Ill Will
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Independent, volunteer-run publication since 2013 | For an autonomous, joyful, and dignified life in common | linkin.bio/illwill
Today is the release of our first book: Like Songs About Airports, a collection of essays and poetry from the late, great Leijia Hanrahan. Available now on our website, and you'll be able to order it from book stores everywhere on September 1st. store.illwilleditions.com/products/lik...
The other five books we announced earlier this year will be published in 2027. If you’d like to place a bulk order for a book launch event, book club, or book fair unaffiliated with a bookstore, we’d love to offer support. Email us for a discount at sales@illwilleditions.com.
•No Bad Protestors: Ethics, Social War and The George Floyd Uprising by Arturo Castillon Sept 15 •Homo Terminus: The Spector of Human Extinction by Shane Greene Oct 13 •No Dam Can Hold This Furious Ocean: Power, Joy, and Anarchism by Alf Bojórquez Nov 3
Because of this development, our publication schedule has changed: •Like Songs About Airports by Leijia Hanrahan available July 14th •Depose: Luigi Mangione, The Right to Health, and the Unfinished American Revolution by available September 1
Before Sept 1 when our books become available at bookstores, we’re offering the following discounts on orders placed through our website, applied automatically at checkout: 20% off all books. 40% off Orders of 10 or more books. illwilleditions.com
Big news: We're very pleased to announce a distribution partnership with @mitpress.bsky.social . All our books will be widely available as part of the MIT catalogue. Beginning on September 1, you'll be able to walk into nearly any bookstore and put in an order for Ill Will Editions books.
"There are very few voices in our field capable of seeing the whole picture and what’s at stake: the future, and nothing less. Leijia Hanrahan, through a layer of wit and sometimes withering irony, could see that future." – Kate Wagner, architecture critic for The Nation
The D4LC, the organizers of Luigi Mangione’s official legal fund, believe that the issue of healthcare will not be solved from above, but from below. Book sales will go to support Luigi’s legal expenses as well as grassroots health initiatives. Pre-orders are open at illwilleditions.com.
"If the Marblehead Bonfire is less well known than the Boston Tea Party as an act building toward the American revolution, it is perhaps because the target of this act of property destruction was not unjust taxation on colonial merchants, but the property of wealthy colonial elites themselves."
Chris Cuomo had a December 4th Legal Committee spokesperson on his show (again) to harass her about Luigi's defense strategy - she took the opportunity to spread the word about jury nullification and shout out our upcoming Luigi book.
Connor O’Callaghan argues that the Twin Cities rapid response network represented an embryonic form of dual power. illwill.com/dual-power
Supporting people's liberation needn't require that we endorse nationalism. Why, then, is it still so prevalent within anti-imperialist struggles today? In conversation with Ralf Ruckus, Nandita Sharma exposes the link between "the migrant" and the nation from a perspective that aims to abolish both
In the first article from new anarchist journal in France, Josep Rafanell i Orra argues that anarchism has always functioned as an escape route for communities fleeing the iron cage of society. illwill.com/anarchism-ag...
Six years later, there is still much we can learn from the George Floyd rebels. This quote is from an original interview in the upcoming No Bad Protesters: Ethics, Social War, and the George Floyd Uprising by Arturo Castillon. Pre-order your copy today: store.illwilleditions.com/products/no-...
On the sixth anniversary of the burning of the 3rd Precinct in Minneapolis, we’re revisiting this early interview with an anonymous participant. illwill.com/dispatch-fro...
"It was a dangerous crossroads: he was armed and ready to die, but the revolution on which he’d staked his life was no longer possible. To continue the same militant struggle would be suicidal; he had to find a way to continue to fight, yet in another dimension." illwill.com/a-life-in-rebellion
In honor of Ben Morea’a recent passing, we’ve published Ariel Uesseler’s beautiful preface to the forthcoming Japanese edition of Full Circle. illwill.com/a-life-in-re...
Although Trump’s "zones of influence" doctrine consciously revives Carl Schmitt's spatial politics, Temps critiques argue that this revival in fact points to the decline of U.S. hegemony — what Giovanni Arrighi called "domination without hegemony." illwill.com/zones-of-inf...
French journal Temps critiques analyzes recent U.S. policy through the lens of Carl Schmitt's late theory of Großraum, or "greater space." illwill.com/zones-of-inf...
It is certain that Ben's passing will give cause for many reflections, tributes, and rituals across this continent, and beyond. To those mourning his absence, we extend our deepest sympathies.
Amidst the 2024 Columbia University Gaza solidarity occupation, we ran an interview with Ben Morea about how perspectives forged six decades prior, in April 1968, might inform current-day struggles. illwill.com/destroy-the-...
Ill Will had the privilege of publishing various writings by Ben Morea over the years, beginning with this interview — still among his most stirring and evocative — from 2016. Highly recommended, especially the latter sections. illwill.com/the-ultimate...
It is impossible to summarize the deep watermark Ben has left on anarchist and indigenous movements: from the founding of Black Mask and UAW/MF, to his years of horseback banditry, to raising dozens of adoptive family members, to his return to the art world in recent years.
We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Ben Morea (1941-2026), one of the most profound, courageous, and singular comrades to emerge from the 1960s revolutionary movement.
An Italian edition of "Toward a Politics of Destitution" is now online. Our thanks to the translators. www.nigredo.org/2026/02/23/v... An English version can be found on our site: illwill.com/toward-a-pol...
A Spanish translation of "States of Siege" is now available online. open.substack.com/pub/radarjou...
A meditation on civil war in America, first circulated by hand in the immediate aftermath of the murder of Alex Pretti. illwill.com/see-ice-add-...