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My dream Noel Ignatiev
Sparked by a telephone conversation

Op-ed: Recently disclosed DNC insurance policy shows law enforcement's contempt for protest Kris Hermes
With much less fanfare than it received before the Democratic National Convention, the insurance policy protecting Philadelphia police from liability against a host of rights violations perpetrated against protesters was finally obtained ...

THE MAD ACTIVIST REFRAINS FROM ASSASSINATING DONALD TRUMP Susie Day
Time to vote for our next president! Time to choose just the right person to lead our world's most militarily advanced superpower. That's why presidential elections should be nonviolent and fulfilling on a deep personal level! O whom, shall I choo...

Law Enforcement Uses StingRays To Spy On Americans And Lies About It Kris Hermes
With the rapid advancement of surveillance technology used by increasingly militaristic law enforcement, public policy and privacy protections have struggled to keep pace. In this relatively uncharted tech landscape, the state can easily and i...

The Most Important Publication of 2016 JJ Amaworo Wilson
Nope - it's not Karl Ove Knausgaard's Some Rain Must Fall or Annie Proulx's epic novel Barkskins or even Zero K by the master, Don DeLillo. It's not Postcapitalism by Paul Mason or Thomas Mallon's biography of George W. Bush, altho...

Entebbe Revisited Gabriel Kuhn
A new German book reexamines the infamous 1976 hijacking of an Air France plane to Entebbe, Uganda, and the alleged selection between Jewish and non-Jewish hostages.

David Bowie: Hunky Dory, Indeed Randal Doane
From ages thirteen to eighteen, I exchanged my every spare dollar for petroleum products: gas for the car, to get us to Tower Records and, of course, long-playing records. In the summer of 1987, I was eighteen years old and, with the August issue ...

National Museum of African American History Opens and African American Director Is Locked Out JJ Amaworo Wilson
This month sees the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, in Washington. The museum took 101 years to come to fruition. That’s not a typo. It was first suggested by African American Civil War veterans in 1...

Don’t Mourn, Organize…and Vote Cynthia Kaufman
Presidential elections are important. They are really important. If George Bush hadn’t been president, the US would not have bombed Iraq, ISIS would not exist. And yet around presidential election time, people get wrapped up in t...

Letters from Richard Greeman in France: Burkinis and Bombs Noel Ignatiev
from Richard Greeman

Introduction to CLR James, Modern Politics Noel Ignatiev
James's lectures in Trinidad

Introduction, The World View of CLR James Noel Ignatiev
A New Notion

Making beautiful things where everyone gains and no one profits Cynthia Kaufman
My friend Annette Aylward is trying to make a living as a crafts person. She makes beautiful handmade linen towels. She believes in craft. She loves to make these things. To make a living making handmade things woven out of linen she needs to char...

POLICE SHOOT ANOTHER RICH WHITE MAN Susie Day
Darien, CT – Only days before he was to enter Yale Law School, Trey Von Der Brown, 22, was mowed down behind the wheel of his powder-blue 2016 Mini Cooper convertible in a hail of police bullets.

Making Rights Work Cynthia Kaufman
Making Rights Work: A Review of "The Human Rights Enterprise" A few years ago, when California was going through a major budget crisis and money for education was being cut back dramatically, many students protesting the cuts claimed t...

A Nation of Prison Houses (Part 1) – Tallying the Damage Done Michael Ryan
If Tsarist Russia was “a prison house of nations,” the modern U.S. might be called “a nation of prison houses.”

RIP Elie Wiesel 1928-2016 JJ Amaworo Wilson
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” (Night) According to the Nobel Prize committee, who awarded him the Peace Prize in 1986, Elie Wiese...

Historiography and Armed Struggle Andre Moncourt
In a speech delivered in Amsterdam, in June, former RAF member Ron Augustin discusses the historiography of the RAF. In Ron's remarks one can discern the template for the historiography of First World left-wing guerilla groups in general. &n...;

New Interventions Pamphlet by Kris Hermes on Jail Solidarity in Upping the Anti Kris Hermes
Check out the advanced release of the New Interventions Pamphlet on Jail Solidarity by activist and PM Press author Kris Hermes set to appear in the latest issue of Upping the Anti.

The UK referendum on membership of the European Union and the Freedom of Speech Peter Marshall
I don't usually vote at the national level because there is no real choice between the existing parties. They are all committed to a national parliament and have top-down solutions. Voting only encourages career politicians; if it genuinely cha...

How many? Noel Ignatiev
Other voices

Babylon on the Hudson Kenneth Wishnia
I come from a family of New Yorkers. Three of my grandparents emigrated to the city from Poland and what is now Belarus and lived there most of their lives, the fourth was born there, and both of my parents were born and raised in Brookly...

Letters to Hillary... Susie Day
Dear Hillary Rodham Clinton, I am voting for you to be our first woman president because Sisterhood is Powerful, and who doesn't love power? For a woman to be accepted as "one of the boys," she has to be t...

Family of Slain Chilean Folk Singer Victor Jara Finally Get Their Date in US Court Gabriel San Roman
New details about the brutal murder of Victor Jara in the days following the September 11, 1973, military coup in Chile are finally emerging in a court of law. Pedro Barrientos Nuñez, a former army lieutenant under Chilean dictator Augus...

Higher Education Hits a New Low Michael Ryan
What happens when higher education becomes just another contested marketplace?

NYPD Discovers Trove of Spying Records Just Days After Historic Public Comment Period Ends Kris Hermes
Last week, the Municipal Archive of New York City found over one million “lost” pages—more than 520 boxes—documenting the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) surveillance and infiltration of political groups during ...

Gwangju 518 and the Future of Global Democracy George Katsiaficas
This is the acceptance speech George gave for the 2016 Kim Dae Jung Scholar's Prize for Contributions to Peace, Democracy and Human Rights on the Korean Peninsula

An End of Power? Cynthia Kaufman
We are entering a period where the social structures and mechanisms that have channeled and controlled power for the past few hundred years are shifting radically. In The End of Power, Venezuelan politician and former director of the World Bank...

De-Educating Society (Part 2): Squandering “Our Greatest Resource” Michael Ryan
Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children. Walt Disney

20 Years in the Making Noel Ignatiev
Received the following letter from my old friend and comrade, Ed Voci:

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