Interview with Silky Shah Silky Shah has been an immigrant justice organizer for over two decades. She is currently the executive director of Detention Watch Network, a national coalition working to abolish immigrant detention in the U.S. We met up recently in Chicago at the annual Socialism Conference. We were both on a panel with other| Hard Crackers
Trump’s One Big Beautiful Act, which ironically was passed on July 4th, will provide billions of dollars in funding to ramp up the federal government’s wide-ranging military-style campaign against…| Hard Crackers
This piece tells a story of rural Southern Missouri through the forms of knowledge inherited when the state offers nothing: no direction, no infrastructure, no recognition. The author is from Douglas County, where his family still hunts and welds and buries its dead. Electricity came late. Broadband still hasn’t come at all. Seth comes from the Western Cherokee Nation of Arkansas and Missouri, a tribe erased not just by settler removal but by federal recognition itself.| Hard Crackers
This article by Dave Ranney was originally published in Hard Crackers on February 4th. It is even more timely now. In the months since, Trump’s immigration police forces have stepped up their…| Hard Crackers
Online journal committed to documenting and examining the everyday life of the working class.| Hard Crackers
Interview with esteemed labor historian David Roediger about his memoir, An Ordinary White: My Anti-Racist Education.| Hard Crackers
This article was written in the days immediately following June 6th. The author was not able to participate in the street movement due to geographical distance from Los Angeles. ConquestIn August of 1846, US troops under Stephen Kearney occupied Santa Fe without firing a shot. In January of 1847, a combined force of Hispano and| Hard Crackers
A key drama at the heart of all our personal origin stories is the saga of how our parents met. I’ve known the basics of this piece of my family history as long as I can remember. My mom and dad met, so the story went, when they were paired as dance partners performing in| Hard Crackers
While the case of Karen Read has all the elements of a true-crime saga, its significance lies in that it is shedding a light on the deepening crisis of police legitimacy among white Americans as well as the pernicious effects of whiteness, seen by the inability or unwillingness of Read’s supporters to connect her fight against a corrupt police and legal system to the current anti-ICE/police uprising.| Hard Crackers
The end of the road of the sect For quite a few years after Healy’s exposure I, and others, still carried on trying to build ‘the party’ which was really just a small group of self-appointed ‘revolutionaries’. I only finally shed this delusion during the Yugoslav war. I was sitting in the cab of a| Hard Crackers
Human society as an evolutionary process Darwin’s ‘Origin of the Species’ came about from the data gathered during his voyage on the Beagle. A deeply religious man, Darwin was brought almost to the…| Hard Crackers
What’s so simple in the moonlight by the morning never is. -Bright Eyes The night of the shooting, bands of armed white men dotted the landscape before we even arrived in Kenosha.| Hard Crackers
