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, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.
— Read on www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/malcgrass.html

A key feature of the Iraq war was the prominence of international legal argument. This article argues that the motif of the ‘illegal war’ was crucial in mobilisations against the war. It traces the reasons for the prominence of this ‘illegal war’ motif and the wider political consequences of its adoption.
— Read on www.academia.edu/64028197/International_law_politics_and_opposition_to_the_Iraq_War

Interview http://+%20transcript with Max Fox, M.E. O’Brien, and Tiana Reid, conducted by Nico Millman
— Read on www.full-stop.net/2025/02/25/interviews/nicomillman/pinko-magazine/

This is the second part of a two-part article on the Palestinian question. This part treats the development and trajectory of anticolonial nationalism, focusing on the post-1970s period in the Gaza Strip. It treats the growth and development of the main armed factions in the Strip, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad, and then discusses Israeli policies toward Palestine, broadly, and the Gaza Strip, in particular. It analyses the closure policy post-2006 and the growth of armed organizing and capacity. It then discusses the regional dimensions. It finally engages with different explanations for US policy toward Palestine, discussing the “Israel Lobby” thesis in its various iterations. It concludes with some reflections on contemporary exile organizing and intellectual production.
— Read on journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/22779760241253788

This is the first part of a two-part article which considers the US-Israeli attack on Palestine in general and the Gaza Strip in particular in a world-historical and regional context. In contrast to a range of theories which resort to liberal international relations theory, economism, or methodological nationalism when theorizing accumulation in general or Arab region accumulation in particular, the article argues that the Arab-Iranian region is under a regime of US-imposed de-development which seeks to dismantle strategic obstacles in the region through war and sanctions. The article argues this process encountered an obstacle amidst Iranian-linked regional militia and standing armies, and that these forces need to be understood by revisiting thinking about the role of political sovereignty in emancipatory transitions.
— Read on journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/22779760241228157

Israel attacks Iran.

— Read on newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/culmination

Joshua Clover lived for moments like these, days or nights “when the partisans of riot exceed the police capacity for management, when the cops make their first retreat…when the riot becomes fully itself, slides loose from the grim continuity of daily life.”  Published nine years before his death this April, and inscribed “for Oakland, for the comrades,” his singular Riot. Strike. Riot is as much written about such moments as it is written from and to them.
— Read on www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/for-a-summer-against-ice-in-memory-of-joshua-clover