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Remembering Claudia Jones in an Age of Division

Pragna Patel Morning Star
The pioneering activist understood that freedom could only be won through solidarity across communities. Her legacy offers vital lessons at a time when progressive politics risks losing that shared purpose

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Beauvoir and Belle: A Black Feminist Critique of the Second Sex

Naomi Simmons-Thorne Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
Reviewer Simmons-Thorne this book aims to show "how de Beauvoir and black feminists conceive women’s oppression disparately and to criticize how de Beauvoir’s conception marginalizes Black women and other women of color in feminist thought."

The Black Radical Tradition Can Guide Our Struggles Against Oppression

Robin D. G. Kelley, Daniel Denvir Jacobin
Historian Robin D. G. Kelley has uncovered a tradition of African American radicalism that was — and is — a crucial part of the American left’s history. He talks to Jacobin about the need to connect struggles against racism and class oppression.

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bell hooks, author and activist, dies aged 69

Lucy Knight The Guardian
While her contributions to feminism are widely appreciated, bell hooks also published groundbreaking work on film, the visual arts, education, and a host of other subjects. She helped shape the modern U.S. cultural landscape.

Where is the State of Emergency?

Aurora Santiago Ortiz NACLA
How do we manage that rage and indignation and re-channel them as something liberatory against systems of oppression, not in a way that reinforces those systems?

Embracing Both/And: A Response to Linda Burnham

Alicia Garza Organizing Upgrade
cover of newspaper In order to access the power we need to change our lives, we must work to dismantle power as domination and instead, advance power through interdependence, relationship and cooperation.
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