Now, you may ask should we not celebrate Juneteenth? Yes, we can. Yes, you can. Yes, it should be a celebration. Perhaps more suitable for a state holiday instead of federal. I would propose making December 6 the actual federal holiday signifying the freedom of Blacks in America due to the abolition of slavery. If we are going to make an argument of inclusivity of freedom from slavery, then it should be the date the government abolished it. Black America was pacified with this holiday as a reward for delivering the votes for President Biden.
Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was one of the most famous - and notorious - women in the early twentieth century. Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenin's Bolshevik experiment, and more.
Alongside the Russian workers' attempts to create socialism not as some abstract far-off utopia in a political party program, but through confronting and changing the concrete reality of their everyday life were the activities of socialist parties, supposedly sympathetic to working class aspirations. This pamphlet tells the story of the Russian workers' struggle, in particular the efforts of the factory committees.
Paul Avrich discusses the position of anarchists during the Civil War in Russia, including Makhno in the Ukraine and the repression of anarchists in Russia itself.
This past May, representatives of Slow Food International paid a visit to an unassuming rice farm in the rugged hinterland east of Seoul, drawn by the prospect of ancient Korean rice rising from the mud and rustling in the breeze again. The operation, Woobo Farm, reached the milestone this year of growing about 450 Korean heirloom varieties, virtually all that.