An amazing meeting of miners and environmentalists from across โ€œYugoslaviaโ€

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We came together on a playing field beside a derelict Olympic size open air swimming pool built by the local miners. We are in the small mining town of Breza, about half an hour’s drive from the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo. The swimming pool, its construction by miners after WW2, and its present decay is a …

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Interview with Palmira Figueroa of National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLON)

Hard Crackers reached out to NDLON after we had read, in a New York Times article, about the organizationโ€™s involvement in the protests after the death of Roberto Carlos Montoya, a day laborer who had been waiting for work outside a Home Depot in Los Angeles. We interviewed Palmira Figueroa who is NDLONโ€™s Communications Director. …

Unbuild these Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition

Interview with Silky Shah Silky Shah has been an immigrant justice organizer for over two decades. She is currently the executive director of Detention Watch Network, a national coalition working to abolish immigrant detention in the U.S. We met up recently in Chicago at the annual Socialism Conference. We were both on a panel with other …

Flashpoints and Righteous Struggle: A Call for Submissions

Trumpโ€™s One Big Beautiful Act, which ironically was passedย  on July 4th, will provide billionsย  of dollars in funding to ramp up the federal governmentโ€™s wide-ranging military-style campaign against unarmed civilians across the country. Prior to the billโ€™s passage, masked and armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were already raiding workplaces, ambushing individuals going …
A rural scene featuring a handmade sign that says "Meat Shoot" with the list of dates in January, February, March and April

What Gets Passed Down

This piece tells a story of rural Southern Missouri through the forms of knowledge inherited when the state offers nothing: no direction, no infrastructure, no recognition. The author is from Douglas County, where his family still hunts and welds and buries its dead. Electricity came late. Broadband still hasnโ€™t come at all. Seth comes from the Western Cherokee Nation of Arkansas and Missouri, a tribe erased not just by settler removal but by federal recognition itself.
Since When Has Working Been a Crime

Since When Has Working Been a Crime?

This article by Dave Ranney was originally publishedย in Hard Crackers on February 4th. It is even more timely now. In the months since, Trump’s immigration police forces have stepped up their targeting of undocumented workers in workplaces. It is essential that we focus our efforts on building a broad working-class resistance to all attacks on workers, includingย those that are undocumented

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Dispatches from our new Angry Red Planet

First, Iโ€™m thinking of all my friends and comrades out here on theย West Coast โ€“ with all the fires everywhere. Iโ€™m hoping folks can stay safe, whether itโ€™s just trying to get by, or being part of the rebellion in the streets.ย Maybe theyโ€™re out in the midst of this hellscape working in healthcare, or firefighting, …

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More from the Vault: A Brief Encounter with Orlando Pirates

The following piece appeared in Issue #7 of Hard Crackers Magazine, which can be purchased here. ย  I don’t know why I looked round towards our production vehicle. We were in Soweto, in late afternoon sunshine, filming an elderly former soccer star kicking a ball with kids on a scrubby recreation ground, and if somebody …

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