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Remembrance / Obituary


A Small Slice of Private Life

Jenny Morgan

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For a few years in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I had the good fortune to be in a relationship with Clem Maharaj, a former jazz drummer from Trinidad whose mother had taken the precaution ...

Plowshares into Swords: John Brown and the Poet of Rage: An Appreciation of the Work of Russell Banks

Beth Henson

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The novelist Russell Banks died on January 7, 2023. We are publishing this appreciation of his work by Beth Henson that first appeared in Race Traitor #10 (Winter, 1999). Beth does a wonderful job describing Russell Banks’s ...

Picture This, Shots in the Dark: Billy Monk’s Underworld

Mike Morgan

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Repressive societies, like those ruled by regimes that rely on heavy policing to enforce state policy, have a way of creating unique situations and throwing up special characters. Often, the most interesting people are those who ...

Rosanne Boyland is Dead—WTF!

John Garvey

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When I listened to the “American Radical” podcast for the first time, I had a hard time keeping track of the people and events so I decided to take detailed notes.  Then I realized that the ...

Eric Garner, the Informal Economy, and the System’s War on Those Who Depend On It

Paul Wasserman

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When Eric Garner was murdered by New York City police in July 2014, the cops had targeted him on suspicion of selling “loosies” – single cigarettes taken from illegally untaxed cigarette packs. Witnesses claimed that Garner ...

On the Anniversary of Elvis Presley’s Death

Mike Morgan

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I was born in 1955, right around the time that Elvis Presley broke out in Memphis, Tennessee.  Throughout my childhood, Elvis was an essential feature, a guiding light.  I grew up with The Rolling Stones, Bob ...

Varkie (Piglet)

Mike Morgan

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Varkie hailed from Kuruman, in the arid Great Karoo on the Ghaap Plateau.  Before he was drafted into the army, Varkie was hired by the South African Railways (SAR), the government owned institution that ensured employment ...

Death of an Anarchist

A.M. Gittlitz

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On May 13 Peter Ventantonio, better known as Jack Terricloth, frontman of the World/Inferno Friendship Society, passed away at the age of 50. Few others in the history of the genre so seamlessly and sincerely combined ...

Remembering Bobby Sands on the 40th Anniversary of His Death

Christian Alexander

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May 5th marked 40 years since Bobby Sands (Roibeárd Ó Seachnasaigh) was murdered by the British State. Sands was a Volunteer within the Provisional IRA and once he was imprisoned became the officer commanding for the ...

Vee & Me Up In Here

Chris Alexander

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DMX is dead.  Admittedly, when he blew up in late 1990s, he wasn’t my go to for hip hop, although I did appreciate him.  He was unapologetically rough.  He was uncompromisingly raw, despite slick production.  That ...
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