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Would You Shoplift “Days of War, Nights of Love”?

What ‘insurance’ could you buy that would keep you safer than living in a world where people actually cared for each other? (page 260) Get the uzi! Some MAN i’d never met before handed this book to me at a meeting, and mumbled something about reviewing it. Lucky wimmin get …

Confronting Fascism Reviewed by Reviewed by Matthew Lyons

Ever since Italy’s fasci di combattimento rocketed Benito Mussolini to power in 1919-22, leftists have been grappling with the question of fascism — what it is and how to fight it. Fascism is a complex, contradictory enemy. It murders and vilifies leftists but often calls itself the true force for …

No Surrender: Writings from an Anti-Imperialist Political Prisoner, by David Gilbert, Reviewed by Michael Novick, Editor, Turning the Tide

You may know David Gilbert from his appearance in the recently popular, award-winning documentary “Weather Underground,” which has played in art houses around the US and is now available on DVD. If so, you know he is a warm, engaging, committed, optimistic and insightful person, capable of unflinching self-criticism but …

Hot Lead is Medicine, reviewed by Kersplebedeb

“My only love affair was to be knowledge that I had blood on my hands and I wanted it to be some confused, afraid cop. Because tonight, we weren’t in the Denver I called home. We weren’t at the permitted feel-good-fest where we’d watch ourselves on the 9-o-clock news. Tonight …

Bottomfish Blues: The Coming of Black Genocide & other essays, reviewed by Oreja in Turning The Tide Vol. 8 #4, Winter 1995-1996

Considering that U.S. imperialism is an enthusiastic sponsor of genocide, and that the history of this country is solidly rooted in genocidal practices, it’s striking how little attention this subject receives even among those who consider themselves anti-racists and anti-imperialists. Genocide in our midst is the ultimate “dirty little secret” …

Anti-imperialism, internationalism: Good “Anti-authoritarian” and “armed struggle now” demagoguery: Bad

Kuwasi Balagoon: A Soldier’s Story reviewed by International Minister,  MIM Notes 230, March 15, 2001 This pamphlet comes from the better section of anarchists. We have the political prisoners from the Black Liberation Army — e.g. the Panther 21 — and people like J. Sakai writing supplementary material to the material Balagoon …