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• History of people's struggles (USA)

  United States: The 1968 Columbia University Student Rebellion

  June 1968, by GREEMAN Richard

  At 4 am on April 30 [1968], my wife and I stood with tears streaming down our faces on the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and 117^th Street, watching the last of the Fayerweather Hall sit-ins being tossed into waiting police vans. We were not the only ones crying, nor were the tears merely those of (…)

• History of people's struggles (USA)

  Interview: Malcolm X and Young Socialist, 1965

  18 January 1965, by BARNS Jack , Malcolm X, SHEPPARD Barry, Young Socialist

  A 1965 interview with Malcolm X demonstrates how his encounters in Africa had a profound impact on his thinking about the domestic struggles of Africans in the Americas.
  On January, 18, 1965, Malcolm X was interviewed by Jack Barnes and Barry Sheppard, two members of the editorial board of (…)

• Malcolm X

  In the US: The Ballot or the Bullet – “The Negro Revolt, and Where Do We Go From Here?”

  3 April 1964, by Malcolm X

  The Ballot or the Bullet
  Mr. Moderator, Brother Lomax, brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can’t believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don’t want to leave anybody out. The question tonight, as I understand it, is “The Negro Revolt, and Where Do We Go From Here?” or What (…)

• Malcolm X

  Black Nationalism in the US: A Declaration of Independence [from the Nation of Islam]

  12 March 1964, by Malcolm X

  A Declaration of Independence
  Because 1964 threatens to be a very explosive year on the racial front, and because I myself intend to be very active in every phase of the American Negro struggle for human rights, I have called this press conference this morning in order to clarify my own (…)

• History of people's struggles (USA)

  United States and the 1960s: Port Huron Statement

  15 June 1962, by SDS (USA)

  The Port Huron Statement was written in Port Huron, Michigan, at a meeting of Students for a Democratic Society. Tom Hayden, the driving force behind the manifesto, was a student at the University of Michigan and came from a working-class family. The Port Huron Statement reflects the (…)

• Ecology (USA)

  Banning Cars from Manhattan

  July 1961, by GOODMAN Paul, GOODMAN Percival

  This essay by Paul Goodman and his architect brother Percival originally appeared in Dissent (Summer 1961) and was reprinted in Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals (Random House, 1962). Reproduced online by the “Bureau of Public Secrets”.
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• C.L.R. James

  Revolution and the Negro

  December 1939, by JOHNSON J.R.

  The Negro’s revolutionary history is rich, inspiring, and unknown. Negroes revolted against the slave raiders in Africa; they revolted against the slave traders on the Atlantic passage. They revolted on the plantations.
  The docile Negro is a myth. Slaves on slave ships jumped overboard, went (…)

• Social Struggles, labor (USA)

  USA/Housing – A Hurricane without Water: Detroit’s Foreclosure Disaster

  , by FEELEY Dianne

  Public policy in Detroit, the nation’s largest majority Black city, seems structured to create blight and force the current population out of their homes. Sixty-two thousand properties are set for foreclosure, this year, more than half of them occupied. “This could result in the displacement of (…)

• Foreign Policy, Military, International Solidarity (USA)

  United States: Columbia University is colluding with the far-right in its attack on students

  , by DONEGAN Moira

  In her willingness to unleash state violence against student protesters, Minouche Shafik proved herself to be a willing ally to extremists
  The students sat on the ground and sang as police in riot gear approached them. Eventually, more than 100 of them would be arrested; their tents, protest (…)