WHO GETS BOND, WHO DOESN'T AND WHAT IT REALLY MEANS
It is prisons Friday and I decided a look at pretrial detention might be in order. Surprise, surprise, surprise...it seems that like pretty much everything else in the US of A, race seems to play a...
View ArticleBEYOND KRONSTADT; THE BOLSHEVIKS IN POWER BY MARK KOSMAN
Another in a long line of windy pieces for Theoretical Weekends at Scission. This one delves into what went wrong with the Russian Revolution and is full of lessons for today.It is from, where else,...
View ArticleWHAT IN THE HELL IS GOING ON IN NORTHERN IRELAND NOW
Okay, I have been watching for weeks this "flag" controversy in Northern Ireland. I've watched loyalist violence, police violence, attacks on Republican neighborhoods, road blocks and all the rest....
View ArticleTHE STRUGGLE FOR GREYHOUNDS AND THE VIDEO THE BREEDERS DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE
I hope you don't mind but I have decided to utilize my blog to fight the continued abuse of racing greyhounds by a racing industry run by nothing but a group of greedy capitalists. Since I have been...
View ArticleHAITI: WHERE THE DREAM REFUSES TO DIE
The people of Haiti have been screwed over so often by so many - colonialism, imperialism, Empire, not to mention a few local dictators thrown in for good measure. Yet, they never give up, not ever....
View ArticleIDLE NO MORE, QUEBEC, AND MYTHS OF HISTORY
It's amazing sometimes how deluded people can be. It's amazing sometimes how hard some people try to delude others. There are those folks who do all they can to clean up history so that it reflects...
View ArticleLIZZY SEEBERG: THE YOUNG WOMAN NOTRE DAME FORGOT
LIZZY SEEBERGTHE YOUNG WOMAN NOTRE DAME FORGOTI had an article all lined up for Prison Friday, but it will have to wait until next week. You see, I was eating an english muffin with my protein drink...
View ArticleTAKE OVER THE CITY FROM LOTTA CONTINUA
It's Theoretical Weekends from Scission and we are going way back to the early 70s for a piece from Lotta Continua which proves what should not need to be proven - the workplace is not the only place...
View ArticleMARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. WAS NOT THEIR FRIEND
Martin Luther King, Jr. was not a saint. He was not a charity organization. He was not a musical ensemble. He was not a Mr. Goody Two Shoes. He was not your friendly Uncle Bill. He was not liked...
View ArticleDID SOMEONE SAY, "OIL?"
It is probably merely coincidental that Exon Mobil boss Rex Tillerson just recently sat down to mend fences with Iraq's prime minister. Middle east online reports, "The meeting was the first between...
View ArticleSEIZE THE TIME: THE EIGHTH DEFENDANT AND THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY
The Black Panther Party. They built free clinics. The fed children. They educated themselves and a myriad of others. The kept an eye on the police. They picked up the gun to defend themselves and...
View ArticleHOW DO THEY SLEEP AT NIGHT?
How many times have you said to yourself, "How do they sleep at night?" This is a story that ends up giving the unfortunate answer to that question. I will leave you with that. The following is from...
View ArticleANARCHIST GRAND JURY RESISTER KERRY CUNNEEN SPEAKS
Kerry Cunneen is a young woman and an anarchist who is refusing to cooperate with a grand jury which is investigating anarchists in the Northwest. The grand jury is "specifically" looking into the...
View ArticleINFO-LABOUR AND PRECARISATION - BIFO
Precarisation (huh) is the subject of the essay below from generations online) presented in the on going series known only as Theoretical Weekends at Scission. If you don't like it, blame Franco...
View ArticlePATRIARCHY AND THE POLICING OF WOMEN
It's always the same. Women get the blame when they are the victims. Women get punished when they are the victims. Women get locked up, covered up, put out of sight because there is something wrong...
View ArticleIS THE ARAB SPRING TURNING BLACK?
Let me just preface this (again) by saying I am NOT an anarchist. I am an autonomous Marxist. Many will tell you that makes me about as close to being an anarchist while not being one, while...
View ArticleA BOATLOAD OF COMMUNIQUES FROM THE EZLN RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW
All of the sudden the Zapatistas (EZLN) have been issuing communiques as if they are on speed. What's up? Kristin Bricker, who has been documenting the struggle in Mexico for a long time and who...
View ArticleMALI AND NIGER TODAY, A LOT MORE AFRICA TOMORROW -- THE WAR HAS JUST BEGUN
I haven't said anything about Mali, have I? Kind of held off until I had a better grasp of the "how come" element. I mean no one seeemed to care about Mali for the last I don't know how many years,...
View ArticleSUNDIATA ACOLI: MASS INCARCERATION AND MASS DECARCERATION
Sundiata Acoli has been in prison like forever (If you don't know much about him click here). He knows his stuff. He may be locked up, but he is not shut up. Sundiata, in the post below for Scission...
View ArticlePUBLIC SPHERE, LABOUR, MULTITUDE: STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE IN EMPIRE -...
Once again it is time for Theoretical Weekends from Scission...that place you go to exercise your mind, try and figure out what the hell is happening, or occasionally to read long winded analysis that...
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