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  •  | Malcolm X  Africa | MR Online

    Malcolm X’s revolutionary trip to Africa

    Originally published: Toward Freedom on May 22, 2023 by African Stream (more by Toward Freedom)  | (Posted May 24, 2023)

    African Stream tells the story of Malcolm X’s political transformation that led to his assassination a few months after his return.

  •  | Hundreds of activists took to the streets on March 4 uplifting the anti imperialist womens movement  credit Hannah Ballesteros | MR Online

    International Women’s Alliance uplifts militant grassroots struggles in first U.S.-based conference

    Originally published: Toward Freedom on March 14, 2023 by Julie Varughese (more by Toward Freedom)  | (Posted Mar 16, 2023)

    Hundreds of mostly women gathered at Catholic University’s Maloney Hall during the first weekend of March to convene the first U.S.-based conference of a worldwide grassroots women’s network called the International Women’s Alliance, as well as help strengthen its fledgling U.S. chapter.

  •  | Before Crips Fussin Cussin and Discussin Among South Los Angeles Juvenile Gangs by John C Quicker and Akil S Batani Khalfani Temple University Press Philadelphia 2022 | MR Online

    Book Review: ‘Before Crips’ dismantles dominant narrative on gangs

    Originally published: Toward Freedom on November 29, 2022 by Danny Shaw (more by Toward Freedom)  | (Posted Nov 30, 2022)

    For the past several decades, the media has severely manipulated the question of gangs and their socio-economic origins. John C. Quicker and Akil S. Batani-Khalfani’s new book, “Before Crips: Fussin’, Cussin’, and Discussin’” among South Los Angeles Juvenile Gangs, exposes the mainstream stigmas and half-truths surrounding gangs.

