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Thompson and Lewis:  ”A Revolution Unfinished? A Critique of Trotskyism”

The Commoner #15 - Winter 2012 Edition:  Care work and The Commons.

creativenothing:

Students in Quebec were asked to send the cops the route of their march. Here is what they replied with.

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Role model for sisterhood.

selucha:

The discussion or privilege that dominates much of the Left in the United States reminds me of what Mao wrote on the dialectics of the theory of knowledge. He argues that all knowledge begins at the level of perception through our human senses, and as a result all knowledge originates at the…

Negation of the negation of identity/privilege politics from a Maoist perspective.

What interest does the ruling class have in gay marriage? Free reproductive labor. As Selma James writes, when a worker is married, the capitalist gets two workers for the price of one.

We cannot make the mistake that so many other radical queers have made in casting aside the struggle for gay marriage. This fight is tapping into the deep alienation we feel as queer people – the way the gender and sexuality caste system plays out in our everyday lives. We must build something that exploits the ruling class’ division, builds power and democracy for working class queers, and wins material gains in the here and now.

I woke up yesterday, went to work all day and dealt with my bosses.  THEN, I dreamed about them all night, and now I have to go back and deal with them all day again.

transqueery:

Gheys and lesbians are celebrating the biggest news since the passage of the gay marriage law in New York in 2011.

Hollywood’s most well-known lesbian, Queen Latifah, has finally come out of the closet. The rapper-turned-actress made the transition quietly, in a press release announcing her…

This article on CeCe McDonald by the ISO really bugs me.  For example:

IMAGINE BEING outnumbered and brutally attacked. Now imagine facing most of the rest of your adult life in prison for the crime of protecting your life.

and

McDonald did what any victim of oppression should have the right to do—she stood her ground. 

This shows their centrist politics for what they really are.  Who gives people the “right” to engage in “self defense?”  The state?  What if CeCe had not been defending herself but on the offensive, attacking known trans*bashers in the community?  Is violence only necessary when we are on the defensive?

Hell no!  Violence is part of the process of liberating ourselves.  As Frantz Fanon writes:

The native who decides to put the program into practice, and to become its moving force, is ready for violence at all times. From birth it is clear to him that this narrow world, strewn with prohibitions, can only be called in question by absolute violence.

Violence is a necessary aspect of our self-liberation.  It is our historical and objective task.  It is a part of our vocation to become fully human.  Most of all, it is not up to the state, or a vanguard Party like the ISO, to regulate when we should use violence, or when we should liberate ourselves. 

Happy birthday, John Brown, working class militant revolutionary abolitionist.

The Jane Collective performed over 11,000 safe, illegal abortions (with no previous medical training) in the Chicago area between the years of 1969 and 1973, because they saw that illegal abortions were not only dangerous, but exorbitant and often directly abusive. Little to no documents…