Some recent journals of note – July 2025.

There’s been a bunch of solid publications coming out of late and I wanted to highlight a couple of them that may be of interest to readers of this blog and that I picked up over the past month or so.

SWAC Attacks! – Fifth Issue.

During a trip to Montreal this past weekend I stopped at Bibliotheque DIRA, the incredible activist archive space upstairs from Libraire L’Insoumise, Montreal’s anarchist bookstore that I cannot recommend enough. While at DIRA, one of the extremely kind folks there handed me a copy of the SWAC journal.

The Comite Autonome du Travail du Sexe / Sex Workers Autonomous Committee (SWAC) has published five issues of their annual journal and the fifth issue (and likely the others, I haven’t read them yet) has a ton of really important info on the experiences of sex workers in Montreal. Specifically, the issue includes a militant inquiry into massage parlors based on interviews with more than a dozen workers. There is also an inquiry into working conditions in Montreal’s strip clubs based on interviews with three workers.

Also of significant interest to readers of this blog is the illuminating interview with Leopoldina Fortunati, author of The Arcane of Reproduction among other works.

Folks interested in reading the journal can find a PDF of it online at SWAC’s website – here.

Revolutionary Health and Health for the Revolution – Fourth Issue

Revolutionary Health and Health for the Revolution (RHHR) is a large-form newspaper. The background of it, from their first issue: “Influenced by the Midnight Notes collective, by the struggle against work, payment, money, colonization, sexuality as a work from the feminist perspective, and the ongoing Zapatista struggle against the neoliberal world, we decided to bring into attention these important perspectives that are forgotten or neglected in our political realities.”

I first encountered RHHR when I picked up a copy of their third issue at last year’s anarchist bookfair here in NYC. I found a copy of this issue at P.I.T. in Brooklyn.

The journal includes a number of pieces by George Caffentzis, Silvia Federici and others (including Federici’s piece ‘Capitalist Development and the War on Reproduction, Palestine, and Beyond’ (originally published in The Commoner). Caffentzis’s timely (and unfinished) piece “Trump and Money: From Status to Contract and From Contract to Deal,” even in unfinished form is provocative and worth reading. There are multiple other pieces, most reprinted, in the journal from other writers as well. For folks interested in reading this issue or the other issues of RHHR, PDF’s are available on their website here.