Red Revolution Tales

Around the world, from China to Cuba, the International Working class rises up and celebrates International Workers Day with parades and street celebrations (or strikes). Everywhere except for the United States where Labor Day was implemented to separate the American workers from the International workers. On May 1st, 2014, Ukrainians took to the streets and celebrated the holiday despite threats from Neo-Nazi groups that have been ever-growing since Ukraine left the Soviet Union. In retaliation, the following day, May 2nd, these Neo-Nazi groups came for the blood of the antifascists. They burned down their encampment. The antifascists managed to get to the House of Trade Unions, where their office and meeting grounds were located. However once inside, these Neo-nazi groups attacked them forcing people outside by setting fire to the building then burning and beating those to death who didn't die from jumping out the building. To get an idea, heres an actual video from the event

As more people take on the vegan lifestyle, I feel compelled to write this piece to bring out the necessity of a Marxist approach to veganism for the growth of the animal rights movement. The vegan movement is one that believes in non-humans right to life without exploitation. The vegan lifestyle is one that does not use nor consume any product that had come, or has an ingredient, from an animal or animal exploitation. Examples of what is not vegan: honey in tea, an egg and cheese sandwich, leather, horseback riding, going to zoos, etc. As one practices a vegan lifestyle, the more it becomes apparent how many times animal products, and unnecessarily too, are used in everyday products from cigarettes to toothpaste. Often vegan products or companies trying to appeal to vegans will label their products “cruelty-free” which then becomes very controversial since that is often not true, something or someone had been exploited. The point of veganism has now become to live as ethically

White Supremacy Violence While many of us woke up on February 14th, 2018 eager for the showering of Valentine’s Day gifts and kisses from our loved ones, one 19-year-old white man prepared his weapons and ammunition and stormed Stoneman Douglas High School shooting ruthlessly at the kids he’d spent years growing up with. When the news first broke out on social media, a rumor started by the alt-right identified the “shooter” as a young white man wearing a Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and hammer and sickle shirt. Immediately conservatives began claiming this was a terrorist attack on behalf of “antifa” and leftists on various social media platforms were being harassed and threatened. Worst of all, the innocent man who they claimed to be the shooter was on the verge of suicide for a crime he didn’t commit. And then Republic of Florida, a white nationalist terrorist group, had come out and claimed the shooting was on their behalf and suddenly the conversation of political terrorism dispe

While American media might make it seem like the Afro-Latinx identity has only existed since debates over Cardi B's race, we've always been here, we've always been speaking about our blackness, we've always been the ones forced to defend our latinidad at the hands of white and mestizo latinx. While American and Latino media will homogenize the "latin" ethnicity with light-skin white and mestizo latinx, we've been the ones on the ground underrepresented and erased. Here are Afro-Latinx who have led movements and combated injustices that you already know about. Susana Baca - Beyond being one of the most prominent Afro-Peruvian figures and a two time Latin Grammy Award winner, Susana Baca uses her platform to advocate for the justice of the 2.5 million Afro-Peruanx in Peru. Baca had served as Peru’s Minister of Culture and Arts. Her album Afrodiaspora is a poetic composition of the struggles of afro latinidad.   source: ANDINA (2012). Cantante

So I'm currently working on a piece of the brief history of communism which actually isn't brief at all. I'll have to divide it up into Pre-WWII and Post-WWII: Imperialism and it's taking F O R E V E R. In the meantime, here's a play list of some angsty and moody jams stuck in my head this winter. Calla - "Custom Car Crash" The B-52's - "Dance This Mess Around" Hinds - "And I'll Send Your Flowers Back" Donovan - "Season of the Witch" Black Lullabies - "Black Lullabies" Japanese Breakfast - "Jane Cum" Cookin' On 3 Burners - "This Girl" Sunflower Bean - "I Want You to Give Me Enough Time" The Zombies - "Time of the Season" The Doors - "Light My Fire" The B-52's - "Rock Lobster"  A CLASSIC Mina - "Un anno d'amore" Radiohead - "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" My Bloody Valentine - "Sometimes" The Gl

From Toussaint Louverture to Celia Cruz, from the Haitian revolution to Peru’s recognition of Afro-latinx officially, Afro-Latinx have been the backbone of Latin American liberation and the dominating force in Latin American culture. Yet in American culture, it may seem like recognition begins and ends with Afro-Latina Cardi B’s chart topping hit, “Bodak Yellow”. A great deal of this is due to the homogenous representation of Latinx people in media, which is very anti-black, and the lack of knowledge of Latin American culture in general. A key point to understanding who we are and our history is that being Latinx and/or Hispanic is simply an ethnicity composed of people of many races. The Latin American region is the South-Western Hemisphere of countries formerly colonized by the Spanish, French, and Portuguese.  When Toussaint Louverture and the enslaved people of Haiti raised their fists against the tyranny of the French colonizers, they blazed with the strength of Ogun and swpt con