ON THE COMMONS: AN INTERVIEW WITH MASSIMO DE ANGELIS AND STAVROS STAVRIDES
It is Theoretical Weekends here at Scission, so as is often the case prepare yourself for a long read. This week we take a look from the perpsective of Massimo De Angelis and Stavros Stavrides at the...
View ArticleA RADIOACTIVE FOREST FIRE IN YOUR FUTURE, WHY THE HELL NOT
I have been busy all day long and have no time to write anything here, but I ran across this scary title and thought...be good for Scission readers. You know me, always the voice of doom and...
View ArticleTHE STATE IS SPYING ON YOU, DUH, WHAT ELSE IS NEW
I never have been able to figure out what all the fuss is whenever we learn something "new" about the State spying on its people, listening in on their phones, monitoring their emails, looking at...
View ArticleBRAZIL: ARE THE STREETS LEFT OR RIGHT?
Last week, I think it was, I posted a couple of different pieces which analyzed the street uprisings in Brazil in very positive ways. Yesterday, I found on a friends facebook page a very different...
View ArticleYOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE RACIST MURDER OF STEPHEN LAWRENCE, HIS FAMILY, AND...
Unless you live in Britain you probably never heard of Stephen Lawrence. That is a shame. What happened to Stephen, the courageous struggle by his family for some justice, and the actions of the...
View ArticleSEXUAL ABUSE OF CHILDREN IN LOCK-UP MAKES ME SICK
In the home of the free and the land of the brave, the State and the states enjoy locking up children...many as young as ten years old. Putting ten year olds in jail, whew, now that is something.They...
View ArticleYOUTH OF AFRICA: STAND UP, GET UP! STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS. DON'T GIVE UP...
It is Theoretical Weekend again at Scission.Today the topic we will read about together relates to Pan Africanism, Walter Rodney, emancipation, liberation, and youth today (with a little Bob Marley...
View ArticleGEORGE ZIMMERMAN IS A CREEPY ASS CRACKER
I seldom watch any trials on TV and the trial of George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin is really no exception. I have caught a few blurbs on the news but not much more. I do know how...
View ArticleCAPITAL'S ATROCITY GOES VIRTUALLY UNPUNISHED IN BHOPAL
Capital's mass murder at Bhopal happened almost 30 years ago. Actually, that is not correct, the murders and the horrors are continuing today and those responsible walk around on this planet free, as...
View ArticleEGYPT'S WOMEN FIGHTING FOR THE FUTURE
It appears we have seen stage two of the Revolution in Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood and President Morsi are out of power. Who is in power? Hard to say exactly, but my guess in Egypt we have not...
View ArticleA TRUE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE AND FREEDOM: THE SLAVE REVOLT OF 1811
Today is Independence Day in the USA.I will however talk to you today about a different struggle for Independence which took place in 1811 down in what became the state of Louisiana. This is a story...
View ArticleA FEMINIST CRITIQUE OF MARX BY SILVIA FEDERICI
Theoretical weekends is here. Today we plow ahead with an analysis by Silvia Federici concerning the relationship between "women's work" and capitalism. In this work Federici herself writes, ...is...
View ArticleSTERILIZATIONS AND EUGENICS: WE'RE TALKING CALIFORNIA PRISONS TODAY
WE FOUGHT THIS BATTLE BEFORETIME TO FIGHT IT AGAINLots of people are covering the sterilization abuse of female prisoners in California today, and so am I. I usually leave the heavily covered stories...
View ArticleTHE ARREST OF NARIMAN TAMIMI, OCCUPATION, AND CONTROL
JUST ON THEIR WAY TO WORK...WHAT IF IT WERE YOU?Most of the left and many of my friends love to accuse Israel of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and being a pack of nazis. I don't buy that, okay?Don't get...
View ArticleWHY YOU SHOULD BOYCOTT ENDER'S GAME AND ORSON SCOTT CARD
If you are a fan of science fiction, you have likely heard of Orson Scott Card. Card is the author of Ender's Game and a lot of follow ups to it, as well as a gazillion other books and stories. Card...
View ArticleCAPITAL'S BOMBING OF LAC-MEGANTIC
By now every one of you have heard "all" about the train explosion that ripped a small Canadian town apart over the weekend.The media has described it in all kinds of ways, has reported on all sorts of...
View Article"THIS PLACE IS NOTHING MORE THAN A TORTURE CHAMBER"/SOLIDARITY WITH PRISON...
It's prison friday here at Scission and as you know the story has to be about the historic hunger strikes taking place on the West Coast, centered in California, but spreading beyond. I think rather...
View ArticleDOES GEORGE ZIMMERMAN HAVE A LINE HE WOULDN'T CROSS? / A POEM BY BILL BERKOWITZ
It is supposed to be theoretical weekends at Scission. Unfortunately there is nothing theoretical about yesterday's ending to the George Zimmerman trial which completed the "legal" lynching of Trayvon...
View ArticleTRAYVON MARTIN, MARISSA ALEXANDER: THE SYSTEM WORKED JUST AS DESIGNED
It's Monday and I can't quite let it go yet, won't ever really let it go. I am compelled to once again return to the inglorious injustice done this weekend by what the defense and the prosecution in...
View ArticleDEATH AND RESISTANCE IN HONDURAS / INDIGENOUS VERSUS THE EMPIRE
Tomas Garcia, a leader of the indigenous Lenca community in Honduras has been murdered. Garcia died from a bullet fired by a member of the Honduran armed forces. His son Allan was severly wounded....
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