crushed and rung with dread the ghosts / tremble and ring their hands / in the half-lidded light / mothy catacombs of grocery stores groan / how bitter our throats hurled needlessly / into their pompous afterlives
Read MoreAll India Central Council of Trade Unions
The following agit-prop materials were made by Locust Review editor Anupam Roy for the All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU). The AICCTU is a trade union federation in India with several hundred thousands members associated with the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation.
Read MoreRed Lung
The following materials were collected by Locust Review editors Alexander Billet and Adam Turl in the years before the pandemic. We have grouped them and are sharing them with you here.
Read Moreoddcpl Episode Two: Hard Reset
A note from the editors: During the ongoing crisis we will be sharing art, stories and poetry on our website from Locust Review editors and contributors. These will be collected under the rubric “Locust Dispatches.” Issue #2 is back from the printers and we are in the process of mailing them out right now. As noted before, there may be a slight delay as we are, for the first time, printing our own postage as part of the overall effort toward social distancing. Here is Tish Markley’s oddcpl Episode Two: Hard Reset. Episode One appeared last week.
Read Morebalmnotes - Wash Until They Bleed
Like most museums, the Born Again Labor Museum (BALM) is closed until further notice. However, during this time of hardship, disease, and class struggle, we want to share with you some of our recently created artifacts (see below). BALM commemorates the coming rebirth or reanimation of all past, present, and future generations of the exploited and oppressed. Our project was started in the 1940s and 1950s by Mr. Robert Feature-214, the William and Jack Person brothers, and the Claudette and Jennifer Human cousins. For nearly four decades BALM existed as a traveling museum displaying artifacts of working-class performance. In the 1980s the museum fell on hard times and most of its artifacts were lost. The project was later taken over by Tish Markley and Adam Turl after discovering a book about BALM in the Charleston Outlet thrift store in Las Vegas, Nevada. To learn more about the Born Again Labor Museum please visit our website. We will keep you updated as to when the museum will reopen for the general public.
Read MoreLife Beyond a Plague
We are out of whack temporally. Looking out the window, venturing outside briefly, everything is slowing down as more businesses shutter, gatherings are discouraged, traffic evaporates and people retreat indoors. But scrolling through the news or social media, the world is moving at a dizzying pace. A country’s death toll is spiking. The amount of aid or relief we might expect changes dramatically day-to-day. New wars and skirmishes percolate. Plague time renders trenchant commentary useless.
Read Moreoddcpl Episode One: Dave + KARL
Hard times — a product of the capitalist realist death cult and its neofascist cousins — are here in a big way. The main struggles right now are with labor and mutual aid organizing. But Locust wants to contribute what we can. During the ongoing crisis we will be sharing art, stories and poetry on our website from Locust Review editors and contributors. These will be collected under the rubric “Locust Dispatches.” Issue #2 is scheduled to be back from the printer today (March 17, 2020) and all subscribers will be getting their print or digital copies soon. There may be a slight delay as we are, for the first time, printing our own postage as part of the overall effort toward social distancing. Below is our first “Locust Dispatch” fiction piece, Tish Markley’s oddcpl Episode One: Dave + KARL. Check back next Tuesday for Episode Two: Hard Reset.
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