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In the 1974 cult-classic teleplay Penda’s Fen, the past holds the key to escaping the catastrophic present. We too can learn from wilder pasts in our confrontations with capitalism today.
Andy Battle
A recent Foreign Affairs article gets history wrong and obscures a robust Palestinian discourse.
Helena Cobban
Failures in prosecuting the businessmen who profited from the Nazi war machine show just how far postwar Europe and America were willing to go in the Cold War quest to protect capitalism.
Erica X Eisen
The Greens are on track to become Germany’s second strongest party. For many, this is proof that abandoning radicalism was the right choice, but a new novel offers valuable insights into why it should be recovered.
Stephen Milder
In his latest book, famed African political philosopher Mahmood Mamdani considers how to restore the full benefits of citizenship to permanent minorities in post-colonial societies.
Hari Ramesh
There is a cost to advancing caste as the preeminent analytic in place of race—we lose the precision that comes with naming our affliction a problem of anti-Blackness. We mistake the map for the territory, the skin for the bones, and the bones for the skin.
Panashe Chigumadzi
Assata Shakur — “Women in Prison: How It Is With Us”
Rosie Gillies, Boston Review
The Combahee River Collective Statement
Fred Hampton — “Power Anywhere There’s People”
Jack O’Dell — “The July Rebellions and the ‘Military State’”
Jesse Gray — “The Black Revolution: A Struggle for Political Power”
Our members-only podcast is now available to all! A reading series of radical essays and speeches, season one highlights six short texts related to Black liberation struggles in the U.S., from Claudia Jones to the Combahee River Collective.
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