David Gilbert, a longtime anti-racist and anti-imperialist, first became active in the Civil Rights movement in 1961. In 1965, he started the Vietnam Committee at Columbia University; in 1967 he co-authored the first Students for a Democratic Society pamphlet naming the system “imperialism”; and he was active in the Columbia …
This post is mirrored from DemocracyNow.org. Outgoing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo used his final hours in office to grant clemency to six men, including former Weather Underground member David Gilbert, who was sentenced to 75 years to life in prison for his role in a 1981 robbery of an …
If you send the updates to Clare Grady or Patrick O’Neill, please stop as they have been released! Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/updates-24-aug-2021.pdf NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of …
The now closed P4W (Prison for Women) in Kingston, Ontario. Ann Hansen was imprisoned in 1983 for her involvement in the urban guerilla group Direct Action. She is the author of Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerilla and Taking the Rap: Women Doing Time for Society’s Crimes. She wrote …
The US Embassy in Kabul being evacuated. [This article was originally posted to the authors’ website, AnneBonnyPirate.org, on August 17, 2021] Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale A lot of nonsense about Afghanistan is being written in Britain and the United States. Most of this nonsense hides a number of important …
Remembering the Attica prisoner demands as the 50th anniversary approaches. [This article was originally posted by Black Agenda Report on August 18, 2021. For more on the Attica Rebellion, check out the book A Time To Die: The Attica Prison Revolt. For audio with the words of participants and fellow …
This piece was originally posted on Medium on August 15, 2021. On Necrocapitalism is available now from LeftWingBooks.net. Reflections about “On Necrocapitalism” J. Moufawad-Paul With the book version of On Necrocapitalism about to be released by Kersplebedeb, I felt it would be worth reflecting on my participation in this collective …
Torkil Lauesen—long-time anti-imperialist, former bankrobber, and author of The Principal Contradiction and The Global Perspective: Reflections on Imperialism and Resistance (both of which are on sale this month at LeftWingBooks.net!)—was on the Manifestering podcast recently to talk about his new book, Riding the Wave: Sweden’s Integration into the Imperialist World …
From the archives: S1 was a revolutionary research journal which came out in the 1980s. S1.pdf
If you send the updates to Loren Reed, please stop as he has been released! Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/updates-10-aug-2021.pdf NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of war we support. …