Race is a biological fiction, but it is a social fact. The white race consists of those who enjoy the privileges of the white skin—freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, the inside track for jobs and careers, not having to fear for their lives every time they leave the home, expecting, if they are female, [...]
Extrajudicial killing is official US policy. Doing so violates fundamental international, constitutional, and US statute laws. Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.” Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights states: “Every human being has the inherent [...]
It’s on the chopping block for elimination. It’s happening nationwide. Chicago perhaps reflects the epicenter of what’s wrong. Mayor Rahm Emanuel spent years waging war on progressive politics. He’s a former investment banker. He’s a corporate predator turned politician. He’s an unindicted war criminal. He belongs in prison, not City Hall. He’s Obama’s former White [...]
It is a phenomenon rarely noted that virtually every left-wing government since the Second World War, almost all of them elected, has faced vicious, sometimes violent, obstruction by its enemies both internal and foreign. Many were overthrown. As Henry Kissinger explained just before the American-backed coup against Salvador Allende in Chile, “The issues are too [...]
Violence against women has taken many different forms. One form that gravely threatens the lives and status of the women in a world scale is the trafficking of woman. This trade in women’s bodies has the following particularities: (1) Despite its very long history, in recent decades it has greatly increased in most countries of the [...]
Recently there appeared a piece by Ba Jin of the Fire Next Time Collective, a group which works close to mass activity in the Bronx and a newly emerging radical formation. While we respect the work of these comrades and are encouraged by their existence and activity as fellow travelers in struggle, this piece displays [...]
Oakland’s community is in turmoil over crime and policing. A sharp increase in robberies, burglaries, and homicides has the public, especially middle class home owners, demanding solutions. Community activists, particularly young African Americans, Latinos, and their allies, continue to oppose police tactics that target them regardless of criminal activity. Finding effective solutions will take time. [...]
The recent floods in Queensland, as well as bushfires in three states, have dramatically shown that climate change is a serious threat and is getting worse. Climate change is not an abstract issue that will be a problem at some point down the track; it is having real impacts now. Extreme fires and floods are [...]
For the last couple of years social justice advocates have loudly sung the praises of Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration the Age of Colorblindness, which has garnered a huge following and spawned an allegedly new designation for racial inequity in the United States. However, former champions of the book and those [...]
As women comrades of the Revolutionary Proletarian Feminist Movement, we salute with joy this conference in support of People’s War in India and bring also the warm greetings of women workers, precarious, unemployed, young people that struggle in the Italian cities where we are present. At the international level, we dedicated the 8 March of [...]
With the recent re-election of Barack Obama as President of the United States, many are rejoicing and breathing a sigh of relief. There’s a widespread belief amongst those who elected him that he is looking out for us and will fight for us. Unfortunately, besides a few token gestures that may occur during the next [...]
Police brutality and murder are arguably the most visible, direct and clear expressions of racialized state power in the United States. To say this is an epidemic, however, as many have, is somewhat of a simplification. An epidemic is an indiscriminate force of nature, seemingly emerging from nowhere, affecting people at random, often with a [...]
I recently had a conversation with another white lady in which she claimed was no longer racist after her “revelation” about the state of racism that came from reading a few works by bell hooks and Cornel West. I found this claim to be a variation on the white racist staple of I-can’t-be-racist-because-I-have-black-friends, now modified to I’m-no-longer-racist-because-I-read-black-authored-works-on-racism. This statement startled [...]
There are some stories that are hard to cover – the death of Savita Halappanavar, a pregnant women, from septicemia whose life might have been saved if an abortion was not delayed is a hard as they come. According to the Irish Times Praveen Halappanavar, the husband of Savita said she had asked for a [...]
A ceasefire agreement between the Hamas-led Palestinian government in Gaza and Israel was announced today, Nov. 21, in Cairo by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr. Clinton made an emergency trip to the Middle East with the aim of brokering a truce, a clear sign of the Obama [...]
Azania, better known to most as South Africa, is afire with worker resistance and social unrest. Since August, hundreds of thousands of workers, the unemployed, and their allies have engaged in a pitched battle against the forces of transnational capital, particularly those concentrated in the mineral extraction industries, and the African National Congress (ANC) government [...]
The November presidential elections have spawned a multitude of reactions from both the so-called Marxist ‘Left’ and the strains of post-Anarchism and autonomism emerging from the self-liquidation of the Occupy movement. Positions range from an inside-outside strategy which calls to “vote against Romney” while simultaneously building a left pole both inside and outside Democratic Party, [...]
I’m sure you’ve heard, by now, about Violentacrez. He was doxxed by Gawker and in the process called one of the Internet’s most notorious trolls. Indeed, his vile contributions to racist, misogynist, violent, generally offensive, degrading and depraved subreddits should give him the right to own that label. This supertroll lost his job upon being doxxed [...]
I lost count long ago of how often I heard white activists call critiques of white supremacy in movements and society little more than diversions from ‘real’ issues. It’s as if there’s an expectation that patriarchy, white supremacy and other oppressions are to be ignored for the sake of ‘unity.’ Such a refrain is one [...]
The social sciences as they have developed in the western world has it as it’s goal to develop, catalog, understand, and organize human behavior. Sociology, Political Science, Psychology, Philosophy, Anthropology, Communications, and all the other social sciences seek to make sense of the social world human beings have created for themselves over the past million [...]
RT @pocorganize: Colombia: narco-terrorist card in political play http://t.co/Ij75qJSJod #classwar #latism #latam
Colombia: narco-terrorist card in political play http://t.co/Ij75qJSJod #classwar #latism #latam
RT @pocorganize: Federal Judge orders release of names of School of Americas graduates http://t.co/Wa1Bo34g8w #classwar #latism #latam #atlat #revsoc
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