Feminism

Policing Black Feminism is Pig Work

"[The colonized struggle] with one another for failing to meet the standards of gender behavior imposed on us by colonial oppressors."

Neocolonialism

WHERE TO FOR PAN-AFRICANISM? - Entrenchment of Class Struggle & Neocolonialism in Africa

"The prerequisite of a correct and global strategy to defeat neo-colonialism is the ability to discover and expose the way in which a state becomes neo-colonialist. It is this absence of ideology which poses a great danger to the ultimate liberation of the African people..."

Unions

It's Not The Fall That Kills You

"The United States economy sits on the two pillars of service and manufacturing. In the latest survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, over half of all held jobs involved some aspect of Service, even if that was not their primary job descriptor."

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."

Climate Change

Burnin’ Down Massa’s House: Notes Toward a Black Radical Ecology

"We need an ecological science...that is revolutionary and anti-colonial. [One] that reveals how the ecological problem is not an apocalypse, but is about the need for Massa’s house to burn."

Art

Decency: A Eulogy

"We had to kill Decency, because taking a stark, unyielding, impolite look at a person’s legacy is the only way we’re going to learn from it. That, and a good laugh keeps our dread at bay."

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..."

Commentary

A 'New' £1 billion: Boris and his new NHS lie

"...the time has come where facts don't matter to political discourse in an era dominated by nationalist populist rhetoric, and the face of such discourse has now been plastered with the face of Boris..."

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."

Neoliberalism

It Was Never About Law And Order

"It has been made abundantly clear by this and many other situations that 'law and order' has always meant playing to the racial fears of the white majority."

Criticism

Bad Faith and Afropessimism: Notes Toward a Debate

"...the social world is not a product of natural laws, but is sustained by free human activity... voluntary human attitudes can make a difference in shaping the structures and outcomes of that world."

Tenants' Rights

The Power of Online Fundraising in the Left

"With these local successes through the web, I’ve recently come to terms with the power of the online fundraiser for leftist causes..."

Surveillance

Security Cameras on the Streets: Overtown, Miami FL

"...British Home Office Study reported in 2005 that their cameras neither reduced crime nor fear of crime."

ICE

On Thin ICE

"Resistance doesn’t need to be loud and out. Resistance is a collection of actions, big and small, that snowball into a concerted effort."

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?"

Criticism

Identibuy

"But something went wrong. Now the point is no longer to make a world where nobody has to be oppressed; now the point is to use 'oppressed' as a marketing demographic."

On the ground

Working-Class Minneapolitans Get Breathing Room as Contested City Ordinance Upheld in State Appeals Court

On Monday of this past week, working-class Minneapolitans, specifically those who receive public housing assistance through Section 8 voucher programs, gained some breathing room after the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled to uphold a contested Minneapolis city ordinance related to protecting tenants

Homelessness

I’ll Remember You

"I remember she asked me if I could do something to bring attention to her life... some kind of proof she existed in the world."

Organizing

Working Group Strategies for a Community or Tenants Union

"For the Tenants Union in the which I’m involved, I’ve designed working groups. I hope this blueprint can be of use to others as well."

Art

No Art for Art's Sake Part 1: Art and Gentrification

"When you see how intertwined our lives are in regards to art, its impossible not to see how useful a tool it is to certain classes..."

News

Minneapolis Real Estate Lobbyist Group Rallies Landlords, Developers Against Proposed Expansion of Tenant's Rights

"...this ordinance, if passed, would bar landlords from turning away applicants because of a felony conviction..."

Theory

Public Resolutions of the First Conference of the Organizing Committee for a Maoist Communist Party

On National Liberation Given that: a. the contradiction between oppressor/exploiting nations and oppressed/exploited nations remains the primary contradiction of our era of capitalist-imperialism; b. capital has become a fully realized global system with value chains traversing borders with ease; however the point of origin and point of return

Racism

The Mass Line: Communist Militants Speak on Dayton

This is an interview with comrades who were present at the attempted Dayton KKK rally last week. "The Mass Line" is a column where on the ground activists are encouraged to speak their minds and offer advice derived from social practice regarding organizing, offer criticism/engage in self-criticism, and promote

News

Police Attack Black Men at Apartment Complex in Saint Louis Suburb

By: Nat Turner A resident sent us this video of an incident of police overkill at the Oak Park Apartments in Spanish Lake, Missouri, earlier this evening around 8:00 PM. According to witnesses, a Saint Louis County police officer pulled up to two black men sitting outside of their

Justice Cup Renews Struggle in Saint Louis During Stanley Cup

By: Nat Turner Photo courtesy: Richard ReillyWe  believe in the freedom and liberation of all people. We understand the  current crisis in our country as part of a longer history of racialized  and gendered violence, environmental injustice, ableism, queer and  trans-phobia, and mass incarceration. This is why we believe it