by John Broich/The Conversation – Views and Analysis Very recently, Germany’s Cabinet approved a bill that will expunge the convictions of tens of thousands of German men for “homosexual acts” under that country’s anti-gay law known as “Paragraph 175.” That law dates back to 1871, when modern Germany’s first legal […]
by Benjamin Dangl/Toward Freeedom The Zapatistas and National Indigenous Congress (CNI) held an assembly in May in which they chose María de Jesús Patricio Martínez, a Nahua indigenous healer, as their spokesperson and presidential candidate for the 2018 elections in Mexico. Patricio’s candidacy and radical vision for Mexico […]
by Mari Matsuo – Views and Analysis I am Japanese American. I have experienced anti-Asian racism since grade school, whether it was generalized calls of “chopsticks,” “ching-chong,” “chink,” “chi-fry-ryce”; or the more specific, “Jap,” “Hiroshima,” “sushi roll,” “geisha girl.” I have been hit with “too bad your egg-roll […]
We limit our resistance to fascism by relying on liberal conceptions of human rights. by Natasha Lennard / The New Inquiry – Views and Analysis After the DC police formed a kettle on January 20 to capture over 200 protesters at the intersection of L and 12th Street, I […]
by Mostafa Henaway / Alternatives International – Views and Analysis “We are people! We are not illegal!”— Kiwi Ilafonte This past May 1st, across the United States and here in Quebec, the spirit of May Day was alive and well. Immigrant workers have given International Workers’ Day a […]
by Hana Selimovic – Views I’ve spent the entirety of my evening reading and reading and reading about the ins and outs of the supreme courts decision to allow parts of the travel ban to proceed. I’ve seen some really nasty comments. Nothing groundbreaking by any means, nothing […]
by libcom.org – Views YPG-Training camp for international volunteers, canton of Cizîrê, April 12, 2017 This blog is the travel notebook of a libertarian communist who decided to join the revolution in Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava). I will try to hold it up do date (as far as practicable, […]
by Masai Andrews/Medium “On January 30th, 2016, three Black University at Albany students boarded a city bus heading to the UAlbany campus. The bus was crowded with intoxicated white students. Words were exchanged between the sober Black women and the drunken white passengers. A racially charged discussion ensued, […]
by Romina Akemi/Black Rose / Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation On May 8, 2017 the LA-based feminist collective Intersectionality NOW organized an event at the Women’s Center for Creative Work titled Feminists Against Capitalism. The panel participants included Miranda Sklaroff from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Left Caucus, […]
by It’s Going Down Here at IGD we talk a lot about strategy, about building our capacity, and also about growing as a material force within our communities. One thing we haven’t talked a lot about however is the need for more people to step up to the plate and […]
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