Thursday, May 23, 7pm, Tuttle Park [outside of the Tuttle Community Center], 240 W. Oakland Ave.

Join us this Thursday, May 23 at 6pm at Tuttle Park outside of the recreation center (weather permitting) or online at tinyurl.com/CORSmeeting to discuss Victor Serge’s What Every Radical Should Know about State Repression. The full text is available here.

After the victory of the Russian revolution, Serge was tasked with going through the archives of the Tsar’s secret police. His study reveals the incredible level of surveillance, infiltration, and provocation against which the Bolsheviks had to fight. His analysis shows how they were able to win, and ultimately how we can win against repression by our own state. This information is vital for any organizers to know in our current political moment.

Inadvertently, Israel has pressed the reset button on its war with the Palestinian people, taking back the so-called conflict to square one.

 Save a few self-serving Palestinian officials affiliated with the Palestinian Authority (PA), most Palestinians do not seem consumed with the return to the peace process, or even engaged in discussions about two state solutions.

 The conversation among Palestinians is now mostly concerned with all aspects of the Palestinian struggle, starting with the ethnic cleansing of Palestine 76 years ago, an event known as the Nakba, or Catastrophe.

 The Nakba is commemorated on May 15 of each year. The nature of the annual event, however, changes from one stage of the Palestinian struggle to the next.  Indeed, the Nakba anniversary acquires its meaning from the political context of the time – it is elevated during times of hope, demoted during times of despair, defeat and infighting.

There have been many documentaries about Holocaust survivors. Queen of the Deuce is likely the only one about a survivor who went on to make her fortune in the porn industry.

Born into a family of Greek Jews in 1908, Chelly Wilson was quicker than most to recognize the rising threat Nazi Germany posed in the late 1930s. Temporarily leaving her son with her ex-husband and her daughter with a non-Jewish acquaintance, she hastily emigrated to New York, where she was soon making money selling hot dogs.

But Wilson’s real success came years later, when she began acquiring neighborhood movie theaters and devoting them to the increasingly popular genre of pornography. By the time soft porn began giving way to the hard variety, she was honchoing a business that ran a slew of theaters and even made its own features.