Transcribing the Past

  9th July, 1917, NYC Gentlemen of the Jury: As in the case of my co-defendant, Alexander Berkman, this is also the first time in my life I have ever addressed a jury. I once had occasion to speak to three judges. On the day after our arrest it was given out by the U.S. Marshal and the District Attorney’s office that the “big fish” of the No?Conscription activities had been caught, and that there would be no more trouble-makers and disturbers to interfere with the highly democratic effort of the Government to conscript its young manhood for the European slaughter. What a pity that the faithful servants of the Government, personified in the U.S. Marshal and the District Attorney, should have used such a weak and flimsy net for their big catch. The moment the anglers pulled their heavily laden net ashore, it broke, and all the labor was so much wasted energy. The methods employed by Marshal McCarthy and his hosts of heroic warriors were sensational enough to satisfy the famous c...

     The sixth issue of the Al Amal newsletter is now live, you can download the PDF here.  The war in Sudan has now entered its third year … The war in Sudan has now entered its third year, with no end in sight. This war was planned as early as 2019, as the generals of blood themselves admitted, stating that its timing had been set back then, but was delayed due to incomplete preparations. What a horrifying reality. This state has always been one that plans and orchestrates internal wars, suppresses freedoms by every possible means, and perpetuates continuous brutal violence. This regime, which carries out systematic arrests, organized torture in so- called “ghost houses,” and extrajudicial killings, now stands fully exposed before the revolutionary masses. The Rapid Support Forces are not separate from this regime; they are its product—an extension of its brutality and savagery. All the crimes committed, including ethnic cleansing and genocide, are a direct result...

  Note translated by Reddit user neopoznanoye_telo Text reads  [Banner]  "In the struggle you will gain your right!"   Long live the revolutionary people! What will we produce during the constituent assembly?     A speedy and lasting peace.     All power to the people.     All land without redemption - to the working people - Land only to those who work on it. No purchase or sale of land.     Shifting taxes from the poor to the rich.     The destruction of the standing army and its replacement by the people's militia.     The struggle for socialism, i.e., the transfer of factories into the hands of the working people    Peasants and workers - who were nothing - will become everything! Comments;  I'm assuming this was produced in 1917 between the February and October revolutions since it opposes the ongoing participation in the First World War and calls for extending the socialist policies dema...