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Rest in Power Noel Ignatiev (1940-2019)

Hard Crackers Editors

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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 ...

Is This What You Call โ€œLivingโ€?

E. Armand

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First published as a pamphlet by the French anarchist journal, โ€œHors du Troupeauโ€ (โ€œOutside the Crowdโ€), 1912. Translated by Curtis Price. Get up at dawn.ย Running or using any means of rapid locomotion.ย Go to “work.”ย That is,ย shutย up in ...

The African Blood Brotherhood and The Short-Lived Civil War in Tulsa

James Murray

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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 ...

Notes from Beirut

Greg Burris

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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, ...

The Crucifixion of Rikers Ysland

Jarrod Shanahan

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In February of 1965 Salvador Dalรญ was invited to visit a Rikers Island prisoner art program by longtime correction commissioner Anna M. Kross. The wily reform commissioner appealed to the artistโ€™s thirst for publicity by promising ...

The Eviction

Curtis Price

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Itโ€™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 ...

Its Going Down Interview with Hard Crackers Editor

Its Going Down

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Check out the interview hereย  In this episode of the Itโ€™s Going Down podcast, we speak with Noel Ignatiev, long time organizer, author, and theorist. Ignatiev spent 20 years working in a steel factory while also ...

โ€œI Want To Learn Everything!โ€: The Proletarian โ€œIโ€

Curtis Price

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By the early twentieth century, literacy rates in Russia substantially increased among urban workers and peasants as a result of extending public education to previous illiterate sectors of the population. This drive toward adult education was ...

Homegoing KwaZulu

Salim Washington

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We had the funeral services for my mother-in-law, though between us we never really used the “in-law” designation. I was her son and she was mother dear. Grief always comes in stages, even when it is ...

Our Eyes Are Watching . . . Green Beans and Watermelon

Curtis Price

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Out with the dog on a hot muggy Alabama afternoon with temperatures skirting 100, I walked across the parking lot of the African-American church across from where I live. In the middle of the tarmac, someone ...
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