The heroic deed: myth and revolution

“Despite the dogmas and inquisitions that an embrace of myths can encourage in radical movements, it is impossible to imagine politics without them. There is a material existence to myths that rationalist theories of “false consciousness” don’t recognize. The myths, symbols and rituals of radicalism remain a part of how we remember our past, imagine our future, forge a common bond of solidarity so that we know how to live and how to die for the communist ideal.”

By DOUG ENAA GREENE

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NEWS & ANALYSIS

A 21st-century slave patrol murdered Sandra Bland

“Let the truth be known: Sandra Bland, an activist in the #BlackLivesMatter movement, was kidnapped and murdered by modern day slave catchers.”

By ISH

THEORY

How do communists party?

“Communist praxis consists of the strategic expansion of voluntary cooperation that abolishes the present division of labor, (creating a new and emancipatory division of labor) with an eye on the communist horizon.”

By JOSEPH G. RAMSEY

A world fit for living: For sustainable socialism

“Embarking on a communist road in the former United States means, for us, a promise of building a society based on an ethos of togetherness, where we share the earth’s resources to work, play, dance, and make art. And we must build this society in a way that ensures that future generations can inhabit a planet with a more balanced ecosystem allowing for even greater collective abundance.”

By NAT WINN

NEWS & ANALYSIS

On blood-tags and white-washing

“The point after all is not merely to end oppressive speech, but the oppressive (and exploitative) system itself, which is a matter of existing social conditions and institutions, of power, policies, and practices.”

By JOSEPH G. RAMSEY

Statement from Communist Organization of Greece (KOE)

“Our choice not to participate in tonight’s vote signifies our opposition to the procedure followed, and mainly states in the clearest way the need for a total change of direction.”

By Communist Organization of Greece (KOE)

Alain Badiou: Eleven points inspired by the situation in Greece

“There is not – there is no longer – a European “Left”. There is a little hope, which is still not very clearly defined, in the wholly new political formations linked to the mass movement against debt and austerity, namely Podemos in Spain and Syriza in Greece. As it happens, Podemos repudiate the distinction between “Left” and “Right”. I do, too. It belongs to the old world of parliamentary politics, which must be destroyed.”

By ALAIN BADIOU

What to the slave is the fourth of July?

“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.”

By FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Mao writing "On Protracted War" in a cave dwelling in Yenan.

Writing for reconception: Shaping our communist vision

“Writing with an orientation toward the need for reconception is about engaging the broad range of accumulated human knowledge and practice and on the basis of that, making proposals within a collective framework about what areas of knowledge and practice can be adapted, learned from, and adopted within a new communist synthesis.”

By NAT WINN

Legacy of the Black church: Excerpts from 9 Letters

“The Black church has historically been a space where the liberation dreams of the African-American nation have been given expression through sermon, song, and political action.”

By MIKE ELY

Charleston massacre: Who loaded Dylann Roof?

“A vicious triggerman mowed down 9 people — who were celebrating community and spirituality in the historic AME church. This is the home of Denmark Vesey. The sacred ground of the greatest slave rebellion conceived on American soil. This is an institution that represented the African American nation.”

By MIKE ELY

Protesters chant slogans in a "Don't Trade Our Future" march from the AFL-CIO headquarters to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative to highlight the opposition against fast-track congressional authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership April 20, 2015 in Washington, DC. (M. Scott Mahaskey/POLITICO)

Oppose the Trans Pacific Partnership, liberate the planet!

“We oppose TPP because it only serves to further enslave and oppress those at the bottom of society. We believe in radically egalitarian social relations where the earth’s resources and wealth are used to serve everyone in society, not to serve the profit driven motives of a tiny fraction of the world’s inhabitants.”

By NAT WINN

Voices along the faultlines: Baltimore people speak

“Everyone we spoke to told us that they wished that riots weren’t necessary. They didn’t want to burn things because they wanted to destroy; they told us that they had to have a voice and that this was how they could be heard.”

By RYAN

Baltimore photo essay: State of emergency

“People know what’s really going on in Baltimore now, we speaking out. We tired of not being heard!”

By ROBINA RAI

Cover image (Boston Globe 6/3), a poem

The following poem was submitted by brother Joe Ramsey from Boston.

By JOE RAMSEY

Kasama Project

Everything for Everyone

The heroic deed: myth and revolution

A 21st-century slave patrol murdered Sandra Bland

How do communists party?

A world fit for living: For sustainable socialism

On blood-tags and white-washing

Statement from Communist Organization of Greece (KOE)

Alain Badiou: Eleven points inspired by the situation in Greece

What to the slave is the fourth of July?

Writing for reconception: Shaping our communist vision

Legacy of the Black church: Excerpts from 9 Letters

Charleston massacre: Who loaded Dylann Roof?

Oppose the Trans Pacific Partnership, liberate the planet!

Voices along the faultlines: Baltimore people speak

Baltimore photo essay: State of emergency

Cover image (Boston Globe 6/3), a poem