By Sasha Gillies-Lekakis — The nation that revolutionary Fidel Castro forged in 1959 is finally coming out of the shadow of Cold War propaganda. From the outset Fidel and his new nation were victims of capitalist paranoia, and we in Australia are still exposed to Cuban issues through this lens. In light of this we must question the validity of what we in the west ‘know’ about Fidel Castro and…
Addressing our systems of white supremacy cannot be dismissed as “identity politics.” By Zenobia Jeffries, Yes Magazine — “Moved by the need for control, for an unchallenged top tier, the…
By Earl Bousquet — The Russian Revolution did get support from the Caribbean, then called the “West Indies,” when it shook the world in 1917. History records that Marcus Mosiah Garvey, the Jamaican who led the largest organization of Black people in the Western hemisphere ever, quickly dispatched a letter from the United Negro Improvement Association, on behalf of its millions of members in the United States, the Caribbean and…
S.H.A.P.E. Community Center (Self Help for African People through Education) partnered with the Coalition of Urban Resource Experts (CURE) to offer a “Circle of Healing” for the Houston community impacted…
By Chris Hedges, Truthdig — The disease of globalized corporate capitalism has the same effects across the planet. It weakens or destroys democratic institutions, making them subservient to corporate and oligarchic power. It forces domestic governments to give up control over their economies, which operate under policies dictated by global corporations, banks, the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund. It casts aside hundreds of millions of workers now classified as “redundant”…
By Nishani Frazier, Truthout — On November 7, Detroit’s Coleman Young II may join the new pantheon of elected or soon-to-be elected Black mayors. This group’s uniqueness lies not in their race per se, but in their willingness to defy the Obama-era neoliberal, post-racial orthodoxy about municipal economic development. These new Black mayors are a resurgence of the old mixed with the sophisticated new. They are Black Political Power, 2.0….
By: Dennis Agaba — Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was the first prime minister and president of Ghana, having led it to independence from Britain in…
By Kimberley Hibbert — SHE has been called a new Mandela because of her passion, vision and mission to revive the ideologies and teachings of her father Kwame Nkrumah, the…
By Patrisse Cullors and Rodney Diverlus — Of the many remarkable moments on our Australian trip so far, there’s one that stands out. On Tuesday night, we visited the Redfern community centre to meet with local Indigenous people and hear their stories. After playing the didgeridoo, Nathan Scott stood up, opened up his notebook and read out his father’s story. He was only six months old when his father Douglas…
This statement was made by Ms. Charo Mina-Rojas, a member of the human rights team of the Black Communities’ Process, the Afro-Colombian Solidarity Network, the Black Alliance for Peace, and…
By Katrina vanden Heuvel — That four U.S. Army soldiers lost their lives in an ambush in Niger should spark a reckoning. While U.S. news outlets flood us with reports on President Trump’s alleged insults to a widow who lost her husband and the congresswoman who defended her, and probe the tactical details of the ambush, the real question is: What are U.S. soldiers doing in combat in Niger and elsewhere across…
Black-on-black crime is an invention that was decades in the making. By Ebony Slaughter-Johnson, AlterNet — Days after President Donald Trump mocked professional athletes taking a knee during the national anthem to…
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