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Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help: A Decade of Rebellion, Reaction, and Morbid Symptoms - Softcover

Shanahan, Jarrod

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Synopsis

A decade of American society coming apart.

Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help collects 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.

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About the Authors

Jarrod Shanahan is the author of Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage (Verso, 2022); coauthor of States of Incarceration (Field Notes, 2022), City Time (NYU Press, 2025), and Skyscraper Jails (Haymarket, 2025); and editor of Treason to Whiteness Is Loyalty to Humanity, a Noel Ignatiev reader(Verso, 2022). He works as an assistant professor of criminal justice at Governors State University.



A.M. Gittlitz is the author of I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs, and Apocalypse Communism (Pluto Press, 2020), the forthcoming Metropolitans―a materialist history of the New York Mets, and the cohost of the Antifada podcast.

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