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Lift Every Voice

Noel Ignatiev

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From a new book by Imani Perry, A History of the Black National Anthem “By asserting the cross-cultural and multigenre and style collage of black formalist rituals, I, like [Ralph] Ellison, am disagreeing with a good ...

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Unity – At Whose Cost?

Noel Ignatiev

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by Noel Ignatiev The Palestinian American Women’s Association announced that it would boycott the January 20 Women’s March in Los Angeles. The announcement came after Scarlett Johannson was confirmed as a “Special Guest speaker” at the ...

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Army having difficulty recruiting

Noel Ignatiev

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Facing low recruitment levels, the U.S. Army quietly lifted its ban on allowing people with a history of mental illness, self-mutilation and drug abuse to serve in the military – despite warnings from the industry about ...

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Lost Opportunity

Noel Ignatiev

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Roy Moore, Republican nominee to fill the U.S. Senate seat from Alabama vacated by Jeff Sessions, has been accused of sexually harassing teenage girls, including a fourteen-year-old. Moore is the founder and president of the Foundation ...

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Time for a global anthem

Noel Ignatiev

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by Julia Ward Howe and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment (forwarded by Noel Ignatiev) In Counterpunch of Oct. 3, Ishmael Reed suggests it is time for a new national anthem, perhaps one written by Stevie Wonder. I am ...

The Revolutionary Moment

Noel Ignatiev

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by Noel Ignatiev What brings the revolutionary moment? I am not referring to the political struggle that takes place within every mass movement—unions or workers’ councils, soviets or provisional government, abolition or free-soil, black power or ...

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Rainbow Coalition or Class War?

Noel Ignatiev

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by Noel Ignatiev In 1892 Thomas E. Watson ran for Congress on the People’s Party ticket (also known as the Populist Party) in Georgia’s tenth district. Watson himself was a native Georgian, son of a Confederate ...

Hard Crackers Event

Noel Ignatiev

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Hard Crackers Event: Sunday, September 17, 2017   Hard Crackers is honored to be hosting David Ranney for a reading from his book-length memoir, still in manuscript form, titled Outside In and Inside Out: Living and Working ...

Anti-fascism, “Anti-racism,” and Abolition

Noel Ignatiev

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More than twenty years ago, Race Traitor published an editorial addressed to anti-racist activists. We are re-posting it here, hoping to engage the brave individuals who risked their lives facing down the fascists in the streets ...

Preach deliverance to the captives

Noel Ignatiev

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by Noel Ignatiev “Thirteenth-Amendment” marches are planned for August 19th in various cities. They are sponsored by a list of notable figures; it would not surprise me to see Bernie Sanders’ or Elizabeth Warren’s name among ...