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Revolutionary Intercommunalism (Huey P. Newton, 1970) | abolition notes

The ruling reactionary circle, through the consequence of being imperialists, transformed the world into what we call “Reactionary Intercommunalism.” They laid siege upon all the communities of the world, dominating the institutions to such an extent that the people were not served by the institutions in their own land. The Black Panther Party would likeContinue reading “Revolutionary Intercommunalism (Huey P. Newton, 1970) | abolition notes”

Unfinished Acts: Utopia, Thomas More, and the Peasants’ War – O. L. Silverman, 2025

This essay interprets Thomas More’s Utopia, not chiefly through its intended audience, an elite, international circle of humanists and jurists, but through its intentionally excluded audience: the lower classes of Europe. Five centuries of scholarship on the critique of private property in his Utopia have generally overlooked More’s opposition to the largest popular uprising ofContinue reading “Unfinished Acts: Utopia, Thomas More, and the Peasants’ War – O. L. Silverman, 2025”

Third Red Scare, Same as the First • Protean Magazine

In this deeply researched piece, Ben Nadler and Oksana Mironova explore the tactical and ideological parallels between the First Red Scare and the present targeting of Palestinian activists across the United States. — Read on proteanmag.com/2025/06/26/third-red-scare-same-as-the-first/

errand #27

Everywhere you go looking for comrades and you usually find snakes instead.

Science of Coercion, reviewed by Brian Martin

Before I read this book, I would have thought that psychological warfare was basically strong propaganda. No longer. This was the idea promoted by early US academic researchers into mass communication. Much of their work was funded by and carried out for the US military. The military had its own definition of psychological warfare. AContinue reading “Science of Coercion, reviewed by Brian Martin”

Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League by Marx and Engels

Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League by Marx and Engels — Read on http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/communist-league/1850-ad1.htm

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Strong people need protectors too.

Malcolm’s Message to the Grassroots

If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it’s wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it’s wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us,Continue reading “Malcolm’s Message to the Grassroots”