Voices from West Baltimore in the Wake of the 2015 Rebellion and Bourgeois State Intervention by Kilmor In the summer of 2018, a mixture of communists and those interested in walking the revolutionary road traveled from a handful of cities across North America to meet in downtown Baltimore, Maryland for an intensive three-day social investigationContinue reading “The Tinderbox and the Tourniquet”
Category Archives: social investigation / class analysis
A call for communist social investigation a year after the summer of rebellion
Issue #4 Editorial By the kites Editorial Committee (April 2020) Opportunities missed, claimed, and coming Over the past year and change, a rapid succession of crises have gripped North America. The pandemic has brought premature death to over half a million people and the agonizing pain of losing loved ones to so many more. AllContinue reading “A call for communist social investigation a year after the summer of rebellion”
When We Ride On Our Enemies
by Kenny Lake (First published Sep 2017) When we ride on our enemies is the third part in the four-part series The Specter that Still Haunts. Part four will appear in kites #4. Originally written in 2015 and published in Uprising (which was a theoretical organ of Revolutionary Initiative’s), the whole series can be foundContinue reading “When We Ride On Our Enemies”
Catching Fire
Participant Reflections on the Summer of Protest and Rebellion by a reader of kites The interviews in this article were conducted in the summer of 2020. Click here for a printable PDF of this article. Author’s note: As a reader of kites, I’ve been inspired by the guidance and leadership your journal provides to conductContinue reading “Catching Fire”
