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We Must Unlearn the Lie That State Violence Is Inherently Legitimate
“There is no alternative to taking on both the police and the far right simultaneously,” says Kelly Hayes.
We Have No Option But Hope: Noam Chomsky Talks With David Barsamian
We must have "optimism of the will," using the opportunities available to fight for a more just world, Chomsky says.
Reimagining the Commons Is One Step Toward a Future Without Police
This is about far more than access to goods and services; it’s about a new conception of community and social relations.
“The Earth Is Telling Us It’s Exhausted”: An Interview With Poet Natalie Diaz
How we iterate or commodify things flies in the face of what the land told the human body to become, says Diaz.
Native Sovereignty Over Abortion Was Already Under Attack Before Roe’s Overturn
Sterilization and abortion restrictions made clear we can’t gain full reproductive justice without tribal sovereignty.
Many Nations Have Used COVID to Impose the Tyranny of Transnational Capital
The “new normal” rammed during the pandemic involves increasingly obscene power held by transnational corporations.
How Can We Organize in Ways That Challenge Boundaries and Defy Exclusion?
Our organizing must be grounded in -- not bounded by -- local conditions, argues Ruth Wilson Gilmore.
Violence of Settler Colonialism Stretches Across Generations of Native Families
"An Enemy Such as This" tells the history of colonialism from the perspective of those who suffered war and occupation.
Neoliberal Era Was Rich in Revolutionary Lessons. Movements Must Learn Them.
Left movements will succeed only if they overcome the barriers faced by past struggles, writes Colin Barker.
George Floyd Isn’t in the Headlines, But Trauma Continues for Black Men Like Me
Being a Black man in the U.S. feels like waiting to be killed. I carry within me the history of anti-Black murders.