MOAB & the Apocalyptic Specter of Mutually Assured Destruction

The Imperial “Doctrine of Annihilation” Indigenous Action Network Regardless of justifications and legitimacy of targets, let’s not remove the dropping of the largest non-nuclear bomb in history from the context of the capacity and capability for violence that constitutes the existence of the so-called US. This “Mother Of All Bombs,” from the only country in…

The Black Messiah Movement

Minister Paul Scott Back during the Black Power Era, if you were down for the cause, people called you “aware.” In the Hip Hop Era, the term for being politically up to date was “conscious.” Now, with the Millennials, if you are in tune with what’s going on in the world, you are referred to…

Standing Rock: Snipers and Infiltrators Quashing Protests

By Joshua Frank The inner-workings and cost of the government’s militant and violent crackdown on peaceful Standing Rock protesters have been trickling in these past few months, yet it hasn’t received the headlines it all deserves. In March, MUCKROCK was provided with an unredacted look at Indiana’s Department of Homeland Security’s EMAC (Emergency Management Assistance Compact) operation at…

General Strike Keeps French Guiana Shut Down

General Strike Rocks French Guiana By G. Dunkel The French government has said openly that it won’t make any real concessions to the demands of those on general strike in Guiana, a territory on the northern coast of South America, whose quarter-million population is legally French. Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve claimed that the demands of…

History: How African Muslims “Civilized Spain”

Garikai Chengu For most of human history, northern Europe was a barbarian realm, to which it reverted with the fall of Rome. Muslim Moors from Africa civilized Spain. “In the 10th century, Cordoba was not just the capital of Moorish Spain but also the most important and modern city in Europe.” Moorish advances in science…

200 Years a Slave: The Buried History of Slavery in ‘Tolerant, Progressive’ Canada

“The history of Black people on this land — from enslavement to today — is that Black people are monitored. That’s the Canadian way.” – Desmond Cole. Almost three centuries ago, the city of Montreal blew up in flames. Houses, hospitals and hotels burned to crisp, leaving much of the city destroyed to nothing more…

El Salvador’s New Law Banning Mining is a Testament to Decades of Struggle

The victory belongs to the communities that have been engaged in local resistance movements, and to the organizations that have accompanied and supported them for years on the ground. It is a testament to decades of struggle. By Sandra Cuffe El Salvador is now the first country in the world with an all-out ban on…

As US Bombs Strike Syria, Western Anti-intellectual Media Side with Trump

The truth is, no matter who is in the White House, U.S. imperialism will continue to orient toward wars of conquest. Trump’s “anti-war” populist rhetoric was demagogy to drum up support for his reactionary agenda.Now that Trump has openly attacked the Syrian government and Bashar al-Assad, Trump’s ruling-class “opposition” calls him “real president material” and…

Kagame’s Jobs Program: War

By Etienne Masozera The Rwandan political opposition coalition would like to condemn in the strongest terms possible the sickening cynicism of Rwandan Gen. Mubarak towards vulnerable people, like survivors of genocide, his sectarianism and incitement to hatred against survivors of genocide as well as the thinly veiled policy of regional destabilization and expansionist policies. On…

The Untold Story of the Black Radical Tradition in Canada

By Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali The Afro American Progressive Association (AAPA) was one of the first Black Power organizations in Canada. It was organized by Jose Garcia, Norman (Otis) Richmond and D. T. in Toronto in 1968. Their first public event was a commemoration of the assassination of Omowale El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X)….

Cheddi Jagan: The First Democratically Elected Marxist

Amílcar Sanatan Unlike most of the leaders of the Caribbean Left, Jagan long described himself as a Marxist and his ideologies grew with time. “This court is not interested in justice but in law but what I want to say is that justice has been dead in this country since the troops arrived here in…

Caribbean Reparations Movement Must Put Capitalism on Trial

Ajamu Nangwaya The struggle for reparations in the Caribbean should become a site of the class struggle and organizing the people for socialism or communism. Why is the reparations movement in the Anglophone Caribbean not putting capitalism on trial in its campaign to force British imperialism to provide financial compensation for its industrial and agricultural…

Peru: Victims of USAID-Funded Forced Sterilization Continue to Seek Justice

Tapestry of Suffering: Voices of Peru Forced Sterilization Victims Continue to Seek Justice Twenty-five years on from Fujimori’s coup in Peru, victims of state forced sterilizations use technology to make their voices heard. teleSUR “’How can you have so many children? You are like a guinea pig,’ they told me. ‘Do you have money to…

Cuban Youth, the Continuators of the Revolution

The Young Communist League (UJC), founded on April 4, 1962, has seen its membership increase. The organization currently has 300,752 affiliates and over 33,000 grassroots committees. It continues to respond to today’s challenges by calling for increased participation in its aim to represent all Cuban youth. Alejandra García | internet@granma.cu April 6, 2017 Young people…

The Timeless Legacy of Fidel Castro

To honour Fidel Castro means to continue his work of fighting imperialism and building socialism By Carlos Martinez Fidel Castro Alejandro Ruz will be forever remembered as the pre-eminent leader of the Cuban Revolution; its chief strategist and charismatic comandante; a deeply principled, courageous, compassionate and intelligent human being; a guerrilla and a statesman; a…

Chile’s Mapuche: ‘Our People Are Unstoppable’

