“The revolution to be made in the United States,” Jimmy wrote, nearly 30 years before 9/11, “will be the first revolution in history to require the masses to make material sacrifices rather than to acquire more material things. We must give up many of the things which this country has enjoyed at the expense of damning over one third of the world into a state of underdevelopment, ignorance, disease and early death.” Until that takes place, “this country will not be safe for the world and revolutionary warfare on an international scale against the United States will remain the wave of the present.” Grace Lee Boggs’ talk at this year’s Left Forum.

Corvin is an activist and writer based in Toronto. Currently he is working on the Environmental Justice Organizing Initiative to help build an organized movement on climate change rooted in a class, race, anti-colonial, and gender analysis. Read other posts by Corvin Russell.