What the Irish Ate Before Potatoes (repost)
This coming Sunday marks the celebration of the life of St. Patrick, the bishop who brought Christianity to Ireland some time in the early 400s. And if you eat at…
Let Us Be Terrible:Considerations on the Jacobin Club (repost)
Let us be terrible, so that the people do not have to be. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Let Us Be Terrible:Considerations on the…
From Siri to sexbots: Female AI reinforces a toxic desire for passive, agreeable and easily dominated women (repost)
A recent article titled “Why is AI Female?” made the connection that gendered labor, in service professions in particular, is fueling our expectations for gendered AI assistants and service robots.…
New light on Saskatoon’s ‘starlight tours’ (repost)
On Jan. 28, 2000, two police officers drove Darrell Night five kilometres outside of Saskatoon and abandoned him in -22° C weather with just a T-shirt and jean jacket on…
In Defence of Smashing Cameras (repost)
Anonymous submission. More seriously, we are making each other vulnerable. Photographers at demonstrations will soon outnumber demonstrators, those who are willing to take action. This is something we need to…
No apologies: anti-racism, multiculturalism and violence (repost)
The far-right are mobilising yet again for a demo in Dover and yet again anti-fascists are heading to the south-coast town intent on stopping them. Read the rest of this…
Rethinking White Men Behind Bars: Incorrigible Supremacists or Allies in Waiting? (repost)
This original story saw the light of day thanks to support from readers like you. Help us publish more stories like it by donating to Truthout now! Moments after I…
Mass Line and Mass Movement in Health: A Case Study of the Alliance for People’s Health (repost)
This article is based on my experiences over the past 9 years of working with the Alliance for People’s Health (APH) as a founding member. I have permission of current…
La Radio Libertaire prive des femmes voilées d’antenne (repost)
Vendredi 18 mars 2016, alors qu’ils avaient été conviés par la Radio Libertaire pour parler radicalisation et discriminations, des membres du Collectif contre l’islamophobie et les racismes 20e (CIR) ont…
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…
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…