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Notes on Trump (Bromma Dec. 2016 – Revised Jan. 2017)

1. The normality of white supremacy Since Trumpā€™s election, I keep hearing that we shouldnā€™t ā€œnormalizeā€ him or his agenda. I believe thatā€™s looking through the wrong end of the telescope. Thereā€™s nothing as ā€œnormalā€ in the U.S. as white supremacy. Sometimes itā€™s disguised by tokenism and obscured by ā€œmulticulturalism.ā€ …

Surplus Absorption, Realization Crisis, and Imperialism (David Gilbert, November 2015)

David Gilbert wrote the following text in 2015, examiningĀ the the ways in which capitalism is confronted by, and contends with, crises in surplus absorption and realization, in the imperialist age. David was notĀ entirely satisfied with this text in the end, however here at Kersplebedeb i thought it actually was pretty …

Fascism & Anti-Fascism (Don Hamerquist)

an excerpt from Confronting Fascism: Discussion Documents for a Militant Movement This paper is directed towards a narrow audience of revolutionary activists who, hopefully, will not demand a finished product. It is not finished and probably will never be. Much of what I say will be controversial and is certainly …

Stein Lillevolden Reviews Det Globale Perspektiv

A book review of Torkil Lauesen 380 pages Nemo Publishing, Copenhagen 2016 by Stein Lillevolden (social worker) First posted at: https://radikalportal.no/2016/05/27/det-ulike-bytte/ Also published in the Danish newsletter Demos In the late 1970s, I studied political science at Oslo University, by all evidence pretty half-heartedly. With half a heart — mostly …

Torkil Lauesen’s “The Global Perspective” (reviewed by Gabriel Kuhn)

Released by PM Press in collaboration with Kersplebedeb in 2014, Turning Money into Rebellion: The Unlikely Story of Denmarkā€™s Revolutionary Bank Robbers recalls the exploits of the so-called Blekingegade Gang, a group of Marxist revolutionaries who, during the 1970s and ā€˜80s, robbed cash-in-transit trucks, warehouses, and post offices around Copenhagen …

Cops are Gangsters

Intro: There are millions of oppressed people inside the borders of the u.s., but Iā€™m not one of them. I come from a privileged background. Iā€™m not the main victim of the police. Nor am I a leader in the growing struggle against police violence. Recognizing how far I am …

Frameworks

Frameworks are sets of definitions, ideas about how things relate to each other, construed relationships, or even (especially!) of other frameworks, with which people make sense of phenomena and of themselves. Interlocking sets of frameworks which are cohesive enough can create and maintain a distinct identity, a kind of super-framework …

ALERT! Guards harassing LBTQ2+ Prisoners at GVI Women’s Prison!

At Grand Valley Institute for Women (GVI), a federal prison inĀ Kitchener, Ontario (in Canada) there has been a recent crackdown against LBTQ2+Ā prisoners and/or prisoners in relationships amongst themselves. IntimateĀ relationships between prisoners are being attacked by a clique of guardsĀ acting without apparent direction or oversight from the CorrectionsĀ Canada administration. We need …