“The basic question of every revolution is that of state power. Unless this question is understood, there can be no intelligent participation in the revolution, not to speak of guidance of the revolution.” – VI Lenin, The Dual Power Marxist Center, and especially its supporters in the Seattle area and to a lesser extent Philadelphia [...]
Ruido Guerrillero: turning punk into a weapon for the people The death of the hippie movement in the 60s gave way to the most unrelenting, uncontrollable rage and emotion from an acutely disenfranchised sector of the working class youth. The youth in the mid-70s leading up the 80s looked at the world with disgust, for [...]
Poem by Facundo Rompehuevos Nemesis the Salvadoran no one knew his real name but he introduced himself as nemesis – a common practice among the perpetually persecuted and undocumented and they gave him the nickname of la muerte not because of some fantastic story of death but only because the fucker was so skinny he [...]
Abuse Merriam-Webster defines “abuse” as, a corrupt practice or custom (the buying of votes and other election abuses) improper or excessive use or treatment; misuse (drug abuse) language that condemns or vilifies usually unjustly, intemperately, and angrily (verbal abuse, a term of abuse) physical maltreatment (child abuse, sexual abuse) (Source 1) For the purposes of [...]
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. [...]
