https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/21/you-cant-murder-liberation/
"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."
Showing posts with label Black Lives Matter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black Lives Matter. Show all posts
Friday, February 21, 2025
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Friday, August 23, 2019
Friday, February 2, 2018
A History of Resistance--A Review of An African-American and Latinx History of the United States
Friday, October 6, 2017
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Sharpening the Contradictions from the Fifty Yard Line
When I used to watch Bart Starr, Johnny Unitas and Joe Namath throw the ball back in my earlier years, it seemed most NFL players were white. They were also assumed to be very patriotic and supportive of the US war on Vietnam and in favor of the more conservative side of US politics. Whether or not this was as universal as it seemed to be is hard to say since NFL players were not known for expressing their political views in public.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/27/sharpening-the-contradictions-from-the-fifty-yard-line/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/27/sharpening-the-contradictions-from-the-fifty-yard-line/
Tuesday, August 29, 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, January 27, 2017
A Scheme is Not a Vision
If the bedrock of Trumpism is total allegiance to his version of the American state, the bedrock of our politics should be total opposition to Trumpism.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/27/a-scheme-is-not-a-vision/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/27/a-scheme-is-not-a-vision/
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Killing Unarmed People is Murder
Regarding police killings of unarmed individuals....
https://vtdigger.org/2016/09/21/ron-jacobs-killling-unarmed-people-murder/
https://vtdigger.org/2016/09/21/ron-jacobs-killling-unarmed-people-murder/
Friday, September 23, 2016
A Change Has Gotta' Come
"Ideally, Demand the Impossible! would be distributed for free at every rally and meeting called to discuss the issues explored therein. It is not the only book or article that provides an outline of what must be done, but it is certainly one of the most concise and evocatively written ones. Imagine a series of speeches designed to inspire and teach; to move us from frustration and apathy to the streets; that is what this book is all about."
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/23/a-change-has-gotta-come/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/23/a-change-has-gotta-come/
Saturday, July 9, 2016
Friday, May 20, 2016
Friday, April 8, 2016
Monday, March 14, 2016
Friday, February 26, 2016
The Failure of a System: A Review of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
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austerity,
Black history,
Black Lives Matter,
Black Panthers,
book review,
capitalism,
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economics,
J. Edgar Hoover,
marxism,
police murders,
political prisoners
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