Revolt and Representation: A View from the Battle for Los Angeles – Heatwave

It’s gonna be a long hot summer. The National Guard stood toe-to-toe with local LAPD in riot gear. Migra were caught escaping hurled bricks between Compton and Paramount. Thousands of people were marching and confronting pigs on the freeways, being met with tear gas and less-than-lethal bullets. Señoras were vending hotdogs between battles, on theContinue reading “Revolt and Representation: A View from the Battle for Los Angeles – Heatwave”

What to do when you, too, become a “terrorist”: New zine launch! | Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is launching a new zine, “What to do when you, too, become a ‘terrorist’” — inspired by our own experience being banned in Germany and being labeled a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT)” by the United States and a “terrorist entity” by Canada, and by the ongoing attempts of theContinue reading “What to do when you, too, become a “terrorist”: New zine launch! | Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network”

How to Answer the Stupidest Questions About Palestinians | The Nation

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 toContinue reading “How to Answer the Stupidest Questions About Palestinians | The Nation”

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 likeContinue reading “Revolutionary Intercommunalism (Huey P. Newton, 1970) | abolition notes”

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 ofContinue reading “Unfinished Acts: Utopia, Thomas More, and the Peasants’ War – O. L. Silverman, 2025”