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Eric Kerl

Eric Kerl is a Kentuckian living, working, organizing, and writing in Chicago. He is the author of White Bred: Hillbillies, White Trash, and Rednecks against White Supremacy, forthcoming from Haymarket Books.

Convicts Liberated

Insurrection & Abolition: Ida B. Wells and the End of the Convict Lease System

Eric Kerl · June 24, 2021

Once slavery was abolished, capitalists rebuilt an industrialized South using a new form of racialized slavery: the convict lease system. It would take multi-racial insurrectionary action to ultimately abolish convict leasing.

White City

Notoriously Immoral: Eugenics, Incarceration, and the White City

Eric Kerl · April 26, 2021

Bones discovered in 1989 revealed the gruesome history of eugenics, experimentation, and murder at the Dunning facility in Chicago. Far from an aberration, the brutality of white supremacy was integral to Chicago’s past, showcased at the famous World's Fair that put Chicago on the map.

Reopen Tank Noodle under Workers’ Control

Eric Kerl · March 9, 2021

Workers at Uptown’s beloved Vietnamese restaurant Tank Noodle shouldn’t be left holding the bag for their Trump-loving bosses’ malfeasance.

Uptown’s Hillbilly Santa Claus

Eric Kerl · December 24, 2020

A real life St Nick, hounded by the Klan, distributed not just toys but solidarity and antiracist militancy

The End of Whiteness

Eric Kerl · December 16, 2020

White supremacy has never been about the supremacy of all whites. Grappling with the sources of white poverty and oppression will be necessary to strengthen the movement against racism.

Four Theses on American Fascism

Eric Kerl · November 2, 2020

Theories of modern fascism need to be updated to show its American origins, the centrality of racism, and how it needs to be defeated in the streets.

All Power to the Looters

Eric Kerl, Rachel Cohen · August 10, 2020

Chicago police shot someone on the South Side last night. By looting downtown, protesters are addressing the root cause of police violence.

War on white supremacy

Eric Kerl · July 9, 2020

150 years ago, thousands of white people joined a multiracial insurgency against white supremacy.

Chicago’s Unemployed Rebellion

Eric Kerl · May 18, 2020

Militant organizing by unemployed workers during the 1930s demanded genuine relief from the poverty of capitalism. Today, we need the same.

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