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Afro-Blue Notes: The Death of Afro-pessimism (2.0)?

This article examines Wilderson and Sexton’s trending reiteration of an old Euro-imperial pessimism—a perverse “Afro-pessimism (2.0)” in which Africa disappears altogether along with most of the Black diaspora. Its fatalist representation of “slavery” is interrogated for its “Americanism” and Occidentalism besides its canonical erasure of Black resistance and Pan-African revolt for white settler state…

Messianic Troublemakers: The Past and Present Jewish Anarchism - Jesse Cohn

Jesse Cohn looks at the engagement and activities of Jewish people in the international anarchist…
The villagers of Imider marching against Africa's biggest silver mine.

Amussu: An Experiment for a Cinema from Below

An indigenous filmmaker's theoretical and practical reflections on the decolonisation of North African cinema, collective filmic narratives,…
Jewish fighters captured in the aftermath of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, 1943.

Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto - Bernard Goldstein

Memoirs of life in the Warsaw ghetto from Bernard Goldstein, leader of the Jewish Labour Bund, recounting his underground activities in Nazi…
Jewish fighters captured during the Warsaw ghetto uprising, 1943.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - Marek Edelman

First-hand account of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising, and the increasingly inhumane living conditions imposed on the ghetto by the Nazis in the…
United Black Youth League, Bradford.

Emerging conflicts in the Asian Youth Movements

Anandi Ramamurthy analyses the emerging divisions within the Asian Youth Movements around the issue of state funding. One faction opted to accept…
White and black dockworkers rest on cotton bales. The general strike was success

1892 New Orleans General Strike

An extract from Life in the Teamsters: The Civil Rights Movement documenting an early example of class solidarity in the segregationist southern…

No Love for Deliveroo! A reflection on organising and mobilising in the “gig” economy.

A report from the New Syndicalist blog, discussing the recent Deliveroo riders' strike in Manchester…

Oiseau-tempête : Third issue

This is a translation of a magazine published by a french collective from 1997 to 2006. The original issues can be found here, in French. This is…

The Paradoxes of working class of Russia

The history of the working class of Russia and the USSR is full of paradoxical situations. We will tell you about some of them.

Care Workers and the Sleep-in Crisis at Tipping Point

Care workers employed by care provider Alternative Futures Group (AFG) have recently voted on…
Workers walk out of a plant in Matamoros. Source: WSWS.org

Mexican workers take matters into their own hands

Largest North American strike wave in decades grows. Rebellion exposes union betrayal, is met with repression from “left-wing” government and a…
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