Black Struggle
If Black Lives Matter, Then Stop The Evictions
In 2013, the Black Lives Matter movement developed in response to police violence and murder of Black people. While this movement is largely associated with fighting police brutality and exposing the systemic racism of the criminal legal system, Black Lives Matter is also a housing justice issue.
Lisa Edwards
June 29, 2020Suicide or Lynching? Five People of Color Found Hanged in Less Than a Month
In the past month, the bodies of five people of color have been discovered hanging from trees. The police are labeling these deaths suicides, yet the families and community members disagree. Are these hangings the product of a new wave of lynchings by white vigilantes and the police? Content warning: brutality, racist violence against Black men.
Sybil Davis
June 20, 2020Juneteenth: A Marxist Perspective
This year’s commemoration of Juneteenth --- the day the last of the enslaved Black people in the United States were formally emancipated --- is also a reminder that the job of ending all forms of slavery is not yet finished. As Karl Marx wrote, we have nothing to lose but our chains and a world to win!
Scott Cooper
June 19, 2020Free All Political Prisoners — Interview With a Black Panther Elder
Chip Fitzgerald is the longest-held Black Panther political prisoner in U.S. history. Here is an interview with Black Panther elder and former political prisoner, Arthur League, about the fight to free his comrades.
Julia Wallace
June 16, 2020ICE Agents Are Arresting Black Lives Matter Protesters
ICE agents have been targeting protesters in areas like Arizona and New York City, hard-hit COVID hotspots.
K.S. Mehta
June 14, 2020Cops Are Class Enemies. What About Soldiers?
Police officers and soldiers are both being deployed to repress the uprisings across the United States. But while the police remain fiercely loyal to the racist state, soldiers' allegiance is cracking. This can be observed in protest movements throughout history. Our goal should be to smash the cops, but win over the soldiers.
Nathaniel Flakin
June 14, 2020NYPD Lies to City Council, Gaslights Victims of Police Violence
During ten hour City Council hearing on Public Safety, the NYPD representatives gaslight the public and lie about their well documented brutality. Once the people are allowed to testify against the police, all NYPD and mayoral representatives left in a disrespectful snub. Afterwards, the public spent 6 hours describing disturbing events of police brutality,demanding the Council disarm and defund the police.
Kimberly Ann
June 12, 2020Expel the Enemy From Within: Cops Out of Our Unions and Hospitals
As clinical and nonclinical rank-and-file healthcare workers, we recognize that cops and their brutalism are endemic to the capitalist state. We demand that police are immediately expelled from our unions and healthcare settings.
Socialist Healthcare Workers
June 12, 2020Louisville PD is Trying to Cover up Breonna Taylor’s Murder. Don’t Let Them.
The Louisville Metro Police Department has released the incident report from the night of Breonna Taylor’s death. One problem: it’s essentially blank. The attempted cover-up of the case illustrates the “systemic” in systemic racism and the complicity of everyone in the criminal justice system.
Olivia Wood
June 12, 2020We Had to Tear This Mothafucka Up: The Legacy of the L.A. Uprising
The mass demonstrations that have erupted since the police murdered George Floyd echo the fierce militancy and revolutionary art of the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising. While the rebellion was quickly suppressed, its legacy offers lessons and hope for the present wave of protests that are fighting back against police violence.
Doug Enaa Greene
June 11, 2020