Of Interest

Some things i have read online over the past month, which i found interesting and think some of you might too: There are No DNA Checkpoints under the Tree of Peace, Dr. Kahente Horn-Miller Two Row Times (August 12, 2014) How to Master Secret Work, written in 1980 by the (then underground) …

Migrant Justice @ the Peoples’ Social Forum

No One Is Illegal | Personne n’est illégal | Nadie es ilegal from Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver (Coast Salish Territories) and other migrant justice organizers are coordinating the following set of workshops, films, dialogues and assemblies at the Peoples Social Forum – Forum social des peuples in Ottawa from Thursday, August …

People’s Social Forum, Ottawa August 21-24!

In case you haven’t heard, the People’s Social Forum — part of the global movement of social forums that have emerged at different levels since the first World Social Forum (WSF) was held in Porto Alegre (Brazil) in January 2001 — will be happening in Ottawa from August 21-24, i.e. next …

Ottawa Book Launch: The Communist Necessity

As part of the Peoples Social Forum, on August 23rd, J. Moufawad-Paul, author of MLM Mayhem! (http://moufawad-paul.blogspot.ca/) will be in Ottawa to attend the launch of his book, The Communist Necessity. A sleek and punchy treatise about the problems of social movementism and the need for a “new return” to …

How come so many UK leftists are Trots?

In Terry Bisson’s interview with Ken MacLeod in The Human Front (PM Press, 2013), there’s this great answer to Bisson’s question “How come so many UK leftists are Trots?” : Short answer: because Trotskyists in Britain moved fast on the CP’s crisis in the 1950s, and moved with the times …

July 7-14 Stuff to Read

Things i found interesting this week: The ‘N’ word through the ages: The madness of HP Lovecraft by Phenderson Djeli Clark (Media Diversified, May 24, 2014) Criminalization, Crisis and Care:  Tennessee’s S.B. 1391 and Attacks on Reproduction by the Florence Johnston Collective July 12, 2014 Slavok Zizek Accused on Plagiarizing White Supremacist …

Montreal Demonstration Against Slaughter in Palestine

There is a demonstration on Friday, July 11th, to stop Israel’s war against Palestine, in Montreal at the corner of Guy and St-Catherine St (by Guy-Concordia metro). The demonstration is called for 5:30pm. Please note that the demo was initially called for Sunday, but the date changed. So if you were …