By K and Sasha “Cop City will never be built!” All of us chanted this at some point. This rallying cry filled our heads with possibilities and invited others to meet our optimism. The movement started off small, at times clumsy and awkward, but with contagious ferocity fueled by that optimism, it took off. Mass
By Dylan J, Frances Fuku, and N.S Ríos Introduction In the Spring of 2024, Columbia University students led an encampment on campus calling on their university to disclose their financial investments and to divest from Israel. After months of sustained but ineffective protests against the Israeli military’s genocide against Palestinians, many were inspired by the
In PART 3 of our Race Study, we look at the subjective and objective formation of race relations, from the development of the Welfare State, through the Civil Rights Era, Third World Liberation and other decolonial movements.
In the fight to Stop Cop City, the state and ruling class are trying to create the impression that they are beating our movement. In fact, they are running out of options. If we size up our enemy’s vulnerabilities, and strike effectively, we can win.
In the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court decision this summer, we decided to put together a zine with a collection of articles that foster strategic debate and experimentation with new tactics in the struggle for reproductive justice.
The 2020 uprising was a major event by whatever measure you use. But rigorous analysis of it remains limited.
In PART 2, we revisit the pre-1860s time period to expand our understanding of race beyond the Black-white relation. The texts we’ve selected look at settler colonialism, Indigenous struggle, and their relationship with capitalism.
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.
In PART 1 of our long-term Study on Race and Capitalism, we begin studying from primitive accumulation through Reconstruction. We we will use Marxist and Fanonian categories of labor, alienation, and accumulation, drawing heavily from social reproduction theory and unitary theory.
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!
