Reject Anti-Intellectualism

 Erica Caines A disingenuous trend is reemerging, bastardizing concepts of “accessibility” to attack and suppress radical efforts at political education. The focus on consistent ongoing political education is shot down as disconnected from the needs of the people. But these critiques should be seen clearly for what they are: anti-intellectualism masquerading as a faux concern for the…

Understanding Anti-Intellectualism in the U.S.

Edric Huang, Jenny Dorsey, Claire Mosteller, Emily Chen Overview The concept of anti-intellectualism has changed and evolved over time, without one single definition. In historian Richard Hofstadter’s groundbreaking book, Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1963), anti-intellectualism is explained as “a resentment and suspicion of the life of the mind and of those who are considered to…

Liberal Democracy: The Bedfellow of Fascism

Erica Caines Dead US senator John McCain went to Ukraine and stood on stage with neo-Nazi Oleh Tyahnybok back in 2013. Antifascism, as a politic and concept, has grown more appealing in the last 6 years because of the rise of right-wing authoritarianism domestically and globally rooted in patriarchy and ongoing (settler) colonialism. Nonetheless, there…

Democracy Now interviews Chairman Omali Yeshitela about FBI Raids (Aug 10, 2022)

Leaders of the African People’s Socialist Party say the FBI carried out a violent raid on its properties with flash grenades and drones early Friday morning in Missouri and Florida. The pan-Africanist group has been a longtime advocate for reparations for slavery and a vocal critic of U.S. foreign policy. The raid appears to be…

Political Prisoners in the United States, 2022

Stansfield Smith There are many ways to define what is a political prisoner. The most well-known cases are those the national security state framed-up, or imprisoned with extreme sentences for an offense because of their political activism, such as George Jackson. Each period of struggle by the working class and oppressed peoples against ruling class control…

Fascist Plots in the U.S.: Contemporary Lessons from the 1934 “Business Plot”

Gabriel Rockhill In a key event leading to the plot, Army Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur orders soldiers to burn the Bonus Army Encampment in D.C. Photo: “Bonus march camp burns on Washington’s Mall: 1932” by Washington Area Spark. Source: Wikimedia “In contradistinction to German fascism, which acts under anti-constitutional slogans, American fascism tries to…