Yusuf Serunkuma Yusuf Serunkuma slams the cowardice of intellectuals today, who display self-censorship and contentment with the status quo, in contrast with an earlier generation of activists and subaltern scholars. Serunkuma argues that this did not happen overnight, rather it has taken years of manufacturing conformity and consent. There is a less discussed component about…
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Why I’m Pro-Russia & Pro-Rage Against the War Machine: Anti-Imperialists Can’t Win with Idealism
Rainer Shea When somebody rejects all of the practical paths towards fighting imperialism and class exploitation, on the basis that they feel we should be taking a purer path, then you had better make sure this other path is viable. If it’s not viable, and they’re saying this simply to complain rather than to offer…
Africans in the US are a Colonized People: A Comment on the Indictment of the African People’s Socialist Party
Ajamu Baraka Paul Robeson subpoena to appear before HUAC Red Scares, McCarthyism, COINTELPRO, “Black Identity Extremists” are all indicative of how the colonized are treated by the state. “America is just as much a colonial power as England ever was…what do you call second-class citizenship? Why, that’s colonization. Second-class citizenship is nothing but 20th (century)…
Left Sectarian Attacks on Rage Against the War Machine Enabled the Indictments of Black Communists
Rainer Shea When Marxists Speak Out wrote their recent May Day statement The Escalation of the World War Danger and the Need for a New Communist International, they were prompted to respond to a bit of drama. Not drama that they or the others in their principled anti-imperialist tendency were at all responsible for, but drama that…
Is This Man a Russian Agent Operating in the Black Community of St. Louis?
Jeremy Kuzmarov Omali Yeshitela The Justice Department has just indicted him and three other members of the African People’s Socialist Party for advancing Russian propaganda—though it looks more like the Biden administration was looking for a scapegoat to justify its anti-Russia offensive and found one in a familiar place. On April 18, the Department of…
What Parenti Warned Against: Making Workers’ Unity Impossible by Fixating on Their Racial Differences
Rainer Shea …the most advanced segment of the workers, the ones with an anti-imperialist consciousness, have been building an anti-NATO movement. That this movement hasn’t exclusively been on the left is seen as offensive by the ABC leftists. But having a multi-tendency antiwar coalition is a healthy thing… When Michael Parenti polemicized against what he called the…
Anti-Opportunism Today Looks Like Siding with Russia, China, & U.S. Imperialism’s Other Enemies
Rainer Shea To find the real masses, the types who join a movement not for aesthetics but out of desire to win the struggle, look for which types of people have gravitated towards the anti-NATO movement. Liberals have not been the most inclined to join this movement, especially not the most serious element of it…
McCarthyism Resurges: Radical U.S.-Based Organizations Condemn U.S. Indictments of African People’s Socialist Party Members
Julie Varughese Attendees of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) Plenary 2017. In the front row includes recently indicted defendants Gazi Kodzo (first from left with fist on chest) and Omali Yeshitela (third from left with red beret) / credit: The Burning Spear Activists on the left, as well as radical U.S.-based organizations, came out yesterday…
Indictment of African People’s Socialist Party is a Racist Assault on the Black Liberation Movement
The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) unequivocally condemns and opposes the recent indictment of four members of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP), alongside three Russian nationals. The unsealed indictment states that on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, a federal grand jury in Tampa, Florida, levied charges of “conspiring to covertly sow discord in U.S. society,…
The “Left”: Revolutionary vs “Infantile Disorder”
Rainer Shea Degrowth, Drug Fetishism, & “Anti-Colonialism” Are Used as Weapons Against the Revolutionary Cause Even if a communist can colloquially describe themselves as being on the left, there’s a distinction between communism and “the left.” This is implied right in the title of Lenin’s Left-Wing Communism: an Infantile Disorder. Whereas the left, a big tent…
Canada: RCMP Targets Québec Chinese Community Associations with Baseless Electoral Manipulation Claims
Daniel Xie On March 9, 2023, it was reported that the RCMP had launched an investigation into suspected “police stations” operated by the Chinese government in the province of Quebec. organization. The RCMP claimed to have received 15 tips that allegedly confirmed the presence of Chinese police stations in Montreal. It is suspected by the…
What is Really Going on with Lula?
What is Really Going on w/ Lula? Breaking down the facts, the lies, good & bad plus the Truth About Human Rights Nicaragua. Camila Escalante & Teri Mattson Rumble https://t.co/8rUGCW3tzi — Fiorella Isabel (@FiorellaIsabelM) March 10, 2023 Latin American governments say they don’t want foreign governments intervening in their internal affairs. Impossible to take them…
Even After U.S. Empire’s Vileness is Exposed, its Agents Uphold the Cult of NATO
Rainer Shea There’s an explanation for why even after the United States has been exposed a thousand times over as a perpetrator of war crimes, and its ruling institutions have betrayed its own people by engineering horrors like the Ohio chemical spill, there are still actors who uphold the lies that let it continue committing…
Omali Yeshitela: NATO’s War in Ukraine Accelerates McCarthyism
Omali Yeshitela joins the program to discuss the FBI’s raid of African People Socialist Party institutions in July 2022 and what it means amid the ongoing NATO war in Ukraine. Join the rapid response to support the organization should indictments be handed over: https://handsoffuhuru.org/emergency-r… Omali Yeshitela: The U.S. Government Plans to Indict and Put Me…
USA: Will the Left Stand Up to the Deep State?
Christian Parenti The Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government—the so-called New Church Committee—is being cast by Democrats and most of the mainstream media as a batshit-crazy witch hunt: “the tinfoil hat” committee. The good news, however, is that the Democrats are not boycotting the committee. Nor can any of them be kicked…
The More the Class Conflict Escalates, the More Important Anti-Imperialist Principles Become
Rainer Shea Russell “Texas” Bentley “This war is not a war between Russians and Ukrainians,” says the Texan Russell Bentley in a documentary interview about why he came to help fight for the Russian side after 2014’s fascist U.S. coup in Ukraine. “It’s not a Ukrainian civil war, it’s really a war between good and evil. It’s…
Federal Bureau of Intimidation vs. International Solidarity: Interview with Omali Yeshitela (APSP) and Joe Iosbaker (FRSO)
Orinoco Tribune Last Friday, Orinoco Tribune had the honor of interviewing Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) in response to recent repression and intimidation tactics launched by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) against him, the APSP, and the Uhuru Movement. On July 29, 2022, the FBI raided Yeshitela’s residence in…
The Conformist Rebellion: Marxist Critiques of the Contemporary Left
Philipp Nolz Elena Louisa Lange and Joshua Pickett-Depaolis (eds) The Conformist Rebellion: Marxist Critiques of the Contemporary Left Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, 2022. 326 pp., £100.00 hb ISBN9781538160152 Already a century ago, political thinkers and philosophers were confronted with an apparent paradox: the failure of revolution. Just when the material conditions and the political organisations of the popular…
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