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  1. Against School
    How public education cripples our kids, and why
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2003
    An essay by a retired teacher on the infantilization of children by the public school system. This intellectual history of US public school curiculum reveals that it was conceived as a democratic means to a reflexively obedient work force.
  2. The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    The story of how C.P. Ellis, a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and Ann Atwater, an African American civil rights activist, overcame racial divisions to forge a strong friendship.
  3. Beyond a Boundary - 50th anniversary
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    This year marks the 50th anniversary of CLR James’ wonderful, groundbreaking work Beyond a Boundary. Beyond a Boundary blends politics and memoir, history and journalism, biography and reportage, in a manner that transcends literary, sporting and political boundaries.
  4. Black History and the Class Struggle
    #13
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1996
    Articles published in Workers Vanguard in 1995.
  5. Black History and the Class Struggle
    #22
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
  6. Black History and the Class Struggle
    #23
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
  7. Black History and the Class Struggle
    #26
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
  8. Black History and the Class Struggle
    #19
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2006
    Articles include: New Orleans: Racist Atrocity; Black Women's Narratives of Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction; The Lyncihing of Emmett Till and the Fight for Black Liberation.
  9. Black History and the Class Struggle
    #21
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
  10. Black History and the Class Struggle
    #24
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
  11. Black History and the Class Struggle
    #25
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
  12. Black Women's Narratives of Slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005
    Anyone who has ever wondered how black people managed to struggle and survive the hideous tortures meted out during slavery and afterward would gain from reading these books. They offer inspiration to a new generation of fighters.
  13. Black Workers, Fordism and the UAW
    Book Review of Bates's "The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford"
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A book review of Beth Tompkins Bates's analysis of how the automotive industry provided an opportunity for African Americans to fight for equal working rights, unionize, and forge an alliance with white workers.
  14. Booker's Place
    A Mississippi Story
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2012
    In 1965, African-American waiter Booker Wright spoke out in a television documentary, outraging many white Southerners and resulting in his murder. Years later, the filmmaker's son returns to examine the repercussions of the interview on Wright's family and the community as a whole.
  15. Caste, Class, and Race: A Study of Social Dynamics
    Resource Type: Book
    A 1948 sociological analysis of the issues of caste, class, and race relations in the United States and the world by Trinidadian-born, US-based scholar Oliver Cromwell Cox.
  16. The changing meaning of race
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    If the proverbial anthropologist from Mars were to land in Britain today, he would probably regard us as schizophrenics when it comes to the question of race. He would find a population within which there is a general consensus that racism is morally abhorrent and yet is keen to define itself in terms of its ethnic or racial background.
  17. Civil Rights, Poverty and Capitalism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Oppenheimer examines poverty in the United Stated during the 20th century and analyses the power structures that have prevented improvements to the basic living standards in American society.
  18. Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    A historical and sociological overview which provides a critical analysis of the Labour and National movements in South Africa and explores how and why the white working class traded its socialist principles for a share of white power. Also examines the interactions between the two wings of the resistance against white domination.
  19. Class & Race in A Modern Catastrophe: Lessons of Katrina
    Against The Current vol. 155
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Hurricane Katrina was a catastrophic disaster that resulted in over eighteen hundred fatalities, the displacement of at least 1.2 million people, and economic losses that are not yet finally accounted, but may approach $100 billion. Approximately 2.5 million residences were damaged by the category three storm that made landfall on the morning of August 29, 2005.
  20. Class-Struggle Road to Black Freedom: Part Two
    Marxism vs. the Myth of "White Skin Privilege"
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The victory of the socialist revolution in this country will be achieved through the united struggle of black and white workers.
  21. Class-Struggle Road to Black Freedom: Part One
    The Roots of Black Oppression
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The purpose of this talk is to motivate a Marxist materialist program for the fight for black freedom as opposed to the idealism embodied in both black nationalism and guilty white liberalism, including the concept of “white skin privilege,” which falsely substitutes individual psychology for struggle against the racial oppression rooted in the capitalist profit system. We fight for black freedom on the program of revolutionary integration including mobilizing the working class against every manifestation of racial oppression. This approach is counterposed to liberal integration, which is premised on the utopian notion that equality for black people can be attained within the confines of this class society founded on black oppression.
  22. Clinton Manipulates Language of Intersectionality to Preserve Support from Minority Voters
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton has been a master class in how to divorce economic issues from issues of race and gender by pushing the language of "intersectionality," which enables the political class to head off threats to their power and protect the status quo.
