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TRANSCRIPT: The roots and consequences of African underdevelopment, Walter Rodney, 1979
In May 1979, the Center for Afro-American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles hosted a symposium titled The Political Economy of the Black World. We are publishing, for the first time, Walter Rodney’s thoughtful presentation at this symposium.
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‘Apartheid’ designation ignored as Israel kills children in Gaza AGAIN
Israel’s recent bombing of the Gaza Strip from May 9–13 killed 33 Palestinians, including seven children. FAIR looked at coverage of these attacks from the Washington Post, New York Times and CNN, and didn’t find a single reference to Israel as an apartheid state, despite this being the consensus in the human rights community.
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Malcolm X’s revolutionary trip to Africa
African Stream tells the story of Malcolm X’s political transformation that led to his assassination a few months after his return.
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The ongoing Nakba means ongoing resistance
The “ongoing Nakba” means that the Zionist drive to expel and eliminate the Palestinian people continues to this day. That is why Palestinian resistance to Zionism will remain as long as Zionism exists.
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Nakba at 75
The Nakba, “catastrophe” in Arabic, refers to Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine, which includes the expulsion and subsequent displacement of Palestinians, the destruction of Palestinian towns and villages, and other attempts to eradicate the Palestinian people from their ancestral homeland in the territory that became the State of Israel.
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“Israel is built on the ruins of hundreds of Palestinian villages”
The International People’s Assembly (IPA) organized an online event to mark 75 years of the Nakba and the Palestinians’ continued resistance against the Zionist colonial apartheid occupation of Israel
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The murder of Jordan Neely Abetted by Eric Adams, worst Black Mayor in the Country
Black New Yorkers should have a semblance of confidence that their lives can’t be snuffed out without a killer being punished.
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Africans in the U.S. are a colonized people: A comment on the indictment of the African People’s Socialist Party
Red Scares, McCarthyism, COINTELPRO, “Black Identity Extremists” are all indicative of how the colonized are treated by the state.
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Hypocritical outrage: What’s wrong with burning flag of an Apartheid State?
On Wednesday a Montréal teenager filmed himself taking five Israeli flags attached to the outside fence of Hebrew Foundation School in the borough of Dollard-des-Ormeaux (DDO). With Arabic music playing in the background, he subsequently burned them.
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Chinese “police stations” and war propaganda
The U.S. can shoot down balloons, call names, and claim that China has “police stations” in New York City. It cannot stop the decline of its own making as it engages in war propaganda theater.
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Humanitarian activist Harry Belafonte dies at 96
Apart from his humanitarian activism, Belafonte was a longtime critic of the U.S. foreign policy.
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Is this man a Russian agent operating in the Black community of St. Louis?
The Justice Department has just indicted him and three other members of the African People’s Socialist Party for advancing Russian propaganda—though it looks more like the Biden administration was looking for a scapegoat to justify its anti-Russia offensive and found one in a familiar place.
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Black people used to attack revolutionary governments
The question of how Black people fare in a particular country can be a legitimate issue or a ruse used in the furtherance of U.S. regime change plots.
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Co-opting the revolutionary history of MLK
I often think about how one of the most revolutionary black men in history can be completely altered; completely reconstructed; undergoing a kind of magical jolly negro transmorgification?
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Resisting Eugenics and Racial Capitalism: Passover and the Tradition of Shifra and Puah
This world needs revolutionaries who refuse orders to kill and exploit. Two midwives named Shifra and Puah were such revolutionaries. When a racist ruler asked them to limit the reproduction of slaves—out of fear of a slave uprising—they disobeyed.
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Josie Mpama
The twentieth century was marked by national liberation struggles that emerged in Africa and Asia, as well as in Latin America, where neocolonial structures had subordinated the formally independent countries. The achievements of the Russian Revolution in 1917 inspired the peasantry and the working class across the Global South. The fight for equality and liberation […]
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Secret COINTELPRO plot to infiltrate and destroy the American Indian Movement: “We wanted them to kill each other”—FBI agent admits after 5 decades of silence
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.
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Challenging binary gender roles using Nkrumahism-Toureism-Cabralism
Gender binary–the classification of gender e.g. a “man” or “woman” into two, distinct, and opposite categorie–is a construct of class development and division and is therefore inconsistent with the humanist values of our Nkrumahist/Tureist/Cabralist ideology.
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American Jews who bought ‘Jewish democracy’ label for apartheid need to wake up
We are all trying to wrap our heads around the political events happening in Israel now, and the speed with which they are happening.
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Why embracing anti-colonialism made Malcolm a marked man
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.