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Black Struggle

Suicide 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, 2020

Juneteenth: 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, 2020

Free 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, 2020

ICE 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, 2020

Cops 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, 2020

NYPD 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, 2020

Expel 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.

Louisville 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, 2020

We 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