The YPO was a Chicago-based group of poor, white, and revolutionary southern transplants, who played a crucial role in founding the original 1969 Rainbow Coalition, a groundbreaking alliance initiated by the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party. But on what grounds could the Patriots see themselves as specifically white revolutionary nationalists?
Despite these ostensibly “progressive” victories, the region’s period of left-wing state dominance may have reached its limits, and in some cases, fallen into outright conservatism. Consequently, there’s a need for a re-activiation of political struggle at the grassroots level to overcome the inertia of the political cycle.
While Adorno claimed that to write poetry after Auschwitz was barbaric, hip-hop claims that it is necessary to write poetry after the barbarism of slavery. Its history, and its historical consequences, must be recorded.
A majority of the Left has turned its back on the universal, without wanting to know what potentialities it could have for struggle.
On July 14, 1789, the people of Paris stormed the Bastille fortress, initiating a political sequence that abolished feudalism, overturned the monarchy, and established popular sovereignty.
Identifying and distinguishing trends in the evolution of management science is key to understanding how workers today should aim to organize resistance at the point of production.
On this Fourth of July 1964 when White America celebrates its Declaration of Independence from foreign domination one hundred and eighty-eight years ago, we of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) congratulate the Vietnamese Front of National Liberation for their inspiring victories against U.S. imperialism in South Vietnam and thereby declare Our Independence from the policies of the U.S. government abroad and at home.
When the call is made to free Harlem, New York, to free 12th Street here in Detroit and all the other 12th streets around the country, send for me.
The question is how to develop, today in Chile, an anti-capitalist left, not dogmatic or sectarian or electioneering or opportunistic, able to debate a political program of clear rupture, but also helping in the short term to develop the unitary action, on the social and political front, which is useful for strengthening popular movements.
Specifying the relationship between the logical and historical dimensions of capitalism is one of the most controversial problems in Marxist theory, and one about which I am very uncertain. Can we claim that gender oppression is a necessary feature of capitalism and, if so, at what level of abstraction can we make that claim?
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