“No Humans Involved”: An Open Letter to my Colleagues
A letter by Sylvia Wynter written in response to the Los Angeles riots in 1992.
The German coast uprising of 1811
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 8 2017 16:30
A short history of possibly the largest slave uprising in the United States, in Louisiana in 1811, written by Rhae Lynn Barnes.
Black Panthers at 50: Reflections on their legacy
Submitted by Hieronymous on Dec 25 2016 18:17
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, founded in Oakland, California. I went to the Oakland Museum of California to see the exhibit "All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50" and it got me to reflect on how the Panthers and other movements of that era affected many radical projects that continued in their legacy.
Marx at the Margins
Kevin Anderson, writing from a Marxist Humanist perspective, reexamines Marx's thinking about the world beyond Europe.
The First Globalisation and Transnational Labour Activism in Southern Africa: White Labourism, the IWW, and the ICU, 1904–1934
Submitted by red jack on Dec 18 2016 13:31
Lucien van der Walt on transnational labour activism in Southern Africa in the first half of the twentieth century.
Black Consciousness 1977-1987: The dialectics of liberation in South Africa
Article on the Black Consciousness movement by Nigel Gibson from 1988.
State of the Union: Marx and America’s Unfinished Revolution – Robin Blackburn
Submitted by Craftwork on Nov 25 2016 19:30
Robin Blackburn on the failure of post-Civil War attempts to extend egalitarian impulses across race lines and factory floors, amid the sharpening class struggles of the Gilded Age. From New Left Review #61, January-February 2010.
Black representation after Ferguson – John Clegg
John Clegg, of the 'Endnotes' collevtive, examines the state of black politics in the US. Published in 'The Brooklyn Rail', May 3rd, 2016
In the ANC's battle of factions there are no superheroes
Submitted by Malatesta Black on Nov 7 2016 07:28
The article looks at the background to the struggle to control the state by factions within South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) and how this is linked to the legacy of apartheid and using the state to build a new section of the ruling class.
Ovambo migrant workers general strike for rights, Namibia: 1971-72
Submitted by Reddebrek on Nov 6 2016 06:07
In the winter of 1971-72 the economy of South West Africa (Namibia) was shutdown by a general strike of contract labourers challenged the economic system emplaced by Apartheid South Africa. The strike led to the scrapping of the contract system and is seen as a watershed moment, encouraging a rapid growth of opposition movements.
