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What is the American Ruling Class Up To?
More importantly, how might we respond?–ย A Hard Crackers Roundtable Seriesย John: Let me begin with what is probably obvious.ย The last several weeks have witnessed an extraordinary explosion of protests, of just about every imaginable variety, ...
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Nothing Less Than Total Repudiation
White America is reeling from being exposed to the truth. We are like the children of a mobster who wake up to the headlines that our dear father, who brought us home candy and protected us ...
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What Are White Workers Thinking? An Interview with Timothy Lombardo
Timothy Lombardo is a native of Northeast Philadelphia and the author of Blue-Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzoโs Philadelphia and Populist Politics. We caught up with him to discuss the post-war dynamics that gave rise to blue-collar conservatism, ...
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“Schools Are an Extension of Police:” Reflections from an Arizona teacher
This August a former student of mine will go on trial for capital murder in Texas. I have no reason to suspect anything other than that he will receive the maximum sentence in the end, which ...
Police Rebellion, Then and Now
Jarrod: A recent New York Times headline sums it up well: โFacing Protests Over Use of Force, Police Respond With More Force.โ Even as Americaโs cult of cop worship implodes before our eyes, it is clear ...
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Fireworks
As the murder of George Floyd set the streets alight, revelers in New York City lit up the night skies with volleys of fireworks smuggled in from out of state. The celebration seemed fitting — the ...
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When the PBA Defends Bad Cops
I wrote the following letter to the editor of The Irish Echo in 2000. Patrick Lynch, the current President of the NYC Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA), had just been elected to his first term. Suffice it ...
Today We Mourn
Hard Crackers is pleased to publish this recent message from Abahlali baseMjondolo, the Shack Dwellers Movement in South Africa.ย The message was released on the anniversary of the Soweto Revolt in 1976.ย We thought it would ...
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“Preserving Our Capacity to Act:” An Interview with Kristian Williams
Hard Crackers:ย If I understand correctly the argument you’ve made about the efficacy of riots, it’s that they impose, far more effectively than legal limits, that communities can place new limits on police brutality. That seems ...
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In the Streets of Philadelphia
A lot can happen in a week. On Saturday, May 30, a beautiful sunny afternoon, we joined thousands of others at the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum to protest the murder of George Floyd by ...
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