Reading Cabral in 1993: Killing a Man but Not His Work

Lars Rudebeck In the first of three essays to mark the fiftieth anniversary of national revolutionary leader Amilcar Cabral’s murder in 1973, first published in the ROAPE journal thirty years ago, Lars Rudebeck celebrates Cabral’s extraordinary writing, speeches and interviews. The piece includes reflections on personal conversations Rudebeck held with Cabral at various points. While celebratory, Rudebeck…

The Secret of the Failure of Liberation: A Tribute and Celebration of Amilcar Cabral

Leo Zeilig, Chinedu Chukwudinma, and Ben Radley The Amilcar Cabral Foundation in Praia, the capital city of Cape Verde. 28 February 2015, In 1973, fifty years ago, Amilcar Cabral, the leader of the national revolution in Guinea and Cape Verde was murdered. For the next three weeks roape.net will be celebrating his contribution to radical…

The Grenada Revolution: The Fruit, the Priest and the Jewel

Lautaro Rivara Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop (center) with a woman of Grenada’s Carriacou island. On March 13, 1979, on the island of Grenada, one of the most hopeful and unknown revolutions of our region began. This is the story of the small country that dared to make a great revolution. Grenada, or How to…

Secret COINTELPRO Plot to Infiltrate and Destroy the American Indian Movement

Jeremy Kuzmarov Wounded Knee Standoff 1973: Pine Ridge, South Dakota February 27 through May 8 marks the 50th  anniversary of the occupation by the American Indian Movement (AIM) of Wounded Knee on the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, the site of the last great massacre of the Indian Wars in December, 1890….

Challenging Binary Gender Roles Using Nkrumahism-Toureism-Cabralism

Ahjamu Umi Thesis Gender binary – the classification of gender e.g. a “man” or “woman” into two, distinct, and opposite categories – is a construct of class development and division and is therefore inconsistent with the humanist values of our Nkrumahist/Tureist/Cabralist ideology. Background The dominant perception of gender in the world today is the gender…

Ella Baker: Making the Struggle Everyday

Ready for Revolution Life-long human rights activist and movement organizer, Ella Baker, addresses a 1974 Puerto Rico solidarity rally. TRANSCRIPT: Friends, brothers, and sisters in the struggle for human dignity and freedom. I am here to represent the struggle that has gone on for three-hundred or more years — a struggle to be recognized as…