Portside

Reader Comments: Juneteenth events in Defense of Black Lives - find one near you; Police; Police and Military Spending Must Be Cut; Right to Refuse Unsafe Work; Remembering Berta Cáceres; Resources; Announcements; More...

Opposing views on Mexico's leader, international statements on the upsurge in the US, and more

Many have attempted to claim that `things are better here' for black people than in the US. This ignores both Europe's colonial past and its own racist present.

When demonstrations erupted across the country after George Floyd's death at the hands of police officers, Donald Trump portrayed the protesters as America's enemies. But the protesters posed no threat. They're the nation's true patriots.

Reader Comments: Military Command Responds to Trump; 2020 - Will Trump Go? Can Biden Win?; Police, Community Control, #DefundPolice, George Floyd; Police and Labor; Nobel Prize for Cuban Medical Brigades; Resources; Announcements; Cartoons;....more

Photos from the international upsurge, in Europe and Asia - and more

Loot the labor and very being of people of African descent. When they rise in response, resist, and give as little as possible. Then wait for things to “calm down” and take back as much as possible.

Reader Comments: George Floyd's final words; Protests for George; against police brutality, against massive militarized police, against systemic racism and white supremacy; against Trump; nature of police unions; mail-in voting; labor solidarity;

Join the Rising Majority’s April 2 Virtual Teach-In and Find Out