The LA Riots and the Politics of Autonomy - Robert Borg Robert Borg on the LA Riots, from London Notes #1, 1992.
Los Angeles! There she blows! by Louis Adamic Louis Adamic's classic 1930 essay on the origins and development of Los Angeles. For those who saw this mentioned in Mike Davis' City Of Quartz…
Cops and Cocaine: Bent for the cause – Black Flag In Black Flag issue 212, in the article "Scotland Yardies" we argued that "police strategy is in reality about the confinement of crime within…
Riot and Representation: The Significance of The Chicano Riot A text, credited to "Herbert Marcuse" but actually written by the Bay Area pro-situ group 1044, on a…
Billie Eilish and the Woke-Washing of Highland Park Gentrification The celebration of pop star extraordinaire Billie Eilish as the defiant “socially conscious voice of…
L.A.’s Class Struggle Looks Like This: The Tenants Movement An article from Salvo, a Los Angeles working class newspaper, on recent tenants' struggles in the…
Picket Line Lessons: The UTLA Teacher Strike Members of Black Rose/Rosa Negra – Los Angeles who were involved in community mobilization in support of the strike and as members of UTLA…
"The writing is on the walls": Interview with a striking LA teacher At the time of this writing, members of United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) have been on strike for a…
Striking For The Future of Education: Interview with a Los Angeles Teacher More than 30,000 educators in the country’s second-biggest school district of Los Angeles are poised…
The Home Saving Bank robbery, 1915 A short history of the robbery of a branch of the Home Saving Bank in Los Angeles in 1915 and its aftermath, by the Black Rose Anarchist…
The Hollywood blacklist - Dan Georgakas A short account of the blacklisting of dozens of writers and actors from the movie industry in Hollywood amidst the anti-communist hysteria of…
