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Kersplebedeb Newsletter Overhaul

As part of the ongoing overhaul of the Kersplebedeb site, i have switched newsletter service. From now on, newsletters will have a slightly simpler format, be composed primarily of recent posts on Kersplebedeb, and will (hopefully!) occur far more often! (No need to worry, though – even at “far more …

Talking Nonsense Solves No Problems: Reply to an Open Response Letter Allegedly Written by the Amazons-August Collective and NAPLA to the New Afrikan Black Panther Party

I recently received an “open letter” purporting to be from the Amazons-August 3rd Collective (AA3) and New Afrikan Peoples Liberation Army (NAPLA), which claims to respond to an article I wrote elaborating the New Afrikan Black Panther Party-Prison Chapter’s (NABPP-PC) line on New Afrikan Liberation. ((My article “Black Liberation in …

Older Stuff

As you have certainly noticed, the Kersplebedeb website is being overhauled, migrated to wordpress, and hopefully made a lot more spiffy and user-friendly. In the meantime, you may prefer to visit the older site – either because it is what you are used to, or simply because the content you …

The Reverse Nuremberg Defense, Or The Robot Defense

Sanyika Shakur 6–28–47* After the second imperialist war, in which the u.s., France and Britain smashed on Italy, Japan and Germany, the victors put on a show trial in Nuremberg, Germany, where a clutch of Nazi functionaries were tried for war crimes, convicted and subsequently hanged or shot. (To be …

Library

The Kersplebedeb Library page is a list of links, on site and off, to texts and articles that are useful. Needless to say, for such a list to be of use the opinions do not all fall in one straight line, and it would be impossible for anyone to agree …

The Shock of Recognition (J. Sakai)

“Fascism has shown that it can gather mass support. In many nations the far right, including fascism, has become a popular oppositional force to the new globalized imperialism. In many countries the far right has replaced the left as the main political opposition . It doesn’t get more critical than …

David Gilbert, Political Prisoner

David Gilbert, a longtime anti-racist and anti-imperialist, first became active in the Civil Rights movement in 1961. In 1965, he started the Vietnam Committee at Columbia University; in 1967 he co-authored the first Students for a Democratic Society pamphlet naming the system “imperialism”; and he was active in the Columbia …

The Prison System and Its Historical Context

The apparatus of the state—in particular the courts and legal system—are in the hands of the class that is dominate in the economic relations of society. The state is never natural: It is always an instrument for protecting and preserving the existing system.” Bob Avakian, Democracy: Can’t We Do Better …