Our hearts are heavy with the loss of our editor-in-chief, friend, and comrade Noel Ignatiev. Noel died on Saturday, November 9th at the age of 78. His passing is a tremendous loss to those fighting for the collective project of human liberation. In these times, we take solace in the memories of him people are […]
Is This What You Call “Living”?
First published as a pamphlet by the French anarchist journal, “Hors du Troupeau” (“Outside the Crowd”), 1912. Translated by Curtis Price. Get up at dawn. Running or using any means of rapid locomotion. Go to “work.” That is, shut up in a room – spacious or confined, airy or airless. Sitting in front of a typewriter, tapping away transcribing letters of […]
The African Blood Brotherhood and The Short-Lived Civil War in Tulsa
For several weeks now crews from around the country have been in Tulsa with highly-specialized “ground-penetrating radar” searching for “mass graves” associated with the events of 1921. I and a few others doubted very much if any graves would ever be found. There is simply no historical evidence for their existence. Months ago the city […]
Notes from Beirut
My favorite revolutionary pastime is just sitting in the Egg. For those unfamiliar with Beirut, the Egg is a strange, dilapidated structure in the middle of downtown Beirut. Once upon a time, it was a cinema, and my ex-father-in-law remembered seeing THE SOUND OF MUSIC play there in the late 1960s. During Lebanon’s Civil War, […]
The Crucifixion of Rikers Ysland
In February of 1965 Salvador Dalí was invited to visit a Rikers Island prisoner art program by longtime correction commissioner Anna M. Kross. The wily reform commissioner appealed to the artist’s thirst for publicity by promising a high-profile visit under the banner “Salvador Dalí Goes to Prison.” When the appointed day arrived, however, Dalí had […]
The Eviction
It’s that time of the month again and the Sheriffs are here because evictions are starting. Alabama law requires a Sheriff to be physically present during an eviction and today, the Sheriffs lounge in the oppressive late summer heat, cracking jokes while others, the apartment complex staff, do the actual dirty work. Because of the […]