The Grenada Revolution: The Fruit, the Priest and the Jewel

Lautaro Rivara Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop (center) with a woman of Grenada’s Carriacou island. On March 13, 1979, on the island of Grenada, one of the most hopeful and unknown revolutions of our region began. This is the story of the small country that dared to make a great revolution. Grenada, or How to…

Secret COINTELPRO Plot to Infiltrate and Destroy the American Indian Movement

Jeremy Kuzmarov Wounded Knee Standoff 1973: Pine Ridge, South Dakota February 27 through May 8 marks the 50th  anniversary of the occupation by the American Indian Movement (AIM) of Wounded Knee on the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, the site of the last great massacre of the Indian Wars in December, 1890….

Omali Yeshitela: NATO’s War in Ukraine Accelerates McCarthyism

Omali Yeshitela joins the program to discuss the FBI’s raid of African People Socialist Party institutions in July 2022 and what it means amid the ongoing NATO war in Ukraine. Join the rapid response to support the organization should indictments be handed over: https://handsoffuhuru.org/emergency-r… Omali Yeshitela: The U.S. Government Plans to Indict and Put Me…

Why Embracing Anti-Colonialism Made Malcolm a Marked Man

​​​​​​​ Ajamu Baraka Malcolm X Speaks in Harlem in June 1963 (Photo: AP) Malcolm X was a legendary revolutionary who is still loved by millions of people. The anniversary of his assassination is an opportunity to reflect on his impact. February 21, 1965, a diversionary scuffle broke out in the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem as…

Claudia Jones: The Communist Black Woman Feared by the FBI

Clara West Claudia Jones speaks at a Communist Party event in the 1940s. Seated behind her is Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Claudia Jones (1915–1964), an Afro-Caribbean woman born in Port of Spain, British West Indies (Trinidad), was a Communist activist in the U.S., holding several responsible positions within the Communist Party and for its publications until…

Federal Bureau of Intimidation vs. International Solidarity: Interview with Omali Yeshitela (APSP) and Joe Iosbaker (FRSO)

Orinoco Tribune Last Friday, Orinoco Tribune had the honor of interviewing Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) in response to recent repression and intimidation tactics launched by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) against him, the APSP, and the Uhuru Movement. On July 29, 2022, the FBI raided Yeshitela’s residence in…