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Red Brigades in the 21st century

A comrade sent me the following article about the capture of some people trying to re-establish the Red Brigades in Italy. It’s from the Wall Street Journal, and so bound to be neither sympathetic nor necessarily even accurate, but nevertheless worth a quick read. For more on the historic Red …

Two New Pamphlets from Kersplebedeb

The Road Ahead and the Dialectics of Changeby C. Lundrum The rather long subtitle of this short pamphlet reads: “applying the science of dialectical and historical materialism to the prison construct as it exists within California prison system today.” And that is just what ths is: an attempt by a …

[Red Army Faction] German Autumn, Bitter Defeat

The third in a series of installments about the Red Army Faction, specifically their 1977 campaign which ended so tragically thirty years ago… German Autumn, Bitter Defeat As we saw in our previous installments, by late summer 1977 the Red Army Faction was poised to carry out its most ambitious …

Good Luck Lolo

An article from today’s National Post about how the Canadian State tried to capture a former Roma (gypsy) guerilla, who had suffered ten days of torture at the hands of Franco’s secret police, and deport him, presumably to Spain where the “post-fascist” State has expressed its desire to prosecute him …

Former Communist Guerilla Jean-Marc Rouillan Granted Restricted Freedom – the French State Appeals…

Today the Paris sentencing court ruled in favour of Jean-Marc Rouillan’s request for “restricted freedom”. This qas quickly followed by news that the State was appealing this decision; the courts will rule within the next two months, but in the meantime Rouillan remains in prison. Nevertheless, this is a step …

Calle Santa Fe: Remembering Those Who Fought

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 …