The Truth About Jimmy Carter

On August 14, 2004, Venezuelan voters will decide on a referendum, which has the utmost world historic and strategic significance. What is at stake is nothing less than the future of the energy world, the relations between the US and Latin America (particularly Cuba), and the political and socio-economic fate of millions of Venezuela’s urbanContinue reading “The Truth About Jimmy Carter”

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”

Los Quijotes | The Anarchist Library

On July 17, 1936, Spanish nationalist forces, led by right-wing General Francisco Franco attempted a coup d’etat against the newly-elected popular front Republic. In the context of the social and political upheaval following the mass based resistance to the fascist uprising, the anarchist movement in Spain organized the strongest and most radical opposition to fascismContinue reading “Los Quijotes | The Anarchist Library”

Some Lessons about Zionism and Anti-Zionism from an Ongoing Genocide – Steve Salaita

Generally speaking, Palestinians have behaved as all communities facing extinction behave.  Their so-called violence, subject to endless rumination by celebrity academics, isn’t a conundrum to lament; it is an opportunity to more thoroughly explore the mutual depravities of Zionism and capitalism.  What, then, have we learned about anti-Zionism in the Anglosphere since October 7?  —Continue reading “Some Lessons about Zionism and Anti-Zionism from an Ongoing Genocide – Steve Salaita”