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Rinaldo Walcott on Riots, Policing, and Traditions of Black Refusal

Posted on May 25, 2021 by

“The Black riot is a refusal of entrenched policing practices that has boiled over. The riot is an expression of revolt with a historical basis in slavery. In activist circles, riots have been renamed uprisings, thereby giving their actions a deeper meaning. And the difference isn’t merely semantic. Riots often garner the attention of state authorities in a way that so-called peaceful protests do not. The riot, or uprising, is an important element of the quest for Black freedom.”

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Tim Bruno: ” Transforming Rebellion into Revolution: Rereading Cedric Robinson and Eugene Genovese”

Posted on April 20, 2021 by

“Defensiveness about the revolutionary-ness of resistance potentially understates just how much is needed to expand and escalate the rebellious conditions that precede Black liberation. Rereading Robinson and Genovese, it becomes clear how much of the Black Radical Tradition is about historiography—it is a tradition, after all”

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Mohamed Abdou: “Let Empire collapse: why we need a decolonial revolution”

Posted on November 2, 2020 by

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Leo Jubault: “Memory against History: Black Lives Matter, Identity and the Revolution”

Posted on October 28, 2020 by

“This is a revolutionary moment; one that needed no parties or state, one that comes, as it often does, from the eruption of the memory of the oppressed. A memory that lies within specific lived experiences, but whose truth and call for justice transcends those specificities. From Rojava to Chiapas, from Yellow Jackets to Black Lives Matter.”

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Vanessa Taylor: “How Black anarchists are keeping the protest movement alive”

Posted on October 3, 2020 by

“Black anarchists are striving for a liberation that requires the total upheaval of social order as it stands now.”

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Marquis Bey: “The primordial mutiny of anarcho-Blackness”

Posted on September 8, 2020 by

“Anarcho-Blackness is a qualitative shift of what anarchism is and does, describing the insurgency that defines the abolition of hierarchy and the state.”

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Jade Begay: “Prolonged Uprising Is the New Normal”

Posted on July 14, 2020 by

“This is the new normal. Let’s keep it up. Let’s keep protesting, let’s keep unlearning and relearning, let’s keep honoring and respecting BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of color) leadership, let’s keep voting, let’s keep dismantling white supremacy within ourselves, our families, our workplaces, our institutions, and our government. Let’s keep moving resources from the police into Black and Brown communities. Let’s keep building the movement, making it stronger and bigger until we abolish the police and ICE and eradicate racism and white supremacy.”

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Peter Gelderloos: “Questions In The Face Of Counterinsurgency”

Posted on June 19, 2020 by

“Liberal identity politics, in contrast to radical resistance against the multiple, overlapping forms of oppression that exist in our society, is ultimately about turning oppressed people into demographics to be exploited for power struggles within the dominant institutions. It is about representation. To be represented, a people must be simplified, they must be homogenized, borders must be drawn around them to determine who has membership and who does not, and then that entire body must be further disciplined, bribed, and silenced until they accept the political views that belong to their representatives.”

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CrimethInc.: “This Is Anarchy”

Posted on June 11, 2020 by

“Eight Ways the Black Lives Matter and Justice for George Floyd Uprisings Reflect Anarchist Ideas in Action.”

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“How the Far-Right Boogaloo Movement Is Trying to Hijack Anti-Racist Protests for a Race War”

Posted on June 10, 2020 by

“Far-right extremists are hijacking nationwide protests against racism to push for … a race war!”

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