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[Mirrored from tcj.com] The Spectre Lefteris “Boban” Papathanasis, Mauro Vanetti, Vangelis ZikosKersplebedeb Publishing$17USD/$22CAD104 pages Buy Now Review by Ian Thomas, August 25, 2026 Corporate interests have outstripped the supposed hegemony of nation-states for a while now. That fact has spilled beyond boardrooms and corner offices and into the realm of the everyday. The game is the same as it ever was, to make the line go up. Attended by that zero-sum focus on growth and an equally binary disdain for whatever gets in the way of it, oligarchs and their pet politicians are content to run the play that has...

[Originally posted to ThreeWayFight.org on July 3, 2026] By Matthew N. Lyons With the court cases against the Prairieland ICE protesters and the Minnesota 15, the Trump administration has ratcheted up its authoritarian power drive. The regime is trying to criminalize radical politics and grassroots organizing, as a cornerstone of its campaign to suppress all political dissent. In the Prairieland case, a federal judge slapped extraordinarily harsh sentences—ranging from 30 to 100 years—on eight defendants connected with a July 4, 2025 demonstration at the Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado, Texas. Benjamin Song, who was convicted of attempted murder for shooting...

Laurence McKeown—Irish Republican, former hunger-striker, writer—was on Montreal community radio station CKUT's Prison Radio Show recently to discuss And Flowers Grew Up Through the Concrete, his second prison memoir. This book covers the period after the 1981 hunger strike on which 10 republicans died in the struggle against British criminalization. In the conversation, Laurence discusses the shifting strategies adopted in this new period, and how they built on lessons learned during the blanket protest to achieve the substance of their demands. He also discusses how the prisoners used this strength and autonomy to pursue the continuation of the republican struggle...

Matthew N Lyons [Originally posted to ThreeWayFight.org on April 22, 2026] For decades the Southern Poverty Law Center was a mixed bag. On the plus side, it produced valuable research reports about the far right and brought lawsuits that helped shut down several important white supremacist groups, including United Klans of America, White Aryan Resistance, and Aryan Nations. On the negative side, it collaborated with the FBI, promoted a shallow and system-supporting anti-“hate” analytic framework, hoarded donations, and fostered a toxic and discriminatory workplace environment. It gets worse. An April 3, 2026, Substack article by former SPLC Senior Investigative Reporter...

Vijay Prashad’s Iran: A Response to CounterPunch’s Declaration “Six Non-Negotiable Terms from International Scholars…to End the U.S. War on Iran,” and to the Political Framework That Made It Possible We appreciated and recommend this recent essay.