The struggle against fascism is a widely accepted part of the revolutionary struggle, but even the most radical activists often sound like liberals when explaining the hows and whys of anti-fascism. Or else use the word in such a way that it has only a vague meaning as something very …
The following interview appeared recently on anti-imperialism.com, the blog of the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement (RAIM), with Zak Cope, about his book recently published by Kersplebedeb, Divided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism. Zak Cope is the author of Divided World Divided Class: Global …
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. …
Born in Harlem, Safiya Bukhari joined the Black Panther Party in 1969. Imprisoned for nine years on a robbery and murder charge, Bukhari was released in 1999 and went on to co-found the New York Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition and other organizations advocating for the release of political prisoners. She …
Strike One to Educate One Hundred the rise of the Red Brigades in Italy in the 1960s-1970s by Chris Aronson Beck, Reggie Emilia, Lee Morris and Ollie Patterson A Seeds Beneath the Snow Publication Many years ago, we scanned in the first four chapters of Strike One, as the book …
These thoughts are provoked by a number of recent incidents: the assault on Sofia Papazoglou in Greece, bricks thrown through the windows of anti-racists in Bridgeland, Alberta, threats from Blood and Honour boneheads against Barricade Books in Australia, an autonomist youth center burned down by neo-nazis in Germany, as well …
A response to Don Hamerquist’s Lenin, Leninism and some Leftovers, by Nate from What In the Hell blog: [What In the Hell] … did I think of Hamerquist’s piece on Lenin? I took a whole mess of notes on Don Hamerquist’s recent essay on Lenin and contemporary radical organization. Then …
Tom Wetzel: Okay, here is my reply to Don. In general I would say that a feature of WSA’s politics is that we don’t believe in over-emphasizing the role of the political organization because we see the mass organizations as the instrument through which the working class emancipates itself. That …
This is a rough piece, slightly modified from two earlier drafts that were circulated privately to generate some discussion. This version is also unfinished and its analysis and strategic and organizational conclusions are tentative and provisional. I apologize for this and for the casual citations and references to authors and …
What can we draw from the past? And how do we draw things from the past? These questions, when you get down to it, are key to our project. Lenin is a figure whose historic role was so major, that to think about him in isolation is impossible. We contextualize …