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Report from Austin, Texas

Heath Schultz

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Heath Schultz Report Back: White Lives Matter Counter-rally in Austin, Texas Submission to Hard Crackers, 12/2/16     Rallies are always the same in Austin — outside the State Capitol building where Congress Ave. intersects with ...

Abolitionism: A Study Guide

Noel Ignatiev

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Abolitionism: a Study Guide   By John Garvey and Noel Ignatiev   We think it would be useful to study American abolitionism as a home-grown radical movement launched in inauspicious times. To further that end, we have ...

CLR James on Abolitionism

Noel Ignatiev

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To read or download the file, click on the image below. At the top of the lightbox that pops open there is a rotate button.

Lesson of the Hour: Introduction

Noel Ignatiev

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Lesson of the Hour: Introduction   By Noel Ignatiev   During the winter of 1860−61, as South Carolina and other states responded to Lincoln’s election by announcing their intention to secede, the great Abolitionist Wendell Phillips ...

Short Shots from an Abolitionist

Andrew Stewart

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by Andrew Stewart   Note: None of the opinions expressed herein are to be construed as those of anyone but the author’s.   -At this point we can only pray for gridlock until 2018 when a ...

Black Lives Matter and Standing Rock

James Murray

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The Black Lives Matter movement has caused great fear and loathing in white people across the country. Police administrators have referred to them as terrorists and claimed to be “At war,” with BLM members or those ...

Smashing Kittens

Noel Ignatiev

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By now many people have seen Donald Trump’s mocking imitation of The New York Times reporter who suffers from a disabling ailment that prevents him from using his arms fully and who asked Trump a question ...

Garrison and the 2016 Election

Noel Ignatiev

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A friend recently called my attention to an article by William Lloyd Garrison, “On the Constitution and the Union,” in The Liberator, Dec. 29, 1832. Here is the link: http://fair-use.org/the-liberator/1832/12/29/on-the-constitution-and-the-union   Garrison made several points:   ...

A Carnival of Inclusion

Noel Ignatiev

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The Democratic National Convention was a carnival of inclusion: black, white, gay, straight, Christians, Jews, Muslims, cis-gendered and transgendered—all joined in proclaiming that “nothing can be wrong if it keeps our country strong” (with the implied ...

Thoughts on Dallas and Baton Rouge

James Murray

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By James Murray The American liberal-left have almost universally condemned the recent martyrdom operations (I don’t know what else to call them) that occurred in Dallas and Baton Rouge. Such actions set back ‘the movement,’ we ...
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