On Tuesday, October 21st, Pennsylvania Governor Corbett signed into law the “Revictimization Relief Act”, which will allow prosecutors and victims of a violent crime to sue the offender for “conduct which perpetuates the continuing effect of the crime on the victim.” The law went into effect immediately. This legal assault in …
Goddard College in Vermont made headlines this year when it invited political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal to deliver its commencement speech for new students, on October 5. As this invitation, and right-wing anger at Mumia for his audacity in remaining alive and unbowed after decades in prison, occasioned a new piece …
Readers may be interested in these two texts, in which Zak Brown (of the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement) and JMP (of MLM Mayhem blog) discuss whether or not the Maoist strategy of Protracted People’s War is universal: Protracted People’s War Is Not Universal: Criticizing Jmp And The Maoist Strategy (Zak Brown) Response …
The following was initially posted to the now defunct Maoist Information Web Site in December 2007; it is currently also available as a pdf on the Maoist Rebel News site, and is mirrored as a pdf here. MIWS has begun addressing a question that others in the last couple of decades …
“The Messiah comes not only as the redeemer, he comes as the subduer of the Antichrist. Only that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the past who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins. And this …
The following is a review of J. Moufawad-Paul’s The Communist Necessity by AndrĂ© Moncourt: The Communist Necessity – that’s a catchy title, I thought. I too think that revolutionary change is absolutely essential, and I think the Marxist tradition provides a lot worthy of consideration if that is going to …
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 6:30pm rendez-vous: 480 Gilford, mĂ©tro Laurier (St-Joseph exit) in front of the FraternitĂ© des policiers et policières de MontrĂ©al Family-friendly; welcome to all! Rain or shine. Please get in touch about any accessibility needs. Organized by the Justice for Victims of Police Killings Coalition comprised of the …
Tuesday, October 21 at 6:00pm 1590 Dr. Penfield (Samuel Bronfman Building, Concordia University), corner CĂ´te-des-Neiges Police violence is everywhere. It is visible not just in police killings, but also in everyday practices of surveillance, profiling, harassment, and coercion. In all of this, racism and colonialism are close by – though not always …
By far the most popular way for anarchists to stay organized, the Slingshot 2015 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 …
From the mainstream St Louis Post-Dispatch, this struck me as usefully revealing: The Justice Department’s soft side: How one federal agency hopes to change Ferguson By David Hunn, October 12th, 2014 FERGUSON • The peacemakers arrived on a Sunday. It was a little more than a day after Michael Brown’s shooting. They …