ZAPATISTAS, STORYTELLING AND RESISTANCE: A TALE FROM OLD ANTONIO AS TOLD TO...
Last week I simply forgot Cultural Monday, but this week here it is.Resistance and culture. Revolution and culture. Nowhere does any of this come together in a closer relationship than amongst the...
View ArticleOMAHA TWO: EVERYONE KNOWS IT IS JUST WRONG
William Sullivan and J. Edgar Hoover shake hands. Sullivan oversaw COINTELPRO for Hoover. – Photo: FBIIt is Prison Friday here at Scission and once more I return to the glaring case of total injustice...
View ArticleSEXUAL RELATIONS AND THE CLASS STRUGGLE
For Theoretical Weekends Scission takes a look at sex. Really! A communist theory of love and sexuality, I bet Lenin didn't write this. Alexandra Kollontai did. She was always such a thorn in his...
View ArticleSUPERMAN: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE RATHER STRANGE
"The Superman of the late ’30s was an angry fellow. He battled crooked politicians and slimy capitalists– once dragging a coal tycoon down into his own unsafe mine. He grabbed generals sending soldiers...
View ArticleTHE PARTY HAS ARRIVED IN GREECE...AND THAT IS NOT A GOOD THING
THIS IS WHAT DIRECT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKESeveral years of People's Assemblies in squares across Greece maybe has spoiled us. Direct democracy in action. Horizontal and all that. Problems, sure, but...
View ArticleDON'T GET TOO COMFORTABLE
I am taking another break until next week. I thought and thought about what to leave you with, and said, "ah, hell, leave em all with this."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2-upM_F2yYI think you can...
View ArticleWHAT IF THE GAY BASHERS GOT BASHED????
TAKING AIM AT GAY BASHERSA gay small business owner is attacked and savagely beaten in Tennessee. The internet is abuzz with alarm and anger, but...The truth is there is nothing strange or unusual...
View ArticleREMEMBERING FRED HAMPTON
Forty-four years ago today, I heard the news of the police murder of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark in Chicago. As stunning as the news was, it wasn't. After all Panthers were being attacked, killed,...
View ArticleWHY DOES NO ONE TALK ABOUT AFRICA'S LAST COLONY
JUST ONE OF FIVE MILLION MINES SCATTERED ABOUT WHICH KILL AND MAIM SAHRAWI PEOPLE DAY AFTER DAYWhy not? Why not talk about Western Sahara, Africa's last colony, the place no one hardly ever mentions...
View ArticleDON'T LET THEM KID YOU, THEY HATED AND FEARED NELSON MANDELA
This may be a little strange. Just got home from minor surgery and am a bit off, as it were. Fortunately my friend Bill Berkowitz has written a column that I can use here without any further...
View ArticleTHE DOCTOR IS IN: ON REVOLUTIONARY MEDICINE
It's time for theoretical weekends and still reeling a little bit from yesterday afternoon's anesthesia, I am hardly up to some heavy discussion of my own. Instead, I will post something here from Che...
View ArticleTHE EXCITING TALE OF THE G-MEN AND THE PHILOSOPHERS
SECRET COMMUNIST CELL PLOTTING THE DESTRUCTION OF THE USAHow can you not enjoy an article that dares to ask the question, could Jean-Paul Sarte have been the Second Shooter in Dallas on November 22,...
View ArticleTHE CHOICE IS NOT ANIMAL LIBERATION OR HUMAN LIBERATION
Oftentimes those in the Animal Liberation movement are berated for "caring more about animals then humans (as if humans are not animals)." Usually, Animal Liberationists just move on and don't even...
View ArticleBRITISH OCCUPIED IRELAND: FREE STEPHEN MURNEY NOW
The case against Irish activist Stephen Murney is unraveling but Murney remains in prison. Most of you probably never heard of Stephen Murney.Murney is a 29 year old who lives in the city of Newry,...
View Article"AMBROSIO FOUGHT HARD...NOW WE'VE LOST HIM"
ALWAYS AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE STRUGGLELast week a great man died.Guarani Indian leader Ambrosio Vilhalva was murdered as he approached his community, known as Guyra Roká, near the town of Caarapao, in...
View Article"WHERE THE SEA BREATHES" / OSCAR LOPEZ RIVERA
“The U.S. government categorically denies it has political prisoners in its gulags. It does it primarily to cover up the nefarious, barbaric and even criminal acts and practices it carries out against...
View ArticleTHE WHITE MASTERS OF THE WORLD BY W.E.B.DUBOIS
It's Theoretical Weekends at Scission and we turn to the late, great W.E.B. Du Bois author of the masterpiece BLACK RECONSTRUCTION IN AMERICA which is a must to read. Du Bois was many things to many...
View ArticlePRIMO LEVI AND THE QUESTION OF "WHY"
It is Cultural Monday at Scission. Seldom do I post anything from the Nation, if for no other reason then I figure it gets read plenty anyway, but today I read this article and I thought I would like...
View ArticleNAZIS ATTACK ANTI-RACIST MARCH IN SWEDEN, BEATEN BACK
DUHAIN'T THAT THE TRUTHAnti-racist Swedes aren't going to let a pack of neo nazi thugs stop them.An anti-nazi march by local residents in the Karrtorp neighborhood of Sweden's capital was attacked by...
View ArticleBRAZIL, FURY, ANARCHY, ANGER, YOUTH, SOCCER: THE THRILL OF VICTORY, THE AGONY...
It's late and I just got home, so not much time. Fortunately, I've been thinking of posting this piece and have it right here.Capital is a big deal, World Cup Soccer is a big deal, repression is a big...
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