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Your Li'l Orange President: NOT Fake News! Susie Day
Congratulations, smart American shopper! You have just overcome months of electorally induced PTSD by purchasing a Li'l Orange President®! These droll, five-inch-high orange neo-fascist dudes are living genetic replicas of our current U.S...

Loving the Library (Play List) G.H. Mosson
Becoming a Dad, I found my way back to libraries. My local libraries is hip to technology yet old school quiet and great. How wealthy we are as a people with these shared and cherished resources. Check out my library story and some recommend...

IN BETWEEN WHAT? Leon Rosselson
In Between is an Israeli film written and directed by a Palestinian Israeli, Maysaloun Hamoud. She describes it as ‘an authentic picture of a kind of invisible life that we live here (i.e. in Israel) as a younger generation of Palestinian...

"Hatred and Pity": James Baldwin in "I Am Not Your Negro" JJ Amaworo Wilson
Anyone interested in race and civil rights needs to see this film. It's based on thirty pages of notes compiled by James Baldwin for a book about the most famous of the slain martyrs of the Civil Rights movement: Martin Luther King, Malcolm X...

Anarchists, Maoists, and Anti-Imperialism Gabriel Kuhn
An interview with the anarchist journal Freedom.

Herman Bell's Beat-Down Susie Day
"Why don't you Americans drop the bullshit about the land of the free and the home of the brave? Admit you're now basically a tinpot dictatorship." This, from my playwright friend Diane in London, with whom I'm Skyping. I've ju...

Put Down Roots with Interference Archive j. stephanie pasvankias
Interference Archive is moving, building, and growing—and we really need your support to make our new, long-term home a reality

Welcome to the Witch Hunt Leon Rosselson
My local Labour controlled council has just voted, like other councils, as well as universities and the UK government, to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism. This consists of a rather loose basic ...

The revolutionary moment Noel Ignatiev
when subordinated individuals become subjects

Social Democracy, Bernie Sanders, and the Options of the Radical Left Gabriel Kuhn
An interview with members of the Black Rose Anarchist Federation/Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra.

Peter Kuper's eerily prescient comic from 27 years ago j. stephanie pasvankias
Peter Kuper's eerily prescient comic that presaged the current administration, originally posted in Heavy Metal magazine, 27 years ago. It has also been republished in color in Peter's book Drawn to New York: An Illustrated Chronicle of Three Deca...

Assembling your thanks-Mom-and-Dad-I'm-off-to-college playlist Randal Doane
In a matter of days, you’re off to college. Congratulations. It’s a big transition — the biggest in your life so far, I’m willing to bet, and will remain so unless you reproduce or adopt. (Odds are you’...

Rasmea and Oscar: Resisting the Criminalization of Freedom Fighting Diana Block
On May 18, 2017 Oscar López Rivera was welcomed by a large and loving crowd in Chicago’s Paseo Boricua after 35 years of imprisonment for the “crime” of supporting Puerto Rican independence.

Rainbow Coalition or Class War Noel Ignatiev
A new People's Party

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.

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