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.”

Phillipines

Racial Fetishization and Colonial Trauma of Asian Women

"Eroticization is not just the result of an Asian woman’s gender or class or ethnicity, but rather the imbalance of power created by her gender, class, and ethnicity. It is also the dynamic created by a colonial mentality that makes seeking out/purchasing Asian women so appealing."

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."

Action

Racist Retaliation and Abuse of Comrade Rashid Intensifies at Pendleton Correctional Facility (September 2020)

"I am asking for everyone’s help.... Please call and/or email the staff at PCF expressing your support of Rashid, your awareness of his current situation, and our demands on his behalf using the suggested script and contact information."

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."

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

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.

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."

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."

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.'"

Anarkata

Kickbacks, Ancestors, and Wildcats: The Anarkata Turn

"A group of kids in the hood did something anarchic without identifying as revolutionaries. A group of kids in the hood did something anarchic without even knowing who or what ‘the left’ or ‘Kuwasi Balagoon’ is."

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."

Black Radical Ecology

Who’s Man is This? Black Radical Ecology and the Anthropogenic Question

"Wynter teaches us that ‘Man’ is a colonial relation, not a ‘natural’ one. The anthropogenic question shouldn’t be about discovering why evolution has made ‘us’ dominant. It should be about freeing both human and nonhuman ‘Things’ from the hold of the (white/Western) ‘Man.’"

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..."

Interview

The Road to Revolution, interview with YPG volunteer Jêhat Birûsk

"'If you are waiting for the right time, or the right place, or the purest ideology... you are going to wait the rest of your lives. Go, make the revolution; there's no time left for cynicism or stalling!'"