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KILL, KILL, KILL: Reflections on Gaza

Noel Ignatiev

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by Noel Ignatiev A 1983 film, WarGames, opens with an American pilot in the cockpit getting an order to launch a missile strike in retaliation for a Soviet attack on the U.S. Instead of carrying out ...

Tenants in Huntsville, Alabama

Curtis Price

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Responses from a “Look Out For One Another” list post in Huntsville, Alabama, where a tenant posted pix of rotten conditions such as exposed wires at a nearby apartment complex: โ€œEveryone who has ever lived there ...

The Autonomous Unemployed in the Netherlands

Curtis Price

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  by Curtis Price In the late 1980s, the Netherlands, like many European countries, was faced with long-term unemployment. Concern arose among Dutch policy makers that changing conditions were creating a U.S. style โ€œunderclassโ€: a mass ...

ERUPTIONS AT MASSART

Noel Ignatiev

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By Noel Ignatiev The following is the individual work of the writer (who happens to be the editor of Hard Crackers); it has not been submitted for approval to the editorial board and does not necessarily ...

Something Lost? Something Gained?

John Garvey

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by John Garvey The New York Times recently published a profile of Saul Chandler, a seventy-year old man who now spends most of his time on a boat docked at City Island, a small sliver of ...

An excerpt from โ€˜If He Hollers Let Him Go,โ€™ by Chester Himes, 1945

James Murray

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posted by James Murray   โ€œโ€ฆbut as far as the problem of the Negro industrial worker is concerned, I feel that it is not so much racial as it is the problem of the masses. As ...

Book Review: The Unknown World of the Mobile Home

Curtis Price

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โ€œCrowded Rookeries of itinerant Flophousesโ€: A Review of โ€œThe Unknown World of the Mobile Home โ€œby John Fraser Hurt, Michelle J. Rhodes and John T. Morgan (2002, Johns Hopkins University Press). by Curtis Price Here in ...
Hard-Crackers-Issue-Four-Winter-2018

Report from Boston event

Cloee Cooper

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We held our first Hard Crackers convening in Boston on March 4. Including a one-year-old, seventeen new and old friends of Hard Crackers attended. A Bostonย old-timer talked about his friends recovering from opioid addictions. A 7th ...
Hard-Crackers-Issue-Four-Winter-2018

Editors’ Roundtable

Hard Crackers Editors

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The shooting at Douglas High School in Parkland prompted an exchange among our editors, which we are publishing here. To begin, three items: The first is from the Hard Crackers mission statement carried in every issue: ...

โ€œHow Karl Marx Can Save American Capitalismโ€ by Ronald W. Dworkin (Lexington Books, 2015)

Curtis Price

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Reviewed by Curtis Price โ€œEarly Marx also threatens the academy, being critical of the very professors who now stand guard over Marxian scholarship.” This unusual book (unusual because it’s written by a conservative physician and political ...
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