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Canada’s “elbows up” plan for asserting sovereignty looks less like defending against American aggression and more like doubling down on the denial of Indigenous rights in the service of short-term economic gain.

Partisans: the original Antifa. #Antifa #AntiFascist #BellaCiao btlbooks.com/book/partisans

Canada’s “elbows up” nationalism may look like resistance to Trump, but it risks repeating the colonial violence it claims to oppose. Ellen Gabriel and @seancarleton.bsky.social warn that patriotism built on erasing Indigenous struggles makes real reconciliation impossible.

New piece by Ellen Gabriel and I on the need to resist Canada’s “elbows up” colonialism.

A new article by @seancarleton.bsky.social and Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel in @canadiandimension.bsky.social: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie... Be sure to check out their book together on our website, When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance: btlbooks.com/book/when-th...

Some good news: for the last four years, I have been quietly working on a new book titled *For the Long Haul: How to Stay in the Fight for a Better World*. I have signed a contract with @akpress.org and they will be co-publishing the book with @btlbooks.com. The book will be out next fall!

Draw The Line! Coming up this Saturday, September 20. to.350.org/5XORt

Parkland Institute is thrilled to be co-hosting this event, which will feature co-editor Rob Kristofferson, and contributors Don Bouzek, Donna Coombs-Montrose, and Maria Dunn.

Comics are under attack in Canada. We cannot stay silent. Read and share TCAF’s statement on censorship in Alberta’s public schools, then join us in taking action! www.torontocomics.com/post/comics-...

After a historic election loss, the NDP faces a key leadership race—and a crossroads in its identity. Historian Ian McKay joins Martin Lukacs to discuss the party’s long, centrist slide, and what it could do to seize its transformative potential. breachmedia.ca/the-ndps-unt...

Don't miss the Edmonton launch of the Art of Solidarity! Register here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-art-of...

Join us at the Hamilton Anarchist Bookfair on September 27 at the Workers Arts Heritage Centre! Books, zines, arts, workshops and more. Don't miss it!

A special Labour Day read! "How Canadian women used unions to shape their lives for the better" by @peggynash.bsky.social and @jwhite54.bsky.social. Out today in the Globe and Mail Opinion column. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Short review of the new graphic novel Partisans, about activists fighting back against the Nazis in WW2. Contains the last story written by Trina Robbins. www.neuroticraven.com/blog/2025/8/24/review-trina-gets-last-shot-at-nazis-in-partisans

A necessary book for our times. Order your copy of Banging on the Walls of the Tank: Dispatches from Gaza by Haidar Eid: btlbooks.com/book/banging...

Join BTL, WAHC and editors Rob Kristofferson and @stephross.bsky.social for the launch of The Art of Solidarity: Labour Arts & Heritage in Canada! 📅 Sunday August 31 ⏰3 pm - 5 pm 📍51 Stuart St, Hamilton RSVP: www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-art-of...

Out now! Partisans: A Graphic History of Anti-Fascist Resistance, edited by Raymond Tyler and Paul Buhle. Order your copy today: btlbooks.com/book/partisans

Join BTL, WAHC and editors Rob Kristofferson and @stephross.bsky.social for the launch of The Art of Solidarity: Labour Arts & Heritage in Canada! 📅 Sunday August 31 ⏰3 pm - 5 pm 📍51 Stuart St, Hamilton RSVP: www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-art-of...

So excited to be moderating this talk and book launch with brilliant people at the Institute of Political Economy! Register to hear our discussion!

What do public sector pensions have to do with rising housing costs? Join Tom Fraser for the virtual launch of Invested in Crisis, with Priya Gupta, Kevin Skerrett & moderator Jacob Wilson. Hosted by Carleton University's Institute of Political Economy. 📅 Register: carleton.ca/politicaleco...

Happy Monday! Today is Juniper’s first day at the office. She is taking some time to read Books without Bosses: Forty Years of Reading Between the Lines. Check it out now: btlbooks.com/book/books-w... #BTL #Publishing #Dogs

🧨 Punching Nazis, one panel at a time! Check out Partisans, our anti-fascist comic anthology, coming out this August: btlbooks.com/book/partisans

Available now for preorder! From @btlbooks.com comes Partisans: A Graphic History of Anti-Fascist Resistance. With eleven brand new comics created by legendary and upcoming writers and comics artists, Partisans flips a new page in the popular understanding of anti-Nazi and anti-fascist resistance.

SUMMER READING!!

I was on CityNews this morning talking about the Hockey Canada decision, the chilling effect and the neurobiology of trauma.

Out now! Killer Althusser: The Banality of Man by Francis Dupuis-Déri, translated by Mélissa Bull. In 1980, the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser strangled his wife in their Parisian apartment, when she was thinking of leaving him. Learn more: btlbooks.com/book/killer-...

