The Colours of Resistance Archive is a collection of analysis and tools for liberatory organizing and movement-building.

Author: SpencerMann

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Identity Politics and Essentialism

This essay appears in Post Colonial Anarchism: Essays on race, repression and culture in communities of color 1999-2004. Access the complete book here Is anyone who has ever defined their political work through a social category historically associated with inferiority … Continue reading

Where was the Color in Seattle?: Looking for reasons why the Great Battle was so white.

This article was originally published in ColorLines (Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2000). “I was at the jail where a lot of protesters were being held and a big crowd of people was chanting ‘This Is What Democracy Looks Like!’ … Continue reading

India, the WTO and capitalist globalization

BHOPAL, INDIA, January 13, 2000 – Mike Moore, the shell-shocked Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is visiting India this week to meet with “top officials and business leaders”. It’s all part of a concerted attempt at damage control … Continue reading

Globalism and Race at A16 in D.C.

This article was originally published in ColorLines (Volume 3, Number 3, Fall 2000). Last year’s World Trade Organization (WTO) shutdown in Seattle was a historic moment for the growing U.S. movement against corporate globalization. However, the Seattle actions, dazzling as … Continue reading

States of Unrest: Resistance to IMF policies in poor countries

View summary below or click here for a link to the full text. Summary Claims by James Wolfensohn, Horst Köhler, and the Western media that protests against the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank are led by students and anarchists … Continue reading

Rethinking the China Campaign

First published in New Labor Forum (Fall/Winter 2000) On May 24, 2000, the American labor movement suffered a significant defeat in their attempt to block Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status for China. The House of Representatives voted 237-197 to … Continue reading

Aryan Politics & Fighting the W.T.O.

This article appears courtesy of Anti-Fascist Forum and Kersplebedeb. Don’t watch the light, watch the cars. Light ain’t going to hit you.” -Moms Mabley There’s been an illusion that opposing the WTO is by its very nature a left issue. … Continue reading

Finding Hope After Seattle: Rethinking Radical Activism and Building a Movement

Just over a year ago thousands of us were preparing for an uncertain showdown with global capital in Seattle. Yet we barely realized that we were about to initiate some of the most successful protests in recent U.S. history. Indeed, … Continue reading

Redefining Success: White Contradictions in the Anti-Globalization Movement

In the growing resistance to capitalism within the United States, many white activists consider Seattle as the ‘beginning of a movement’, and gauge anti-capitalist work using Seattle as the measuring stick. As the U.S. anti-globalization movement continues to build steam, … Continue reading

Combatting white supremacy in the anti-globalization movement

The anti-globalization movement has been vibrant in communities and organizations of color in the US and around the world for hundreds of years, and yet white supremacy was rampant in the movement against the WTO ministerial meetings in Seattle. In … Continue reading

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