Big Brick Energy: A multi-city study of the 2020 George Floyd uprising
The 2020 uprising was a major event by whatever measure you use. But rigorous analysis of it remains limited.
A Past to Legitimate, A Vengeance to Exact: An In-depth Study of Race (Part 2)
There is broad agreement on the left that race has played a key role in the development and continuation of global capitalism. Yet race is often still seen as a distinct system of inequality, or an accidental byproduct of capitalist, hierarchical human relations. In the year following the George Floyd uprising, and amidst an ongoing
Defund the Police And…
by Dylan J My partner and I are awakened at 7 am on Friday morning by an emergency phone call. A family member is suicidal after a week of suffering paranoid delusions. This is one of a few crises in the last few years. After we make a plan for support, I check my phone.
A Past to Legitimate, A Vengeance to Exact: An In-depth Study of Race (Part 1)
Racism is widely recognized as a cornerstone of global capitalism, yet it’s sometimes seen as an accidental byproduct of capital, or alternately, a distinct system altogether. To better understand how race and capital create each other, and reflecting on our post-Black Lives Matter organizing experiences, we are embarking on a study that seeks to understand
Wakanda Deferred: Interview on Hammer & Camera
Two of our members, Enzo and Eve, were interviewed on the communist cinematic analysis Podcast, Hammer & Camera, based on their article, “Black on Both Sides: Grappling with BLM in Movies” Check out the Podcast below!
Black on Both Sides: Grappling with BLM in Movies
Five years since the movement for black lives kicked off, all of us are reflecting on our collective history and arriving at partial conclusions. Some of these conclusions take the form of film, hip hop, poetry, literature, murals and visual art. We believe popular culture is a reflection of the material conditions around (and within) us––a form of theory making and a method for understanding our world. 2018 gave us several films that echoed BLM, by making explicit its contradictions and tendencies. At the risk of oversimplifying, we can divide the best of these films into two categories: liberal and revolutionary. Each mirrors a material tendency that emerged within BLM.
Tigertown Beats Nazis Down: Reflections on Auburn and Mass Anti-fascism
Members of Unity & Struggle and other comrades collaborated on this piece, which challenges us to reflect on the strategy and tactics of revolutionary anti-fascism. Originally featured on Lifelong Wobbly. Written by three members of the Atlanta General Defense Committee[1] “Outside Agitators” – but who’s agitating? The scene in Auburn, AL when we showed up
Morbid Symptoms: Fascism and Anti-Fascism
As an interlude while we prepare the next installment of “Morbid Symptoms,” we’ve uploaded a short talk and reading list below. We hope these will help U.S. revolutionaries to analyze the phenomena of fascism and the Trump regime, and develop anti-fascist strategies on the ground that bring us closer to freedom. Further reading on fascism
Crackers in the Concrete
On August 21, a group of armed white supremacists held a White Lives Matter rally in Houston. This rally took place in front of the NAACP office in the Third Ward, which is the center of gravity for BLM protests and home of Houston’s Black Nationalist organizations. Simultaneously, a white supremacist reaction to the BLM
Incarcerated Workers Take the Lead: Prison Struggles in the United States 2008-2016
Jesus Manuel Galindo, 11.29.1976 – 12.12.2008 The Houston Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (I.W.O.C.) would like to dedicate this pamphlet to the memory of Jesus Manuel Galindo, a detainee at the Reeves County Detention Complex in Pecos, Texas. His death was not in vain. Introduction The following summary was completed on the heels of the Texas work