This Week’s Stuff to Read

Here is a little list of stuff i have read online over the past week, of interest: The Price of a Sex-Slave Rescue Fantasy, by Melissa Gira Grantway, New York Times May 29, 2014 Slut-shaming has little to do with sex, study finds, by Marisa Taylor, Aljazeera May 29, 2014 Anarchism in …

Notes on the Worker Elite

In the month since the publication of Bromma’s The Worker Elite: Notes on the “Labour Artistocracy”, the book has been met with a lot of interest, including several reviews which raise a number of questions related to the text that folks may be interested in. So here’s a roundup of …

Resisting Carceral Nation States: The Fifteenth International Conference on Penal Abolition

Next weekend (Thursday night-Sunday night) is the Fifteenth International Conference on Penal Abolition.  The conference is being held in at the University of Ottawa, on unceded and unsurrendered Algonquin Territory currently occupied by the Canadian carceral state. The conference will be happening from June 12 to 15, bringing together dozens of speakers …

Craftsmen of World Revolution (by Klaus Viehmann)

What follows is the preface to the upcoming book edited by Gabriel Kuhn, Turning Money into Rebellion: The Unlikely Story of Denmark’s Revolutionary Bank Robbers, to be published by Kersplebedeb and PM Press later this summer. The book tells the story of the “Blekingegade Group” which had emerged from a communist …

Futures, by John Barker

(from the Guardian) Just over 40 years ago, John Barker appeared in the dock at the Old Bailey charged, as a member of the Angry Brigade, with conspiracy to cause explosions. He was jailed for 10 years at the end of what was then Britain’s longest trial. Now he has written …

Update on Kevin “Rashid” Johnson’s Situation (June 5, 2014)

From Prison Radio: Solitary confinement is torture. Kevin Rashid Johnson has spent decades in the hole. Last week we put out an urgent Medical Alert Eblast urging care for severe headaches and dangerous blood pressure levels. That same day Kevin Rashid Johnson’s legal advisor on his Oregon cases, Ben Haile of the Portland Law …

Demand Medical Care for Kevin “Rashid” Johnson!

Dear Friends: Kevin Rashid Johnson experienced a frightening medical crisis beginning on May 14th, we just got word of it a few days ago. He had crippling pain behind his left eye, blurred vision, and very high blood pressure.  This case of severe hypertension if untreated could cause life threatening medical …

“Ooh, momma,  those black cats are out back again”: A terse response to “get up for the down stroke”

The following text has been received from Chairman Shaka Zulu of the NABPP-PC: What is a correct land policy for the New Afrikan Black Panther Party (NABPP)? Sanyika Shakur raises this question in his critique of Comrade Rashid’s article, “Black Liberation in the 21st Century: A Revolutionary Reassessment of Black Nationalism.” …

Picabia

by Francis Picabia (22 January 1879 – 30 November 1953)