  •  | Black political organizations and other anti imperialist groups condemned the US Federal Bureau of Investigations FBI raiding early Friday morning the properties of the African Peoples Socialist Party APSP and its solidarity organization in Saint Louis Missouri and in Saint Petersburg Florida Based on the description APSP appears to be one of several unidentified groups and people implicated in a 25 page indictment of a Russian national Aleksandr Ionov The Moscow based founder of the nonprofit Anti Globalization Movement of Russia AGMR has been accused of attempting to influence US based groups to turn against the United States and work in favor of Russia Anyone who opposes US imperialism or who has made common cause internationally is endangered Black Agenda Report Executive Editor Margaret Kimberley wrote on Facebook Not surprising that a Black organization is the first on their hit list The raid began at 5 am July 29 at the Saint Louis home of APSP Chairman Omali Yeshitela and his wife and APSP Deputy Chair Ona Zené Yeshitela Yeshitela said in a Facebook livestream later that day that the APSP was targeted for its support of Russia during the military operation the country has been undertaking in Ukraine since February 24 Among several allegations the FBI accused Ionovs group of paying US activists to attend two conferences in Russia It also said Ionov helped a group conduct a tour in the United States to drum up support for a petition charging the US government with committing genocide against African descendants Yeshitela admitted meeting with Ionov twice in Russia Suddenly were supposed to become tools like Black people dont have minds of our own to find out what our reality is and whos responsible for it Yeshitela said in the livestream Its white people doing self criticism and uniting to give money Thats where the money is coming from Uncle Sam Crisis of US Imperialism Yeshitela said while the United States was targeting Black activists it has failed diplomatically Theyre doing this in part because not a single African countrynot even neocolonial sycophantswant to unite with the United States and the United Nations in terms of how they are targeting Russia in this Ukraine Russia question he said referring to the economic sanctions slapped on Russia after it entered Ukraine in February When Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky recently held a virtual meeting with African countries 93 percent of heads of state did not attend despite Western pressure This exposes the crisis the United States that US imperialism is in said APSP Director of Agitation and Propaganda Akilé Anai in a livestreamed press conference in Saint Petersburg Anai said FBI agents lured her outside her home early Friday morning saying her car had been broken into Upon opening her car they forced her to hand over her devices she said Yeshitela 80 said he and Ona were awoken Friday morning to the sound of a voice blaring through a megaphone outside their home asking them to come outside with their hands up Flashbang grenades were set off throughout the working class Saint Louis neighborhood Yeshitela added He also said a drone almost hit Onas face after she opened the homes front door Law enforcement agents lately have deployed drones into buildings to conduct a visual search before agents enter Yeshitela said FBI agents handcuffed the couple and forced them to sit on the street curb while agents scoured their home They indicated they had a search warrant related to the indictment he said The FBI freed the couple after several hours but not without confiscating from their home all of their devices such as computers and phones according to Yeshitelas livestreamed account The FBI was unavailable as of press time Black Scare Red Scare Black activists have long denounced the US governments anti communist rhetoric going back to the early 20th century saying such calls to take down communists really have translated into attempts to dismantle Black liberation movements and other liberation movements in the United States In reality what anti communismanti Marxism does is to transform anything counter hegemonic or non conforming into subversion foreignness or disloyalty by punishing it as communist communist inspired or communist infiltrated and therefore illegal illicit or criminal said Dr Charisse Burden Stelly in a recent talk Burden Stelly an associate professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University has written a soon to be released book Black Scare Red Scare 2023 It attempts to document how the US governments anti communist policies repress Black and other oppressed people for organizing for their liberation This she has said helps to protect what she calls racial capitalism in which the most degrading labor is forced upon increasingly exploited racialized groups US Governments Hysterical Response Black political groups denounced large segments of the US political left for believing Black activists are stooges of Russia or the former Soviet Union We agree that APSP doesnt have to apologize for fighting for justice for all oppressed and particularly African People like our ancestors Marcus Garvey Malcolm X Martin Luther King and the Black Panther Party who were spied on jailed and assassinated for standing up for the freedom and justice for African People worldwide said the central committee of Pan Africanist organization All African Peoples Revolutionary Party in a statement issued Saturday Activists like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr who were called communists were assassinated Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey who advocated for the unification of Africa under Pan Africanism and the end of European colonialism in Africa was briefly imprisoned in Atlanta for what some consider the politically motivated charge of mail fraud Trinidad and Tobago born US based communist Claudia Jonesafter whom Toward Freedoms summer editorial internship was namedwas deported to the United Kingdom for her activism We believe this repression to be a hysterical response to the United States loss of legitimacy in the context of the deepening crisis of capitalism and US global hegemony said the Black Alliance for Peace BAPs Coordinating Committee in a statement released Saturday The unleashing of policing and counterintelligence forces domestically and increased militarism and warmongering abroad in the name of national security are the only avenues left to the US ruling class that is engulfed in an irreversible economic crisis They represent the hallmarks of a naked fascism that the US ruling class appears to be increasingly committed to in order to maintain the rule of capital Then BAP added a warning in its statement While it is APSP today it will ultimately be the rest of us tomorrow Resistance is our only option Julie Varughese is editor of Toward Freedom AFRICAN PEOPLES REVOLUTIONARY PARTY ALEKSANDR IONOV ANTI GLOBALIZATION MOVEMENT OF RUSSIA BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT BLACK LIVES MATTER BLACK PEOPLE CAPITALISM FBI IMPERIALISM INDICTMENT RUSSIA UKRAINE Related Articles Filipinos Call Out Marcos Duterte Government in War Torn Philippines Book Review The Late Glen Fords The Black Agenda Lays Out Blueprint for Honest Journalism 9 Arrested in Police Crackdown on Protests in Tunisia Ahead of Constitutional Referendum Struggle for Justice Continues in Panama Real Debt Trap Sri Lanka Owes Vast Majority to West Not to China Haitians Looked to China  Russia to End UN Mandate Renewed for 1 More Year RELATED ARTICLES Truck containing group of Afro Colombians during strike Racism Exclusion and State Violence The Brutal Repression of Peaceful Protest in Colombia Belarusian regime change activist Roman Protasevich armed with an assault rifle in a neo Nazi Azov Battalion uniform in Ukraine  credit The GrayZone Media Coverage of Belarusian Airplane Arrest Fits Pattern of New Cold War Village of Karaglukh in the Hadrut Province of Nagorno Karabakh  credit by Maxim atayants is licensed under CC BY SA 40 Armenia Hostage of Russia and Turkey Amid Power Play SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER TRENDING 9 Arrested in Police Crackdown on Protests in Tunisia Ahead of Constitutional Referendum Struggle for Justice Continues in Panama Real Debt Trap Sri Lanka Owes Vast Majority to West Not to China Haitians Looked to China  Russia to End UN Mandate Renewed for 1 More Year | MR Online

    ‘Tools of Russia’: FBI raid on Black Political Party seen as part of ‘Black Scare/Red Scare’ in United States

    Originally published: Toward Freedom on July 31, 2022 by Julie Varughese (more by Toward Freedom)  | (Posted Aug 02, 2022)

    Black political organizations and other anti-imperialist groups condemned the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) raiding early Friday morning the properties of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) and its solidarity organization in Saint Louis, Missouri, and in Saint Petersburg, Florida.

  •  | A residential block in the Petrovsky District in the west end of the city of Donetsk was recently hit by alleged Ukrainian military shelling | MR Online

    ‘God will sort them out’: Ukrainians of Donbass beg NATO to end war

    Originally published: Toward Freedom on May 25, 2022 by Fergie Chambers (more by Toward Freedom)  | (Posted May 28, 2022)

    The Russian “special military operation” in Ukraine reached its 90th day and the Western press continues to be inundated with unverified claims of war crimes Russian forces allegedly have committed. Accusations have been lodged against the Russian military for mass graves in Bucha, a narrative which has been widely accepted in North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries.

