Amazon workers on strike in Shakopee this past summer, Photo by Kerem Yucel. By Duncan Riley 12/22/2019 In response to the Trump administration’s most recent reactionary measure targeting immigrants, an executive order giving counties and states the right to block refugee resettlement, Governor Walz asserted in his recent letter to Secretary of State Pompeo … Continue reading It’s Not About Four Years, It’s About Five Centuries
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To Go To The Root
Painting by M. De Norvins, 1839 By Duncan Riley 12/2/2019 “In Haiti, they eat mud with sugar and water, they make mud cakes.” This simple piece of knowledge, gleaned from a night spent volunteering at Feed My Starving Children, becomes for the child their only window into the Haitian reality. Five hundred years of colonialism, … Continue reading To Go To The Root
The People’s Tide: Revolution, Electoralism, and the State in the Pink Tide
Photo by Carlos Figueroa By Duncan Riley 11/27/2019 The world, today, is caught in the grips of a great revolt. On streets and in plazas across the globe, the world which bureaucrats, generals, and multinational corporations have so carefully constructed over the past five decades is increasingly threatened as the long-smoldering embers of popular discontent … Continue reading The People’s Tide: Revolution, Electoralism, and the State in the Pink Tide
Turning Workers into Criminals: Gender, Class, and State Violence in the Twin Cities’ Responses to Sex Work, 1870-1900
By Duncan Riley 10/28/2019 What Makes Someone a Criminal? Modern society tends to view criminality as a product of immorality. If someone commits a crime, it is because they are a bad and antisocial person. However, the relationship between law and morality is in reality far more complicated. When John Brown and his party … Continue reading Turning Workers into Criminals: Gender, Class, and State Violence in the Twin Cities’ Responses to Sex Work, 1870-1900
La gran revolución
Mural de José Clemente Orozco De Duncan Riley 9/19/2019 En la historia de México, desde la Independencia, se puede trazar una línea entre dos distintas tradiciones revolucionarias, la tradición popular y la tradición de élite. La primera siempre buscaba el mejoramiento de las condiciones sociales y autonomía para las masas de campesinos y trabajadores, … Continue reading La gran revolución
The Bourgeois Homeland and the Universal Homeland
Emblem of the Mexican Liberal Party By Ricardo Flores Magón Translated by Duncan Riley Originally given as a speech on the 19th of September, 1915, it was published in Regeneración Comrades, Humanity finds itself in one of the most solemn moments of its history. In the Universe, nothing is stable: everything changes, and we find … Continue reading The Bourgeois Homeland and the Universal Homeland
I do not want to be a tyrant
Drawing by Thea Gar By Ricardo Flores Magón Translated by Duncan Riley Originally published in Regeneración, no date given I do not fight for government posts. I have received insinuations from many maderistas of good faith, those that there are, and there are quite enough, asking me to accept a position in the so-called … Continue reading I do not want to be a tyrant
La república federal y comunal
De Duncan Riley 4/14/2019 El pueblo español estableció la segunda república por revolución pacífica el 14 de abril de 1931, causando un gran levantamiento en la esperanza popular. Pero, sólo pocos años después, la república había perdido el apoyo de la gran mayoría de las masas, lo que llevó a la victoria de la … Continue reading La república federal y comunal
Silba el viento
Guerrilleros italianos después de la liberación de Florencia De Duncan Riley Versión en castellano de “Fischia il vento,” canción de la resistencia italiana Silba el viento y ruge la tormenta Zapatos rotos, pero marcharemos Para conquistar la roja primavera Donde surge el sol del porvenir Para conquistar la roja primavera Donde surge el … Continue reading Silba el viento
Let us go towards life
Image from the Partido Liberal Mexicano's newspaper, Regeneración By Ricardo Flores Magón Translated by Duncan Riley Originally published June of 1907 in Revolución We, the revolutionaries, do not go in search of an illusion: we go in search of reality. The peoples do not take up arms now to impose a god or a religion; … Continue reading Let us go towards life
