Tag Archives: race
The Day April 29, 1992 Took Over; the LA Riots and The Music to Come Out of Them
20 years ago today, there was a nation-wide rebellion against the police and private ownership of property. The incident that sparked this rebellion was the innocent verdict given to the Los Angeles Police Department pigs who beat Rodney King nearly … Continue reading
Filed under History, Racial Unity in the Class Struggle
We’ll Ride Until the Wheels Fall Off: Prisoners as Proletarian Actors
Georgia – On December 9, 2010, thousands of Georgia prisoners struck – making it the biggest prisoner protest in the history of the United States. What does this mean? Prisoners across the Georgia penitentiary system collectively refused to cooperate with … Continue reading
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General Strike for Rodney King!
When Rodney King was severly beaten by 4 LAPD officers and the police were found not guilty, Los Angeles exploded in rebellion and riots.Thousands upon thousands of working-class residents of all races broke into commercial stores taking commodities for free. … Continue reading
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Dope Quote: Marx on Housing and Crisis
In light of another study showing the racialized impact of foreclosures on communities of color (where 17 percent of Latino homeowners, 11 percent of black homeowners and 7 percent of white homeowners were foreclosed), check out this dope quote from … Continue reading
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Still Waiting on a Marxist Analysis of Race . . .
Professor Adolf Reed Jr. argues in The limits of anti-racism that racism needs to be redefined on concrete and political terms. By redefining racism as a system that “stigmatized populations” by being “clustered on the bad side of the distribution … Continue reading
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Sex, Race and Class – Selma James
The left itself is largely responsible for narrowly defining working class politics. Historically, some seriously problematic marxist forces have limited the definition of working class politics to issues concerning white, male, industrial workers. On the contemporary left scene we find … Continue reading
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How Does Race relate to Class? A debate
Professor Adolph Reed Jr debates three other professors, Steven Gregory, Maurice Zeitlin and Ellen Meiksins Wood, about how race and class relate to each other. This debate represents a historical problem in the American Marxist movement. Many different progressive and … Continue reading
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Anti-Racism in the Class Struggle
Ben Fletcher was a Black member of the Indusrial Workers of the World who led strikes at the ports in Pennsylvania in 1912, integrating and uniting Black and White workers against racism and exploitation. Threatenend by the government, he was … Continue reading
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