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Race, Class, and National Struggle
Every society has a class configuration, and it is the interests of those classes and their mutual contention which explains social dynamics. The history of the world is the history of class struggle. The reasons for strife between nations, between ethnic, religious, racial groupings, lies in the material interests of the dominant classes of one…
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Black Youth in Struggle
Originally written as a Letter to organization of revolutionary Black youth – 1980s The time is ripe and the time demands that African-American revolutionary leadership take on the full measure of political responsibility that history is increasingly thrusting upon it. What follows from the idea the centrality of the struggle against racism and the centrality…
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Anti-Racism & Class Struggle
Every society has a class configuration, and it is the interests of those classes and their mutual contention which explains social dynamics. The history of the world is the history of class struggle. The reasons for strife between nations, between ethnic, religious, racial groupings, lies in the material interests of the dominant classes of one…
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Racism as “Phenomenon” – Letter Excerpt, July 1989
That the elaborate and all-pervasive system of racism has been vital to the economic and political well-being of the masters of society is a truism in all progressive sectors of society, among all left groupings. That racism is of such strategic importance that no democratic movement of any kind can generate the necessary power to…
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Struggling Against Racism & Class Interests – Letter Excerpt, June 1989
In discussing the question of racism, I think the emphasis shifts, depending upon the audience. When speaking to a predominantly white audience, it is necessary to stress that the struggle against racism is a key and indispensable aspect of the class struggle. Without the struggle against racism, one cannot pursue a class struggle, but rather…
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Political Disenfranchisement – Letter Excerpt, March 1989
Sometimes one can find truths in ruling class literature entirely missed by the Left, or at least a good portion of it. In this quarter’s issue of Foreign Policy, a prestigious think tank publication of the Establishment, Charles William Maynes, editor of Foreign Policy magazine, the leading foreign policy publication in the United States, says…
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Gloria Richardson
Gloria Richardson remains undeterred by the threat of a Guardsman’s bayonet – Cambridge, Maryland, 1963
