Race - Red Voice

"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."

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...

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.”

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."

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."

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.

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.

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."

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."

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."