Black August

STATEMENT BY THE RIBPP, RIWPO & PSO ON THE RETALIATORY TRANSFER AND RACIST THREATS BY SOUTHERN OHIO CORRECTIONAL FACILITY OFFICIALS TOWARDS POLITICAL PRISONER, KEVIN “RASHID” JOHNSON

"Rashid is a long-time political leader, writer, artist, activist and organizer. He is being targeted by the state because of his political beliefs, his many published pieces documenting prison abuse and torture, and efforts at organizing for better conditions."

African Liberation

Violence or Values? The Essence of Revolution

As the oppressed, we will always be condemned by our oppressors for our acts of resistance. Capitalists are not opposed to using violence. They just want to be the only ones legitimized for using it. They wouldn’t have capitalism or America without violence.

Trans Liberation

Coming Out and (re)Claiming the Power to Name

"I would like to employ the "power to name" or more simply "naming" as a framework that not only encompasses coming out, but also transcends it, capturing an element of the queer experience that is specific to Black people."

Africa

My Gender is Marronage: A Revisitation

"A vulnerable soul... flies not because she is reducible to spirit or resistance but because she is a complex human responding to the conditions forced onto her."

Capitalism

Capitalism, Socialism, and Leftist Political Economy (Pt. 1): Basics of Capitalism

[Capitalists are] people who do nothing but skim profit by paying those who do all the work less than they are worth, and use this profit to control society.

Police

Community Control of the Police: Is It Neocolonialism?

"Black people can not have “power” over the police because under colonization Black people have no power. Insofar as power entails the ability to overdetermine and shape the culture of policing, power will always be reserved for the colonial policing state."

Police

The Show Trial and Verdict in the Case of Derek Chauvin: Another Page from the Pig Playbook

"Offering up one low-level pig, whose bad day at the office ignited a firestorm of mass rebellion..is just collateral damage, as far as the pigs are concerned; so long as the status quo is maintained."

Trans Liberation

Femme Queen, Warrior Queen: Beyond Representation, Toward Self-Determination

"Through a revolutionary understanding of how to "center" Black trans women and transfemmes, we advance both Black women's liberation as well as the universal freedom of all African and oppressed people."

Africa

Black Against Profit, Pt. III: The African Mode of Production (for C.A. Diop)

"This article, which is dedicated to the Senegalese historian, scientist, and politician Cheikh Anta Diop, will discuss the historical falsification of Egypt by the imperialist world, and its consequences for the understanding of precolonial African society."

African Liberation

Pan-African Revolt for A New Century: Case Studies of the United States, Nigeria and Haiti

"Black people have always revolted. Black people are currently revolting. Black people will continue to revolt. The key to those revolts is understanding and honoring their mass character. It is the Black masses who ultimately bring about the conditions that make revolutionary change possible."

Anarkata

Not Fox, Not Wolf, But the Wildcat

"Where the fox is US liberalism and the wolf is US conservatism, the wildcat is the global Black/Pan African revolution. We do not have to and should not depend on ballots and billionaires when we can turn toward Black radical traditions."

Colonialism

We Are Not the 99%: Francisco Martins Rodrigues on the Dangers of Allying with the Petty-Bourgeoisie (Pt. 1)

"Francisco Martins Rodrigues (FMR) is a little-known figure in global communism, and yet his analysis is key for demystifying the blockage of revolutionary potential in the Global North."

News

"I am Maroon!" The Historical and Political Importance of Freeing Russell "Maroon" Shoatz

"Maroon is in need of proper medical treatment. We can only ensure this with his immediate release... particularly with the steady surge of COVID-19 in the prisons and jails across this country. It is impossible to social distance in prison. He is our elder. Our hero."

Imperialism

Militant Anti-Imperialism and Liberal Anti-Imperialism: A Demarcation

"Drawing this line can help to offer clarity on where each one of us may stand. It helps us to develop a more effective strategy in order to defeat imperialism."

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."

Prison

The Law, Prisons, and Revolutionaries

"I remember the first time someone told me they were a Revolutionary. It was my man Khalil. At the time, I was a Christian. He was a Muslim. And we were both in prison."

African Liberation

Gimmie The Loot, Gimmie the Loot!: How the looting of the Congo is far more serious and deadly than the "looting" of a few American stores

"Kwame Nkrumah referred to the Congo as the heart of Africa. Mao Tse-Tung is quoted as saying that "whoever controls the Congo, controls the world." Thus, when the Congo becomes the free, the world becomes free. Africa becomes free. The resources of the planet become free. Humanity becomes free!"

Leftist Electoralism and Voting in the Left

Why do leftists still quantify state harm by the visible? Why do leftist youtubers highlight popular media issues and not those that affect oppressed people the most?

Anarkata

Study, Solidarity, Spirit, Struggle: The Anarkata Turn, pt. 2

"Too much revolutionary community work of today has fallen victim to the capitalist habit of isolating certain variables from the totality they operate in..."

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."

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."