The Latest from Black Rose/Rosa Negra
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July 31st, “Action Against Fascism and Racism” report
[slideshow] Posted by Daniel C. In response to the July 31 Call to Action Against Fascism and Racism, members of Four Star Anarchist Organization brought attention to the murder of Anthony Kyser, an unemployed African-American barber, outside of a CVS Pharmacy in the Little Village Neighborhood of Chicago in May. Kyser was choked to death…
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Solidarity Demonstration with Toronto G20 arrestees
Posted by atrain A solidarity demonstration for Toronto G20 arrestees is planned for Monday July 26th at 2pm at the Canadian Consulate in Chicago. Last month thousands took the streets of Toronto in opposition to the G20 and the Canadian state. Although nearly a billion dollars was spent to secure the territory around the summit,…
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State Ownership and Socialism: A critical voice from Cuba
We are reposting here an article from Havana Times. While we cannot vouch for the sources, the article raises important issues and critical debates happening in Cuba that provide a challenge to the direction of the island. Pedro Campos Original Havana Times Article HAVANA TIMES, April 27 — Recently in Granma, the newspaper of the…
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On the Autonomous Struggle of the Proletariat
by Jan Ever since social agents in social formations became divided into social classes, these classes have always been in struggle. Capitalism/imperialism produces a class that has the historical capacity to struggle to bring an end to exploitation in any social formation. This class is the working class. In the epoch of capitalism, the working…
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Solidarity with the Toronto 900!
From Four Star: Between June 26th-27 2010, the G-20, an international organization between the protectors of capital, met to discuss how to secure profit during failing economic recession. Amidst housing and labor crisis, global poverty, lack of international medical care and aid, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and environmental disaster (THANKS BP!) they spent close…
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On Building Revolutionary Consciousness in Practice: Some Brief Reflections on the Insights of Paulo Freire
by Thomas Recently during a discussion on organizing strategy that I was observing, more than participating in, a friend and comrade of mine emphasized the importance of listening in organizing. He wasn’t talking about listening in the sense of listening only to figure out how to market your ideas in more attractive language, or the…
