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Guest Commentator

Eric Mann

BlackCommenttor.com Guest Commentator

BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator Eric Mann, the director of the Labor/Community Strategy Center, is a veteran of the Congress of Racial Equality, Newark Community Union Project, Students for a Democratic Society, United Auto Workers, and League of Revolutionary Struggle. He is the author of Playbook for Progressives: 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer and the host of KPFK Pacifica's Voices from the Frontlines. For more information about his work and this period please visit the Eric Mann and Lian Hurst Mann archives at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Contact Mr. Mann or visit his blog (ericmannblog.blogspot.com).

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Guest Commentary

All Hail the Revolutionary MLK

By Eric Mann Guest Commentator

once again we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday and fight to protect his revolutionary legacy from Democratic Party white washers, including their cover-up of their treachery against him when he was alive.

On January 11, 2022 President Joe Biden made an impassioned speech in support of the Voting Rights Act and against the right-wing fascist take-over. It was…

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The Black Led “Defund the Police” Movement Wins Great Breakthrough in Los Angeles

By Eric Mann Guest Commentator

The police around the country are organizing a white and right backlash. The United States has more than 850,000 paid and armed police who, through police unions, police political associations and police contributions to and threats against elected officials are a political army to fight for police political power.

"Los Angeles Cuts School Police Budget by $25 million" June 30, 2020 L.A. Times Headline At 11 PM on Tuesday June 30—after 13 hours of public…

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Channing Martinez for L.A. City Council

By Eric Mann Guest Commentator

An experiment in Black, Latinx, Anti-Intervention, and Climate Justice Electoral Insurgency

On Super Tuesday, including the California Primary where Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and the others will top the ballot, further down the ballot is an important…

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All Hail the Revolutionary King

By Eric Mann Guest Commentator

One of King’s revolutionary observations– that is still painfully relevant today–was, “the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land.”

Every year, until The Revolution comes again, the Counter-revolution trots out the historic birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King as their symbol of Black "integration" into…

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Sports and Revolution – Trust the N.Y. Knicks Black Braintrust

By Eric Mann Guest Commentator

let's enjoy what we have, in life and in basketball— and support the Black Brain Trust. Don't any of us have real jobs that we are supposed to be doing? I know I do. How about focusing on our own work and life goals and let the Black Brain Trust do their job with our full support and appreciation.

Hey Knicks haters, Knicks doubters, Knicks fellow sufferers AKA fans. We have had plenty to feel bad about over the decades. But don't be a loser.…

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All Hail the Revolutionary King – Dr. Martin Luther King and the Black Revolutionary Tradition

By Eric Mann Guest Commentator

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the great revolutionaries in U.S. and world history. He was a leader of the Civil Rights and Black Liberation Movement, a fierce internationalist, anti-imperialist, and Pan Africanist, a Black militant, pro-communist socialist, and part of The Movement that was far to the left of and in opposition to the Democratic Party.

The annual King Day celebrations provide a great opportunity to defend Dr. King's revolutionary legacy against The System's efforts to white wash and degrade his frontal…

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The Historic 1968 Struggle Against Columbia University

By Eric Mann Guest Commentator

How a Black United Front in Harlem, the Students’ Afro American Society, and Students for a Democratic Society took on the Columbia University Ruling Class, Mayor John Lindsay, the New York Times, the NYPD—and won!

- V.I. Lenin The Columbia University Struggle of 1968, 50 years ago, was in fact a Struggle against Columbia University—as a ruling class slumlord, a racist…

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The Centrality of Palestine – Sanders Moderate Decency Exposes Clinton’s Brutal Xenophobia

By Eric Mann Guest Commentator

Sanders documents the unbearable poverty that Israel, one of the richest and most conspicuous consumption nations in the world, is imposing on the Palestinians. How sad, if transparent, that in front of AIPAC, Secretary Clinton compared herself to a war-hawk who tried to seize the Suez Canal, undermine the self-determination of Egypt, and threaten to provoke a world war.

Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN Resolution 194.” The BDS call was…

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