Archive of Black Lives Matter

From the trial of the Mangove 9 to this summer's BLM protests, Ife Thompson outlines how the role of radical Black lawyers has been not just essential in the struggle for justice but also in transforming the UK legal system

We Charge Genocide is the ur-text of Black antifascism. It is the most comprehensive and detailed evidence we have of how African-American radicals have systematically challenged and defined the threat of a native fascism in the United States. Recovering and mobilizing the tradition of Black Antifascism is essential to strategic confrontation with today’s far-right.

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.