  23. The Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement
    For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution!
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The mass mobilization of black people in the Southern civil rights movement, and the subsequent Northern ghetto rebellions, disrupted and challenged the racist American bourgeois order. It shattered the anti-Communist consensus and it paved the road for the mass protest movements that followed—against the U.S. dirty war in Vietnam, for the rights of women, gays, students and others.
  24. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  25. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  26. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  27. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 3-4 - Winter 1983/84 - Native Issues - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  28. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1986
  29. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  30. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
  31. Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
  32. Eugene V. Debs Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926).
  33. Democracy for the Few
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
  34. Django Unchained, or, The Help: How "Cultural Politics" Is Worse Than No Politics at All, and Why
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    On reflection, it's possible to see that Django Unchained and The Help are basically different versions of the same movie. Both dissolve political economy and social relations into individual quests and interpersonal transactions and thus effectively sanitize, respectively, slavery and Jim Crow by dehistoricizing them. The problem is not so much that each film invents cartoonish fictions; it's that the point of the cartoons is to take the place of the actual relations of exploitation that anchored the regime it depicts.
  35. Don't Let Blackwashing Save the Investor Class
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2020
    I could care less about these memorials to slavery and empire. Good riddance. The demonstrators have reinvigorated a process of recognition and historical consciousness that is long overdue, but their chosen targets also reflect a relative powerlessness in the face of contemporary forces. The gestural politics of the moment, reflected in terms like "white skin privilege" and "post-traumatic slavery disorder" have been heartily embraced by the investor class precisely because they deflect from the actual corporate decisions that justify exploitation, rationalize obsolescence and waste, and reproduce inequality all in pursuit of profit.
  36. Female Well-Being
    Toward a global theory of social change
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
  37. A Few Things About Nonviolence: A Response to Yoav Litvin
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The goal of a true movement opposing American fascism should not be adrenaline-boosting brawls, it can only be the long and dedicated work of dismantling various engines of white supremacy within our socio-political landscape.
  38. For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution! Part Two
    How the Liberals and Reformists Derailed the Struggle for Integration
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    There is a lot of talk today about multiculturalism, diversity, whiteness and "racialized subjects" and other liberal jargon that essentially attempts to erase the centrality of anti-black racism and black oppression in racist capitalist America.
  39. For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution! Part One
    Contradictions of the Civil Rights Movement: A Marxist Analysis
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    We describe the black population in the U.S. as an oppressed race-color caste. From their arrival in this country, the Negro people have been an integral part of American class society while at the same time forcibly segregated at the bottom of this society. Thus blacks face discrimination, in different degrees, regardless of social status, wealth or class position. Blacks are today still an integral and strategic part of the working class, despite unemployment and mass incarceration.
  40. Fred Hampton vs Race Bamboozlers: Solidarity is the Key to Justice
    Solidarity is the Key to Justice
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2021
    Where I part with CRT and BLM is when they take these evident truths about our country and weaponize them to collectively judge “others”, monopolize pains, arrogantly lecture people and silence anyone who disagrees with them. Forgetting the lessons of Martin Luther King—who wisely noted that hate cannot be driven out with hate—advocates of CRT and BLM insist on being divisive instead of forging common grounds with other marginalized communities the way Fred Hampton did in the 1960s.
  41. From Jenner to Dolezal: One Trans Good, the Other Not So Much
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    As is ever clearer and ever more important to note, race politics is not an alternative to class politics; it is a class politics, the politics of the left-wing of neoliberalism. It is the expression and active agency of a political order and moral economy in which capitalist market forces are treated as unassailable nature. An integral element of that moral economy is displacement of the critique of the invidious outcomes produced by capitalist class power onto equally naturalized categories of ascriptive identity that sort us into groups supposedly defined by what we essentially are rather than what we do.
  42. Fuck Love
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
  43. Gandhi's Truth
    On the origins of militant nonviolence
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    An examination of the life, vision, and actions of Mohandas Gandhi.
  44. Gentrification Represents a Geography of Inequality
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    What does gentrification mean for the future of American cities? It means more than the arrival of trendy shops and expensive coffee. Peter Moskowitz intertwines human narratives with incisive analysis of the systemic forces contributing to America's crises of race and inequality, in How to Kill a City. Click here now to order this book with a donation to Truthout!The following is a Truthout interview with Peter Moskowitz, author of How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood.
