Black Liberation Re-segregation, Black liberation and revolutionary unity Fighting and defeating racist oppression 2014 is a significant year for civil rights anniversaries: The 60th for Brown v. Board of Education, and 50th for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Anniversaries like these are ...
Black Liberation Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Ed What is the legacy of this historic civil rights victory? Nearly sixty years ago, on May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, declaring segregation in public ...
Black Liberation The long history of Black and Palestinian solidarity International solidarity in the face of racism The acquittal of racist murderer George Zimmerman sparked outrage and demonstrations not only in the United States, but all around the world—including in Palestine. Many Palestinians circulated pictures ...
Revolutionary Cuba Celia Sánchez: Icon of the Cuban Revolution Review of “One Day in December: Celia Sánchez and the Cuban Revolution” Nancy Stout’s biography of Celia Sánchez, “One Day in December: Celia Sánchez and the Cuban Revolution” is difficult to put down, and hard ...
Introduction to Women’s Oppression Shattering the idea of ‘women’s work’ Women and the workplace in socialist societies Although politicians might occasionally make hollow statements and enact toothless policies about gender non-discrimination, the historical record of women’s participation in professions under capitalism is dismal. Women have ...
Milestones of Communist History The Early Years of the Russian Revolution For the very same reasons that the Russian Revolution attracted the enthusiastic support of the world’s oppressed, it almost immediately drew the most bitter hostility of the world’s oppressors.
Black Liberation Communism and Black resistance in the 1930s South Book review: “Hammer and Hoe” “Hammer and Hoe,” a 1990 book written by historian Robin D.G. Kelley, chronicles the development of a communist movement in Alabama during the Great Depression. It highlights the struggles communists ...
Black Liberation Cambridge, Md. 1963: when the civil rights movement ... This year marks the 50th anniversary of the historic and militant struggle of the Second Ward residents of Dorchester County, Maryland in 1963. The residents of the Second Ward launched a community-based effort against racist ...
Black Liberation Watts 1965: from spontaneous uprising to revolutionary force With the 40th anniversary of the Watts rebellion upon us, many still point to the arrests of Marquette, Rena and Ronald Frye as the embers that set Watts ablaze in 1965. On Aug. 11, the ...
Black Liberation The civil rights and Black Power movements From democratic rights to national liberation The decade of the 1950s is known for the dramatic rise of reactionary politics, especially the virulent anti-communism of the McCarthy era. Amidst and against this period of great ...
