Old-timers will want to read Chris Maisono's Jacobin magazine review of an autobiography of James Lawson, of blessed memory, the civil rights advocate par excellence of non-violent struggle who died a couple of years ago.

Lawson was a key organizer and trainer of the Nashville Movement. Chris uses the review to look at the traditions of non-violent struggle in the contexts of self-defense and the violence imposed on people by an unjust society. Thanks to Portside for sending it along.

https://portside.org/2026-08-28/james-lawson-was-civil-rights-movements-drill-sergeant?utm_medium=email&utm_source=portside-snapshot&fbclid=IwY2xjawT_029wZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR5zjwXN1PX_Pui4eaoMugWxEDXNDgld5GnrfxlBHyPUeVvg907wKadYZ2CK0A_aem_Mfh1dPTrh8tbQ5WPzmC8rg