Early Soviet poster exposing racist terroism against Black people in the United States.

“The Guerilla is a Poet” follows the revolutionary life and journey of Jose Maria Sison during the turbulent years of Martial Law in the Philippines, until his capture in the mountains and the dark, nine years of imprisonment that followed, leading to his birth as a poet and inspiration for national liberation in the Philippines. View the trailer here: https://youtu.be/RQx7AzIl11g Suggested sliding scale donation of $5-10, with no one turned away for lack of funds. A portion of funds raised will be going towards BAYAN-USA’s 10 year anniversary celebration and the International People’s Tribunal in Washington, D.C., this summer. For more info, please visitinternationalpeoplestribunal.org and bayanusa.org. BAYAN-USA is a national alliance of 18 progressive Filipino organizations in the U.S. representing youth, students, women, workers, immigrants, scholars, and artists. Founded in 2005, it’s the oldest and largest overseas chapter of BAYAN-Philippines. For the past 10 years, BAYAN-USA has continued to educate and organize Filipinos around social and economic justice issues affecting our kababayan here in the U.S. and bridging them to the larger problems Filipinos still face in the Philippines. Our goal is to continue building and strengthening the national democratic movement to win genuine democracy, independence, and lasting change in the Philippines. BAYAN-USA Southern California is one of the four regional areas represented in BAYAN-USA and includes local member organizations such as Anakbayan Los Angeles, Anakbayan Long Beach, Anakbayan Inland Empire, Anakbayan San Diego, GABRIELA Los Angeles, and Habi-Arts. CALÓ Youth Build, located at 3626 East 5th St., is a charter school based on social justice values. Its mission is to cultivate collaborative learning communities in which every student has the right to an authentic education, plays a meaningful role in creating positive social change, and becomes an active participant in working towards just conditions for all. For more info, visit https://www.facebook.com/YouthBuildBoyleHeights The Juventud Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional del Sur de California (JFMLN) is the youth wing of El Salvador’s leftist political party, the FMLN, based in Southern California. The JFMLN is committed to studying, analyzing, producing and disseminating critical thought on the transnational Salvadoran reality and the situation of Latinos in the U.S. For more info, visit http://jfmlnsurcalifornia.com/ orhttps://www.facebook.com/JuventudFmlnSurDeCalifornia The Red Guards - Los Angeles (NCP-LC) is a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist organization based in Los Angeles. The Red Guards - Los Angeles is affiliated with the Liaison Committee of the New Communist Party. For more information, visit redguardsla.org or https://www.facebook.com/RedGuardsLA CALÓ Youth Build 3626 E. 5th St. East Los Angeles, CA 90063 Doors open at 4 p.m.

March 18, 1871: Workers establish the Paris Commune, the world’s first revolutionary socialist government. It was crushed by a military bloodbath two months later.

“It is a strange fact. In spite of all the tall talk and all the immense literature, for the last 60 years, about emancipation of labor, no sooner do the working men anywhere take the subject into their own hands with a will, than uprises at once all the apologetic phraseology of the mouthpieces of present society with its two poles of capital and wages-slavery (the landlord now is but the sleeping partner of the capitalist), as if the capitalist society was still in its purest state of virgin innocence, with its antagonisms still undeveloped, with its delusions still unexploded, with its prostitute realities not yet laid bare. The Commune, they exclaim, intends to abolish property, the basis of all civilization!

“Yes, gentlemen, the Commune intended to abolish that class property which makes the labor of the many the wealth of the few. It aimed at the expropriation of the expropriators. It wanted to make individual property a truth by transforming the means of production, land, and capital, now chiefly the means of enslaving and exploiting labor, into mere instruments of free and associated labor. But this is communism, “impossible” communism! Why, those members of the ruling classes who are intelligent enough to perceive the impossibility of continuing the present system – and they are many – have become the obtrusive and full-mouthed apostles of co-operative production. If co-operative production is not to remain a sham and a snare; if it is to supersede the capitalist system; if united co-operative societies are to regulate national production upon common plan, thus taking it under their own control, and putting an end to the constant anarchy and periodical convulsions which are the fatality of capitalist production – what else, gentlemen, would it be but communism, “possible” communism?

“The working class did not expect miracles from the Commune. They have no ready-made utopias to introduce par décret du peuple. They know that in order to work out their own emancipation, and along with it that higher form to which present society is irresistably tending by its own economical agencies, they will have to pass through long struggles, through a series of historic processes, transforming circumstances and men. They have no ideals to realize, but to set free the elements of the new society with which old collapsing bourgeois society itself is pregnant. In the full consciousness of their historic mission, and with the heroic resolve to act up to it, the working class can afford to smile at the coarse invective of the gentlemen’s gentlemen with pen and inkhorn, and at the didactic patronage of well-wishing bourgeois-doctrinaires, pouring forth their ignorant platitudes and sectarian crotchets in the oracular tone of scientific infallibility.

“When the Paris Commune took the management of the revolution in its own hands; when plain working men for the first time dared to infringe upon the governmental privilege of their “natural superiors,” and, under circumstances of unexampled difficulty, performed it at salaries the highest of which barely amounted to one-fifth of what, according to high scientific authority,(1) is the minimum required for a secretary to a certain metropolitan school-board – the old world writhed in convulsions of rage at the sight of the Red Flag, the symbol of the Republic of Labor, floating over the Hôtel de Ville.”

- Karl Marx, “The Paris Commune,” The Civil War in France

'Trade Union Program', Progressive Labor Party, United States, [late 1960s].

bell hooks @ Eugene Lang College

bell hooks bringing it hard. love this woman. 

"we are in the Name-Yo’self-Anythang Generation." Yes we are indeed. 

The National Bar Association calls out the injustice of the Mike Brown Shooting Death decision.

lol libertarians will attribute to communism someone dying of a cold under a socialist state but tell them that people die b/c capitalist state policies and suddenly you’re cherry picking data 

Protesters rally outside the Ferguson PD, awaiting the grand jury announcement.

Monday, November 24th

People who don't eat hot Cheetos were home schooled.

hahaahahaha

'Proletarian - Organ of the Manhattan Collective', Proletarian Revolutionary Party, New York, 1969. First issue.

'Huey Newton Talk to the Movement about the Black Panther Party, Cultural Nationalism, SNCC, liberals and white revolutionaries', Students for a Democratic Society, United States, 1968.

Transgender hate crime statistics presented in Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word. Watch here or here.

Additional sources:

U.S.A. transgender suicide statistics (see KEY FINDINGS, page 8) General United States suicide statistics (see “Nonfatal Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior,” page 1) LGBTQ and HIV-affected hate violence in 2012 (see “HATE VIOLENCE HOMICIDES,” page 7)