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After Decades, Ojore Lutalo Released from Prison

After over a quarter century behind bars, New Afrikan anarchist Ojore Lutalo has finally been released from prison. Active in the armed wing of the Black Liberation movement, Lutalo was first captured in 1977 and then in 1982, and would end up spending the next decades at Trenton State Prison’s …

Stefan Aust (interviewed on NZ radio)

Stefan Aust, Germany’s leading liberal authority of the RAF, interviewed by Radio New Zealand. It’s a short little interview, but it gives a flavour of the man’s way of looking at things.While i certainly disagree with his spin, Aust is someone i think you have to pay attention to if …

Ron Jacobs Reviews Projectiles for the People

Ron Jacobs, author of The Way the Wind Blew: a history of the Weather Underground, has reviewed Projectiles for the People, Volume 1 of The Red Army Faction: A Documentary History. You can check it out on the Counterpunch website: http://www.counterpunch.com/jacobs04102009.html “The editors of this work, J. Smith and AndrĂ© …

Basque Nationalists Under Attack

The Spanish State is cracking down on the Basque nationalist left. From Reuters on March 23: MADRID (Reuters) – A Spanish judge Monday charged 44 Basque nationalists with membership of the militant separatist movement ETA, which the Spanish government calls a terrorist organisation. All were members of three banned separatist …

Why the Red Army Faction Matters

The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History – Volume 1: Projectiles For the People by AndrĂ© Moncourt and J. Smith, with forewords by Bill Dunne and Russell “Maroon” Shoats $34.95 from left-wing books dot net Paperback book 736 pages Published by Kersplebedeb and PM Press in 2009 ISBN 9781604860290 It …

Sect of Revolutionaries Communique from Greece

Left as a comment on the fascinating Social War in Greece blog, here is a translation of the communiquĂ© from the Sect of Revolutionaries, the group which carried out an attack on police in Athens last month: ‘Those who remained unarmed die. The ones who don’t die are buried alive …

Prison Round Trip by Klaus Viehmann

Prison Round Trip $2.95 from left-wing books dot net (normally $4.95) Saddle-stitched pamphlet 31 pages Published by PM Press and Kersplebedeb in 2009 ISBN ISBN 978-1-60486-082-5 “Prison Round Trip” was first published in German in 2003 as “Einmal Knast und zurĂŒck.” The essay’s author, Klaus Viehmann, had been released from …

Pacifism as Pathology Mini-Review

Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America by Ward Churchill My review rating: 4 of 5 starsi had given this book two stars from memory – what had stuck in my mind was Churchill’s conflation of what happened to the Jews during the Holocaust …