Selma – The Struggle for Voting Rights Continues
On Saturday, May 16, an estimated 5,000 people demonstrated in Selma, Alabama against the various efforts to attack people’s voting rights. People from all over the South came to take a stand against the suppression of their votes. The protest took place at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, which was not an accident given […]
“It Is Our Duty to Fight for Our Freedom” – The Revolutionary Life of Assata Shakur
Assata Shakur was a lifelong fighter for Black liberation.
Black History Month and Self-Liberation
During Black History Month, our attention often focuses on the stories and achievements of great leaders. But those leaders are famous only because of the activism of masses of people for their own liberation. Freedom for Black people in the United States and across the Americas was not won by politicians’ speeches, laws, or reform. […]
Trump Posts Insanely Racist Video… Is Anyone Really Surprised?
Trump may make excuses for sharing a racist video to deflect criticism, but he has a long history of being racist.
ICE Fear and Racist Attacks Surround the 2026 Super Bowl in Santa Clara
The Trump administration has threatened the Bay Area with DHS and ICE at the Super Bowl.
Abolish ICE, CBP, and the Whole System that Created Them!
As Trump’s deportation campaign has gained momentum over the first year of his second term, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have become the violent faces of the regime’s anti-immigrant policies. As they have gone into targeted cities with aggression and staged spectacle, ICE and CBP have terrorized local populations, […]
15 Years Ago Today: Georgia Prisoners Strike Against Legal Slavery
15 years ago today, on December 9, 2010, prisoners in Georgia began a prison work strike that lasted at least six days. Although it’s not known exactly how many prisoners took part, there were at least hundreds of strikers spread over at least seven prisons throughout the state. In these prisons, prisoner-workers refused to do […]
BART and ICE
BART applied for an received a grant, which would put BART in cooperation with ICE.
“Young” Republicans Say The Quiet Part Out Loud And Show Their Racism
On October 14, Politico published leaked group chats from leaders of the Young Republicans, an organization for members of the Republican Party who are aged 18-40. The chats included displays of open racism and white supremacy, antisemitism, ethnic slurs, calls for murdering political opponents in gas chambers, and glorification of Hitler and the Nazi Party. […]
Hurricane Katrina Twenty Years Later: A Glimpse into Our Future
20 years ago, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, causing massive destruction, which was made worse by capitalism.
Newark and Detroit, July 1967: A Brief History and Lessons for Today
Today, July 12, 2025, we face the specter of ICE raids and potentially even military incursions into and against working-class communities nationwide. As these raids have ramped up, people have begun to respond, first in localized ways and now with slowly expanding protests both large and small. This is not the first time that military […]
Juneteenth – Celebrate the Past and Continue the Struggle
Today, June 19, 2025, we celebrate Juneteenth – the most popular annual celebration of the end of slavery in the United States. As we celebrate though, the Trump administration and its many allies in the media and among its right-wing supporters are stoking racism against Black people, Muslims, migrants and non-white people. This open upsurge […]
¡Juntos Podemos Hacer Frente a ICE y a Todos Los Abusos!
En todo el país, la administración Trump está enviando agentes de ICE fuertemente armados para destrozar comunidades de inmigrantes. Han secuestrado y arrastrado a personas en furgonetas sin distintivos, con agentes vestidos de civil, enmascarados y sin identificarse. Han deportado a docenas de inmigrantes a prisiones brutales en otros países. Han atacado a niños de […]
Los Angeles Protests: Together We Have the Power to Stand Up to ICE and All of the Attacks Against Us
As the Trump administration continues to escalate its aggressive attack on immigrants across the country, working-class communities have been left on their own to defend themselves. As the Democrats continue to offer little more than feckless words of opposition, the protests in Los Angeles have shown that the so-called guardrails to this administration — the […]
We Must Remember George Floyd and Organize Against the System That Killed Him
Five years ago, we witnessed George Floyd being slowly murdered in broad daylight by a Minneapolis police officer. Handcuffed, face down, and calling out, “I can’t breathe,” Floyd was crushed under the weight of a cop’s knee for over nine minutes, while his accomplices stood by and did nothing. That horrific murder ignited a wave […]
We Remember Malcolm X on His 100th Birthday
In the year 2025 in the United States, we are witnessing increasingly blatant and violent repression. With racist and brutal language coming from politicians and right-wing media, students being arrested and threatened with deportation, and undocumented people being rounded up and shipped off to foreign nations, it may seem that the United States is experiencing […]
Book Review – White Skin, Black Fuel: On The Danger Of Fossil Fascism
White Skin Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism, is a 2021 book by Andreas Malm and the Zetkin Collective. It is a cautionary tale about the rise of what they call fossil fascism. Throughout this stimulating and historically grounded book, they bring to light the connections between climate denialism and the rise of […]
Are Deportees Guinea Pigs in New, International Prison Scheme?
