Roberto Sirvent When fascism was on the march Black women intellectuals and activists imagined, and struggled for, a new world. “Black women are political protagonists, not secondary characters in global movements.” In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Annette Joseph-Gabriel . Dr. Joseph-Gabriel is an…
Category: Imperialism
Black Women Against White Supremacist Empire
Black women played a central role in the fight against European colonization, said Annette Joseph Gabriel, professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Michigan and author of the book, “Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire.” Joseph-Gabriel examines the lives and struggles of seven women activists who “understood…
Know Your Enemy: What is Imperialism?
Greg Butterfield The word “imperialism” is used a lot by people in the progressive and revolutionary movement. What does it mean? Some people think imperialism is just a cuss word that radicals use to put down rotten government policies. But it’s more than that. Imperialism is rooted in a particular economic system, capitalism, and benefits…
Fundamental Black and Native Opposition to White Settler State
Blacks and Native Americans continue to pose a threat to the “conquistador white settler nation,” agues Tiffany King, author of “The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies.” King is a professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Georgia. “There are impulses within both Black abolition and Native decolonization…
Omali Yeshitela: The Deepening Crisis of Imperialism
Welcome to this week’s #OmaliTaughtMe Sunday Study featuring Chairman Omali Yeshitela. We will be “The deepening Crisis of Imperialism” from Vanguard: the Advanced Detachment of the African Revolution. Study Materials Omali Yeshitela: Materialism and the Dialectical Method
The Necessity Defense
Anthony Rogers-Wright You can’t build long-term power by letting white supremacists, nor the government, harm and kill people with impunity. “We can no longer even try to suggest that we can negotiate with white supremacy and fascism.” While appearing on Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now, the good and brilliant scholar/thought leader Dr. Cornell West did not mince words, “We would…
The Rise of the Right
John Bellamy Foster and Farooque Chowdhury Kalispera Dell, CC BY 3.0, Link. The following interview of Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster, completed on August 5, 2019, was conducted by Farooque Chowdhury for Kolkata’s famous socialist magazine Frontier Weekly and is slated to appear this month in their special Autumn issue. It was thus originally…
Thomas Sankara: Imperialism is the Arsonist of Our Forests and Savannas
This speech was first given at the first International Silva Conference for the Protection of the Trees and Forests in Paris. It has been since been disseminated by revolutionaries through many means as a way to underscore the necessity of social revolution and an environmental focus. Now more than ever this speech is necessary to…
A-APRP Briefing on Zionism
A-APRP Speaking Against Zionism at Quds Day Commemoration in Kenya All African People’s Revolutionary Party: Palestinian March of Return is Our March
The Authoritarian Personality
Theodor Adorno Originally published in 1950, The Authoritarian Personality remains a major landmark in political psychology. It represents one of the most sophisticated attempts to explore the origins of fascism not merely as a political phenomenon, but as the manifestation of dispositions that lie at the very core of the modern psyche. For this reason alone,…
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…
The Anti Nazi League and its Lessons for Today
Paul Holborow The Anti Nazi League and the mass movement it generated in the late 1970s is one of the great achievements of the revolutionary left in post-war Britain. The experience is particularly important today with the growth of the far right internationally. Paul Holborow, organising secretary of the Anti Nazi League in 1977-1980, and…
