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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 …

Everybody Talks About the Weather… We Don’t

The RAF is in the air… and the fucking book i meant to have published this summer is not out yet. Never fear, Projectiles for the People is due out in early 2009 now, and this time that’s a promise. While waiting, you can check out Karin Bauer’s book, reviewed …

Radicals and the State

Upping The Anti #3 features interviews with Aijaz Ahmad and William Robinson, each of whom discusses different questions, looking at different parts of the world, but nevertheless both touch on some common concerns. I’m not sure if this was the intention of the UTA crew or just happy happenstance, but …

Thinking About Growing Pains

Here are some further thoughts on Upping the Anti, the radical journal out of Toronto, Canada… The most ambitious part of Upping the Anti #3 is clearly its editorial, titled Growing Pains: The Anti-Globalization Movement, Anti-Imperialism and the Politics of the United Front. This is really a look at the …

Kenya and the Crimes of Colonialism

Kikuyu are rounded up for internment and interrogationduring white Kenya’s “Operation Anvil”, April 24th 1954 The dirty war Britain fought to maintain its control of Kenya was tantamount to genocide. The entire Kikuyu nation (the largest national group within Kenya) was considered to be under the sway of the Mau …

[Review] Hot Lead is Medicine

My only love affair was to be knowledge that I had blood on my hands and I wanted it to be some confused, afraid cop. Because tonight, we weren’t in the Denver I called home. We weren’t at the permitted feel-good-fest where we’d watch ourselves on the 9-o-clock news. Tonight …

Two Science Fiction Anthologies To Enjoy

Short stories are great. You can often get from beginning to end in that last half hour before you go to sleep, or on the bus, or even just while taking a mid-day break. So i am pleased that this year i received two collections of science fiction short stories, …

Caliban And The Witch by Silvia Federici, Reviewed by Kersplebedeb

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 …