Racism and Self-Determination

Oklahoma University and society racism

When a vile, racist video by members of the Oklahoma University chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity was…

March 17, 2015

Palestinian activist Rasmea Odeh to appeal unjust conviction

Supporters pack court in defense of community leader Federal Judge Gershwin Drain sentenced Palestinian American activist and community leader Rasmea…

March 17, 2015

Anti-eviction campaign uses web, direct action

Brooklyn, N.Y. -- Residents of the Fort Greene, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Clinton Hill neighborhoods of Brooklyn are facing a crisis of…

March 16, 2015

Madison, Wis.: Mass rally at Capitol hits cop killing of Black youth

Madison, Wis. -- Protests continue here over the March 6 police killing of Tony Robinson, a 19-year-old Black man who…

March 15, 2015

Selma workers continue struggle for rights

Selma, Ala. -- Among the many tens of thousands of people who marched in a sea of humanity across the…

March 12, 2015

Madison, Wis., rally demands justice, union jobs

Madison, Wis. -- Hundreds of youth, students, workers and their allies marched on March 11 to demand justice for Tony…

March 12, 2015

Selma 50 years later — Fight’s still on against racism and for liberation

Selma, Ala. — A jubilant, determined crowd of more than 100,000 people marched over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma,…

March 10, 2015

Justice Dept. on Ferguson: Rampant racism but no indictment of killer cop

On March 4, the U.S. Department of Justice issued two seemingly contradictory reports. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder officially announced…

March 10, 2015

Young anti-racist artists face felony charges

The prosecution of two Metro Detroit youths, accused of painting a mural of protest against police brutality on a building…

March 10, 2015

Ferguson, Attica, Zimmerman and the capitalist state

Several judicial rulings in recent weeks demonstrate the determination of the capitalist government to shield the front-line forces of the…

March 9, 2015