The Latest from Black Rose/Rosa Negra
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Review: Don’t Throw Lucy Parsons’ Anarchism Under the Liberal Bus
Lucy Parsons remains an under recognized yet powerful figure of American radicalism. New scholarship into her life and background is welcome but as this review suggests the recently published Goddess of Anarchy by Jacqueline Jones has a number of critical flaws. Jacqueline Jones. Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical.…
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Tenant Organizing When Rising Rent Isn’t the (Main) Issue
Tenant organizing is once again on the map with much of the attention focused on soaring rents and gentrification in major metropolitan areas such as Los Angeles and the Bay Area. But as Bay Area based Tenant and Neighborhood Councils (TANC) organizer Julian Francis Park writes, tenant organizing has also been taking hold in smaller…
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Our Best of 2019: Readings for Popular Power
In a world where everything seems to change in the blink of an eye and all that is solid melts into air almost as quickly, reflection can be a radical act. With this in mind we reviewed our blog content for 2019 to select twelve key statements and articles providing lessons and examples that we…
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Should Anti-Capitalists Contest Elections?
The question of the left and electoralism looms large in South Africa. The “tripartite alliance” emerged in the transition from apartheid to multi-racial democracy in the 1990’s as a political alliance between the African National Congress (ANC), South Africa’s largest trade union federation, COSATU, and the South African Communist Party (SACP). In power the ruling…
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Thoughts on Democratic Socialism in the Wake of UK Labour’s Defeat
As the U.S. presidential election cycle moves into full swing and key sectors of the left coalesce around the Bernie Sanders campaign, it is worth taking lessons from similar efforts around the world. While not focusing primarily on Corbyn and the defeat of the Labour Party, this piece from worker inquiry group Angry Workers of…
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Puerto Rico: La Colectiva Feminista en Construcción Are Leading the Resistance
The anti-colonial feminist collective, La Cole, played a pivotal in the ouster of former Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló and remain on the front lines of numerous struggles. Following our publishing of their statement calling for “Ricky, Renuncia!” [“Ricky, Resign!”] Aurora Santiago-Ortiz provides an overview of the group and their work. By Aurora Santiago Ortiz…
