“Our Relatives Below the Waves”: The Lummi Nation’s Struggle to Rematriate Stolen Orca Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut
Communism means the universal and total liberation of humanity from all forms, modes, and structures of oppression […]
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Nashville: Exploiting a Tragedy, Fascists Take Aim at Transgender People
Transgender people are far more likely to be the victims of violent crimes […]
The White Left is Building Cop City
While mostly white “leftists” were inventing strategies based on missing analysis, there was an organization in the city doing all of this better: Community Movement Builders.
Terror in Memphis, the Police and the People
“Killer cops aren’t the exception and they aren’t “the bad apple that spoils the bunch.” They are the intended outcome of the policy that unleashes stormtroopers in blue on the streets of every poor and majority-Black neighborhood in every city.
White Terror in Atlanta: Stop Cop City
The main product of the APD is White Terror. In revolutionary terms, white is the color of reaction and reactionaries. It was the color of the Bourbon kings in France and was taken up by monarchists across Europe. In the U.S. Empire, white is the color of the reactionary movement by a kind of metaphorical coincidence: here, the White Terror doesn’t represent the terror of monarchs and their nobility revenging themselves on the working people. We’ve never had formal nobility. Here, the White Terror is the terror of the settler-garrisons, the constant fear the ruling classes want to exert on the oppressed nations that they might be surveilled, arrested, questioned, jailed, or murdered at any moment. The police are the agents of the White Terror. It is what they’re paid to make, more so even than the arrests and “crime-stopping” power of prosecution, they exist to terrify and subdue. They are an alien, occupying army, encamped in the heart of every community.
Revolutionary History: The St. Louis Commune, 1877
How did socialists in St. Louis, Missouri briefly convert a spontaneous rail strike into a revolutionary commune, uniting Black and white workers? And why did they ultimately fail?