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History

Settler Colonialism in Chicago: A Living Atlas

Andrew Herscher · October 10, 2022

The city of Chicago was built upon the settler colonial dispossession of Indigenous peoples and lands. That history of conflict, violence, and struggle continues into the present.

“We will be defined by liberation”

Yara Hawari, Brekhna Aftab, Farhaana Arefin · May 26, 2022

Palestinian writer Yara Hawari speaks with the founders of Hajar Press on unity and fragmentation, joy and pain, and her novella, The Stone House.

“Everything in it is true”

Brekhna Aftab, Farhaana Arefin, Yara Hawari · May 24, 2022

Brekhna Aftab and Farhaana Arefin, founders of Hajar Press, speak with Palestinian writer Yara Hawari on cycles of dispossession, the beauty of oral history, and her novella, The Stone House. 

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.

A kokum pattern skirt made by the author

Solidarity with Ukraine: An Indigenous View

Patty Krawec · March 14, 2022

The story of kokum scarves has long connected Ukrainian refugees and Indigenous peoples of North America. The relationships they represent are an essential kind of solidarity today.

Stylized Old English Map of the Banda Islands

Ending the Curse of Colonialism

Nisha Atalie · January 25, 2022

A new book by Amitav Ghosh explores the beauty, terror, and agency of non-human entities. Sustaining and rebuilding these relationships will be necessary to resist colonialist omnicide.

We Need Roe and So Much More

Sam Stroozas · January 24, 2022

With the legality of abortion hanging by a thread, we cannot accept lowered expectations. We need all our rights in every state.

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.

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.

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

Jeanne Theoharis, Barbara Smith, Charisse Burden-Stelly, Robin D. G. Kelley · 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.

"Black & Red Part I" overlays an image of Pettis Perry and Claudia Jones in the CPUSA office in Harlem (1953). Jones is holding "We Appeal to You for a Fair Trial" advertisement by the Smith Act Self-Defense Committee (1953).

Repression and Black Radical History

Charisse Burden-Stelly, Robin D. G. Kelley, Barbara Smith, Brian Jones, Jeanne Theoharis · May 12, 2021

The socialist movement in this country was at its strongest when it developed deep ties to the movement for Black liberation. In this roundtable, Charisse Burden-Stelly, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Barbara Smith reflect on key moments of this historic connection.

Biden and FDR outlined in red over a mass demonstration in the 1930s

All Good Social Change Comes from Mass Disruption

Sean Larson · April 30, 2021

The New Deal wasn’t won by cozying up to congresspeople, but by workers’ disruptive mass strikes and social mobilizations. We cannot forget that in the Biden era.

Scandals, Tantrums, and Lies

Nisha Atalie · February 3, 2021

In the two years since Lightfoot was elected, the mayor has deflected responsibility, brutally repressed protests, and delivered working Chicagoans a big bag of nothing. Here’s the timeline of her uninspiring tenure so far.

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.

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

Black Lives Matter and the Power of History

Donna Murch, Todd Chretien, Brais Fernández · November 1, 2020

African Americans have mobilized against the police to defend Black life since the 1960s and before. For this cycle of massive urban rebellion to succeed in changing the racist structures of society, it will require learning from this history and struggles abroad.

The Capitalist State and Socialist Strategy

Charlie Post · April 2, 2020

States are the rules of the game in capitalist society. If we want to build socialism we’re going to have to break the rules.

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