Political Prisoners in the United States, 2022

Stansfield Smith There are many ways to define what is a political prisoner. The most well-known cases are those the national security state framed-up, or imprisoned with extreme sentences for an offense because of their political activism, such as George Jackson. Each period of struggle by the working class and oppressed peoples against ruling class control…

Global Afrikan Congress Conference Barbados 2022

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON REPARATIONS Bridgetown, Barbados August 4 – 6, 2022

Nicaragua’s Remarks at Reparations International Conference

Nicaragua participated in the International Conference on Reparations being held August 4th-6th by the Global Afrikan Congress and supported by the University of the West Indies in Barbados. Below are the remarks given by Nicaragua’s Presidential Adviser for International Relations and the Greater Caribbean, Michael Campbell. REMARKS BY THE DELEGATION OF NICARAGUA IN THE INTERNATIONAL…

Their Freedom and Ours: A Case Study on Morality, Inequality, and Injustice Amid a Pandemic

Peter Fousek David Hume opens his essay “Of the First Principles of Government” with the statement that “Force is always on the side of the governed.”[1] Though she uses different terminology, Hannah Arendt’s understanding of power is analogous to Hume’s “Force.” In On Violence, she asserts that “[i]t is the people’s support that lends power…

The Violent Evolution of Police and Imperialist Militarized Tactics on Citizens

Kaity Baril A Brutal History: Slave Patrols & Building a Racist System with Political Power In the US, the modern context of ruthless policing or oppressive social control originated as far back as the 1790s. The Charleston City Watch and Guard controlled the movement of the slave population at the time. The Guard was armed…

Abolitionist Solidarity — Black and White — in the Struggle Against Slavery

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…