The past week of antifascist mobilisation in Britain has seen off the immediate threat, but we need to construct a counter-hegemonic force that puts an end to the cycle of state racism and far-right violence.
Category: Racism
Four theses on Fascism, Pogroms and Liberation
Some reflections on fascism, crisis and class politics
George Edwin Taylor, First Black Candidate for President – 1904
Black Candidates for President
George Edwin Taylor, the candidate.
This is the first of a series of articles about Black political candidates for the two highest offices of president and vice-president of the United States. The idea of writing this series originally begun when Cornel . . .
Nigel Gibson’s Preface to Frantz Fanon: Combat Breathing
The original impetus behind writing Frantz Fanon: Combat Breathing was the Black Lives Matter movement that exploded across the world after the 2020 police murder of George Floyd.
review
The Surveillance State and the Color Line
John Clarke recommends Oliver Kearns’ book “The Covert Colour Line,” on racism as the foundation of US and British intelligence agencies.
Ukrainian Letter of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
We, Ukrainian researchers, artists, political and labour activists, members of civil society stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine who for 75 years have been subjected and resisted Israeli military occupation, separation, settler colonial violence, ethnic cleansing, land dispossession and apartheid.
The Struggle to Stop Cop City—By Any Means Necessary
A history of Stop Cop City and the struggle to defend the Atlanta Forest. A must read for anyone interested in getting the whole story.
The Lessons of Anti-Racist Action
Shane Burley interviews militants from the antifascist network Anti-Racist Action, active in North America between the 1980s and early 2000s.
review
Recognizing the Counterrevolution!
Frances Fox Piven reviews and praises Stephen Steinberg’s book Counterrevolution, on the rise of the racist right in the US, attacking the gains made by the Civil Rights Movement.
review
Rage Against the Machine
Chicago Democratic Politics and their Contradictions
Guy Miller reviews Gordon K. Mantler’s “The Multiracial Promise,” an account and analysis of Harold Washington’s mayoralty in Chicago in the 1980s.
I’m Sick to Death of Florida’s Racism
Before the Florida Department of Education issued its curriculum directive that slavery in the United States did, after all, produce “personal benefits” for the enslaved in the form of a well-stocked resumé of trades, useful after Emancipation in 1863, the board members might have consulted a seminal document in the literature of the oppressed—Angela Davis’s 1971 essay, “Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves.”
Shirley Chisholm for President – 1972
Black Candidates for President
The most important Black candidate of the radical 1960s and 70s, if we judge by votes and delegates, was Shirley Chisholm.
Fighting the Right-Wing Attacks on Education
An Interview with Jesse Hagopian
Phil Gasper interviews radical educator Jesse Hagopian about attacks on anti-racist education in the United States.
Stop Cop Planet, Save the Surreal World
Dan Fischer analyzes the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, its roots in the Black Power movements and anarchist inspirations.
Boy Murdered by French Police, Protests Follow, Macron Calls them “Inexplicable,” After all, Race Doesn’t Exist in France
I say he was a French boy, because in official circles in France and in society at large race does not exist and so therefore neither does racism.
France: Criminal policing, systemic racism, anti-social policies: supporting a legitimate revolt
The NPA calls on people to mobilize alongside angry young people, to gather in front of town halls, every evening if necessary, to express our rage and our demands.
Appeal on Behalf of Working-Class Youth in France
A large proportion of young people are subjected to racism on a daily basis, victims of prejudice, discrimination and violence.
Book Review Essay: Mexico, Transnational and World Revolution
While I admire the political values of these two scholars, I don’t find either of these books satisfying because they like many other authors perpetuate the romantic view of Ricardo Flores Magón.
Balance Sheet: Two Years against Cop City
Evaluating Strategies, Refining Tactics
Starting in April 2021, a bold movement set out to defend Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta, Georgia, where local politicians and corporate profiteers want to build a police training compound known as Cop City. In the following assessment, participants evaluate the strategic hypotheses that the movement has produced and tested over the past two years and reflect on the risks and possibilities of the next phase of the struggle.
Stopping Cop City and Reconnecting with Abundance
Interview with Abundia Alvarado of Mariposas Rebeldes
Interview with Abundia Alvarado, a co-founder of Mariposas Rebeldes and a member of the movement to protect Weelaunee Forest from the construction of Cop City.
“Cancel Culture” and Its Perils
There is no question that “cancel culture” is a legitimate tool of a vibrant democratic culture, especially as it allows the powerless to redress the abuses and the offensive behavior directed at them by powerful public figures.
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