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The story of baby Moses is also the story of the women who kept him alive. Not all of them family. Not all of them blood folk. — Read on http://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/exhibit-g/

To exaggerate the immanence of Falasteenistan it would be as dangerous as to completely ignore it. It would contribute to the enemy propaganda campaign that aims to portray the resistance as unrepresentative of the will of the Palestinian masses, and would also draw the resistance into a battle for which it is currently ill-equipped; ignoringContinue reading “The Specter of the Palestinian State”

In the present balance of forces in the class struggle we find a split social movement, perhaps best symbolized by this present excitement over, yet again, a Democratic Party nominee promising reforms from a municipal executive office, and how it stands in tactical opposition to the uprising against the deportation regime’s military occupation of LosContinue reading “Public Safety or Self-Defense? | Negation Magazine”

Conventional definitions of American post-war ‘hegemony’ have focused on the sheer preponderance of economic and military power concerted through an atomic-military monopoly, monetary sovereignty, overseas investment, and historic differentials of productivity and mass consumption. Accordingly, from a baseline in the late 1940s when the conjunction of all these . . . — Read on newleftreview.org/issues/i143/articles/mike-davis-the-political-economy-of-late-imperial-america

The poems have been quiet inside me. I attempting now to write the poem through my life.

I was first advised to listen to Life in Abdication, and Tucker’s solo work in general, by Bruce Reid, my co-worker on the night shift at Quality Food Centers (QFC), a Kroger-owned grocery chain in the Pacific Northwest. Bruce was a devoted fan of the Velvet Underground, the type who had all the live bootlegsContinue reading “People Like Us: Obituary for Bruce Reid | Long-Haul Mag”

Although it is understandable for morality to be a factor in our drive to organize, we must be sure to underpin our ideology and methodology with material analysis in order to avoid errors and maintain clarity. — Read on medium.com/@communityliberationprograms/feelings-dont-care-about-your-facts-the-material-and-the-moral-compass-51414817ba87

Beauford Delaney, Negro Man [Claude McKay], 1944, Los Angeles — Read on unframed.lacma.org/2022/04/27/new-acquisition-beauford-delaneys-“negro-man”-claude-mckay

There is Lovecraft, the misogynic racist; there is Heinlein, the authoritarian militarist; there is Ayn Rand, the rabid opponent of trade unionism and the left, who, like many a reactionary before her, sees the problems of the world as a failure by capitalists to assume the responsibilities of ‘good leadership’; there is Tolkein and thatContinue reading “Starship Stormtroopers: Michael Moorcock | libcom.org”