The Necessity Defense

Anthony Rogers-Wright You can’t build long-term power by letting white supremacists, nor the government, harm and kill people with impunity. “We can no longer even try to suggest that we can negotiate with white supremacy and fascism.” While appearing on Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now, the good and brilliant scholar/thought leader Dr. Cornell West did not mince words, “We would…

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…

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.

The Growing Importance of Theodore W. Allen’s Work On the Centrality of the Struggle Against White Supremacy

Jeffrey B. Perry Theodore W.  Allen (1919-2005) was an anti-white supremacist, working class intellectual and activist. In the 1960s he developed his pioneering, class struggle-based analysis of “white skin privilege.” In the 1990s he authored the two-volume “classic” The Invention of the White Race. In these and other writings he consistently maintained that the struggle against white…

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…