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Category: Colonialism
Fanon and (Digital) Self-Determination
Lizzie O’Shea Fanon was committed to the idea of self-determination. How can his thinking influence our fight for digital self-determination? An excerpt from Future Histories by Lizzie O’Shea. Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us about Digital Technology Fanon wrote about seeing himself, a black man, in a world…
“Who’s Land?” The Trials and Tribulations of Territorial Acknowledgement
Rowland “Ena͞emaehkiw” Keshena Robinson During the autumn of 2016, in October, my sister and I, both of us Indigenous Ph.D. students in philosophy and sociology respectively, attended a conference held at St. Paul’s University College, an affiliate of the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, entitled Decolonizing Education/Integrating Knowledges. The summit was part of a broader…
International Dimensions in the Resistance to the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism
Abayomi Azikiwe Beginning in the early decades of the 15th century, the African continent faced an unprecedented onslaught where human traffickers and colonisers sought to conquer the people for the purpose of labour exploitation, strategic territorial advantage and the plunder of natural resources. Prior to this period, Western Europe had not been the centre of…
Anti-Eurocentrism & the Critique of Settler Colonialism
Ena͞emaehkiw Kesīqnaeh Earlier this year there was a small-scale three-way split within the U.S.-based Marxist-Leninist/communist organization known as the Workers World Party (WWP). This split, which occurred in stages, was the result of apparent conflict between what at first seemed to be the core organizational leadership of the WWP and the membership of the Huntington,…
Settler Fragility: Why Settler Privilege is So Hard to Talk About
Dina Gilio-Whitaker Robin DiAngelo’s brilliant 2018 manifesto on white fragility was a much-needed truth bomb at a time when it’s more clear than ever that we are light years away from the “post-racial state.” Perhaps most important about the book was its clarity that racism is systemic and structural, that no white people are immune…
Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack of Settler Privilege
Dina Gilio-Whitaker November is Native American Heritage Month, when we as American Indian people get to have the mic for a little while. So, I’d like to take my turn at the virtual mic to talk about settler privilege, something you likely have never thought of, or have never even heard of. What you have…
The US State and the US Revolution
Eugene Puryear It is no exaggeration to say that the principal disputes between activists, organizations and political trends in U.S. social movements have hinged on different understandings of, and attitudes toward, the state. What distinguishes a revolutionary communist perspective from a reformist perspective is not one of momentary tactics, which may range from the most…
Socialism in Africa or One Unified Socialist Africa: The 2-Line Struggle of the African Left
Sobukwe Shukura, A-APRP Central Committee Political Critique of the recently concluded PAT conference in Winneba, Ghana The Pan-Africanism Today (PAT) conference distinguished itself from the right opportunism of 7th PAC (hosted by the neo-colonialist forces in Uganda) and 8th PAC that made no ideological commitment to socialism or mass organizations like workers, women or youth….
Banners of Solidarity Fly High at the Third Pan-Africanism Today Conference in Ghana
Over 400 militants-activists from nearly 60 countries gather in Winneba in Ghana to discuss the challenges before the working class and the possibilities of joint action Zoe PC and Prasanth R (Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee/New Frame) “Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it.” For the 400-odd militants-activists at the Third Pan-Africanism Today…
Amílcar Cabral: “Nazis are the most tragic expression of imperialism and its thirst for domination”
Amilcar L. Cabral: National Liberation and Culture – PDF This text was originally delivered on February 20, 1970; as part of the Eduardo Mondlane (1) Memorial Lecture Series at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, under the auspices of The Program of Eastern African Studies. It was translated from the French by Maureen Webster. When Goebbels,…
Canada’s Role in the Overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah
Yves Engler Friday, February 24 is the anniversary of the 1966 coup against leading Pan-Africanist Kwame Nkrumah. Canada played a key role. Following the coup, the Canadian High Commissioner in Accra C.E. McGaughey, wrote that “a wonderful thing has happened for the West in Ghana and Canada has played a worthy part.” A half-century and…
