Brazil has been lobotomised twice in the last two months. In the first lobotomy on 2 September, the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro was burnt down, in a catastrophe directly attributable to the austerity policies of current president Michel Temer. Read the rest of this post on the original …
On social media, the country seems to divide into two neat camps: Call them the woke and the resentful. Team Resentment is manned—pun very much intended—by people who are predominantly old and almost exclusively white. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Americans Strongly Dislike PC …
When the Red Pillers—online communities of far-right, anti-feminist men—need to back up their misogynist and racist claims, they look to Ovid, Euripides, or the Stoics. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Et Tu, BrutesDonna Zuckerberg on How Misogyny Red-Pilled the Classics
Downloadable ‘zine format here. (PDF, 425kb) Truly, there are stains that it is beyond the power of man to wipe out and that can never be fully expiated. Read the rest of this post on the original site at ‘Zine: Fascism & Anti-Fascism: A Decolonial Perspective
Senior federal officials discussed raising the country’s alert level to the highest tier at the height of the Idle No More movement, which also shaped how Canada’s security agencies handle Indigenous-led protests, according to a new book. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Federal officials …
BOTTROP, Germany — Guido Reil is a coal miner, like his father and grandfather before him. He joined a trade union at 18 and the center-left Social Democratic Party at 20. Fast-talking and loud, he has been an elected union representative for over a decade. Read the rest of this …
Revolutionary Initiative is a revolutionary communist party-building organization based in the northern half of Turtle Island, or the territories held or occupied by imperialist Canada. RI’s goal is to creatively apply Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to their local conditions in order to build a multinational revolutionary movement of proletarians, oppressed nations and oppressed national …
In the next round of trials against people charged with rioting during President Donald Trump’s inauguration, federal prosecutors want to put a witness on the stand under an alias who spent two years undercover with “an anarchist extremist group” in New York. Read the rest of this post on the …
The Assembly of First Nations worked closely with the Mounties and provincial police to exchange information about protests and develop common stances before a national aboriginal day of action in the summer of 2007, according to RCMP documents. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Assembly …
During the Weimar Republic, popular anxieties about the state of society became focused on a field of problems in which youth, political radicalism and a general brutalisation of social and political relations were assumed to be directly linked with one another in peculiarly threatening ways. Read the rest of this …