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Communism and Black resistance in the 1930s South
This article first appeared in the March 2005 issue of Socialism and Liberation. “Hammer and Hoe,” a 1990 book written…
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Assata Shakur: a woman warrior
Alina Serrano is a student at City College of the City University of New York. In December 2006, a gain…
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Black firefighters’ legacy of struggle
A shocking incident in 1987 exposed to the San Francisco public what Black firefighters in the city had always known.…
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What is behind the expansion of U.S. prisons?
The police killings of New York 23-year-old Sean Bell in a hail of 50 shots on Nov. 25 and of…
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People’s power can push back the NYPD
The Nov. 25 shooting of 23-year-old Sean Bell by the New York City Police Department sparked a wave of protests…
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Arrest of former Black Panthers aims to erase revolutionary legacy
On Jan. 23, police arrested eight men on charges relating to the 1971 killing of police sergeant John V. Young.…
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Nearly 800 arrested in racist immigration raids in California
Over the past year, the U.S. government has stepped-up attacks against undocumented workers with mass arrests and deportations. In California,…
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Atlanta police lied about home raid that killed elderly Black woman
The Atlanta Police Department confirmed what the community already suspected in the police killing of an elderly African American woman…
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Smithfield workers walk out to honor Martin Luther King Jr.
When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in April 1968, he was in Memphis, Tenn., supporting the sanitation workers’…
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Book review: ‘Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid’ by Jimmy Carter
Ex-president Jimmy Carter’s new book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," released just after the November 2006 election, has caused a big…
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