Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help: A Decade of Rebellion, Reaction, and Morbid Symptoms
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help: A Decade of Rebellion, Reaction, and Morbid Symptoms
By (Author) Jarrod Shanahan
Introduction by A.M. Gittlitz
PM Press
PM Press
10th December 2025
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Anarchism
Trade unions
Industrial arbitration and negotiation
Left-of-centre democratic ideologies
Far-left political ideologies and movements
Physical Properties
Paperback
384
Width 152mm, Height 228mm
Description
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.
