All-African People’s Revolutionary Party Amilcar Cabral Source: pro-africa.org At the beginning of this year, BBC World Histories Magazine asked historians to nominate the ‘greatest leader’ –someone who exercised power and had a positive impact on humanity – and to explore their achievements and legacy. More than 5,000 readers voted, and in second place, with 25…
For this week’s #OmaliTaughtMe, the Chairman will present PART I of a 3-part series on “The Theory of African Internationalism” which comes from Chapter IX of Vanguard – The Advanced Detachment of the African Revolution, starting on page 273. The last hour of the study will be dedicated to “Ask the Chairman” an open Q&A…
For this week’s #OmaliTaughtMe Sunday Study, the Chairman will conclude Chapter X, “The Question of the Nation” in Vanguard – The Advanced Detachment of the African Revolution, starting on page 354. Home
Jodi Dean Liberation School Editor’s note: The following is the second of a two-part article based on a talk the author gave at The People’s Forum in July 2020. This second part focuses on Kollontai’s writing on the family and love. Part one covers Kollontai’s struggle for proletarian feminism against bourgeois feminism as well as…
Jodi Dean Editor’s note: The following is the first of a two-part article based on a talk the author gave at the People’s Forum in July 2020. This first part focuses on Kollontai’s struggle for proletarian feminism against bourgeois feminism as well as her struggle to center gender equality within the party’s platform. Part two,…
Uhuru, comrades! This week’s Sunday Study will continue from Vanguard-The Advanced Detachment of the African Revolution, Chapter X, “The question of the nation”, starting page 343, “African petty bourgeoisie attacks Garvey, nation”
Michaela Warnsley Liberation News Editors’ note: this article is adapted from a talk given by Michaela Warnsley at the NYC virtual organizing conference “Stop the War on Black America: Organizing to Win,” on Aug 9. In the context of the current mass uprising, political history has held a special significance this year. Juneteenth, the celebration…
Frantz Fanon: A Dying Colonialism Frantz Fanon’s seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution. Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern revolutionary theory as The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks….
Franz Fanon: Towards the African Revolution This powerful collection of articles, essays, and letters spans the period between Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961), Fanon’s landmark manifesto on the psychology of the colonized and the means of empowerment necessary for their liberation. These pieces display the genesis of some…
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective “If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free.” —Combahee River Collective Statement The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist…
