Kersplebedeb Tabling, This November!
November is a busy month for Kersplebedeb … what follows is a list of events we will be tabling at, in Montreal, Kingston, Hamilton, and Ottawa: Montreal: EXPOZINE 2015 !!!…
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Anarchosyndicalism against Fascism: A Response to Recent lnsinuations (repost)
There may be problems with some people who identify with anarchosyndicalism, but it is not because there is any inherent correlation between it and fascism. Read the rest of this…
Anti-Prison TRIPLE LAUNCH: Certain Days, Lumpen, Escaping the Prism [Montreal]
Friday November 27 @ 6pm 1500 de Maisonneuve O. #204 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1646067655663278/ Join us for an evening of conversation, poetry, and celebration against prisons, as we launch the 2016 Certain…
Ed Mead Interviewed on Prison Radio
Former political prisoner Ed Mead, whose autobiography Lumpen was published by Kersplebedeb earlier this month, was interviewed last week on CKUT in Montreal’s Prison Radio show. More than a memoir,…
2016 Slingshot Organizers at Kerspebedeb Leftwingbooks.NET
By far the most popular way for anarchists to stay organized, the Slingshot 2016 organizers are here, complete with mini-calendar, daybook planner, address book section, international radical contact list, and…
Mailroom Censorship at Attica
On October 7, political prisoner Jalil Muntaqim was denied 4 books which arrived for him at Attica Correctional Facility. Muntaqim is a former member of the Black Panther Party and…
Rheumatic fever rates in some Ontario First Nations 75 times higher than rest of Canada (repost)
People living in remote First Nations north of Sioux Lookout, Ont., are experiencing acute rheumatic fever at a rate that is among the highest in the world, according to new…
Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill (repost)
When it comes to automotive technology, self-driving cars are all the rage. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to…
Report: Freddie Gray’s mother attempts suicide (repost)
The mother of a black Baltimore man whose death in police custody prompted charges against police officers has attempted suicide, WJZ television is reporting. Read the rest of this post…
A Typology of Colonialism (repost)
In the past several years, settler colonial theory has taken over my field, Native American studies. Comparative indigenous histories focused especially on British-descended “settler colonies”—Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the…
Utopias, past and present: why Thomas More remains astonishingly radical (repost)
Thomas More’s Utopia, a book that will be 500 years old next year, is astonishingly radical stuff. Not many lord chancellors of England have denounced private property, advocated a form…
The Two Totalitarianisms (repost)
A small note – not the stuff of headlines, obviously – appeared in the newspapers on 3 February. Read the rest of this post on the original site at The…
Mussolini on the Corporate State (repost)
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini It is generally attrributed to an article written by Mussolini…
The Fergu$on Hijacking — Hands Up United (repost)
The Ferguson uprising started the development of a revolution here in the United States. There is no question that Ferguson was much different and more radical than anything we’ve seen…
IDENTITY POLITICS IS DOING THE IMPERIALIST DIVIDE AND RULE FOR THE ENEMY (repost)
#Palestine #Unity / #DisunityAsRadical: ‘Eurocentric / colonial identity politics’ (*my definition below) is tearing apart and dividing ally from ally, sister/brother from brother/sister. Read the rest of this post on…
Overlooked tragedy of Quebec’s aboriginal young people (repost)
Their deaths go unnoticed. They do not make headlines. But a disproportionate 259 aboriginal children and youth have died violently or in unusual circumstances since 2000. It is a tragedy…
Canadian survey of women who wear the niqab reveals choice ‘may be a bit of a youth movement’ (repost)
The vast majority of women surveyed who wear the niqab in Canada are not only willing to remove their veils to be identified, but feel it is part of their…
The country we want doesn’t use fake feminism to hate (repost)
‘When we talk about the country we want, we must talk about values that respect, protect and guarantee women’s rights,’ write two dozen leading feminists. The election rhetoric based on…
‘Renoir sucks at painting’ movement demands removal of artist’s works (repost)
A new movement born of an Instagram account has one central complaint: Pierre-Auguste Renoir – the French impressionist – was a terrible artist, and his paintings should be removed from…
Canadian anti-Muslim sentiment is rising, disturbing new poll reveals (repost)
In the early evening of Sept. 17, before dark, a 17-year-old girl strolled from the Al-Noor Mosque in St. Catharines, Ont., to the plaza across the street. She was planning…