Red Emma’s

Join Pinko Magazine at Red Emma's bookstore on Saturday, February 22nd at 6 PM for a reading and discussion of our recently republished book After Accountability. Collective members and interview subjects Stevie Wilson, Esteban Kelley, Peter Hardie, M.E. O’Brien and Max Fox will take part in a conversation about the project and discuss the history and trajectory of this crucial movement concept.

After Accountability gathers interviews conducted by members of the Pinko collective with nine transformative justice practitioners, socialist labor organizers, incarcerated abolitionists, and activists on the left, and also includes framing essays by the Pinko collective in which its members situate and reflect on those illuminating conversations. An investigation into the theoretical foundations and current practice of accountability, this volume explores the term’s potential and limits, discovering in it traces of the past half-century’s struggles over the absence of community and the form revolutionary activity should take.

"We desperately need this collection on the left. The interviews are rich with the love and the heartbreak of trying to build liberatory spaces in a hostile society, stories that will resonate with every seasoned organizer. Pinko frames the interviews with a careful and principled analysis that answers the crucial question of how to move through collective grief, conflict and trauma in our movements.” —Eman Abdelhadi, co-author of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 

“Grasping a nettle that seems to have stung almost all of us, one way or another, on the anticapitalist left, the Pinko collective has accomplished something extraordinary with After Accountability, illuminating a way to move forward together in integrity, trust, and militant carefulness.” —Sophie Lewis, author of Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation