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Antiracism

CORE: The Rise and Resolve of CTU’s Fighting Caucus

Elliot Frank, Jack L. · May 4, 2022

The Caucus of Rank and File Educators emerged from a bitter battle against big business plans to destroy public education. By transforming the CTU into a fighting union, CORE teachers have led the struggle to create the schools all teachers and students deserve.

“Operating without the Police Came Naturally to People”

Eamonn McCann, brian bean · March 16, 2022

Legendary Irish socialist Eamonn McCann reflects on police abolition in Free Derry, the rapid and challenging dynamics of the movement, and humiliating the Brits.

The Actuality of Abolition

brian bean · December 14, 2021

A new book by Geo Maher makes a forceful case for the necessity of building strong communities that can abolish the police.

Don’t Give Up on Roe

Rachel Cohen · December 3, 2021

Now is not the time to despair, but to fight like our lives depend on it.

Gun and Stethoscope

What Kind of Nurse Will Kyle Rittenhouse Be?

Mary Bowman · November 23, 2021

Kyle Rittenhouse is a murderer and a white supremacist. What kind of nurse will he be, and what can other nurses do about it?

Walking in Mamie Till Mobley’s Footsteps

Dorothy Holmes · November 17, 2021

Dorothy Holmes reflects on how her personal grief compels her to work toward collective justice.

Jelani Day

‘See for Yourself’: The Lynching of Jelani Day

Katari, Steven Lazaroff · October 29, 2021

A Black graduate student at Illinois State University, Jelani Day, went missing on August 25. His body was found in a river near a modern-day racist sundown town, and the official story doesn’t add up.

Abortion for All

Sam Stroozas · October 4, 2021

Thousands gathered October 2 to defend abortion access for all, from Texas to Chicago.

The Black Panthers and Young Patriots at a press conference in the 1960s.

Hillbilly Nationalists & Chicago’s Rainbow Coalition

Hy Thurman, Amy Sonnie, James Tracy, Eric Kerl · September 28, 2021

In 1960s Chicago, organizations of poor white people rejected racism and threw in their lot with the Black Panthers and Young Lords to fight for collective liberation. Their story is rich with lessons for today.

Fighting for the Sex Ed Chicago’s Students Deserve

Sam Stroozas · September 1, 2021

Communities demand inclusive, antiracist, comprehensive sexual education, in and beyond Chicago Public Schools. 

What’s Behind the Fuss About Critical Race Theory?

Tyler Zimmer · August 2, 2021

Right-wing media has conjured a growing panic about critical race theory being taught in schools and universities. But what really scares them is a new generation questioning entrenched myths about capitalism and racial hierarchy.

Who Controls Chicago’s Cops?

Jayda Van · July 27, 2021

Chicagoans have fought long and hard for police accountability, but the new ordinance is a step back for the movement and a win for Mayor Lightfoot. A sober assessment serves us better than claiming false victories.

BDS the Police

Keith Rosenthal · July 14, 2021

A central strategy of the Palestinian struggle for liberation is rich with potential for abolitionist movements. It’s time to boycott, divest, and sanction the police.

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.

Black and Red Part 2

Myths of White Supremacy and Black Radicalism

Sam Hess · May 13, 2021

From “race reductionism” to “dupes of Moscow.” many myths about Black radicalism and white supremacy still circulate today. In this roundtable, Charisse Burden-Stelly, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Barbara Smith provide an important counter.

Dorothy Holmes speaking at a rally for justice for Ronald Johnson

It’s Been Nothing but Fight

Dorothy Holmes · May 11, 2021

Dorothy Holmes describes her fight for a special prosecutor and carrying forward the citywide struggle for an end to police violence.

Ma'Khia Bryant smiling for a selfie

There Is No Justification for the Murder of Ma’Khia Bryant

brian bean · April 27, 2021

Ma’Khia Bryant deserved a long, thriving life, period. While some have pointed to the circumstances of her murder in order to cast doubt on her right to live, none of these equivocations even have a basis in crisis intervention experience.

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.

Justice for Adam Toledo

Adam’s Innocence Isn’t Even the Point

Jaunita Benson · April 16, 2021

A Chicago cop put a bullet in a thirteen-year-old child, and many are spinning narratives laced with typical racist dehumanization in an attempt to obscure this fact. It’s the cops who should be under the spotlight, disbanded, and abolished.

A Broadened Sense of Abolition

Patty Krawec · April 6, 2021

Our understanding of innocence, guilt, victims, and criminals shapes the worlds we are able to build. New books by Mariame Kaba and Harsha Walia pry open political possibilities.

Justice for Gerald Reed

Noreen McNulty · March 29, 2021

This week Chicagoans have a chance to show up for a police torture survivor who is still suffering unjust incarceration.

This Is Genocide

Anonymous Resister · February 9, 2021

Statement of a resister against deadly injustice inside a St Louis jail

The Arab Spring and Abolition of the Police

brian bean · January 26, 2021

The Arab Spring was an anti-police movement brought to revolutionary levels. Its lessons will be crucial to a renewed abolitionist movement in the United States and around the world.

Behind the Far-Right Mob

NSFH Research Division, brian bean · January 8, 2021

A researcher of far-right activity discusses the forces behind the pro-Trump mob at the Capitol and the challenges ahead for combating a growing fascist movement.

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