May Day Podcast: Black Agenda Report’s Margaret Kimberley(Posted May 3, Due To Technical Diffculties)
BAR’s Margaret Kimberley talks with us about Iran, class, the death of Black politics, and much more.
Tag Archives: anti-capitalism
The Difference Between Huffing Dong and Flipping Burgers [#Feminist Friday]
Pieces on the impact of pornography and prostitution on communities of color have been a part of an anti-capitalist analysis at People Of Color Organize! for quite awhile. From issues such as human trafficking in Third World women to the sex industry’s anti-woman, anti-feminist pretensions that should be fought against, these matters require continuous examination. [...]
Dr. Jared Ball At The Left Forum Video Interview
Dr. Jared Ball sat down with People Of Color Organize Editor Ikonoklast, at The Left Forum held at Pace University in New York City, March 17, 2012. Among some the topics that were discussed, were Dr. Ball’s upcoming book A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X (to be released May 2012), Liberals, Internal [...]
Notes from 2012 Left Forum Presentation on Capital and Dissent
The following are notes from the 2012 Left Forum People Of Color Organize! presentation on “Anarchist Descriptions and Analyses of Capitalism,” a panel focused on analyses of capitalism and how those relate to the contemporary crisis and concomitant opposition movements. There was particular attention to how the economy intersects with other forms of oppression and [...]
Black Liberation and the Communist International
A fascinating and at times critical history of Black liberation and the Communist International.
Capitalist Crisis and the Potential for Radical Renewal
Greg Albo, Sam Gindin, and Leo Panitch all teach political economy at York University in Toronto and are the authors of In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives, published by PM Press. Panitch and Albo are co-editors of the Socialist Register, while Gindin for many years was research director of [...]
Tribute To Marilyn Buck
In my haste to criticize the traditional white left, I must always remember the white left who have taken the uncompromising stance of solidarity with the masses of colonized people around the world. Marilyn Buck was such a person who took that stance. She died on August 3, 2010 at the age of 62, after [...]
Be Aware Of Organizations Promoting Microcredit!
Microcredit, the Dream and the Reality The Dream Those involved in international development often live in a dreamworld. Lately, that dreamworld has morphed into a twisted delusion that has gained a religious-like following. The delusion is that capitalism, rather than being the cause of inequality and poverty, is actually what the impoverished population of [...]
Submit Your Writing to Upping the Anti
Upping the Anti is currently looking for story ideas for ISSUE ELEVEN, which will be released in OCTOBER of 2010. If you have an idea for a story you would like to see published, please send a one page pitch by Sunday, June 13, 2010. In addition to the pitch, please submit a short writing [...]
Race, Gender & Class: Structure of the Global Elite and World Capitalism
I look at their faces, I see reflection and masks that sometimes repeat my own in a strange cyclic pattern of power. Because in here, I am but a wage-slave, condemn sweating and hurting for eight bucks an hour, forced to smile and accept condescend behavior from the all-smiling, ever merry elite of the capital. [...]
The World is Not Flat: A Review of “Against Nationalism”
Against Nationalism is a pamphlet produced by the Anarchist Federation. The introduction explains that the document has its origins in arguments around the time of the winter 2008-09 war in Gaza, at which time AF argued for a ‘no state’ solution to the conflict. The pamphlet scores a number of easy points against Trotskyist cheerleaders [...]
The Final Conflict: What Can Cause a System-Threatening Crisis of Capitalism?
By David M. Kotz The theory of economic crisis has long occupied an important place in Marxist theory. One reason is the belief that a severe economic crisis can play a key role in the supersession of capitalism and the transition to socialism. Some early Marxist writers sought to develop a breakdown theory of economic [...]
RAPE ME! RAPE ME MY FRIEND!
The following article, Obama Brings International State Terrorism to Ghana, was written by Sekou Nkrumah, Chairman of the Pan African Improvement Organization. Sekou Nykrumah, has also authored two books: Repatriation and Pan Africanism, the Suppression of Two Movements and Notes on White Supremacy and Capitalism. This article was written as a critique of Obama’s trip [...]
Ikonoklast’s Weekly Book Reviews
“Well you know, black people deserve what they get. They sold themselves into slavery!” How many times have you heard this reactionary claim that the reason Africans were enslaved is because of an inherent pathology hell-bent on genocide. I mean it’s that classic “blame the victim” mantra, a favorite reactionary past time I might add, [...]
Is Anti-Capitalism Enough?
By Farhana Khatri Anti-globalization activism in Calgary received a major boost from the organizing that took place to protest the June 2002 G8 summit in Kananaskis, a mountain resort 100 kilometres west of the city. As in the demonstrations that have taken place post-Seattle, the Calgary anti-globalization activism scene had a strong anti-capitalist anarchist presence, [...]
