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 […]
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 […]
December 2, 1964: The Occupation of Sproul Hall and the Berkeley Free Speech Movement
Sixty years ago today, on December 2, 1964, students on the Berkeley campus of the University of California took over Sproul Hall, the university’s main administrative building
Who Killed Malcolm X?
Recently, the historic Black activist Malcolm X’s children brought forward a $100 million suit against the Department of Justice (DOJ), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), and the New York Police Department (NYPD). They allege that these agencies played a role in the assassination of Malcolm in 1965. The lawsuit includes claims […]
Applying for Disability: They Want Us to Give Up!
The process of applying for disability benefits is intentionally difficult, because the priority is to keep us working, not healthy.
Remembering Barbara Dane: Artist and Freedom Fighter
On October 20, singer, songwriter and activist Barbara Dane died at the age of 97 in Oakland, California, where she had lived for decades. She was suffering from heart failure and died through assisted suicide. Dane experienced racial and class antagonisms in her earliest years growing up in Detroit during the Great Depression. From her […]
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 […]
When Vietnam War Vets Protested the War
On June 1, 2024, the United States continues to support and finance Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians. Protests against the war have simmered for months, and since mid-April, protests have exploded on college campuses as tens of thousands of young people in the U.S. and worldwide have slept on malls, been arrested, and protested at […]
A Long History of Campus Repression
As university presidents, their capitalist Boards of Directors and politicians call in local police, state troopers and national guards to attempt to crush student protests against the genocide in Gaza, we are reminded that those same forces have a long history of violently repressing student voices. One of the worst examples of this occurred on […]