Tag: Pocket

We received this summation of the Red Guards Austin collective and are publishing it with their permission.

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We are the Russian Maoist Party, the party of rednecks, dirty migrants, chicks and faggots. That is what the bourgeoisie named us. If only it were not half-blind and could tell us apart – us little, dumb, wicked inbreds.

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The FBI is under fire after Department of Justice court filings revealed agents operated a large child pornography site for two weeks in 2015. The FBI originally hacked the site, called Playpen, to identify visitors.

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See an intro to this piece and an update on We’re Hir We’re Queer here. Who is Out of the Flames of Ferguson (OOTFF)?  How did you all get together?  What are your politics and what kind of work do you all do?

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This article is based on some of the research that I have conducted over the past two years on women’s activism in Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan, from independence until the Arab uprisings. I collected over one hundred personal narratives from middle class women activists of different generations.

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The question arising from this week’s revelations in the Irish News of the extent of British security service involvement in IRA killings is: What was that all about?

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AmiEs #GAPPA! Les individus derrière cette enquête cherchaient un lieu où publier leur article anonymement: GAPPA s’est fait un plaisir de le reproduire ici. Un aperçu de l’intérieur de «La Meute» où se côtoient propos racistes, sexistes, colonialistes et ultra-nationalistes.

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THE QUESTION OF “Eurocentrism” is a vexing problem not only for academia but for the left. In the broadest sense, Eurocentrism can be understood as the implicit view that societies and cultures of European origin constitute the “natural” norm for assessing what goes on in the rest of the world.

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On the night of New Year’s Eve numerous women were sexually attacked in Cologne and other German cities in public spaces. These crimes demand thorough and comprehensive investigations. The prevailing impunity regarding crimes of sexualised violence must end.

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On May 26, 2014, Narendra Modi became the 15th Prime Minster of India.

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Ursula K. Le Guin’s is not only a criticism of present-day capitalism by way of science fiction but also a description of what an alternative system could look like. In the novel’s universe, there are the two worlds Urras and Anarres.

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If the rhetoric of the racist right is tweaked at the edges, with the sharp language about minority groups shifted towards a broad discourse of “white dispossession,” then it can easily go under the radar as coded racial attacks are common to Tea Party groups and Donald Trump rallies.

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How do you survive without running water for more than two years? First, get a trash can. Put it under the roof to collect water to flush the toilet. Then, get a bucket and remember what your grandparents taught you in the early 1950s, before indoor plumbing reached all of rural America.

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