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Posts tagged: black-liberation

  • Daniel GuĂ©rin: 'Towards an Extraparliamentary Opposition'

    Daniel Guérin: 'Towards an Extraparliamentary Opposition'

    Daniel Guérin (1904-1988), was a French libertarian-communist perhaps best known for his controversial 1960s attempt to synthesize Marxism and anarchism. Here, translated into English for the first time, is the text of his speech about anti-racist struggle in both the US and France.

  • What Is This Black in the Black Radical Tradition?

    What Is This Black in the Black Radical Tradition?

    The suggestion that the Ferguson protestors use voting rather than violence to advance their aims has an especially cynical intent and effect. Instead of seeing the routine abuse of Blacks in a city that is two-thirds Black as the fault of its virtually all-white city council, police force, and court system officials, this charge blames Blacks for their own powerlessness.

  • The Crisis of Policing in America

    The Crisis of Policing in America

    These protests are not just about reshuffling municipal financing, these protests are about reshaping how society is organized, what its priorities are, how it's run, and how the logic of capital and capital accumulation organizes the levers of the state through racism and state violence. People have had enough. They are saying, no more.    

  • The real definition of the word "Curfew"

    The real definition of the word "Curfew"

    Policing is itself a kind of endless curfew. To the defenders of order, there are always fires that need covering because there is always disorder lurking in the populace, threatening to burn the system down.

  • Abolition and Black Struggle

    Abolition and Black Struggle

    The police have always been used as a tool for the social control of minority populations and to protect the power and property of the elite. A reading list that puts the call for the abolishment of the police in historical context.

  • Roberto Matta, Invasion of the Night (1941)

    Zombie Manifesto

    This critique of identity is absolutely and emphatically not a proposal that race should be put second or waved away. It is an insistence on recognizing the material reality of race as a social relation, and forming a more adequate theoretical understanding of it that can be useful for struggles against racism.

  • Asad Haider speaking in Seattle, May 2018. via YouTube.

    Mistaking Identity Politics: A Conversation with Asad Haider (Part I)

    "We can't decide in the abstract which of any social relations is more determinant in any particular social phenomenon. Some have primacy in particular moments, some come in a particular kind of sequence, but we can't just say: race, class, which one is more important?"