Simon Balto’s Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power tells the racist history and development of the Chicago Police Department. On July 17, 2020, the police rioted in downtown Chicago. A Black and Indigenous solidarity rally

A frontline health-care worker talks about the public health crisis caused by reopening and why fighting racism is essential to saving lives.

An interview with Chicago’s socialist, Italian American alderman about the destructive legacy of Christopher Columbus.

A speech from this years Pride Without Prejudice march connecting the struggle against anti-Black racism and transphobia to the liberation of Palestine and the destruction of capitalism.

A student organizer discusses a campaign to end the relationship between police and the nation’s largest Catholic university.

As city after city began to rise up demanding an end to racist police brutality particularly toward Black people, I knew — as everyone with eyes and ears knew — that it was only a short matter of time before

Three weeks of open rebellion in the streets have yielded even more victories for the nationwide movement against racism and police brutality. Here is a list of wins from the third week.

An urgent poem for these times of rebellion.

In Chicago and everywhere, the social struggle to defund police departments is only hampered by labor’s ties with police unions. A movement to sever ties will have to come from the rank and file.