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South African Crackdown on Xenophobic Attacks
South Africa 2026: A coalition calling itself “Concerned Citizens and Voters of SA” organizes a nationwide shutdown on May 4, calling for the expulsion of all immigrants—both documented and undocumented—from the coun…
A Terrorist Call for “Building a Red Army” (1970)
Between 1970 and 1998, the Anti-Fascist, Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Imperialism, Communist leftist militia The Red Army Faction was labeled as a terrorist organization in first West Germany, and then unified Germany. In this…
Declaration of the Occupation of New York City (2011)
During the aftermath of the Great Recession, between September 17 and November 15, 2011, the Occupy Wall Street movement occurred in opposition to economic inequality, corporate greed, money in politics, and big finance.…
Abortion Protest (Redstockings, 1969)
This collection of documents illustrates an abortion protest held by the Redstockings group, a feminist organization. Their two main goals were to first, disrupt the mainstream legislative principles of male “experts” co…
The Radical Women Manifesto – Platform (2001)
The Radical Women Manifesto: Socialist Feminist Theory, Program and Organizational Structure is the manifesto of the Radical Women (RW). RW is an intersectional, multi-issue based organization rooted in intersectional, s…
A Call to Bucknell Faculty, Staff, and Students – Bucknell Students for Justice in Palestine (2024)
This is a statement made by the Students for Justice in Palestine at Bucknell University (BUSJP), located in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. The group set forth four demands for the university including disclosing the identitie…
The Laugh of the Medusa (1975)
In her 1975 feminist critique, French author Helen Cixous offers women an ultimatum which demands that they either interpret and utilize the bodily expressions that society has accepted for them and remain trapped in the…
A Fundamental Necessity of the Revolution (1973)
This document is from the opening speech – given by Samora Machel – of the First Conference of Mozambican Women. In this speech, Machel answers the question “why women’s liberation?” She explores the basis of women’s exp…
Carnival Against Capital? (OWS 2011)
The media wrote it off as a disorganized street party because of the costumes, drums, and even paper-mâché unicorns. Still, in reality, it was a deliberate protest with a history substantially longer than realized.
Resistance After Galeano’s Murder in the Zapatista Movement
Raheel Hayat’s essay shows that the Zapatista movement emerged stronger after Galeano’s murder by rejecting violence and leader-centered power, instead disrupting state and capitalist efforts to suppress them through…
Are Women the Problem or Solution to Global Change and Insecurity?
Ruth Pearson examines the intersection of gender, conflict, and social policy on an international scale, highlighting how women’s bodies and reproductive roles have historically been exploited as tools of political and m…
The Young Lords Party: 13-Point Program and Platform
In a 13-Point Program and Platform, the Young Lords Party declared their fight for self-determination for Puerto Ricans inside and outside the United States.
The Palestinian Revolution: The Right to Self-Determination and the Independent State (1977)
“The Palestinian Revolution: The Right to Self-Determination and the Independent State” was a 1977 publication by the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The publication was a collection of infromation and…
Battle of Blair Mountain (1921)
The Battle of Blair Mountain is considered to be one of the largest civil uprisings in American history. Thousands of coal miners in Mingo County, West Virginia received terrible wages and horrendous treatment within the…
Spontaneity: Its Strength and Weakness by Frantz Fanon (1961)
This PDF is an excerpt from The Wretched of the Earth, a 1961 book by the psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, a revolutionary theorist of colonialism and race. This book discusses the dehumanizaing effect of colonialism and the i…
Free Puerto Rico! – New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence and Socialism (1986)
This document is a May 1986 newsletter published by the New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence and Socialism, focusing on Puerto Rico’s ongoing fight for independence from the United States. It highl…
Frantz Fanon’s Speech at the Second Congress of Black African Writers (1959)
In this speech, Frantz Fanon discusses the effects that colonization has on the culture of those colonized. Additionally, Fanon explores the connections between liberation and culture.
¡Si me permiten hablar! (Let me speak!) 1977
Written by Domitila Barrios De Chungara, the exploitation within Bolivian mines is revealed as well as the subsequent female-led protests against inequitable capitalist accumulation.
The Young Lord’s Party Redefines the War on Drugs
In a newspaper from 1971, Richie Perez from the Young Lord’s Party discusses the Nixon administration’s policies on “drug control.”
Statement by the Leader of Iran’s Green Movement – Mir Hossein Mousavi (2023)
The Iranian Green Movement, also known as the Persian Awakening or the Persian Spring, came to existence after the June 12, 2009 Iranian Presidential Election, in which activists demanded the removal of Mahmoud Ahmadinej…Related Posts:
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