The sickening images of children cruelly separated from their parents and held in cages as a result of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ policy of ‘zero-tolerance’ will leave an indelible stain on the reputation of the USA, said Amnesty International today. “This is a spectacularly cruel policy, where frightened children are being ripped from their parent’s…
Category: RACISM
The Defeat of US Imperialism is a Strategic Necessity for the Liberation of Humanity
Danny Haiphong “Anti-colonial nationalism is the antithesis of US imperial rule, which is predicated to the unmitigated corporate and military plunder of the planet.” Many in the United States have a hard time seeing beyond single issues or individuals. The ruling class has taken full advantage by relegating the blame for the problems of US…
Libya: Shameful EU Policies Fuel Surge in Detention of Migrants and Refugees
A surge in migrants and refugees intercepted at sea by the Libyan authorities has seen at least 2,600 people transferred, in the past two months alone, to squalid detention centres where they face torture and extortion. The global human rights organisation accuses European governments of complicity in these abuses by actively supporting the Libyan authorities…
Pan-Africanism: The Real Afro-Futurism
A-APRP Members and others in Oakland, U.S. in front of mural of Huey Newton Black Panthers and Africa “I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.” Kwame Nkrumah “The fortunes of the African revolution are closely linked with the world-wide struggle against imperialism. It does not matter…
White Guilt and Third Worldism: An Infantile Disorder
Mond Like white-chauvinism, white-guilt is one of the twin blades of white supremacy. White guilt differs from white-chauvinism in a sense that it can be considered the polar opposite of its more forward and aggressive counterpart (although the two are not mutually exclusive and white-guilt often manifests itself in the most chauvinistic of ways). Some…
Necropolitics is at the Center of Migration Policies
Juan Hernández Zubizarreta Internationalist 360° Refugees and migrants are being left to die in the Mediterranean and are abandoned in the Sahara desert. This is necropolítics in action. Javier de Lucas believes that necropolítics is a “conception of politics in which the lives of others are the object of calculation and therefore lack intrinsic value…
