Civil Rights Movement

A disgrace before God: Striking black sanitation workers vs. black officialdom in 1977 Atlanta

Atlanta 1963: A high school student is arrested at a civil rights demonstration

This article is a case study of the betrayal of the African American working class by the Black political class brought to power by the Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the 1960's.

"A disgrace before God"

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12 Jun 2007 by David in Atlanta

Black particularity reconsidered - Adolph L. Reed Jr.

Angela Davis, Stalinist and leftist icon

An in-depth 1970s analysis of how the management of black dissent by the black American middle-class/professional elite helped restructure capitalism to its own advantage.

"[i]Black Power presupposed a mass-organizational model built on the assumption of a homogeneity of black political interests to be dealt with through community leadership. It is this notion of "black community" that has blocked development of a radical critique in the Civil Rights movement by contraposing an undifferentiated mass to a leadership stratum representing it.

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16 May 2007 by Ret Marut

Reflection On Doctor King

Lorenzo Komboa Ervin's analysis of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

I am not one of a number of persons and commentators who come merely to hypocritically give salutations to Dr. King, when in their own times, they betray his entire history of activism. In fact, the political establishment present us with a Martin Luther King, who never really existed.

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29 Jul 2005 by libcom
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