Luis Brennan
Luis Brennan has spent many years organizing with the Industrial Workers of the World, including as a founding member of the Burgerville Workers Union in Portland, Oregon. He is also the editor of the collection A Brilliant Red Thread: Revolutionary Writings from Don Hamerquist (Kersplebedeb Press, 2023). He currently lives in Garland, Texas where he is trying to be a revolutionary in the uncool suburbs.
Andrew Lee’s new book Defying Displacement (AK Press, 2024) makes what I believe are two important demands on the contemporary revolutionary left: First, the dominant strategies and metaphors for liberatory struggle need to be radically rethought; and second: A key to this rethinking, especially in North America, is a careful analysis of the history and dynamics of gentrification.
