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
Mask down, fists up: a day at work in the library
Like most workers, I donโt wake up in the morning thinking Iโm going to get swung at while at my job. Iโm a librarian, not a professional boxer or an MMA fighter. But on a Monday afternoon in August, in this glorious year 2020, thatโs just what happened. I asked a library visitor to pull …
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Killing Time
You can hear a sulking refrain from some corners of the internet lately, usually from armchair revolutionaries, celebrity leftists, or just the โextremely onlineโ: the militant phase of the 2020 uprising against police terror is overโliberal reformers have successfully coopted it. The refrain comes tinged with defeat and a sense that things are already done. …