A refusal of the sanitized story that rights were won by asking nicely. The suffragettes bombed Westminster Abbey. The Deacons for Defense guarded MLK. Man…
Defend democracy and the right to protest – Victorian Socialists
Civil liberties are under sustained attack.. Democracy means the freedom to organise, speak out and protest without fear of repression.
Waging a good war: a military history of the civil rights movement, 1954-1968
"A new history of the Civil Rights Movement with an emphasis on its nonviolent use of military tactics and strategy"--
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People
Kekla Magoon relays an essential account of the Black Panthers—as militant revolutionaries and human rights advocates.
The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and th…
Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a moti…
Nellie Bowles’s Failed Provocations
In “Morning After the Revolution,” the former New York Times reporter sets out to uncover a not-so-forbidden truth—that the left can be somewhat goofy.
The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt | Philopedia
Overview of Albert Camus’s The Rebel, exploring metaphysical and historical rebellion, nihilism, revolution, and the limits of political violence.
The Myth of Capitalism Exposed
We need a revolution to cast off monopolies and restore entrepreneurial freedom. First of two excerpts from “The Myth of Capitalism.”
Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance
Ordinary people have more power than they know.
On Liberation
Across the world, regular citizens of all ages are bravely and spontaneously standing up to forces of oppression and exploitation. Now, a leader of...
A quote by Anatole France
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
The role of literature as the key to personal freedom | Aeon Essays
Stripped of easy moralising, literature makes us relish the search for truth in an age when many believe truth to be dead
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about this 2015 observatio...
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about this 2015 observation on Tumblr about the dangerous conflation of respect of personhood and the respect of authority.
Solutions Privilege: How privilege shapes the expectations of solutions, and why it’s bad for our work addressing systemic injustice
Hi everyone, quick disclaimers. Game of Thrones is back, and it runs on Sunday nights, when I’m usually doing my writing, so the next several blog posts will likely decrease in quality and coherence. The last few days also found my kids with food poisoning. I will spare you
Animal Farm by George Orwell
George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution has become an intimate part of our conte...
