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…
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How to Prepare for the Prospect of Guerrilla Warfare in the U.S.
Rainer Shea Capitalism in the imperial core is speeding towards collapse. While imperial decline makes the country more and more isolated from the rising economic power of China, U.S. unemployment continues to rise, signaling a depression which is sure to last for at least the rest of the decade. The increasingly poor and desperate masses…
Notes on the Coloniality of Peace
Nelson Maldonado-Torres The allusion to peace, to peace as a state of harmony within an established order, has long been an indispensable tool in the arsenal of colonialism and racism. First comes the brutal war: people killed, bodies in pieces, raped, and mutilated, subjects subdued, ancestors disrespected, lands taken, rivers with water turning viscous and…
The Ballot and the Bullet Electoral Campaign School
The Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations convenes for its fourth Electoral Campaign School June 13-14, via Zoom Webinar. The Electoral Campaign School is a means by which the Coalition opens up a new front in the struggle for black self-determination within the U.S. and elsewhere. It will challenge the monopoly…
Guerrilla Warfare: A Method by Ernesto Che Guevara
Ernesto Che Guevara Guerrilla Warfare: A Method Written: September, 1963 First Published: unknown Source: The Che Reader, Ocean Press, © 2005. Translated: See also: Alternate Translation Transcription/Markup: Ocean Press/Brian Baggins Copyright: © 2005 Aleida March, Che Guevara Studies Center and Ocean Press. Reprinted with their permission. Not to be reproduced in any form without the…
African People’s Socialist Party Denounces Murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Demands Withdrawal of Police
We, the African People’s Socialist Party, led by Chairman Omali Yeshitela, denounce yet another brutal police murder of an African man, George Floyd in Minneapolis. In response our Party is holding an international mobilization in support of African people to resist the colonial State and to fight for power over our lives. This week footage…
Lenin: The Leader, the Reality, the People
Luis Toledo Sande Work by Mario Sandoval, courtesy of José Martí National Library. Photo: Granma On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of V.I. Lenin’s birth, Granma features an essay about the Russian revolutionary’s ideas in Cuba The arrival of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s ideas to Cuba has a history, inseparable from socialist ideals and the…
Building Revolutionary Community Defense Projects in Your Local Communities
Online Webinar presented by A-APRP Cadre Organizer Ahjamu Umi on 12th April 2020. It covers how to develop and introduce community defense projects in your city, neighborhood, communities. These projects are designed to build community consciousness and engagement in programs that empower them against the systems of oppression. We don’t need police and other oppressive…
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: Military Strategy | Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine
Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine (1969) Military Strategy of the PFLP (1970)
Black Women With Guns
From Harriet Tubman to female members of the Black Panther Party, Black women have always played a role in armed resistance in the United States, said Jasmine Young, a doctoral fellow at the University of California’s Department of African American Studies. Young is working on a manuscript titled, “Black Women with Guns: Armed Resistance in…
The Actuality of Revolution
Jodi Dean Revolution today names more a problem than it does a solution. We know that revolutions happen, but we have a hard time believing in revolution. We have a hard time believing in revolution because we are no longer confident that the revolutionary process leads in an emancipatory egalitarian direction. There are revolutions, but…
Mumia Abu-Jamal: Remembering Martin King
Audio Download 1/19/19 Remembering Martin King (1:58) Mumia Abu-Jamal In the 20th century, few names, especially of Black people, ring louder than that of Martin Luther King. His life, his dedication to the civil rights movement and his martyrdom in April 1968 made him a global icon of social justice. Born in 1929, if he…
