What a lot has changed in just a couple of weeks. Plans have changed, lives have changed. We’d best gear up quickly, the dress rehearsal is over. Hic Rhodus, Hic Salta, indeed. The following COVID-19 resources may be useful to many of you; if you know of similar resources not …
Experiencing a pandemic in real time is surreal. The culture industry machine has pre-transcribed such events in multiple movies, books, and comics. Read the rest of this post on the original site at The Bigger Plague is Capitalism
Noel Ignatiev1 left a conflicted antifascist legacy. As a member of the Sojourner Truth Organization (sto), Ignatiev made important contributions to understanding fascism, above all its autonomous political character and contradictory relationship with capitalist interests. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Noel Ignatiev’s Conflicted Antifascism
Along with the late Immanuel Wallerstein, I think that globalized capitalism is in a structural crisis economically, politically, and in its relationship with nature, which leads to climate crises and now as we see to pandemics. The structural crisis entails that the system is out of balance, that conjunctures do …
(ceci est une traduction non-autorisĂ© de l’article Humanity in times of COVID-19: How to help each other properly par le medecin Ben F. Maier) Tout d’abord, pour que tout cela soit clair, je suis un scientifique qui fait des recherches sur la façon dont les maladies infectieuses se propagent et je travaille …
MAINTENANT – LES LIGNES FERROVIAIRES DU CN BLOQUÉES SUR LA RIVE SUD DE «MONTRÉAL» APPEL PUBLIC AUX RENFORCEMENTS// BREAKING – CN RAIL LINES BLOCKED ON SOUTH SHORE OF “MONTRÉAL” PUBLIC CALL FOR REINFORCEMENTS (english below), CommuniquĂ© reçu par Contrepoints.media Une voie ferrĂ©e du CN traversant la ville de St-Lambert, connectant …
Review of the book: Lauesen T. (2018) The Global Perspective. Reflections on Imperialism and Resistance, Montreal: Kersplebedeb. Torkil Lauesen’s book The Global Perspective. Reflections on Imperialism and Resistance is written from a perspective that can be described as Third Worldist Marxism. For its author, such views are not just theoretical …
As the editorial to this new journal explains: In the American and Canadian prison systems, kites are “contraband” correspondence shared among inmates, and between inmates and those on the outside. Tiny, folded-up pieces of paper, kites are slipped past the watchful eyes of our tormentors, passed through commissary or along …
About a year ago I reviewed Aaron Leonard and Conor Gallagher’s book, A Threat of the First Magnitude for Kersplebedeb. In my opinion the book’s detailed examination of two largely successful state repressive projects in the sixties and seventies, SOLO and FIRST MAGNITUDE, deserves serious attention. SOLO was a penetration of …
This is exciting. Because it starts to break away from the once fresh but increasingly dead end of what had become macho antifa. There’s not only false gender assumptions involved, but white racism stirred in here. Some white people always want to think that fascism is a white issue they …