Last Saturday, Charlottesville’s Black history museum melted down the statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. The statue had been a rallying point for fascists, including the "Unite the Right" rally in 2017 during which one of them murdered Heather Heyer and grievously injured many others.

For years, anti-racists had fruitlessly requested the removal of Confederate statues around the country. Far-right politicians responded with laws making it illegal to remove them. Only after anarchists and other abolitionists used illegal direct action to pull down statues—starting in Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina and spreading all around the United States—were liberal politicians forced to remove some of the statues that remained.

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The struggle against white supremacy continues. Direct action plays an essential role.

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"Before our white brothers came to make us civilised people, we had no prisons of any kind. Therefore, there were no criminals with us. Without prisons, there can be no criminals. We had no locks and keys and therefore there were no thieves among us.

If someone was so poor that he could not afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he got everything as a gift. We wer"e too uncivilised to attach much importance to private property.

We did not know money, and consequently a person's worth was not determined by his wealth. We had no written laws, no lawyers, no politicians, so we could not cheat ourselves or each other.

We were in a very bad state before the whites came, and I don't know how we can explain how we got along without these basic things that we are told are so necessary for a civilised society."

John (Fuego) Lame Deer (in Lakota: Tȟáȟča Hušté), Sioux Lakota 1903-1976