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APRIL 17: GLOBAL DAY OF PEASANT STRUGGLE
Peasants and small farmers are most assuredly a part of what we call the multitude in today's world. They make up half of the world population and grow at least 70% of the world's food. This group...
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ANGELA DAVIS ON PRISON ABOLITION, THE WAR ON DRUGS, IMMIGRATION...
Well, today is Scission's Prison Friday and tomorrow is International Women's Day, so what could be more appropriate then an interview with Angela Davis.Without further adieu, from Democracy...
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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY - ALEKSANDRA KOLLONTAI
International Women’s DayAleksandra KollontaiMoscow, USSR: 1920.A militant celebration.Women’s Day or Working Women’s Day is a day of international solidarity, and a day for reviewing the strength and...
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VENEZUELA: A PROPOSED PATH TO SOCIALISM
Today is theoretical Monday and I am turning to the Monthly Review for an interesting piece. I have only read half of it myself so far, thus I will be forced to withhold judgement. Whether you (or I)...
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WHAT'S UP IN BOSNIA
Well, my google fiber is out and i am using my ipad for this. I really am not a fan of the ipad keypad, so I don't intend today to write much at all. I also have screwed up the article posting I...
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GEOGRE ZIMMERMAN, AUTOGRAPHS AND LYNCHING SOUVENIRS
I'M NOT KIDDINGCan you imagine someone who wants the autograph of George Zimmerman? Well, you may have heard that over the weekend Zimmerman appeared at a scaled-down version of the New Orlando Gun...
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WHAT USA SILENCE ON UYGHUR TERROR IS ALL ABOUT
This will be short but not sweet, as I am trying to watch basketball, use my ipad, get this done, time running out in all directions. Notice how from the USA perspective terrorism only applies if...
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THE LONG ARM OF THE CRIMINAL INJUSTICE SYSTEM
It is Prison Friday here at Scission. The thing with the American criminal injustice system is that it never, ever lets go. You get your ass busted, maybe the charges get dismissed. Maybe you are...
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BOLSHEVISM AND BUREAUCRACY
It is theoretical Monday and I am reaching back half a century to 1964 and an article first published in the journal SOCIALISM OU BARBARIE. It was written as an introduction to Alexandra Kollontia's...
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MARCH MADNESS OVERTAKES SCISSION / I GOT A BASKETBALL JONES
WE NEED NUMBER 21JOEL EMBIIDBACKASAPDue to the NCAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT, Scission will be taking time off. I need time to conduct the necessary research to fill out my brackets, prepare properly for...
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ON THE LEAGUE OF REVOLUTIONARY BLACK WORKERS
It's Theoretical Monday and I have a cold and a fever and KU has lost and I am just not happy, not to mention it is snowing. So I have nothing to say at all.I am providing an essay concerning the...
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SCREW THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE/REST IN PEACE PAPA BEAR
THEY claim the sit/lie ordinance is there so that sidewalks aren't blocked. That is an obvious lie. Many people obstruct pedestrian traffic. This includes people waiting for buses, people stopping to...
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CLAUDIA SILVA FERREIRA IS DEAD
BROUGHT TO YOU BY GLOBAL CAPITALThis piece below from the Center of a Stateless Society offers up three problems and really no solutions. You see you have these favelas on the hills surrounding Rio de...
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THE UNFORTUNATELY NOT SO STRANGE CASE OF STACEY HYDE
STACEY HYDEToday, Scission Prison Friday, goes to England where a young woman may, I say, may be on the verge of some much needed good news. Better late, then never.Stacey Hyde was seventeen when she...
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WITCHES, CAPITALISM, PERSECUTION, AND RESISTANCE
One of my favorite books in the last few years was "Caliban and the Witch" by Silvia Federici. As Federici herself wrote this work, ...is the argument that Marx’s analysis of capitalism has been...
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CHARLES KOCH, GUS, BILL, AND ME
CHARLES KOCHWhat is left to say about the Koch brothers that has not already been said? These have got to be the two most hated brother combo in America today, maybe the world (unless, of course, you...
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THE MANY FACES OF WOMEN'S OPPRESSION IN EGYPT TODAY
Pharaonic women figures by artist Alaa Awad represent Egyptian women who led movements for social change in Egypt's history and the role of women in the Revolution todayI have no idea why, but an...
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POLISH FARMERS: THE LAST LINE OF RESISTANCE TO FRACKING OUTRAGE
For ten months the people of Zurawlow, Poland, have been occupying a field near their village attempting to stop Chevron in its tracks. Under the protection of security, and in a very tense atmosphere,...
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A POCKET SIZED LOOK AT WHAT IS CALLED THE "JUSTICE SYSTEM"
Today is Prison Friday and all I am going to do is post some graphs and bits of information from the Sentencing Project below. I will follow this with an article about raising babies in prison from...
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THE KOCHS ROLE IN THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST AMERICAN DEMOCRACY - BY GUS DIZEREGA
Last week I did a post here entitled Charles Koch, Gus, Bill and Me. It was based on an interview with and some writings of Gus DiZerega who grew up with the Kochs in Wichita. I knew Gus way back in...
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