by Howard Zinn This is the first chapter of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present. Of everything that Howard Zinn ever wrote, this first chapter of his masterpiece on US and American history was considered the most controversial and the most widely discussed. As the […]
by Love and Rage Team The Christopher Columbus statue at the intersection of the Memorial Parkway and Mohawk Street in Utica, NY was vandalized last night with the word “killer” painted in red. The statue has stood at the intersection since 1952 but a growing number of residents […]
by Resilient Indigenous Action Collective Indigenous activists in Syracuse are holding a rally this Saturday, June 27, 2020 at 5:00 PM in the city’s historic Columbus Circle. Activists join the recent wave of activists to tear down statues that to many represent white supremacy, colonialism, slavery, and genocide. […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn Propelled by the rebellion that has swept the nation following the police killing of George Floyd, on June 7th demonstrators in Richmond, VA – the Confederacy’s former capitol – tore down the statue of the Confederacy’s former president Jefferson Davis. It was just one […]
by Albert Parsons This is the autobiography of Albert Parsons, Haymarket martyr and revolutionary anarchist, written from prison. Parsons was born on June 24, 1848 in Montgomery, Alabama and executed on November 11 1887. We are posting it here on Love and Rage to honor the legacy […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn / Black Rose Anarchist Federation This world is engulfed in a whirlwind of myths. But myths give meaning. Every fourth of July I reflect on the power that myths hold over people and how those people above, those that hold all the power, wield […]
by Tariq Khan / Black Rose Anarchist Federation 1. The Declaration of Independence is a document based on settler colonialism and genocide American Progress, a well known allegory of Manifest Destiny. If we read the Declaration of Independence in high school or college we know it to be […]
by Tariq Khan and other Black Rose Anarchist Federation members On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the working class people who made up the rank-and-file of the world’s most deadly militaries of the era, ceased firing at each other. This […]
by Ruben J. Garcia / The Conversation Prisoners in 17 U.S. states went on strike on Aug. 21 by refusing to eat or work to call attention to a number of troubling issues, including dilapidated facilities, harsh sentences and other aspects of mass incarceration in America. As we […]
by Frederick Douglass “What to the Slave is the Fourth July?” by Frederick Douglass is still as powerful a speech as it was in 1852. As many across the US celebrate the independence of the nation, let us take the time to read Douglass’s words carefully, to reflect […]
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