HARD CRACKERS

A short while ago, Hard Crackers sent an invitation to people who we knew had been active in various reproductive freedom projects over the last fifty years to help us think through the issues and challenges involved in developing an effective radical strategy to secure unrestricted access to abortion for all women. We were very […]

Hard Crackers Magazine Issue #9 is now available. To order copies, please go to the Store section on our website. If you are reading this, you are already on that website. The price is $8 per issue. It is free to prisoners. Regular subscribers will receive a copy in the mail. The theme of this […]

To be a revolutionary during the first decade of the 20th century meant recognizing that one stood at the beginning of a new strategic era, one marked by the eclipse and exhaustion of a certain Blanquist solution to the problem of revolutionary conquest. For the Blanquist conspiracists of the 19th century, the subversion of the […]

“Privilege is provisional,” writes Margo Jefferson in Negroland, part memoir, part history of  African Americans like herself who grew up “middle class” in Chicago.  “Privilege can be denied, withheld, offered grudgingly and summarily withdrawn […] Keep a close watch.” One of the first memories I have from living in the middle-class South Asian-heavy enclaves of […]

We’re sitting on the front veranda of a small house in the mountains, maybe 90 minutes’ drive from the Colombian city of Bucaramanga, whose beauty queen has just been crowned Miss Colombia. I know this because at around 2 one morning we’d been woken by explosions, and I’d thought the war had come to Bucaramanga […]

I recently did a track workout at a local park in my city of Newark, NJ. My running partner and I chose Weequahic Park instead of the one in our neighborhood because the slightly farther away park has a regulation 400m track, where the local one is some odd shorter distance that makes it harder […]