The fundamental social division is class, not race or gender ~~ Patrick Martin (introductions by Collectivist and Dmorista)

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/05/pers-m28.html

~~ posted for dmorista with introductions by collectivist and dmorista ~~

Critical Race Theory ~~ Articles written by D Haiphong and Gerald Horne

https://www.blackagendareport.com/critical-race-theory-debacle-signals-collapse-american-empire

~~ and ~~

https://theanalysis.news/why-the-right-attacks-critical-race-theory-gerald-horne/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

From What to Why on the Trump Proletarian Narrative ~~ PAUL STREET

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/21/from-what-to-why-on-the-trump-proletarian-narrative/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

‘1619 Project’: Progressive educators oppose reactionary legislation ~~ Andy Terhune

https://www.workers.org/2021/05/56682/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

Lucy Parsons, Woman of Will

https://archive.iww.org/history/biography/LucyParsons/1/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

Points of Unity ~~ Black Rose Anarchist Federation

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/black-rose-anarchist-federation-points-of-unity 

~~ posted for Collectivist who requested this introduction be included: Although I am an ecological socialist,  not an anarchist, I post this for two reasons, 1) anarchists are revolutionary comrades 2) to generate discussion . .. Collectivist ~~ 

Building Communities of Solidarity ~~ Bill Fletcher and Fernando E. Gapasin, and Bill Gallegos

https://monthlyreview.org/2021/04/01/building-communities-of-solidarity/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

For over a century and a half: Chinese workers abused and superexploited in U.S. ~~ Jim McMahan

https://www.workers.org/2021/03/55287/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

An Open Letter to Chris Hedges: Racism, Not 'Cancel Culture' is the Problem. ~~ Jon Jetter

https://www.blackagendareport.com/open-letter-chris-hedges-racism-not-cancel-culture-problem

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

How Poor Black Lives Matter to U.S. Capitalism Today: Reflections on “The New Jim Crow” ~~ Paul Street

 https://www.blackagendareport.com/poor_black_lives_matter_to_capitalism_new_jim_crow

The U.S. mass incarceration regime measures Black lives by the value that can be derived from their imprisonment. “The ‘new Jim Crow’ is about disciplining a deindustrialized Black lumpen proletariat and turning it into a largely inert, deindustrialized profit-source whose 'value added' comes mainly from the mere fact of its captive existence.”

The Only Place Where Black People Did Not Revolt is in the Pages of Capitalist Historians: Black History Month on Left Voice ~~

https://www.leftvoice.org/the-only-place-where-black-people-did-not-revolt-is-in-the-pages-of-capitalist-historians-black-history-month-on-left-voice

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE. . .Part 2. ~~Collectivist

 ~~ Written by Collectivist ~~

How Capitalism and Racism Support Each Other ~~ Richard Wolff

https://www.democracyatwork.info/how_capitalism_and_racism_support_each_other

Developing working-class resistance to fascism ~~ Dianne Mathiowetz

https://www.workers.org/2021/01/54001/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

These excerpts were taken from the Jan. 14 webinar, “Workers Can Defeat Fascism & Racism,” sponsored by Workers World Party. To view the entire panel discussion, go to tinyurl.com/y25tapr2.

Bill Fletcher, Jr. on the History of Race and Class

https://vimeo.com/253197998/description

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

Race and Class ~~ Fred Hampton (Black Panther)

Excerpts from Power Anywhere Where There's People = A Speech By Fred Hampton

https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/fhamptonspeech.html

We have to understand very clearly that there's a man in our community called a capitalist. Sometimes he's black and sometimes he's white. But that man has to be driven out of our community, because anybody who comes into the community to make profit off the people by exploiting them can be defined as a capitalist.

Communists Fight Racism and Evictions ~~ Stephen Millies

https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2019/10/25/communists-fight-racism-and-evictions/

~~ posted for Collectivist ~~

The long shadow of the Chicago race riot, Part 4

Despite the race riot and segregated housing, Chicago’s Black population more than doubled in the 1920s and reached 233,903 by 1930. Even in 1940, during the Great Depression, the figure climbed to 277,731.

A small Mexican community also grew, despite the massive deportations of the early 1930s. About 5 percent of workers at the Armour and Swift packinghouses were Mexican.

The Chicago Defender became one of the best known African American newspapers and was distributed countrywide. In 1928, the African American Oscar DePriest was elected from Chicago to the House of Representatives. He became the first Black member of Congress since George Henry White of North Carolina was driven out in 1901.

‘They Couldn’t Arrest Us All’: Civil Rights Veteran Rutha Mae Harris on MLK, Protest, Prison and Song ~~Ahmna Mohdin

If anyone wishes to post civil rights music or music about class struggle, this is a good place to put it. 

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https://portside.org/2020-10-08/they-couldnt-arrest-us-all-civil-rights-veteran-rutha-mae-harris-mlk-protest-prison-and

Rutha Mae Harris has never been afraid to sing in front of a crowd. Even as a 22-year-old facing the 250,000 people who had gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963 for the historic march on Washington, she felt excited rather than scared. After all, at earlier protests, she had faced police pointing batons, fire hoses and even guns, and each time, when she sang, her terror faded away.

COVID-19, Economic Depression, and the Black Lives Matter Protests ~~ Michael D. Yates

Will the Triple Crisis Bring a Working-Class Revolt in the United States?

https://monthlyreview.org/2020/09/01/covid-19-economic-depression-and-the-black-lives-matter-protests/

~~ Posted for Collectivist

Upsurge?

In 2018 and 2019, leftist writers, organizers, and pundits were exclaiming that U.S. workers were on the move, striking even in the “red” states that had voted for Donald Trump. Claims were made that the presidential campaigns for Bernie Sanders and the rapid growth of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) were largely responsible for this rise in militancy by long-suffering laborers, who had seen their economic circumstances deteriorate for decades. Left-wing journalists interviewed striking teachers and automobile workers, reporting on a new mood of combativeness. After years of slumber, perhaps the working class was awakening.1

Ralph Nader Podcast: Race and Class

 This podcast was recommended by V4V.

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzMi5mZWVkYnVybmVyLmNvbS9SYWxwaE5hZGVyUmFkaW9Ib3Vy/episode/aHR0cHM6Ly9yYWxwaG5hZGVycmFkaW9ob3VyLmNvbS8_cD01MzI1?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwiepPCR2ObrAhXRHjQIHZfPD3gQieUEegQIDRAF&ep=6

Distinguished professor of political science, Adolph Reed, joins Ralph to talk about the problem with emphasizing race over class in building effective, long-term coalitions.