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Workers’ Liberty
Some features from the Alliance for Workers Liberty, some new, some from the archive, below the fold. I have already included some of these in my From the Archive of Struggle series, but, hey, you can’t have too much of a good thing! Also, further down, a small number of other articles, including Eric Lee on Trotsky and some recent pieces from Against the Current.
From the archive of struggle, no.41: Anarchist poster special
Today’s feature is the Just Seeds Visual Artsts’ Co-op.
Rafael Baca
Nuestro Mas Hermoso Sueño es tu Peor Pesadilla/Our Most Beautiful Dream is Your Worst Nightmare
Favianna Rodriguez
El Maíz Es Nuestro
Brains, Brilliancy, Bohemia: Art & Politics in Jazz-Age Chicago.
Favianna Rodriguez
Rio
Lapiztola
Emiliano Zapata silkscreen
Ben Rubin
Emma Goldman
From the archive, below the fold: (more…)
Against the Current: Spain’s revolution and tragedy
The new issue of Against the Current has an excellent special section on the Spanish revolution, with peices by Alan Wald, Wilebaldo Solano and others. Contents and abstracts below the fold.
The Crisis
A little belatedly, I notice via Snowball that issues of the important black radical magazine The Crisis are on line. The first one I looked at featured the great, neglected George Padmore.
Tings and tings
Killing and dying for “the old lie” - World War and the triumph of militarism over anti-fascism.
Spain is nice at this time of year - the BNP and Spanish fascism.
Beijing Coma – can the symbols of classic socialism still be symbols of emancipation, despite their blood stains?
Oscar Wilde on socialist songs – Up, ye People! or down into your graves!
The partisan poet – Adam Kirsch on Abba Kovner.
Ethel MacDonald and Bob Smillie – and Guy Aldred and Fenner Brockway. More Guy Aldred.
Carlo Tresca – The Dilemma of an Anti-Communist Radical.
The sweet and the cruel - Ian Buruma on Occupied Paris.
The Labour Party between the wars - ideological contours.
A postcard from Coyoacan – Trotsky’s last home in Mexico.
TROTSKY’s STUDY – WHERE HE WAS SITTING WHEN HE WAS MURDERED WITH AN ICE PICK
Translated novels - including Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years.
Stalin’s Terror – a review by Peter Taafe.
David North on Robert Service on Leon Trotksy (and on James Burnham on Isaac Duetscher on Leon Trotsky) – not sure if I’ve already posted this one.
Open letter to Havana - on Stalinist slurs against the Freedom Socialist Party.
The Black Marxist Tradition – an interview with Cedric J Robinson.
You don’t play with revolution, Alfie – Lady Poverty on CLR James on Marxism. (And here’s James from AK.)
The Search for the Tassili Frescoes – Afrocentrist history and CLR James at Federal College.
The John Hope Franklin File - the FBI, anti-communism and black history.
Stalin: Why and How – Boris Souvarine.
The myth of Mondragon - Louis Proyect debunks Spanish autogestion?
Poplarism - a review of Janine Booth’s book.
Half a century of Hausman’s – from the North East London radicals, from Permanent Revolution.
A Rebel’s dream – Ian Birchall on Ernest Mandel.
George Padmore – forgotten fighter.
Reasoning otherwise - Canadian radicalism 1890-1920.
More years of the locust - Permanent Revolution on Jim Higgins on the origins of the IS.
Decline – Scott McLemee on Cornel West. Plus more from Michael Tomasky.
New from AK: Italian anarchism 1864-92, French anarchism 1917-45, Zapatismo and the Panthers.
Flag Day in Lawrence, MA, 1912 – a slice of IWW history.
Facts About the Spanish Resistance 2 – What is the CNT? by José Peirats
From the archive of struggle, no.40: Yale Yiddish special
Following on from my YIVO special, here are some more Yiddish archival treasures. Below the fold, the usual round up of newly available radical material.
Our focus today is the Yale Judaica collection. Below are some exhibitions. Clicking on the images enables you to see them in context.
And You Shall Tell Your Children, Passover Haggadah exhibition:
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Kibbutz Haggadah |
Illustrated Yiddish Books:
These illustrated books date from the post-revolutionary period, the golden age of Soviet Yiddish, when Russian plebian culture and Jewish folk culture, avante-garde graphics and radical politics, all worked together powerfully. -P.
Avant-garde Maquettes (1929):
Avant-garde maquettes for Jewish-Communist wall posters in Yiddish (1929): Leaf One
Ink and watercolor manuscript, possibly a mock up for publication, consisting of two leaves (28 x 19 cm.) mounted side-by-side in a contemporary mat. This poster contains the phrase “Proleṭarier fun ale lender, fareyniḳṭ aykh!” [Proletariat of all lands, unite!] and large lettering with the words “Arbeṭ un ḳulṭur” [Labor and culture] across an illustration of a hammer and sickle topped by a red star.
Avant-garde maquettes for Jewish-Communist wall posters in Yiddish (1929): Leaf TwoThis poster has the heading “Ḳegn Goṭ un shṿindl” [Against God and swindle] above a paragraph urging Jews not to be duped into the backward religious practice of attending high holiday services. It is signed אמכא–Amkha, a deliberately misspelled version of the Hebrew word עמך — Amkha [Your People].
Below the fold, the archive of struggle no. 40.
Keeping up
No time for proper posting, but have a look at
- the Slackster’s neato roundup of reviews of Robert Service’s Trotksy book, “Icepicks at Dawn“. Includes cool Trotsky youTubery.
- La Tradizione libertaria: a great Italian language site, which has recently featured cool Spanish civil war banknotes and two posts (1, 2) on Mika Etchebehere.
