{"product_id":"every-fire-needs-a-little-bit-of-help-a-decade-of-rebellion-reaction-and-morbid-symptoms-9798887441269","title":"Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help: A Decade of Rebellion, Reaction, and Morbid Symptoms","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA decade of American society coming apart.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvery Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help \u003c\/i\u003ecollects a decade of reflections on recent US struggles--Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and the George Floyd Rebellion--alongside accounts of the rise of Trumpism, the alt-right, an apocalyptic shift in popular culture, to paint a dense and complex portrait of a decade of protracted social crisis. Jarrod Shanahan reports from the ground. On the streets in 2014, from the depths of the Rikers Island penal complex, inside the alt-right underground and the carnival of Trump rallies, and in the line of fire in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 2020, among other scenes that Shanahan accessed not as a credentialed observer but an active participant: prisoner, infiltrator, activist. The resulting essays outline the pitfalls and opportunities facing those seeking to reverse the suicidal course of capitalist society and build a liberated world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGittlitz, A. M.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA.M. Gittlitz\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eI Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs, and Apocalypse Communism\u003c\/i\u003e (Pluto Press, 2020), the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eMetropolitans\u003c\/i\u003e--a materialist history of the New York Mets, and the cohost of the \u003ci\u003eAntifada\u003c\/i\u003e podcast.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShanahan, Jarrod:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJarrod Shanahan\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eCaptives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage\u003c\/i\u003e (Verso, 2022); coauthor of \u003ci\u003eStates of Incarceration\u003c\/i\u003e (Field Notes, 2022), \u003ci\u003eCity Time\u003c\/i\u003e (NYU Press, 2025), and \u003ci\u003eSkyscraper Jails\u003c\/i\u003e (Haymarket, 2025); and editor of \u003ci\u003eTreason to Whiteness Is Loyalty to Humanity\u003c\/i\u003e, a Noel Ignatiev reader(Verso, 2022). He works as an assistant professor of criminal justice at Governors State University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51603242582290,"sku":"9798887441269","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a8913e51-a0df-4275-a738-e615b27fbbe9.jpg?v=1757431574","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/every-fire-needs-a-little-bit-of-help-a-decade-of-rebellion-reaction-and-morbid-symptoms-9798887441269","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}