Periodically, Turning the Tide prints first-person accounts of the way the contradictions of racism and privilege, identification with and opposition to the empire, and conflicting “racial” identifications play out in people’s real life experiences. We are printing in this issue such an account of the emotional and political impact on …
Palestinian Political Prisoners July 2003 “It would be better to drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if possible, since that’s the lowest point in the world.” – Avigdor Lieberman , Israeli Transport Minister [1] Frequently Asked Questions: 1.  How many Palestinian prisoners are there? As of July 8, 2003, …
Imperialism and the Criminalization of the Palestinian People: An Anarchist Analysis By Carol Baker and Shawn O’ Hern Onward Newspaper, a source of “Anarchist News, Opinion, Theory and Strategy  for Today” As organizers with Richmond Food not Bombs, we have facts on hand when discussing the politics of Food not …
AFGHAN BOOMERANG America’s nurture of militant Islam and the miscalculations of Osama Bin Laden Challenge Special Supplement November 9, 2001 by Yacov Ben Efrat Introduction: Made by the USA Until recently, the name “Afghanistan” had an exotic ring to many, but not to US policy-makers. For a decade (1979-1989) they …
Behind the twenty-first century Intifada from Aufheben #10, September 2001 Introduction As we go to press, the USA is making a serious effort to salvage the Oslo ‘peace process’, as a central part of their strategy to mobilize and impose a unity on the world bourgeoisie behind ‘the war on …
your honor since i’ve been convicted of murder and have taken time to digest just what that means after noting what it means to my family and how it affects people who read the newspapers and all i see now that i’ve made a terrible mistake! and didn’t approach this …
Kuwasi Balagoon New Afrikan Anarchist Revolutionary December 22, 1946 – December 13, 1986 available from leftwingbooks.net “Without freedom, there isn’t any big deal in living since to accept fascism is to forfeit life.” Kuwasi Balagoon was a defendant in the Panther 21 case in the late sixties, and a member of the …
If they were going to kill my brother… by Standing Deer April 24, 1999 “If we are to vent our righteous anger, let it be before they try to murder Mumia Abu-Jamal, not after.”Michael Parenti, Martin Luther King High School Berkeley, June 25, 1995 “We are at a point beyond …
The Vancouver Five (aka Direct Action) One of my more vivid childhood memories was a car trip somewhere or another when the news came on the radio that a Litton Industries factory where a component for the U.S.’s new Cruise missile was being made had been blown up by a …
Jalil Muntaqim was 19 years old when he was arrested. He is a former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. For the past 42 years, Jalil has been a political prisoner, and one of the New York Three (NY3), in retaliation for his activism in …