On the Long Path to Reparations

Cira Pascual Marquina Jesús “Chucho” García is an intellectual and activist, and the author of several books, including Afrovenezolanidad e inclusión en el Proceso Bolivariano [Afro-Venezuelanness and Inclusion in the Bolivarian Process, 2018]. He is also a founder of the Network of Afro-Venezuelan Organizations and a member of the National Decolonization Commission. In this interview, García talks…

More than Mercenaries: Police as the Crucible of Fascism in the US

Comrade Dremel Fascism is ascendant in the imperial core. The U.S. and its junior partners are waging an increasingly bloody war on all fronts, in an attempt to bolster the decaying husk of capital. The foot soldiers in this war are the police. Armed to the teeth and trained to kill, police are positioned as…

Black Lives Remain in Danger Throughout the United States

Abayomi Azikiwe Lynnette Williams holds a sign during a gathering at Second Baptist Church in Akron, Ohio, calling for justice for Jayland Walker, July 2, 2022. (AP) Even after three years of mass demonstrations and urban rebellions in the United States, law-enforcement agencies and the entire legal system are still “justifying” the shooting deaths of…

Migration in Europe: Judging History Through the Eyes of the Present

Mabel LLevat How do we open the spaces through which the extreme right wing grows and expands? The refractory treatment of migrants is undoubtedly one of them. An overview of old technologies and new strategies of dehumanization. Many times the networks of activists and allies of the anti-racist struggle echo messages claiming the right of…

Racism in Tunisia Betrays the Legacy of Ahmed Ben Bella and Gamal Abdel Nasser

Phethani Madzivhandila A Pan-African struggle that includes Arab countries can only succeed by dismantling the idea that blackness is not indigenous to North Africa On 21 February 2023, Tunisian President Kais Saied convened a meeting of the National Security Council to take immediate action “to address the phenomenon of a large influx of irregular migrants…

Canada: Multiculturalism is Over as Sinophobia Returns

Justin Podur How a rogue spy and two reporters are breaking the fragile system for integrating immigrants Breaking Canada-China science connections as prologue The death throes of Canadian multiculturalism began on February 2023 over China-Canada science connections. Canada’s Innovation Minister said Canadian universities shouldn’t do research with China’s military, as 50 of them have since…

Black Alliance for Peace: Bulletin on U.S. Domestic Militarization

The “Bulletin on U.S. Domestic Militarization” replaces “The 1033 Monthly.” This iteration aims to provide a broader look at militarization in the United States, of which the U.S. Department of Defense’s 1033 program plays a role. The internal war in the United States continues on the working class and on people outside the point of…

USA: Memphis Cops Indicted in the Beating Death of Tyre Nichols

Abayomi Azikiwe Memphis Activists Block Highway To Protest Tyre Nichols Death The brutal execution was fully captured in a police video camera mounted on a neighborhood pole. Five African American Memphis police officers assigned to the notorious special unit known as the Scorpions, have been charged with second-degree murder and other crimes which resulted in…

White Supremacy

Jemima Pierre, Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús White supremacy should not be identified solely with self-proclaimed white nationalists. It is a centuries old, international, economic, and political system that cannot be eradicated with slogans and wishful thinking. In recent years, the concept of white supremacy has been associated with extreme racist groups and ultranationalists, as well as…

James Baldwin, Corporate Media and the Red Herring of ‘Black Antisemitism’

Lev Koufax James Baldwin addresses a crowd after participating in the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in support of voting rights, March 1965. In 1967, the great African American writer James Baldwin wrote an article that explored the relationship between the Jewish and Black communities, and in particular, the justified anger the Black community…

Slavery Was On the Ballot in the US Midterms. Who Voted to Abolish it?

Natalia Marques A chain gang of prisoners subject to convict leasing in Florida, in the early 1900s. Thousands of freed Black people were reenslaved within the convict lease system, in which incarcerated people performed grueling forced labor without pay. Photo: Wikimedia More than 150 years after slavery was outlawed in the US, the practice persists…

NATO’s Embrace of Eastern Europe Evokes a History of Nazi Colonial Violence

Joseph Massad (From L) US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, and Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov gather as part of a Nato Defence Ministers Council meeting in Brussels on 12 October 2022 (AFP) Such policy is part of a long-standing colonial strategy of territorial expansion…

Honduras: Strategy of Expulsion through Threats to the Garifuna Communities of the Bay of Tela

BLACK HONDURAN FRATERNAL ORGANIZATION, OFRANEH COMMUNIQUÉ Garífuna Territory, October 24, 2022 WE DENOUNCE: that in recent days the Garifuna communities of Tela Bay (Triunfo de la Cruz, San Juan, Tornabé, Rio Tinto and La Ensenada) face a cruel and cowardly wave of threats, persecution and attacks against the leaders, mainly against the young “Leménigi Durugubuti”,…

Africa is Not a Jungle

Takudzwa Hillary Chiwanza The Western perception that the rest of the world is a massive wasteland of uncivilized, barbaric, primitive, and savage peoples is still alive, frighteningly so. For Europeans and Americans, only the industrially advanced global north is the finest epitome of humankind, representing the elixir of human intelligence and innovation. Of course, we know…

Environmental Racism is Poisoning the Waters in the US

Natalia Marques In several cities across the United States, residents struggle with system-wide neglect of water systems and the failure of the government to provide access to what is arguably the most essential resource. Thousands of people in US cities have been left without access to clean water. Communities say institutional racism is to blame…

Under Suella Braverman, UK Set for an Ever Harsher Policy Towards Refugees

Tanupriya Singh British Home Secretary Suella Braverman. Suella Braverman is considering banning people crossing the English Channel from claiming asylum in the UK. She added that it was her “dream” and “obsession” to have asylum seekers deported to Rwanda. Activists and campaigners in the UK have slammed a slate of measures targeting asylum seekers announced…

State of Emergency Declared in NYC Over Influx of Asylum Seekers

Natalia Marques NYC Mayor Eric Adams holds press conference with other city leaders and declared a state of emergency. Photo: NYC Mayor’s Office Latin American migrants seek refuge in the United States only to be shuttled around as political pawns and sleep in tents in the richest city On October 7, New York City Mayor…

Challenging Fortress Europe: March to Brussels Calls to Strengthen Strategies to Change Migration Policies

Redacción Madrid End of the March to Brussels (Image by Caravana Abriendo Fronteras 2022) The March to Brussels has ended with a call for the strengthening of a strategy and a change in the balance of power that allows for a different migration policy based on the fulfilment of human rights. Several hundred people took…