Join Robert Ovetz in launching Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: The Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver (Common Notions 2026)

"Refuse work. Revolt against capitalism. Read Harry Cleaver. In that order. Repeat."

Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: The Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver is a definitive collection of Harry Cleaver’s best unpublished, translated, or lesser known writings on the refusal of work, class composition and “inversion of the class perspective,” the crisis of capitalism. He shows the ongoing necessity of re-reading Marx theory to understand, find points of departure from, and finally end capitalism before it ends us. The reader is co-edited by Robert Ovetz, author, organizer, lecturer and former long-time student of Cleaver, and author and organizer Kevin Van Meter.

Points of Departure will be released on Common Notion Press’s new Class Compositions series in September 2026. A special edition has been released to coincide with the June 2026 Labor Notes conference in Chicago and will have a full release in October 2026. Copies of the special edition of the book will be available for the talk.