As popular resistance to globalization and Western imperialism strengthens around the globe, something disastrous is happening: Leadership of the opposition is swinging steadily from the Left to the radical Right. Right-wing forces around the world are gearing up to fight against capitalism’s new world order. Every day on the streets …
On March 5th community activist Wendy Maxwell, aka Nzinga, was arrested by Toronto cops while selling cookies at an International Women’s Day event. What was her crime? Being a queer Black “non-status” immigrantfrom Costa Rica; being a woman who could and would stand up for herselfand others… Maxwell originally came …
Dark Victory The United States, Structural Adjustment and Global Poverty by Walden Bello, with Shea Cunningham and Bill Rau 148 pp. Illustrated. 1994. Oakland: Food First. $12.95. (pb). You’ve probably been taught about systems of debt-peonage that prevailed in more sinister eras or lands. The share cropper or laborer was …
Revolutionary Greetings Everyone! I take this opportunity to address all of you in this fashion to save time and conserve material and energy for tomorrow’s fight. In this missive I wish to notify you that I have “relinquished” my right to my appeal to the Division of Parole from my …
I started off wanting to like “A Commune In Chiapas?” (This major essay about the Zapatistas, written for the English “liberation communist” journal, Aufheben, is distributed as a pamphlet by Arm the Spirit/Solidarity, Canadian anti-imperialist publishers who represent u.s. political prisoners such as David Gilbert, Albert Nuh Washington and Jalil …
Robert Seth Hayes is a father, grandfather and artist. He is a black revolutionary freedom fighter who was captured and convicted in New York City in 1973 under a host of charges attributed to his membership in the Black Liberation Army, the BLA. Through his conviction he received 25 years …
My father, Robert Seth Hayes, former Black Panther Party member, has been a resident of the New York state prison system for the past 29 years, making him one of the longest held Panthers in the United States. He was arrested in September 1973 – I was only three years …
[toc] to read reviews of this essay click here An Almost Perfect Fit AIDS – which can so heartlessly take people away in their prime of life – is the lethal scourge of our day, and it is still light years away from being brought under control. This epidemic seems to have an …
EC: Settlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat is a book which had a major impact on many North American anti-imperialists. How did this book come about, and what was so new about its way of looking at things? JS: Settlers completely came about by accident, not design. And what was so …
What follows is an email exchange on L.B.’s  Some Preliminary Thoughts on Modern Class Structure Hello again, LB. Sorry, got pulled away for a few. Had to wander around gaza eyeless for awhile, waiting for my eyeballs to adjust to my new eyeglass lens. Then there was backed-up mail, and …