Self Defense & Armed Resistance in the Black Freedom Struggle

CCS BOOKS Charles E. Cobb Jr.: This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible. Scott Crow (editor): Setting Sights: Histories and Reflections on Community Armed Self-Defense. Lance Hill: The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement. Nicholas Johnson: Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms. David F. Krugler: 1919,…

Asking the Oppressed to be Nonviolent is an Impossible Standard that Ignores History

Justin Podur In January 2023, after five police officers killed Tyre Nichols, President Joe Biden quickly issued a statement calling on protesters to stay nonviolent. “As Americans grieve, the Department of Justice conducts its investigation, and state authorities continue their work, I join Tyre’s family in calling for peaceful protest,” said Biden. “Outrage is understandable, but violence is…

Interview with Professor Ward Churchill: Build the Anti-Colonial Defense

“Hands off Uhuru! Hands off Africa!” Defense Campaign’s Chair Mwezi Odom interviews Professor Ward Churchill during the January 21, 2023 “Build the Anti-Colonial Defense – Stop the FBI Attacks on our Movement” webinar. HandsOffUhuru.org

Unión del Barrio Expresses Support and Unconditional Solidarity with the African People’s Socialist Party

To the Leadership & Cadre of the African People’s Socialist Party, To the Leadership & Supporters of the Uhuru Movement in General, Unión del Barrio enthusiastically expresses our support and unconditional solidarity with the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP), and we demand an immediate end of all U.S. state repression against the Uhuru Movement! On Friday,…

On Mental Health and Revolutionary Discipline

Paul Dawson [W]hereas bourgeois discipline is mechanical and authoritarian, socialist discipline is autonomous and spontaneous… whoever is a socialist or wants to become one does not obey: he commands himself, he imposes a rule of life on his impulses, on his disorderly aspirations… The discipline imposed on citizens by the bourgeois state makes them into…

Militant Anti-Imperialism and Liberal Anti-Imperialism: A Demarcation

Will Griffin The term “anti-imperialist” gets thrown around so much today that the very definition of it is muddled up. Does opposing the wars abroad make you anti-imperialist? What about the wars here at home? Are there different kinds of anti-imperialists? Can we oppose military/political interventions while supporting economic interventions? How would they be different…