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: Methods of Empire
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Declassified Documents | The Death of Che Guevara
By Peter Kornbluh National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 5 For more information contact: Peter Kornbluh 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu Washington, D.C. – On October 9th, 1967, Ernesto “Che” Guevara was put to death by Bolivian soldiers, trained, equipped and guided by U.S. Green Beret and CIA operatives. His execution remains a historic and controversial…
Kwame Nkrumah | Neo-colonialism, The Last Stage of Imperialism
Excerpt Kwame Nkrumah 1965 Introduction The neo-colonialism of today represents imperialism in its final and perhaps its most dangerous stage. In the past it was possible to convert a country upon which a neo-colonial regime had been imposed — Egypt in the nineteenth century is an example — into a colonial territory. Today this process…
