USA
Without Masters or Slaves
As the Black Lives Matter movement continues to prove its durability – a momentum propelled in large part by violence committed by agents of the state – the more forward-thinking section of the ruling class […]
#BlackLivesMatter
USA
Black Lives Matter: Organize for Justice!
The Red Party condemns the killing of Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana, yet more victims of the terror campaign perpetrated by the armed wing of the state. The slogan ‘Black lives […]
USA
Raleigh: The Black Struggle is the Workers’ Struggle!
On Monday Feb. 29, 2016 Senior Officer D.C Twiddy of the City of Raleigh Police Department unlawfully killed 24-year-old Akiel Denkins during a foot chase downtown. Witnesses report that Denkins jumped over a fence and Twiddy […]
USA
Blackboards and Badges
By now most readers will have already seen the cell phone video1 that caught national attention showing “Officer Slam” – a.k.a Senior Deputy Ben Fields – flipping, body-slamming and arresting an unnamed student at Spring […]
USA
#BlackLivesMatter and the Working Class
(The following is the text of a lead-off presentation, edited for clarity, from a Cedar Rapids, Iowa public forum in solidarity with the #BlackOutAmerica National Day of Action.) The movement that began last August in Ferguson […]
USA
Why MLK Had to Die
Many people are familiar with the peaceful monk-like image of Martin Luther King Jr. that is so popular. In reality, the story of Dr. King has been sanitized, polished, and glorified. We’ve all heard the […]
Labor
Black Lives & the Fight for $15
Around the United States in towns small and large, workers are organizing to gain a living wage. To achieve their goal for a fifteen dollar an hour minimum wage workers are organizing protests and strikes, […]