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Dancing for FDR: How My Father Met My Mother (and Vice Versa)
A key drama at the heart of all our personal origin stories is the saga of how our parents met. Iโve known the basics of this piece of my family history as long as I can ...
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From Anaximander to Marx, part 3
The end of the road of the sect For quite a few years after Healyโs exposure I, and others, still carried on trying to build โthe partyโ which was really just a small group of self-appointed ...
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From Anaximander to Marx, Part 2
Human society as an evolutionary process Darwinโs โOrigin of the Speciesโ came about from the data gathered during his voyage on the Beagle. A deeply religious man, Darwin was brought almost to the point of mental ...
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From Anaximander to Marx or how I spent half my life in a โrevolutionaryโ cult and the other half working out why
Bob Myers was born in 1949 in London to a middle class mum and a working class dad who had met in a factory canteen during WW2. They were both involved in the Workers Educational Association ...
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A Small Slice of Private Life
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 ...
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Plowshares into Swords: John Brown and the Poet of Rage: An Appreciation of the Work of Russell Banks
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).ย Beth does a wonderful job describing Russell Banksโs ...
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Picture This, Shots in the Dark: Billy Monk’s Underworld
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 ...
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Rosanne Boyland is DeadโWTF!
When I listened to the โAmerican Radicalโ podcast for the first time, I had a hard time keeping track of the people and events so I decided to take detailed notes.ย Then I realized that the ...
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Eric Garner, the Informal Economy, and the System’s War on Those Who Depend On It
When Eric Garner was murdered by New York City police in July 2014, the cops had targeted him on suspicion of selling โloosiesโ โ single cigarettes taken from illegally untaxed cigarette packs. Witnesses claimed that Garner ...
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On the Anniversary of Elvis Presley’s Death
I was born in 1955, right around the time that Elvis Presley broke out in Memphis, Tennessee. ย Throughout my childhood, Elvis was an essential feature, a guiding light.ย I grew up with The Rolling Stones, Bob ...
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