Onward, Christian Soldiers!
๏ปฟA few weeks ago I received two letters in the mail. They were addressed to me by name and sent to my address on Washington Island, WI. One was from former Vice President of the U.S., Mike Pence. The other was from Edwin Meese, former Attorney General in the Ronald Reagan Administration who is now …
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Reflections from January 26th in Dallas
This piece is also posted on Haters Cafe. โA bunch of people just felt free for the first time,โ was the immediate reaction of a seasoned comrade to a protest on January 26th, 2025. The demonstration was organized by two Latina high school girls to support migrants against the escalating deportations and racist policies coming …
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The Lost and Early Writings of James Connolly
Review: Conor McCabe, ed., The Lost and Early Writings of James Connolly: 1889-1898 (Iskra Books, 2024) โThe election of a Socialist to any public body at presentโ, declared James Connolly in 1894, โis only valuable, in so far as it is the return of a disturber of the political peace.โ Born in an Edinburgh slum …
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In Otero
Emilien Bernard and Pauline Laplace are two alternative free-lance journalists working for the Marseille critical monthly CQFD, which has a substantial French global distribution (about 10, 000 copies) and argues for an anarchist perspective. CQFD means Ce Quโil Faut Dรฉmontrer. The two journalists travelled to the USA to report about the southern wall. A special dossier โUSA: droit dans le murโ …
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Reading Pan-African Revolt
โI mean, weโre talking about the last twenty years. Thatโs most of our lives. Maybe even all of yours!โ Tentative silence. Itโs always hard to gauge how this kind of direct appeal will go over. Then again, itโs hard to know what works on a Monday morning in a classroom of college students. In November. …
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First as Tragedy, Then as Slop
…I think itโs safe to identify MrBeastโs primary schtick as the fusion of two favorite ultra-rich past times, philanthropy and decadence. MrBeast is far from the first tycoon to master these crafts. However, his Frankenstein brand of philanthropic decadence is the novelty that has propelled him to the top of YouTube, becoming the first โbillionaire YouTuber.โ
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From the Archives
John Brownโโone of the most clear-sighted and courageous patriots our nation has ever producedโ
An Interview with Marty Brown Marty Brown is a descendant of Jason Brown, one of John Brownโs children.ย She lives in Portland, Oregon.ย We contacted her after we read a letter that she had written to The New Yorker which challenged the assumption that the novel Good Lord Bird and the new TV series based …
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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 โvoyagesโ through the discontents of peopleโs daily lives. The Hard Crackers editors are especially thankful to Beth for agreeing …
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