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MESSAGE AUX ARRÊTÉ(E)S DU 1ER MAI Ă  MONTRÉAL de CLAC-MontrĂ©al

click here to read this in english Le 1er mai dernier, pendant et dans les heures suivant la manifestation anticapitaliste de la CLAC-MontrĂ©al (Convergence des luttes anticapitalistes), 107 personnes ont Ă©tĂ© arrĂȘtĂ©es et plusieurs ont Ă©tĂ© brutalisĂ©es par la police. Selon nos informations, la majoritĂ© des arrĂȘtĂ©(e)s ont reçu une …

A Message To Those Arrested on May 1st in Montreal

cliquez ici pour lire ceci en français This past May 1st, in the hours following the anti-capitalist demonstration organized by CLAC-Montreal (the Anti-Capitalist Convergence), 107 people were arrested and several were brutalized by the police. So far as we know, most of those arrested received tickets for unlawful assembly, while …

[May 14 in Toronto] From Protest to Resistance: West Germany’s Red Army Faction in the 1970s and 1980s

The Red Army Faction was one of the best known, and most vilified, urban guerilla organizations of the Cold War period. Emerging from West Germany’s radical student movement in the 1960s, the RAF bombed U.S. military bases and police stations, carried out kidnappings and bank robberies, and assassinated financial, military, …

Nehanda Abiodun, Political Exile

Recommended reading: Jake Krzeczowski’s blog post about Nehanda Abiodun, a political exile living in Cuba; “They say I and others were involved in expropriations of armored trucks, that we were also engaged in the ‘liberation’ of Assata,” Abiodun said. “Personally they say I was involved in the expropriations and aiding …

Paint Bombs in Quebec Student Strike

From the pro-police media: Vandals armed with suspected Molotov cocktails and red paint hit several buildings in Montreal overnight, in an hour-long spree that left windows damaged and buildings defaced. Montreal police say there were at least four attempted firebomb attacks at buildings containing provincial government offices after 3 a.m. …

David Gilbert’s Love and Struggle: the Videos!

Here is the official trailer for David Gilbert’s Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond, recently published by PM Press. As many of you know, David is an anti-imperialist political prisoner serving a 75-year-to-life sentence in New York State – he has been locked up …

Gabriel Kuhn Reviews David Gilbert’s "Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond" (Oakland: PM Press, 2012)

The following review is reposted from the Alpine Anarchist: David Gilbert mentions the documentary film The Weather Underground by Sam Green and Bill Siegel, released in 2002, on the very first page of his book Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond. Gilbert relates how the film has …

Inmate Dies During Hunger Strike at California’s Corcoran State Prison

Inmate Dies During Hunger Strike at California’s Corcoran State Prison This troubling news reposted from Solitary Watch:  News of a death in Corcoran State Prison’s Administrative Segregation Unit is emerging as an underreported hunger strike in the prison’s ASU comes to a close. Inmates in the ASU are held in …