Protesting the deaths of 1,127 garment workers in a recent factory collapse, hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi workers went on strike, blockading major highways, and forcing the bosses to declare a holiday. This horrific building collapse is just the most recent in a series of tragic disasters caused by the pursuit of profit at the [...] Continue reading → 
As the U.S. marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War this year, some attention has been given to African-American resistance to slavery and to the northern radical abolitionists. Increasingly, it is admitted, even in the South, that the Confederacy’s supposedly “noble cause” was based upon the defense of slavery. Yet to this day this [...] Continue reading → 
A term thrown around a fair amount on the U$ Left is ally. I know a fair amount of people who hate the term, mostly because of a person claim to be an ally with no basis in reality. An old comrade of mine from Chicago took it is far as to say once, “White [...] Continue reading → 
Editor’s Note: In early years of the 1970s leading up to the completion of her book, PHILOSOPHY AND REVOLUTION: FROM HEGEL TO SARTRE AND FROM MARX TO MAO, Raya Dunayevskaya engaged young revolutionaries in the ideas presented in that work. An example is a Jan. 15, 1971 letter, excerpted here, to young members of News [...] Continue reading → 
An assessment of the Arab Spring half a year later, in light of (1) the “clash of barbarisms” between the U.S. and Al Qaeda, (2) Marx’s concept of revolution, and (3) the possibilities for a revolutionary future – Editors With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the dominant Western paradigm for interpreting international conflict underwent [...] Continue reading → 
What is the relationship of the autonomy of the oppressed to the collective of the commune? In Occupy, which groups should be autonomous, and which should not? What is the relationship of race, class, gender, age, etc., before and after the revolution? After the overthrow of the state and seizing the means of production, how do we [...] Continue reading → 
Anarchist communists reject the Leninist model of a ‘vanguard’ party as counter-revolutionary. This new edition explains the concept of revolutionary organisation and its structure. All libertarian revolutionaries should read this fundamental text – £2.00 +p&p. Translations of RORO available in French: Le rôle de l’organisation révolutionnaire and Serbo-Croat (print-only). Anarchist Communist Editions series ♣ ACE#6 THE ROLE [...] Continue reading → 
by Derrick Jensen on Feb 1, 2012 • 5:43 pm We hold these truths to be self-evident: That the real, physical world is the source of our own lives, and the lives of others. A weakened planet is less capable of supporting life, human or otherwise. Thus the health of the real world is primary, [...] Continue reading → Excellent interview from a few months ago. Zizek argues the transformation of the Russian Revolution into its opposite was “the greatest ethical catastrophe” in human history. It’s failure made the world question “Is freedom possible?” Can we move beyond state-capitalism and build a theory of total revolution that will prevent any form of oppression [...] Continue reading → 
Authoritarian Leftists Kill the Cop in Your Head by Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin It’s difficult to know where to begin with this open letter to the various European-american leftist (Marxist-Leninist and Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, in particular) groups within the United States. I have many issues with many groups; some general, some very specific. The way in which this [...] Continue reading →