facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/846851065428443/ SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 26 AT 1PM PLACE EMILIE GAMELIN This Saturday, the fascist scum from PEGIDA are going to try for a second time to march in the streets of Montreal to promote their xenophobic and racist ideas. (https://www.facebook.com/events/1484657618497883/). There is reason to believe that PEGIDA will join the Silent March Against Bill
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Kersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Porn, Sex Positivity, and Working Class Solidarity
The UK’s gradually expanding porn law restrictions have been going on for years and eventually came to a climax the end of 2014, when previously existing restrictions were applied to all pornographic material made in the UK. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Porn, Sex
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: The Problem With College Educated Revolutionaries
There are many college-educated revolutionaries in cities and towns all through the United States. Whether they work at cafes, wash dishes, teach in public schools, or drive trains, they share the common experience of a college education. Read the rest of this post on the original site at The Problem
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Memorial/Celebration for Peter Collins in Montreal
(francais ci dessous) Memorial/Celebration for Peter Collins in Montreal When: September 25, 2015 at 7pm Where: QPIRG Concordia, 1500 de Maisonneuve Ouest, #204 A night to remember and celebrate Peter Collins, an activist, artist, and prisoner who died in prison on August 13, 2015. Come out to QPIRG-Concordia on September 25, 2015
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Chican@ Power and the Struggle for Aztlan Author: a MIM(Prisons) Study Group
From the Amerikan invasion and theft of Mexican lands, to present day migrants risking their lives to cross the U.$. border, the Chican@ nation has developed in a cauldron of national oppression and liberation struggles. This new book presents the history of the Chicano movement, exploring the colonialism and semi-colonialism
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Escaping the Prism … Fade to Black: Poetry and Essays by Jalil Muntaqim
Jalil Muntaqim is a former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. For over forty years, Jalil has been a political prisoner, and one of the New York Three (NY3), in retaliation for his political activism. Escaping the Prism … Fade to Black is a collection
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Dialectics, Contradictions, and the California Prisoners’ Hunger Strikes: An Interview with Chad Landrum
The following interview with California revolutionary prisoner Chad Landrum, a participant in the hunger strikes against isolation, and author of The Road Ahead and the Dialectics of Change, ws conducted with George Lavender in 2014. 1) You’re now several weeks into your hunger strike, how has it affected your health
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: San Quentin Six on the assassination of Hugo Pinell
San Quentin 6 defendants Fleeta Drumgo, Hugo Pinell, and David Johnson stage an impromptu sit-in at San Quentin in 1975 when trial jurors toured the prison Hugo Pinell was assassinated at new Folsom State Prison. this is another example of the racism people of color inside those prisons are confronted
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Marx & Philosophy Review of Books reviews Eurocentrism and the Communist Movement (JMP)
Biel provides convincing arguments as to how the failure of Marxist movements to divest themselves of a Eurocentric worldview is intimately connected to opportunism and mechanical materialism. The opportunist position of reform over revolution, or the peaceful existence with capitalism, was historically premised on the denial of struggles at the
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Hugo Yogi Pinell, Rest in Power
Hugo Yogi Pinell (from freedom archives) We are saddened by the news of Hugo Pinell’s death. Hugo Pinell always expressed a strong spirit of resistance. He worked tirelessly as an educator and activist to build racial solidarity inside of California’s prison system. Incarcerated in 1965, like so many others, Hugo
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Peter Collins, Rest In Power
h Peter Collins Peter Collins, our friend, brother and comrade in struggle passed away August 13, 2015 at 2am. He will always be remembered for his endless fight for justice, his sense of humour, his kind heart and his unwavering integrity. His contributions to changing the world we live in
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: it’s coming apart
this article touches on points related to the Neocolonialism and Noise thing i wrote a few days ago, and which i continue to think about Maybe the best thing to say is just that contemporary culture is complicated by a deep confusion about underdogs and bullies, that we can no
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Is China an Imperialist Country?
Whether or not China is now a capitalist-imperialist country is an issue on which there is some considerable disagreement, even within the revolutionary left. This book brings together theoretical, definitional and logical considerations, as well as the extensive empirical evidence which is now available, to demonstrate that China has indeed
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Neocolonialism and Noise
this image comes from an article in the mcgill daily dealing with some of the issues discussed here, but from the opposite direction, and drawing very different conclusions The world has changed over the past fifty years. There are different names for this change — neoliberalism, postmodernism, postfordism, globalization.
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Gerry Hannah on the Subhumans, Julie Belmas, and his solo album
It’s just that I’m really not that interested in playing punk rock anymore. I sometimes feel like punk rock, not necessarily the way the songs are supposed to go, but the way they end up going, live, for a lot of bands, in a lot of shows, they’re so fast
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Rally and Hearing for Deepan in Montreal!
(/français ci-dessous/) Rally and Hearing for Deepan in Montreal! https://www.facebook.com/events/128043434196127/ Monday, 13 July, 8am Immigration and Refugee Board, Guy Favreau Complex (200 René Lévesque Blvd.), Montreal Deepan Budlakoti, our comrade and friend, will soon be in Montreal to challenge his conditions of release at the Immigration and Refugee Board. Deepan
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Losing My Religion (by André Moncourt)
Recently one of those issues that arises constantly to tangle up leftists and liberals reared its head in my little world. Some folks (all of European decent) in a band I know were in the studio and someone proposed using an aburukuwa, a Ghanian drum, I am told, to get
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Terror Incognita
A useful series of musings on consent, seduction, and queerness in the realms of sex and politics; from the people at Crimethinc source: http://www.crimethinc.com/blog/2012/07/16/terror-incognita-now-online/
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Teaching women self-defence still the best way to reduce sexual assaults: study
The four-year study tracked nearly 900 women at three Canadian universities, randomly selecting half to take the 12-hour “resistance” program, and compared them to a second group who received only brochures, similar to those available at a health clinic. One year later, the incidence of reported rape among women who
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: 7 Fortune 500 companies with the most employees
http://fortune.com/2015/06/13/fortune-500-most-employees/
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