out of step
Unfinished essays and spontaneous eruptions on radical politics and popular culture
Friday, May 01, 2009
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Have a terrific Labor Day
The late, great Phil Ochs sings about Joe Hill. Enjoy.
Labels: labor day, labor movement, leftlibertarian, phil ochs
Friday, May 02, 2008
Reflections on a May Day march
“Anarcho” in the
“Looking at it, I can only assume that ‘non-political’ people would have viewed it as deeply unappealing, if not insane. There were people carrying pictures of Stalin (in this day and age!) and one banner had Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao! Deeply, deeply, deeply crazy… Lenin I can understand, given that awareness of what actually happened under Lenin is not well known in Leninist circles, but Stalin and Mao? Little wonder the so-called revolutionary left seems to be [in] general decline….”
Labels: labor movement, leftlibertarian
Sunday, September 02, 2007
A Labor Day weekend video
Pete Seeger also turned 87 this weekend. Happy birthday, you old commie!
Labels: labor day, labor movement, leftlibertarian, music, video












