Lois Beckett: ‘A system of global apartheid’ – author Harsha Walia on why the border crisis is a myth
The Guardian, April 7, 2021 The rising number of migrant children and families seeking to cross the US border with Mexico is emerging as…
Georgia Voice, “Dr. Marie Equi: Medical Doctor, Abortionist, Feminist, Lesbian, Anarchist, Labor and Prison Activist”
Maria Helena Dolan, April 8, 2021 A Massachusetts native, Dr. Marie Equi was born into an Italian and Irish home. She spent much of…
ABC News, “White supremacists, extremists may use Chauvin trial to further their agendas: DHS”
Some extremists have posted online about a “race war,” DHS said. Josh Margolin, April 8, 2021 As Derek Chauvin’s murder trial continues in Minneapolis,…
Kristian Williams: Intelligence Report on “Extremism” Equates Anarchists With Right-Wing Militias
Truthout, April 7, 2021 Mainstream Democrats are in a hawkish mood when it comes to “domestic terrorism.” That is bad news for the left. Immediately upon taking office, President Biden “tasked…
Inverse, “Viral ‘Falcon and Winter Soldier’ Tweet Reveals Marvel’s Worst Flaw is Back”
Jake Kleinman, April 3, 2021 WHEN IT COMES TO VILLAINS, Marvel’s movies have always been hit or miss. After all, for every Thanos, there’s a Malekith. (Who?…
Wired, “‘The Dispossessed’ Is Still One of Sci-Fi’s Smartest Books”
Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1974 novel, about a society with no government or laws, remains a thoughtful exploration of politics and economics decades later….
Elias Rodriques: Abolition Is a Collective Vision – An Interview With Mariame Kaba
The Nation, March 29, 2021 A conversation about how the pandemic has raised the stakes for the abolition movement, collective care, and a world…
George Katsiaficas: A Response to “Spontaneous Combustion”
The Institute for Anarchist Studies, March 16, 2021 Jason Del Gandio and AK Thompson, eds. Spontaneous Combustion: The Eros Effect and Global Revolution (Albany: SUNY Press,…
Eleanor Finley: Summer of Fire: Municipalism and the George Floyd Uprising
Minim, March 29, 2021 The summer and fall of 2020 brought a reckoning on racialized violence in the US at a scale unseen in…
Politico, “‘Be aware’: The Pentagon’s target list for extremist infiltrators — right and left”
An internal “training module” singles out a range of groups, ideologies and symbols seen as primary insider threats. Betsy Woodruff Swan and Bryan Bender,…