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Decolonization FotB Podcast Social Justice

Scurvy December 2, 2022December 2, 2022 critical race theory, CRT, decolonization, FA1, family, FotB, Friends of the Blog, genocide, identity theft, Indigenous culture, Indigenous genealogy, Indigenous thought, JA5, Justice, Kim TallBear, Land Back, Mi'kmaq, Pam Palmater, Podcast, pretendians, race shifting, Racism, racist cosplay, Scurvy, Scurvy's Selection, settler colonialism, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, Social Justice, systemic racism, Warrior Life, WD7, white supremacy, whiteness

Scurvy’s Selection: Pam Palmater and Kim Tallbear talk Pretendians on “Warrior Life”

In this Selection, Scurvy loops back to talk about how stolen Indigenous identity fits into an ongoing pattern of genocide; featuring the Warrior Life podcast.

Social Justice Social Media Theory Videos

NinaIllingworth November 1, 2021September 1, 2023 1492 Land Back Lane, against white supremacy, anti-racism, anticapitalism, antifascism, Caleb Maupin, capitalism and white supremacy, casual white supremacy, colonialism, colonialism and genocide, debate bros, debate culture, decolonization, Eurocentrism, FA1, fascism and colonialism, faux left, film sessions, Frantz Fanon, genocide, Indigenous Land Rights, Indigenous Sovereignty, Jimmy Dore, John The Duncan, Land Back, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Peter Coffin, Racism, Raphael Lemkin, resisting genocide. capitalism and colonialism, reverse racism myth, settler colonialism, Social Justice, social media, ST2, Theory, Vaush, Video, WD7, white genocide conspiracy theory, white grievance, white supremacy, whiteness, Youtube, YouTube left

Film Sessions: Beefing with White Supremacy in Online Left Spaces

Our monthly Film Sessions feature is back; today Nina is exploring an online cracker backlash to decolonization movements, using a video by John the Duncan.

FotB Social Justice socialism Walker

NinaIllingworth June 2, 2021November 5, 2022 1776 Report, activism, Alex Ingram, Amy Donofrio, anti-blackness, Black Lives Matter, BLM, CA4, capitalism and racism, capitalism and white supremacy, Chris Walker, Confederacy, Confederate iconography, Confederate symbols, critical race theory, cultural hegemony, Deyona Burton, direct action, DSA, FA1, fascism, Florida, George Floyd, George Floyd Protests, IWW, Jacksonville, Jim Crow, Klu Klux Klan, MP6, Nathan B. Forrest, Racism, revolution, revolutionary praxis, Riverside High School, Robert E Lee, Robert E Lee High School, Ron DeSantis, social inequality, Social Justice, Socialism, solidarity, ST2, Teen Vogue, Temitope Oriola, trauma, Walker, Wayne Flynt, white nationalism, white supremacist terrorism, white supremacy, whiteness

A Heritage, of Hate by Chris Walker

IWW organizer Chris Walker returns to talk about how the fight to change school names in Florida is a continuation of our larger battle against white supremacy.

Blog FotB Site Updates socialism

NinaIllingworth May 12, 2021November 5, 2022 a business designed to lose money, A Little Help From My Friends, anarchism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, Announcement, anti-racism, anticapitalism, antifascism, blogging, burning money, capitalism, Chris Walker, class consciousness, class war, content notice, critical theory, critical thinking, decolonization, Facebook, FotB, Friends of the Blog, hot take economy, intersectionality, IWW, JA5, labor class, labor class content, left wing politics, left wing theory, leftism, Marxism, more articles, more content, MP6, new writers, NIDC Project, Nina Illingworth, sharing, Site Updates, social media, solidarity, ST2, the dark art of outrage clicks, the tyranny of rent, Twitter, volume posting, whiteness

Getting By With A Little Help From My Friends

After five long years of trying to go it alone on my eponymously named website, I’m finally in a position to compensate some Friends of the Blog to help produce more content; find out more inside.

Fascism Media Madness Social Justice Videos

NinaIllingworth April 19, 2021November 5, 2022 1619 Project, American exceptionalism, Amerikan Musik, anti-blackness, antisemitism, bad scholarship, Charlie Kirk, Cultural Marxism, Donald Trump, early American history, FA1, fascism, film sessions, Founding Fathers, Hooverism, ideological justification for fascism, JA5, legacy of slavery, lie, McCarthyism, Media Madness, MP6, mythology, News, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, patriotism, patriotism is fascism when it smiles, Racism, revisionist history, right wing conspiracy theories, selective quotations, Shaun Vids, Skull Boy, slavery, slavery apologia, Social Justice, ST2, the 1776 Commission Report, Trumpism, Video, white nationalism, white supremacy, whiteness, writing Black people out of history

Film Sessions: the 1776 Commission Report and Cultural Marxism

Our latest Film Sessions post on Media Madness features YouTuber Shaun, the 1776 Report, and Trump’s parting attempt to re-create Hooverism in America.

Blog Books Can't You Read Fascism Reviews

NinaIllingworth April 18, 2021November 17, 2022 American Civil War, American history, anti-brown racism, anti-Mexican racism, Book Blog, book review, Books, Can't You Read, colonialism, crackers, Donald Trump, ecofascism, exploitation, FA1, fascism, Frederick Jackson Turner, genocide, Greg Grandin, History, immigration, Imperialism, JA5, Jim Crow, Latin America, manifest destiny, Mass incarceration, Migrant Rights, migrants, Monroe Doctrine, MP6, nativism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, police state, Politics, Racism, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Reviews, settler colonialism, slavery, ST2, the American Revolution, the border, the border wall, The End of the Myth, the Frontier Myth, the Frontier Thesis, the New Forever War, the thirteen colonies, the War On Terror, Trump's wall, Trumpism, WD7, white supremacy, whiteness

Book Blog: The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin

Book Blog featuring a review & analysis of Greg Grandin’s “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America” on Can’t You Read.

