They Won’t Let Sacco and Vanzetti Die

From The Harvard Crimson

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti have been arrested in time on the third floor of the Community Church of Boston.

They are interred, not in a tomb — their bodies were cremated shortly after their executions — but in an archive, a testament to a radical tradition and the first Red Scare which sought to disrupt it. In the Church, their memory has found a temporary resting place.

Charting Revolt: Resisting the Tendency Towards Reactionary Sociology

by Peter Gelderloos

In the eventuality capitalism maintains its stranglehold on the planet, the official histories of the present moment of resistance, decades from now, will claim that the battles raging around us began with the economic recession of 2008 and were further exacerbated by a second recession in 2020. The reason for this framing is fairly obvious: it obscures longer histories of revolt, particularly the exact forerunners of greater rebellions; and it portrays us, the plebes, as simple mechanical accessories that only enter into dysfunction when the economy fails to produce abundance, as though we were just puppets dancing on the strings of finance.

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