Windi Earthworm was an institution of the radical anglo left in 1980s Montreal. A crossdressing openly gay street musician who took it upon himself to educate the public about the Vancouver 5, the genocide of Indigenous peoples, the destruction of nature, and the miseries of life under capitalism, Windi was
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Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Marx and Philiosophy review of Turning Money Into Rebellion, by Joshua Moufawad-Paul
At the end of the 1980s five men robbed a cash-in-transit vehicle in Copenhagen, stealing over thirteen million crowns. The subsequent investigation led to the discovery of an apartment in the district of Blekingegade that contained: ‘crystal radio receivers, transmitters, and antennas; masks, false beards, and state-of-the-art replicas of police
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So we’re somewhere, can’t even agree on how to characterize where, but what we do agree on is we want to get out. There’s paths leading in all directions, and we can only see so far down each. Some we know are dead ends, some we know are worse. But
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: How come so many UK leftists are Trots?
In Terry Bisson’s interview with Ken MacLeod in The Human Front (PM Press, 2013), there’s this great answer to Bisson’s question “How come so many UK leftists are Trots?” : Short answer: because Trotskyists in Britain moved fast on the CP’s crisis in the 1950s, and moved with the times
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Banksy in Boston: FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS CANCELLED, Essex St, Chinatown, Boston by Chris Devers
Interestingly, both of the Boston area Banksy pieces are on Essex St:• F?O?L?L?O?W? ?Y?O?U?R? ?D?R?E?A?M?S? CANCELLED (aka chimney sweep) in Chinatown, Boston on the main Kersplebedeb website: http://ift.tt/1qXXiI5
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: NYS Parole Board’s War Against Political Prisoner Jalil Muntaqim
New York State Political Prisoner Jalil Muntaqim was recently denied parole for the 8th time by the New York State Parole Board. Jalil first became eligible for parole in 2002, and has been denied parole from that time to the present. At this point there is no longer a need
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Solidarity with Bobette!
At the last May Day protest, police repression was brutal and a lot of protesters were hurt. Bobette was specifically targeted by the SPVM because of her political activities; they physically attacked her and psychologically harassed her. You can read a summary of what happened to Bobette on May Day
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Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States
The Struggle Within is an accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer about how mass imprisonment has been a tool of repression deployed against diverse left-wing social movements over the last fifty years. Berger examines some of the most dynamic social movements across half a century: black liberation, Puerto Rican independence, Native
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: New Webstore at Leftwingbooks.net!
It is with great pleasure that i can tell you that leftwingbooks.net — the webstore associated with kersplebedeb — has been completely overhauled. For the longest time, the previous shopping cart system was giving my grief. It was not flexible enough, and was not able to be tweaked and modified
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Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Islamophobic Attacks in Montreal: The Need for a Militant Movement Against Racism
On April 8, two Islamophobic attacks were carried out in Montreal. In the first case, in the early morning hours, an axe was thrown through a window the Centre communautaire islamique Assahaba with the words “Fuck Liberals” and “we will exterminate Muslims” written on it. Then, later that day, someone
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Leading IISH collections made available online Announcement, IISH, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Starting today, dozens of the IISH’s leading archives are fully available to view free of charge via the institute’s catalogue. Celebrated collections can now be studied from anywhere in the world, including the papers of Pieter Jelles Troelstra and Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, Lev Trotsky, the German Social Democrat politicians Eduard
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Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Support the Tyendinaga Arrestees!
Urgent need for money to cover legal fees for Tyendinaga Warriors. On March 8, following a week of action demanding a national inquiry into the at least 825 missing and murdered indigenous women across Canada, warriors from Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory blocked the CN mainline. This action, which fell on International
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Countering Colonization (and other great books)
So University of California Press has just made 700 of its books available for online reading (to read on a tablet you have to copy paste into some other program and do some conversions). One of these titles, which i can’t recommend highly enough, is Carol Devens’s Countering Colonization: Native
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Blogroll Overhauled
Letting you all know, the Kersplebedeb blogroll has been fixed and is now up and running. Dozens of blogs and other websites are indexed and will have their articles automatically listed. The godawful wait time that the blogroll has had for the past year – up to several minutes to
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: 20% Off at Leftwingbooks.net — AND THEN VACATION
So here’s the deal: until January 17th (next Friday), everything at leftwingbooks.net is 20% off, so long as you order $10 or more. This discount can be used as many times as you like, even on items that are already discounted. (Tho it cannot be extended to stores who already
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