We created this podcast in recognition that there are a number of podcasts for the American “left,” but many of them focus heavily on the organizing of social democrats, progressives, and liberal democrats. Aside from that, on the left we are always fighting a war of ideas and if we do not continue to build platforms to share those ideas and the stories of their implementation from a leftist perspective, they will continue to be ignored, misrepresented, and dismissed by the capitalist media and as a result by the general public. Our goal is to provide a platform for communists, anti-imperialists, Black Liberation movements, ancoms, left libertarians, LBGTQ activists, feminists, immigration activists, and abolitionists to discuss radical politics, radical organizing and share their visions for a better world. Our goal is to center organizers who represent and work with marginalized communities building survival programs, defense programs, political education, and counterpower. We also plan to bring in perspectives on and from the global south to highlight anti-capitalist struggles outside the imperial core...
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episode 100: The Struggle Is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation with Joseph R. Fitzgerald
In this interview we talk to Joseph R. Fitzgerald, associate professor of history and political science at Cabrini University and author of The Struggle Is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation. Perhaps most known today as the subject of an iconic photo where she pushes away a bayonet and stares down the national guardsman whose wielding it, Gloria Richardson was a dynamic leader of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee.
We talk to Dr. Fitzgerald about Ms. Richardson’s life, her time at Howard University, and her leadership in the Cambridge Movement. We also talk about her relationship to Malcolm X and other prominent figures in the Black Liberation Movement, and her role in the development of Black Power politics. Fitzgerald also talks about Ms. Richardson’s thoughts on electoralism, cooptation, and her experience at the March on Washington.
Ms. Richardson turned 99 years old earlier this month, and along with Dr. Fitzgerald’s biographic commentary we’ve weaved in some brief excerpts from an interview she gave several years ago. A link to that interview is found in the show notes, and we encourage folks to also seek out interviews with her and read The Struggle Is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation, which provides a deep exploration of her life, her organizing and her political thought.
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