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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”

We just finished and regard each other silently for a while with vacant woolgathering eyes. It’s not an embarrassing silence. It’s just as if we intuitively agreed to dream for a few moments. I call them to attention with a question, and they all start talking at once. — Read on theanarchistlibrary.org/library/galstad-revolutionary-spain-7

Rose the Coyote. No one’s princess, she is the very modern hip, brassy, singing, dancing trickster star of her own show. — Read on hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/objects/p.989.10

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An article by the Twin Cities General Defense Committee (GDC) of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) about the dangers of ‘badjacketing’, which is defined as ‘creating suspicion, by spreading rumors or unsubstantiated accusations, that people are undercovers, infiltrators, snitches, or cooperators. ‘ — Read on libcom.org/article/no-badjacketing-state-wants-kill-us-lets-not-cooperate

Faced with a huge growth of working class power, with strikes, occupations, self-reduction of prices and mass squatting the intelligence services began carrying out terrorist acts with the help of fascist groups. Anarchists and the left were blamed, and working class militants were arrested. The worst such attack was the worst terrorist attack in EuropeContinue reading “1969-?: The strategy of tension in Italy | libcom.org”

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At a time when Palestine activism and free expression at U.S. universities are under attack, Steven Salaita’s new memoir disabuses us of the notion that these universities are anything other than hedge funds with a campus. — Read on mondoweiss.net/2024/07/the-reluctant-memoirist-exposes-the-academy/

On the night of July 14, 1967, Geraldine Pointer (then Robinson) was helping Martin Sostre close the Afro-Asian Bookshop on Jefferson Avenue. The two met and started dating the previous year, soon after he opened the city’s first Black revolutionary bookstore. Sostre eventually opened two more stores, including the East-West Bookshop which Pointer managed. InContinue reading “ABOUT GERALDINE POINTER | Martin Sostre”

As early as seven years after the end of World War II, war crimes investigators, mostly from Western countries, charged the United States with genocide due to its indiscriminate attacks on civilians in the Korean War, including, notably, use of biological weapons (BW). — Read on http://www.thecanadafiles.com/articles/canada-releases-70-year-old-document-that-accuses-us-of-genocide-biological-warfare-during-korean-war