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Keith LaMar, political prisoners, prisoners - February 25, 2025

Keith Lamar & Molly Crabapple: The Injustice of Justice, A Short Film

Keith LaMar, a wrongfully-convicted Black man in The United States, teams up with world-renowned artist Molly Crabapple to share the story of how he was framed and sentenced to death following the Lucasville Prison Uprising at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in 1993. Keith has been fighting for his liberation from solitary confinement, where he has been held for over 30 years! Scheduled to be executed on January 13, 2027. Keith and his supporters intend to stop Ohio officials. A message from Keith LaMar on January 13, 2025: With today marking two years until my proposed execution date, as time...

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January 30, 2025

Recent Dispatches from Comrades in Germany, 2024–25

By the time Daniela Klette, Burkhard Garweg, and Volker Staub ended up on wanted posters, the group they were accused of belonging to—the Red Army Faction—had been in existence for over two decades. The RAF was a clandestine organization that had waged armed struggle throughout the 1970s and 1980s in order to create an anti-imperialist pole of resistance in West Germany, as the country was known at the time. Several members died in the course of the struggle, and dozens of guerrillas and their supporters served lengthy prison terms. It is alleged that Daniela, Burkhard, and Volker were active in...

A Brilliant Red Thread named one of the Portland Mercury's favorite books of 2024

Available from LeftWingBooks.net Good political writing is incendiary. It strikes a balance between the historian and the propagandist, while also (ideally) not coming off as the ravings of a complete crank. Northwest writer Don Hamerquist never wrote for a mass audience; he mostly organized behind the scenes of the American revolutionary left. A "Red Diaper Baby,” born to communist parents, Hamerquist joined the party during the red scare of the '50s, and later the influential leftist collective Sojourner Truth Organization in the '60s and '70s. A Brilliant Red Thread is a collection of Don’s work that could have easily disappeared in...

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antifascism, book review, Devin Z. Shaw - December 11, 2024

Insurgent Trajectory of Antifascist Genealogies: Review of Devin Z. Shaw's latest book [Brotherwise Dispatch]

[This review was originally posted to The Brotherwise Dispatch on Dec. 1, 2024.] Devin Z. Shaw, Genealogies of Antifascism: Militancy, Critique and the Three Way Fight, (Montreal, Canada: Kersplebedeb, 2024). by A. Shahid Stover Devin Z. Shaw’s Genealogies of Antifascism insightfully works towards demarcating[1] a fundamental redefinition of fascism itself – for social activists – whose hope in the capacity of the imperial mainstream-as-civil society to prevent the rise of fascism is waning, – and for radical intellectuals – whose impatience with challenging fascism on terms conducive to reinforcing advanced neoliberal capitalist hegemony is at an all-time high. ...

“Imperialism as a whole is the enemy of humanity, not particular countries”: Reading Michael Karadjis on the Middle East [ThreeWayFight]

[This article was originally posted on ThreeWayFight.org on October 8, 2024.] Israeli airstrike on Tyre, Lebanon, 25 September 2024. by Matthew N. Lyons The last time Israel launched a ground invasion of Lebanon, in 2006, I argued on Three Way Fight (here, here, and here) that US leftists should support Hezbollah against Israeli aggression, despite the fact that it was a right-wing movement with ultimately theocratic goals. This pissed off a lot of leftists. Some people said we should reject both Israel and Hezbollah equally, but the stronger disagreement came from leftists who declared it was wrong to characterize Hezbollah...

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