anti-racism
Whose lessons? Which direction?

Whose lessons? Which direction?

Introduction As obituaries for neoliberalism pile up on our nightstands and Antonio Gramsci’s adage that the old is dying and the new cannot be born appears newly profound, we turn to the past for direction. What successes should guide us? What can we learn from our...

Study, fast, train, fight: The roots of Black August

Study, fast, train, fight: The roots of Black August

Introduction In August 1619, enslaved Africans touched foot in the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States. The centuries since witnessed the development of a racial system more violent, extractive, and deeply entrenched than any other in...

PSL Course: A Marxist perspective on prison abolition

PSL Course: A Marxist perspective on prison abolition

Marxists fight for the overthrow, dismantling, and complete replacement of the core institutions of the capitalist state, including namely the police, prisons, military, and courts. These elements of the state must be abolished through revolution. Yet can we abolish...

Class: The legacy of Asian American struggle

Class: The legacy of Asian American struggle

In the most recent wave of anti-Asian attacks, from the shooting of six Asian spa workers in Atlanta to the police killings of Christian Hall and Angelo Quinto, Asian Americans are demanding that Asian American history is told. We want to draw on this revolutionary...

Black struggle is class struggle: A 4-part PSL course

Black struggle is class struggle: A 4-part PSL course

This four-part digital course focuses on Black Revolutionary History in the United States and its central role in the development of U.S. society today.  Last summer, tens of millions of people took to the streets in an unprecedented revolt against racism and police...