Tune into last Friday's episode of CBC's As It Happens to listen to Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, author of When the Pine Needles Fall: 35 years after the start of what's commonly known as the Oka Crisis. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Read now: Calling the world to account for the Gaza genocide - a book review of Banging on the Walls of the Tank by Haidar Eid in @mondoweiss.net mondoweiss.net/2025/07/book...

35 years after the so-called ‘Oka Crisis,’ Kanien’kehá:ka activist hasn’t seen much progress from ‘Canada’ Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel reflects on the 1990 Mohawk resistance in her recent book ‘When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance’ indiginews.com/features/kat...

I'm so excited about how this book from @btlbooks.com is helping me plan ways for students to practice working together to solve problems. btlbooks.com/book/roles-o...

📚 Coming soon from BTL: 🔸 Althusser’s crime 🔸 Graphic anti-fascism 🔸 Labour + art 🔸 Cuba and Canada 🔸 Criminology rethought 🔸 Women in unions 🔸 Palestinian liberation = feminist issue 👉 tinyurl.com/4twdfbck @peggynash.bsky.social @jwhite54.bsky.social @kdubin.bsky.social @stephross.bsky.social

Tune into this episode of CBC's Just Asking on coercive control in light of the infamous Diddy trials featuring BTL author Pamela Cross. cbc.ca/listen/live-...

SAVE THE DATE! July 18–19, 6PM–6PM. Join us at Gallery TPW for Palestine All the Time—a 24-hour program that brings together Palestinian artists, writers, filmmakers, scholars, and activists. BTL will be tabling and sharing info about @pubforpalestine.bsky.social ! #FreePalestine

Between the Lines will be tabling at Books & Brews on July 5 in Stratford, ON! Come visit us, @bookhugpress.bsky.social, @radriotbooks.bsky.social, @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social, and more at Jobsite Brewing from 12 to 5 pm.

Between the Lines will be tabling at Books & Brews on July 5 in Stratford, ON! Come visit us, @bookhugpress.bsky.social, @radriotbooks.bsky.social, @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social, and more at Jobsite Brewing from 12 to 5 pm.

This Pride Month, we’re pushing against pinkwashing by sharing an excerpt of Tim McCaskell’s Queer Progress. We're also hosting a 20% sale on our website until June 30. Learn more: btlbooks.com/blog/view/no...

This Pride Month, we’re pushing against pinkwashing by sharing an excerpt of Tim McCaskell’s Queer Progress. We're also hosting a 20% sale on our website until June 30. Learn more: btlbooks.com/blog/view/no...

Congratulations to Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel and @seancarleton.bsky.social on their outstanding trio of award wins for When the Pine Needles Fall! Learn more about this groundbreaking book: btlbooks.com/book/when-th...

NEW EP: Pension Paradox: How deferred wages go to work for capital, with Tom Fraser albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/06/09/p...

This week in Tkoronto, Ellen Gabriel and I were honoured to accept three awards for our book When the Pine Needles Fall - the Errol Sharpe Book Award, the Indigenous History Book Prize, and the Wilson Book Prize. Thanks to @btlbooks.com and everyone for supporting our book!

Congratulations to @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social and to the authors of Seized by Uncertainty, winners of the 2024-2025 Donner Prize! BTL is proud to have published And Sometimes They Kill You by Pamela Cross, a fellow book on the shortlist for this year's Donner Prize. btlbooks.com/book/and-som...

Just posted to #Metafilter, more Canadian small presses: Between the Lines Books, Mawenzi House, and Porcupine’s Quill. www.metafilter.com/208792/-Cana... 💙📚 #BookSky #books #DSPBposts @btlbooks.com @mawenzihouse.bsky.social

May 15 marks the 77th year since the Nakba. On Nakba Day, we invite you to engage deeply with ongoing legacies of resistance. BTL and Mayworks Toronto invite you to join the launch of Banging on the Walls of the Tank: Dispatches from Gaza by Haidar Eid. Register: mayworks.ca/project/bang...

Montreal Anarchist Bookfair is coming up: don't miss it! calendrier.constellationmtl.net/event/salon-...

If you’ve been following the Hockey Canada assault trials and finding it difficult to witness, you’re not alone. These trials are a stark reminder of how deeply embedded rape culture remains. Here are four books offering critical insights into consent and the need for change:

"The number one task in beginning to build a consent-based culture: don’t rape. The second: believe survivors." --Sarah Ratchford, Fired Up About Consent

After a historic seven year consultation, today the Xinka Parliament released the long-awaited decision on the Escobal Silver Mine - they withhold their consent to the project! Read more: www.miningwatch.ca/news/2025/5/...