  45. Gilroy and Reed on Race, Class & Culture
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The common theme has been the way that those who call themselves 'progressive' or 'anti-racist' often draw upon ideas that are deeply regressive and rooted in racial ways of thinking; and that the consequences of identity politics and of concepts such as cultural appropriation is to bring about not social justice but the empowerment of those who would act as gatekeeprs to particular communities. The articles have inevitably drawn much hostility, especially from would-be gatekeepers, who insist that to challenge such ideas is to challenge antiracism, even to 'defend white supremacy'.
  46. Tim Hector
    A Caribbean Radical's Story
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    An account of the life of Antiguan activist Tim Hector.
  47. How Class Kills
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A recent study showing rising mortality rates among middle-aged whites drives home the lethality of class inequality.
  48. How Culture Came to Appropriate Race
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Racism has historically played a major role in shaping adoption practices.
  49. 'I KNEW I WAS WITNESSING A TERRIBLE EVIL'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Today marks 50 years since the South African apartheid government declared District Six, in the heart of Cape Town, a 'whites only' area from which all non-whites would be forcibly removed.
  50. In a Time of Torment
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    Independent journalist I.F. Stone on the events and issues of the 1960s.
  51. Inclusion or exclusion
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    People who advocate a vision of distinct communities that speak different languages, keep apart from each other, and communicate with the structures of the larger society only through interpreters, are doing more harm than good. What they are advocating is not diversity but entrenched division.
  52. Insurrectional Black Power CLR James on Race and Class
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    During the exhilarating and dangerous late 1960s and early 1970s, no world historical figure of older generations had a more militant defense of Black Power than CLR James. But it was always a vision within a context, and after all these years have passed (along with James himself who died in 1989), the context remains crucial.
  53. The Invention of the White Race
    Volume One: Racial Oppression and Social Control
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    One of the great contributions of Allen's study is a complete debunking of the myth that race and skin colour are the same thing.
  54. Is there a White Skin Privilege?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The idea that all whites are privileged at the expense of Blacks is popular on the left -- but Bill Mullen makes the case that Marxism offers a better understanding of racism.
  55. Jai Bhim Comrade
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2011
    India’s Dalit (oppressed) castes were abhorred as “untouchables”. The film, shot over 14 years follows the music of protest of Maharashtra's Dalits. In an age of increasing bigotry and superstition, it is both a record of recent history as well as eloquent testimony to a tradition that has survived amongst the subaltern for thousands of years.
  56. James, C.L.R. - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of C.L.R. James (1901-1989).
  57. Liberalism as Class Warfare
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Liberals, as guardians of the status quo, are class warriors on the side of economic mal-distribution and the immiseration of the labouring classes and poor for the benefit of the rich.
  58. The limits of anti-racism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The contemporary discourse of 'antiracism' is focused much more on taxonomy than politics. It emphasizes the name by which we should call some strains of inequality -- whether they should be broadly recognized as evidence of 'racism' -- over specifying the mechanisms that produce them or even the steps that can be taken to combat them. And, no, neither 'overcoming racism' nor 'rejecting whiteness' qualifies as such a step any more than does waiting for the 'revolution' or urging God's heavenly intervention.
  59. The Making of Jericho Road
    Against The Current vol. 132
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
  60. Malik, Kenan
    Resource Type: Website
    Website and blog of Kenan Malik, featuring articles on race, identity, multiculturalism, diversity, and censorship.
  61. Marx at the Margins
    On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2016
    Marx’s critique of capital was far broader than is usually supposed. To be sure, he concentrated on the labor-capital relation within Western Europe and North America. But at the same time, he expended considerable time and energy on the analysis of non-Western societies, as well as race, ethnicity, and nationalism.
  62. A Marxist critique of the theory of 'white privilege'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2020
    Candace Cohn outlines the origins and problems of privilege theory. She aruges that In holding white workers co-responsible for systemic racism, the privilege model attributed a power to white workers they manifestly do not have: control over the institutions of American capitalism – schools, jobs, housing, factories, banks, police, courts, prisons, legislatures, media, elections, universities, armed services, hospitals, sports, political parties – all of which function in a racist manner. These institutions are owned and controlled by the capitalist class.
  63. The Missing News
    Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Asks a number of questions, including: How well do the news media filter reality, for what purposes, through what processes and in whose interests? How do newspapers and TV stations choose what news is printed or aired, which letters will be published, or who will be accorded credibility?
