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The Ordinary/Extraordinary May Stevens

August 18, 2018 Leave a Comment

a life

May Stevens was born in 1924 and, at the age of 94, lives in New Mexico.  She has been, for most of her life, an artist.  For the last seven decades, she’s been a political artist.  I don’t know if she still creates art for public viewing.  I hope so but that may be an […]

Filed Under: Hard Crackers Tagged With: Rosa Luxemburg, Rudolf Baranik, The Martinsville Seven

The Peril of Voting and the Promise of Action

June 1, 2018 Leave a Comment

It may well be that no outrage yet carried out under the Trump regime has so galvanized popular disgust and opposition than the decision to implement a policy of separating children from parents when they arrive at the Mexican-US border.  Although the news reports from the detention centers are not as revealing as they could […]

Filed Under: Hard Crackers

From Catholicism and the working class to communism and Marx

May 9, 2018 Leave a Comment

This is, in its earliest moments, a Brooklyn story—more precisely a story of growing up Catholic in a working class Brooklyn neighborhood in the 1950s.  I grew up in Sunset Park, a neighborhood made somewhat famous by Hubert Selby’s novel Last Exit to Brooklyn.  It is also a story of education—in high school and college, […]

Filed Under: Insurgent Notes

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About

I have been a political activist for more than fifty years.  Soon after college, I began driving a taxi in New York City and became an active member of the Taxi Rank and File Coalition.  That experience profoundly shaped my views and I remain friends with many of my taxi comrades.

In 1978, I stopped driving and entered into education work–which I then did for more than thirty years–almost all of it at the City University of New York.  That also profoundly shaped my views.

At the same time, I continued my political activities–most importantly as an editor of Race Traitor, an editor of Insurgent Notes and part of the editorial group of Hard Crackers.

The writings collected here reflect all those experiences.  My intention is to regularly post new things that I’ve written.

However you found your way here, I hope that you find something of value.  I would really like hearing from you about your thoughts and reactions. Write me here.

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