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Royalty “Letter To Your Flag” | 2018 Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam
Unapologetically honest, attendees witnessed some of the Bay’s most outspoken youth poets.
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From George Floyd back to the structural violence of capitalism
Across the country—in city after city—the people have erupted in righteous indignation to George Floyd’s recorded lynching. His extrajudicial murder set off a rebellion that had been primed by the highly publicized white-vigilante murder of Ahmaud Arbery and the botched, “no-knock” police raid that killed Breonna Taylor in her bed.
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Louisville Police left the body of David McAtee on the street for 12 hours
To lose your job when someone has died at your hands is a small price to pay.
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“A riot is the language of the unheard”
More than 50 years ago (on 14 April 1967), Martin Luther King Jr. delivered one of his famous speeches, on “The Other America,” at Stanford University.* King patiently explained to the audience of students and faculty members that, while in his view “riots are socially destructive and self-defeating,” they are “in the final analysis. . .the language of the unheard.”
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Is the Republican Party Fascist?
Donald Trump is the culmination of how the Republican Party has been developing for years. Together they threaten to establish an authoritarian state in the service of big capital. They endanger the lives, health, and living standards of the working class and the rest of the population. But supporting the Democratic Party is not the solution.
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Thank you, rioters
Once again, Black America has surged to the front lines of the global struggle. This year, the United States has stood out primarily as a leading centre of right-wing lunacy, political breakdown and murderous incompetence in the pandemic. Now, it is showing the world something else: the potential for sudden eruptions of mass resistance that can change everything.
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Cornel West: ‘Neo-fascist gangster’ Trump and neoliberal Democrats expose America as ‘failed social experiment’
West explained the current anger over Floyd’s murder by police—one of whom, officer Derek Chauvin, was arrested Friday and charged with 3rd-degree murder and manslaughter—adds to a “perfect storm” of multiple failures and inequities that pre-exist under an American imperial system that people like Martin Luther King, Jr. and others have been warning about since the middle of last century.
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Families, in times of pandemic and always
Families vary, in terms of their composition, structure, and functioning, but all play a key role in society and require special attention from government.
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Capitalism & the home
We have become used to ‘stay at home’ in the corner of our TV screens, behind nightly government press conferences, repeated over and over on the radio and in social media.
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The blue plague and black death
George Floyd’s death by Blue Plague in Minneapolis was widely condemned by the same parties that have encouraged and funded the spread of the fatal contagion.
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Haiti’s Revolutions and Revisions: An Interview with Charles Forsdick and Christian Høgsbjerg
Toussaint stressed that freedom was something that had to be fought for and taken from below by the masses themselves.
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Teaching Marx in a pandemic
Barnaby Raine writes to mark the launch of a new class on Marx and his writing, as part of The Brooklyn Institute summer season
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How many dead Yemenis does it take to equal one Washington Post contributor?
The War Nerd dissects reporting on Saudi Arabia to show how the corporate media cares more about a dead Washington Post columnist than a quarter of a million Yemenis killed in a Western-backed war.
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“Trump is Making War on American People”
Newsclick brings you ‘Signs of Our Times,’ series of discussions between Vijay Prashad and Aijaz Ahmad
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Chart of the day
All told, 38.6 million American workers have filed initial unemployment claims during the past nine weeks.
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The World is in Their Care
The World is in Their Care calls our awareness down upon those who do the daily work which improves, repairs, and sustains life. All labor is shared. Bless the listener without whom their is no poet. This poem is dedicated to Jerry Tucker.
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Killer Mike – “Reagan” (Official Music Video)
The hyper-political R.A.P. Music track gets a hyper-political animated video.
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Mercenaries, pandemic and riots in Venezuela: A grassroots perspective
Venezuela is confronting COVID-19 amid foreign sanctions and mercenary incursions. Complicating matters further is the explosive combination of deep recession and a nationwide lockdown, which has triggered incidents of looting and riots.
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The lockdown protestors are not working class
Sarah Jones, in The Coronavirus Class War in New York Magazine, does a neat, tidy job of kneecapping the notion that the anti-lockdown protests are manned by workers who want to get back to their jobs so they can start making money again.
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Engels was right, class society and women’s oppression aren’t inevitable or irreversible
There is a view of human history which holds effectively that there is little difference in essentials between modern, capitalist society and the societies of the past.