  64. Mistaken Identity
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    Historically, antiracists challenged both the practice of racism and the process of racialisation; that is, both the practice of discriminating against people by virtue of their race and the insistence that an individual can be defined by the group to which he or she belongs. Today's multiculturalists argue that to fight racism one must celebrate group identity. The consequence has been the resurrection of racial ideas and the imprisonment of people within their cultural identities. Racial theorists and multiculturalists, the French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut observes, have 'conflicting credos but the same vision of the world'. Both fetishise difference. Both seek to 'confine individuals to their group of origin'. Both undermine 'any possibility of natural or cultural community among peoples'. Challenging such a politics of difference has become as important today as challenging racism.
  65. More Unequal
    Aspects of Class in the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    Yates looks at class from a global vantage point integrating discussions of race, gender, and class, and the emergence of an international capitalist class.
  66. Multiculturalism or World Culture?
    On a "Left"-Wing Response to Contemporary Social Breakdown
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2000
    Post-modernists are profoundly bored by any questions of economics and technology which cannot be connected to cultural differences. The implicit agenda of the multiculturalists is to present the values associated with intensive capitalist accumulation as "white male", so "non-white" peoples such as Japanese or Koreans who currently embody those values with a greater fervour than most "whites" are ignored.
  67. The New Student Left
    An Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    A collection of essays by active participants in the 1960s student movement on American college campuses.
  68. On Reparations
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2000
    The notion that the United States government, or white institutions in general, owe reparations to black Americans for slavery and its legacy has been around for some time. Recently, however, talk of a movement to demand reparations for black Americans has been spreading beyond the nationalist enclaves where it has usually been contained. How has this happened? And what is its significance? To put it more provocatively, how does a project that seems so obviously a nonstarter in American politics come to capture so much of the public imagination?
  69. On Roediger's Wages of Whiteness
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2002
    An extended discussion and critique of David Roediger's book Wages of Whiteness. Allen writes: "David Roediger's Wages of Whiteness, because of its almost universal acceptance for use in colleges and universities, has served as the single most effective instrument in the socially necessary consciousness-raising function of objectifying 'whiteness,' and in popularizing the 'race-as-a-social-construct' thesis. As one who has been the beneficiary of kind supportive comments from him for my own efforts in this field of historical investigation, I undertake this critical essay with no other purpose than furthering the our common aim of the disestablishment of white identity, and the overthrow of white supremacism in general."
  70. The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
  71. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2015
    Corruption
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    Corruption - or at least some types of corruption - are much in the news, with the ongoing scandals in the Canadian Senate and the recent U.S. targeting of the Swiss-based football federation FIFA for alleged bribery. In this issue, we look at these and other forms of corruption. Diana Johnstone writes about the double standards displayed by U.S. institutions, which happily target enemies and rivals, while ignoring the much greater corruption that underlies the power structures in Washington. We feature an article detailing how much money U.S. Senators received from corporations prior to their vote on the TPP negotiations, as well as materials on criminal conduct by some of the world's biggest banks, and an article on the work of investigative journalists in exposing corruption.
  72. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2017
    Race and Class
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    Class conflict - first and foremost, the relationship between the capitalist class and the working class -- is the fundamental contradiction that defines capitalist society. Class is a reality which simultaneously encompasses and collides with other dimensions of oppression and domination, such as gender and race. The relationship between race and class, in particular, is the theme of this issue of Other Voices.
  73. People of Color Talk is Cheap
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005
    A concept like ‘People of Color’, which obscures privilege and hierarchy within the racial system itself, can often make work harder for antiracists.
  74. Politics of Communication
    A Study in the Political Sociology of Language, Socialization, and Legitimation
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  75. Privilege politics is reformism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    A critique of privilege politics, which the author sees as a demobilizing force that boils down issues of oppression into what happens between individuals.
  76. Race and IQ
    Expanded Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    This editions contains 5 new essays that address the claims made in The Bell Curve and the social agenda these claims are used to promote.
  77. Race and Class
    Introduction to the February 12, 2017 issue of Other Voices
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Class conflict -- first and foremost, the relationship between the capitalist class and the working class -- is the fundamental contradiction that defines capitalist society. Class is a reality which simultaneously encompasses and collides with other dimensions of oppression and domination, such as gender and race.
  78. Race, class and the election of Trump
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    An analysis on the 2016 US presidential election.
  79. Race, Class, Gender
    Bonds and Barriers
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
    Takes a historical and theoretical approach to the themes of race, class and gender. Issues touched on include the role of the state in organizing gender and ethnic group formation; racism in the women's movement; patriarchy; colonial domination of Indian women; racism and sexism in trade unions.
