Black Struggle
Left Voice joins the Afro-Socialist Coalition at Taste of Soul LA
This year, among the festivities as well as corporate sponsors, the Afro Socialist Coalition, made up of DSA-LA, Left Voice, The Undercommons and the Los Angeles Black Workers Center, will table at the event bringing socialist politics to A Taste of Soul.
Julia Wallace
October 18, 2017How to Get Away With Murder: Another Cop Kills and is Set Free in St Louis
A former police officer is acquitted in the 2011 killing of Anthony Lamar Smith, a Black man. Thousands took to the streets in St. Louis.
Eric R.
September 17, 2017Black Panther Elders Demand an Answer: Where is Santiago Maldonado?
At this month’s Panther Breakfast, Black Panther Alumni Committee voted to support the campaign to demand the return of Santiago Maldonado.
Left Voice
September 16, 2017St. Louis Protests Against Police Impunity
Protests erupt in St Louis after the acquittal of Jason Stockley, a former cop charged with first-degree murder of unarmed Black man Anthony Lamar Smith in 2011.
Left Voice
September 16, 2017The Intersections of Anti Blackness and Anti Communism
Left Voice presents an interview with Charisse Burden Stelly, professor of Africana studies on Black Radical politics.
Left Voice
August 1, 2017Assata Shakur, Always Welcome
The legacies of Assata Shakur and the Black Liberation Army are revisited in university and city struggles to overthrow racial capitalism.
Conor Tomás Reed
July 11, 2017The Thought of Walter Rodney: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Why are African countries “underdeveloped”? And how did the imperialist plunder of the continent begin? Was slavery a product of racism?
Kofi Shakur
June 7, 2017Cops Hold Black Children at Gunpoint
For 10 minutes, cops pointed guns at 12-14 years old Black boys who lay on the ground, sobbing and begging for their lives.
Left Voice
April 25, 2017New Subcontracting Law Threatens Black Women
The Brazilian government recently voted to expand subcontracting, a policy that will disproportionately affect Black women.
Victor Mariutti
April 10, 2017What We Can Learn from MLK’s Poor People’s Campaign
Towards the end of his life and career, Dr. Martin Luther King proposed the idea of assembling a ‘multiracial army of the poor’ as part of his Poor People's Campaign. At a time when the political arena is as divisive as ever, there is much to be gained from revisiting the tenets of King's push for a 'radical restructuring of wealth and power.'
Lily Cichanowicz
February 13, 2017