Category: History

Stateless socialism

What does it mean to be an ‘anarchist’? By David Goodway, Wednesday 7 September 2011 10.37 BST … Anarchists disdain the customary use of “anarchy” to mean “chaos” or “complete disorder”. For them it signifies the absence of a ruler or rulers, a self-managed society, usually resembling the co-operative commonwealth that most socialists have traditionally …

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Being right means nothing

The imperial delusions of the United States By Robert Jensen, 07 Sep 2011 12:47 … Ten years ago, critics of the United States’ mad rush to war were right, but it didn’t matter. Within hours after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it was clear that political leaders were going to use the attacks to justify war …

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Herman Cain: Let’s use the Chilean model

9/11 – was there an alternative response? By Noam Chomsky, 7:46am, September  6, 2011 … We are approaching the 10th anniversary of the horrendous atrocities  of September 11,  2001, which, it is commonly held, changed the world.  On May 1st, the presumed mastermind of the crime, Osama bin Laden, was  assassinated in Pakistan by a …

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A long and winding road

9/11 and its great transformations By Cliff Schecter, 07 Sep 2011 15:07 … On September 11th, 2001, on what was a perfect morning-right up until the very moment a Boeing 767-223-ER slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Centre, I stood on the corner of Delancey and Ridge Streets in downtown Manhattan. I …

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Gilded Age barons: Labor Day 2011

Labor Day and the spirit of Joe Hill By Clancy Sigal, Monday 5 September 2011 13.30 BST … l eat, bye and bye, In that glorious land above the sky; Work and pray, live on hay, You’ll get pie in the sky when you die – “The Preacher and the Slave”, a parody hymn written …

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Stetson Kennedy

Stetson Kennedy, unmasker of the Klan By Diane Roberts, Friday 2 September 2011 18.30 BST … You wouldn’t think it to look at us now, but the United States used to grow a fine crop of progressives. Stetson Kennedy, who died 27 August at the age of 94, was one of the great ones. Political …

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Palestine was the factor

For 10 years, we’ve lied to ourselves to avoid asking the one real question By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 3 September 2011 … By their books, ye shall know them. I’m talking about the volumes, the libraries – nay, the very halls of literature – which the international crimes against humanity of 11 September 2001 have …

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