  80. Race and class in the United States: J. Sakai and the politics of revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Doug Greene offers a critique of J. Sakai's 1989 work, Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat.
  81. Race and Class in the Work of Oliver Cromwell Cox
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    Cox stands out as a scholar whose work consistently and rigorously proceeded from the conviction that making sense of the meaning of race and the character of race relations in American life requires an understanding of the dynamics of capitalism as a social system and its specific history in this country. Caste, Class, and Race was Cox's most elaborate attempt to follow through on that conviction.
  82. Race, Class, and the Left with Adolph Reed Jr.
    Resource Type: Audio
    Published: 2019
    Audio interview with Adolph Reed Jr.
  83. Race, class and police murder in America
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    In the aftermath of the mass shooting of police officers in Dallas, Texas on July 7, 2016, the American media and political establishment has sought to portray the police killings of unarmed people and widespread protests against police violence as proof of deepening and unbridgeable racial divisions in the United States.
  84. Race, Class, and White Privilege: A response
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2020
    Underlying the "white privilege" thesis are two basic claims. First, that being "white" is a useful category in which to put everyone from the CEOs of multinational corporations to the cleaners in an Amazon warehouse. And, second, that being in such a category imbues people with privileges denied to those not in that category. Are either of these claims true?
  85. Race, Gender, and Class Politics in the US Primaries
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The US has some of the largest feminist organizations in the Western world. I should also add that it has the largest organization for the elderly, the AARP. In spite of this, the US is the country where African Americans, women, and the elderly have fewer political, civil, and social rights. African Americans, women, and the elderly have the least health benefits among their equivalents in other developed countries. The primary reason for this underdevelopment of human rights is the absence of powerful socialist forces and parties, rooted historically in the working class. This reality, however, is rarely mentioned in the US. It is presented as too "ideological" or antiquated.
  86. Race, Gender, and Work
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  87. A Race Struggle, a Class Struggle, A Women's Struggle All at Once
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    In Los Angeles, the Labor/Community Strategy Center is carrying out a difficult Left experiment in the age of the omnipresent Right. The center is an explicitly anti-racist, anti-corporate, and anti-imperialist think-tank focusing on 'theory-driven practice'—the generation of mass campaigns of the working class and oppressed nationalities, in particular the black and Latino workers and communities. These campaigns are historically relevant on their own terms, but also have real relevance to any transition to an uncharted socialist future.
  88. Race v. Class? More Brilliant Bourgeois Bullshit from Ta-Nehesi Coates
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Coates is either flat-out lying or woefully ignorant when he argues that "the left" is disinterested in the big and significant problems of racial identity and racial justice. The longstanding legitimately Left progressive agenda addresses both race and class at one and the time. It does not accept Coates' false dichotomy between class and race.
  89. Race Without Class: the "Bougie" Sensibility of Ta-Nehisi Coates
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
  90. Racial Justice, Class Justice
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2021
    Unity in greater numbers has been the principal strength of working classes since the dawn of capitalism. Reducing economic inequality will routinely reduce racial inequalities unless specific actions are taken to interrupt that connection. Our lopsided levels of economic inequality are now so huge, with so much income and wealth concentrated in the hands of the super-wealthy, that even a relatively modest redistribution of economic resources – say, $2 trillion a year – could improve almost everybody’s lives. Progressive taxation of our infamous top 1% can provide more than enough to finance dramatic economic transformations for the working class of all colors.
  91. Racial Liberalism: The Case of Interwar Detroit
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The paradox at the heart of contemporary racial politics is what sociologists and political scientists call "colorblind racism:" How is it that the United States is a country where racism is supposed to be politically, socially, and morally unacceptable yet simultaneously where inequalities are quite neatly organized along racial lines?
  92. Rainbow Coalition or Class War?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Is there any reason to think that Redneck Revolt and the new Rainbow Coalition will turn out differently from the People's Party? American history shows that any political group, left, right or center, that fails to challenge in practice the white community and the institutions and patterns that maintain it will reinforce an identity that has led countless potentially progressive movements to ruin and whose capacity to do harm is by no means exhausted -- no matter how vigorously it denounces “racism” and capitalism and how many coalitions it enters with non-whites. Simply put, white people organized as whites are dangerous to the working class and to humanity, and white people with guns organized as whites are doubly so -- and this is true regardless of the intentions of the organizers.
