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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.

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. “Then the roof fell in.” Eisenhower, the US President, ...

The Israel Project: The Beginning of the End?

Mike Morgan

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Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. –Winston Churchill, November 1942 Say what you want of the old imperious ...

Finding Ukraine in the US

Maks Bondarenko

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I have not been alive, until now, for an invasion of a country in which I personally know dozens of people. I didn’t work or live in Ukraine as an adult; my relation to it resembles ...

Lest we forget: the coup in Honduras 2009

Tony Equale

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The following post was initially sent as an email message to a group of close friends.  The author agreed to let us post it on Hard Crackers. Friends, As we read about the visits of Vice President ...

Plunder, Passage, Prison: Three Border Stories

Darien Acero

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Plunder “No nos toca;” basically, “it’s not our problem.” That’s what the municipal police officer told community members of Cruztón after paramilitaries ambushed a group of land defenders and assassinated Rodrigo Guadalupe Huét Gómez, a father, ...

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 ...

Is This What You Call “Living”?

E. Armand

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First published as a pamphlet by the French anarchist journal, “Hors du Troupeau” (“Outside the Crowd”), 1912. Translated by Curtis Price. Get up at dawn. Running or using any means of rapid locomotion. Go to “work.” That is, shut up in ...

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“I Want To Learn Everything!”: The Proletarian “I”

Curtis Price

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By the early twentieth century, literacy rates in Russia substantially increased among urban workers and peasants as a result of extending public education to previous illiterate sectors of the population. This drive toward adult education was ...

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Against the Logic of the Guillotine: Why the Paris Commune Burned the Guillotine—and We Should Too

crimethinc

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148 years ago this week, on April 6, 1871, armed participants in the revolutionary Paris Commune seized the guillotine that was stored near the prison in Paris. They brought it to the foot of the statue ...

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