Tag: Commentary
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Government Shutdown: A Failing American Democracy Should Sound the Call For Revolution
A response to the government shut down from an anarchist and libertarian socialist perspective. By Frank Ascaso It’s now been more than a month of federal government shutdown. President Trump and the Democrats of the House are in a standoff over funding the border wall, and they are holding the federal budget hostage. Trump wants…
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Why MLK Should Be Remembered As A Revolutionary
With the passing of each holiday in his remembrance, the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. becomes further absorbed into a liberal narrative of American progress but King’s actual politics and organizing speak to a far more radical legacy. By Frank Ascaso A year before his assassination, Martin Luther King was talking revolution. “I am…
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Climbing The Ladder: Brown Politicians Will Not Save Us
In the rush to celebrate the new found diversity of the recently elected Congress, we may miss the larger picture and purpose of structures of power in the U.S. Ella Mendoza is an undocumented organizer based in Salt Lake City, Utah and the artist behind the accompanying artwork. Follow them on Instagram. By Ella Mendoza…
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Abolishing ICE by Funding It
In spite of promises to “Abolish ICE,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other newly elected progressive Democrats voted to fund it on their very first day in office. Some may find the arguments presented in this commentary about AOC surprising but this fits well within the statements she made in a recent 60 Minutes interview that “She’d…
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A Green New Deal vs. Revolutionary Ecosocialism
Proponents of the Green New Deal put this forward as a “realistic” alternative to climate catastrophe but writer Wayne Price asks whether the proposal would be fundamentally effective or politically possible. By Wayne Price The idea of a “Green New Deal” has been raised in response to the threat of climate and ecological catastrophe. Two…
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From Union Renewal to a Self-Managed Society
Municipal trash workers protest in Johannesburg, South Africa. In the face of fiercely expanding inequality and anti-unionism in the US there is a great deal of discussion across the left of how to revitalize unions. While we see glimmers of hope in the recent strike wave of teachers and innovative forms of unionism such as with…
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Love and Fire: Boots Riley on Art, Labor, and Mass Movements
The Coup’s 2012 album, also titled “Sorry to Bother You” (intended to be the film’s soundtrack, before the screenplay started getting the attention of various famous musicians like Janelle Monáe, who ended up on the film’s actual soundtrack) came with an insert featuring this short treatise laying out Boots Riley’s communist political praxis. For much…
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In November We Remember Those Who Gave Everything
Veteran Tariq Khan reflects on the hollow legacy of Veterans Day and connects the history of November 11 to remembering those who fought for a better world. By Tariq Khan and other BRRN members On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the working class people who made up…
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Hope vs Fear: The Future of Anticapitalist Politics in Latin America
By Pablo Abufom (Versión Español Debajo) When faced with complex and painful phenomena, poetic metaphors and comparisons flourish. Regarding the current political situation in Latin America, I too want to add to the current rain of metaphors. 1. The new growth of right-wing politics, evangelical conservatism and neofascist grassroots movements in Latin America is like…
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Of Movements and Midterms: A Salvo on Electoralism
The following article was originally published by Salvo, a quarterly newspaper focused on working class perspectives based in San Gabriel Valley and the greater Los Angeles area. Visit their website to download a free copy and donate to receive a copy. By Salvo Magazine Editorial Collective If you weren’t already made excruciatingly aware by the deluge of…