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A Brilliant Red Thread, book review, Don Hamerquist - 29 janvier 2025

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 - 11 décembre 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. ...

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analysis, anti-imperialism, lebanon, Matthew N Lyons, middle east, palestine, Three Way Fight - 8 octobre 2024

“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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anti-imperialism, event, montreal - 26 août 2024

Bandung of the North, Sept. 27-29 in Montreal

From the Bandung of the North website (français suit en bas): The Bandung Conference of the North continues in the spirit of Bandung 1955, the first intercontinental conference of non-white peoples in human history. In the context of the Cold War, when the world was polarized between the Soviet and Western blocs, a group of newly sovereign states of the "South" organized themselves politically to accelerate the process of independence for those states still under colonial rule. It was in the small town of Bandung, on the Indonesian island of Java, that this first international conference was held from April...

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anarchism, event - 16 août 2024

[Aug 31] 7th Annual Halifax Anarchist Bookfair!

Kersplebedeb is excited to be heading back to the lovely Halifax Bookfair in a couple weeks! 7th Annual Halifax Anarchist Bookfair Saturday, August 31, 10am–6pm(Rain date: September 1st)Location: Old Spring Garden Library Free! Childcare and food on site!Welcome to all those interested in anarchy! The face of coercive domination constantly shapeshifts, though at its core we know the foundation remains unchanged: capitalism, colonialism and centralized power. Action is demanded urgently and the immensity of the breadth of injustices can be mind-boggling: ongoing genocides, the housing crisis, the steady rise of fascism, the ever-present simmering of the environmental and climate crisis,...

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