"What are the drums saying, Booker?" - Adolph L. Reed Jr.
Adolph Reed's hilarious and biting criticism of Cornel West, Michael Eric Dyson, Henry Louis Gates and the concept of the "black intellectual."
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Garrett, George, 1896-1966
george_garrett.jpg A short account of George Garrett, Liverpool Wobbly and working class writer. read more
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Common's luck - a film on Jack Common by John Mapplebeck
Jack_Common.jpg Jack Common wrote brilliant novels, film scripts and essays of radical social comment, all rooted in his early 20th century working class Geordie upbringing. Later a friend of George...
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The Detective Novel by João Bernardo
jacques-tardi-2-248x300.jpgAn original thought-provoking essay on the Detective Novel and in particular the thriller, as regards action and isolation by Joao Bernardo translated from the Portuguese....
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Towards a futurology of the present - Marco Cuevas-Hewitt
janus_small.jpg Marco Cuevas-Hewitt outlines an emerging practice amongst radical writers; one entailing an attentiveness to intimations of alternative futures arising in the present. This "futurology...
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Freedom must be saved
Freedom-newspapers.jpg The potential closure of an iconic publication such as ‘Freedom’ is an absolute travesty, and would be in whatever circumstances that it may have arisen. However, the reasons for...
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Samuel Beckett's MOLLOY
Hey Mister Menzies resident.JPG How do we understand MOLLOY? Bourgeois professors would have you believe that Beckett's prose concentrated on telling us how meaningless life is. Molloy lives his life...
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Joke Kaviaar, activist/ publicist, under attack by Dutch state - solidarity...
524812_514272128593606_54377415_n.jpg Joke Kaviaar, writer/ poet/ anarchist/activist, had been put on trial by the Dutch state for íncitement against public order'. The charge is based on four articles...
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Against prison studies without capitalism: "The strange career of The New Jim...
prisi.jpg In this analysis Osel provides a devastating and radical analysis of The New Jim Crow discourse. He asks social justice advocates to take a stand against prison studies that do not include an...
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Working class literature: reading guide
phoca_thumb_l_spanien108.jpg Libcom.org's reading guide on literature with a focus on work and accurate representations of working class life, culture and resistance to power. read more
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On working class fiction
RaggedTrouseredPhilanthropistsCoverDetail.jpg In this essay from 2011, novelist DD Johnston presents a communist analysis of the definition and purpose of working class fiction. ‘The people who make...
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How do you award radicalism? A sympathetic critique of the Bread and Roses...
Mirbeau-La_Greve_des_Electeurs.png The traditional format followed by the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Writing is problematic in its tolerance for hierarchies, of pedigree and knowledge,...
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Self and other in Zionism: Palestine and Israel in recent Hebrew literature -...
amos.jpg Haim Bresheeth looks at perceptions of the relationship between Israelis and Palestinians through looking at Zionist Hebrew literature, particularly the writings of left-Zionist writers such...
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The Hollywood blacklist - Dan Georgakas
Lucy.jpg A short account of the blacklisting of dozens of writers and actors from the movie industry in Hollywood amidst the anti-communist hysteria of the late 1940s and 1950s. read more
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Introduction to Emma Goldman's Living my life - Miriam Brody
emma1919_tn.jpg Introduction to the Penguin Classics edition (2006) of Emma Goldman's Living my life, ed. Miriam Brody. “The most dangerous woman in America,” as J. Edgar Hoover described her, took pen...
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21st Annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair
12622415_542728702557833_6371857848554393737_o.jpg 21st Annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair Saturday April 23, 2016, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The New Oakland Metro House, 522 Second Street, Oakland, CA (2...
View Article"What are the drums saying, Booker?" - Adolph L. Reed Jr.
Adolph Reed's hilarious and biting criticism of Cornel West, Michael Eric Dyson, Henry Louis Gates and the concept of the "black intellectual."
View ArticleCulture and community - Nicolas Walter
A detailed critical review of Raymond Williams' book The Long Revolution, by anarchist Nicolas Walter. read more
View ArticleDown there with Isherwood - Dachine Rainer
A review of Down There on a Visit by Christopher Isherwood, written by Dachine Rainer. read more
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Bloodshed in Bayonne
16_10_13_Dives.png October 8, 2016 is the 100th anniversary of the strike at Standard Oil’s Bayonne, N.J., refineries. In the course of the ten-day strike, 4 people were killed and 86 wounded. The free...
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