Former child detention center staff speaks out: “This is Legalized Kidnapping”
Submitted by R Totale on Aug 20 2019 18:34
Recently, It’s Going Down was approached about publishing a testimony by a former Child Detention Center staff employee, Ramona Benitez. Their report details what they saw during several years inside one of the facilities operated by a non-profit currently running a child prison in Chicago: the Heartland Alliance. What follows is their story.
Thanatocracy
Midnight Notes on capital punishment and its liberal supporters.
Brazil: How things have (and haven't) changed
Submitted by Baderneiro Miseravel on May 9 2019 12:46
From the management of June 2013 uprising to Bolsonaro’s ordered revolt.
Iranian feminist sentenced to twenty years for protest against compulsory hijab
Submitted by BenS6 on Jul 17 2018 22:39
Shapark Shajarizadeh was one of 29 women who undertook individual protests against the wearing of the hijab in Iran in February. Last month her lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who specialises in human rights and also represented other women involved in the protests, was arrested.
Ettore Cinnella - The tragedy of the Russian Revolution: promise and default of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries in 1918.
Submitted by Red Marriott on Apr 12 2018 21:07
The unpublished minutes of the three congresses held by the Left Socialist Revolutionaries (PLSR) in 1918 are the main source of this article. Its starting point is the crisis the old Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR) suffered during the fall of 1917 and the rise of the Left SRs.
A Victim of Power (Corp) and Police: The La Presse Conflict and the Tear Gas Suffocation of Michele Gauthier
Submitted by greensyndic on Mar 7 2018 04:37
A report on the 1971 conflict at La Presse and the police killing of socialist feminist Michele Gauthier. The broader struggle against Power Corp., the impact of the police killing, and the development of the Common Front and subsequent general strikes.
Iron Bars on the House of Labour
Submitted by O Berkman on Mar 2 2018 23:26
How accepting surveillance officers and other parts of the repressive state into trade unions is a threat to organizers across so-called Canada...
A few reasons not to organise on Facebook.
Submitted by jef costello on Dec 30 2017 14:51
Recently we have seen a big increase in activist Facebook pages. Facebook seems to have become an essential propaganda tool. However we should question the use of it as an organising tool, and even as a propaganda tool.
Eqbal Ahmad Reader – BhoPEAC
“India’s nuclear program is a devastating threat not only to south Asia but to the world. The basic India Pakistan conflict seems to me, to be over Kashmir. And until that’s settled in some fashion – and we can imagine settlements. Eqbal Ahmad had sensible proposals for settlement. They could be pursued. Then maybe India and Pakistan could relax the military confrontation. And maybe, setting up a nuclear weapons free zone.” – Noam Chomsky
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