Land’s Favorite Kasama Posts of 2009
Posted by Mike E on January 3, 2010
Here is Land’s list of favorite posts from this last year (not in any particular order):
The Avator debate is amazing. Dec. 2009 (also)
On Economic Struggle and Economism Among Revolutionaries by Mike Ely, May 2009
Needed Fusion: Profoundly Non-Dogmatic & Starkly Revolutionary by Mike Ely, Oct. 2009
Confronting Reality: Change is Inevitable, Liberation is Not. by Mike Ely, Feb. 2009
Where’s Our Mississippi? by John Steele – Feb. 2009 (pamphlet)
Discovery in East Africa: Footprints of Our Ancestors. March 2009
J. Ramsey: Thoughts on Badiou’s Hard Talk Interview - This was published during the time of the London Conference on Communism . Video and remarks. April 2009
J. Ramsey interviewing Bill Martin”What’s the Opposite of Bullshit?” April 2009
History Twists: The Killer of Benno Ohnesorg. by Mike Ely
Benno was shot to death in the middle of a radical demonstration in West Berlin June 2, 1967. May 2009
Frederick Douglas on John Brown’s Revolutionary Vision. The article begins with the last words of John Brown, written as he was prepared for hanging.
“I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as a now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.”
John Brown – 150 Years After Harpers Ferry by Terry Bisson, October 2009
“I dreamed I saw John Brown last night.”
Medicine and Mass Line in Revolutionary China by Dr. Joshua Horn. Author of Away With All Pests.
Internationalism: Our Starting Point is the World by Tellnolies and Mike Ely
Keny Arkana: La Rage du Peuple
a music collective formed in 2004 in Marseille France. Video and lyrics in French. “”We will neither shut up nor sit down, for now we’ll be ready.” December 2009
Joni Mitchell: Slouching Toward Bethlehem.
From William Yeats poem The Second Coming. It was written in 1919, the aftermath of World War 1, when the promises and hopes of European civilization seemed shattered and fake, and when it was very unclear what new world was fighting to be born. “Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born.” August 2009
A hidden history: “ Sale of Budweiser: Memories of Beer Lovers, Hemp Farmers & Bloody Revolution” By Mike Ely July 2008 (en français)
“I am going to sit back in the damp heat of this Chicago evening, sip on a couple of Fat Tires, and tell this story to you, just because I hate patriotic bullshit and because I love revolution.”
Ambush at Keystone: Inside the Coalminers’ Great Gas Protest of 1974. by Mike Ely
July 2009. (printable pamphlet)
We Must Demand Complete and Immediate Withdrawal from Afganistan by Mike Ely Dec. 2009
Joshua Bernard’s Battlefield Death: The Photo You Aren’t Supposed to See Sept 2009
“It has recently been revealed that the Pentagon carefully studies the coverage of journalists before allowing them to be embedded – and openly acknowledges that they only approve those journalists who show a committment to portraying the US occupation and counterinsurgency in the best (and most sanitized) light.
Howls from Mountain and Valley by Mike Ely, June 2009
“And then, an amazing thing happened.”
Woodstock and Revolution: Working on Correct Verdicts. Written on the 40th anniversary. August 2009
Internet in France — a thread comment by Nando (Dec. 2009):
Green Red said
From WPRM Team’s Final Report on the Revolution in Nepal
Posted by Mike E on December 11, 2009
up to many later and earlier fact article re Nepal’s real situation,including the ones countering pessimistic, nihilistic and or sectarian anti Nepalese revolutionary discussions were and are, well, a shining star in a darkened sky of capitalism ruling and communist state’s failures.
and many other things i’ll get back about
Green Red said
Hi again Land and friends, of course the one about Weather Underground,
Former Nepal Ambassador to U.S.: What About a Military Takeover?
Posted by Mike E on December 21, 2009
on my personal behalf almost everything posted re Iran, all news from India’s revolutionary corridor, Statement of New Communist party of Italy, Sison’s and other things re environment, Ka one hundred flowers’ Is Marxism Eurocentric? A View from Latin America, articles about forclosures, joblessness, reports from schools struggles, Myth of Thanksgiving (that i have asked every body who reads it please, translate it to other tongues you know) Ka Rowland Keshena: Maoism and Me (thanks Rowland to reach that point after a year of discussions we had)many reports about Philippine, Socialism in East Germany? Is Obama Then Sorta Socialist Too? …Jee, cool site it is that ain’t boring. wouldn’t mind passing out similar flyers of you know, its affiliated newspaper somewhere downtown, hey? let’s get back to work!