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‘Another assault on the African (Black) youth’; BAP-Baltimore and Ujima People’s Progress Party denounce Maryland’s unjust juvenile justice bill
The Black Alliance For Peace Baltimore Citywide Alliance and The Ujima People’s Progress Party of Maryland strongly condemns Maryland House of Delegates for advancing House Bill 814.
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Making sense of the interregnum since 2007-9
There is no doubt that we live in perilous times. The COVID-19 pandemic, the Russo-Ukrainian war, the environmental crisis, the care crisis, the cost of living crisis, the migration crisis, and now the unfolding disaster in the Middle East continue to pile up chaotically.
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Why are U.S. lawmakers dead set on banning TikTok?
Past efforts to ban the enormously popular app in the United States have failed. Recent success could be linked to the popularity of the Palestine solidarity movement.
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Arundhati Roy on Gaza: N̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ Again
The millions of protestors on the streets of Europe and the U.S. are the hope for the future of the world..
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Billionaires go bunkers
The year is 2070. A global catastrophe—climate change, nuclear winter, civil war: pick your poison—recently ended civilisation and opened a new chapter in your life.
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The booksellers’ revolt
The READER Act would have required vendors to rate books on “explicitness” before selling to schools—and blacklisted those that didn’t comply.
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House votes against TikTok—and for more Cold War
A bipartisan effort to effectively ban the social media network TikTok in the United States has taken a great leap forward.
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In the midst of genocide in Gaza–The legacy of Rachel Corrie lives on
During her time in Gaza, Corrie stayed with a family in Rafah. In her letters home, she referred to the difference between there and here as a “virtual portal into luxury”.
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Queen Anne’s Bounty: the Church of England struggles with its slavery connections
The paltry new fund embraced by the Church of England is nowhere near what real justice demands: handing over the estimated £1.3 billion derived from trafficked Africans to their descendants, explains STEVE CUSHION.
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Venezuela’s election in the crosshairs of new U.S. regime change scheme
As Venezuela prepares to head to the polls in July, the U.S. has already started drumming up suspicion and doubt around the electoral process.
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U.S. imperialism creates refugees, then criminalizes them at the border
U.S. imperialism creates refugees, then criminalizes them at the border.
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The Central African Republic–the end of Françafrique and the return of imperialist competition
The Central African Republic has, despite being at the centre of the continent, been a country on the margins of global power since independence. Despite a conflict which has lasted for more than a decade, the country remains largely ignored. Ben Jackson writes that while African conflicts are often underreported, for example the war in Sudan barely gets a mention, the situation in the Central African Republic demands our attention.
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The Turkiye–Israel trade boom: Talk is cheap, but money talks
While denouncing Israel’s actions in Gaza as a ‘genocide’ and ‘inhumane,’ Erdogan is stealthily supplying Israel and its military forces with all the necessary goods to keep on ticking.
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Internet ‘gardeners’ resist the communication blackout of Gaza
Since October, Gaza has been an internet black hole. But the Italian NGO ACS has helped build a network of e-SIM internet hotspots known as the Gazaweb.
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Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues (Part 2)
Relentless evolution creates ‘resilient, dangerous foes’ in the Anthropocene.
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The Gates of the Great Continent: Palestine, China, and the War for Humanity’s Future (Part 4)
Now, as in the worldwide revolutionary upsurge of the 1960s-70s, the strongest emotive and analytical connections between China’s historical experience and the Palestinian resistance come through the memory of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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Some of my best enemies are feminists: on Zionist feminism
Historically speaking, Zionist feminism shares key characteristics of colonial feminisms of the nineteenth century.
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Sex, liberation and the Russian Revolution
My main argument is: On balance, the fledgling socialist country did more to liberate human sexuality and gender in a shorter period of time than any society since the rise of classes. Despite the serious political errors the country made, I believe those errors would have been corrected had there been the time and space for the organized voices of oppressed groups to develop and assert their rights.
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Charging Canada’s genocidaires
Dozens, possibly two hundred, Canadians are currently subjugating Palestinians in the West Bank and slaughtering them in Gaza.
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Capitalist trap for scientific advances
There is a paradox at the core of the efflorescence of science that has occurred over the last millennium.