Ribbon Skirts and Mutual Aid

Patty Krawec on vital Indigenous practices that defy colonial forces of assimilation and show us the power of mutual aid.

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Black smoke plumes above a broad street in Lagos, Nigeria, where police with guns drawn are scattered. A palm tree is visible amidst buildings with corrugated metal roofs.

Nigeria’s Revolution Now

Omole Ibukun on the #RevolutionNow movement in Nigeria and three lessons it might offer the global left.
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If Not Now, When?

How might we say no to shortcuts, but yes to fresh experiments in building new organizational forms on the left?
The dark silhouette of a bird perched on barbed wire. The bird may have a piece of grass, or something similar, in its mouth. The background is a greyscale blur.

What are the Police?
What is Abolition?

Tapji Garba on the relationship between police power and the state, and what it might tell us about how to fight for abolition.
Emerging from a black background, a black cat with one eye, green and alert, peers out at the viewer.

Socialism Needs Disability Justice

James Graham on the need for a revolutionary socialism that grasps the real dynamics of labour, disability, and capital – and refuses to leave disabled people behind.

Revolutionary Possibilities Bloom When Migrants Fight Back

S. K. Hussan on the fight for permanent residency rights for 1.7 million migrants in the Canadian state – a case study in building revolutionary organizing.

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