To simply imagine Palestine without settlers, to simply imagine a sky without drones—that, in the Zionist imagination, is genocidal. If you stick with the “want” of the charge, the notion that Palestinians want to kill all Jews, you find that Zionism is at war with our future. It is at war with our ability to articulate, even if only through poems and protest chants, a future in which Zionism does not reign. For in the past 100 years, Zionism has situated us in a condition of constant dispossession and premature death; our Nakba remains and renews. We are besieged in an inescapable, eternal present tense.
— Read on www.thenation.com/article/world/mohammed-el-kurd-book-excerpt/
ICE targets Iranian man living legally in Buffalo : Investigative Post
His neighbors aren’t having it.
More than a dozen have organized themselves into rotating shifts to keep watch on the ICE agents.
“You picked the wrong block,” said Jennifer Connor, one of the residents keeping watch.
— Read on www.investigativepost.org/2025/07/01/ice-targets-iranian-family-in-buffalo-here-legally/
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 like to reverse that trend and lead the people of the world into the age of “Revolutionary Intercommunalism.” This would be the time when the people seize the means of production and distribute the wealth and the technology in an egalitarian way to the many communities of the world.
— Read on abolitionnotes.org/huey-p-newton/revolutionary-intercommunalism-1970
Indiana University Bloomington to Eliminate or Suspend Over 100 Academic Programs in Sweeping Restructuring – The Bloomingtonian
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana University Bloomington is suspending or eliminating more than 100 academic programs across a wide range of disciplines ahead of the 2026-27 academic year. The programs are on a list from the Indiana Commission for Higher Education released on a PDF from the June 30, 2025 meeting. Universities across Indiana are eliminating
— Read on bloomingtonian.com/2025/06/30/indiana-university-bloomington-to-eliminate-or-suspend-over-100-academic-programs-in-sweeping-restructuring/
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 of his time, the German Peasants’ War. This essay argues that More’s polemics against proto-communist movements and thinkers, like Protestant propagandist Simon Fish, are essential to understanding Utopia in context. More’s Tudor schooling trained him in forms of legal play meant to sharpen the faculties to adroitly enforce law and social order. Challenges to law, private property, and authority were “heresies” for Sir Thomas More. The attempt to restrict Utopia’s readership mirrored More’s opposition to heretical, vulgar translations of the New Testament. He feared that the ungovernable play of a literal reading would result in disastrous misinterpretations: in acts of popular uprising that sought to put all things in common.
— Read on journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00905917251345497
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.
A 1948 US Army document stated that: “Psychological warfare employs any weapon to influence the mind of the enemy. The weapons are psychological only in the effect they produce and not because of the nature of the weapons themselves. In this light, overt (white), covert (black) and gray propaganda; subversion; sabotage; special operations; guerrilla warfare; espionage; political, cultural, economic, and racial pressures are all effective weapons” (emphasis in original). So-called “special operations” include activities behind enemy lines including sabotage and assassination.
— Read on documents.uow.edu.au/~bmartin/pubs/94BRgl2.html
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 www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/communist-league/1850-ad1.htm
errand #26
Strong people need protectors too.