A Poem by Amiri Baraka, born in 1934, in Newark, New Jersey, USA, is the author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism, a poet icon and revolutionary political activist who has recited poetry and lectured on cultural and political issues extensively in the USA, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe. […]
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By Jay Janson April 04, 2013 “Information Clearing House” - At home, on TV, American kids watch machine gun thrillers and news videos of US soldiers and planes killing bad guys in six or seven countries at a time. ln school they learn that in 1968, beloved national hero Martin Luther King Jr. was shot […]
UhuruNews The U.S. “drug war” that imprisons and murders African people is big business for just about every sector of the capitalist economy. The multi-billion dollar prison industry has created countless jobs and spin-off businesses, serving as an economic stimulus for white people. More than that, the U.S. and British governments, through the big Wall […]
By Rashid Johnson Capitalism’s Insane Logic Capitalist logic proclaims no one has the right to exist, to be here, except the wealthy. This illogic inheres in the very system itself. Early capitalist economists like Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo expressed it without shame. They explained, in a world ruled by capitalism only the rich have […]
by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA In his book A Slaveholders’ Union, Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic, George William Van Cleve captures, with biting and incisive irony, a contradiction which in fact gets to the very essence of this country and its posturing as the champion […]
by Richard Valdemar – Oakland Police officers were forced to deal with Black Panther violence in the late 1960s. In one year, police arrested 348 Panthers. Black Panther Party logo courtesy of Richard Valdemar. A recent TV documentary on Los Angeles Crip gangs included voice-over narration that Crip founders were inspired by the Black Panther […]
Anonymous Judge Blows the Whistle: America is nothing more than a large Plantation and ‘We the People’ are the Slaves The Vatican-Led Illuminati Matrix and U.S. Constitution The hidden truth behind the formation of America Anonymous Judge Blows the Whistle: America is nothing more than a large Plantation and ‘We the People’ are […]
One of our regular contributors compiles each month’s birthdays of political prisoners of color. Check out May’s dates and send a card to our comrades! William Phillips Africa AM4984 SCI Dallas Follies Rd., Drawer K Dallas, PA 18612 May 12, 1956 http://www.onamove.com Alvaro Luna Hernandez #255735 Hughes Unit Rt. 2, Box 4400 Gatesville, TX 76596 […]
Written by: Scot Nakagawa Scot Nakagawa This article originally appeared at Racefiles.wordpress.com. I’m often asked why I’ve focused so much more on anti-black racism than on Asians over the years. Some suggest I suffer from internalized racism. That might well be true, since who doesn’t suffer from internalized racism? I mean, even white people internalize racism. The […]
