Why bother with the Russian Revolution? The Soviet Union, rightly, has been classed as a failed, horrific, experiment since its collapse in 1991 so what is the benefit to have yet another book on it? There are three main reasons why this excellent book is worth your time.
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Updated: October 1, 2016; 1:00 am CDT
- Virginia Basketball players join kneeling movement to take a stand
- Students Are Pulling a Kaepernick All Over America — and Being Threatened for It
- Milwaukee in Flames: The Night the Pigs Got Bricked
- Colin Kaepernick Has a Right to Hate Both Candidates
- Colin Kaepernick Calls Trump And Clinton "Proven Liars" Who Were "Trying To Debate Who's Less Racist"
- Imagine Being Such a Piece of Shit That You Show Up at a Black Lives Matter Protest in a Gorilla Mask
- More Than Just Victory On Paper: From Roanoke to Kaepernick
- Here are all the police killings since just the beginning of September
- Can’t Hold Us Down
- Police Violence: American Epidemic, American Consent
- Maybe Donald Trump Is the Real Ferguson Effect
- Police Killings Won’t Stop
- Henry Rollins: White America Couldn't Handle What Black America Deals With Every Day
- College football players in Michigan, other athletes raise fists in protest during anthem
- Black Man Calls Baltimore Police For Help, Gets Punched in the Face, Dies in Hospital
- Cops in Charlotte Keep Dashcam Video of Killing Under Wraps, as Major Opposition Builds Throughout the City
- Charlotte: The protester shot by the police has passed away. The police have arrested another activist in hope of framing him.
- Who Decides When a Protest Becomes a Facebook “Disaster”?
- Charlotte Protesters Shut Down Freeway, Steal And Burn Cargo From Semis
- Twitter Thread Busts a Myth About the New Right
- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Have Been Killing A Civilian About Every 2 Months
- Rebellion in Charlotte
- Charlotte: Protesters Trash Police Car After Pigs Kill Unarmed Black Man
- Charlotte police deploy tear gas on protesters in North Charlotte
- Police In North Carolina Fatally Shoot Man Witnesses Say Was Disabled, Unarmed
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- Tulsa police release footage of officer killing unarmed black man with car trouble
- Oklahoma Officer Fatally Shoots Unarmed Black Man In Alarming Video
- Black man fatally shot by white Tulsa cop was unarmed
- Black man shot by Tulsa police had hands ‘in the air,’ says pastor who reviewed video of the shooting
- “Blue Lives” Don’t Matter Because Blue Lives Don’t Exist
- Football, the Flag and the Right to Speak Our Minds
- Historian Chronicles How White Rage Erupts Whenever Blacks Seek Equality
- NFL Commentator Shannon Sharpe to White Folks, ‘Don’t Tell Us What to Grieve For’
- Let’s Help White People Truly Lose it Over Colin Kaepernick
- Why People Suspect Police Involvement in Death of Darren Seals
- The entire Seattle Seahawks team will protest the national anthem at opening game
- Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest has had the opposite effect of what people were expecting for his NFL career
- 'Blue lives matter' law used in arrest of New Orleans man who shouted slurs at police
- Ferguson activist Darren Seals dies at 29
- More White Young Adults Support BLM. But There’s Still One Big Issue
- Colin Kaepernick of San Francisco 49ers to donate jersey sales proceeds
- Majority of White Youth in US Supports Black Lives Matter
- Black Lives Matter and Palestine: A historic alliance
- Soccer player Megan Rapinoe kneels as 'nod to Kaepernick'
- Tampa officials call for peace in wake of Levonia Riggins shooting
- What Does Black Lives Matter Want?
- Where Movements Meet: Black Lives Matter Organizers Visit #NoDAPL
- Seahawks' Jeremy Lane remains seated during national anthem
- Colin Kaepernick National Anthem Protest Continues As Other Players Join
- Zirin: Comparing Kaepernick to Rae Carruth is sick and appalling
- 'F— that guy': NFL execs really hate Colin Kaepernick, report says
- An NFL Executive Compares Kaepernick to a Man Who Murdered a Pregnant Woman
- NFL execs: Kaepernick is a 'traitor,' hated as much as Rae Carruth
- Leaked 2015 Memo Told Dems: ‘Don’t Offer Support’ For Black Lives Matter Policy Positions
- Black Man Shot Dead For Not Holding Door Open For Woman At McDonalds
- Colin Kaepernick Isn't Unpatriotic, Levi's Is
- Colin Kaepernick Is Righter Than You Know: The National Anthem Is a Celebration of Slavery
- NFL facing new PR disaster over Colin Kaepernick protest
- Why Colin Kaepernick was right not to stand for the national anthem
- What the NFL Players’ Union Chief Has to Say About Colin Kaepernick’s Protest
- Colin Kaepernick Refuses To Stand For Anthem: "There Are Bodies In The Street" [Update]
- Colin Kaepernick and the test of American freedom
- If you think millionaire athlete Colin Kaepernick is too rich to protest, you don’t understand activism
Football team at Garfield High School in Seattle take a knee in support of Black Lives Matter.
I was reminded this month of James Baldwin’s enduring words from a 1965 televised debate with William F. Buckley Jr., the conservative author who opposed the civil rights movement and denied the existence of systemic racism. Baldwin described the mind-set of those empowered by the system, saying, “The Mississippi or Alabama sheriff, who really does believe, when he’s facing a Negro boy or girl, that this woman, this man, this child must be insane to attack the system to which he owes his entire identity.”
~ Jared Odrick, Jacksonville Jaguars player, NFL
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White People in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter: Dara Silverman and Chris Crass
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A social justice group that invites white people to fight racism is spreading like wildfire in the US. From 12 to 150 chapters in two years. Clearly a whole lot of white people are interested in fighting systemic injustice. But how? This week's guests have dedicated their lives to grappling with that question, for the sake of making real change. They are both organizers, educators, and feminist anti-racist activists. Dara Silverman is the former Executive Director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and is currently the National Coordinator for SURJ: Showing Up for Racial Justice, a network with over 100 chapters and affiliates across the United States moving white people into action for racial justice. Chris Crass is the former co-coordinator of Catalyst Project, an antiracist training organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. And the author of two books, Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy and Towards the “Other America”: Anti-Racist Resources for White People Action for Black Lives Matter.
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