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The Weapon of Theory: A Maoist (Third Worldist) Reader

Members of the OnkwehĂłn:we Rising and Revolutionary Ecology editorial teams have recently worked with comrades from the u.s. Maoist Third Worldist movement to compile a collection of essays and shorter articles titled The Weapon of Theory: A Maoist (Third Worldist) Reader. The book can be downloaded here: http://onkwehonwerising.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/the-weapon-of-theory.pdf  

Huurdersstaking / Tenant strike protest by Nationaal Archief

Nationaal Archief / Spaarnestad Photo / Het Leven, SFA001003519 Een georganiseerde huurdersstaking in Amsterdam in de van Hogendorpstraat. Nederland, 1933. Collectie Spaarnestad Voor meer informatie en voor meer foto’s uit de collectie van Spaarnestad Photo, bezoek onze Beeldbank: www.spaarnestadphoto.nl/ U kunt ons helpen onze kennis van de fotocollecties te verrijken …

Drainville: Pompier Pyromane

  Some explanations, for those of you who do not read french, or are not from Quebec, are below. For those of you who do read french, and are from here, you should be able to get it without having to read further. As the below is an explanation of …

Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire

Texas reigns supreme in the punishment business. With 173,000 inmates and more than twice as many paid employees as Google, Texas’s prison system is the largest in the United States, outstripping even California, which has an overall population 50 percent larger. By almost any measure, Texas stands out. The state’s …

Michael Novick Reviews RAF Documentary Histories

The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History – Volume 1: Projectiles for the People (February 2009); Volume 2: Dancing with Imperialism (June 2013) Edited by J. Smith and AndrĂ© Moncourt, Published by PM Press and Kersplebedeb Volume 1, Forewords by Russell “Maroon” Shoats and Bill Dunne ISBN: 978-1-60486-029-0, Paperback, 736 …

Violence Sells… But Who’s Buying? [Alpine Anarchist]

This essay is a review of The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring to Occupy by Peter Gelderloos (Seattle: Left Bank Books, 2013) by Gabriel Kuhn; it first appeared on the Alpine Anarchist website. When, some months ago, I read on thegild.blogspot.se that Peter Gelderloos was among someone’s “favourite activist writers”, I wasn’t …

The Rock vol. 2 #9, September 2013

Editorial by Ed Mead “If we give in the terrorists win.” That is essentially what Secretary Beard told the mediation team. He said there will be no negotiations with prisoners or their outside representatives. I write this on August 4th, just four days before the hunger strike has gone on for a full month. Things may …

The Murder of Billy Sell

The above image is a self-portrait of Billy “Guero” Sell, hunger striker who died at Corcoran state prison on July 22, 2013. CDCR attempted to cover this up, not even informing prisoner advocates it met with in the following days that a death had occurred. When outside supporters were informed …

Artwork by Billy Sell

      The above drawings are by Billy Sell, who died on hunger strike on July 22nd after repeatedly requesting and being denied medical care. These drawings appeared in Prisoner Express (Anthology 8 and Anthology 9), a newsletter “To promote rehabilitation by offering inmates information, education, and the opportunity for …