"Ian Rankin once explained to an interviewer (the head of the Indian Communist Party!) that crime fiction is a way of talking about social inequality. Ron Jacobs applies that same maxim to the Sixties... in his wonderfully noir trilogy of those exhilarating and troubled times. And what Rankin does for Edinburgh, Jacobs amply illuminates for the Movement. Much much more than ripping yarns (though they are that too), from a master who's been there, done that, and lived to tell a tale or two."
Friday, February 24, 2017
Friday, February 17, 2017
Friday, February 10, 2017
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Fomite Interrogations
Fomite Press, which published my novels (so far) has begun a political pamphlet series. Here is their explanation of the project:
"Given the exigencies of the time, Fomite would like to step outside its normal literary publishing practice, and add to its offerings a series of bound pamphlets on urgent political, social, cultural, and organizing issues from a radical, anti-capitalist viewpoint."
The titles are interesting and provocative. My contribution to the project is titled Capitalism: Is the Problem...
Here is a link with more information and ordering details:
http://www.fomitepress.com/Tracts.html
"Given the exigencies of the time, Fomite would like to step outside its normal literary publishing practice, and add to its offerings a series of bound pamphlets on urgent political, social, cultural, and organizing issues from a radical, anti-capitalist viewpoint."
The titles are interesting and provocative. My contribution to the project is titled Capitalism: Is the Problem...
Here is a link with more information and ordering details:
http://www.fomitepress.com/Tracts.html
Friday, February 3, 2017
Trumpism's Gleichschaltung?
As far as Bannon is concerned, a better comparison would be this: Steven Bannon is to Donald Trump what Josef Goebbels was to Hitler.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/02/03/trumpisms-gleichschaltung/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/02/03/trumpisms-gleichschaltung/
Labels:
20th century,
Bannon,
capitalism,
Counterpunch,
democrats,
election,
fascism,
Goebbels,
Lenin,
Trumpism
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