By Mercedes Peters One of the first things you’re taught when you’re training to be a historian in Canada is that Canadians have a memory problem. It can be a little jarring to some. This reality didn’t come as much of a shock to my system, though, because as a …
The second issue (Oct. 2020) of this communist journal is now available from leftwingbooks.net — the following is taken from its opening editorial [“Nothing is hard if we dare to scale the heights”]: Revolutionary philosophy, strategy, and politics are difficult to come by in North America today. While the member organizations …
I am in my 12th year on parole after having spent 30-plus consecutive years in various correctional facilities in New York State. Since my release on parole , I strive each and every day to reach out to angry, bewildered and vulnerable young people through the work I do with …
Official Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1049347945523775/ SOLIDARITY ACTION DAY WITH 1492 LANDBACK LANE AND ALL INDIGENOUS-LED LAND DEFENDING DEMONSTRATIONS ACROSS TURTLE ISLAND Where ? Wolf Park (St-Urbain x Maisonneuve) When ? October 9th, from 1-7pm What ? As part of the Day of Action called by Land Defenders at Six Nations a …
Joyce Echaquan, a 37-year-old Atikamekw woman died at Joliette hospital after she posted a video of slurs said by staff right before her death. This Op-Ed appeared in the Montreal Gazette on September 30th, 2020. Samir Shaheen-Hussain published Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children …
We are happy to announce the 2021 edition of The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar. Certain Days is a joint fundraising and educational project between outside organizers in Montreal, Hamilton, New York and Baltimore, with two political prisoners being held in maximum-security prisons: David Gilbert in New York …
As we enter what promises to be an Autumn of historic challenges, the theme of antifascism is front-and-center not only for our movements, but also in the mainstream media. At the same time, in a dialectic that is not at all difficult to decipher, prisoners’ and antiprison struggles remain vitally …
Through the existentialism of Simone de Beauvoir, with some reference to Fanon and Sartre, Devin Zane Shaw identifies the philosophical reasons for the political action being enacted by contemporary antifascists. Philosophy of Antifascism argues that in order to resist fascist mobilization, contemporary movements find a diversity of tactics more useful than …
The following interviews with Matthew N. Lyons, author of Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire, provide important background to the realignment and convergence going on today, as well as for grasping the importance of persistent divisions and distinctions within both the ruling class and the …
Police violence, authoritarianism, and repression in the midst of a presidential election and pandemic. How are these threats connected and how can we take strategic action in the midst of them? Join the discussion with Rachel Herzing, Matthew N. Lyons, and Hilary Moore. WHEN: Tuesday, September 29, 5:30-6:45 PT / …