Black August

The Real Dragon: George Jackson and the Black August Tradition

"Black August started as a commemoration of George’s defiant spirit, but more than that, it is testimony to that radical, revolutionary tradition that never quenches."

Fanon

Frantz Fanon: A Personal Tribute to the Philosopher of the Colossal Mass

"The colonized intellectual you so much detest has come to become the so-called guardian of your name. I hope you come into the whirlwind and destroy that myth... But in the end, I guess that’s our battle to fight."

Interview

Clout Culture: Queer Liberation and Social Capitalism

"Revolutionary activity should be the conscientious expression of unconscious striving for liberation by the masses and the margins; but clout culture means we are simply involved because we are loyal to individual figures or formations."

Education

Book Review: "Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and Art of Kevin “Rashid” Johnson Featuring Exchanges With an Outlaw"

"Defying the Tomb is a very easy and exciting read. However, it is also the very cornerstone of the kind of political education that the masses of our people need. I will even go as far as to say that this book is this generation's Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson."

Criticism

Of Liberalism and the pitfalls of Radical Activism

"They attempt to fool the people by showing off some little harsh truths at the conferences and forums they're invited to, where the people cheer them on and bring them back on their shoulders. Then they soon start their real work and call for calm and dialogue with 'the authorities'."

Black liberation

To Fall and Get Back Up: An Ode to Blackness

"Your journey alongside your many children thru these deep annals of history is the beginning of human redemption. Don’t you ever forget that."

Black liberation

Now Onwards to Revolution! Notes of Love and Solidarity to Afro-America

"America lives off the carcass of the black body, so satiated that it forgot its day of reckoning. Now it's here."

Trans Liberation

Transphobia is a Respectability Politic: Thoughts on Black Community Defense

"Contrary to some popular takes, centering the most vulnerable actually makes it easier (and is the only way) to fully account for all the struggles our people face as a totality."

History

Groundings with Rodney: Remembering a Guerrilla Intellectual

"Rodney wasn’t one to accept the norm. He subverted it. He rebelled against it, and in this rebellion, he taught us what it means to be a guerrilla against oppression, not just in arms, but in ways of being, seeing and thinking."

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."

Decolonization

Decolonize Marxism! Part One: Primitive Accumulation

The reality is that class structure is built atop the colonial structure of our economy, and the mode of production we call “capitalism” could not, would not, and cannot exist without it.

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."

Black liberation

Black Powder/Red Spark: Notes on Black Revolt

The ghettos of North America are strewn with Black gunpowder. All they need is a red spark.

Africa

May 25th: The Joy and Pathos of African Liberation

"Twenty-twenty, we are the children who play with the ashes of that fire that once was. A fire that burnt the very heart of god. A time when Africans took the world by storm and spoke of nothing but liberation and death to the colonizer. "

Theory

If We Must Win: A Love Letter to My Little Brother

"We can’t postpone the struggle to some indefinite time, and we can’t keep repeating slogans like 'if we don’t win, our children will.' We are in a precarious moment where there might not even be children if we don’t win this future today."

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."

News

New Sexual Assault Allegation Against Joe Biden: A Proper Examination

"...'liberal' news agencies will waive objectivity in investigations and instead adopt the tactics of their political 'polar-opposite' when it comes to the convenience of fulfilling their interests."

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."

Fiction

Love in the Time of COVID

"She was certain that being honest and strategic about endeavours and desires can be profound and deeply meaningful to both lovers and the movement to redeem the children of the Third World, in the time of COVID-19 and beyond."

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."

Africa

Africa isn’t an Opinion or an Opiate: A Declaration to the Whole World

"Africa isn’t the province of any knucklehead with a geopolitical position or an opinion in the age of the misinformed. It isn’t the holy ground of a nirvana, burning bush-seeking hippie. It sure isn’t the exotic body on which romantics can write their identity hangovers."

Organizing

Anarchism and Black Struggle

"We change, our struggles change, and yet white allies tend to stay the same. We must thus either create anew or take tactile action. What we do represents what we think."

Commentary

In the Age of the ‘Rona: A Message to the Workers of the World

"Look out for each other, even across the oceans, because the worker has no country, just chains she must cut loose. The system at this time will want to come through, to act as if it's the most caring and egalitarian commune there is. Don’t fall for it..."

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.'"