by Tariq Khan/Black Rose Anarchist Federation From official disregard and denial to mismanaged response, each day the COVID-19 crisis brings into ever sharpening clarity the hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy of the current ruling class. Claims of American exceptionalism and greatness are revealed to be a crumbling mask for […]
by It’s Going Down On August 21st, prisoners across the United States will begin a strike against prison slavery. This strike comes hot on the heels of the inspiring actions against ICE and massive anti-fascist mobilizations in the first weeks of August. Not only are all of these struggles connected, but […]
by Democracy Now! / The States CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – James Alex Fields Jr. appeared in court via video link from jail for his first court appearance, where he was charged with second-degree murder for driving his car through a crowd of counterprotesters during the white supremacist rally on […]
by Love and Rage Team/Trending News has broken that a few hours ago a potential coup is happening in Turkey as people reported fighter jets flying low overhead, tanks in public squares, incidents of the military disarming police and a video on Twitter which shows a Turkish soldier […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage It doesn’t take much. A Black person expresses support for some attribute of Blackness or solidarity with the unique struggles of Blacks in the US and white people come from all directions with accusations of racism. The arguments are lazy, reactionary and represent […]
by Joshua A. Turner/Guest If one were to have watched the media coverage of American politics over the last six months, one might be forgiven for thinking that the only two stories going on are Donald Trump and the GOP circus, and the tightening race between former Secretary […]
by Hana Selimovic/Guest As an American-Muslim, it is easy to say that I am constantly in a battle with the general public about its personal views and stances on Islam. Just as my religion preaches, however, I try to teach more than I try to argue. There were […]
by Alexander Reid Ross/It’s Going Down The Malheur Rebellion took overnight control of all screen time throughout social media and conversations about it quickly became pervasive. I felt compelled to go to the site and try to gain some perspective. I contacted Ben Jones, and we decided to go down together […]
by Dilar Dirik/Guest We publish this letter here on Love and Rage from Dilar Dirik, a committed activist in the Kurdish liberation struggle. It is an open letter in response to the recent publication of a racist cartoon depicting Alan Kurdî in the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. Kurdî […]
by Tess Riley/The Guardian Capitalism took a bashing in 2015: Corbynomics, the rise of anti-austerity partiesPodemos and Syriza, Hillary Clinton slamming our culture of short-termism, COP21 protests and more. Capitalism – and more specifically its failings – is likely to be as brashly and uncompromisingly in the headlines […]