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…
Joseph Weydemeyer: a German-American for socialism and black rights - Abbet Sebastien A short biography of Joseph Weydemeyer, followed by an appendix that includes translations of Weydemeyer's articles 'On the Negro Vote' and 'The Eight-Hour Movement'.
The Stockade Stood Burning: rebellion and the convict lease in Tennessee’s coalfields, 1891-1895 Something happened in Tennessee, something almost unimaginable to the mine owners…
The Dragon and the Hydra: A Historical Study of Organizational Methods Investigation by Russell Maroon Shoatz into the methods of organisation used by maroons in Suriname…
Japan's wartime use of colonial labour: Taiwan and Korea (1937-45) A thesis detailing the extent of the exploitation of colonial labourers of Taiwanese and Korean…
The British camps Though it reached its horrific heights at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, the British, not the Nazis, pioneered the concentration camp.
Black Reconstruction in America: W.E.B. Du Bois W.E.B. Du Bois's massive essay about the Reconstruction period in the aftermath of the US Civil War. Du Bois argues that the period represented…
1857: Brazilian Slaves Strike Against ID Tags In 1857 a mix of slaves and free black labourers struck to resist an ID tag system and tax on their trade.
1733: The Slave Rebellion of St.John The island of St.John was a Danish colony, in 1733 a group of Akwamu slaves rebelled and successfully captured the island and held it for several…
The German coast uprising of 1811 A short history of possibly the largest slave uprising in the United States, in Louisiana in 1811, written by Rhae Lynn Barnes.
State of the Union: Marx and America’s Unfinished Revolution – Robin Blackburn Robin Blackburn on the failure of post-Civil War attempts to extend egalitarian impulses across race…
