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West Germany’s Urban Guerillas: Overview

The following is a quick little overview of the four largest groups that engaged in armed struggle against the West German state from the 1970s until the 1990s. The authors, André Moncourt and J. Smith, are the ones behind the editing/translating of Projectiles for the People, a documentary history of …

[Montreal] Support the Villanueva family!

URGENT : March with the Villanueva family! The Coalition Against Police Repression and Abuse (CRAP), is joining the Villanueva family in calling for people to come out in big numbers in support of their extremely justified and legitimate demands, this Saturday, February 7th, in Montreal-North.To all those who are moved …

Meaning-Based Translation

if you’re like me and you enjoy translation, you may want to check out today’s post by Mike Ely on Kasama blog… i thought in particular the discussion of words like “fuck”, “con”, and “motherfucker” was worth having, though it could of course be taken further…

The Crisis Is Here

We have entered a new stage of struggle, a new moment of possibility and danger. Western Europe is in the news; Iceland’s government has fallen, hundreds of thousands from across the political spectrum shut down France for a day, and now a wave of wildcat strikes is giving England’s government …

Fax and phone campaign to support Herman Bell & Jalil Muntaqim

Jalil Muntaqim and Herman Bell Damn! i missed my call yesterday… guess i’ll have to make one today! People in the campaign to free the San Francisco 8 are asking us all to call New York governor David Patterson every Monday of February to state your support for returning Herman …

Cleaning Up

Well with the coldest winter in a several years it’s certainly not spring – but it is cleaning season for me. Cleaning up my websites, cleaning the blog, looking after the little details i should have been taking care of over the past year, except this book i was helping …

Leila Khaled with Fight Back! editor Mick Kelly This is a quick little audio interview with Leila Khaled, a leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The interview was conducted by Mick Kelly, editor of Fight Back! (Fight Back! is the newspaper of one of the two …