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…

USA: Hundreds in Congress, Law Enforcement and Military are Members of Fascist Groups

People’s World – ^Sources A man wearing an Oath Keepers shirt stands outside the Kenosha County Courthouse, Nov. 19, 2021 in Kenosha, Wis. A new report says that the names of hundreds of U.S. law enforcement officers, elected officials, and military members appear on the leaked membership rolls of the far-right extremist group that played…

Ajamu Baraka: “US Decision-Makers Cannot Handle the End of White Supremacy”

Global Times GT Editor’s Note: Ajamu Baraka (Baraka), the Green Party nominee for Vice President of the US in 2016, told I-Talk show why nowadays a third party can hardly affect the monopoly of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party in US politics and how partisanship will evolve. He also discussed China-US relations, stressing…

The Settler Blindness to the U.S. Empire’s Internal Violence

Rainer Shea Settler-colonialism creates a blindness among the colonizers. There’s a disconnect between what settlers see, and what’s actually happening in their surroundings. This can be the case even for settlers who consider themselves sufficiently educated on white supremacy. The colonial contradiction on this continent—and therefore the class contradiction that proletarians of all colors have…

The Hypocrite’s War

Apparatchik When Antifa is being discussed, a common talking point among liberals goes something like “the soldiers who stormed the beaches at Normandy were the ORIGINAL Antifa!” That Americans are historically illiterate is a banal observation, but the revisionism on display here reflects a very insidious form of whitewashing in service of liberal nationalism. Recasting…

On the Fifth Day of the Aggression on Gaza, State Terrorism is Evident, and an Exodus Reminiscent of the Scenes of the Nakba

39 civilians were killed, including (14) children and (13) women, and (224) civilians were wounded, including (60) women, (63) children and two journalists The toll of the aggression rose to (122) dead, including (31) children and (20) women, and (542) wounded, including (158) children and (121) women ارتفاع حصيلة العدوان إلى (122) قتيلاً، بينهم (31)…

Recuperating Third-Worldism: How White Workers Continue to Benefit From Capitalism-Imperialism

Carlos Cruz Mosquera From the most radical communists to the most centrist liberals, white supremacy is seen as a social construct and a mechanism with which elites pit the “universally” oppressed against one another. In this view, the struggle against racism is limited to challenging racist and xenophobic ideas and behaviors or, at best, challenging…

The USA and Nicaragua Now: An Interview with S. Brian Willson

Tortilla con Sal Tortilla con Sal: We’re here with Brian Willson, Viet Nam veteran and onetime criminal lawyer. Brian has written extensively about US imperialism and its effects around the world and what people in Nicaragua are especially interested in right now Brian is what’s happening in the United States as a result of the…

Systemic Racism and Oppression: The Larger Historical Framework of White Supremacy in the U.S.

Russ Bellant Source: trumanlibrary.org The United States is experiencing an acute challenge to its system of racism both in terms of police behavior and in its separate and unequal public health systems. This represents what is an ogoing challenge to the larger framework of systemic racism that has existed in the U.S. in various stages…

Dispatch from PDX (Portland, Oregon); Black Lives Matter in a White Utopia

Kahlil M. Wall-Johnson The temporal-spatial convergence of the largest white city in amerikka, with the most persistent “BLM” protests and exceedingly white subcultures should not be dismissed as coincidence. “The matrix of violence that defines Black life cannot be understood through the lens of fascism.” Portlanders have risen up against the fascist police state. Armed…

Renouncing White Privilege: A Left Critique of Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility”

David Barber Whatever may have been her intentions, Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility is only of very limited value in helping us understand racism and actually conceals and defends our American white supremacist system of capitalism. Even a casual look at White Fragility demonstrates this. DiAngelo’s final chapter, “Where Do We Go From Here,” – her…

Uses of Anger: Women Respond to Racism

The writer Audre Lorde ((1934-1992)) who described herself as “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet”, states: “I am not free as long as there is another woman who is not free, even if her shackles are very different from mine. And I am not free as long as a person of colour remains chained. Racism. A…

The State and White Supremacy: The Inextricable Link

Ajamu Baraka The demand for “justice” by the pubic had the ironic result of re-legitimizing the state as an institution that could in fact render justice – but only an empowered people can establish a just order. “It is the settler state, and the corrupt colonial/capitalist system and the interests that it upholds, that must…

#OmaliTaughtMe: Defining the Struggle: Colonialism vs. Racism

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

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…

Biden, Sanders, Trump: Where Do They Stand on Reparations to the Black Community?

Uhuru Solidarity Movement The Democratic primary has narrowed down to Bernard Sanders and Joseph Biden. So where do the two Democratic front-runners stand on the issue of reparations to the black community? This has been an unusual presidential primary for many reasons, one of the main ones being that the issue of reparations to the…

Fascism and Hate: The U.S. and Latin America in 2020 (I)

José R. Oro Fascism is a dictatorial form of government intimately bound to hatred in its many manifestations, developed within the context and conditions of imperialism. It appeared in Mussolini’s Italy, Hitler’s Germany, Pinochet’s Chile, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Poland, Hungary, Romania and other countries. In all of them it failed brutally, inflicting immeasurable suffering on…

Policing the Borders of Suffering

Zoé Samudzi Survivors of the Herero genocide, ca. 1907. Photo: Wikimedia Commons LIKE MANY AMERICANS, my first exposure to the idea of concentration camps came from public school lessons about World War II. But a later, formative influence on my understanding was the stories my mother told me about the Zimbabwean liberation struggle and the…