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May 2016

Ulrike Meinhof

“…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 …