A continuation of the #OmaliTaughtMe special series: A discussion with Chairman Omali Yeshitela, ASI Secretary General Luwezi Kinshasa, and representatives from the Mexican liberation organization Union del Barrio, defining the struggle for African and Mexican people as a struggle against colonialism, not racism. Join the African People’s Socialist Party: APSPUhuru.org
Category: RACISM
Anti- Racism and Anti- Colonialism: An Open Letter to My Black Kin
K.D. Wilson Image description — Black and white photo with a fist raised in the Black Power salute. Some words in white lettering are laid over it, from Ashanti Alston, which read: “I think of being Black not so much as an ethnic category but as an oppositional force or touchstone for looking at situations differently. Black…
The Responsibility to Protect? Bipartisan Crimes Against Humanity in the U.S.
Ajamu Baraka The US committed crimes against humanity by creating the conditions that led to sickness and death for vulnerable sectors of the U.S. population “Police killings and impunity are part of a pattern of racist human rights abuses.” Hundreds of people are unnecessarily dying every day with African Americans representing a disproportionate number of…
Socialism and Dignity: We Don’t Need Their Cops
Stephen Millies When the Pilgrims invaded the Wampanoag nation in the 1620s, they didn’t find any police or jails. Such cruelty wasn’t necessary. That’s because there were no rich or poor in Wampanoag society. A community of equals doesn’t need armed thugs with badges. Billionaires and banksters didn’t require protection since these parasites didn’t exist….
“I Can’t Breathe, Please, Please!”: The Martyrdom of George Floyd
Carla Stea Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or…
From Bristol to Boston to Hong Kong, the Statues of Colonizers and Racists Must Fall
Carlos Martinez Toppling the statues of colonialists and white supremacists is a matter of global resistance against oppression. From Bristol to Boston to Hong Kong, the statues of colonisers and racists must fall. On 7 June, during an anti-racist rally in Bristol (part of the global wave of protests in the aftermath of the police…
The People’s Uprising Against Racism in the United States
Claudia De la Cruz, Manolo De los Santos A massive rally in Philadelphia demanding justice for George Floyd. The accumulated frustrations of poor and black communities have overflowed in the form of protests across 200 cities in the United States. Hundreds of thousands of people have taken the streets in reaction to four centuries of…
Arundhati Roy: “Indian Racism Towards Black People is Almost Worse than White Peoples’ Racism”
Dalit Camera DC: How do we support the movement in the U.S. and how does one show solidarity with people protesting in India? I’m assuming that you mean the massive protests that have erupted over the cold-blooded killing of George Floyd—the latest in a series of killings of African Americans by white American police. I…
From Ferguson to Minneapolis: A Mural in Memory of Those Killed by Police and White Supremacy
To emphasize the artistic aspects of the uprising against police and white supremacy that has spread around the country from Minneapolis, we present a mural recording some of the names of the dead, which appeared immediately after the murder of George Floyd. Painted on the side of a derelict house in a St. Louis neighborhood…
The Conditions of Black Life Must Be Addressed if We Are to End Police Violence
IGD Riots do not come from nowhere. They are not just a response to individual acts of injustice. They emerge from immiserated lives of which the horrific moments of police violence, while a constant threat, are only the tip of the spear. It is therefore wrong to see the demonstrations, rioting and looting that have…
Nijmie Zakkiyah Dzurinko: “State Violence Has Many Fronts”
Protests are erupting in cities and towns across the US to demand justice for George Floyd and for other victims of police brutality, and calling for an end to racist police violence. Many have pointed out that the protests are not just about these latest acts of police violence, but in response to 400 years…
Civil Rights Groups Filed a Lawsuit Against US President and Others in His Administration
Peoples Dispatch Protesters outside the presidential residence, White House, were tear-gassed by security forces on June 1, Monday. (Photo: Redfish/Facebook) On June 4, Thursday, a lawsuit was filed against US president Donald Trump and other top officials of his administration over violence perpetrated by law enforcement agencies against protesters in the US capital, Washington D.C….
