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Atlanta families protest against police killings

zobag — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:00:00 +0000

All 11 victims were shot dead, five times more than the usual number of annual killings by police. The families are demanding explainations from the police about the circumstances of the deaths, as they have never been told what actually happened to their relatives.

Iffat Muhammad says she has never known why police shot and killed her brother, Ab-raheem Muhammad in August this year.

Leading high school parents body condemns CPE

alibi — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:41:59 +0000

"The ball is now in the governments court" they said.

The Origin of The Family, Private Property and the State

libcom — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 17:50:30 +0000

After Marx's death, in rumaging through Marx's manuscripts, Engels came upon Marx's precis of Ancient Society -- a book by progressive US scholar Lewis Henry Morgan and published in London 1877. The precis was written between 1880-81 and contained Marx's numerous remarks on Morgan as well as passages from other sources.

The Irrational in Politics - Maurice Brinton

libcom — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:54:17 +0000

The Irrational in Politics

Maurice Brinton, 1970

Propaganda and policemen, prisons and schools, traditional values and traditional morality all serve to reinforce the power of the few and to convince or coerce the many into acceptance of a brutal, degrading and irrational system.

(AS WE SEE IT - Solidarity)

N.B. There are some patriarchal and offensive comments in this essay.