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July 17, 2022

On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal, reviewed by Tyler Shipley in Marx & Philosophy

M.I. Asma On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal Kersplebedeb, Montreal, 2021. 360 pp., pb ISBN 9781989701140 Reviewed by Tyler Shipley About the reviewer Tyler Shipley is professor of culture, society and commerce at Humber College in Toronto, Canada and is the author of Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination (2020) and Ottawa and Empire: Canada and the Military Coup in Honduras (2017). It is a testament to the power of On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal that a set of interventions written across the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic should remain so potent and resonant as...

July 17: Montreal March for Status for All [Solidarity Across Borders]

Montreal March for Status for All
Sunday, 17 July 2022
2pm at Place Emilie Gamelin (Berri UQAM metro)

As the federal government is in the process of developing a regularization programme for undocumented migrants, precarious status migrants and their friends, neighbours and allies will march together to demand a full regularization programme for ALL.

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Cid V Brunet, from embers - July 11, 2022

A Stripper's Memoir: From Embers Interview with Cid V. Brunet

This episode features an interview with Cid V. Brunet about their recent memoir This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir. We talk about stripping, sex work, anarchist community, sex, gender and much more. This Is My Real Name is the memoir of Cid V Brunet, who spent ten years working as a dancer at strip clubs, using the name Michelle. From her very first lap dance in a small-town bar to her work at high-end clubs, Michelle learns she must follow the unspoken rules that will allow her to succeed in the competitive industry. Along the way, she and...

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Kevin Rashid Johnson - July 6, 2022

Kevin "Rashid" Johnson: My Cancer Diagnosis and the Disease of Denied Prison Medical Care, & Call for Action

On July 1, 2022 I was informed by a prison doctor here at Virginia’s Nottoway Correctional (sic!) Center (NCC) that I had tested positive for prostate cancer. This diagnosis came after I had been left for months by NCC medical staff with known blood test results showing that my PSA (prostate specific analysis) levels were extremely high, evidencing likely prostate-related illness. This delay in follow-up testing and treatment left the cancer to develop or advance beyond stages at which it might have been less serious. FIRST SIGNS My PSA levels were first tested on October 8, 2021, at which...

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July 4, 2022

J. Sakai on the "War of Independence" (from Settlers)

The war was a disruption to Slave Amerika, a chaotic gap in the European capitalist ranks to be hit hard. Afrikans seized the time — not by the tens or hundreds, but by the many thousands. Amerika shook with the tremors of their movement. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were bitter about their personal losses: Thomas Jefferson lost many of his slaves; Virginia’s Governor Benjamin Harrison lost thirty of “my finest slaves”; William Lee lost sixty-five slaves, and said two of his neighbors “lost every slave they had in the world”; South Carolina’s Arthur Middleton lost fifty slaves. Afrikans were...

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