Blood In My Eye – George l. jackson

In his introduction to George Jackson’s Soledad Brother, Jean Genet wrote, “Nothing has been willed, written or composed for the sake of a book … it is both a weapon of liberation and a poem of love.” This book, too, is a weapon, but one entirely willed and purposeful. It was completed barely a week before the author’s murder in San Quentin on
August 21, 1971. It was sent out of the Adjustment Center with specific instructions for its publication, almost as if the author knew that he would never live to see its appearance in print. Describing it a few days before the end, George said, “I’m not a writer, but all of it’s me, the way I want it, the way I see it.” What he saw and what he wanted, the central passion of his life, was war, the revolutionary war of the people against their oppressors, a war which grew out of “perfect love and perfect hate.”

Basic Politics of Movement Security – J. Sakai

During Montreal’s 2013 Festival of Anarchy, J. Sakai gave a workshop about the politics of movement security, sharing the results of typical incidents of both the movement’s successes and the movement’s failures in combating the “political police” or state security agencies. He also discussed the nature of those state sub-cultures. This booklet contains a transcript of that talk, and of the subsequent lively question and answer period; along with several after-the-workshop observations by Sakai.

Mandy Hiscocks comes at the topic from her personal experiences organizing against the 2010 G20 Summit in Toronto. In this in-depth interview, reprinted from the radical Canadian political journal Upping The Anti, Hiscocks describes how her political scene and groups she worked with were infiltrated by undercover agents over a year before the summit even occurred. These police infiltrators provided information used in the prosecution of anti-Globalization organizers and participants. Hiscocks provides an honest and sobering appraisal of the practical challenge of State infiltration, and of how subsequent decisions played out in regards to the anti-G20 organizing and the repression that resulted. Hiscocks spent a year in prison as a result of these experiences, shortly after this interview was conducted.

Why Misogynists make great informants – courtney desiree morris

How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements

war at home: covert action against u.s. activists and what we can do about it – brian glick

Domestic covert action is a powerful deterrent to democratic discussion of public policy and effective organizing for social change. We need to take it seriously without being distracted from our main goals. Please talk with other activists about the analysis and recommendations presented here. Adapt the guidelines to the conditions you face. Point out problems and suggest other approaches.
Now is the time to begin fighting the hidden war at home

Organization Means Commitment – Grace Lee Boggs

I wrote Organization Means Commitment in the early 1970s in response to African American activists who, after reading the Manifesto for a Black Revolutionary Party, were asking us what kind of organization they should build.
This little paper was our answer.

Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern by J. Sakai

This work throws the light of historical materialism on Babylon itself. For so long the oppressed have been the objects of investigation by Euro-imperialist sociology, anthropology, psychology, etc. — all to further pacifying and controlling us.

Now it is time to scientifically examine the oppressor society. While we discuss Third-World struggles and movements, this is not a critical examination of these political developments. This is a reconnaissance into enemy territory.

Revolutionary Socialism is the Primary Political Ideology of The Red Nation

This position paper of the Third General Assembly formally adopts revolutionary socialism and liberation as the primary political ideology of The Red Nation. While incomplete, the purpose of this proposal is to articulate the basic principles of revolutionary socialism and Marxism and its connection to Indigenous socialism and communism. By adopting this proposal, we commit ourselves to the study and practice of revolutionary socialism (also known as scientific socialism) by aligning ourselves with the long traditions of resistance that predate Marxism itself. Nonetheless, Marxism has become the weapon of the poor and colonized throughout the world and largely outside of Europe, a weapon we now take up as our own.
Marxism is the five-fingered fist—the hand of the worker, the
peasant, the colonized—and our traditions of resistance are the
power behind that fist.

Communism is the Horizon. Queer Indigenous Feminism is the way – Red Nation

What the ruling classes call chaos is the inevitable cycle of a world able to survive only on violence against the people of the earth and the earth itself. The Red Nation (TRN) stands with and moves with the people as we move together with the earth. Where have the masses gone these past months? We are living with a pandemic. Our relatives have died, their proximity to premature death made ever more visible. It is no coincidence that within the United States the workers, the dispossessed, and the Black, Brown and Indigenous masses, have suffered the greatest losses. Our relatives, from these same communities, are on the streets carrying the torch as the revolutionary moment flares. We have seen the domestic imperial forces burn. It is a time of extreme clarification. We are changed. This statement reflects this change.

The Abolition of White Democracy – Joel Olson

Offers a new way of understanding the tortured relationship between race and democracy in the United States

Sex, race and class – Selma James

How capitalism and the Left have mystified the real relationships between these categories.

The Combahee River Collective Statement

We are a collective of Black feminists who have been meeting together since 1974. [1] During that time we have been involved in the process of defining and clarifying our politics, while at the same time doing political work within our own group and in coalition with other progressive organizations and movements. The most general statement of our politics at the present time would be that we are actively committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppression, and see as our particular task the development of integrated analysis and practice based upon the fact that the major systems of oppression are interlocking. The synthesis of these oppressions creates the conditions of our lives. As Black women we see Black feminism as the logical political movement to combat the manifold and simultaneous oppressions that all women of color face.