Archives: Online Posts
On Compromise
Alex Fennell speaks for Black Lives Matter at at the Crown Heights Industry Workers’ March, Brooklyn, June 11, 2020.
Cops Off Campus and Out of Our Unions!
A member of an emergent radical caucus in CUNY’s PSC advocates expelling cop unions from all labor federations.
Fearless and Fired Up: Lessons from the 1930s
An interview with Mark Naison, author of “Communists in Harlem During the Depression,” on how the Communist Party organized beyond the workplace in the 1930s and its applicability to the current moment.
Brazil’s Perfect Storm
Ruy Braga analyzes the likely effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the government’s neo-Pentecostal popular base.
Get Their Knees Off Our Necks
Haley Pessin’s speech for Juneteenth 2020 addressing Amazonians United, rank and file workers at Amazon.
Middle School Can’t Be Digitized
A middle school teacher explains why we can’t just throw all of our lessons online in the face of COVID-19 and pretend that education is continuing as usual.
Clinic Defense and Abolition
Emily Janakiram gives a first-hand account and analysis of Planned Parenthood Clinic Defense, June 20, 2020
A Message from Walter Rodney
Robert Cuffy gives a speech at a march in New York City on Juneteenth, drawing on the words of Guyanese revolutionary Walter Rodney.
Defunding the Police Means Transforming Our Society
Gerald Smith speaks at today’s Juneteenth West Coast port shutdown against racist police violence, continuing the ILWU’s long history of waging antiracist struggles as class struggles.