Last weekend, on March 16, the Trump administration deported at least 260 people who it said were Venezuelan immigrants in the United States without documentation and/or who were members of the Tren de Aragua gang. These deportations are concerning not only because of how they were conducted and under what authority, but also because of […]
Argentina: Against Milei, One Million Proudly Angry
After Argentina’s President Milei gave a reactionary speech, a million demonstrators marched against him.
Black History Month 2025: The Struggle Must Be Renewed
During Black History Month, remember the struggles the Black people have fought and what they have won.
Trump’s Coronation on Martin Luther King Day
The coincidence of Trump’s inauguration and Martin Luther King Day shows the stark contrast between the hateful policies of Trump and the civil rights activism of MLK.
Pets on the Menu? A Racist Lie Not Fit For Consumption
Let’s not be distracted by fantastical stories about pet abductions and eating, or about how immigrants are destroying small Midwestern towns. The real problem is the profit driven capitalist system and the people who run it. Let’s turn our anger towards them!
What If You’re Not a Pro Athlete?
On Sunday, cops in Miami reminded us of just how dangerous it is to be Black in the United States.
Birmingham 1963 and the Racist Violence of the United States
On Sunday, September 15, 1963, a bomb blast shattered preparations for church service in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, injuring dozens and killing four Black girls ages 11-14. The now infamous bombing showed the heinous nature of the racist structures that had been set up during the Jim Crow era, and the […]
August 1791: The Haitian Revolution Shook the World
In August 1791, slaves in Haiti rose up against their oppression.
10 Years: From Staten Island to Ferguson
It has been 10 years since the police murders of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. Since then, there have been more murders by racist police – and more protests against those murders.
Freedom Summer 1964: A Movement for Freedom and Democracy
It is 60 years since Freedom Summer. Originally known as the Mississippi Summer Project, what came to be known as Freedom Summer brought together more than 1,000 college-age students to travel to Mississippi to support the Black freedom movement in one of the most systematically racist states of the United States. Most of the participants […]
Wes Moore’s Pardons Are Not Enough
On Monday, June 17th, Maryland Governor Wes Moore issued an executive order, issuing pardons in 175,000 cannabis-related convictions. This action specifically impacts people who were found guilty of possessing small amounts of cannabis before it became legal in the state in 2023. The media has been praising this order. It is one of the most […]
Six Immigrant Bridge Workers – All Members of the Working Class
And as the deaths of these six immigrants remind us, the working class is international. We exist in every nation on earth, and because we don’t own profit producing property, we are forced to work for those who exploit our labor for profit. Despite all our differences, we have far more in common with working people born in other countries than we do with a boss who might have been born in the country we happen to live in. And once we realize that and begin to act on that fundamental fact, then we can begin to use our collective power.
Virginia School Board Wants to Roll the Clock Back
Changing the names of schools named after known racists is important, but clearly not enough to confront the entrenched racism and oppression that is part of capitalist society everywhere.
Eviction Crisis in Rural U.S.
Since moratoriums on evictions were lifted following the first two years of the Covid-19 emergency, we know that eviction filings by landlords have again climbed to pre-pandemic levels. In the past year alone, a little over one million evictions were filed nationwide. New research by the Princeton Eviction Lab shows that the rural U.S. is […]
Texas Court Discriminates Against Black Hair
In the midst of a climate crisis of epic proportions, an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, the rise of the far right across the world, and many other life-changing problems and crises, the Barbers Hill School District (BHISD) in Texas has decided that the best way to spend their energy is by…harassing Black students […]
Wounded Knee 1973: The Long Struggle To End Oppression
On February 27, 1973, Native American activists took over a town which was the site of the Wounded Knee massacre.
