Red Voice (Page 5)

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

What Happened in Dayton?

The Left were pleased with yesterday’s news that the Klan, which had announced its desire to hold a rally in diverse Dayton, OH (51.7% White, 42.9% Black), was only able to send a delegation of 9 pathetic looking settlers waving Confederate and American flags and pitiful signs.

Tears of Satan: Dedicated to Officer Julia Crews

Julia Crews is a former police officer in Ladue, Missouri that shot sister Ashley Hall over a piece of fruit.Why do you cry, Miss Satan? Did you cry When you tried to take my sister's life In Ladue, over a piece of rotten fruit? Ladue, where those who rob

Can We Build A Society for All Animals?

By: Comrade August You don’t have to look hard to find absurd, laughable statements made in the name of animal rights. Whether it’s PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) asking us to stop using “anti-animal language” like “kill two birds with one stone,” or an earnest

Defeat US Imperialism! Liberate the Inner Colonies!

A Brief Outline of Imperialism and the Current World Situation What is imperialism? Imperialism is capitalism that has developed to a point where it is no longer based on free competition among small industrial producers, but where competition has been completely erased internally due to the formation of industrial monopolies

The Black Church and the Black Revolution

Part of being a Communist is realizing and working with the fact that the masses we seek to organize and develop for revolution already have developed their own institutions and formations that they support and which provide some semblance of tangible benefit for their communities — hence continued support for these

Ideological Social Democracy Is Social Fascism: Yet Again

I’ve been a bit apprehensive in the past about using the old Comintern era label of “social fascism” because it’s often thrown around in the most sectarian, harmful, petty and foolish ways — the average rank and file DSA member is by no means or any definition of the

A Year in the Life of a Revolutionary Mass Organization: FTP-AC

With the conclusion of 2018, we wish to summarize the experiences and struggles of our ‘For the People’ mass organization in Atlantic City. This analysis was delayed due to recent developments in the city over the past three months, and the rectification of many errors. This caused an intensification of

I Really Don’t Care if Jussie Smollett Lied.

It’s a given that even when a Black person in the United States is the victim of crime that results in their death (see Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin, Vonderritt Myers), they are subject to a second assassination of their character. If I somehow end up dead at the hands

War Against All Puerto Ricans: A Review

“Empires are devils disguised as guardian angels. The American flag is a skull and crossbones over two bunches of bananas. Democracy is a lady who presents herself with a machine gun between her legs, tear gas at her breast and her hat adorned with pistols and .45 revolvers.” — Don Pedro

History

The Fascist Capture

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

Latest assault by the Canadian State on Indigenous Territory Results in RCMP Roadblocks, Arrests, Terse Stalemate

A little more than a week ago, in the early afternoon of Monday, January 7th, militarized Royal Canadian Mounted Police units equipped with bulldozers and assault rifles forcibly breached the Gidumt’en Checkpoint, a primary entrance point into the territory of the Wet’suwet’en Nation. These RCMP units also

Interview

Organizing in the South: An Interview with FTP-Mobile

"...There's no mass work or base-building work going on here, that's why we made FTP-Mobile. We wanted to separate ourselves from that and actually do community work."

Current Events

For Lil’ Jazmine.

"...every time a member of the New Afrikan nation dies under this imperialist order, it is a genocide."

Big Pigs Spank Little Pigs in Saint Louis

Four white Saint Louis Metropolitan Police Department officers, Dustin Boone, Bailey Colletta, Randy Hays and Christopher Myers were indicted this afternoon on federal charges after Boone, Hays and Myers brutally beat a black officer named Luther Hall (identified as L.H.) who was working undercover during last year’s Stockley

His Name was Danye Jones. And You Ain’t Gonna Forget It.

Clayton, Missouri is the capital and nerve center of Saint Louis County. Many people in the Greater STL Metropolitan area come here to shop and handle other business of that nature. The main attraction for most is the Saint Louis Galleria (don’t go to Plaza Frontenac if you want

Current Events

A Man Was Lynched in Saint Louis on October 17th

"These are not accidents, or mistakes, or coincidences. There is a targeted, careful, directed conspiracy to eradicate or intimidate proletarian black leadership..."

Interview

An Interview with Comrade Rashid

"...Our role is to instead convert the prison into 'revolutionary schools of liberation' where we 'transform the criminal mentality into a revolutionary mentality.' "

Current Events

Shootings, Migrants, And U.S. Fascism

"...these people are not interested in polemics and debates with the 'left'. They seek to kill because they sense that their day is done."

Housing

“There’s Slumlords, and Then There’s Me and My Crew.”

"...To Victor’s surprise, our tenant friend was accompanied not alone, but with two representatives from Omaha Tenants United to assist in negotiations regarding this joke of an eviction notice. This caught him quite off guard..."

Gentrification

FUCK THE STARBUCKS IN BED-STUY & HERE’S WHY:

"...Despite developers, the sell-out politicians and their supporters believing that all these changes to the neighborhood are for the better, I still am asking 'better for who?'"

News

Peaceful Protesters Held Longer than Killer Cop in Dallas: What does this Mean?

"9 progressive protesters were released earlier today after being arrested Sunday for demonstrating outside a Dallas Cowboys game..."

Art

Some Thoughts on Revolutionary Art

"...To depict a slum is one thing, to depict the masses of tenants rising up against a slumlord and transforming the community through their own hands is another."

News

A Maoist’s Thoughts on the Murder of Botham Jean

"...A black man was just murdered in his own apartment in Dallas, a city which has Black people in two powerful city positions."

Criticism

If the Masses Don’t Trust You, they Gon’ Shoot You — Still.

"...Many Communists make the mistake of sequestering themselves in libraries and among their own clique or circle of friends, using them as a sort of stand in for the masses."