hard Crackers Magazine

[C]apitalism will not topple “through … exhaustion.” It will not “stop running on its own.” It must be overthrown by a politically conscious, mass counter-force, and the primary issue for us concerns how such a force might develop...
—from “Financialization and Hegemony”

From the Communist Party of the 1950s, to autonomous European movements in ‘68 and the revolutionary armed liberation movements of the ’70s and ’80s, to the antifascist organizing of ARA in the ’90s, to cutting-edge analysis of the fallout of on-going capitalist crisis, right up to today, Don Hamerquist’s biography reads like a history of the post-war US radical left. Hamerquist uses his decades of experience in collective struggle to analyze a world constantly in motion. Bridging gaps, sorting wheat from chaff, Hamerquist calls on those who (like him) still identify as Leninists to recognize the failures of the vanguard party and “actually existing socialism,” while also calling on anarchists, who share his commitment to a struggle outside of and against the state, to recognize the necessity of disciplined organization and a rejection of purity politics.

Please join editor Luis Brennan, Portland organizer Amelia Cates, and John Garvey and Mike Morgan from Hard Crackers Magazine for a discussion of the ideas Dom Hamewrquist.