Originally posted on The Russian Reader:
This is Alexandra Dukhanina (aka Alexandra Dukhanina-Naumova and Alexandra Naumova, since she was married after her arrest), one of the eight people declared guilty…
Well, I said there would be occasional digressions from what is primarily a blog of working class politics and history. Last weekend I picked some wild blackberries, for the first […]
In the 1970s, I became a supporter of the struggle of the Palestinian people for their national rights. Like most children of my generation in New Zealand, I had been […]
Originally posted on Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity:
We are prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison who have all lived for over 15 years locked 23 hours a day in small windowless…
Chopin’s Berceuse for piano begins with a simple arpeggio in the left hand, rising on the chord of D-flat. It stretches briefly to the dominant-seventh chord, then relaxes back to […]
A worker at large 