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• ME, GEORGES BRASSENS & THE LAST CHANCE. A shaggy dog story. Leon Rosselson
  My first solo recording was in 1962, an ep for Topic Records called Songs for City Squares. It wasn’t my choice of title. I followed that up with an LP called Songs for Sceptical Circles. What next? Songs for Truculent Triangles? Songs for Q...

• Failed States Rather Than Puppet Regimes Gabriel Kuhn
  A review of Dan Glazebrook’s "Divide and Ruin: The West’s Imperial Strategy in an Age of Crisis".

• The Ghosts of 9-1-1: Reflections on History, Justice and Roosting Chickens* j. stephanie pasvankias
  “The Ghosts of 9-1-1” is the fully developed version of “Some People Push Back,” my gut-reaction to the spectacular attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center carried out by al-Qaida on September 11, 2001. T

• Forty Years Later, Can Punk Still Provoke? Randal Doane
  P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In 1977, punk took hold on both sides of the Atlantic. For guttersnipes from Los Angeles to Amsterdam, the spring sortie from The Clash rang clear: “No Elvis, Beatles, or The Rolling Stones / In 1977”

• Karl Marx reflects on the Subject of Confederation Mark Leier
  Deep in the archives of the Society for the History of Anarchism and Marxism, (SHAM) I discovered a hitherto unknown letter from Karl Marx to Friedrich Engels. Dated 21 July 1867, the bulk of the letter is a reaction to the confederation of Canada...

• A Spirit of Militancy Gabriel Kuhn
  A review of "Urban Revolt: State Power and the Rise of People’s Movements in the Global South".

• In NAFTA talk, uncertainty reigns for suppliers and manufacturers j. stephanie pasvankias
  The first round of talks to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) ended Aug. 20 in Washington, D.C. Round two of negotiations is set for Sept. 1-5 in Mexico City. What is at stake for U.S. supply chains and manufacturers?

• The NAFTA Consensus j. stephanie pasvankias
  By Richard Roman/Edur Velasco ArreguiOriginally posted in JacobinThe North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) talks started on August 16 with very little of the fire and fury Donald Trump had promised during his campaign. His pledge to abolis...

• Pacifism as Pathology in Essential Reading: Charlottesville j. stephanie pasvankias
  Your Lit Review hosts Monica Trinidad & Page May have compiled some essential reading homework in light of recent events in Charlottesville. We must remember that the roots of white supremacy are deep, and our ancestors have fought them from d...

• NLG Book Review: A Tilted Guide to Being a Defendant Kris Hermes
  A Tilted Guide to Being a Defendant was written for those political defendants and their supporters who want to stop the state from “[using] criminal charges to dismantle, destroy, and neutralize radical movements.” The Tilted Scale...

• Too Much Trumpery Leon Rosselson
  Another headline featuring Donald Trump’s antics. Another email from Daily Action asking me to express my opposition to the latest example of Trump buffoonery. Another sombre article by the Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland warning us ...

• Such Great Heights: Icarus and American Democracy Randal Doane
  If you love cycling, amateur sports, or democracy, check out Icarus (2017), a Netflix documentary with a cumulative rottentomatoes.com score as high as Citizen Kane’s.Here’s the hook: filmmaker and amateur cyclist Bryan Fogel rides th...

• Identifying the Enemy Gabriel Kuhn
  A review of Alexander Reid Ross's "Against the Fascist Creep".

• "I don't give refunds." Eye-popping interviews with writers: PEN America Journal 2017 JJ Amaworo Wilson
  Being black in America ...Walter Mosley: "It's hard to feel nostalgic, being black in America. It's not that you don't like it, or remember it, it's just hard to feel nostalgic for it. "I miss those times when they used to lynch us,"...;

• Power to the Community: The Black Panthers' Living Legacy of Grassroots Organization John P. Clark
  This article is a re-examination of the legacy of the Black Panther Party and an argument for the crucial place of that legacy in our continuing struggle for a free, radically democratic, community-based, ecological society. It was previously post...

