An excerpt from Loic Wacquant’s Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity (Duke University Press 2009), pages 59-73: The Gaols of the Subproletariat: An Experimental Verification It suffices, to discern the extrapenological functions served by the outsized extension of the US carceral apparatus even as crime plummeted for …
Monday, April 8, 2013 Contact:   Kali Akuno404.567.5938kaliakuno@mxgm.org For Immediate Release: New Annual Report reveals that 313 Black People were killed in 2012, averaging one every 28 hours. Every 28 hours in 2012 someone employed or protected by the US government killed a Black man, woman, or child! This startling fact …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
“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, 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 …