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ESSAY: Can Negroes Afford To Be Pacifists? Robert F. Williams, 1959
04 Dec 2024
“Non-violence is a very potent weapon when the opponent is civilised, but non-violence is no match or repellent for a sadist.”
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ESSAY: The Prospects for Fascism, Manning Marable, 1981
27 Nov 2024
Manning Marable reminds us that US fascism is institutional and normalized. The parallels of his 1981 essay with the present are obvious – US fascism remains ascendant.
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ESSAY: Revolution and the Negro, CLR James, 1939
20 Nov 2024
Haiti’s Battle of Vertières reminds us that resistance is not futile, that victory will come.
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ESSAY: Why I Won’t Vote, W. E. B. Du Bois, 1956
06 Nov 2024
“I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no "two evils" exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.”
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SPEECH: Everybody is Quiet But the Nationalist Party, Pedro Albizu Campos, 1950
30 Oct 2024
Hardly a “floating island of garbage,” Puerto Rico remains a colony, treated like trash by the US. Read this ledger of the cost and crimes of the US colonial project.
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POEM: The Earth Is Closing On Us, Mahmoud Darwish, 1995
23 Oct 2024
“Where should we go after the last frontiers? Where should the birds fly after the last sky?”
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ESSAY: United We Stand! Joint Struggles of Native Americans and African Americans in the Columbian Era, Jan Carew, 1995
16 Oct 2024
“The Seminoles had set a dangerous example, for if Blacks and Native Americans united everywhere in the Americas, then a genuine racial democracy might emerge.”
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ESSAY: Rethinking Race, Rethinking Class, Charles W. Mills, 1995
09 Oct 2024
“We need to give greater theoretical centrality to the fact that European conquest of the world has established what is in effect: global white supremacy.”
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ARTICLE: The Forgotten Occupation, Emmanuel Santos, 2008
02 Oct 2024
A reminder that Haiti’s struggle is an anti-colonial one that deserves the world’s solidarity, not its indifference.
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EDITORIAL: Criticize Clinton, but Beat Bush, Manning Marable, 1992
25 Sep 2024
Vote for Harris, because Trump. Vote for Clinton, because Bush. Manning Marable shows when it comes to right-wing Democrats, it’s deja vu all over again.