Lori Lighfoot: Myth and Reality
Lori Lightfoot performs progressivism on the internet, but in reality she parrots Trump at every turn and sees expanded policing as the solution to every problem.
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A Central Cog of Racist Order
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.
Learning from Multiracial Radical Organizing in 1930s Chicago
In the 1930s the Communist Party in Chicago was a vibrant, multiracial organization with thousands of members that actively fought against racism and class inequality. There is much socialists today can learn from its successes and failures.
Racism is a Public Health Crisis
A frontline health-care worker talks about the public health crisis caused by reopening and why fighting racism is essential to saving lives.
A More Powerful Sense of Solidarity
An interview with Chicago's socialist, Italian American alderman about the destructive legacy of Christopher Columbus.
Black and Indigenous Solidarity
As people rise up against racism and police terror, the need for Black and Indigenous solidarity is as necessary as ever.
The Black Abolitionist Network
An organizer with a new network of Black abolitionists talks about organizing amid rebellion.
War on white supremacy
150 years ago, thousands of white people joined a multiracial insurgency against white supremacy.
All I Want is Collective Liberation
A speech from this year's Pride Without Prejudice march connecting the struggle against anti-Black racism and transphobia to the liberation of Palestine and the destruction of capitalism.
DePaul University and the Fraternal Order of Police
A student organizer discusses a campaign to end the relationship between police and the nation's largest Catholic university.
I Saw My Friends Beaten by Police. This Is What Happens When Cities Prioritize Property Over Black Lives.
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 Chicago had its own explosion in response to the horrific murder of George Floyd. The …
More Rebellion, More Results: A List of Victories
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.
Poverty Policing Pandemic
An urgent poem for these times of rebellion.
Rebellions Get Results: A List So Far
Five weeks of open rebellion in the streets have yielded swift, unprecedented results. This is the definitive, updated list of the movement’s victories so far.
Fire not Light
In a city notorious for its segregation and broken political system, mass mobilizations point to the possibility of repair.
Sever All Ties with Police Unions
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.
The Redistribution of Loot
Wealth, under capitalism, is loot. What is commonly called “looting” is a redistribution of that wealth.
Rebellion is the Gateway to Our Future
If police brutality, the pandemic, and impending economic depression robbed us all of a future, this rebellion is the beginning of our collective struggle to take it back.
Expropriating Berlin
A powerful tenant movement in Berlin triggered a referendum to expropriate the city’s landlords. This is how they did it.
What Binds Us To This Place
The documentary film What Binds Us to This Place illuminates North Carolina's rich history of antiracist struggle and points a way forward for our collective liberation today.
Chicago’s Unemployed Rebellion
Militant organizing by unemployed workers during the 1930s demanded genuine relief from the poverty of capitalism. Today, we need the same.
The Struggle for Clean Air in Chicago’s Southwest Neighborhoods
The recent demolition of a smokestack in Little Village has exposed vast disparities in city environmental priorities. The demolition is only the latest explosion in a long history of environmental racism and private-sector handouts in Chicago.
Joe Biden’s Garbage Career: A Timeline
Joe Biden is not only a loyal soldier of neoliberalism, he has been the architect of much of today’s hellish political landscape. The last fifty years of ruling class ascendancy is a timeline studded with Creepy Joe’s despicable actions.
New Cop, Old Cop
Lori Lightfoot recently appointed a new head of police in Chicago. His record indicates a disturbing continuity of racist police violence.