Archive of Black Lives Matter

Shane Burley reports on 100 days of protest against racism, police violence, and white supremacist militias in Portland, Oregon. A movement for police reform, Burley writes, "is now impossible in Portland because police violence itself has escalated the political stakes nightly, keeping them focused on abolition."

Daniel Guérin (1904-1988), was a French libertarian-communist perhaps best known for his controversial 1960s attempt to synthesize Marxism and anarchism. Here, translated into English for the first time, is the text of his speech about anti-racist struggle in both the US and France.

Jen Marlowe reports from Seattle on antiracist mutual aid — with bikes!

The year 2020 has provided a practically laboratorial clarity. For political theory, or really political practice, it has been something like a natural experiment measuring two politics against the world and against each other. How to name these two politics, if not the election and the riot? 

It took just 66 days to get from the first shelter-in-place order to the first riot. Joshua Clover writes on the current protests and riots that have sprung up across the United States in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and their context at a time of economic and social crisis.

A recent history of broken windows policing with Joo-Hyun Kang, director of Communities United for Police Reform.

An interview with Angela Davis in October 1970 from the Women's House of Detention, New York.

Heather Heyer was killed by a person and not a car, and yet the car, a Dodge Challenger, seems almost an extension of the person.

Today we must remember Heather Heyer and all those who left their homes in the morning to fight for justice, knowing that they might not come back. These people are never angels or saints. They are ordinary people, like you and me. Their refusal could not be silenced.