With racism becoming more intense in the US and the Canadian state, there are signs that some young activists are taking anti-racism more seriously than was the case in the recent past. Searching for analysis that helps us understand racism so we can fight it more effectively is part of …
Torture and Neo-Liberalism with Sycorax in Iraq by Peter Linebaugh CounterPunch, Nov 27, 2004 The new U.S. Attorney General, Alberto Gonzalez, disregarded torture in his infamous, post 9/11 memorandum to Bush: “In my judgment, this new paradigm [the ‘war on terrorism’] renders obsolete Geneva’s strict limitations on questioning of enemy …
No Surrender: Writings from an Doing Time for Political Crime Paul and Silas, Bound in Jail Peter Linebaugh Counterpunch, August 5th 2004 Dave Gilbert, serving a life-sentence in New York, has just come out with an important, wonderful book, No Surrender: Writings from an anti-imperialist political prisoner, and Staughton Lynd, …
The arcane of reproductive production Aufheben #13 Introduction One of the main contentions at the core of Autonomist Marxism is that all human activity in either the sphere of production or in circulation and reproduction is potentially productive, that is, can contribute to the valorisation of capital. The work of …
No, this isn’t a joke. This current of questioning has quietly been drifting around the different island shoals of white radicalism for some time. Finally, someone has pushed it out into print, where it can be judged. That someone is James Murray, an anarchist who proudly proclaims himself a gun-bearing …
Women’s manifesto: From the housewives’ trade union Santa Fe, Argentina Off Our Backs, Mar/Apr 2002 The people of Argentina have undergone severe economic and political shocks in the past few months. The government has frozen all bank accounts and people cannot withdraw their money. This is particularly severe in …
Women and the prison industrial complex by Val Codd Off Our Backs, Feb 2001 The U.S. war on drugs has become a war on women, specifically women of color. According to a Department of Justice Report, since federal drug laws ushered in mandatory sentencing in 1986, the incarceration rate for …
Femicide Made in Mexico by Corie Osborn Off Our Backs March/April 2004 For the past decade, a sexual genocide has raged virtually unnoticed in Juarez, the largest city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Approximately 370 women have been found murdered in the State of Chihuahua over the past decade, …
Interview: Juarez Mother Counters Violence with Activism by Corie Osborn Off Our Backs, Mar/Apr 2004 Norma Andrade is advocating on behalf of her daughter Lilia Alejandra Garcia Andrade and hundreds of other young women who have been found murdered in Ciudad Juarez in the past ten years. Andrade has been …
Women Who Found A Way Creating a Women’s Language by Christie K K Leung Off Our Backs, Nov/Dec 2003 In ancient China, women were excluded from any standard education. Education of a man was a very good investment that would be rewarded if one day this man became a government …