The Civil War in the United States
Marx writing in Die Presse No. 306, November 7, 1861. Marx makes explicit his concern that the Confederacy might win the US civil war, and that this would result in the system of slavery being expanded to the North.
1831 The Jamaica Slave Rebellion
Submitted by Reddebrek on Dec 7 2018 23:48
A short account of the Baptist War, the revolt by Jamaican slaves in 1831 that forced the British Empire to abolish slavery within its borders in the aftermath.
1848: Impact of Revolution on French Colonies
Submitted by Reddebrek on Nov 22 2018 21:08
An article on French Colonialization and the impact of the Revolution of 1848.
A summary of G. E. M. de Ste. Croix's "The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World"
Submitted by Marx-lover on Sep 30 2018 22:59
Dauvé versus Marx
Submitted by Mike Harman on Jul 31 2018 11:02
In critiquing Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch Gilles Dauvé highlights limitations in his own conception of the creation of the proletariat internationally, and his understanding of Marx’s work on slavery. These limitations are not unique to Dauvé, but as someone libcom cites as an influence, especially due to his insistence on the proletariat as a negative rather than positive category, and who has been influential on the communisation tendency generally, we should expect better.
The Black Jacobins Reader
The Black Jacobins Reader provides a comprehensive analysis of C. L. R. James's classic history of the Haitian Revolution.
Being Human After 1492
Essay first published in The Con, Johannesburg, in response to the election of Donald Trump.
The Servile War - Joseph Déjacque
Article in Le Libertaire about the Harpers Ferry uprising by a group of abolitionists lead by John Brown
The Real Resistance to Slavery in North America
Submitted by R Totale on Mar 18 2018 19:47
A text by Russell Maroon Shoatz/s on historical resistance to slavery in North America. The attached PDF collects this essay together with "The Dragon and The Hydra" and an introduction looking at the relevance of Shoatz's thought to anarchists.
On Dec. 6, 1865, Black bodies were nationalized – and our prison movement was born
Bennu Hannibal Ra-Sun traces the emergence of contemporary mass incarceration from older forms of chattel slavery. This article first appeared in the San Francisco Bay View.
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