“…those with ideas will not lead the mass.” Marxism for Our Times is a collection of mostly unpublished and previously unavailable speeches, letters and position papers produced by C.L.R. James in the context of his work with the political tendency that he was associated with in the United States from the early 1940s to the […]
The Abolitionist Alternative in the Twenty-First Century
If the task of the nineteenth century was to overthrow slavery, and the task of the twentieth century was to end legal segregation, the key to solving this country’s problems in the twenty-first century is to abolish the white race as a social category–in other words, eradicate white supremacy entirely. from the Call to Renew […]
Family Matters
I live in Brooklyn but, since this is not only a Brooklyn story, let’s start with New Jersey. Two developments catch my attention. The first is an effort by the state’s Department of Education to “take over” the public schools in Newark, the state’s largest city and home to its largest black population. A […]