Bring the Ruckus is pleased to announce the launching of our new web site at
BTR is a revolutionary organization dedicated to the building of a free society through the struggle against white supremacy. One of BTR's objectives is to build a strong revolutionary pole in today's politic. The new web site is designed to help that goal. People who have visited our old site will notice several changes, in addition to a totally new look and design.
Radical politics are in a difficult place nowadays. The political spectrum is filled by conservatism, liberalism, and fundamentalism, and not much else. Even what passes for left politics today is basically just a couple steps away from the Democratic Party, obsessed with opposing Bush, reconciled to capitalism, and unable to spell out a vision of what a radically democratic society would look like. In a way, the situation of radicals is similar to that of conservatives in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Conservatives then were discredited due to McCarthyism and had little space in the political spectrum, squeezed between welfare liberalism and the rising radicalism of the Black movements. In this climate, William F. Buckley started the National Review magazine to be an intellectual center of conservatism,
dedicated to carving space for it in the short-term and to plotting for power in the long-term.
The BTR web site is intended to contribute toward the development of a radical politics and strategy for the long term. The site will be updated every 2-3 weeks and will include:
* current analysis of national and world events * in-depth articles on particular struggles, especially anti-police and anti-prison struggles (BTR's two main areas of political work) * updates and happenings of the Bring the Ruckus organization * key documents and information regarding BTR * flames and diatribes against the powers that be
Materials posted won't necessarily align exactly with BTR's politics or be exclusively written by BTR members, but will cover issues and ideas that we think are important for the development of a revolutionary American politics.
IN THIS ISSUE: * "A Three-Cornered Fight: Tasks of Revolutionaries in the 21st Century" by the 2003 Coordinating Committee of BTR "The new global conflict between liberal capitalism and religious fundamentalism has no space set out for a 'left' or for anyone who seeks a world without oppression and the domination of capital. It has no room for those who want everyone to have a say in those affairs that affect their daily life. We must carve that space out..."
* "Bring the Ruckus" by the Phoenix Ruckus collective The original statement, written in 2001, that brought together BTR as a national organization
* "A Revolutionary Left" by the Sojourner Truth Organization "The overriding tendency of the US left, cutting across what appear to be insurmountable organizational barriers, is towards centrism and away from its function as a genuine left providing to the best of its ability an alternative to all forms and alternatives of capitalist power. ... This situation requires the development of a left-tendency, willing to function as a left, but avoiding any messianic sense of its own 'vanguard' character..."
We encourage you to give the new site a look when you get a chance.
If you would like to receive emails every time we update our web site (approximately every 2-3 weeks), send your request to ruckus at agitatorindex.org.
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