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US use of torture on POWs should stop

The U.S. has a long history of torturing its POWs. Torture of POWs is used by many other countries. However its use is denied by many U.S. authorities or government officials. The definition of torture put simply is to cause … Continue reading

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Colo. College guest Donald Gregg: the man who hired the man who killed Che

He administered OPERATION PHOENIX during the Vietnam War, the CIA counterinsurgency operation which sought to pacify Vietnam with the targeted assassination of thousands of potential insurgents. For Vice President George H. W. Bush’s office, he coordinated the funding of the … Continue reading

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Che lives in the Florence Supermax

Thursday Oct 8 is Cuba’s Day of the Heroic Guerrilla. By a brilliant coincidence perhaps, Colorado Springs is currently plastered with fliers of the heroic guerrilla himself, smiling from the windows of the least likely businesses, courtesy of the Smokebrush … Continue reading

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Message to the Tricontinental

Che Guevara, 1967 “Now is the time of the furnaces, and only light should be seen.” Jose Marti Twenty-one years have already elapsed since the end of the last world conflagration; numerous publications, in every possible language, celebrate this event, … Continue reading

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Arguments for and against Anarchism

by Albert Meltzer Introduction The Historical Background to Anarchism It is not without interest that what might be called the anarchist approach goes back into antiquity; nor that there is an anarchism of sorts in the peasant movements that struggled … Continue reading

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The Movement and the Workers

By C. Van Lydegraf Second edition, May 1972 About the second edition: By 1969 “The Movement” had become a real force with its own identity. And just because there was promise of success in the air, the new revolutionaries were … Continue reading

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The Object Is To Win

By Clayton Van Lydegraf This article was originally written and circulated in late 1967. Reproduced below is the third edition, which included minor revisions and a new 1971 introduction. INTRODUCTION Until recently the idea of revolution in the United States … Continue reading

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Man and Socialism

“From Algiers, for Marcha. The Cuban Revolution Today,” Che Guevara, March 12, 1965 Dear compañero, Though belatedly, I am completing these notes in the course of my trip through Africa, hoping in this way to keep my promise. I would … Continue reading

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Fuck New York

HOUSING You can always sleep up in Central Park during the daytime, although the muggers come out to play at night. Free night crashing can be found in the waiting room of the Pennsylvania Railroad station, 34th St. and 7th … Continue reading

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Resources

A collection of resources. At Daggers Drawn — Anonymous (translated from the Italian) Walker’s Appeal — David Walker, 1829 To Tramps — Lucy Parsons, 1884 Strike Against War — Hellen Keller, 1916 History Will Absolve Me — Fidel Castro, 1953 … Continue reading

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Free Dope

BUYING, SELLING AND GIVING IT AWAY As you probably know, most dope is illegal, therefore some risks are always involved in buying and selling. “Eternal vigilance and constant mobility are the passwords of survival,” said Che Guevara, and nowhere do … Continue reading

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Misery, poverty, unemployment are growing, and global capitalism is largely to blame

“Misery, poverty, unemployment are growing, and global capitalism is largely to blame,” Chavez said in a convention center before 10,000 of the estimated 100,000 people gathered at the World Social Forum held in Belem, Brazil. Earlier in the day, advocates … Continue reading

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Che, The Internationalist

Che Guevara lives on in the victory of his ideals over those of his adversaries. Che was an internationalist appalled by the poverty that the US Empire and its capitalism had delivered to the common people across the Americas and … Continue reading

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Masked crusader of illiterary legend

All Pikes Peak Reads has chosen this year’s library recommendation: ZORRO! Did you know that was a work of literature? Dumas, you think? R.L.S.? This choice follows To Kill a Mockingbird, Frankenstein, Treasure Island, and Alice in Wonderland. All accessible … Continue reading

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Dishonest scholarship and street justice

Somebody’s written a new biography of Che Guevara, painting him as the father of modern terrorism. How silly. Did Boeing father 9/11? It seems a perverse sacrilege I don’t want to abide. Shall we say Gandhi was the father of … Continue reading

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Evo Morales leads Bolivia out of US orbit

The Miami Herald has just published an interesting interview with Evo Morales, Bolivia’s new president, and it looks like Che Guevarra might have succeeded after all. If I had a dollar for all the times I have heard people say … Continue reading

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Time Magazine banality of puff

Time magazine supports our troops. Even when they’re accused of wholesale slaughter, particularly the door to door execution of men women and children in Hadytha Iraq.

The ran a profile on one of the accused, a doe-eyed innocent, Sargeant X, who was speaking out “for the very first time.” Continue reading

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Here comes Hurricane Che

Google it. “Ernesto.” See what you get: Ernesto the hurricane and Ernesto Che Guevara. This season’s brightest prospect for an action weather spectacular has been given a decidedly un-American name.   To me it’s reminiscent of the 2004 season when … Continue reading

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Zarqawi character killed off

US military press liasons have decided to claim some headway in Iraq by discontinuing the Abu Musab al ZarqawiTM character.   The world first heard of al-Zarqawi when Nicholas Berg was beheaded in a widely circulated video which coincided with … Continue reading

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The Axis of Evil

The alliance of Chavez, Morales and Castro is not surprising. It is the South American revolution which Castro and Guevarra hoped to ignite 45 years ago. Venezuela, Bolivia and Cuba are united by purpose and philosophy, reclaiming power for the … Continue reading

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