🌷NEW EPISODE🌷 International Working Women’s Day w/ Comrades from the Peoples’ Anti-Colonial Press @pac_press
laree, golnessa, & Hannah join to talk about IWD, reflect on the past year, & how we can support women's liberation every day.
Happy International Working Women's Day!
Going live with a special edition on black nationalism and land back with comrades from the Peoples Anti Colonial Press @pac_press to discuss their latest manifesto: Revolutionary Socialism and Land Back - tonight same time as usual!
https://t.co/XtL0MMmdWI
Gotta say, haven't read a more holistic look at the reactionary faults of patriotic "socialism", the importance of unconditional solidarity with landback struggles, and up to date North American analysis of how it goes into mass struggle.
Read the whole thing.
The first Africa-CARICOM Summit touched on the campaign for reparations, Cuba solidarity, proposals for hassle free travel between the Caribbean and Africa, and the need for Caribbean representation at the UN Security Council.
https://t.co/ruWofVNlGS
Gramsci 101 - Part 2: @oildefon looks at how revolution requires more than direct armed struggle especially within advanced capitalist states where ruling classes form alliances with other groups through social & civil institutions, winning their consent. https://t.co/qyzR86a33w
such as religious institutions, the media, and academia—then they can eventually gain enough support to achieve hegemony, which is when the masses take up their ideas and adopt them as their own, allowing for long-term political stability of a ruling class." 2/2
Gramsci 101 - Part 2: @oildefon looks at how revolution requires more than direct armed struggle especially within advanced capitalist states where ruling classes form alliances with other groups through social & civil institutions, winning their consent. https://t.co/qyzR86a33w
"For a group to achieve hegemony, they first need to form a power bloc. If an alliance can effectively assert their influence over critical parts of the state apparatus—including both the official state institutions, such as the judicial system, and parts of civil society, 1/2
Part 2 is to be published later today. If you haven't read the first of our 3-part primer on Gramsci, please take a look! Gramsci is one of the most important thinkers for revolutionaries organizing in the complex political and cultural terrain of the imperialist core.
First in a series of three, this piece explores how Gramsci builds on the best of Marxist theory and advances it to include concepts, such as hegemony, historic blocs, relations of forces, organic and conjunctural crises, and more! https://t.co/Dw0bthqiL2
The U.S. military has been a major instrument of neocolonialism from the mid-20th century until today and has leached from the lives of Native people to accomplish that work. – Peoples Anti-Colonial Press (PA-CP)
https://t.co/ICfGGuKbh2
Why are approvals for drilling and fracking, under the Indigenous leadership of @DebHaalandNM, on pace to reach their highest level since the presidency of George W. Bush? We answer this question and more in our latest piece, published by @monthly_review: https://t.co/DaU5qx02WJ
Qiao Collective is thrilled to announce our one-day conference:
⚡️CHINA AND THE LEFT⚡️
📅SEPTEMBER 18, 2021 10 am - 8 pm
The People's Forum
320 W 37th St, NYC
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HYBRID: in-person & zoom
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Celebratory headlines proclaimed Haaland's appointment a “historic moment” and the identity politics-influenced left was quick to defend the appointment from questioning, even going as far as calling it a “victory for Indigenous movements.” We dig deeper: https://t.co/e5OpfOmzdO
Why are approvals for drilling and fracking, under the Indigenous leadership of @DebHaalandNM, on pace to reach their highest level since the presidency of George W. Bush? We answer this question and more in our latest piece, published by @monthly_review: https://t.co/DaU5qx02WJ