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Florida school halts use of book about a Black boys killing A Florida school board is halting the use of “Ghost Boys” after a police union complained to the school district that its anti-police “propaganda.” Credit: AK Press Author: Associated Press Updated: 6:08 PM EDT May 9, 2021 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Florida school board is halting the use of a fictional book about a Black boy who is killed by a white officer after a police union complained to th...

Florida school halts use of book about a Black boys killing A Florida school board is halting the use of “Ghost Boys” after a police union complained to the school district that its anti-police “propaganda.” Credit: AK Press Author: Associated Press Updated: 6:08 PM EDT May 9, 2021 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Florida school board is halting the use of a fictional book about a Black boy who is killed by a white officer after a police union complained to th...

Opinion: ‘Havoc’ stems from upholding supremacy, not dumpster fires Today 6:00 AM Anarchists are so committed to the ideal of a world free of all forms of domination and hierarchy, including those based on race, that they are willing to expose themselves to repeated police violence for expressing this view, the author writes. Dave Killen/Staff Facebook Share Paul Messersmith-Glavin Messersmith-Glavin serves on the board of the Institute for Anarchist Studies, a grant-giving organization c...

Book Review: We Move Together A review of a book for younger readers on the topic of disability. Kelly Fritsch (author); Anne McGuire (author); Eduardo Trejos (illustrator) Publisher: AK Press ISBN-13: 9781849354042 A month ago Dr. Suess Enterprises took the decision to stop publishing six books. These include a number you may not be familiar with such as “If I Ran the Zoo” and “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street”. The reason for the decision was that these contain racist a...

Attendees of the Million MAGA March in Washington, D.C. – December 12, 2020. Photo: Johnny Silvercloud / Shutterstock.com Shane Burley is a journalist, filmmaker and author who has studied fascism for 10 years. His latest book, Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse, reflects on the evolution of the alt-right in the aftermath of Charlottesville and where the movement might be headed under the Biden administration. We have seen many ebbs and flows of this vi...

by Media Lens / February 15th, 2021 The name Arnold Ridley will be familiar to many viewers of ‘Dad’s Army’, one of Britain’s best-loved TV comedies, which ran a long time ago (1968-1977) but is still shown on prime time BBC TV. Ridley played Private Godfrey, the loveable, most doddery member of a Second World War platoon of elderly Home Guard troops tasked with defending a stretch of the British coast ‘from the Novelty Rock Emporium to Stone’s Amusement Arcade’. Godfrey would t...

Thursday, 11 February 2021, 6:33 am The name Arnold Ridley will be familiar to many viewers of ‘Dad’s Army’, one of Britain’s best-loved TV comedies, which ran a long time ago (1968-1977) but is still shown on prime time BBC TV. Ridley played Private Godfrey, the loveable, most doddery member of a Second World War platoon of elderly Home Guard troops tasked with defending a stretch of the British coast ‘from the Novelty Rock Emporium to Stone’s Amusement Arcade’. Godfrey would ty...

Author In The Communism of Love: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Exchange Value (AK Press, 2020), I define love as an activity, as something we do, not something we get or give like a commodity. We practice love as an active form of human relations that is not governed by money. Love is not a capitalist exchange relation. It is our active participation in the various “becomings” of other people, such as in the ways we participate in our children’s, friends’ or partners’ becoming wha...

Natasha Gilmore, Idlewild Books and Open Borders Books, NYC : This book contains two novellas and some short stories set around Colombia (and occasionally Miami). The narration is often low-affect, sharply cynical, and wryly observed. There’s a cutting honesty in the voice throughout the book that feels totally absent from so much literature now. It reminded me of the feeling of encountering something truly when I was a teenager. But then there’s just the crushing reality of coming into sex...

Self and Others: Max Stirner and Revolutionary Anarchism by Wayne Price Review of Jacob Blumenfeld. All Things Are Nothing to Me: The Unique Philosophy of Max Stirner. The individualist- egoism of Max Stirner, its strengths and weaknesses, in comparison with the views of Bakunin, Landauer, and Karl Marx. Max Stirner was the pen name of Johann Kasper Schmidt (1806-56). He was part of a milieu of young philosophers who sought to develop further the philosophy of the great German thinker Georg W....