Avant-Garde Journal

A Journal of Peace, Democracy, and Science. Advancing the struggle of ideas in a new revolutionary period of US and world history. Published by @freeschoolmedia

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Now is the time to build, out of the ruins of the old, a new civilization worthy of human beings.

On the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding we present Issue 5 of our journal, dedicated to the Battle for a New Civilization.

Read the full issue at https://t.co/Z6fuuQb9dg

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We present an essay by Neha Chivukula on the war in Iran, for the fifth issue of Avant-Garde.

Read the essay in full: https://t.co/4R2sDtJBxt

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Meanwhile the American people themselves reject this war, viewing Israel as a genocidal state and feeling the betrayal of their own government. Their consciousness has been further moved by witnessing the heroic resistance of the peoples of Iran, Palestine, and Lebanon.

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These facts should be taken seriously as evidence that the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is indeed a civilization war — one waged by the desperate elites of a dying white civilization, against a civilization that stands for the best of humanity’s strivings for peace and justice.

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The United States has repeatedly threatened to destroy Iranian civilization as it bombs schools and civilian infrastructure. Israel claims to be defending Western civilization as it commits mass slaughter in Gaza.

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Birthed in the Great Migration, the new gods proclaimed by Black folk in Philadelphia show how there are two battling civilizations in America, distinct in ideals and never reconciled.

A sociological report by members of @FreeSchoolMedia: https://t.co/DVzFKQPvjP

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A DECLARATION — In the 250th year of our nation’s birth, the skies above the United States burn red with flashes of anger and blood.

The specters of civil war and world war raise their head; so too does the unfulfilled promise of revolutionary democracy. https://t.co/5x0UDpvU72

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On this occasion we revisit an essay by Nandita Chaturvedi on King as a revolutionary prophet for the world future: https://t.co/UZDQcTLpJs

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Today we honor the birth of Martin Luther King Jr., the father of a new American people.

We celebrate his revolutionary life and ideas, which lay down an unfinished task that all-humanity must take up to answer the crises of our time.

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As our nation faces its 250th year, we return to a 2010 speech by Rev. James Lawson on America's revolutionary calling to remake itself into a new civilization.

Just published: 'We Have Not Yet Arrived'
https://t.co/o3KLfNeFes

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We are sharing an essay by Anthony Monteiro written shortly after the death of Nelson Mandela, shedding light on Mandela's neoliberal turn toward the end of his life and the role of ideology in shaping political leadership. https://t.co/KZho8y084k

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Today marks the death of John Brown after his raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859, on the eve of the Civil War. We remember his martyrdom with an essay by Blaise Laramee written for Issue 4 of our journal. https://t.co/GOnxWwo7aw

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A SHORT HISTORY OF PROPAGANDA by Anthony Monteiro (1998)

At the end of the 20th century, Harvard's Cornel West and Temple University's Molefi Asante represented two opposing wings of Black Studies.

What united them was their rejection of W.E.B. Du Bois. https://t.co/cXbQhXfn3W

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Knowledge and Revolution: Collected Writings by Anthony Monteiro

Spanning multiple phases of struggle across decades of history — in the great journey of modern humanity's search for freedom

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Read online: https://t.co/EmiZBbTKIN

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We invite you to join us in celebrating our friend, mentor, comrade, and brother Anthony Monteiro on the occasion of his 80th birthday on Oct 31–Nov 1 in Philadelphia.

We will address political, ideological, and civilizational questions for our common future. All are welcome.

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Featured in Issue 4 of Avant-Garde.

Read the full issue at https://t.co/0Wu9bsdpV8

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'Truth' — A poem by Muhammad Ali

The words of Truth are touching,
The voice of Truth is deep,
The law of Truth is simple:
All you sow, you reap.

Facts are only its shadow,
Truth stands above all sin;
Great be the battle of life,
Truth in the end shall win.

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Featured in Issue 4 of Avant-Garde.

Read online at https://t.co/0Wu9bsdpV8

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'Freedom (for Attica)' — A poem by Muhammad Ali

Better far, from all I see
To die fighting to be free.
What more fitting end could be?

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The Soul of John Brown — by Blaise Laramee

https://t.co/GOnxWwnzkY

"What could the soul of John Brown mean to the American people today, and especially to the masses of white poor? And could we, in our time of great confusion and moral crisis, see such a spirit live again?"