Guernica Staff Resign After “Genocide Apologia” Essay Normalizing Zionism

Malak Silmi Several Guernica staff, including at least five editors, announced their resignation from the magazine days after an essay normalizing Zionism and the ongoing genocide in Gaza was published in the literary magazine’s March issue. A number of writers, including at least two Palestinians, withdrew poetry or essays slated to be published in the magazine. The published…

Claudia Gay and “First Ones” in an Empire of Lies and Annihilation

Kwaku Aurelien Harvard University The January 2nd announcement of Claudine Gay’s resignation from the position of President at Harvard University has caused quite a stir in American society, especially in the context of our current historical moment and the immense pressure under which Gay made her decision. Black Americans of prominence such as Jemele Hill…

How Israel Copied the USA

Youhanna Haddad Though Zionism has found a home in Palestine, the movement didn’t originate there. It was an exported ideology and only gained a foothold in the Middle East thanks to British patronage. Theodor Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, was a secular Austrian Jew who didn’t use theology to argue for his colonial ambitions….

South Africa vs Israel: What is at Stake is the Fate and Future of All Humanity

I am joined today by two amazing guests. Diana Buttu, Palestinian lawyer, part of the Palestinian legal team in 2004 at the ICJ and William Schabas, the most prominent legal expert in the world on the question of Genocide. William was counsel at the ICJ in 2014 for the Serbia vs Croatia case and in…

Pan-Africanism, Palestine, and the Colors That Bind Struggle

Shauntionne Mosley I went to Europe for the first time this year. I stayed for 10 days. Mostly in Paris, but two of those days were spent in London. I took a train from Paris to London with the intention of going to the Notting Hill Festival – a festival I’ve heard about and had…

Do Black Migrant Lives Matter in Canada?

Rinaldo Walcott A painting by artist Richard Rudnick of Black Refugees arriving in Halifax from the United States in 1814. The image is included in the Lord Dalhousie Panel’s scholarly report. Image courtesy of Dalhousie University. What we are witnessing in Canada is not a glitch in the system. Nothing went wrong. It is policy—written…

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…

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…

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