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Listen to organizers from the PSL speak on their experiences organizing Cancel the Rents Car Caravan protests! And join us May 30 for another national day of action to Cancel the Rents! https://www.canceltherents.org/ This podcast is taken from PSL's weekly public livestreams. Follow us on Facebook here. https://www.facebook.com/pslweb/

The Movement now isn't being placated by any promises. We're demanding that the officers involved be named, fired, indicted and convicted. And we'll stay in the streets until that happens. Hear PSL organizers speak on coronavirus and the epidemic of racism in capitalist America.

We've been here before: when they kill our children, they then try to assassinate their character. Lynchings have a deep history and tradition in the state of Georgia and this country. Hear PSL organizers speak on coronavirus and the epidemic of racism in capitalist America.

Thousands of people gathered in Minneapolis May 26 to protest the killing of George Floyd and the entire system of white supremacy that police uphold. The previous day George Floyd was pinned to the ground by Minneapolis Police Department officer Derek Chauvin. Chauvin’s knee pressed against Floyd’s neck as witnesses urged Chauvin to stop. Shortly after, Floyd was pronounced dead. His last words were, “I can’t breathe.” The so-called justice system of the United States fails to protect those harmed by the capitalist institution and instead continues to terrorize Black, indigenous, people of color, and working-class communities. We must continue to organize and fight in solidarity against the murderous police state. Make no mistake, this was no accident. This is yet another killing in a pattern of police brutality against African Americans. Read the full article: https://www.liberationnews.org/i-cant-breathe-minneapolis-protesters-vs-racist-police-killing/

The Party for Socialism and Liberation condemns the vicious killing of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police Department. We extend our deepest sympathy to his family and his community. Firing the officers is not enough. Officer Derek Chauvin, and his three police accomplices, must be immediately arrested and charged. Justice can only begin with a conviction and sentencing of all involved! Read the full article at: https://www.liberationnews.org/psl-statement-justice-for-george-floyd/

These underlying conditions are not even about individual people in and of themselves, but the circumstances of structural racism in which they live. This takes on its own reality here in the time of a pandemic, in the time of COVID-19. Hear PSL organizers speak on coronavirus and the epidemic of racism in capitalist America.

Class 2 of a 3-part series. There are times when solidarity appears more important than ever. When things are tough, we need comrades who will have our backs. This three-part course examines political solidarity by focusing on comradeship as the relation between those on the same side of a political struggle. Taught by political theorist and organizer Jodi Dean, this course draws on ideas developed in her recent book, Comrade: An essay on political belonging, and discusses what it means to be a comrade, the difference between comrades and allies, the importance of comrades for political struggle, and how to maintain comradeship. This second class presents Four Theses on the Comrade. The reading for the class can be found here: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/86/160585/four-theses-on-the-comrade/

No more genocide. We say enough is enough. We will stand to defend our right to live in our homelands, free from tyranny, and free from disease. This is a life or death situation, and we all have a right to life. Hear PSL organizers speak on coronavirus and the epidemic of racism in capitalist America.

The best antidote to COVID-19 and anti-Asian racism is solidarity with the Asian communities and Asian nations, and also public health options. We must have all hands on deck to uproot racism and fight for international cooperation. Hear PSL organizers speak on coronavirus and the epidemic of racism in capitalist America.

What we now know as Memorial Day began as “Decoration Day” in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. It was a tradition initiated by former slaves to celebrate emancipation and commemorate those who died for that cause. These days, Memorial Day is arranged as a day “without politics”—a general patriotic celebration of all soldiers and veterans, regardless of the nature of the wars in which they participated. This is the opposite of how the day emerged, with explicitly partisan motivations, to celebrate those who fought for justice and liberation. The concept that the population must “remember the sacrifice” of U.S. service members, without a critical reflection on the wars themselves, did not emerge by accident. It came about in the Jim Crow period as the Northern and Southern ruling classes sought to reunite the country around apolitical mourning, which required erasing the “divisive” issues of slavery and Black citizenship. These issues had been at the heart of the struggles of the Civil War and Reconstruction. To truly honor Memorial Day means putting the politics back in. It means reviving the visions of emancipation and liberation that animated the first Decoration Days. It means celebrating those who have fought for justice, while exposing the cruel manipulation of hundreds of thousands of U.S. service members who have been sent to fight and die in wars for conquest and empire. Read more: https://www.liberationnews.org/revolutionary-origins-memorial-day-political-hijacking/