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Un employé municipal sur deux en banlieue

Profession ‱ % des employĂ©s qui ne rĂ©sident pas Ă  MontrĂ©al Pompiers 82% Policiers 81% ContremaĂźtres 62% Cadres 49% Cols Bleus 48% Professionnels 38% Cols Blancs 32% Brigadiers 5% Total 49% source: http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2015/05/27/un-employe-municipal-sur-deux-en-banlieue

Some interesting things i read in March

“DRAWING LINES AGAINST RACISM AND FASCISM” By Spencer Sunshine, Political Research Associates, March 5, 2015 “Halte au racisme! Halte Ă  l’islamophobie!” Parti Communiste RĂ©volutionnaire, March 11 2015 “Health Care and Immigration Policies that Kill” by Samir Shaheen-Hussain, March 17, 2015 “The Rise of Temporary Migration and Employer-Driven Immigration in Canada …

Some Interesting things i read in February

Mustafa Mattan Shooting: Muslims React To Murder In Canada ‘Ignored’ By Mainstream Media By Zoe Mintz, IB Times February 13 2015 The REAL ‘Lone Ranger’ Was An African American Lawman Who Lived With Native American Indians, By PBSpot Admin October 25, 2013 None is Still Too Many: An Historical Exploration …

Discussion of Protracted People’s War

Readers may be interested in these two texts, in which Zak Brown (of the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement) and JMP (of MLM Mayhem blog) discuss whether or not the Maoist strategy of Protracted People’s War is universal: Protracted People’s War Is Not Universal: Criticizing Jmp And The Maoist Strategy (Zak Brown) Response …

National Liberation and Bolshevism Reexamined: A View from the Borderlands, by Eric Blanc

The following paper analyzes the socialist debates on the national question up through 1914. I argue that an effective strategy of anti-colonial Marxism was first put forward by the borderland socialists, not the Bolsheviks. Lenin and his comrades lagged behind the non-Russian Marxists on this crucial issue well into the …

Of Interest

Some things i have read online over the past month, which i found interesting and think some of you might too: There are No DNA Checkpoints under the Tree of Peace, Dr. Kahente Horn-Miller Two Row Times (August 12, 2014) How to Master Secret Work, written in 1980 by the (then underground) …

July 7-14 Stuff to Read

Things i found interesting this week: The ‘N’ word through the ages: The madness of HP Lovecraft by Phenderson Djeli Clark (Media Diversified, May 24, 2014) Criminalization, Crisis and Care:  Tennessee’s S.B. 1391 and Attacks on Reproduction by the Florence Johnston Collective July 12, 2014 Slavok Zizek Accused on Plagiarizing White Supremacist …

Of Interest

Some stuff i have found interesting over the past couple of weeks: How Did the FBI Miss Over 1 Million Rapes? Soraya Chemaly, The Nation, June 27, 2014 The Khazars did not convert to Judaism, historian finds MEDIEVALISTS.NET, June 26, 2014 A Black Dyke Reflects on the Panthers, Alycee Lane, Fire on the Mountain …

This Week’s Stuff to Read

Here is a little list of stuff i have read online over the past week, of interest: The Price of a Sex-Slave Rescue Fantasy, by Melissa Gira Grantway, New York Times May 29, 2014 Slut-shaming has little to do with sex, study finds, by Marisa Taylor, Aljazeera May 29, 2014 Anarchism in …