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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Reflections from January 26th in Dallas
This piece is also posted on Haters Cafe. โA bunch of people just felt free for the first time,โ was the immediate reaction of a seasoned comrade to a protest on January 26th, 2025. The demonstration was organized by two Latina high school girls to support migrants against the escalating deportations and racist policies coming …
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The Lost and Early Writings of James Connolly
Review: Conor McCabe, ed., The Lost and Early Writings of James Connolly: 1889-1898 (Iskra Books, 2024) โThe election of a Socialist to any public body at presentโ, declared James Connolly in 1894, โis only valuable, in so far as it is the return of a disturber of the political peace.โ Born in an Edinburgh slum …
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In Otero
Emilien Bernard and Pauline Laplace are two alternative free-lance journalists working for the Marseille critical monthly CQFD, which has a substantial French global distribution (about 10, 000 copies) and argues for an anarchist perspective. CQFD means Ce Quโil Faut Dรฉmontrer. The two journalists travelled to the USA to report about the southern wall. A special dossier โUSA: droit dans le murโ …
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Reading Pan-African Revolt
โI mean, weโre talking about the last twenty years. Thatโs most of our lives. Maybe even all of yours!โ Tentative silence. Itโs always hard to gauge how this kind of direct appeal will go over. Then again, itโs hard to know what works on a Monday morning in a classroom of college students. In November. …
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From the Archives
Crisis on top of crisis in Kensington
During this COVID-19 crisis, probably many of us have had moments where we have thought, โOh, shit, whatโs going to happen when coronavirus spreads to (fill in the blank)? We have worried about those who fill the manifold jails and prisons of this land, and weโve already seen those horrible potentialities begin to unfold. Weโre …
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Killing Time
You can hear a sulking refrain from some corners of the internet lately, usually from armchair revolutionaries, celebrity leftists, or just the โextremely onlineโ: the militant phase of the 2020 uprising against police terror is overโliberal reformers have successfully coopted it. The refrain comes tinged with defeat and a sense that things are already done. …