A continuation of the #OmaliTaughtMe special series featuring the Mexican liberation organization Union del Barrio! This week, Chairman Omali Yeshitela will be joined by representatives from the African National Women’s Organization, President Yejide Orunmilla, and ANWO’s Occupied Azania (South Africa) Coordinator, Connie Hutchison, as well as the Union del Barrio Women’s Commission: Adriana Simon, Erica…
Category: Global Anti-imperialist Resistance
Notes on the Coloniality of Peace
Nelson Maldonado-Torres The allusion to peace, to peace as a state of harmony within an established order, has long been an indispensable tool in the arsenal of colonialism and racism. First comes the brutal war: people killed, bodies in pieces, raped, and mutilated, subjects subdued, ancestors disrespected, lands taken, rivers with water turning viscous and…
Omali Yeshitela:The Theory of African Internationalism
This week, the Chairman reads Chapter IX: The Theory of African Internationalism from Vanguard: The Advanced Detachment of the African Revolution.
Uprooting Colonialism and Dismantling Colonial Ways in the Afrikan Community
Veli Mbele The author offers a detailed analysis on how to decolonise African minds and to fight against neo-colonialism, not only in South Africa, but also across Africa. Introductory remarks Siyacamagusha Mafrika! In the spirit of our ancestors, whose names are unknown and bodies were violently snatched from Afrika and scattered of all over the…
Surveillance State: Cameras Everywhere, Safety Nowhere
By CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective We know that police violence is a real problem in the US, and it makes sense that people are strategizing ways to protect themselves and their loved ones from being assaulted or murdered by the police. Many who are concerned about this issue have begun advocating for police to wear video…
Che Guevara’s Legacy and World Revolution
Latin America and Africa share a common heritage of struggle against imperialism Abayomi Azikiwe Revolutionary Strategic Studies This year represents the 44th anniversary of the martyrdom of Ernesto Che Guevera, the Argentine-Cuban revolutionary who made a monumental contribution to the anti-imperialist and world socialist movement in Latin America, Africa and throughout the globe. His political…
Che Guevara | The Bestiality of Imperialism
The bestiality of imperialism, a bestiality that knows no limits, that has no national boundaries. The bestiality of Hitler’s armies is like the North American bestiality, like that of the Belgian paratroopers and that of the French imperialists in Algeria. For, it is the very essence of imperialism to turn men into wild, bloodthirsty animals…
Che Guevara | Economics, Imperialism and Revolution
[Formerly titled: On Growth and Imperialism] ECONOMICS CANNOT BE SEPARATED FROM POLITICS Spoken: August 8, 1961 (at Punta del Este) First Published: Source: Our America — Kennedy and the Alliance for Progress, Ocean Press, © 2005. Translated: See also: Historical Translation by the OAS Transcription/Markup: Ocean Press/Brian Baggins Copyright: © 2005 Aleida March, Che Guevara…
Why We Must Resist Imperialism
On March 26, 2011, the Black is Back Conference for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations held a conference on the Other Wars, dealing with U.S. imperialism’s wars on Haiti, Congo, Libya, Colombia, Africans in the U.S. and elsewhere — wars that are historically ignored by the white left. The following presentation was made by Glen…
Cuba, Cuito Cuanavale and the Revolutionary Struggle in Africa
Cuito Cuanavale: How Cuba fought for Africa’s freedom Barry Healy This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale, a heroic struggle in which, between October 1987 and June 1988, in some of the fiercest fighting in Africa since the Second World War, the South African Defence Force (SADF) were humiliatingly defeated…