Temuco, home to one of Chile’s largest Mapuche communities, has been the site of rising conflict between Indigenous resistance  and police. Recently-jailed members of Chile’s Indigenous Mapuche community released a statement Saturday celebrating ongoing campaigns against police terror and land privatization. Slamming the Chilean government, which they claim is “servile to the interests of transnational…

Haitian Cholera Victims Demand MINUSTAH’s Complete Departure, Reparations

Haiti Liberte On Mar. 29, 2017, the 30th anniversary of the popular referendum which adopted the 1987 Haitian Constitution, about 200 demonstrators rallied and marched from Port-au-Prince’s Champ de Mars to the Parliament to demand the immediate withdrawal of the United Nations Mission to Stabilize Haiti (MINUSTAH), reparations for the victims of MINUSTAH-imported cholera, and…

Cameroon Government Facing Growing Unrest

Young educators expand their strike amid conflict with former British colonial regions By Abayomi Azikiwe Internationalist 360° Teachers throughout the West African state of Cameroon have been striking and protesting against the non-payment of salaries. Younger educators who have begun their work within the last seven years are claiming they have never received a paycheck….

USM National Convention: White Solidarity with Black Power

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Feminist Activism and the Caribbean Academy

The Woman and Development Unit was central to the development of feminist activism in the Caribbean. By Amílcar Sanatan Feminism in the Caribbean was not an ideological import from the United States of America but a consciousness that emerged from women critical of gendered oppression and everyday injustices in their lives. This consciousness lent itself…

NATO’s Existence Remains a Perpetual Threat to All Humanity

With Trump in the White House, European leaders have appeared somewhat panicked regarding the future of the organization. However, we should not believe, for even a moment, that Trump would consider eliminating NATO, or doubt that there will be new military interventions in which its troops will participate. Elson Concepción Pérez | internet@granma.cu A kind…

The AFRICOM Snake Slithers into the Lake Chad Basin

Ever since NATO’s 2011 regime change in Libya, the U.S. military command, AFRICOM, has had free rein in most of the continent. Boko Haram “terrorism” provides an excuse to intervene, but AFRICOM’s real aim is to secure U.S. control of African economic resources. “It took only the suggestion of potential oil reserves to inspire a…

Oil Flows Through Dakota Access Pipeline

Editorial Comment: To understand why the pipeline has gone forward, read these revealing articles: All Eyes On Dakota Access – All Eyes Off Bakken Genocide Standing Rock: Profusion, Collusion and Big Money Profits Addendum to Standing Rock:Profusion, Collusion & Big Money Profits After months of fierce opposition from Native Americans and environmentalists, the controversial Dakota…

Attacks Against Venezuela Seek to Destroy Sovereignty and Democratic Model

Caracas, 28 Mar. AVN. The attacks and interventionist maneuvers conceived by external factors and supported by the national right, against the Venezuelan state have as their sole purpose to end the democratic model that seeks independence and self-determination of peoples, promoted by the Bolivarian Revolution, said Venezuela’s foreign minister Delcy Rodriguez on Monday. In her…

A Tribute to Warrior Sisters of the Revolution

Workers World Harriet Tubman served as a spy and a scout for the First South Carolina Volunteers, a regiment of escaped slaves in the Civil War. Transcribed from the March 22 taped message from Mumia Abu-Jamal “from inside Prison Nation,” recorded by Noel Hanrahan of prisonradio.org. March, we are told, is Women’s History Month. We…

How US Flooded the World with Psyops

Special Report: The mainstream U.S. media obsesses over Russian “propaganda” yet the U.S. government created a “psyops” bureaucracy three decades ago to flood the world with dubious information, reports Robert Parry. Robert Parry Newly declassified documents from the Reagan presidential library help explain how the U.S. government developed its sophisticated psychological operations capabilities that –…

Black Liberation: Interview with Ramona Africa

Lamont Lilly Part I: Ramona Africa Talks MOVE, Liberation and Surviving 1985 Bombing The U.S. freedom fighter discusses the history of MOVE and what it means to fight for liberation in part one of an exclusive interview. Former U.S. political prisoner, Ramona Africa, is the Minister of Communication for the MOVE Organization and a Philadelphia-based…

María Cristina Sotomayor: The “Grandmother” of People’s Power in Cuba

María Cristina Sotomayor, a founder of the first People’s Power bodies established in Cuba, inspires in her constituents the idea that any difficulty can be overcome with the participation of all. Ventura de Jesús Garcia | ventura@granma.cu María Cristina Sotomayor, a founder of the first People’s Power bodies established in Cuba, inspires in her constituents…

Black Liberation: A Hemispheric Task

By George Ciccariello-Maher Between Black America and Latin America, political differences and distances are often overstated, fragmenting the unity of political struggles in the process. Too often, the legacies of chattel slavery, on the one hand, and settler colonialism, on the other, are considered radically distinct, the gulf between the two experiences insurmountable. But if…

Ethiopia: Regime Repression the Modus Operandi Under its US Handlers

US lawmakers, scholars, and rights groups say it is time for a change in US Policy By Sophia Tesfamariam Ethiopia is once again in deep crisis, threatening to implode under the weight of the regime’s diplomatic, economic, political and military corruption. After nationwide protests that lasted over a year, the regime imposed a draconian State…