By Nick Mamatas Two weeks ago I was asked by the nice litblog Largehearted Boy to compile a “playlist” of…
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A New Notion: The World View of CLR James
The World View of C.L.R. James by Noel Ignatiev Cyril Lionel Robert James was born in Trinidad in 1901 to…
A Nation of Prison Houses (Part 2) – Making a Buck in the Pig’s Pen
By Michael Ryan A Nation of Prison Houses (Part 2) – Making a Buck in the Pig’s Pen[1] In August,…
A Nation of Prison Houses (Part 1) – Tallying the Damage Done
By Michael Ryan A Nation of Prison Houses (Part 1) – Tallying the Damage Done If Tsarist Russia was “a…
“From Ayotzinapa to Ferguson, the State Is Our Enemy”
By Cindy Milstein So much could be said of yesterday’s large, boisterous, self-organized #ShutItDownForMikeBrown disruption of downtown San Francisco during…
“Hatred and Pity”: James Baldwin in “I Am Not Your Negro”
by JJ Amaworo Wilson Anyone interested in race and civil rights needs to see this film. It’s based on thirty…
‘Now Is the Time’: Ramsey Clark on Cuba and Lucius Walker
From NACLAOriginally posted by Michael Fox On Thursday, June 30, hundreds of people packed into Manhattan’s Riverside Church for the…