"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 political prisoners. Show all posts
Showing posts with label political prisoners. Show all posts
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Friday, December 2, 2016
Selling Racism--A Lesson From South Africa
The movement against South African apartheid was perhaps the most universal and popular movement in the western world in the 1980s. Hundreds of thousands protested in a multitude of ways—from letter-writing campaigns to shantytown occupations of city squares and college campus greens.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/02/selling-racism-a-lesson-from-pretoria/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/02/selling-racism-a-lesson-from-pretoria/
Friday, February 26, 2016
The Failure of a System: A Review of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
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Black history,
Black Lives Matter,
Black Panthers,
book review,
capitalism,
civil rights movement,
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J. Edgar Hoover,
marxism,
police murders,
political prisoners
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