This October marked the release of Hellraiser (2022), a putative reboot of the 1987 horror classic and the eleventh entry into the Hellraiser franchise. It is especially significant for the involvement of creator Clive Barker, who has been absent from Hellraiser films for decades, as their intellectual property owner, Dimension Films, cranked out one direct-to-video […]
Archives for October 2022
Reproductive Freedom Series (Free Downloadable PDF)
A short while ago, Hard Crackers sent an invitation to people who we knew had been active in various reproductive freedom projects over the last fifty years to help us think through the issues and challenges involved in developing an effective radical strategy to secure unrestricted access to abortion for all women. We were very […]
Announcing the Release of Hard Crackers Issue #9
Hard Crackers Magazine Issue #9 is now available. To order copies, please go to the Store section on our website. If you are reading this, you are already on that website. The price is $8 per issue. It is free to prisoners. Regular subscribers will receive a copy in the mail. The theme of this […]
The Silos of History: Remarks on Romain Gavras’ Athena
To be a revolutionary during the first decade of the 20th century meant recognizing that one stood at the beginning of a new strategic era, one marked by the eclipse and exhaustion of a certain Blanquist solution to the problem of revolutionary conquest. For the Blanquist conspiracists of the 19th century, the subversion of the […]
Socialism or Suburbia
“Privilege is provisional,” writes Margo Jefferson in Negroland, part memoir, part history of African Americans like herself who grew up “middle class” in Chicago. “Privilege can be denied, withheld, offered grudgingly and summarily withdrawn […] Keep a close watch.” One of the first memories I have from living in the middle-class South Asian-heavy enclaves of […]
Above the Cloudline
We’re sitting on the front veranda of a small house in the mountains, maybe 90 minutes’ drive from the Colombian city of Bucaramanga, whose beauty queen has just been crowned Miss Colombia. I know this because at around 2 one morning we’d been woken by explosions, and I’d thought the war had come to Bucaramanga […]