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February 14, 2026

Chip Berlet z''l

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For our fallen comrades in Bakhmut

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October 19, 2017

From the Kremlin to Panama to Malta to London: For Daphne Caruana Galizia

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Merle Haggard z''l

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Morris Beckman z''l

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For Bob Crow: Woke Up This Morning (Millwall Calling)

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January 28, 2014

Pete Seeger z''l

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December 18, 2013

Mandela as mirror

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October 20, 2013

I miss you Norm

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I sang for the birds, for the river, the trees and the flowers but not the mullahs: Goodbye Shaun

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Farewell Levon

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December 21, 2011

On reading obituaries of Christopher Hitchens

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December 20, 2011

He was a friend of mine

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Gil Scott Heron z''l

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Old soldiers, broken promises, class prejudices

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The wisdom of Fred Halliday

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Left Luggage: More time for politics - Realising it has been comfortably over a month since our last post, we need to issue our apologies to any readers who have been watching Left Luggage for u...
17 years ago
Discordian Communism

On WWII revisionism - >>It is of course true that millions of other people lost their lives in this conflict, often in unprecedentedly horrible ways, and that new tyrannies were...
17 years ago
A neo-Jacobin

Environmental correctness - a new religion? - *I would call myself a secularist, who is quite happy to tolerate the existence of all the other various religious denominations – even the relatively new...
17 years ago
Morning fire

Bad News, Good News and Reading Material - Bad news. Assassination of Iraqi writer Kamil Shayya Abdallah Unknown gunmen assassinated the Iraqi writer Kamil Shayya Abdallah, adviser to the minister...
18 years ago
beer and communism

Semiotexte on Autonomia scanned - Generation online has posted the entirety of its issue devoted to the Italian autonomist group Autonomia and the Italian events of the 1970s. The scans are...
18 years ago
"anti-german" for dummies

ENGAGE -challenging contemporary antisemitism - “Engage challenges contemporary antisemitism. Contemporary antisemitism nearly always appears using the language of anti-Zionism. ‚Anti-racist‘ anti-Zionis...
19 years ago
Never Got Used To It

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fromthebrainofanantifascist

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Shift Magazine

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Save Catford

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Little Atoms Home | Little Atoms

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Ariachne's broken woof: Sarah Annes Brown's weblog

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