Search results for: “frank ascaso”
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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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The Ballot Box and Popular Power: Charting a Better Way Forward
This article by Black Rose / Rosa Negra members Frank Ascaso and Patrick Berkman takes stock of the present conjuncture around the 2024 presidential election. The “choice” before us, is no choice at all: between a program of unadorned reaction and that of friendly faced genocide. But despair and retreat aren’t adequate in the case…
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How to Win: Blockades in Canada Point To Climate Solution
Update: Since the publication of this article the RCMP federal Canadian police have offered to withdraw from Wet’suwet’en territory as a condition to negotiate the end of the railroad blockades. This is not a victory but a significant step showing that the blockades have forced the Canadian state to back down. Direct Action Gets the…
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The Lure of Elections: From Political Power to Popular Power
We recommend this article as a starting point for critical discussions of left electoral strategies and thinking about alternatives based around building power from below. For more related content see our reader, Socialist Faces in High Places: Elections & the Left. By Frank Ascaso, Enrique Guerrero-López, Patrick Berkman and Adam Weaver Originally published at Truthout.org…
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Life and Times at the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ/CHOP)
We republish this interview by Shane Burley with two participants which helps document one facet of the current unprecedented uprising around anti-Black racism taking place. While events at the Seattle Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, which has since been renamed Capitol Hill Organized Protest or CHOP (explanation), remain ever changing the taking of physical space is…
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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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RIP Franklin Rosemont
Posted by informorph Chicago lost a great activist and artist this week with the death of Franklin Rosemont, co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group. Full details on Franklin’s long history and accomplishments can be found here.
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Socialist Faces in High Places: Elections & the Left
A critical collection of writings looking at left electoralism and strategy in the US and internationally. DOWNLOAD A FREE COPY: PDF | ibook WHITE BACKGROUND FOR PRINTING: PDF | ibook (Introduction Below) Contents Introduction, Black Rose/Rosa Negra Social Media Team The Lure Of Elections: From Political Power To Popular Power by Frank Ascaso, Enrique Guerrero-López,…
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Another Day, Another Hatchet Job on Anarchism
Is it just me, or has the quality of critiques of anarchism been getting worse lately? Barnard Professor Sheri Berman’s contribution to Dissent’s Fall 2015 issue (“No Cheers for Anarchism”) makes it clear she holds anarchism — and anarchists — in contempt. I looked for, but sadly could not find, a well-argued reason why. Her essay…
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Striking For The Future of Education: Interview with a Los Angeles Teacher
Image: Hundereds of teachers gather for the chapter chair meeting of UTLA (United Teachers of Los Angeles). Source: BRRN-LA. More than 30,000 educators in the country’s second-biggest school district of Los Angeles are poised to strike Thursday, January 10 UPDATE: Monday, January 12 for the first time since 1989. In the aftermath of the inspiring wave of…