Masked marchers beat migrants in Stockholm (repost)

Published: 30 Jan 2016 11:05 GMT+01:00 A gang of up to a hundred black-clad masked men marched in central Stockholm on Friday evening, singling out and beating up immigrants, and handing out leaflets threatening further violent attacks against unaccompanied refugee youth. Read the rest of this post on the original …

Interview with Out of the Flames of Ferguson (repost)

See an intro to this piece and an update on We’re Hir We’re Queer here. Who is Out of the Flames of Ferguson (OOTFF)?  How did you all get together?  What are your politics and what kind of work do you all do? Read the rest of this post on …

4 Free Ebooks from Kersplebedeb Publishing

Since 1998 Kersplebedeb has been an important source of radical literature and agit prop materials. The project has a non-exclusive focus on anti-patriarchal and anti-imperialist politics, framed within an anticapitalist perspective, with particular attention being paid to the experiences of armed organizations, and political and radical prisoners. Celebrate the past …

How the West Undermined Women’s Rights in the Arab World (repost)

This article is based on some of the research that I have conducted over the past two years on women’s activism in Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan, from independence until the Arab uprisings. I collected over one hundred personal narratives from middle class women activists of different generations. Read the rest …

Eamonn McCann: State role in IRA killings changes everything (repost)

The question arising from this week’s revelations in the Irish News of the extent of British security service involvement in IRA killings is: What was that all about? Read the rest of this post on the original site at Eamonn McCann: State role in IRA killings changes everything

«La Meute» vue de l’intérieur (repost)

AmiEs #GAPPA! Les individus derrière cette enquĂŞte cherchaient un lieu oĂą publier leur article anonymement: GAPPA s’est fait un plaisir de le reproduire ici. Un aperçu de l’intĂ©rieur de «La Meute» oĂą se cĂ´toient propos racistes, sexistes, colonialistes et ultra-nationalistes. Read the rest of this post on the original site …

The Maoist Enemy: China’s Challenge in 1960s East Germany

This article examines the challenge of Chinese communism in East Germany in the1960s. It shows how the Sino–Soviet Split and the Chinese Cultural Revolution endangered the public transcripts of East German state socialism by undermining its organizing metaphors and principles. Chinese cadres used their East Berlin embassy as a stage, showcase …

Meet The Women Of The Occupied Refuge (repost)

Kristi Jernigan arrived alone at the Redmond airport from Tennessee with nothing but a carry-on bag and her Bible. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Meet The Women Of The Occupied Refuge

Eurocentric Anti-Eurocentrism (repost)

THE QUESTION OF “Eurocentrism” is a vexing problem not only for academia but for the left. In the broadest sense, Eurocentrism can be understood as the implicit view that societies and cultures of European origin constitute the “natural” norm for assessing what goes on in the rest of the world. …