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From Passionate Uprising to Sustained Rebellion
The passionate uprising that began in Minneapolis after police murdered George Floyd quickly spread across the country and around the world, is now the biggest upheaval since 1968.
Notes on the Black Lives Matter Uprising in Historical and Global Context
The Black Lives Matter uprising in the USA, the working-class resistance to unsafe conditions in Italy, and the fight by Hong Kong youth against the repressive Chinese regime exemplify a new generation on the move for radical change.
Why Affluent Indians Speak Up about Race but stay Silent about Caste
The fact that average upper-caste Indians speak up about racism but not about caste shows their duplicity, hypocrisy and armchair activism for believing in a concept that should be discarded.
Ten Days that May Have Changed the World: An Internationalist Perspective
Sparked by the police murder of George Floyd and fueled by Minneapolis authorities’ reluctance to arrest and charge the murderer’s three police accomplices, mass protests have been sweeping across the United States with an intensity not seen since the 1960s.
Tail Can’t Wag the Dog: The DSA NPC Vote on Swing States and The Questions for Democracy
The DSA National Political Committee report posted on 5/4/20 showed an alarming question that had come to a vote: “Should DSA ask members in swing states to consider voting for Biden?”
America’s Unfinished Revolution
How quickly the government wants us to get back to the status quo where the ruling elite has been looting from the working poor every single day of our lives.
“Dirty Break” for Independent Political Action or a Way to Stay Stuck in the Mud?
Does the history of Minnesota’s Farm-Labor Party in the 1920s and 1930s hold any lessons for socialists today? Kim Moody responds to an article by Eric Blanc.
Covid-19: Aiding the Socially Vulnerable & Preventing a Second Wave in the UK
Increasing the financial support available to migrants – including asylum seekers and those with insecure immigration status — would not only protect their lives but those of the wider public.
Trump, Sanders, and the Crisis of Neoliberalism (Part Two)
The fundamental contradiction for many socialists when considering Bernie’s candidacy is simple. He ran as a socialist (or at least a social democrat) within a capitalist party.
Stop Police Violence against Anti-Racist Protesters!
This violence is an extension of the police violence that took the life of George Floyd and, more generally, the state violence visited on Black and other people of color on this continent over the last five hundred years.
Firing Up the House of Labor to Fight for Racial Justice: Confronting Hard Truths
Defending truths about union democracy and the inseparability of racial and economic justice in our society has shown to be extraordinarily demanding work, yet it is an unavoidable goal if the organized power of the working class is to (help) free the human race.
History Marched Past my Door Last Night Carrying the Future on Her Shoulders
A march came by my house in Brooklyn a few nights ago, a river of thousands of young people of all races, wearing masks because of the pandemic, walking together, shouting out the name of George Floyd, demanding justice. I saw history making its way through the city.
The U.S. protests: Lessons from Syria
In the spirit of solidarity with those on the streets, Leila Al Shami offers lessons from the Syrian revolution that might be applicable to the uprising against police violence in the United States.
The Uprising in Minneapolis
Since the the murder of George Floyd, in Minneapolis, MN, on May 25th, the city of Minneapolis has become the center of a national uprising against the murder of black and brown people by police.
We Don’t Need Cops To Take A Knee, We Need Them To Take Off Their Badges…For Good
Social media streams are currently overrun with images and videos of mace, tear gas, and rubber bullets being savagely deployed against unarmed citizens.
Trump, Sanders, and the Crisis of Neoliberalism (Part One)
We continue to live in the shadow of the Great Recession of 2008. The protracted and partial economic recovery has led to a political and ideological crisis of neoliberalism.
Ecology, Democracy and Development: Capitalist Crises and Covid-19
For the past four months Covid-19 has revealed the contradictions and unsustainability of global capitalism perhaps in a manner that no other single phenomenon has ever done in history.
The American Working Class on Unfamiliar and Dangerous Terrain: A Fightback Begins
The pandemic and the shutdown have taken a toll, but they now provide an opportunity to rebuild the American labor movement from the bottom up.
Socialists Must Fight to Defund the Police
The murder of George Floyd by police has sparked protest and outrage across the country. Emma Caterine writes on how socialists can connect the movement against racist police violence to a broad socialist program through the struggle to defund the police.
The New Deal Against the Environmentalists
Not only was the “greenest” of the original New Deal programs not established by nascent environmentalists, it was also internally fractured by their influence.
Racist Police Murder of George Floyd Leads to National Rebellion
This article was written for L’Anticapitaliste, the biweekly newspaper of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA) of France.
The video recording of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, a black man strangled to death . . .
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