Needs to also be pointed out that like Occupy, the Ferguson and Baltimore Rebellions, and the West Virginia teachers strikes - the current revolts aren't being led by activists, non-profits, political parties, unions or protest organization - they're spreading...

...largely because they haven't been strangled by the official + bureaucratic Left. This is truly an organic proletarian expression against anti-Blackness + white supremacy, but also against the daily realities of working-class life for young people in capitalist civilization...

...thus, just as the wildcat strikes exploded because they were able to constitute their own power outside of the bureaucracy of the DNC aligned unions, so to has this new wave of popular resistance been able to grow outside of what we generally understand to be 'the Left'...

...and we must keep in mind there are lots of people who have jobs connected with the Democrats and "official" Left organizations that would love to turn any sort of revolutionary horizon into simply another four years of neoliberalism in the White House...

...above all, older folks have a responsibility to support the youth on the front lines who are literally facing down the military. This world gave them nothing but police, prisons, pipelines, and Pepe the Frog memes and collectively they have chosen to set it on fire. Thank god.

There were lots of arrests tonight. People are going to need money. Things may slow down in the streets - or they may continue to explode. Regardless, the day to day mutual aid organizing, rent strikes, abolitionist work, and labor battles all around are going full steam ahead...

...this moment shows what we've always argued, that there is a mass of poor and working people who are ready to get engaged in revolutionary street/community action that are neither part of the established activist Left or sucked into the fading Trump subculture...

...it's going to be a hot summer and we have no idea where this wave will take us or how far it will go. Fuck the boogaloo, for a block party without beginning or end.