Marine Le Pen of the French Front National — Disrupted in Quebec City!
Comrades in Quebec City organized with just a few days’ notice to successfully disrupt a press conference held by Marine Le Pen — leader of the far right anti-immigrant French…
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Texas Prisoners’ Plan Work Strike, April 4th
Prisoners in Texas are planning a work strike, to commence this April 4th. Their top five demands are: Meaningful Work Time – Applied retroactively, when our Flat Time and accrued…
How 19th Century Cotton Mills Influenced Workplace Gender Roles (repost)
Equal pay and access to jobs are crucial goals for many working women today. That was also true nearly 200 years ago, when the entire system of waged labor, as…
Written Behind Bars, This 1850s Memoir Links Prisons To Plantations (repost)
At an estate sale in Rochester, N.Y., in 2009, a rare book seller came upon a curious literary artifact. As it turned out, it was a memoir written in the…
Communists and armed struggle – Greece and Yugoslavia (repost)
Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! no. 91 November/December 1989 During World War II, Yugoslav and Greek communists conducted an armed struggle against the Nazi occupiers. Read the rest of this post…
The Curious Islamophobic Politics of Dem Congressmember Tulsi Gabbard (repost)
“Meet the Democrat Who’s Not Afraid to Criticize President Obama on ISIS,” intones a recent ABC News headline. The story describes remarks by Hawaii Rep. Read the rest of this…
SONGS OF SUBVERSION: an interview with Vi Subversa by Lynna Landstreet
The following appeared in the Toronto anarchist newspaper Kick It Over #14 Winter 1985/86: Poisongirls, who recently played in Canada for the first time, at Lee’s Palace in Toronto, are…
Akwesasne under surveillance by military counter-intelligence unit: documents (repost)
(The eastern tip of Cornwall Island from St. Regis Village, Akwesasne. APTN/File) Jorge BarreraAPTN National News The Canadian military’s counter-intelligence unit has been conducting surveillance of a Mohawk community straddling…
One of the All-Time Most Important Cult Movies Is Back on the Big Screen at Last (repost)
The movie Born in Flames seemed almost outlandishly radical in 1983, when it came out. But now, Lizzie Borden’s movie about a feminist uprising feels even more relevant and challenging…
Canada’s prisons are the ‘new residential schools’ (repost)
In September, three reporters from Maclean’s and Discourse Media spent two days in downtown and North Central Regina—at the Cornwall Centre mall, at Victoria Park, in churches, and in residents’…
Treatment of Inuit in Quebec jails called ‘unacceptable’ by ombudsman (repost)
Quebec’s ombudsman has released a scathing report on the treatment of Inuit in the provincial justice system. She says the detention conditions are “below current standards” and infringe on the…
The Anti-Imperialism of Fools (repost)
As we all witnessed yesterday Syria’s foreign minister Walid Muallem said that Syria will offer to help the US fight the Islamic State (IS) militant group. This of course has…
The Limits of Language (repost)
The best class I took in college was on the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Until that point, I had avoided philosophy of language as simply being too esoteric and hermetic to…
Antifa International (repost)
So What Happened To Roosh V.’s Misogynist Fanboys On Saturday? You’re probably well-aware that rapist and misogynist “Roosh V.” cancelled his well-publicized global public meetups for sad MRA neckbeards this…
Mark Cook Speaks, in Buffalo & Brooklyn, Feb. 18 & 20
Mark Cook is a former Black Panther, member of the George Jackson Brigade, and political prisoner. Twenty four years in prison could not break his spirit or commitment to Black…
Support Parole for Jalil Muntaqim!
Anthony Bottom (Jalil A. Muntaqim) has been in prison since 1971, one of the longest held political prisoners in the world. Having spent more time in prison than Nelson Mandela,…
Portland, OR March 10 — Fade to Black: Political Prisoner Jalil Muntaqim Book Release & Fundraiser
THE JERICHO MOVEMENT PRESENTS Fade to Black: Political Prisoner Jalil Muntaqim Book Release & Fundraiser WHEN: Thursday March 10th 2016, 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. WHERE: Social Justice Action Center, 400 SE…
February 27 in Buffalo, NY: Escaping the Prism Book Launch!
WHEN: Saturday, February 27at 5:30 PM – 7 PM WHERE: El Buen Amigo & LACA Non-Profit, 114 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, New York 14201 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/events/775855022542860/ Come celebrate Black History Month…
Racism against aboriginal people in health-care system ‘pervasive’: study (repost)
?Michelle Labrecque pushes herself gingerly in a wheelchair down the hallway of a hotel. The Oneida woman was recently found to have a fractured pelvis, but she says it took…
February Sale at Kersplebedeb Leftwingbooks.net!
Kersplebedeb has knocked off from 20-60% on over sixty titles, for a great big book sale throughout the month of February! Discounted titles include “time sensitive” products like the Slingshot…