Justice for Rash - police kill a twenty year old black man in Hackney
Submitted by Mike Harman on Jul 23 2017 07:47
Police chased Rash into a shop, then held him on the floor for several minutes. He stopped breathing and died.
Wichita students sit-in for US civil rights, 1958
Submitted by Steven. on Jul 19 2017 10:09
A short history of the first successful sit-in protest of the civil rights movement in the Dockum Drug Store in Kansas.
Blood on their hands: the racist history of modern police unions
Submitted by Steven. on Jul 10 2017 17:36
Against the background of the black lives matter movement, Flint Taylor takes a look at the racist history of American police "unions".
The lie of black capitalism
Article by Hija de Oya explaining how the liberation of black people is inherently bound up in the struggle against capitalism.
Review: They can't kill us all: Ferguson, Baltimore, and the new era in America's racial justice movement
Submitted by Comrade Motopu on Jun 23 2017 08:40
A review of Wesley Lowery's book covering the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement and other activist projects in response to police shootings in the US.
Zionism, anti-semitism and the left - Moishe Postone
Interview with Moishe Postone. Postone is a Marxist academic based at the University of Chicago. As well as writing extensively on Marx’s political economy, he has also been central to the development of theories of “left anti-semitism”, which look at ways in which positions taken by left groups, particularly on Israel/Palestine, can feed into, or be based on, hostility to Jews.
Young Patriots at the United Front Against Fascism Conference, 1969
Submitted by Steven. on Jun 10 2017 12:55
A speech by William "Preacherman" Fesperman at the 1969 anti-fascism conference held by the Black Panther Party in Oakland.
The Rise and Fall of the Angola Prison Chapter of the Black Panther Party: Herman Wallace
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jun 8 2017 14:10
A short history of the forming of the only Black Panther Party chapter in prison, its actions and the repression dealt to its militants by prison authorities.
Contains references to sexual violence.
Passing for politics - Asad Haider
Asad Haider of 'Viewpoint' magazine reflects on campus politics, race and identity.
The Jackson State shootings, 1970
Submitted by Steven. on May 14 2017 11:23
A short account of the shooting of several black students and bystanders by police on the night of May 14/15, 1970.
