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A Piece of History – Lucy E. Parsons (1895)

“And the propertyless class — the wage-earners are compelled by competition to sell their labor themselves to the lowest bidder, or starve.” A Piece of History – Lucy E. Parsons (1895)

Librado Rivera – Dave Poole (1980)

“Of the many comrades and collaborators of Ricardo Flores Magon, Librado Rivera was by far the closest. Their revolutionary partnership lasted twenty… Librado Rivera – Dave Poole (1980)

Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 26

I understood the claim about marking public spaces with women’s names, but I could not get my head around the idea of naming a road after an environmentalist. Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 26

Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 25

Does Fanon not refuse to be a slave to history? Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 25

Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 24

In the brutal logics and practices we have inherited and modified, Black children are not precious. Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 24

Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 23

If we dare, we are undone by the marginalia of ghosts. Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 23

Organization and Its Theories – by Jasper Bernes

In other words, while the “idea of horizontality” may be ideology, what it responds to are very real changes in the nature of society: globalization, information technology, and new form of class struggle emerging in response to these. — Read on jasperbernes.substack.com/p/organization-and-its-theories

Lowlands (Away) (Roud 681; Henry H469)

It often happens that long ballads become whittled down into short lyrical songs. The dwindling of Captain Wedderburn’s Courtship into I Gave My Love a Cherry is a case in point. So too some forgotten narrative ballad of the return of a ghostly lover has survived as a lyrical fragment that sometimes turns up as aContinue reading “Lowlands (Away) (Roud 681; Henry H469)”