Manifesto against war
In 1938, George Padmore published an article at the behest of WWII in which he quickly asserts that a world war would not be fought to stop Hitler’s violence and save Jewish people, but rather to protect European colonial power.
Zionist Logic
In 1964, Malcolm X published the last article before his assassination, in which he swiftly asserts that Zionist Israel is a calculated colonial project that poses a threat to, not only to Palestine, but the entire global south.
Fascism - An excerpt from “Blood in My Eye”
In this letter written from Soledad Prison in 1971, George Jackson critically explores how fascism in America has developed and how comfortable we have become as a society with the constant suffering and unjust and violence of late-stage capitalism.
The Souls of White Folk
In this 1920 essay, W. E. B Du Bois critically explores the notion of “whiteness,” how it has developed as a psychological and moral phenomenon, and how Black people and the world at large suffer at the hands of white people and the unjust and violent society they created.
Reciprocal bases of National Culture and the Fight for Freedom
A speech delivered in in 1959 by Frantz Fanon, an Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist, political philosopher, and radical revolutionary. In this piece, Fanon proposes that cultural resistance is an equally necessary component in the fight for liberation as military resistance and that developing a “national culture” is crucial to achieving self-determination and true liberation.