• The Social Democratic Assassin Gabriel Kuhn
  Vienna press Promedia has republished the transcripts from the trial against Friedrich Adler, who shot and killed Austrian minister-president Karl Graf Stürgkh in October 1916.

• What I Do: Words about Editing (and Reading and Living) by Chris Dodge Steven
  Meditations from a freelance editor, indexer, proofreader, and frequent PM freelancer.

• The 'Secret' Anarchist Punk History Of Chumbawamba's Hit Song 'Tubthumping' j. stephanie pasvankias
  originally posted on Junkee"...The gamble had worked. Chumbawamba, a collective of anarchists fifteen years deep into a strange career, briefly held the world’s attention — and they made decisive, bold use of it to champion...

• To Praise Ginger Goodwin Is to Revere a Radical Mark Leier
  Albert "Ginger" Goodwin was active in the coal mining unions of Glace Bay, Nova Scotia and Vancouver Island. Blacklisted from the Island mines after the strike of 1912-14, Goodwin went to Trail to organize smelter workers at Cominco i...

• Ecological Thinking and the Crisis of the Earth John P. Clark
  If a visitor from another galaxy were sent to Earth to report on the latest news here, it seems rather obvious what the alien observer would take back to the home planet. Our extraterrestrial investigator would certainly report that our planet is ...

• A New Class Politics Gabriel Kuhn
  Class is back on the agenda of the European left. That is good news. The reasons, however, are unfortunate.

• RIP Liu Xiaobo, 1955-2017 JJ Amaworo Wilson
  Chinese poet, essayist and activist Liu Xiaobo has died while in custody. Xiaobo was President of the Independent Chinese PEN Center, and in this role he supported writers all over the world in their struggles against tyranny. His death from ca...

• The Power of Song Leon Rosselson
  Some decades ago, I went to see a Sunday morning Socialist Film Co-op showing of a film about the Wobblies at the Renoir in London. In the discussion afterwards, Tony Benn voiced this criticism: the problem with the Wobblies, he said, was that...

• From She to Sheena: can modern audiences ignore the jungle queen's racist roots? Gary Phillips
  A scantily-clad white woman ruling over black men titillated Victorian readers and minted an archetype still used in comics, novels and movies. But should it be?

• A Critical Introduction to Bookchin's Theses on Libertarian Municipalism John P. Clark
  This text was written as a preface for the new edition of “Pour un municipalisme libertaire,” the French translation of “Theses on Libertarian Municipalism,” published by the Atelier de Création Libertaire in Lyon.&n...;

• The Fortress World of Capitalism vs. the Beautiful Possibilities of Cooperation Cynthia Kaufman
  Our beloved world is entering an increasingly unstable period, full of dangers and also full of possibilities. In many countries, old political parties are crumbling faster and anyone thought imaginable. Old geopolitical alliances have come ung...

• Between Capital and Volk Gabriel Kuhn
  Germany's AfD poses as a defender of the "common man," but seeks to impose an authoritarian form of neoliberalism.

• Spitboy Rule Author, Michelle Cruz Gonzales Featured in Green Day Produced Documentary Michelle Cruz Gonzales
  I was interviewed for Turn it Around: Story of East Bay Punk in 2014. I never worried that the movie wouldn’t see the light of day because if there’s someone you can have faith in, it’s the director, Corbett Redford, but I did wo...

• Another Sun Is Possible: Solstice Reflections John P. Clark
  The Solstice is about the power of nature, and focuses specifically on the power of the Sun, the major source of life on Earth, and on the relationship between this Great Source and all the changes and cycles of life on the planet. 

• "Rad Women Worldwide" - by Kate Schatz, illustrated by Miriam Klein Stahl JJ Amaworo Wilson
  I'm reading Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History with my 8-year-old son, who won it in a raffle. It's awesome.

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