Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio. On today's episode I have on Josh Fernandez,

author of the new book, The Hands that Crafted the Bomb,

The Making of a Lifelong Antifascist.

It's a really interesting sort of biography, autobiography of Josh in his life as somebody who struggled with drug and alcohol abuse

somebody who has been engaged in anti-fascist politics

somebody who has faced you know professional backlash because of his politics and

the book is incredibly well written and engaging once you start reading it it

sort of sucks you in I really enjoyed the book even if you obviously don't

know who Josh is. His writing is really good and the book itself is a really

fascinating glimpse into a really intense life. Good bad and ugly and very very intense life. Good, bad, and ugly, and very, very intense life.

He's a super cool dude.

We had a super cool conversation,

and so I'm going to share it with you today.

So without further ado, here is my conversation with Josh Fernandez

with his new book that just released by PM Press,

The Hands that Crafted the Bomb,

the Making of a lifelong antifacial.

Enjoy. Enjoy. Hey, I'm Josh Fernandez. I'm a anti-fascist organizer. I just came out with a book on PM Press called The Hands That Crafted the Bomb,

The Making of a Lifelong Anti-Fascist. And it basically chronicles my life until my work investigated me for anti-fascist

organizing and their attempt was to fire me.

So the book kind of goes back into my past and relives all kinds of crazy experiences

leading up to that incident. I live here in Sacramento and I'm a

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