A new independent documentary, Red Ant Dream, chronicles the recent struggle by India’s Maoist. From the looks of the trailers, it may be fairly interesting.
Category Archives: Culture
May
19
On the Thinking, Legacy, and Example of Malcolm X
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Being that today is Malcolm X’s birthday, I thought it was incumbent upon me to share these reflections. First and foremost, I think it’s necessary that I explain why I, as a “white man,” a euro-amerikan, feel such a profound reverence for Malcolm, someone who said to be a “black militant” and accused of being […]
May
09
‘In the Red’ The Molotov; Akala/Fire in the Booth
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Political analyses aside, these videos serve as examples of creativity and professionalism applied to agitation. While substance is important, so is form. Anti-imperialists should strive to convey revolutionary politics in forms which effectively capture attention. h/t to Sukant Chandan of Sons of Malcolm for first posting this live set by British hip hop artist Akala: This […]
April
26
‘Dare to Struggle!’ Nikolai Brown Interviewed by SystemicCapital.com
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The website SystemicCapital.com recently conducted and posted this interview: SystemicCapital.com (SC): What is the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement (RAIM)? Nikolai Brown (NB): RAIM is a Maoist (Third Worldist) cadre organization centered in occupied North America. We are not a ‘party’ directly organizing for the seizure of power. Nor are we a ‘mass organization’ anyone can join. RAIM […]
April
11
After Sorrow Comes Joy! Episode 7
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After Sorrow Comes Joy! is a Marxist (Third Worldist) podcast featuring news, analysis, and music. This Week’s Headlines: Oil Spill in Arkansas France Aims to Keep Forces in Mali CPN(M) leads general strike FEMEN and the irony of Western ‘Feminism’ Protest Drones in St. Louis Beats: Sun Rise Above- Obomba Pretty Lights- Hot Like Sauce […]
April
08
An Open Letter to FEMEN and the Irony of Western ‘Feminism’
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Like clockwork, another ‘mass’ movement of ‘progressive’ First World political activism has sprung up. This time it is FEMEN, the latest in a series of media spectacles and fad movements which justify and support further First World attacks against Third World peoples. Despite its English-language messaging, FEMEN claims to represent ‘Arab Women against Islam’ and encourages women […]
After Sorrow Comes Joy Ep. 2
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Check out the new After Sorrow Comes Joy podcast. The new format is ultra-short (6-10 minutes) and features news and commentaries with musical interludes in between. Episode 2 debuts co-host Gil Gamesh and features an interview with Daniel Salcido of Resistencia Mexicana.
January
20
Whistling Language, Once Dying, Being Revived
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One effect of global imperialism on the peoples of the world is the increasing decline of language diversity. In the efforts to bring the world into a monolithic whole many local indigenous languages are declining and even disappearing. According to the Endangered Languages Project over half of the world’s 7,000 known languages are in danger […]
Power Struggle- “Mr. Sagittarius…A Proletarian Path to Enlightenment”
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On Steinbeck, Socialism, Internet Quotes, and the Need for Materialist Analysis
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“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” ― John Steinbeck This quote by author John Steinbeck has been circulating online in different social medias for quite a while recently. Like many popular sayings spread online there is a question of its […]
Make October a Month of Anti-Imperialist Resistance
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Depending on where you are, October marks the beginning of Autumn or Spring, in which the old dies with the receding sun or new life awakens after the cold of Winter. There could be no better metaphor for our goal: that of destroying an old world structured along the lines of capitalist-imperialism and germinating a […]
Problems with First Worldism
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First Worldism is a long-standing trend within ‘left-wing’ politics which preferences or exaggerates the role of First World workers to the effect of considering them friends or allies of revolution. First Worldism is a problem of class analysis. It sees the First World lifestyle not as a parasitic one involving the circulation of superprofits extracted […]
Understanding and Changing: A discussion with Zak Cope, author of ‘Divided World, Divided Class,’ on the stratification of labour under global capitalism
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Zak Cope is the author of Divided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism, which was just published this past August by Kersplebedeb Press as part of their recently launched Kalikot series. The book “charts the history of the ‘labour aristocracy’ in the capitalist world system, from its roots […]
Cultural Imperialism Triggers Global Protests Against U.S.
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Tens of thousands of people in dozens of cities and slums across Africa, South Asia, the Middle East and parts of Europe and Australia have demonstrated in recent days in response to a film made in the United $tates attacking the Prophet Muhammad. Protests primarily targeted U.$. embassies and other symbols of imperialism including an […]
Book Review: “Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry”
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Bourgeois history is typified by its appreciation of particulars. In turn it rejects larger narratives regarding fundamental social relations. The effect of this is obscuring unflattering trends in the history of the capitalist world-system and particular dominant countries therein. Though highly accessible, Scott Reynolds Nelson’s Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry: The Untold Story of an American Legend adds […]
Prince Kapone: “The Revolution is Dead, Long Live the Revolution”
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‘The Revolution is Dead, Long Live the Revolution,’ Prince Kapone featuring La Nena and La Java A3 Vida From the album “Prince Kapone Presents… The Revolution Is Dead, Long Live The Revolution (Live From Habana).”
June
12
The Pinky Show: Class treason, agency, power, and structure
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This episode of the Pinky Show raises issues such as personal agency, moral obligation, institutional power and the role of university education, in the explicit context of imperialism and imperialist privilege. It starts off a bit slow, but begins to pick up towards the middle. While we don’t claim this video offers any relevant answers, […]
May
21
White Supremacy: Exploring the Contours of Race and Power in Amerika
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It is widely believed that white supremacy is a racist ideology- of hatred promoted by marginal extremist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan or the Aryan Nations. Often overlooked and neglected in this view are the structural inequalities that ensure the continued supremacy of whites over non-whites in all facets of social life. Also conveniently disregarded are the more subtle, yet frequent and numerous, manifestations of white supremacy that are woven into the fabric of Amerikan culture. In this sense, white supremacy is just as much of a social reality as it is an ideology. Indeed the two often go hand in hand. There are many white people who hold supreme positions in the social hierarchy, over and above the masses of non- white people, without consciously adhering to any white supremacist ideology. This essay will explore the complex reality of white supremacy in Amerika, examining its existence in the social structure, analyzing its cultural expressions, considering some of its ideological forms, and finally investigating its causes.
May
01
Settler-Imperialism and Stolen Lands: Radical Interpretations of United States History
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The history of the United States is far from idyllic. Yet today, US history is viewed positively by those of a variety of political and philosophical persuasions. More surprisingly, this position taken up by many on the Amerikan left. How is this accomplished, and why? What underlies a ‘left-wing patriotic’ view of history, and what are the effects and larger ramifications of such a view? Conversely, what is a radical interpretation of history and what does it entail? What do these differe historical analyses tell us about the past, and why is the latter so important for future revolutionary struggles?
The Army Sergeant and Lovelle Mixon – Mass Killings, Race and State Power
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On Sunday morning, March 11, an Army Sergeant walked into an Afghan village and went house-to-house killing 16 civilians, 9 of them children. The Sergeant then took most of the bodies, including those of four little girls, and set them on fire. Once his identity is known, there surely will be much discussion in the coming week about […]
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