• Black Bandits

    Black Bandits

    By Castro Alves Let the earth tremble, terrified with fright…My fast mare, disheveled,Black, dark, flew through the caves.Let the sky tremble… oh ruin! oh disgrace!Because the Black bandit is the one who passes,Because the Black bandit shouted: Fall, dew of the slave’s blood,Fall, dew, on the face of the executioner.Grow, grow, red field,Grow, grow, fierce…

  • Revolution in Brazil, Revolution Here

    Revolution in Brazil, Revolution Here

    Brazil is a country of many records. It is the largest country in Latin America and its largest economy. But hidden behind its prized modern cities and a matured tourism industry is a seemingly infinite green interior. It has the largest rain forest in the world, and on each inch of its growing corpse, the…

  • An Artist of the People – A Nova Democracia

    An Artist of the People – A Nova Democracia

    We republish this article from Brazilian democratic and revolutionary newspaper A Nova Democracia (The New Democracy in English). Founded by a mix of veteran revolutionaries from the 1970s, worker and peasant leaders, as well as progressive intellectuals, A Nova Democracia has been the leading voice for the Brazilian revolutionary movement for more than two decades.…

  • The Comintern Resolutions on Black Nationhood: A Century On

    The Comintern Resolutions on Black Nationhood: A Century On

    Today, just like in the 1920s, the US revolutionary movement grapples with the important question: what is the status of Black people in the United States, and what tasks are revolutionaries facing? Some, like the modern revisionist CPUSA, argue that the Black nation either has never existed or has dissolved, due to one reason or…

  • The 1928 And 1930 Comintern Resolutions on The Black National Question in the United States

    The 1928 And 1930 Comintern Resolutions on The Black National Question in the United States

    I. THE 1928 COMINTERN RESOLUTION ON THE NEGRO QUESTION IN THE UNITED STATES.     1. The industrialization of the South, the concentration of a new Negro working class population in the big cities of the East and North, and the entrance of the Negroes into the basic industries on a mass scale, create the possibility…