Negroes with guns - Robert F. Williams
Submitted by wojtek on May 22 2013 23:50
First published in 1962, Negroes with Guns is the story of a southern black community's struggle to arm itself in self-defense against the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups.
Frustrated and angered by violence condoned or abetted by the local authorities against blacks, the small community of Monroe, North Carolina, brought the issue of armed self-defense to the forefront of the civil rights movement. Under the leadership of Robert F. Williams (1925-1996), Monroe became the test case of the right of blacks to armed self-defense when law and order broke down.
The Combahee River Collective statement
A 1977 statement by a black feminist group which is widely considered a foundational text of the 'intersectional' approach to identity politics, which emphasises multiple, simultaneous forms of oppression.
We are a collective of Black feminists who have been meeting together since 1974.1 During that time we have been involved in the process of defining and clarifying our politics, while at the same time doing political work within our own group and in coalition with other progressive organizations and movements.
- 1. This statement is dated April 1977.
Remembering Treviso’s controversial 2001 anti-racism gesture - Paolo Bandini
Article about the anti-racist display by Treviso FC players, following trouble directed at a Nigerian teammate.
It was not the sort of story you expect to make the national newspapers. A journeyman forward, whose team play the fifth tier of Italian football, getting into a fight at a wedding reception is not exactly high up the public interest agenda. It had been a significant brawl, with police called and the player requiring stitches in his arm, but hardly hold-the-front-page material.
On Blue Collar - Kino Fist
Film theory on Paul Schrader's car noir, Blue Collar.
In this world...a man himself is nothing. And there ain't no world but this one.
You're wrong there, Top. I seen another world.
- Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line
“Ironies of the saint” Malcolm X, black women, and the price of protection - Farah Griffin
Submitted by wojtek on Apr 16 2013 17:20
Farah Griffin's black feminist critique of Malcolm X and the "promise of protection".
As seen in Chapter Twelve of Sisters in the Struggle: African-American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement by Bettye Collier-Thomas and V.P. Franklin, pages 214-229.
Insurrections at the intersections: feminism, intersectionality and anarchism - Abbey Volcano and J Rogue
A critique of liberal conceptions of 'intersectionality' and an outline of an anarchist, class struggle approach.
We need to understand the body not as bound to the private or to the self—the western idea of the autonomous individual—but as being linked integrally to material expressions of community and public space.
The hidden struggle: A critique and development of radical theories and conceptions of culture, race and privilege
Within this work we have a critique of white privilege theory as it is applied in the UK and to a lesser extent Europe. This is then developed into an exploration of the nature of control, and how this relates to culture and self and group understanding.
The rebellion contained: the empire strikes back
Submitted by automattick on Mar 16 2013 19:41
Will from the east coast revolutionary collective, the Fire Next Time, analyzes the ongoing events in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.
Last night the Empire struck back. It is too simple to say that the NYPD is what I am referring to. No doubt the NYPD came out in greater force and presence then the night of the rebellion. Cops were not only in the air, on horse, but on top of the buildings. There was virtually no escaping the eyes of the law last night.
Philadelphia's lords of the docks: interracial unionism wobbly style - Peter Cole
Submitted by Dan Radnika on Feb 27 2013 20:19
A short paper written by Peter Cole for the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (July 2007)
Quote:
"In the early twentieth century, several thousand Philadelphia longshoremen organized them selves into a powerful, durable, and effective labor union. These men, who proudly belonged to the Industrial Workers of the World, proved willing and able to employ the Wobblies' direct action tactics to improve their lives.
Syndicalists protest racial profiling targeting sans-papiers in Sweden
Submitted by altemark on Feb 22 2013 14:15
Hunting down undocumented immigrants like animals is immoral and a waste of police resources, argues syndicalist weekly Arbetaren’s editor-in-chief Daniel Wiklander, who would like the Swedish companies who exploit vulnerable foreign-born workers to be held responsible.
Swedish police are using ever more resources in the hunt for undocumented immigrants. But as it is illegal to stop a person without reasonable grounds for suspicion, the police are making up reasons.
The end result is racial profiling, which is undignified for any country that respects the rule of law.
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