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• The Perils of 'Dropping Knowledge': Dr. Aziz Choudry interviewed by Erika Massoud j. stephanie pasvankias
  Dr. Aziz Choudry interviewed by Erika Massoud Summary: Based on shared interests around social justice activism and research, our conversation focused on navigating the tensions, challenges, and contradictions of activist research in academia.

• '1968' and all that: Left legacies and the counter culture of remembrance j. stephanie pasvankias
  There is an old saw about the so-called swinging sixties: if you can remember it you weren’t there. This  has the rather interesting corollary that if you were’nt there, if you have to consult the archive  or rely on second h...

• Shakespeare in the Age of the Tyrant JJ Amaworo Wilson
  Stephen Greenblatt's new book, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power, is a timely tome. As Greenblatt well knows, we're living in an age of ruthless strongmen. The world's recent and lamentable swing to the right is embodied by all-powerful authoritarians.

• Working Class Heroes project Mat Callahan
  Dear Friends: Two important items this month. First, progress with Songs of Slavery and Emancipation. Second, progress with a new project: Working Class Heroes.

• ON THE OTHER SIDE OF OUTRAGE: MOHAMMAD HAMAD AND HOPE Susie Day
  I wanted to talk to Mohammad Hamad because, in the midst celebrating Gay Pride, it may be time to look at some of our prejudices.... 

• TRUMP, LYNCH, AND WHO WE CALL ANIMALS: A SAFETY ALERT Susie Day
  Did you hear Trump call undocumented immigrants animals? It's stirring up – rightly – a lot of concern. Among humans, "animal" is the essential, go-to word to deprive people of their humanity. It's the permission some people ...

• The Day the Black Panthers Came to Town (with Tupac Shakur's Step-Uncle) Kenneth Wishnia
  In March 1970, Jean Genet, the radical French author, lifelong rebel and supporter of deviant causes, began touring US college campuses known for their activism with members of the Black Panther Party, hoping to win support for the Black Panthe...

• Human Flow: a film by Ai WeiWei JJ Amaworo Wilson
  For a film with ‘flow’ in its title, the only surprise in this superlative documentary is that the most powerful images are those of stillness. An old refugee woman sits incongruously on a bench in the middle of nowhere. A young man...

• Israel & The Labour Party - A Love Story Leon Rosselson
  In my last blog I suggested that Israel’s staunch supporters are infected with a brain disease called Zionusitis. It was, of course, a joke. Or maybe it wasn’t. Since then, there has been another enactment of the absurdist farce ca...

• The Federation of Revolutionary Socialists "International" (F.R.S.I.) Gabriel Kuhn
  New book portrays a short-lived organization of “council communists, left radicals, syndicalists, and anarchists” in post-World War I Austria.

• HERMAN BELL AND THE FUTURE OF NEW YORK PAROLE Susie Day
  Only a couple of years ago, the New York State Parole Board was a draconian gimmick to keep people in prison – regardless of how they had grown and changed over their years inside – until they died of systemic abuse or neglect or, if t...

• The Center Falls Out:[1] The Role of the Faculty in the Columbia Strike Richard Greeman
  The Center Falls Out:[1] The Role of the Faculty in the Columbia StrikeBy Richard Greeman Most of us who teach English, Philosophy, or History of foreign languages to Columbia College undergraduates have our offices and classrooms in Ham...

• Fifty Years After: The Sixties in historical perspective Richard Greeman
  Nineteen sixty-eight (sigh!)… What a wonderful year that was! Rebellions breaking out all over the f–king place. From Paris to Prague, from Berkeley to Berlin, from Mexico City to Chicago -- in the ghetto, on the campus, in the jungle...

• 1968: 'What Did You Do in the Columbia War, Dad?' Richard Greeman
  Jenny: So, Dad, the 50th  Reunion of the Columbia University Strike is coming up, and it’s all over the papers again. A book of reminicences has just been reviewed in the Times, and the Columbia library is holding a three-day conferen...

