This post is mirrored from DemocracyNow.org. Outgoing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo used his final hours in office to grant clemency to six men, including former Weather Underground member David Gilbert, who was sentenced to 75 years to life in prison for his role in a 1981 robbery of an
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Kersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates August 24, 2021
If you send the updates to Clare Grady or Patrick O’Neill, please stop as they have been released! Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/updates-24-aug-2021.pdf NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Harm Reduction Guided by the Goal of the Abolition of Prisons and Capitalism: An interview with former Direct Action member and ex-prisoner Ann Hansen
The now closed P4W (Prison for Women) in Kingston, Ontario. Ann Hansen was imprisoned in 1983 for her involvement in the urban guerilla group Direct Action. She is the author of Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerilla and Taking the Rap: Women Doing Time for Society’s Crimes. She wrote
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Afghanistan: The End of the Occupation [AnneBonnyPirate.org]
The US Embassy in Kabul being evacuated. [This article was originally posted to the authors’ website, AnneBonnyPirate.org, on August 17, 2021] Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale A lot of nonsense about Afghanistan is being written in Britain and the United States. Most of this nonsense hides a number of important
Continue readingKersplebedeb: The Attica Liberation Faction Manifesto of Demands and Anti-Depression Platform, 1971 [mirrored from BlackAgendaReport.com]
Remembering the Attica prisoner demands as the 50th anniversary approaches. [This article was originally posted by Black Agenda Report on August 18, 2021. For more on the Attica Rebellion, check out the book A Time To Die: The Attica Prison Revolt. For audio with the words of participants and fellow
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Reflections about “On Necrocapitalism” – J. Moufawad-Paul
This piece was originally posted on Medium on August 15, 2021. On Necrocapitalism is available now from LeftWingBooks.net. Reflections about “On Necrocapitalism” J. Moufawad-Paul With the book version of On Necrocapitalism about to be released by Kersplebedeb, I felt it would be worth reflecting on my participation in this collective
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Torkil Lauesen on Social Democracy & Imperialism [Manifestering Podcast]
Torkil Lauesen—long-time anti-imperialist, former bankrobber, and author of The Principal Contradiction and The Global Perspective: Reflections on Imperialism and Resistance (both of which are on sale this month at LeftWingBooks.net!)—was on the Manifestering podcast recently to talk about his new book, Riding the Wave: Sweden’s Integration into the Imperialist World
Continue readingKersplebedeb: S1
From the archives: S1 was a revolutionary research journal which came out in the 1980s. S1.pdf
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates August 10, 2021
If you send the updates to Loren Reed, please stop as he has been released! Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/updates-10-aug-2021.pdf NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of war we support.
Continue readingKersplebedeb: China and the U.S. Left: A Dialogue Between Critical China Scholars and Spectre Journal
This exchange was originally posted on the Spectre Journal website on July 17, 2021 It is no secret that the US left is confused about how to respond to the rise of China. There is broad and justified opposition to Biden’s continuation of Trumpian efforts at containment, most obviously represented
Continue readingKersplebedeb: New Books Now in Stock at LeftWingBooks.net!
The Communist Road to Capitalism: How Social Unrest and Containment Have Pushed China’s (R)Evolution Since 1949 Intersectional Class Struggle: Theory and PracticeHolding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation Representing Radicals: A Guide for Lawyers and Movements The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State The
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Kevin Rashid Johnson — Transferred to Ohio and Facing Bogus Charges! [RashidMOD.com]
[Kevin “Rashid” Johnson has been imprisoned for over 30 years. His original conviction stemmed from lumpen activity, but he became a revolutionary New Afrikan early in his time inside. He is the author of Defying the Tomb (2010) and Panther Vision (2015), and the Minister of Defense for the Revolutionary
Continue readingKersplebedeb: The Birth, Meaning, and Practice Of Black August (Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, 2021)
[Kevin “Rashid” Johnson has been imprisoned for over 30 years. His original conviction stemmed from lumpen activity, but he became a revolutionary New Afrikan early in his time inside. He is the author of Defying the Tomb (2010) and Panther Vision (2015), and the Minister of Defense for the Revolutionary
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Seven Theses on the Three-Way Fight – Devin Zane Shaw [ThreeWayFight]
[This post was originally published on Three Way Fight: An Insurgent Blog on the Struggle Against the State and Fascism on August 1, 2021] By Devin Zane Shaw The seven theses I propose here were first published as part of a preface to T. Derbent’s German Communist Resistance 1933–1945, published
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Reflections on the Antisemitic Content in Öcalan’s The Sociology of Freedom [mirrored from social-ecology.org]
[Originally posted on the Institute for Social Ecology website.] The following reflection piece reflects the views of the signers and has not been endorsed by the Institute for Social Ecology as an organization. We are a group of leftist educators, scholars, and activists who support the Kurdish-led liberation struggle in
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Prisoners’ Justice Day 2021 in Montreal
[En français plus bas] VIGIL Prisoners’ Justice Day / Journée de la justice pour les détenu.e.s Tio’tia:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal August 10 2020 / le 10 août 2021 18h30-20h30 Parc Vinet (near CEDA) 550 Rue Vinet, Montréal, QC H3J 2L5 Metro Lionel-Groulx Join us in a public vigil to
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates July 27, 2021
NOTE: If you currently send the updates to Doug Wright, he has been moved: Douglas Wright #57973-060 FCI Gilmer Post Office Box 6000 Glenville, West Virginia 26351 If you send the updates to Wren and Acre, please stop as they have both been released! Here’s the latest compilation of every
Continue readingKersplebedeb: [CBC] Victims of communism memorial received donations honouring fascists, Nazi collaborators, according to website
Fundraiser says the list of names to be included on the monument has not been finalized Taylor C. Noakes · Originally posted on CBC News, Jul 23, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: July 23 The Memorial to the Victims of Communism under construction in Ottawa. (CBC/SRC OTTAWA A
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Decades of torture, hundreds of men, weeks of starvation – and still we aren’t free! [SFBayView, Nube Brown]
Paul Redd (PR) [Reposted from SFBayView.com. Originally published July 16, 2021.] Interview with Paul Redd and Ruben Jitu Williams by Editor Nube Brown This is my interview with two incredible men who represent hundreds of others who have survived the torture of decades of solitary confinement and psychological abuse in
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Review of Robyn Marasco’s “Reconsidering the Sexual Politics of Fascism” – Matthew N. Lyons, Three-Way Fight
[Originally posted to Three-Way Fight, an Insurgent Blog on the Struggle Against the State and Fascism.] By Matthew N Lyons | Wednesday, July 14, 2021 Memorial to Ashli Babbitt, killed during January 6 attack on U.S. Capitol Most critiques of the far right take women for granted. Either they ignore women entirely,
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