above: Aftermath of Nisoor Square massacre, September 16, 2007,where Blackwater mercenaries opened fire on civilians and Iraqi police,killing seventeen people From UPI: Blackwater still works for U.S. in Iraq Last update: 5:48 p.m. EDT March 17, 2009WASHINGTON, Mar 17, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) — The U.S. State Department re-signed the …
From the left communist magazine Revolutionary Perspectives, put out by the Communist Workers Organization (the u.k.’s branch of the IBRP): Is Capitalism Finished?
Just passing on this reference for the blog Behind The Blue Wall, devoted to calling attention to the horrendously high number of women who are beaten by their police officer husbands and boyfriends. The war has a home front.
Every lost battle is a principle of weakness and disorganization; and the first and immediate desideratum is to concentrate, and in concentration to recover order, courage, and confidence. – Carl von Clausewitz, On War By the time the day was over, over two hundred people had been arrested at yesterday’s …
A year-and-a-half after the fact, new details have come to light about the cops’ activities at the 2007 Montebello protests against George Bush.As you may recall, police infiltrators at the demo were identified by members of the Black Block, who isolated them with the help of other demonstrators. The faux-protesters …
The following arrived in my mailbox – worth following up on – please forward, and also take a moment and make a phone call for this still-imprisoned veteran of the liberation struggle: Long time New Afrikan Freedom Fighter and Political Prisoner, Russell Maroon Shoatz has glaucoma and cataracts in both …
In 2008 J. Sakai contributed a text looking at Marx’s thought in light of the economic crisis at that time, asking some tentative questions of what it all might mean in terms of strategy, and things to come. Notes Toward An Understanding Of Capitalist Crisis & Theory “Dope will get …
The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History – Volume 1: Projectiles For the People by André Moncourt and J. Smith, with forewords by Bill Dunne and Russell “Maroon” Shoats $34.95 from left-wing books dot net Paperback book 736 pages Published by Kersplebedeb and PM Press in 2009 ISBN 9781604860290 It …
Left as a comment on the fascinating Social War in Greece blog, here is a translation of the communiqué from the Sect of Revolutionaries, the group which carried out an attack on police in Athens last month: ‘Those who remained unarmed die. The ones who don’t die are buried alive …
Prison Round Trip $2.95 from left-wing books dot net (normally $4.95) Saddle-stitched pamphlet 31 pages Published by PM Press and Kersplebedeb in 2009 ISBN ISBN 978-1-60486-082-5 “Prison Round Trip” was first published in German in 2003 as “Einmal Knast und zurück.” The essay’s author, Klaus Viehmann, had been released from …