30: War and Revolution

Introduction: Smell the Tragic: War, Revolution and Violence After the Cold War

John Brady, Joe Lockard, Joel Schalit
Instead of asking in what case violence is legitimate as a political instrument, we must ask to what extent violence is legitimate as a regulatory, integrative force in everyday life.

Voices From the Collective: Marxism versus Postmodernism

Each issue we reprint a series of posts from the Bad Subjects discussion list. As always, these posts are reprinted unedited and as they appeared on the list.

Interview with Jello Biafra

David Grad, Jello Biafra
Jello was the lightning rod for conservative attacks on radical American music culture during the ninteen eighties.

The End of History? Revolutionary Politics in Latin America

Jim Cane
While the persistent illusion that definitive change in Latin America is just around the corner is now clearly destroyed, the potential for political struggle and radical social transformation is far from having evaporated.

Political Violence and Political Organization: Notes from the South African Counter-Revolution

Jason Myers
South African problems can't be solved without referring to the political nature of the violence, to the role of organizations in contesting for local and, as the end of the apartheid era came nearer, national hegemony.

Faith and Firepower

Charlie Bertsch, Joel Schalit
Like most people, right-wing Christians are extremely worried about their future in a historical and economic period of unprecedented socio-economic reorganization and deindustrialization.

Voodoo Politics: Tyranny and Enlightenment in Haiti and Britain

David Hawkes
Formal fascism may be dead in the West. But the irrationalism and idolatry which characterize that mode of politics are stronger than ever.