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Border Radios

James Murray

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With fears of an invasion which would cause disease outbreaks, school over-crowding, crime and wage deflation, the borders of California were sealed in 1936. In the preceding years of Depression California had already absorbed hundreds of ...
Storm on Rikers Island

Morbid Symptoms, Part I: Storm on Rikers Island

Jarrod Shanahan

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โ€œI feel a sickness deep in my stomach every time the buildingโ€™s alarm goes off,โ€ confesses rookie jail guard Nicholas Billings. โ€œItโ€™s always the same feeling. I donโ€™t care what anyone says, how tough they think ...

The Infrapolitics of Voting in the South

Curtis Price

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Whatever the arguments against voting and participation in electoral politics โ€“ and they are sound arguments; the great sucking sound of the Democratic Party absorbing and digesting social movements is real – in certain circumstances struggles ...

Oh What a Lovely War

John Garvey

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The “solemn” commemorations in Paris on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that finally put an end to the horrific bloodshed that had drowned Europe for just over the four years from 1914 ...

End of a Philosophy

John Garvey

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(from the chapter with that title in Facing Reality: The New Society โ€ฆ Where to look for it, How to bring it closer, A statement for our timeโ€”by CLR James, Grace C. Lee & Pierre Chaulieu, ...

“Shit-Life Syndrome” (Oxycontin Blues)

Curtis Price

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The drug crisis is hard to ignore in the South – and not just in the rural areas. People keel over waiting for buses or lie slouched and zoned out in cars, as if some zombie-inducing ...

โ€œIโ€™m A Modern Man Who Knows How to Wailโ€: A Hip-Hop Poet in Fin de Siecle Paris

Curtis Price

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โ€œIโ€™m the Outcast . . . the โ€˜distinguishedโ€™ chap/Who puts it all in poetry/Iโ€™m more than half crushed to bits / Between the Bourgeoisie and the Worker/Iโ€™m the bloke whose work one hates/Iโ€™m a closet of ...
Hard Crackers Issue One Spring 2016

Louis Proyect Reviews Hard Crackers

Louis Proyect

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We are reprinting here two reviews of Hard Crackers by Louis Proyect, columnist, film reviewer and blogger, one from last week and one from two years ago: September 28, 2018 The latest issue of Hard Crackersย is ...

Unnamed Harlem resident finds old letter

Zhandarka Kurti

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In the dusty book shelves of an unnamed Harlem residentโ€™s basement we uncovered this letter written in 1912 from the man later known as Ho Chi Minh to his father back home. Dearest father, I wanted ...

Google User Reviews of US Jails and Prisons

Erin Cully

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People across the US are taking to Google user reviews with grievances about the jails and prisons where they and their loved ones are held.
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