When i picked up a copy of Caliban and the Witch back in 2005, it was one of the most exciting books i had read all year. In many ways similar to Maria Mies’ Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale, Caliban and the Witch focuses much more on Europe, while …
Short Collective Biography of Action Directe Prisoners Joëlle Aubron, July 1996 available from leftwingbooks.net We, members of Action Directe, have been incarcerated since February 1987. When the four of us were arrested it became a symbol for the government of its fight against the guerilla on this territory. It brought …
Resistance is a Duty! Jean Marc Rouillan, January 27th 2000 available from leftwingbooks.net The death penalty still exists inside French prisons. It is true that the condemned no longer have their heads chopped off. That bloody spectacle was too obscene for the tragicomedy of our asceptic societies. And yet today …
Political Prisoners and the Question of Violence June 19th 1998 – Joëlle Aubron, Nathalie Ménigon, Jean-Marc Rouillan available from leftwingbooks.net “There is no revolution without violence. Those who don’t accept violence can cross out the word revolution from their dictionary.” -Malcolm X Working to free political prisoners is not a …
The Vancouver 5: armed struggle in Canada by Jim Campbell available from leftwingbooks.net Linking anarchism to deliberate acts of violence might seem very natural to most people if they think about anarchism at all. But for most younger anarchists, it must be difficult to imagine that in the early 1980s, …
An Interview with Joelle Aubron Born in 1959, Joelle Aubron is a former Action Directe political prisoner. Action Directe (AD) was a communist guerilla organization active in France in the 1980s. AD grew out of the French autonomist scene, drew heavy inspiration from both the struggles of the Third World …
“I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to talk about the fact that we cannot educate for critical consciousness if we have a group of people who cannot access Fanon, Cabral, or Audre Lorde because they …
Sanyika Shakur There has been some dialogue generated recently that has come to focus on the way the New Afrikan Independence Movement (NAIM) uses certain spellings, particular words, phrases and slogans to distinguish, apply energy, weight and clarity to the ongoing and ever-increasing need for sharper, more critical, words of …
The struggle against fascism is a widely accepted part of the revolutionary struggle, but even the most radical activists often sound like liberals when explaining the hows and whys of anti-fascism. Or else use the word in such a way that it has only a vague meaning as something very …
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