NYC-ABC PP/POW updates Oct. 20, 2020

PDF: NYC Anarchist Black Cross Political Prisoner/Prisoner of War updates, Oct. 20, 2020. One part of NYC ABCā€˜s every-other-week Political Prisoner Letter-Writing event is presenting updates and announcements. These typically relate to or are written by PPs and/or POWs. Since February 2011, they’ve been printing and mailing hard copies of …

kites: a journal of communist theory and strategy #2 (October 2020)

The second issue (Oct. 2020) of this communist journal is now available from leftwingbooks.net — the following is taken from its opening editorialĀ [“Nothing is hard if we dare to scale the heights”]: Revolutionary philosophy, strategy, and politics are difficult to come by in North America today. While the member organizations …

Solidarity Action Day with 1492 Landback Lane and All Indigenous-Led Land Defending Demonstrations Across Turtle Island

Official Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1049347945523775/ SOLIDARITY ACTION DAY WITH 1492 LANDBACK LANE AND ALL INDIGENOUS-LED LAND DEFENDING DEMONSTRATIONS ACROSS TURTLE ISLAND Where ? Wolf Park (St-Urbain x Maisonneuve) When ? October 9th, from 1-7pm What ? As part of the Day of Action called by Land Defenders at Six Nations a …

Joyce Echaquan’s treatment wasn’t an isolated incident

Joyce Echaquan, a 37-year-old Atikamekw woman died at Joliette hospital after she posted a video of slurs said by staff right before her death. This Op-Ed appeared in the Montreal Gazette on September 30th, 2020. Samir Shaheen-Hussain published Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children …

2021 Certain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar

We are happy to announce the 2021 edition ofĀ  The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar. Certain Days is a joint fundraising and educational project between outside organizers in Montreal, Hamilton, New York and Baltimore, with two political prisoners being held in maximum-security prisons: David Gilbert in New York …

Antifascist and Antiprison October Book Sale at Leftwingbooks.net

As we enter what promises to be an Autumn of historic challenges, the theme of antifascism is front-and-center not only for our movements, but also in the mainstream media. At the same time, in a dialectic that is not at all difficult to decipher, prisoners’ and antiprison struggles remain vitally …

A Philosophy of Antifascism: Existentialism, Decolonization, & The Three-Way Fight: An Interview with Devin Zane Shaw (RevLeft Radio)

Through the existentialism of Simone de Beauvoir, with some reference to Fanon and Sartre, Devin Zane Shaw identifies the philosophical reasons for the political action being enacted by contemporary antifascists. Philosophy of AntifascismĀ argues that in order to resist fascist mobilization, contemporary movements find a diversity of tactics more useful than …