Paul Wilcox The full story of the struggle to end chattel slavery in the U.S. has yet to be fully told. History books have always minimized the struggle of enslaved people, who from the beginning in 1619 fought slavery at every turn, rebelling, escaping, fighting for the right to fight. Some 180,000 enlisted in the…
Category: Pillars of Oppression
When Race Burns Class: Settlers Revisited (An Interview with J. Sakai)
Kersplebedeb, October 28, 2000 EC: Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat is a book which had a major impact on many North American anti-imperialists. How did this book come about, and what was so new about its way of looking at things? JS: Settlers completely came about by accident, not design. And what was so…
Uses of Anger: Women Respond to Racism
The writer Audre Lorde ((1934-1992)) who described herself as “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet”, states: “I am not free as long as there is another woman who is not free, even if her shackles are very different from mine. And I am not free as long as a person of colour remains chained. Racism. A…
#OmaliTaughtMe: Defining the Struggle: Colonialism vs. Racism
A continuation of the #OmaliTaughtMe special series: A discussion with Chairman Omali Yeshitela, ASI Secretary General Luwezi Kinshasa, and representatives from the Mexican liberation organization Union del Barrio, defining the struggle for African and Mexican people as a struggle against colonialism, not racism. Join the African People’s Socialist Party: APSPUhuru.org
Anti- Racism and Anti- Colonialism: An Open Letter to My Black Kin
K.D. Wilson Image description — Black and white photo with a fist raised in the Black Power salute. Some words in white lettering are laid over it, from Ashanti Alston, which read: “I think of being Black not so much as an ethnic category but as an oppositional force or touchstone for looking at situations differently. Black…
Interrogating Systemic Racism and the White Academic Field
Nelson Maldonado-Torres “As a university and as an academic institution, you can say we are against systemic racism. But you as an academic institution are systemic racism.” Kalin Pont-Tate, co-chair of the Black Student Union at the University of California, Riverside.[1] Institutions of higher learning are following the trend in the media, public institutions,…
Racial Extermination as State Policy
Jesus Chucho Garcia Racism and racial discrimination is a consequence of the emergence of capitalism and its continuity in imperialism. To justify the kidnapping of millions of Africans for the purpose of exploiting the accumulation of the capitalist mode of production, the African and his/her descendants were denigrated with argument of of biological, intellectual and…
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…
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…
Aime Cesaire: Discourse on Colonialism
Discourse on Colonialism Discourse on Colonialism (French: Discours sur le colonialisme) is an essay by Aimé Césaire, a poet and politician from Martinique who helped found the négritude movement in Francophone literature. Césaire first published the essay in 1950 in Paris with Éditions Réclame, a small publisher associated with the French Communist Party (PCF). Five…
The Mechanisms of Neo-colonialism
Kwame Nkrumah, 1965 Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism The Mechanisms of Neo-colonialism IN order to halt foreign interference in the affairs of developing countries it is necessary to study, understand, expose and actively combat neo-colonialism in whatever guise it may appear. For the methods of neo-colonialists are subtle and varied. They operate not only…
How African People Became the Face of Anti-Semitism
Ahjamu Umi & Onyesonwu Chatoyer Zionism as a Political Movement First, in order for anyone to fully comprehend the contradictions that the Zionist movement presents, its essential for us to understand the difference between Zionism – a political movement – and Judaism, a faith practice. Judaism as a religion is, of course, one of the…
