It has been a while, to say the least. My last post was in March of 2019 and to say a lot has changed would be a gross understatement. Between a pandemic, a new American president, and some very drastic changes in my personal life, this blog has remained a time capsule from a bygone …
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Prison Abolition – What it is and Why We Need it
According to a Pew Research Center report in 2008, 1 in every 100 Americans is in prison. In the United States, around 2,298,300 people are in the penal system out of a global prison population of around 9 million. Of the American prison population, 59% are either Black or Hispanic. Incarceration and punishment have long …
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Against the Nation-State
In the minds of most people, self-determination is often defined by a group of people obtaining control of their own state and governing themselves. The nation-state is generally the most accepted method of achieving this. While there is no doubting that the construct of the nation-state can allow for a people group to govern their …
A Short Discourse on Revolution
Revolution is a right. This has been a principle held by most reasonable people since the days of the enlightenment. It is even enshrined in the preamble to the UN Declaration of Human Rights where it states: “Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, …
A Look at Protracted People’s War
Protracted People's War (PPW) is a military theory developed by Mao Zedong during the Chinese Civil War and the war against the Japanese in China. What Mao puts forward is that a guerrilla movement must be able to maintain the support of the people for long enough to wage a long war against an enemy, …
The Life and Ideas of Ho Chi Minh – Part 2: The Ideas of Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh was more than just a great revolutionary and politician. He was a poet, writer, and thinker. From his early days in the French Socialist Party, he began to try and apply Marxism and Leninism to the conditions of Vietnam and Asia as a whole. Much of his ideas are similar to those …
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The Life and Ideas of Ho Chi Minh – Part 1: The Life of Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh was one of the most influential Marxists of the 20th Century. He led the Vietnamese people through the anti-Japanese struggle, the struggle against French colonialism, and the fight against American imperialism. His example as a brave, humble, and caring leader of his people has resonated throughout the world. From the street activists …
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The Palestinian Struggle
2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the Nakba or the forced migration of more than 700,000 Palestinians from their homes by the Israeli occupiers. This was part of the greater 1948 Palestine War, which is also given the name of Nakba. Nakba in Arabic means catastrophe and it was a major catastrophe for the Palestinian …
The Irish Fight for Freedom – Part 3: Partitions, Provos, and Peace?
Following the end of the Civil War, the IRA would be forced into an underground campaign by the Free State. They would remain relevant in the North of Ireland and in border communities but, most of their membership would consist of people from the South. In the antebellum period between the Irish Civil War and …
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The Irish Fight for Freedom – Part 2: Easter 1916 to the Free State
"The dispossessed Irish people dragging itself painfully along through roads, mountains and morasses, footsore and bleeding, at the behest of a merciless conqueror, and the same people in the near future marching confidently and serenely, aided by all the political and social machinery they can wrest from the hands of their masters, to the re-conquest …
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Red Sun in the Sky 