The Origin of Black History Month
There has never been a time since the first slave ship docked in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619 that Black people have not struggled against oppression both as individuals and as a group. The racist rulers of the United States knew that keeping Black people down required a sustained effort to deny and distort the history […]
Rustin (2023) Movie Review – We Must All Be Troublemakers
The recent biopic Rustin (2023 on Netflix) tells the powerful story of civil rights activist and socialist, Bayard Rustin, who spearheaded the March on Washington in 1963. Rustin is an often overlooked figure in the history of the Civil Rights Movement despite his significant role. The film gives us a look into his commitment to the struggle and ability […]
Remembering Amadou Diallo
It was 25 years ago today, on February 4, 1999, that police officers in the Bronx, New York, shot a young man, killing him instantly. That young man was Amadou Diallo, a 22-year-old who had immigrated to the United States from Guinea only two years earlier. He was a devout Muslim who neither smoked nor […]
France: Opposition to Racist Immigration Law
In France, numerous protests are taking place against the racist Darmanin law. Darmanin is the French Minister of the Interior. This new immigration law was passed on December 19 with the support of right and far-right politicians. The law extends the time before people are eligible to receive social benefits, like housing assistance and family allowances. […]
Mississippi Cops Can Still Get Away with Anything
Police in Jackson, Mississippi, have been burying people in a mass graveyard next to a prison.
New Attack on Voting Rights
Voting rights are under attack again, after a federal judge ruled that individuals and groups do not have a right to sue to enforce voting rights.
Against All Racism, Against All Divisions, the Unity of the Working Class
As the French government condemns protesters against the war in Gaza as “anti-Semites”, it is working with right-wing anti-Semites to pass a xenophobic immigration bill.
Indigenous Peoples’ Day: 1958 — Armed Lumbee Tribe Chase KKK out of Robeson County, North Carolina
During the night of Jan. 13, 1958, the Ku Klux Klan lit its signature fiery crosses on the lawn of a family, members of the indigenous Lumbee Tribe, who had just moved into a white neighborhood. Earlier that night, Klansmen ignited a cross near the home of a white woman who was dating a member of the Lumbee Tribe. […]
Kehinde Wiley’s “An Archeology of Silence”
Review of Kehinde Wiley’s “An Archeology of Silence,” an art exhibit about the violence committed against Black people.
Sioux Claim a Victory in the Fight against U.S. Occupation
The Sioux are getting some stolen land back: the burial site of their ancestors who died fighting the U.S.
France: The True Face of Macron’s Republic
Hedi was beaten by Macron’s police, causing him to lose part of his skull.
NO to the Guilty Verdict in the Baltimore Squeegee Case!
The trial over the shooting of a motorist by a teenage squeegee worker in Baltimore has come to an end. A year after the shooting the jury reached the verdict that the teenager, tried as an adult, was guilty of voluntary manslaughter, the use of a firearm in a crime, and being a minor in […]
Ruchell Magee Goes Free
Longtime political prisoner Ruchell Magee was released after spending 67 years behind bars. Magee was born in Jim Crow Louisiana in 1939 and faced the full brunt of white supremacy in the United States. As a 16-year-old, he was arrested on false charges of rape for having a relationship with a white woman in a […]
Florida’s Revised History Curriculum: Same Old Racism in New Form
Florida’s new standards for African American History downplay the historical oppression of Black people, even saying that slavery benefited slaves.
The Supreme Court Slashes the Basic Rights of the Population
The Supreme Court last year blocked the right to have an abortion and now continues to slash away the basic rights of the population, targeting everyone, especially the rights of women, LGBTQ people, people of color, workers, students and more. Defending the Right to Discriminate Recently the court ruled in a 6-3 decision to allow […]
Juneteenth – The Ongoing Struggle for Black Liberation
June 19th, known as Juneteenth, is the recognition of the last day of chattel slavery in the U.S. It was first celebrated by formerly enslaved people in Texas the year after Northern troops defeated pro-slavery forces there. This was two months after the end of the Civil War. It was the last battle against slavery […]
Aderrien Murry: Even an 11-Year-Old isn’t Safe from the Police!
11-year-old Aderrien Murry was shot by the police after calling 911. Even children are not safe from police violence.