Author: Shahid Bolsen

Any strategy for the pursuit of liberation that does not acknowledge the overarching role of the global imperialist system is futile, to say nothing of astoundingly ignorant. If you imagine that what happens in Egypt, or Tunisia, Algeria, or anywhere else, is determined exclusively, or even mostly, by or for the interests of local players,…

First of all, we should clarify. Nonviolence is not nonviolent. As a method of resistance, its purpose is to provoke violence, and meet that violence with no retaliation. Nonviolence is advocacy of one-sided violence; strictly speaking, it would be more accurate to refer to it as non-defense. In the past, I have written fairly extensively…