Turning the Chicano Moratorium into lasting vengeance To be Chicano in this U.S. is to be in a state of constant colonization, a violent redundancy. Colonization is an ongoing process. But like anything with a beginning, it too has an end. The Chicano masses struggle for this very end. But the revolutionary movement has [...]
The Mexican dream 30 years of blood, sweat and clichés in the land of the dead indian and home of the slave remittances turned into cinderblock walls and plumbing and iphones: a family little by little forgetting what their father looks like working day in and day out, saving as much as he can, saving [...]
As part of our ongoing observance of Black August, we present a poem from revolutionary China which was written in solidarity with the black national liberation struggles in the USA. Your country is so broad and vast, Yet it does not allow your footprints. Beautiful is your native town, But there you may not dwell. [...]
"History, fortunately, dispels all doubts and clears up all ambiguities." -- Jose Carlo Mariategui. [JCM2] In our previous article, The Black August Contradiction, the history of repression and rebellion within the Black Nation is detailed. In this follow-up, we theorize the centrality of the Black Nation within the overall struggle for national liberation and socialism [...]
Black National Liberation and Proletarian Revolution We must view August as a contradiction. It is a dark month as well as a month of glory. It’s a bloody month of death as well as a time of life and rebellion. It is a time of national oppression as well as a commemoration of the Black [...]
