US Empire 20 Years after 9/11: A Reading List
Essential readings on the United States' imperialist ventures in the Middle East by Deepa Kumar, Suzanne Schneider, and Andrew Cockburn.
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The Anatomy of Racial Oppression
Theodore W. Allen draws lessons from Irish history, comparing British rule in Ireland with the “white” oppression of Native Americans and African Americans, in this excerpt from The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1, a groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America.
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Chi Chang: A Chinese American Volunteer in the Spanish Civil War
Chi Chang, a Chinese emigrant to the United States who joined the Communist Party and volunteered for the International Brigades to fight fascism during the Spanish Civil War. His story is retold here by Hwei-Ru Tsou and Len Tsou, and translated into English from the original Chinese by Agnes Khoo.
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Fascism, Racial Capitalism, and Police Violence: Antifascist Reflections from the 1930s to the Black Panthers
Blackness and Black Lives Matter call attention to the ever-present potential of racial capitalism to turn fascist. This leads to an important lesson of Black Lives Matter and its response to the police: its abolitionist awareness that not only is the capitalist state an enemy of the people, but that it can and should be replaced.
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Politics, Theory, Other #90: The Romance of American Communism
Vivian Gornick on her classic book on the lives of members of the American Communist Party, on the Politics Theory Other podcast.
