Airbrushing Revolution for the Sake of Abolition – AAIHS

Elaine Brown attempted to sue me in March 1998 when I organized an abolitionist conference at CU-Boulder, at the request of Angela Davis, as a prototype for Critical Resistance (CritResist) held at UC-Berkeley that September. “Unfinished Liberation”— named after one of Davis’s UCLA lectures— was CU’s largest, most expensive conference at the time. — ReadContinue reading “Airbrushing Revolution for the Sake of Abolition – AAIHS”

Indian Wars in Quebec – Peter McFarlane (1981)

“Land as much as language is central to native culture and to the current Quebec-Indian conflict. And here too the PQ has shown a harmful intransigence. After justly criticizing the Bourrassa regime for bulldozing through the James Bay treaty, the PQ has turned around and taken the hardest possible line on native land claims. InContinue reading “Indian Wars in Quebec – Peter McFarlane (1981)”

An Undying Dream of Sovereignty and Liberation: Anouar Abdel-Malek’s Egypt: Military Society — Liberated Texts

The Zionist entity’s genocide in Gaza has heightened the need to understand the role of Egypt in the Arab World, notably in light of its arrest of activists protesting the genocide and the central role it has played in enforcing the blockade on Gaza since 2007. Since signing the Camp David Accords in 1978, EgyptContinue reading “An Undying Dream of Sovereignty and Liberation: Anouar Abdel-Malek’s Egypt: Military Society — Liberated Texts”