A slide with a red background and white text that reads “Luigi Mangione, Giuseppe Zangara, and the Forgotten History of Italian American Radicalism by Sonia C. Gomez” with a short description that reads “Tracing the long 20th century history of Italian American radicalism through Giuseppe Zangarw and Luigi Mangione, Gomez illuminates their connections through their twinned disillusionment with capitalism and political resistance borne from chronic pain.” Accompanied by a black-and-white collage from left to right Giuseppe Zangara in prisoner uniform, Luigi Mangione in prisoner uniform surrounded by police escorts, and a Giuseppe Zangara portrait with three other men and a looping white arrow behind to point at the body text.
A slide with a red background and a photograph from the Black Freedom Studies speaker series at Schomburg Center with four people seated on stage in the center with audience members in the foreground. The white text reads “State Violence and the Black Freedom Struggle by Lucien Baskin” and description “As part of Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) hosted by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Lucien Baskin interviews Mary Frances Phillips, Françoise Hamlin, and Orisabmi Burton for an event on State Violence: Prisons, Police, Politics.”
A slide with a red background and a poster in red, gray, white, and black depicting a woman with her arms in chains breaking free surrounded by other revolutionary women and text reading “Hail To the Working and Struggling Women of the World.” The white text on the slide below reads “Radical Iranian Theory and Praxis Microsyllabus by Tagereh Aghdasifar, Arash Davari, Alexander Jabbari, Amira Jarmakani, and Goonar Nikpour” and a description reading “Spanning Iranian revolutions and revolutionary thought, carcerality, sociality, movement building, and the development of critical SWANA studies/Ethnic Studies, this micro syllabus facilitates engagement with radical Iranian thought instead of provincializing such work as area studies or even “counter-terrorism” studies.”
A slide with a red background and a color photograph depicting a line of NYPD amassing to crack down on the International Women’s Day Global Strike for Gaza standing along the shoulder of a city street as passerby walk in front of them. Below, white text reads “Policing Solidarity: Lessons from the Drug War by Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot” and a short summary ”By linking drug policing to the repression of the Palestine solidarity movement in Turtle Island, Eisenberg-Guyot enumerates how the specific mechanisms and tactics of the drug war inform and reify U.S. settler-colonial, imperialist, and racial capitalist interests domestically and abroad.”
It would be an understatement to say 2025 so far has been difficult in the midst of political uncertainty and mounting assaults against our most vulnerable. Throughout this time, the Digital Collective has remained steadfast in our commitment to publish critical work and offers these pieces… /1