Tag: Political violence

  • The Hungarian Revolution

    This Day in Anarchist History, October 23rd 1956 we remember the Hungarian Revolution when student protesters and the broader Hungarian working classes took on the Secret Police and the Red Army. After days of striking and rioting that boiled into a firefight, protesters were able to defeat the country’s Secret Police and even negotiated the […]

  • Bad Math

    Bad Math

    The bombed remains of automobiles with the bombed Federal Building in the background, April 19, 1995. Sometimes we see pictures of ourselves from a decade or three back and think, what was going through their head? In other circumstances, we don’t have to wonder. We know. It happens to writers a lot. It’s often our […]

  • Failures of U.S. Middle East Policies

    United States foreign policies are marked by intermittent failures, often accomplishing the opposite of what is intended — Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq are examples. A difference between U.S. policies in the Middle East and State Department walkthroughs in other regions is that the Middle East policies have been consistent failures, worse than adversaries relish. Immediately […]

  • We Must Oppose Israel’s Dangerous Gamble Before It’s Too Late

    Following World War II, Albert Camus posed a “formidable gamble” to those who had survived a tragedy of immense proportions. “We’re in history up to our necks,” he observed, yet we must wager that “words are more powerful than munitions.” “Leave or die” are the horrid words threatening largely unprotected Palestinian civilians in Gaza as […]

  • Trump got a bloodied ear: US “political violence” poses a far bigger danger to the rest of us

    Trump got a bloodied ear: US “political violence” poses a far bigger danger to the rest of us

    The outpouring of opinions on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump mostly offers little insight or honesty – apart from the all-too-obvious concern that the shooting of the former president is likely to make the United States even more of a tinderbox than it is already. There’s a reason for this. The responses – whether […]

  • South African Election 2024: The People’s Minimum Demands

    Beginning at the General Assembly held in Durban on the first Sunday in February Abahlali baseMjondolo has held an extensive process of meetings and discussions at all levels of our movement, and in all our 87 branches in good standing across the four provinces where we have members, to develop a collective strategy for the […]

  • Applauding Niger’s Move to Expel AFRICOM

    The Black Alliance for Peace’s (BAP) Africa Team and U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) commend Niger for its decision to expel the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM). We urge all African nations to reject U.S. neo-colonialism and remove AFRICOM from their territories. AFRICOM’s presence has led to an exponential increase in terrorism, with more civilian […]

  • Mountaintop Removal

    Mountaintop Removal

    Photo credit: Behind Enemy LinesPhoto caption: U.S. Marine and Afghan War veteran Zachary Kern burns his medals and a paper flag at anti-genocide “Cancel the DNC” rally 3/22/24 in Chicago. In his March 24th opinion piece for the Times, David Brooks agrees with a “broad consensus atop the Democratic Party” (is there room for such […]

  • A Copper’s Skewed Logic: Politicising Palestinian Visas

    If only we could say that Peter Dutton, Australia’s federal opposition leader and curator of bigoted leanings, was unusual in assuming that granting humanitarian visas to Palestinians might be problematic.  But both he, and his skew-eyed spokesman on home affairs, James Patterson, have concluded that votes are in the offing.  Refugees may be accepted from […]

  • Gaza is an Image of the Future

    For months now Israel has waged a brutal bombing campaign against Gaza. With state of the art technology, the IDF uses algorithms to generate a seemingly unending list of potential targets with a low filter for collateral damage resulting the highest rate of civilian casualties of any war of this century. In the face of […]

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