Africana Critical Theory Reconstructing The Black Radical Tradition, From W. E. B. Du Bois and C. L. R. James to Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral by Reiland Rabaka Building on and going far beyond W.E.B. Du Bois and the Problems of the Twenty-First Century and Du Bois’s Dialectics, Reiland Rabaka’s Africana Critical Theory innovatively identifies…
Category: Black Radical Tradition
The Black Anarchism Reader
The Black Anarchism Reader In the expansive terrain of anarchist history, few events loom as large as the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Countless books, films, songs, pamphlets, buttons, t-shirts, and more are rightfully devoted to this transformative struggle for social revolution by Spanish workers and peasants. But digging through the mountain of available material, little…
Blacks Need to Organize for Self-Defense
“Whether we’re in large numbers like we are in Mississippi, or in small numbers like in Minnesota, our lives are in jeopardy and it’s important for us to build community networks to defend ourselves,” said Akinyele Umoja, professor of African American Studies at Georgia State University and author of the book, “We Will Shoot Back:…
Kwame Ture: The FBI and CIA
One of Kwames Best Lectures: Kwame Toure’ Delivers a Very Powerful Focus analysis on the FBI CIA & Revolutionary Struggle…
The Weapon of Theory
Amilcar Cabral Address delivered to the first Tricontinental Conference of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America held in Havana in January, 1966. If any of us came to Cuba with doubts in our mind about the solidity, strength, maturity and vitality of the Cuban Revolution, these doubts have been removed by what we…
Black People Have a Right to Rebel
Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin July 29, 2005 Lorenzo Komboa Ervin’s analysis of the place of the 2001 Cincinnati riots within the history of US urban riots and the struggle against racism. A massive anti-cop rebellion has broken out in Cincinnati over the police shootings of 15 Black men, ranging in ages of 12-44 years old, all…
Burn Down the American Plantation: Call for a Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement
Burn Down the American Plantation: Call for a Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement The foundation of the political conflict today does not begin with the rise of the far right, but is situated in the context of the US Civil War—a war that never actually resolved the social contradictions at the heart of American society. Slavery has…
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves, began patrolling the police, and promised to prevent police brutality. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement that called for full citizenship rights for…
African Liberation Day: Historical Perspective for Pan Africanism Today
Peoples Dispatch Justice Henaku discusses the political, historical, and cultural importance of African Liberation Day for the people on the African continent, of the African diaspora and across the world. May 25 is being marked across the world African Liberation Day. It marks the foundation of the Organisation of African Unity in 1963 in Addis…
All-African People’s Revolutionary Party: African Liberation Day 2020
The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) and the All-African Women’s Revolutionary Union (A-AWRU) are commemorating the 63rd Anniversary of African Liberation Day. This years theme is: “Imperialist Sanctions on Zimbabwe, Cuba and Venezuela are Acts of War: Africans Everywhere Must Fight”
African Liberation Day: The Enduring Struggle Against Colonialism and Capitalism
Pan Africanism Today Secretariat All-Africa Peoples Conference Accra, Ghana 1958. May 25 is celebrated as African Liberation Day. It is a commemoration of the struggles for liberation from colonialism, and specifically marks a key date in the struggle for Pan-African unity: the formation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1963. Comprising 21 member…
Dual and Contending Power
Uhuru comrades! For the upcoming Sunday May 24th study we are going to show the Party’s practical work through our economic development, dual and contending power institutions. I will provide our overview and Deputy Chair Ona Zene Yeshitela will be making the main presentation. Also featured on this study is Secretary General Luwezi Kinshasa; APSP-Occupied…
