2016 Slingshot Organizers at Kerspebedeb Leftwingbooks.NET

By far the most popular way for anarchists to stay organized, the Slingshot 2016 organizers are here, complete with mini-calendar, daybook planner, address book section, international radical contact list, and nifty what happened on this day notes scattered throughout. The artwork, as ever, is wonderful in a chaotic punk rock …

Certain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar 2016

The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar is a joint fundraising and educational project between outside organizers in Montreal and Toronto and three political prisoners being held in maximum-security prisons in New York State: David Gilbert, Robert Seth Hayes and Herman Bell. We are committed to doing work grounded …

Jalil Arbitrarily Denied Books including HIS OWN

On October 7, 2015, Jalil was arbitrarily denied receipt of four books after they had been approved by the package room. Jalil would like folk to write to Commissioner Annucci regarding this matter. Write to Commissioner Annucci at: Anthony Annucci Commissioner of DOCCS 1220 Washington Avenue The Harriman State Campus, …

Mailroom Censorship at Attica

On October 7, political prisoner Jalil Muntaqim was denied 4 books which arrived for him at Attica Correctional Facility. Muntaqim is a former member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, and one of the longest held political prisoners in the world today; he has been incarcerated since …

Report: Freddie Gray’s mother attempts suicide (repost)

The mother of a black Baltimore man whose death in police custody prompted charges against police officers has attempted suicide, WJZ television is reporting. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Report: Freddie Gray’s mother attempts suicide

A Typology of Colonialism (repost)

In the past several years, settler colonial theory has taken over my field, Native American studies. Comparative indigenous histories focused especially on British-descended “settler colonies”—Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States—have proliferated. Read the rest of this post on the original site at A Typology of Colonialism

Utopias, past and present: why Thomas More remains astonishingly radical (repost)

Thomas More’s Utopia, a book that will be 500 years old next year, is astonishingly radical stuff. Not many lord chancellors of England have denounced private property, advocated a form of communism and described the current social order as a “conspiracy of the rich”. Read the rest of this post …

The Two Totalitarianisms (repost)

A small note – not the stuff of headlines, obviously – appeared in the newspapers on 3 February. Read the rest of this post on the original site at The Two Totalitarianisms