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LA '92: The context of a proletarian uprising
9Riotbucket[1].jpg Distorted by the bourgeois press, reduced to a mere 'race riot' by many on the left, the L.A. rebellion was the most serious urban uprising this century. This article seeks to grasp...
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2003-2004: Los Angeles supermarket strike
com_ng_strike_033007[1].jpg The history of a huge five-month strike and lockout of 70,000 supermarket workers in California, which ended in defeat. read more
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1992: The LA riots
riotfire.jpg A brief account of the six days of rioting which set Los Angeles aflame following the acquittal of four police officers who were filmed beating black motorist Rodney King. read more
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The Disney cartoonists strike, 1941 - Sam Lowry
Disney-strike-1941.jpg A short history of a strike by Disney animators in 1941 and the organisation in the years building up to it. read more
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Revolutionary Autonomous Communities / Comunidades Autonomas Revolucionarias...
zine1.jpgmid.jpg A publication of Revolutionary Autonomous Communities, an anarchist influenced "revolutionary federation of community councils and liberated spaces based in occupied communities made...
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1965 Watts riots photo gallery
watts4 (1).jpg Images from the 1965 Watts riots, which took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from 11th-17th August 1965, resulting in over $40 million in property damage. The most severe...
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Elaine Brown on the Black Panthers, Jean Seberg, Eldridge Cleaver and COINTELPRO
Elaine-Brown.jpg Fascinating extracts from the memoir of Elaine Brown, the only female leader in the Black Panther Party. Here she recalls Jean Seberg and other celebrities' involvement, the role of...
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Reflections on "Straight Outta Compton"
LwoaE.jpg I just saw Straight Outta Compton near my home, in a tiny theater that dates back to the silent era (1913) and which has miraculously survived the wrecking ball. It brought up so many vivid...
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The Hollywood blacklist - Dan Georgakas
Lucy.jpg A short account of the blacklisting of dozens of writers and actors from the movie industry in Hollywood amidst the anti-communist hysteria of the late 1940s and 1950s. read more
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The Home Saving Bank robbery, 1915
12698485_1262040070478116_8590942667226361248_o.jpg A short history of the robbery of a branch of the Home Saving Bank in Los Angeles in 1915 and its aftermath, by the Black Rose Anarchist Federation....
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Striking For The Future of Education: Interview with a Los Angeles Teacher
LA-teacher-march-signs1-700x525.jpg More than 30,000 educators in the country’s second-biggest school district of Los Angeles are poised to strike Monday, January 12 for the first time since 1989. In...
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"The writing is on the walls": Interview with a striking LA teacher
utla2.jpg At the time of this writing, members of United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) have been on strike for a total of six school days. The school district for which these teachers work, Los Angeles...
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LA Teachers Strike Over the Emptying Out of the City's Classroom
classroom libcom3.jpg Following the six-day teachers' strike in Los Angeles, January 14-22, 2019, a look at union demands, contract results, and a union with a history of following the commands of the...
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Picket Line Lessons: The UTLA Teacher Strike
LA-strike-assembly2-700x380.jpgMembers of Black Rose/Rosa Negra – Los Angeles who were involved in community mobilization in support of the strike and as members of UTLA provide their summary and...
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L.A.’s Class Struggle Looks Like This: The Tenants Movement
salvo-la-tenants.jpgAn article from Salvo, a Los Angeles working class newspaper, on recent tenants' struggles in the area. On the job this might look like having to work longer hours, at a faster...
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Billie Eilish and the Woke-Washing of Highland Park Gentrification
billie-eilish-highland-park-gentrification.png The celebration of pop star extraordinaire Billie Eilish as the defiant “socially conscious voice of Generation Z” is being used to manipulate the...
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Riot and Representation: The Significance of The Chicano Riot
burncopcar.jpg A text, credited to "Herbert Marcuse" but actually written by the Bay Area pro-situ group 1044, on a Chicano riot in East Los Angeles in 1970. This text was first hosted by Bureau of...
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Cops and Cocaine: Bent for the cause – Black Flag
DN9ejVOWAAE7yiL.jpeg In Black Flag issue 212, in the article "Scotland Yardies" we argued that "police strategy is in reality about the confinement of crime within working class areas" and that...
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Los Angeles! There she blows! by Louis Adamic
421b0ca101e4b9ae02012aaad043b509.jpg Louis Adamic's classic 1930 essay on the origins and development of Los Angeles. For those who saw this mentioned in Mike Davis' City Of Quartz this is the entire...
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"NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!" - Harry Cleaver
LA Riots looting.jpg Harry Cleaver on the LA Riots, from London Notes #1 1992. read more
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