If Marx and Engels were right that capitalism creates “its own grave-diggers,” then the most revolutionary of these grave-diggers are the colonized people—the women, the children, the minorities, the immigrants, and the people of color.
racism
As protests moved from Minneapolis through cities across the country and world, they gained what could be considered a “transitional power.”
The amplification of dangerous and persistent anti-Asian racism is a central part of our failed response to COVID-19.
“Law and order” has often been a flimsy cover for advancing the ruthless interests of white Americans.
Nearly 70 years ago, civil rights activists asked: why shouldn’t the perpetual destruction of black lives in America be considered genocide?
In the age of coronavirus, the state is strangling all of us.
The ugly spectre of anti-Asian racism, a mainstay of American history, is back in an even more intense and vicious form in the age of Corona.
The white publishing industry locks arms to form a united front against writers and critics of color — proving the critics’ point, again and again.