Black Struggle – Page 2 – Socialist Organizer

Juneteenth 29-Port Shutdown, an Historic Success! Interview with ILWU Local 10 Retiree Clarence Thomas

(reprinted from The Organizer Weekly Newsletter No. 2 — June 25, 2020) The Organizer: Tell us about the Juneteenth [June 19] port shutdown up and down the West Coast of the [...]

June 27, 2020

Which Way Forward to Stop Police Terror and End Systemic Racism?

Editorial — T.O. Weekly Newsletter No. 2 On June 18, the Executive Council of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) adopted a resolution, titled “Confronting Racism [...]

June 27, 2020

Millions in the Streets Demand End to Police Terror and Systemic Racism

The Organizer Weekly Newsletter — Issue No. 1 — June 17, 2020 Millions in the Streets Demand End to Police Terror and Systemic Racism EDITORIAL Massive protests of [...]

June 19, 2020

Not One More! Justice for George Floyd!

By Mya Shone and Ralph Schoenman (on behalf of the Socialist Organizer National Organizing Committee) Mass protests have erupted in Minneapolis, Kentucky, and throughout the [...]

May 30, 2020

Statement by Black Republic on the Current Pandemic

Azania/South Africa: Address the Entire Socio-Economic and Political System, Not Just the Current Pandemic Statement by Ashraf Jooma, on behalf of the Black Republic [...]

March 29, 2020

Dossier — Reparations, Black Liberation and the Fight to Abolish Capitalism

(reprinted from October 2019 issue of The Organizer newspaper) IN THIS DOSSIER: (1) “It’s Up to Black People to Draft the Demands for Reparations” — Interview [...]

October 21, 2019

HAITI: Long Live the People’s Uprising for Democracy and Sovereignty!

(reprinted from IWC Newsletter No. 139 — October 11, 2019) For two weeks now, the people en masse have been coming out into the streets in Port-au-Prince and the other [...]

October 13, 2019

A Short History of the Fourth International in the U.S.

By Alan Benjamin (document written in April 2003) Key Dates: January 1933: Hitler takes power. The German Communist Party—under Stalin’s orders—refuses to unite with [...]

August 11, 2019

Zimbabwe: Cyclone Idai, Sanctions and Capitalism

By Mafa Kwanisai Mafa — cdemafa@gmail.com About a month ago Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique were devastated by a tropical cyclone that was described by the United Nations [...]

April 5, 2019

Azania (South Africa): The Line Has Been Drawn and the Working Class Is Still Holding the Shorter End of the Stick

By Mandla ka Phangwa (reprinted from Black Republic Issue No. 13, January 2019; for more information contact blackrepublic1976@gmail.com) It has been a year now since the ANC [...]

February 16, 2019