While it is seldom mentioned in the Western media, the Naxalite rebellion in India represents a significant threat to the establishment in its effectiveness and its level of popular support. According to some reports, the Naxals control up to one-third of India’s territory at any given time, and in some places they have established alternate [...]
The riots that emanated out from the British capital to sweep the rest of England earlier this month are easily the most intense that the western world has seen since the Los Angeles uprisings in 1992. Pundits and spin-doctors who have smugly turned their noses up every time a developing nation was gripped by similar [...]
Policing of young men has reached epidemic proportions. In Texas, elementary school-aged children are being ticketed for what were once harmless school behaviors. In California, youth of color are watched and documented by law enforcement even though they are committing no crime. In a dozen other states, mere association with criminalized young people is [...]
Podcast (ikonoklast): Play in new window | Download On this edition of IKONOKLAST SPEAKS!, we are joined with Dr. Jared A. Ball to discuss his new book, I MIX WHAT I LIKE!: A MIXTAPE MANIFESTO. We discuss the major themes of this important work such as; emancipatory journalism, Internal Colonialism Theory, the role of propaganda [...]
The Washington Post and Robert Samuelson did their part in publicly passing along the marching orders from the rich and powerful to Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve Board. The word from these folks is “No Inflation!” If that means millions more people will suffer unemployment for a few more years, that’s a price that the Postand Samuelson are willing [...]
“With nearly 600,000 internally displaced persons still in camps, the scale of Haiti’s homeless problem remains daunting.”
For socialists, how workers power can be brought about is the central question. Most socialist groups have different answers to this question, from the large ideological chasm of revolution versus reform as a means of changing society to smaller more nuanced issues of tactics in the here and now. One notion that does seem to [...]
I am going to start this off by saying I am a white guy and I am opposed to me getting beat up just because of it (even if I can come up with reasons why). That said, here we go. The article you will find posted below pertains largely to Philadelphia, but what I [...]
Agenda or “dream” – what does this monument represent? With the unveiling of the Martin Luther King memorial approaching, the question on many people’s minds is, which Dr. King will the participants be celebrating? Martin Luther King’s messages have been taken out of context to such an extreme degree, that now even the far Right [...]
Podcast (ikonoklast): Play in new window | Download On this edition of IKONOKLAST SPEAKS!, we are joined with Dr. Jared A. Ball to discuss his new book,I MIX WHAT I LIKE!: A MIXTAPE MANIFESTO. We discuss the major themes of this important work such as; emancipatory journalism, Internal Colonialism Theory, the role of propaganda on [...]
On August 8, the libertarian Reason Foundation (RF) asked about the absence of anti-war sentiment in America, saying: “The Obama administration is on pace to have more American soldiers killed in” Iraq and Afghanistan than Bush did in his first term. Besides the shocking number of injuries, permanent impairments, physical trauma, and record number of [...]
On August 23rd, there will be a special Legislative Hearing on Torture and the Solitary Housing Unit at Pelican Bay in Sacramento, CA in response to a hunger strike prisoners at Pelican Bay launched on July 1st. Pressure was brought upon the State of California, when at least 6,600 prisoners joined the strike in 13 [...]
The menacing and apocalyptic sound of The Clash’s 1979 title track, “London Calling” provides the appropriate background music for what is occurring in London, Liverpool, Manchester, and the United States, among other places facing economic austerity, governmental crackdowns, and the proliferation of police surveillance. The guitar rings steadily yet violently, as the snare drum urgently [...]
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a massive non-profit body that brings corporations and legislators together to draft “model” legislation. For example, AZ Senator Russell Pearce and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison firm, have been members for years. ALEC finalized the model legislation which became, almost word for word, [...]
What’s a riot without looting? We want it, they’ve got it! You’d think from the press that looting was alien to British tradition, imported by immigrants more recent than the Normans. Not so. Gavin Mortimer, author of The Blitz, had an amusing piece in the First Post about the conduct of Britons at the time of their Finest [...]
In the wake of the Oslo shootings and the London Uprising, a white supremacist group that has used both events to further their own agenda is holding a conference at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC on Sept. 10. This is a call for everyone to come out and oppose what even the organizers [...]
An interview I saw on TV two days ago with a former gangster has sparked lots of contemplation in me the last couple of days. The interviewee had brown skin like me, a colonial name like me, and was in a better place than he used to be; also like me. “You have to show [...]
This is a series of excerpts from an essay written in 1974 by Jimmie Durham. It is one of the most influential pieces of work on my political thought, both as a revolutionary communist and as a revolutionary Native nationalist. In this piece Durham, critically addresses the colonial attitudes of white “leftists” that have historically caused [...]
Us Rads always have reactionary family members, and my reactionary family member ambushed me with the most anti-Black article I’ve read in my life. As any conscience colonized person knows, many of our elders are still held by the notion that “White is Right”. However, I refused to be subjected to ignorance, so in response to this [...]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download During this year’s conference of the Association of Black Psychologists an important panel on the issue of African people’s sovereignty was discussed. From the perspectives of history, economics, resources, governance, media, culture and politics panelists attempted to address the question of sovereignty and its practical definition in [...]
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