We face a system in crisis and a world in turmoil.
In the midst of this collapse and upsurge some of us are beginning to understand ourselves as revolutionaries. We have marched in the streets. We have built mass encampments trying to prefigure a different world. We have fought the police. We have shut down ports and banks. We have come to realize that activism in itself is not enough. Challenging the symptoms of this murderous system is limited. We need to figure out how to tear the whole thing down and build a world based on human values and needs. We are committed to the destruction of capitalism and the creation of a free society.
In order to build a revolutionary movement there is much we need to do.
In addition to developing our tactical capacities to shut down ports, organize workplaces, and fight the police, we need to develop our collective capacity to think. We need movements and organizations that can address deep theoretical and strategic questions and that can ground our interventions in those ideas.
While we have seen amazing developments over the last year, those of us who are committed to the development of revolutionary theory and strategy need to catch up in trying to understand the potentials and limitations of our moment and movements.
We need to develop a new political tendency between the formless, planless anti-intellectual forms of activistism and the intellectually arrogant dogmatisms of too many Marxists, Trotskyists, and anarchists.
Red Skies at Night is intended as a humble and limited contribution to the project of building a revolutionary left that can think and write as well as act and fight. We are interested in being one tool in developing a revolutionary communist pole by building comradely dialogue and debate between class struggle anarchists, anti-state communists, autonomist marxists, revolutionary feminists, critical leninists, and others about the questions facing us.
We welcome articles, reviews, interviews, and reports on work that speak to developing theory and strategy for liberatory anti-capitalist revolution. Topics we are interested in seeing work around include: the role of revolutionary organization, the lessons and relevance of different historical upsurges, the nature of white supremacy, developing radically feminist politics and praxis, queer liberation, and other areas of exploration.
We would be honored if your group would consider contributing a piece that reflects your thinking on these questions. We are hoping to build a resource for non-sectarian dialogue and debate of the revolutionary left. Your input, strategic summations, or tentative thoughts on how to move forward would be greatly appreciated. It is only with your help that we can build this journal into what we envision for it: a tool for all of us who struggle for total liberation.
In Love & Struggle,
-The Editors, Red Skies at Night
redskiesatnight@riseup.net
In the midst of this collapse and upsurge some of us are beginning to understand ourselves as revolutionaries. We have marched in the streets. We have built mass encampments trying to prefigure a different world. We have fought the police. We have shut down ports and banks. We have come to realize that activism in itself is not enough. Challenging the symptoms of this murderous system is limited. We need to figure out how to tear the whole thing down and build a world based on human values and needs. We are committed to the destruction of capitalism and the creation of a free society.
In order to build a revolutionary movement there is much we need to do.
In addition to developing our tactical capacities to shut down ports, organize workplaces, and fight the police, we need to develop our collective capacity to think. We need movements and organizations that can address deep theoretical and strategic questions and that can ground our interventions in those ideas.
While we have seen amazing developments over the last year, those of us who are committed to the development of revolutionary theory and strategy need to catch up in trying to understand the potentials and limitations of our moment and movements.
We need to develop a new political tendency between the formless, planless anti-intellectual forms of activistism and the intellectually arrogant dogmatisms of too many Marxists, Trotskyists, and anarchists.
Red Skies at Night is intended as a humble and limited contribution to the project of building a revolutionary left that can think and write as well as act and fight. We are interested in being one tool in developing a revolutionary communist pole by building comradely dialogue and debate between class struggle anarchists, anti-state communists, autonomist marxists, revolutionary feminists, critical leninists, and others about the questions facing us.
We welcome articles, reviews, interviews, and reports on work that speak to developing theory and strategy for liberatory anti-capitalist revolution. Topics we are interested in seeing work around include: the role of revolutionary organization, the lessons and relevance of different historical upsurges, the nature of white supremacy, developing radically feminist politics and praxis, queer liberation, and other areas of exploration.
We would be honored if your group would consider contributing a piece that reflects your thinking on these questions. We are hoping to build a resource for non-sectarian dialogue and debate of the revolutionary left. Your input, strategic summations, or tentative thoughts on how to move forward would be greatly appreciated. It is only with your help that we can build this journal into what we envision for it: a tool for all of us who struggle for total liberation.
In Love & Struggle,
-The Editors, Red Skies at Night
redskiesatnight@riseup.net
