From Anaximander to Marx, Part 2
Human society as an evolutionary process Darwinโs โOrigin of the Speciesโ came about from the data gathered during his voyage on the Beagle. A deeply religious man, Darwin was brought almost to the point of mental breakdown because his religious view of the world could not be reconciled with the evidence he had gathered. His …
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From Anaximander to Marx or how I spent half my life in a โrevolutionaryโ cult and the other half working out why
Bob Myers was born in 1949 in London to a middle class mum and a working class dad who had met in a factory canteen during WW2. They were both involved in the Workers Educational Association and their house was full of books. Bob and his elder brother both became interested in politics at school …
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The Indivisible Committee: Reflections on “Hands Off!” Chicago
A week or so ago, a friend and I attended the Indivisible โHands Off!โ protest in Chicago. Here is a brief description of what I experienced and some brief takeaways. We got there around noon, but about two hours beforehand, I had seen a crowd of marshals and planners in the square setting up. Even …
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Review: Hope Without Hope: Rojava and Revolutionary Commitment
When the Assad regime crumbled, almost overnight, last December, there was an upsurge of shock, elation and disbelief โ in Syria, and across the globe. In the days and weeks that followed, the world watched on as ordinary Syrians, who had borne the brunt of Assad’s pitiless crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 2011-12 (and the …
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City Time: A Discussion with David Campbell and Jarrod Shanahan
David Campbell and Jarrod Shanahanโs new book City Time: On Being Sentenced to Rikers Island (NYU Press, 2025) offers an insightful look into the daily life of one of the most notorious carceral complexes in the US. Their individual experiences of incarceration are turned into a panoramic view of the minutiae that fill the time …
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Onward, Christian Soldiers!
๏ปฟA few weeks ago I received two letters in the mail. They were addressed to me by name and sent to my address on Washington Island, WI. One was from former Vice President of the U.S., Mike Pence. The other was from Edwin Meese, former Attorney General in the Ronald Reagan Administration who is now …
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From the Archives
Stick-up on Rikers Island
It started with the phones. A few minutes before 9:30 on Saturday morning, mid-conversation with wives, children, friends, and lawyers, the lines all went dead. This was March 22nd. Visits had been suspended a week prior, so the phones had become our only real link to the outside world. Of course, the underlying frustration had …
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Clinic Defense in the Era of Operation Rescue
In the early โ90s, anarchists and other feminists defended clinics with our bodies and taught each other how to do abortion techniques such as menstrual extraction safely. As the Christian Right bombed hundreds of clinics, killed health care providers and patients, and mobilized its base to swarm clinics and shut them down, grassroots reproductive freedom …
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