The Nadir of Race Relations in America
In the era from 1890 to 1940, the United States actually went backward in race relations, got more and more racist. This is almost completely left out of American history textbooks.
Racism
Ferguson is Not Unique
These broader structural issues of police brutality, loss of economic opportunity, and exploitative practices are happening everywhere.
Zombie Prisons
We’re going to see the rise of a mass detention and deportation system [for immigrants] that will very much rival mass incarceration, and could actually grow as mass incarceration shrinks.
Counterinsurgency in America
There really is no choice but to organize a politics that is consciously resistant to the mass Black incarceration state. And it must be done in a confrontation with the coercive powers of the state. That is, the police.
Confluences
We must acknowledge intriguing connections currently being made between disparate and distant movements. Our task now is to make these confluences much more concrete, combative, and contagious.
“Refugee Apocalypse!”
The border triangle between Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece more and more resembles an international ping-pong match. FRONTEX missions have become an inseparable part of border life in the region.
Under Occupation in America
When you’re a target of the police, you don’t want to show up routinely anywhere. You don’t want to go to the hospital when you’ve been injured or when your baby is born. You don’t want to go to your mother’s house on Christmas. Who knows who will be there to take you into custody?
Syria and the Euro-Leftist Double Impotency
Much of the European left’s argument against the revolution was demanding proof from Syrians on their worthiness of support, asking them to demonstrate that they are “revolutionary enough.”
The Struggle Against Orientalism in Reverse
The struggle against Islamophobia in Europe and for radical change in Middle East and North Africa societies still requires discussion inside the radical and revolutionary left.