1. Modern American society is a ticking time-bomb where an impending social explosion is hinted at by everyday violence of all kinds— the abuse of children; physical and sexual attacks by men against women, against other men and against those who do not conform to conventional images of men and women; the mistreatment of animals; […]
You won’t believe this, but…
Exclusive: Dutch hospitals to drop U.S. body brokers, cite ethical concerns AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Two major Dutch hospitals say they will stop importing human body parts from American firms, which they have been doing without any regulation for a decade. The hospitals told Reuters in recent weeks they made their decisions on ethical grounds. The move comes […]
Something New for Revolutionary Politics
Kristin Ross, the author of two remarkable books–on the events of 1968 in France (May ’68 and Its Afterlives) and the Paris Commune of 1871 (Communal Luxury), has now written a provocative article on the “The Long 1960s and ‘The Wind from the West.’” The article appears in an issue of Crisis and Critique devoted […]
CREATIVE PROVOCATION: STRATEGY FOR REVOLUTION
How do small groups of revolutionaries convince the majority of ordinary people of the need for revolution and persuade them to take the steps necessary to bring it about? It is the central question for every group that considers itself revolutionary. Answers vary among and often within the groups: some seek to gain the confidence […]
War Against War, Part II: The World is My Country
Long Live Peace–Richard Muller and the Revolutionary Shop Stewards There were already police informers at the dance-hall so they decamped to a pub in Sophienstrasse. There, a man with thick round glasses and a toothbrush moustache proposed that they take action the following day, when Karl Liebknecht – Germany’s most famous anti-war campaigner – would […]
War Against War
As I’ve written previously, 2018 is the hundredth anniversary of the end of the bloody First World War. It’s received a good deal of attention in the media. Not surprisingly, one aspect of the war has received little attention–the people and organizations that opposed the conflict and took actions to stop it. “Moreover, this history […]