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Just a human life!
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.
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What Eisenhower Told Ben-Gurion
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. โThen the roof fell in.โ Eisenhower, the US President, ...
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The Israel Project: The Beginning of the End?
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. โWinston Churchill, November 1942 Say what you want of the old imperious ...
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Finding Ukraine in the US
I have not been alive, until now, for an invasion of a country in which I personally know dozens of people. I didnโt work or live in Ukraine as an adult; my relation to it resembles ...
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Lest we forget: the coup in Honduras 2009
The following post was initially sent as an email message to a group of close friends.ย The authorย agreed to let us post it on Hard Crackers. Friends, As we read about the visits of Vice President ...
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Plunder, Passage, Prison: Three Border Stories
Plunder โNo nos toca;โ basically, โitโs not our problem.โ Thatโs what the municipal police officer told community members of Cruztรณn after paramilitaries ambushed a group of land defenders and assassinated Rodrigo Guadalupe Huรฉt Gรณmez, a father, ...
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Remembering Bobby Sands on the 40th Anniversary of His Death
May 5th marked 40 years since Bobby Sands (Roibeรกrd ร 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 ...
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Is This What You Call โLivingโ?
First published as a pamphlet by the French anarchist journal, โHors du Troupeauโ (โOutside the Crowdโ), 1912. Translated by Curtis Price. Get up at dawn.ย Running or using any means of rapid locomotion.ย Go to “work.”ย That is,ย shutย up in ...
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โI Want To Learn Everything!โ: The Proletarian โIโ
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 Guillotineโand We Should Too
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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