Ena͞emaehkiw Kesīqnaeh Earlier this year there was a small-scale three-way split within the U.S.-based Marxist-Leninist/communist organization known as the Workers World Party (WWP). This split, which occurred in stages, was the result of apparent conflict between what at first seemed to be the core organizational leadership of the WWP and the membership of the Huntington,…
Category: Racism
Settler Fragility: Why Settler Privilege is So Hard to Talk About
Dina Gilio-Whitaker Robin DiAngelo’s brilliant 2018 manifesto on white fragility was a much-needed truth bomb at a time when it’s more clear than ever that we are light years away from the “post-racial state.” Perhaps most important about the book was its clarity that racism is systemic and structural, that no white people are immune…
The US State and the US Revolution
Eugene Puryear It is no exaggeration to say that the principal disputes between activists, organizations and political trends in U.S. social movements have hinged on different understandings of, and attitudes toward, the state. What distinguishes a revolutionary communist perspective from a reformist perspective is not one of momentary tactics, which may range from the most…
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
Barbara Foley Review of Claudia Jones: Revolutionary Communist by Sarah Harper and Karyn Pomerantz, September 9, 2018 Introduction This article is part of a series that briefly reviews the immense contributions of black revolutionaries fighting racism and capitalism, primarily in the United States during the early to the mid-20th Century. Some people view Marxism and…
Amílcar Cabral: “Nazis are the most tragic expression of imperialism and its thirst for domination”
Amilcar L. Cabral: National Liberation and Culture – PDF This text was originally delivered on February 20, 1970; as part of the Eduardo Mondlane (1) Memorial Lecture Series at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, under the auspices of The Program of Eastern African Studies. It was translated from the French by Maureen Webster. When Goebbels,…
Nazis & Nationalists: The Rise of Greece’s Far-Right
Greece’s governing Syriza coalition betrayed its supporters and capitulated to the EU and international finance. Far-right groups are positioning to win the support of disaffected voters.
From George Wallace to the Alt-Right: Resisting White Supremacy
By Lorenzo Raymond The history of the civil rights movement is often used to pressure militants into passive resistance. But how nonviolent was the Black Freedom Movement, particularly when it was winning? Historians now agree that the use of force played a constructive role for many liberation projects of the period, including not just the Black…
A Dozen Shades of Far Right
The growing threat of authoritarianism demands mass movements and broad-based anti-fascist action on the basis of internationalism and genuine solidarity. By Maik Fielitz Earlier this year, a site in the German city of Dresden that had originally been designated for a refugee shelter was turned into a court room. Ironically, it now hosts a terror…
First, They Shot the Anarchists…
Trump and the New Normal Its Going Down The riots that took place during Trump’s inauguration as well as in Berkeley, California against Breitbart editor and Alt-Right troll Milo Yiannopoulos, have rocked the political establishment, created a collective gasp of disdain from liberal and leftist leadership, and generated a wave of blowback from both within…
The Invention of the White Race
“When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no ‘white’ people there; nor, according to the colonial records, would there be for another sixty years.” — Theodore W. Allen The Invention of the White Race by Theodore Allen Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race By Jeffery Perry Theodore W. Allen’s two-volume The…
Antifa Alert: The Wolves of Vinland – A Fascist Countercultural “Tribe” in the Pacific Northwest
Rose City Antifa IGD Over recent years, a host of new organizations and projects have surfaced in the US, attempting to rebrand fascism for new audiences. For several decades fascist organizing has been associated with the hijacking of “skinhead” fashion and culture, but increasingly the fascist Right moves in other scenes as well. Fascist organizers…
