In the past several years, settler colonial theory has taken over my field, Native American studies. Comparative indigenous histories focused especially on British-descended âsettler coloniesââCanada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United Statesâhave proliferated. Read the rest of this post on the original site at A Typology of Colonialism
Thomas Moreâs 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 âconspiracy of the richâ. Read the rest of this post …
A small note â not the stuff of headlines, obviously â appeared in the newspapers on 3 February. Read the rest of this post on the original site at The Two Totalitarianisms
More than a memoir, Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead takes the reader on a tour of Americaâs underbelly. From Iowa to Compton to Venice Beach to Fairbanks, Alaska, Mead introduces you to poor America just trying to get byâand barely making it. When a thirteen-year-old Mead ends up in …
WHEN: Saturday, October 24at 7:00pm WHERE: Plan B Halifax, 2180 Gottingen Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3K 3B2 facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/624566001016376/ Comrades in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have organized the first joint book launch for Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead and Escaping the Prism … Fade to Black by Jalil Muntaqim. Ed Mead will be …
âFascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.â â Benito Mussolini It is generally attrributed to an article written by Mussolini in the 1932 Enciclopedia Italiana with the assistance of Giovanni Gentile, the editor. Read the rest of this post on …
The Ferguson uprising started the development of a revolution here in the United States. There is no question that Ferguson was much different and more radical than anything weâve seen here in this country. Read the rest of this post on the original site at The Fergu$on Hijacking â Hands …
#Palestine #Unity / #DisunityAsRadical: ‘Eurocentric / colonial identity politics’ (*my definition below) is tearing apart and dividing ally from ally, sister/brother from brother/sister. Read the rest of this post on the original site at IDENTITY POLITICS IS DOING THE IMPERIALIST DIVIDE AND RULE FOR THE ENEMY
Their deaths go unnoticed. They do not make headlines. But a disproportionate 259 aboriginal children and youth have died violently or in unusual circumstances since 2000. It is a tragedy nobody talks about. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Overlooked tragedy of Quebecâs aboriginal young …
The vast majority of women surveyed who wear the niqab in Canada are not only willing to remove their veils to be identified, but feel it is part of their responsibility to do so, according to the most extensive research of its kind. Read the rest of this post on …