Onyesonwu Chatoyer Settler-Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism It is impossible to understand capitalism without first understanding settler-colonialism and neo-colonialism – the dominant forms of colonialism still remaining in the world today. The earth’s most dangerous imperialist power – the United States of America – is itself a former British (but also in some regions such as the…
Category: Patriarchy
Radical Democracy: The First Line Against Fascism
The Kurds’ democratic resistance to ISIS demonstrates that anti-fascism cannot be separated from the wider struggle against capitalism, patriarchy and the state. By Dilar Dirik It was in the fall of 2014, only months after the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) made massive territorial gains inside Syria and Iraq, committing genocidal and feminicidal massacres, that a…
In India, Women Who Fight for Justice
By Cesar Chelala In Bundelkhand, one of the poorest areas of the Uttar Pradesh region in Northern India, a 50-year-old woman is breaking stereotypes, and giving woman a chance to fight for their rights, and even for their survival. This is no small feat in a country plagued by inequality discrimination against women. In 2006,…
The Silencing of Black Women : The Relevance of Ella Baker
Lawrence Ware|LaVonya Bennett The world needs to remember Ella Baker. December 13 marks both her birth and transition date. She was born December 13, 1903, and she went to be with the ancestors on December 13, 1986, at the age of 83. She was a tireless advocate for human rights and worked alongside well-known figures…
The Zapatista Women’s Revolutionary Law
Zapatista Women: The Struggle Within the Struggle The still water in the vessel overflows and turns itself into a wild river of movement …. The women are the spiritual and material support of this army; if we can survive in large numbers, it is thanks to them ….Tomorrow, if there is to be one, will…
Pathology of Patriarchy | A Search for Clues at the Scene of the Crime
By Sanyika Shakur “The great divide between humans and animals provided a standard by which to judge other people, both at home and elsewhere. If the essence of humanity was defined as consisting of a specific quality or set of qualities, such as reason, intelligible language, religion, culture, or manners, it followed that anyone who…
On Correct Terminology and Spellings En Route to Conscious Development and Socialist Revolution
By Sanyika Shakur There has been some dialogue generated recently that has come to focus on the way the New Afrikan Independence Movement (NAIM) uses certain spellings, particular words, phrases and slogans to distinguish, apply energy, weight and clarity to the ongoing and ever-increasing need for sharper, more critical, words of power to describe the…
