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Bennu Hannibal Ra-Sun writes about how the "Redistribute the Pain" prison boycott initiative can help to build up movement infrastructure. This article first appeared in the San Francisco Bay View, and readers who find it useful may wish to donate to help keep the Bay View in print.
Against White Supremacy: Screw the Klan, the Confederacy & the Cops (South Carolina, July 2015)
A short zine compiling two reports from a militant counter-demonstration against the Ku Klux Klan in Columbia, South Carolina, July 2015. Originally created by Ruins of Capital.
Ending the cycle of violence: the youth-led bike movements of London challenging gang culture today
Submitted by rosasoros on Apr 17 2018 14:45
A look at the recent surge in levels of gang related violence and deaths of young people in working class, BME areas of London , and the youth-led movements growing in response to it.
WCH E4: Anti-Nazi youth movements in World War II
An interview with historian Nick Heath about anti-Nazi youth cultural movements in fascist Europe before and during World War II. In particular we look at the German Edelweiss Pirates and Swing Kids, the French Zazous and the Austrian Schlurfs.
WCH E1: The Grunwick strike, 1976
Interview with Amrit Wilson and Grunwick 40 about the iconic strike of East African Asian women in London in the 1970s.
Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class
A leftist history of unconventional resistance by 20th-century African-Americans to racial, class, and sexual oppression.
Being Human After 1492
Essay first published in The Con, Johannesburg, in response to the election of Donald Trump.
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
This history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora throughout the twentieth century begins with the premise that the catalyst for political engagement has never been misery, poverty, or oppression. People are drawn to social movement because of hope: their dreams of a new world radically different from the one they inherited.
The Real Resistance to Slavery in North America
Submitted by R Totale on Mar 18 2018 19:47
A text by Russell Maroon Shoatz/s on historical resistance to slavery in North America. The attached PDF collects this essay together with "The Dragon and The Hydra" and an introduction looking at the relevance of Shoatz's thought to anarchists.
Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought
What does it mean to be a problem?' In the innovative essays of Existentia Africana, Lewis Gordon returns to the exploration both of W.E.B. Dubois' question, as well as of the emancipatory tradition of Black existential thought…It is an immense and profoundly original undertaking.
-- Sylvia Wynter
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