We are living in exciting times, with large numbers of people clearly fed up and taking action, no longer content to wait for the right moment or the right ideas or the right leadership to tell them what to do. Whether we think of Occupy, the Arab Spring, or the …
It has been eight years since i started this blog, basically as a way of trying to figure out how to develop and explore some political ideas and perhaps also deal with a period of political and personal isolation i was going through. It “worked”, and provided a space not …
The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, and Fighting for Those Left Behind, by Safiya Bukhari For more about this book, and related events, click here.
A Documentary History, Volume I: Projectiles for the People
by Ward Churchill You can read the introductory essay to this book here: Some People Push Back
writings by an anti-imperialist political prisoner, by David Gilbert A collection of writings by this North American political prisoner. For more on and by David Gilbert, click here.
The transformation to a neo-colonial world has only begun, but it promises to be as dramatic, as disorienting a change as was the original european colonial conquest of the human race. Capitalism is again ripping apart & reconstructing the world, and nothing will be the same. Not race, not nation, …
by Zolo Agona Azania This is a pamphlet of short ssays by Zolo Agona Azania, a New Afrikan political prisoner who has spent 23 years on death row, and this despite having forced the State to admit to racist improprieties in his trial and and having his sentence overturned not …
i am reposting this horrific news, without commentary except to say that obviously i do not share the authors’ insistence on nonviolence, but equally obviously that is not the most important thing here in this post. Sexual violence, from India to Turtle Island, has always been used by the powerful …
After Election, Need for Independent Antiwar Movement by David Gilbert , 2004 What a grim time it is politically when the reality of 100,000 Iraqi civilians slaughtered in an illegal war isn’t even a minor issue in U.S. politics and media. The presidential campaign was the gross insult on top …