Current Events - Red Voice

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.”

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."

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."

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.

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..."

Current Events

It's Not A Bug, It's A Feature

"What unites these two tragedies is the willful disregard for human life shown by large corporations across the globe. The stories are manifold, ranging from the banal to the obscene, but what is truly infuriating is the fact that it keeps happening."

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."

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..."

Current Events

For Lil’ Jazmine.

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

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."