The White Left is Building Cop City
While mostly white “leftists” were inventing strategies based on missing analysis, there was an organization in the city doing all of this better: Community Movement Builders.
Category: Regional
East Palestine, Ohio: The Latest Front in the Class War
In the coming days, Norfolk Southern will try to defend itself. Some of what you’ll hear is even true […]
Terror in Memphis, the Police and the People
“Killer cops aren’t the exception and they aren’t “the bad apple that spoils the bunch.” They are the intended outcome of the policy that unleashes stormtroopers in blue on the streets of every poor and majority-Black neighborhood in every city.
Another Killed By Police Terror
Keenan Anderson was 31 years old when the LAPD tased him to death. He was a beloved 10th grade schoolteacher at Digital Pioneers Academy, a Washington D.C. charter school. He leaves a 6-year-old son and a grieving family. His cousin, Patrisse Cullors, is one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter, and she now faces what many Black organizers must face in this country: the murder of one of their own family members by the enemy state’s police force. Did the LAPD know who he was when they tased him over and over? We don’t yet know. Whether this was a revenge killing carried out by U.S. domestic stormtroopers or yet another unmotivated execution designed to keep the population compliant, the fact is that LAPD sent 50,000 volts at 3.6 milli-amps of current pouring through Keenan Anderson’s body. They electrocuted his heart.
White Terror in Atlanta: Stop Cop City
The main product of the APD is White Terror. In revolutionary terms, white is the color of reaction and reactionaries. It was the color of the Bourbon kings in France and was taken up by monarchists across Europe. In the U.S. Empire, white is the color of the reactionary movement by a kind of metaphorical coincidence: here, the White Terror doesn’t represent the terror of monarchs and their nobility revenging themselves on the working people. We’ve never had formal nobility. Here, the White Terror is the terror of the settler-garrisons, the constant fear the ruling classes want to exert on the oppressed nations that they might be surveilled, arrested, questioned, jailed, or murdered at any moment. The police are the agents of the White Terror. It is what they’re paid to make, more so even than the arrests and “crime-stopping” power of prosecution, they exist to terrify and subdue. They are an alien, occupying army, encamped in the heart of every community.
Los Angeles: Sherriffs Illegally Arrest and Assault Trans Abolitionist in Ongoing Crackdown
Several days ago, Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department illegally arrested abolitionist leader Annie Jump Vicente. Read about the growing people’s movement in LA.
Solidarity with Striking New York Times Workers!
When relatively privileged workers organize and struggle against their bosses to improve their conditions, they must simultaneously extend active solidarity to all oppressed workers of the world.
New School Students Occupy University Center Until Union Demands Are Met
EDITORS NOTE: This statement was released by the New School Students Occupation on 12/8/22 and is reproduced here exactly as it was
Connecticut Bail Reform Exposes the Capitalist Lie of the “Just Court”
The parasite, for-profit, bail bond industry, one of the most nakedly exploitative forms taken by capital, now struggles with the forces of
Colorado Springs: Another anti-LGBT Massacre, Another Call to Arms
Near midnight on Saturday, November 19, the LGBT community of Colorado Springs, CO was shaken by yet another anti-LGBT mass shooting in