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Black Anarchism and the Black Radical Tradition (Book Review)

Black Anarchism and the Black Radical Tradition is a much-needed short and accessible text offering a history of Black anarchic revolutionaries and landmark documents within the Black Radical Tradition.

History

Capitalism as a System of Social Formations: Notes Toward an Anti-Eurocentric Historical Materialism

In our world, there is a global division of labor... this global division of labor is not a result of expanded markets, it is in fact a condition for capitalism’s existence and logical coherence as a system – it’s been present from jump...

African Liberation

Black Against Profit, Pt. II of IV: Racism F's With You the Long Way

"The concept of racial capitalism offers both a material and an ontological explanation for the triumph of the profit motive over Black life."

Black liberation

To the Ones Who Can Fly: A Message from the Whirlwind

"We must establish a love of freedom. And we must center those on the bottom, so that we take charge of our destinies at last, and have full participation in the liberation of us all.”

Black liberation

Black Against Profit: A Primer on Capitalism and Racism (Pt. I of IV)

"The concept of racial capitalism...is important not only for understanding the foundations of colonialism and slavery, that hold up the edifice of modern capitalism, but also for uncovering the sources of Black revolt against that system."

History

Black Resistance, Black Organization, The Politics of Black Liberation: The African Blood Brotherhood for African Liberation and Redemption 1919-1924

"Therefore, to view Black African resistance as mere anomalies within the context of history is to make a considerable mistake. In fact, Black resistance is the very touchstone of Black African history, of Black political movement."

History

The Black Revolutionary Organization That You Probably Never Heard Of: The Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) 1962-1969

"In these times of increasing militancy and spontaneity, the masses cannot be left to grope in a political darkness of struggle. There are plenty of positive examples of historical and political struggles that we can glean from."

Commentary

In Defense of Black Lives, Everything Must Go

"This contrast can be seen in how local officials dragged their feet in the Botham Jean case, as opposed to how quickly Atatiana Jefferson’s killer was arrested and charged within 24 hours after people occupied the streets armed."

Turkey

Grup Yorum: The Voice of the Workers

"Since 2016, Grup Yorum has been facing one of its most significant threats to its existence. In the aftermath of the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey, the President was handed emergency powers, and he soon decreed the arrests and imprisonments of all political critics against his government."

History

On The MOVE: When The City of Philadelphia Waged War on a Black Community

"...the controlling, maiming, denying, poisoning, and outright killing of Black life through the mechanisms of the State was as American as apple pie. In fact, the destruction of all life forms is the core identity, fabric, and true functionality of American society."

History

How We're Trapped in the Spectacle of Liberal Democracy

"When picturing the revolutionary in the Sudanese Revolution, in Syria, in Chile, or in anywhere else in the world, don't forget to imagine how difficult it would be for them to adapt to American activist spaces because of our lack of collective tenacity."

History

Sharpeville-Langa Massacre: 60 Years Later

"As adherents of Pan-Africanism today, it is our duty to mark the 60th Commemoration of the Sharpeville and Langa Massacres differently from all other previous commemorations. Let us use this opportunity to draw courage from the fallen heroes as we advance towards a Socialist Azania."

Turkey

International Mother Language Day 2020: Suppression of Kurdish by Turkey

"As Apê Musa remembers, 'If my language is shaking the foundations of your state, it probably means you built your state on my land.'"

History

The Last Shall Be First, Part Two: The Color Line of Labor

"...Du Bois was by the first imperialist war already thinking in terms that today would be called Third Worldist. He appears to hold that the fundamental contradiction, that conditions even class struggle, is the contradiction of oppressor and oppressed nations."

Iran

Britain and Iran: A Brief Modern History (1941-2020)

"With heightened tensions within the region close to the brink of war, historical context shows why the British state fears Iranian retribution..."

Criticism

Dragging White Leftists, Part Two: Fred Hampton Don’t Know You

"If white leftists wanna imitate Fred Hampton, then maybe they should try merging their organizations with the Black mobs in Chicago – but we’ll wait til the ice caps melt completely before that happens."

History

"Great Garvey's Ghost!": On the Grandeur and Weakness of Black Leadership

"As revolutionary nationalists in the 21st century, we need sympathetic accounts of Garvey and of Black leadership that don't descend into crass hagiography..."

Education

Dragging White Leftists: My Anti-Drug

"Today, if you are in good faith, you should do like Sartre did with Fanon and ask what, in spite of all, you can learn from our voices, now that we no longer address ourselves to you, but rather, to one another about you and beyond you."

Commentary

Toys R Us’ Mismanaged Debts Affect Laid Off Workers

"...is the $75 million even enough to do justice to the employees who made the company what it was?"

History

The Ebb And Flow Of Freedom: Haiti, Cuba, and Jamaica in the Age of Bourgeois Revolution

Guest Piece by: Zach the Red The power of the Haitian Revolution reverberated across the planet, but the revolution made its most profound and lasting impacts on the neighboring slave societies of the Atlantic world. In the nearby colonies of British Jamaica and Spanish Cuba, enslaved people, free people of

History

The Fascist Capture

"The history of South Africa has a double importance for white communists in Amerika and other colonial countries."