A critical analysis of the mass rebellions that took place following the police murders of George Floyd and Daunte Wright.
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The Revolutionary Meaning of the George Floyd Uprising
Shemon Salam & Arturo Castillon published a new pamphlet on the meaning of the George Floyd Uprising. We added a discussion about their new pamphlet (audio).
Continue reading The Revolutionary Meaning of the George Floyd UprisingFire on Main Street: Small Cities in the George Floyd Uprising
Introduction
The small city still does not exist on the map of the left as far as revolutionary struggle is concerned. Instead, the revolutionary left in the United States is mostly focused on big cities, resulting in a kind of parochialism where most revolutionaries live in big cities and are more likely to know comrades in other big cities, even overseas in cities like Berlin, Paris or London, but have no relationships with revolutionaries in the small cities and suburbs a few miles outside their city.
Continue reading Fire on Main Street: Small Cities in the George Floyd UprisingCars, Riots, & Black Liberation: #Philadelphia’s Walter Wallace Rebellion
The US saw some of the largest riots and protests in its history this year in response to police murder of black people. Yet there has been scant attention paid to the innovations in struggle specific to these rebellions. Shemon & Arturo take another look at the phenomenon of car-looting and argue that this tactic is inseparable from black liberation.
Continue reading Cars, Riots, & Black Liberation: #Philadelphia’s Walter Wallace RebellionShemon & Arturo: Prelude to a new civil war
Building off the analysis they set out in their articles this summer [1, 2, 3], Shemon and Arturo trace the mounting hostilities of our present moment back to the unfinished business of the first American Civil War and the counter-insurrection that crushed its emancipatory promise. Must the escalating violence all around us descend into a shooting war? To what extent does race continue to serve as a limit condition of our ability to imagine a free and dignified life in common in this country, beyond the dictates of the economy and the police? Must the liberation of a life in common proceed from a frontal clash, or does it look more like a decentralized processes of desertion and secession fragmenting the territory? Does revolution today look more like Reconstruction, the Free State of Jones, or neither? How does the new geography of conflict—no longer divisible into North and South, but traversing every city, every town—complicate our received image of civil war? If the rebellion this summer was a preamble to a new form of civil war, what are the vortices that allow its emancipatory .to deepen and expand, rather than trap itself in sacrificial black holes? While this essay attempts a first provisional sketch of the historical roots of our horizons, we hope it will serve as an invitation for others to throw out their wagers on the present.
Continue reading Shemon & Arturo: Prelude to a new civil warThe return of John Brown: White race traitors in the 2020 uprising
Dedicated to all the martyrs of the 2020 Uprising.
Continue reading The return of John Brown: White race traitors in the 2020 uprisingWhat is the prognosis? …The prognosis is in the hands of those who are willing to get rid of the worm-eaten roots of the structure.
Frantz Fanon
Theses on the #GeorgeFloyd rebellion
Deutschland“The working class in every country lives its own life, makes its own experiences, seeking always to create forms and realize values which originate directly from its organic opposition to official society.”
CLR James, Grace Lee Boggs, and Cornelius Castoriadis, “Facing Reality”
