Note: Digital Read

URL: http://www.mediafire.com/?opg167fachei183

Opening: 

“The police become necessary in human society only at that junction in human society where it is split between those who have and those who ain’t got.” -Chairman Omali Yeshitela

Why were the modern police created?

Is is generally assumed, among people who think about it at all, that the police were created to deal with rising levels of crime caused by urbanization and increasing numbers of immigrants. John Schneider describes the typical accounts:

The First studies were legal and administrative in their focus, confined mostly to narrative descriptions of the step-by-step demise of the old constabulary and the stead, but often controversial evolution of the professionals. Scholars seemed preoccupied with the politics of the politics of police reforms. IT causes, on the other hand, were considered only in cursory fashion, more often assumed than proved. Cities, it would seem, moved inevitably toward modern policing as a consequence of soaring levels of crime and disorder in an era of phenomenal grown and profound social change. [1]

I will refer to this as the “crime-and-disorder” theory.

Despite its initial plausibility, the idea that the police were invented in response to an epidemic of crime is, to be blunt, exactly wrong. Furthermore, it is not much of an explanation. It assumes that “when crime reaches a certain level, the ‘natural’ social response is to create a uniformed police force. This, of coarse, is not an explanation but an assertion of natural law for there is little evidence.”

Note: Digital Read

URL:

pt 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?bg0a3enu3w5a8y0

pt 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?0o4rb5uw46efv9y

Description:

Democracy has changed substantially through the twentieth century, evolving into a dangerous and possibly irreversible populism, says John Lukacs in this intensely interesting- and troubling- book. The esteemed historian offers biting, timely, and controversial observations on the power of the media and the precarious state of American democracy today. 

Note: Digital Read

URL: http://www.mediafire.com/?mgjtgjrlmti

Description:

The years since Karl Marx’s death have seen the emergence of movements, organizations, and governments declaring themselves to be “Marxists.” How can we make sense of this development?

This short book is an attempt to untangle these “Marxisms,” to establish criteria for evaluating claims to stand within the Marxist tradition, to examine the conflicting claims of Social Democracy, Stalinism, and the liberation movements of the Third World an d answer the question, “What is the real Marxist tradition?”

Included in this new edition is Leon Trotsky’s brilliant defense of the politics and practice of Bolshevism, Stalinism and Bolshevism. Trotsky makes the case that the rise of Stalin- and Stalinism- was not the inevitable consequence of Leninism, but rather its negation. 

by Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies

note: 1) Digital Read 2) This is one of my personal books, out of my own habit, it tend to highlight, underline, bracket, ect.. things that stick out to me. 3) This is a good book for anyone who wants to know why people actually DO hate america other than the propagandized excuses of “our freedom, democracy, and wealth”. 

Pt 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?jztmkr5zank

Pt 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?wmmztznemmd

Description:

American corporations and popular culture affect the lives and infect the indigenous cultures of millions around the world. The foreign policy of the US government, backed by its military strength, has unprecedented global influence now that the USA is the worlds only superpower - its first ‘hyperpower’.

America also exports its value systems, defining what it means to be civilized, rational, developed and democratic - indeed, what it is to be human. Meanwhile, the US itself is impervious to outside influence, and if most Americans think of the rest of the world at all, it is in terms of deeply ingrained cultural stereotypes. 

Many people do hate America, in the Middle East and the developing countries as well as Europe. Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies consider this hatred in the context of America’s own perception of itself, and provide and important contribution to a debate which needs to be addressed by people of all nations, cultures, religions and political persuasions. 

By Rochester SDS

note: this zine/fold was scanned in so that you would be able to print it if you liked. it might be hard to read online. It was scanned in as a paper front/back/cover on pg 1, inside on pg 2. Also, this zine is a bit old. We’re about to enter into our 9th year in Afghanistan.

URL: http://viewer.zoho.com/docs/chbdcae

Opening:

October 7th will mark the eighth year that the U.S. has been at war with Afghanistan under the auspice of fighting “the war on terror.” In eight years under occupation, tens of thousands of Afghanistan have been killed by U.S. air strikes, bombs, and bullets and the Afgani infrastructure has been devastated. In just one day of this war, May 4, 2009, U.S. air strikes killed over 150 Afghan children, women, and men in a village in Farah province. Afghanistan Rights Monitor estimates that in 2008: 1,620 civilians were killed by U.S.- led military forces, 2,800 civilians were injured and 80,000 were displaced from their homes. 2008 was the highest civilian death total since 2001, the year of the invasion.

The war affects us deeply here at home. The number of U.S. troop casualties increase more and more each year that the war continues. By next year the cost of the Afghanistan war will be more than the cost of the Iraq war, with the U.S. government requesting $65 billion for the war in 2010. So far the government has spent almost a trillion dollars in the wars against Iraq and Afghanistan.

The obama administration has already sent a “serge” of 21,000 troops to fight the insurgency. We know this is NOT a so called “just war,” but a war for regional domination and control of natural gas reserves in the region. The Afghan people have a right to self -determination, to choose their leaders and governments and to take care of their own affairs. It is not the place of the U.S. to bomb Afghanistan into submission and to choose its political leader. There is no military solution. They only real way for Afghanistan to be free is for the bombing to halt, and for all U.S. and NAto troops to leave the country immediately. 

So I noticed that there was already a FuckYeahZines… but I don’t believe I saw many radical ones (if at all). Thus I decided that a FuckYeahRadicalLiterature needed to be made.

This blog is here because of the belief that knowledge should be free and accessible. Particularly when its information on the way things actually are… and not just propaganda. 

As always, we want this to be as truly democratic as possible; so if you have anything you’d like to see here and want to share it, please submit it OR if you feel like you’d like to help keep this blog running, let me know and I’ll add you to the people who can maintain it. 

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