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WATCH: FROM ALLY TO ACCOMPLICE

"This film is an experimental essay in three movements that explores the importance of being more than an "ally" in struggle, by sharing histories of committed accomplices John Brown, Marilyn Buck, and others."

WATCH: More Dangerous Than a Thousand Rioters: The Revolutionary Life of Lucy Parsons

"As a woman of color who was married to a famous white male anarchist, she is often unfairly and frustratingly overlooked in many labor histories."

NEW BOOK RELEASE: Under the Mask of Philanthropy

"This book will not be required reading for the often well-intentioned, yet sadly deluded, recipients of funding from the liberal foundations it critiques, but on their, and our, road to Hell, it damn well should be."

Why it is Time to Move On from MoveOn.org and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

"The development of an independent, working class-centered movement will require a mass rejection of non-profit funds and structures."

WATCH: Oscar Winner White Helmets Hand in Hand with Al Qaeda

"The Oscar win for WhiteHelmets demonstrates the connection between Zionism, Al Qaeda and regime change objectives in Syria."

Bringing Liquidity to Life: Markets for Ecosystem Services and the New Political Economy of Extinction

"The reframing of the sixth extinction crisis within the neoliberal idiom of ‘natural capital’ and ‘ecosystem services’ reflects a history of the reprocessing of political and scientific ecological discourse in order to better accommodate it to reigning economic doctrines."

Human Rights Industry Protects Imperialism

"Humanity is in desperate need of individuals and organizations to speak up for their right to live free from the threat of state violence. Instead we have a human rights industrial complex which speaks for the powerful and tells lies in order to justify their aggressions."

WATCH: Yejide Orunmila – Surviving the White Women’s March on Washington

"Yejide Orunmila, president of ANWO (African National Women's Organization) and member of the Uhuru Movement examines the (white) Women's March on Washington, and explains the political opportunism of feminism and the complicity of white women in the oppression of African women."

Standing Rock: Profusion, Collusion & Big Money Profits: Addendum

"Although these conflicting relationships between elite power structures and the land defenders on the frontlines is rather glaring, it is omitted by all media. As media serves as a key apparatus in insulating elite power, one can safely assume this is a deliberate omission rather than a simple oversight."

The Revolutionary Distemper in Syria That Wasn’t

"On top of this, Assad underscored his allegiance to socialist values against what Washington had once called the “moral imperative” of “economic freedom,” by writing social rights into the constitution: security against sickness, disability and old age; access to health care; and free education at all levels. ... If Assad was a neo-liberal, he certainly was one of the world’s oddest devotees of the ideology."