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Just a human life!

Rosa Luxemburg

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Published on May 4, 1899, in the Leipziger Volkszeitung (LVZ) newspaper, Rosa Luxemburg, turns her attention to the miseries and pain of individuals in the working class.
The Water Club

The Water Club

Bill Carney

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During college and for a couple years after, I worked at a Manhattan restaurant as a valet car parker. There is not a lot of valet car parking in Manhattan, but they had it at the Water Club, where we dubbed ourselves โ€œNew Yorkโ€™s First Valet Corps,โ€ in no small part because there werenโ€™t many/any other rival valet groups. This was a trend that would continue in my life later when I was in NYCโ€™s โ€œmost powerful jug bandโ€ and โ€œBrooklynโ€™s Greatest French rock band.โ€
William Carlos Williams: Poet of the Left

William Carlos Williams: Poet of the Left

Ciarรกn Oโ€™Rourke

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Often presented by literary critics as a liberal with paternalistic instincts towards the working poor, poet William Carlos Williams was in fact one of the most exuberantly left-wing poets of his generation.

Berlin as a Community Space vs. Berlin as a Business: A Discussion with Jolene Saint

Jarrod Shanahan

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Late last year, Chicagoโ€™s beloved queer nightspot Berlin closed its doors amid a controversial union drive. I was first drawn to this editorial in the Chicago Tribune by a prominent photo of my friend Marten Katze, dismayed to find, however, that this powerful image image was appended to a childish anti-worker screed. I decided to speak with a Berlin union organizer and get the workersโ€™ side of the story.ย 
On Political Reppresion

On Political Repression: A Hard Crackers Discussion with Michael Deutsch

John Garvey and Mike Morgan

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Michael Deutsch is an experienced human rights attorney in the U.S., perhaps one of the most veteran and well-informed lawyers at that extremely difficult craft in this country. ย Michael graciously allowed us at Hard Crackers to pick his brains and share some of his experiences with us.

Treason to Zionism is Loyalty to Humanity

John Garvey

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In this essay, Iโ€™m going to argue that the continuing opposition to Israelโ€™s war on Gaza should be centrally grounded in a determined opposition to the whole Zionist project. No sympathies for any variant of Zionism ...

What Eisenhower Told Ben-Gurion

John Garvey

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In 1956, Israel, in cooperation with Britain and France invaded the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula. They were overly confident that they would not be stopped. โ€œThen the roof fell in.โ€ Eisenhower, the US President, ...

Interview with One Democratic State Initiative

Hard Crackers Editors

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Introduction The One Democratic State Initiative (ODSI) represents a distinctive political position in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine. We are reasonably sure that other individuals and perhaps organizations, that we donโ€™t know about, hold ...