• On and On Do They Imprison the Strong Jon Curley
  The dynamic power of so many prison memoirs, acounts, and anecdotes is paradoxically reliant on the monotony and stasis of the prison environment. The fertile conscience keeps mobile despite the body forced to be stuck and remote.

• Disney Labor Unions Announce $15 Living Wage Campaign for Anaheim Resort Gabriel San Roman
  The banquet hall of the Sheraton Park Hotel in Anaheim overflowed with hundreds of Disneyland Resort workers. They gathered last night to hear the findings of “Working for the Mouse,” an Occidental College and Economic Roundtable s...

• #MeToo Behind Bars: When the Sexual Assaulter Holds the Keys to Your Cell Vikki Law
  In January, Strawberry Hampton, a trans woman incarcerated in Illinois, settled a lawsuit about repeated sexual and physical abuse she'd experienced by prison staff in the state's men's prisons. What she endured isn't limited to Illinois prison...

• Review of "Extracting Profit: Imperialism, Neoliberalism, and the New Scramble for Africa" by Lee Wengraf JJ Amaworo Wilson
  Here's a quote from the Berlin Conference of 1885, in which the European powers set out their goals for Africa:"... all the powers bind themselves to watch over the preservation of the native tribes, and to care for the improvement of the con...

• Insurgent Supremacists -- a new book about the U.S. far right Matthew Lyons
  My book Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire is due out this May and is being published jointly by Kersplebedeb Publishing and PM Press. I want to highlight some of what’s distinctive about this b...

• Thoughts on Creative Writing and Highway Hymn G.H. Mosson
  Reflecting on the creative writing process, this blog muses a bit about creativity and ends with a poem.

• PEN America announces Writing for Justice Fellowship JJ Amaworo Wilson
  PEN America has run a prison writing program for over forty years. The program provides mentors, free resources and an audience for the incarcerated. This program benefits the prisoners, who get a chance to reflect on their lives through the wr...

• HERMAN BELL GAINS PAROLE: CUOMO AND DE BLASIO LOSE ETHICS Susie Day
  Dear Bill De Blasio and Andrew Cuomo,      You, as governor and mayor – New York State's most powerful liberals – have argued constantly. I, along with millions of NY civilians, have endured years of your snark-att...

• Standing with Kurdish Comrades of Mesopotamia Publishing House j. stephanie pasvankias
  Radical publishers Pluto Press have put out a statement standing in solidarity with Mesopotamia Publishing House (Mezopotamien Verlag) in Neuss City, Germany, whose offices were raided by the police on March 8. We here at PM Press are amplifying...

• Against "Rigid Radicalism" Gabriel Kuhn
  A review of Nick Montgomery and carla bergman's "Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times".

• Uncovering a C.L.R. James treasure trove Paul Buhle
  By Paul BuhleOriginally posted on Socialist WorkerMarch 19th, 2018

• Anarchism and Autonomous Marxism Gabriel Kuhn
  A review of Kevin Van Meter's "Guerrillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible".

• Guilty of running like an Italian? Vilified Vanzetti! Jon Curley
  With this week's publication of Bartolomeo Vanzetti's EVENTS AND VICTIMS, I wish to share more pcis and history regarding our courageous, imaginative, and murdered author. Here are photographs taken yesterday in afternoon in my hometown of Bridgew...

• Efforts to Decrease Prison Populations Are Leaving Women Behind Vikki Law
  By Vikki LawOriginally published on TruthoutFebruary 07, 2018Anastazia Schmid has spent the past 17 years behind bars in Indiana. During that time, she's seen firsthand the impacts of changes and trends within the state's prison system -- and th...

• After Wakanda- 5 Black Sci-Fi Writers You Should Know Vikki Law
  Originally posted on BitchFebruary 26th, 2018 This story was originally published on October 30, 2014. It’s time to stock up your bedside table with titles by Black women authors who you can spend the next 11 months reading. Here’s m...

• Ankara, Turkey: Trash Collectors Salvage Books, Open Library JJ Amaworo Wilson
  Trash collectors in Ankara, Turkey, salvaged so many discarded books that they decided to open a library.

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