(Kersplebedeb Note: I received the following email from Mr Takei, who had just read the book Confronting Fascism that i co-published in the summer of 2002 (along with ARA Chicago and Arsenal magazine). I wrote back, suggesting that he may want to write a review for my site, and he …
This short booklet produced by Solidarity Publishing consists of an interview with J. Sakai, author of âSettlers, Mythology of the White Proletariatâ, a groundbreaking book for the North American left in the 80s. Predictably, most of the left misread the point of the book completely, using it to justify the …
Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body, and Primitive Accumulation Reviewed by Chris Carlsson LiP Magazine, June 21st 2005 I happen to live next to the Black Cat Collective, a self-described witch coven. Like most of us who have not stopped to investigate the idea of witchcraft, I have tended …
Improvised Weapons of the American Undergound by M. Daily As the reviewers always say, “This book isn’t for everyone!” But it is a home-brew classic, an early 1970s Right-Wing cousin to the much more famous Anarchist Cookbook. Its Arizona publisher claimed no authorship or copyright, insisting only that their book …
Witches of the ‘First International’ by Steven Colatrella Reviewing Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation; Silvia Federici [Autonomedia, Brooklyn, 2004] During the 16th and 17th century, hundreds of thousands of women were burned as witches across Europe. This holocaust, unprecedented in the history of any society …
What âinsuranceâ could you buy that would keep you safer than living in a world where people actually cared for each other? (page 260) Get the uzi! Some MAN i’d never met before handed this book to me at a meeting, and mumbled something about reviewing it. Lucky wimmin get …
Take the Rich Off Welfare, by Mark Zepezauer; 2004, South End Press, 184 pages pamphlet Reviewed by Tracy McLellan The heart of this book, a 2004 update originally published in 1996, is in its opening pages, where Zepezauer presents the fomulas upon which his rich analysis devolves. His method of …
FARC-EP and Colombia’s unfolding revolution Andy McInerneyWorkers World May 11, 2000 “FARC-EP: Historical Outline” International Commission of the FARC-EP, 2000. 146 pp. The United States government is preparing a massive escalation of its military intervention in Colombia. Colombia is already the third-biggest recipient of U.S. military aid in the world. …
Since my arrest in Philadelphia during the RNC I have been trying to read more about people who have lived and endured incredible sacrifices in hopes of contributing to revolutionary social change. It has really allowed me to put my situation in perspective, and gain a lot of strength to …
reviewed in Antidote #3 by S. Rosedale “For much of the U.S. left, fascism is little more than an epithet – simply another way to say ‘bad’ or ‘very bad’ applied loosely to quite different social movements as well as to various aspects and elements of capitalist reaction. But for …