Media Madness News Social Justice Videos

NinaIllingworth April 3, 2021November 5, 2022 African Americans, American racism, anticapitalism, capitalism, capitalism is racism, Charles Mills, class and race, colonialism, critical race theory, Du Bois, Emerican Johnson, FA1, film sessions, identity politics, intersectionality, JA5, left wing theory, left wing Youtube, Marxist analysis, Media Madness, MP6, News, Nina Illingworth, NonCompete, Offsite Writing, Peggy McIntosh, power dynamics, racialization, Racism, Reviews, Robin DiAngelo, Sara Ahmed, settler colonialism, social hierarchies, Social Justice, Sociology, ST2, systemic analysis, Theory, Tom Nicholas, Video, What The Theory, white as default, white supremacy, white supremacy and capitalism are a pair, whiteness, whiteness is invisible to many white people

Film Sessions: Digging Up Roots on Media Madness

Our Film Sessions feature is back; Nina looks at the concept of “whiteness” with a little help from What the Theory’s Tom Nicholas, over on Media Madness.

Fascism Personal Site Updates Social Media

NinaIllingworth February 21, 2021November 5, 2022 A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Amerikan Musik, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, antifascism, Boogaloo Boys, Books, Canada in the World, class reductionism, class war, communism, contrarian left, David Harvey, democratic socialism, extremely online wankers, FA1, Facebook, fascism, fascism is a bourgeoisie plot, fascism is about destroying the labor class, fascism is antisocialist, Gerald Horne, Glenn Greenwald, informal writing, JA5, Jimmy Dore, Journals, left right alliance, Matt Stoller, Matt Taibbi, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, online discourse, Pacifism As Pathology, personal, reactionary thought, revolution, revolutionary praxis, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Second Tier Faux Left Influencers, settler colonialism, Site Updates, social media, Socialism, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism, Tyler Shipley, Ward Churchill, whiteness, writing schedule

Facebook Update: Alive, Antifascist, and Irritable

A brief update on how I’m doing, what I’m reading, and why your friends online are kind of trash.

Can't You Read Social Justice socialism Theory

NinaIllingworth December 24, 2020November 5, 2022 analysis, anti-racism, antifa, Assata Shakur, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Can't You Read, class, class war, coalition building, critical race theory, democratic socialism, Denise DaSilva, diverse coalitions, Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Emma Goldman, Essays, FA1, identity politics, JA5, James Baldwin, labor class, leftism, Malcolm X, marginalized leftists, Michelle Alexander, MLK, MP6, Nell Irvin Painter, neofeudalism, neoliberal identity politics, neoliberal multiculturalism, neoliberalism, non white leftists, Offsite Writing, Op-Ed, Opinion, organizing, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Social Justice, Socialism, ST2, The Black Panthers, the Invention of the White Race, the labor class left, the Sanders left, Theodore Allen, Theory, WD7, weaponized identity politics, WEB Du Bois, whiteness

Essay: On Whiteness, Identity Politics & the Pig Empire Left (Link)

A longer, heavily sourced essay about why vast portions of the labor class left need to get over their reactionary ideas about what identity politics actually means; before history and shifting demographics leave them behind.

Blog media Media Madness Reviews Videos

NinaIllingworth December 22, 2020November 5, 2022 asylum seekers, BBC, blog, by the rich for the richer, capitalism, colonialism, corporate media, cultural studies, demonizing migrants, Edward Herman, Fantastic Lies, far right, film sessions, for profit media, forever war, hate groups, immigration, manufacturing consent, Marxist analysis, Media, media analysis, media bias, Media Madness, migrant caravan, migrant crisis, Migrant Rights, MP6, nationalism, nationalism leads to fascism, nativism, Newsnight, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, Offsite Writing, pig empire, Propaganda, pushing hate, Racism, refugees, Reviews, right wing fearmongering, selling hate for clicks, Sociology, ST2, Stuart Hall, the propaganda model, Tom Nicholas, Video, What The Theory, white supremacy, whiteness

Film Sessions: the Myth of a Free Press on Media Madness

A December 2020 Film Sessions post about Tom Nicholas’s excellent video “The Myth of a Free Press” that leans more towards the review side of the equation.

Patreon Social Justice socialism Theory

NinaIllingworth December 20, 2020November 5, 2022 Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, antifa, antifascism, austerity, backlash, Black Lives Matter, Covid 19, Democratic Party, democratic socialism, DSA, Energy and Commerce Committee, Essays, FA1, how to build power, Ilhan Omar, informal writing, Jimmy Dore, lay siege to the government, Medicare for all, Medicare for All floor vote, MP6, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, organization, organizing, organizing strategy, Patreon, Patreon Blog, Politics, Protest, reactionary, rigged oligarchy, Social Justice, social media, Socialism, ST2, The Squad, Theory, Un-Civil War, uprising, white lash, whiteness

Essay: Organize or Die (Link)

A lengthy informal essay about the importance of organizing a three tiered societal movement around a radical left wing program.

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