ME AND MINE by J.M. Holmes, OUT NOW!
The world hasn’t quite ended, but it’s getting there. ME AND MINE imagines a not-so-distant future on the pre-apocalyptic shores of Lake Michigan. The West has dried up, the watershed has been contaminated, and water scarcity has driven most of the population inward from the coasts. Here, real estate interests run rampant and the possibility of snagging a house close enough to the Great Lakes to get fresh water has realigned global financial interests. And, as always, the working class is being pushed aside to make way for white and wealthy newcomers.
Amidst the chaos, three brothers try to navigate this swiftly changing landscape. As one seeks influence in politics, the younger two are drawn into the dangerous, shadowy world of private security and militias. In the precarious new world that these three brothers navigate, J. M. Holmes offers a grim yet familiar future in which scarcity fuels resentment, resentment sparks extremism, and extremism ignites around the racial tensions of our present.
Get ME AND MINE at your favorite bookstore, public library, or commonnotions.org ⚡️
Happy pub day to REMAKING DEMOCRACY: HOW WE MAKE THE WORLDS WE WANT!!
Catch Danielle and Elizabeth at one of their events, and stay tuned for more tour dates!
#remakingdemocracy
Spring 2026 title preview!!
We've got some great books coming your way. Speculative fiction, Kurdish fiction, a handbook on building power from below, and lots more.
Head to our site to learn about forthcoming titles and their authors. Link in bio ⚡️
EVERYDAY SH!T offers thoughts and reflections on structure, practice, care, and direction to deepen existing movement knowledge on abolition.
Available 6/16!
Preorders through our website get 25% off with EVERYDAYSH1T. Link in bio
New imprint dropping this fall!
Join us for the launch of Class Compositions.
See you Sunday 5/17 at 2pm et/11 am pt.
This is a virtual event co-hosted with Red May. Event link in bio!
The Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH) faced off some of Spain's most powerful housing institutions by building power from below.
How did they do it? With citizens' assemblies, direct-action, community care, and many other tactics.
YES, IT'S POSSIBLE! offers more than a decade of the PAH's experience in movement building and community organizing. A handbook that can be used by communities anywhere in the world!
Read excerpts of the book at @commondreams and @nextcityorg . Links in bio
Earthly Playing Field is officially out! What an honor to share a pub day with the birth anniversary of the world-changing, mind-bending, soul-shaking Comrade Karl Marx. And a day before my own birthday!
Come celebrate this Saturday, May 9 @boyfriendcoop . RSVP link in bio: luma.com/8z21hvaz
- 6pm: Drinks, Snacks & Book Signing
- 7pm: Book ritual magic w/ @olivewitch
- 8pm: Dance Party w/ @soundslikesonny
🙏🏽 @hivemindbookstore bringing the books & @boyfriendcoop serving up scrumptious libations 🙏🏽
@palestineskatinggame will present their excellent project 👩🏽🎤
A tale of speculative fiction, Earthly Playing Field connects ongoing People’s movements against global imperialism through a queer, Sufi love story.
We hope you had a joyous and inspiring May Day!
Let's continue in the spirit of worker empowerment with A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WORKERS' INQUIRY.
Colleen Asper's (Art Workers’ Inquiry) new zine introduces and reinvigorates the long tradition of research and inquiry as the sharpest tool in the arsenal of class struggle.
Designed and printed by Josh MacPhee. Available now, only on the Common Notions website.
EARTHLY PLAYING FIELD, a story of love and revolution in a crumbling world order.
Roma has a steady job, a mortgage, and a surrogate family in Queens. But as she moves through her daily routines, the powerful Empire that rules her world bares its teeth elsewhere—crushing freedom movements across the planet, including the Punjabi farmers’ uprising where her younger brother struggles on the frontlines.
Roma’s life is upended when her older brother entrusts her with a strange gift: an ordinary-looking plant that manifests a sophisticated bioengineered technology. The ‘cell’ opens a portal for an extraterrestrial spirit-body bearing news of a liberated future–and the potential to hack AI warfare—propelling Roma and her family into the core of a rising resistance.
EARTHLY PLAYING FIELD is officially available next week. Help us celebrate Radhika Singh's first novel at events across New York and beyond.
Event details and RSVP links are in our bio, with more events in the works!
#debutfiction
We're excited to share lessons from a revolutionary movement’s struggle for housing justice in Spain.
The Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH) has stopped evictions, forced legislative change, and saved thousands of people from losing their homes. All of this was achieved with people power—built from the bottom up.
YES, IT'S POSSIBLE! is available now! Learn how the PAH built power from below, and share their lessons with your community.
My first published short story! Honored to be part of @commonnotions Project 2052. Read it here - monnotions.org/project-2052-a-day-on-the-bengal-delta-or-coming-home
When Ramy was just an idea, I frequently thought about what world would we be bringing a child into. As he took shape ideally and materially, these thoughts and feelings intensified - worsening climate crisis, careening into wars and a full blown genocide, the rise of fascism drove me to incessantly think about the world Ramy would be arriving to. But then I read a fascinating book, a thought experiment, a glimmer of hope. What if we looked beyond the crisis? What awaits us there? And more importantly, how do we imagine a world after the crisis? How do we re-build after the disasters, the plagues, the wars?
This book, Everything for Everyone, affected me deeply. I couldn't stop thinking about what kind of place Bangladesh would be, if it still remained, as Ramy grows older. In 30 years. In 50 years. What would he find there in the decades to come? This is the story I wrote for Project 2052, an expanded universe of the Everything for Everyone world. Despite its speculative nature, and political overtones, this is at its core a story of belonging and the immigrant experience, and about coming home.