  •  | The Afghanistan Papers A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock and the Washington Post Simon  Schuster New York 2021 | MR Online

    ‘The Afghanistan Papers’ leaves a critical question unanswered

    Originally published: Toward Freedom on May 13, 2022 by Patterson Deppen (more by Toward Freedom)  | (Posted May 16, 2022)

    While Afghanistan may finally be free of outside military occupation, Afghans are still suffering the deadly consequences of 40 years of U.S.-led subversion and war.

  •  | Protesters on February 10 holding signs that read No war with Russia | MR Online

    Ukrainian Refuseniks on why many won’t fight for Ukraine

    Originally published: Toward Freedom on April 12, 2022 by Fergie Chambers (more by Toward Freedom)  | (Posted Apr 18, 2022)

    Aside from reports of civilians volunteering in a variety of non-military support roles, Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky and other state officials have urged civilians to take up arms. Then, on March 9, Zelensky approved a law that allows Ukrainians to use weapons during wartime and negates legal responsibility for any attack on people perceived to be acting in aggression against Ukraine. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense even posted a graphic online with instructions on how to launch Molotov cocktails at tanks.

  •  | In Bogotá during Colombias national strike two women hold placards that say We didnt give birth to children of war and They got firearms we got fire in our soul  credit Antonio Cascio | MR Online

    After decades of oppression, Colombian women lead front lines of National Strike

    Originally published: Toward Freedom on May 28, 2021 by Natalia Torres Garzon (more by Toward Freedom)  | (Posted Jun 09, 2021)

    “Far too many women are fighting—not only for their rights, but for the rights of all,” says Yomali Torres, an Afro-Colombian activist. The 26-year-old joined throngs of women in the streets of Colombia over the past month to demand an end to patriarchal oppression at the hands of a U.S.-backed neoliberal state.

  •  | Ramiro Sebastián Fúnez | MR Online

    Q&A: Filmmaker Ramiro Sebastián Fúnez on “Nicaragua Against Empire” & Getting the story right

    Originally published: Toward Freedom on May 24, 2021 by Julie Varughese interviewing Ramiro Sebastián Fúnez (more by Toward Freedom)  | (Posted Jun 08, 2021)

    The delegation I was on was called, “No to Sanctions in Nicaragua.” The ATC is Nicaragua’s oldest and strongest peasant workers union that played a central role in the Sandinista Revolution and was the organization that facilitated the land redistribution of over 4 million acres to peasants from the landlords, owned by the Somoza family dynasty. – Ramiro Sebastián Fúnez

  •  | Black Spartacus The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture | MR Online

    Book Review: ‘Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture’

    Originally published: Toward Freedom on May 21, 2021 by Danny Shaw (more by Toward Freedom)  | (Posted Jun 07, 2021)

    Surrounded by assasination plots and having been deceived from all sides, Louverture “was extremely reluctant to communicate his intentions even to his leading military officers, or to share power with them in any meaningful way.”

  •  | A shantytown in São Paulo Brazil borders the much more affluent Morumbi district Credit Tuca Vieira  Oxfam | MR Online

    The Billionaire boom: 82% of global wealth produced last year went to richest 1%

    Originally published: Toward Freedom on January 22, 2018 (more by Toward Freedom)  |

    Forida is a 22-year-old sewing machine operator in a clothing factory in Dahka, Bangladesh. She often works 12-hour days producing clothes for brands such as H&M and Target. Sometimes, during busy production cycles, the hours are even longer.

  •  | Protesters march at the G20 Summit in London 2009 | MR Online

    Dilemmas of the radical left in a dying capitalist system

    Originally published: Toward Freedom on August 15, 2017 (more by Toward Freedom)  |

    In what I call the pan-European world (North America; western, northern, and southern Europe; and Australasia), the basic electoral choice for the last century or so has been between two centrist parties, center-right versus center-left. There have been other parties further left and further right but they were essentially marginal.

  •  | Fascist torch march in Charlottesville 8112017 | MR Online

    Mobilizing against the fascist creep

    Originally published: Toward Freedom on August 17, 2017 by E.Z. Kay (more by Toward Freedom)  | (Posted Aug 18, 2017)

    When economic crisis grips a nation, when contradictions within the ruling class and the state create instability and social upheaval, fascists act as the foot soldiers of capitalism. Their function is to disrupt and destroy efforts on the part of the working-class and oppressed masses to organize against their miserable conditions.

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