Rainer Shea Among those who discuss the prospects of overthrowing the United States government, there’s a common belief that it would be impossible for domestic rebels to militarily defeat the U.S. armed forces. This inevitably leads to speculations about alternative ways for the rebels to prevail. Maybe we could win most of the U.S. military…
Category: Revolutionary Movements
Abolitionist Solidarity — Black and White — in the Struggle Against Slavery
Paul Wilcox The full story of the struggle to end chattel slavery in the U.S. has yet to be fully told. History books have always minimized the struggle of enslaved people, who from the beginning in 1619 fought slavery at every turn, rebelling, escaping, fighting for the right to fight. Some 180,000 enlisted in the…
Popular Resistance School
The Popular Resistance School will provide political education to help you understand the moment in which we live and how to challenge the power structure effectively. This web-based school will cover strategy and tactics, detailed analysis of key issues and skills-building videos. This eight-week course covers basic social movement theory including models of power, stages…
When Race Burns Class: Settlers Revisited (An Interview with J. Sakai)
Kersplebedeb, October 28, 2000 EC: Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat is a book which had a major impact on many North American anti-imperialists. How did this book come about, and what was so new about its way of looking at things? JS: Settlers completely came about by accident, not design. And what was so…
Confronting Fascism: Discussion Documents for a Militant Movement
Confronting Fascism: Discussion Documents for a Militant Movement The struggle against fascism is a widely accepted part of the revolutionary struggle, but even the most radical activists often sound like liberals when explaining the hows and whys of anti-fascism. Or else use the word in such a way that it has only a vague meaning…
Revolutionary Pan-Africanist Amilcar Cabral Considered the 2nd Greatest Leader of Humanity
All-African People’s Revolutionary Party Amilcar Cabral Source: pro-africa.org At the beginning of this year, BBC World Histories Magazine asked historians to nominate the ‘greatest leader’ –someone who exercised power and had a positive impact on humanity – and to explore their achievements and legacy. More than 5,000 readers voted, and in second place, with 25…
Alexandra Kollontai: A Historical-Materialist Approach to the Family and Love
Jodi Dean Liberation School Editor’s note: The following is the second of a two-part article based on a talk the author gave at The People’s Forum in July 2020. This second part focuses on Kollontai’s writing on the family and love. Part one covers Kollontai’s struggle for proletarian feminism against bourgeois feminism as well as…
Alexandra Kollontai: The Struggle for Proletarian Feminism and for Women in the Party
Jodi Dean Editor’s note: The following is the first of a two-part article based on a talk the author gave at the People’s Forum in July 2020. This first part focuses on Kollontai’s struggle for proletarian feminism against bourgeois feminism as well as her struggle to center gender equality within the party’s platform. Part two,…
Revolutionary Black Resistance Has a Long Tradition
Michaela Warnsley Liberation News Editors’ note: this article is adapted from a talk given by Michaela Warnsley at the NYC virtual organizing conference “Stop the War on Black America: Organizing to Win,” on Aug 9. In the context of the current mass uprising, political history has held a special significance this year. Juneteenth, the celebration…
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective “If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free.” —Combahee River Collective Statement The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist…
Uses of Anger: Women Respond to Racism
The writer Audre Lorde ((1934-1992)) who described herself as “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet”, states: “I am not free as long as there is another woman who is not free, even if her shackles are very different from mine. And I am not free as long as a person of colour remains chained. Racism. A…
#OmaliTaughtMe: African and Mexican Women in the Struggle for Liberation!
A continuation of the #OmaliTaughtMe special series featuring the Mexican liberation organization Union del Barrio! This week, Chairman Omali Yeshitela will be joined by representatives from the African National Women’s Organization, President Yejide Orunmilla, and ANWO’s Occupied Azania (South Africa) Coordinator, Connie Hutchison, as well as the Union del Barrio Women’s Commission: Adriana Simon, Erica…
