Credit: NRKbeta/Wikimedia Commons & Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons “Paid organizers for the communists are only trying to get good negroes in trouble. Alabama is a good place for good negroes to live in, but it is a bad place for negroes who believe in SOCIAL EQUALITY.” If you updated the language and added some flavor-of-the-day woke terminology to these sentences from … [Read more...] about Out of State, Out of Mind: Media Narratives and the Recent Protest Movement
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On the Local Uprisings: Containment in Houston
Photo by MARK FELIX/AFP via Getty Images "But repression does not always come dressed up in riot gear, or breaking into offices in the middle of the night. It also comes in the form of the friendly “neighborhood liaison” officer, the advisory boards to local police departments, and the social scientist hired on as a consultant. Repression is, first and … [Read more...] about On the Local Uprisings: Containment in Houston
A Reportback from Minneapolis
The following reportback is from a comrade in a Marxist Center affiliate organization, who witnessed the uprisings in Minneapolis in the wake of the lynching of George Floyd. Here our comrade recounts the ebb and flow of the uprising as he saw them. This reportback can only represent the views and experiences of this one person. Personal and organizational information is … [Read more...] about A Reportback from Minneapolis
On the Local Uprisings: Statement from Red Bloom
Demonstrators rally in Grand Army Plaza after the death of George Floyd. Credit Rhododendrites/Wikimedia Commons. In the coming weeks and months, Regeneration Magazine will attempt to bring reports and analysis from groups and individuals on the ground supporting the growing resistance to racist violence and police tyranny. Red Bloom is a Marxist Center affiliated … [Read more...] about On the Local Uprisings: Statement from Red Bloom