The Mohawk people at “Douglas Creek Estates” are reclaiming their land, not mine. Indigenous culture is not my culture. Their struggle is their struggle, and they will take the lead and set their terms and define their own strategies. This is just normal. Nevertheless, as must be obvious from the …
Short stories are great. You can often get from beginning to end in that last half hour before you go to sleep, or on the bus, or even just while taking a mid-day break. So i am pleased that this year i received two collections of science fiction short stories, …
Last week i heard a talk about the Maoist revolution sweeping the countryside in Nepal. François Thibault had visited the Himalayan nation last November as one of nine members of an “International Brigade,” spending a little over a week meeting with members of the Communist Part of Nepal (Maoist) and …
Some people are keeping busy in Montreal. Over the past months four mosques and two synagogues have been vandalized. It’s not clear if this is all the work of the same people, or (as is quite likely) different fuckers each with their own racist agenda. Read more… Chronologically, then… During …
I rarely talk about so-called “environmental issues”. The “green” movement rubs me the wrong way – both because its analysis is often superficial and because it seems to offer no coherent strategy for change. The mainstream environmental movement has little class or political analysis, and even eco-radicals often point the …
Gramsci Is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements ISBN 0745321127 Pluto Press 2006 In Gramsci Is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements, Richard Day of Queens University argues for a supposedly “new” kind of radical activism, one which is neither revolutionary nor reformist. He describes this …
As readers of this blog should know, one of the things that make me happiest in life in science fiction. This is tenuously related to my politics, but like all cultural/aesthetic passions, there is a lot more than just that. What kind of art (yeah, and stories are art) one …
Octavia Butler, perhaps the most politically relevant science fiction writer i have ever had the pleasure of reading, died last Friday, after falling and hitting her head on the cobbled walkway outside her home. She was 58. Read more… I only first heard of Butler a few years ago, when …
Last week i wrote about Benoit Guay, the Montreal cop who was charged with being the “North Shore Rapist” who has attacked and raped several women over the past two years.I repeated what i had written last October, before anyone knew the rapist was a cop, namely that more police …
The rapist is a cop.That’s the punch line, the plate of steaming shit that we are being served as if it were just another dish at the local diner.But i’ve tumbled ahead of myself… let’s go back to the beginning and recap: Read more… Back in October, the police announced …