i am happy to be able to pass on this brief interview with Hisila Yami, nom de guerre Comrade Parvati, of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). While i am wary of some features of the revolutionary movement in Nepal (see here or here for instance), i am also inspired …
Calle Santa Fe 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 163 min, Dir. Carmen Castillo, Chile – France. On October 5th 1974 the Chilean military and political police (DINA) raided a safehouse in a working class neighbourhood in Santiago. Miguel Enriquez, a leader of the underground resistance to Pinochet and …
There is an excellent essay about Violence & Abuse Against Indigenous Women & Children up on the wii’nimkiikaa website. Really worth checking out…
In regards to the latest comments from my comrade Nicolas, regarding the racist “reasonable accommodation debate”… There are two very important questions here. We have to deal with both of them, but in order to not get tripped up i think we need to separate them first. The first question …
The following is a February 5th statement from No One Is Illegal-Montreal on the racist debate currently occurring in Quebec about “reasonable accommodation”… i hope to write more about this tomorrow, providing some context for those of you from other parts of the world who have not been following this, …
Songbirds, a film by Brian Hilllyrics by Simon Armitage, music by Simon BoswellUK / 2005 / Betacam / 62 min / englishContact: Sue Collins, Century Films, Studio 32, Clink Street Studios, 1 Clink Street, Londres SE19DG Angleterre. T: +44-207-378-6106 F: +44-207-407-6711 | sue.collins@centuryfilmsltd.com | www.centuryfilmsltd.com i saw Songbirds somewhat by …
Goddammit it can be difficult to keep up with this blogging thing… Especially as a sense of propriety really makes me feel like i have to mention some things, even things i may have nothing particularly intelligent to say about. And of course, as i may have mentioned earlier, there …
Caliban and the Witch: Women the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Sylvia Federici, Autonomedia 2004) Reviewed by Karl Kersplebedeb Back in May 2005, at the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, i bought a copy of Silvia Federici’s latest book, Caliban and he Witch: Women, The Body and Primitive Accumulation. Suffice to say, i …
Alright, so as you may notice i have not posted for a couple of days – partly out of mid-week fatigue and partly because i am finding it difficult to figure out exactly what to say about Marilyn Waring’s book Counting For Nothing, which i am now half-way through. …
Now I must say, it is a joy to be well rested – this morning I gave into temptation and stole a couple of extra hours sleep, and what a difference that makes! I have just re-read my first blog entries, in part inspired by the nice ego stroke from …