  93. Renewing Socialism
    Transforming Democracy, Strategy and Imagination
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
  94. Revolution and the Color Line
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    A review of the biography 'W.E.B. DuBois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line', by Bill Mullen, detailing the life of the influential author and organizer.
  95. The Revolutionary Answer to the Negro Problem in the USA
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1948
    The impetus of the Negro movement toward the revolutionary forces, which we have traced in the past, is stronger today than ever before.
  96. Six Questions About Your Class Location that EverydayFeminism.com Isn't Asking You to Think About
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Solidarity doesn’t exist, like a material object, the way tables and chairs do. Solidarity is the confidence we can sometimes have that others, sharing with us a common enemy and a core of overlapping aspirations, will have our back when we find ourselves under attack, or when we need their support to win a crucial struggle. We don't stumble upon solidarity when poring over statistics; we won't find it by comparing our pay stubs with that of the worker down the street. We forge it in common struggle
  97. Social Movements/Social Change
    The Politics and Practice of Organizing - Socialist Studies 4
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    This collection of essays covers movements related to labour, ecology, childcare, peace, disability, gay rights, and access to abortion.
  98. Socialist Register 2003
    Volume 39: Fighting Identities
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2003
  99. Some thoughts on Whiteness and the 99%
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
  100. Supremacy, oppression, and power
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    It is the structures of domination and power, that create racism, sexism, etc., in order to justify the existence of unequal wealth, power and the oppression that goes with them. Racism didn't create slavery and the slave trade; racism was created to justify slavery. US/NATO aggression against the Middle East and the Islamic-majority countries aren't a result of Islamophobia; Islamophobia was born out of the need to justify imperialist aggression.
  101. Targeting Iran
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    A critical analysis of the Bush administration's policies towards Iran.
  102. Towards a Marxist Critique of 'Privilege Theory'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A contribution by Tad Tietze to an ongoing debate on Marxism and 'privilege theory.'
  103. The Trouble With Uplift
    How black politics succumbed to the siren song of the racial voice
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    I've long suspected that, to a certain strain of race-conscious or antiracist discourse, historical exploration in popular culture was less important than the propagation of tales of inspiration and uplift. These fables typically feature singular black heroes who have overcome crushing racist adversity against all odds. In recent years, a steady stream of films and other narratives have openly embraced that preference.
  104. Vote as the Class You Are, Not the Race You Aren't
    Scott, Frank
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Many upper middle-professional class members of society who truly wish for a more just nation are either helpless to, totally incapable of, or have little desire to confront real power or create social transformation beyond electing one or another member of their class to represent their interests on the board, the council, the congress or at the White House. And that class includes more multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-racial and gender fluid people than ever before. Hooray?
  105. The Wages of Whiteness is Early Death
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The white working class has never had it easy in American history. It's been viciously exploited, disrespected, deceived, divided, repressed, and otherwise and generally abused from the United States' colonial origins through the present day.
  106. What Black Life Actually Looks Like
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    In the age of Black Lives Matter protests, many activists and academics seem unable to see the complexity of black life beyond the barricades, or outside the frame of the latest viral video killing of a black civilian.
  107. What is the Left?
    Resource Type: Article
    Stephens argues that class struggle is central to overcoming oppression.
  108. Who's Afraid of the White Working Class?: On Joan C. Williams's 'White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America'
    Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    A book review on White Working Class Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America (Written By Joan C. Williams).
  109. Why the Left Isn't Talking About Rural American Poverty
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Within the popular American conscience there are two favoured focal points for discussing the problem of poverty. The first is within the urban, inner city context and the second is the poverty of the Global South: Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and the rest of the developing world. What seldom gets talked about -- and when it is, often with irreverent humor and contempt -- is the poverty of rural America, particularly rural white America: Appalachia, the Ozarks, the Mississippi Delta, the Dakotas, the Rio Grande Valley, the Cotton Belt. So why is the poverty of rural America largely unexamined, even avoided?
  110. Women of Color & Reproductive Rights
    Against The Current vol. 117
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005
    The authors of Undivided Rights attempt to provide both an overview of how women of color approach organizing around reproductive rights, case studies of those specific organizations and the work they do on the ground. Three framing chapters introduce and summarize, while the other dozen describe specific women’s health organizations within the African American, Native American, Asian and Pacific Islander and Latina communities.
  111. Working Toward Whiteness
    How America's Immigrants Became White
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005

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