The Latest from Black Rose/Rosa Negra
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Setting Fire to the Noose: The Baltimore Rebellion & the More to Come
By Romina Akemi LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Version en español The early morning of May 1st Marilyn Mosby, the State’s Attorney for the city of Baltimore in Maryland, announced criminal charges against the six cops involved in the murder of Freddie Gray. The charges include second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter. The bittersweet victory illustrated the impact…
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Prendiendo Fuego a la Soga: La Rebelión de Baltimore y las que vendrán
Por Romina Akemi Traducción Luis Cortés Originalmente publicado por Periódico Solidaridad El procesamiento de los policías por el crimen de Freddie Gray demostró el impacto de las manifestaciones ante las injusticias que vive la comunidad negra de Estados Unidos. Sin embargo, la cifra de muertos a causa de la violencia del Estado racista es enorme. La…
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Help fund our Cuban comrades on a European speaking tour.
Our Cuban comrades are organizing a tour of several European countries in order to take part in various international forums they have been invited to in order to speak to the realities of the country from an anarchist perspective and outside of the official Cuban government discourse which seeks to silence people’s struggles for a better and…
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Ready to Fight: Developing a 21st Century Community Syndicalism
There has been an effort by scholars and organizers alike over the last forty years to segregate anarcho-syndicalism from the rest of the broad anarchist movement. The labor movement dominated social struggles in the first half of the twentieth century, but as large business union bureaucracies were formed and new shop organizing began to diminish,…
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An Early Death for the LA Teachers’ Struggle?
By Zancudo M. United Teachers Los Angeles, the union for 31,000 public school teachers in Los Angeles, announced late Friday that it had reached a tentative contract settlement with the LA Unified School District in the final hours of mediation. The settlement offer itself is a step forward from what had been on the table…
