Category Archives: History

LinBiaoOriginal June 17

Gran Marcha Hacia El Comunismo (Long March to Communism): On the Question of Lin Biao

English: Lin Biao (Lin Piao) (1907 – 1971) 日本語: 林彪 (1907 – 1971) 中文: 林彪 (1907 – 1971) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Many associates of the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement uphold, in contrast to ‘official’ history, the revolutionary internationalism of Lin Biao, author of ‘Long Live the Victory of People’s War!’ This document was originally published by Gran Marcha Hacia […]

maumau June 10

Mau Mau Freedom Fighters In Kenya Get Compensation From British Colonialists

After struggles that have taken years to resolve, the British government is paying compensation to thousands of Kenyans tortured by their colonial occupation forces in the 1950′s. Known as the Mau Mau rebellion after the name given to the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA), it was a long struggle to gain freedom from British […]

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What Can Patrick Stewart as Lenin Tells Us About Revolution? (Review: Fall of Eagles, Episodes 5, 6, and 12)

Recently, the British television series, Fall of Eagles, was uploaded onto Youtube. Originally aired in 1974, the 13-part series mainly dramatizes power and romantic intrigues of eastern European monarchies leading up to their collapse in the early 20th century. Of particular interest is episode six, ‘Absolute Beginners,’ which stars Patrick Stewart as the exiled Russian […]

8679.nr-bihar June 01

Mao (1935): On Tactics Against Japanese Imperialism

ON TACTICS AGAINST JAPANESE IMPERIALISM December 27, 1935 [This report was given by Comrade Mao Tse-tung at the conference of Party activists which was held at Wayaopao, northern Shensi, after the Wayaopao meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee in December 1935. This meeting, one of the most important ever called by the […]

th_PanAfricanismMedalion May 22

Red Salute for African Liberation Day

May 25th, this Saturday, is African Liberation Day. Events to mark the occasion are being held around the globe, including many in occupied North America. Building on the legacy of 20th century national liberation struggles, African Liberation Day seeks to advance the struggle against neo-colonialism and an imperialist system which continues to pillage Africa. A full account […]

efrain-rios-montt May 21

Rios Montt’s Conviction of Genocide in Guatemala Overturned; The Struggle Continues

A national tribunal recently convicted Efrain Ríos Montt, the former dictator of Guatemala,  for crimes of genocide committed during his reign from 1982 to 1983. This was the first time a head of state has been convicted of genocide in a national court. Yet recent events changed the tone. As of May 20th 2013 the top court […]

malcolm_x_little May 19

On the Thinking, Legacy, and Example of Malcolm X

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 […]

tea party May 15

Fall From Grace: The Euro-Amerikan Struggle Against the Federal Government

There is a widespread distrust, if not outright hostility, towards the federal government in the United States today. It can be seen in the increasing popularity of the Tea Party Movement, the rapid growth of armed patriot militias, and heard in the daily political discourse of ordinary Americans. It should come as no surprise that […]

CorporateEarth2 May 10

Surplus in Economic Systems

One of the most fundamental aspects of society is its economics system, i.e. the mode of production. At the basic level, a mode of production is the means (physical objects) and social relations with which societies produce the material necessities for their existence. All societies must be sustained with food, clean water, shelter, etc. Attaining […]

Protesters, mostly workers, burn a mural depicting U.S. President Barack Obama and Philippine President Benigno Aquino III after being blocked by police from getting closer to the U.S. Embassy in Manila to mark International Labor Day Wednesday May 1, 2013 in Manila, Philippines. May 01

Onkwehón:we Rising: May Day 2013 Statement

[This statement was originally authored an published by the crew of Onkwehón:we Rising.] The settler’s work is to make even dreams of liberty impossible for the native. The native’s work is to imagine all possible methods for destroying the settler. – Frantz Fanon The Present World Situation Onkwehón:we, Afrikans, Filipinos, Mexicans, Palestinians and other colonized and […]

Native Protest 20121219 April 09

Onkwehón:we Rising: Basic Points of Unity

This was recently posted by our comrades at Onkwehón:we Rising: Onkwehón:we Rising is a revolutionary internet-based project. It’s primary focus is revolutionary pan-native national liberation struggles. The intention of it is to grow into an ever more collaborative project. That said this project is not welcoming to just anyone pushing any old ideology. We are also not interested […]

Globalization: Inequality in the Global Plantation

By Prince Kapone The current crisis of neoliberal capitalism has given rise to much resistance across the world, from the Occupy Wall Street movement in the U.S. to the political revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa. As capitalist regimes everywhere impose austerity measures on their populations, reducing the capitalist state to nothing more […]

Remember Luis “Junior” Martinez

This year is the 40th anniversary of the untimely death of Luis “Junior” Martinez. Here is an article written 4 years ago published on our old site at raimd.wordpress.com. Always remember our martyrs. – Antonio Moreno “To die for the people is weightier than Mount Tai… Wherever there is struggle there is sacrifice, and death […]

planet apartheid February 18

The West’s War Against African Development Continues

The recent intervention in Mali and Algeria by the French imperialists is linked to the recent NATO  destruction of Libya, past actions that led to the creation of AFRICOM and the weakening of the African Union, and current efforts by Western powers to increase their military, political and economic presence in Africa as a whole.  […]

Irina_Malenko February 17

An Interview with Irina Malenko, Author of Sovietica

[This interview was sourced from Ideological Fightback. Re-posting is for educational purposes and does not imply endorsement of affiliation. Generally speaking, the USSR during the authors lifetime was not socialist. This is because it was no longer part of the movement for proletarian revolution. Instead it was led by a ruling class which eventually dismantled against the will of the […]

Matthijs Krul: Book Review: Zak Cope’s “Divided World Divided Class”

There are times when one encounters a book that is frustrating in a way particular to the intellectual life: that is to say, when one encounters a book that is precisely the book one wanted to write. Given the relative obscurity of my interests, this does not happen often to me, but Zak Cope’s Divided World, […]

AlcatrazGraffiti January 20

Federal government restores Native American ‘Occupation of Alcatraz’ graffiti

The occupation of Alcatraz by indigenous activists from 1969 to 1971 was a pivotal event in the history of Native resistance.  It brought attention all over the world to the national oppression faced by the indigenous peoples of Amerikkka. Now this history is being preserved as it should be. From Yahoo! News: Putting graffiti in […]

9781856497350 December 20

Colonization and Housewifization (1986)

This is chapter three from the book ‘Patriarchy and Capital Accumulation on a World Scale’ by Maria Mies. The following text will be part of the curriculum of the upcoming second semester of People’s Liberation Universit The Dialectics of ‘Progress and Retrogression’ On the basis of the foregoing analysis, it is possible to formulate a tentative thesis […]

images (1) December 18

Debt, Society, Morality and Imperialism

  This review of David Graeber’s 2011 book, Debt: the First 5,000 Years, was authored by Tony Norfeild and originally published at his website, Economics of Imperialism. As always, reposting here does not imply full agreement, endorsement, or affiliation.      The main value of this book is to analyse debt as a social relationship, not simply as […]

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MIM(Prisons) review of Divided World Divided Class

It is with great pleasure that we announce a new release that MIM(Prisons) is adding to the labor aristocracy section of our must-read list. Divided World Divided Class by Zak Cope contributes up-to-date economic analysis and new historical analysis to the MIM line on the labor aristocracy. I actually flipped through the bibliography before reading the book […]

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