Toronto Keywords for Radicals Book Launch

When: Friday May 13th at 8 PM Where: Imperial Pub (back room) 54 Dundas St. East Toronto Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/151790928551555/ Why, even among radicals, do we find ourselves using the same words—words like “community”, “privilege”, and “occupation” —but meaning different things? How does this dynamic arise and how might it be addressed? …

Ulrike Meinhof

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because my sister and I were very close”: An Interview with Ulrike Meinhof’s Sister Wienke

Today is the fortieth anniversary of the death in prison of Red Army Faction founding member Ulrike Meinhof.  On May 9, 1976, Mother’s Day that year, Ulrike was found hanged in her prison cell.  An International Commission of Investigation conducted an extensive investigation, presenting its conclusions in 1979.  The evidence, some …

Revolution Is More Than a Word: 23 Theses on Anarchism (repost from Alpine Anarchist Productions)

(reposted from http://www.alpineanarchist.org/r_twenty-three_theses.html) Intro Since the turn of the millennium, anarchism has experienced a strong upswing. In a widely read 2004 article by David Graeber and Andrej Grubacic, it was announced as the “revolutionary movement of the twenty-first century”, and in a recent book on the Occupy Wall Street movement, titled Translating …

Documents Related to NCP-LC Dissolution (2013-2016)

Anti-Patriarchy Rectification Campaign (July 2013) https://ncpocinfo.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/anti-patriarchy-rectification-campaign/ NCP(LC) Statement on Patriarchy and Rectification of Gender Practice (Feb. 4, 2015) http://blog.ncp.lc/2015/02/04/ncplc-statement-on-patriarchy-and-rectification-of-gender-practice/ NCP (OC): Self-Criticism and Summation on Patriarchy (March 5, 2014) https://ncpocinfo.wordpress.com/2014/03/05/self-criticism-and-summation-on-patriarchy/ Freddy Bastone and the NCP(LC), pathological liars and thugs (March 7, 2014) http://pastebin.com/4SxLCsfh Preliminary Statement of the NCP(LC) Regarding The …

Marx and Engels: On Colonies, Industrial Monopoly and the Working Class Movement

Author: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels Format: Paperback Size: 160 pages ISBN: 978-1-894946-79-7 Publisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing 2016 Price:$10.00 (USD) available for purchase from leftwingbooks.net Originally compiled and edited by the Communist Working Circle (CWC) in 1972, this is a republished collection of excerpts from the corpus of Marx and Engels. …

AP: South Korea covered up mass abuse, killing of “vagrants” (repost)

BUSAN, South Korea — Three decades ago, a policeman tortured Choi Seung-woo over a piece of bread he found in the boy’s schoolbag. After being stripped and having a cigarette lighter repeatedly sparked near his genitals, the 14-year-old falsely confessed to stealing the bread. Read the rest of this post …

Back on Track: the Object of Third Worldism (repost)

Posted by on 2014/07/28 in Africa, Asia, Colonialism, History, Imperialism, National Liberation, Neo-Colonialism, Revolution, Revolutionary Foreign Policy, Theory | Read the rest of this post on the original site at Back on Track: the Object of Third Worldism

LGBT magazine editor stabbed dead at Dhaka home (repost)

Talking to The Daily Star, Mohammed Iqbal, officer-in-charge of Kalabagan Police Station, said they suspect the involvement of militants in the killing. Editor of LGBT magazine ‘Roopban’, Xulhaz Mannan was known for his gay rights activism. Read the rest of this post on the original site at LGBT magazine editor …