“It is perfectly clear that the war of aggression waged by Morocco against the [Western] Saharan people is a purely colonial war.”
This week, we discuss sportswashing and the success of the call to boycott the U.S. and the recently ended World Cup. First, begin with the Trump administration’s domestic repression and plans to criminalize leftist organizing.
Black political self-determination is always tenuous, even when Black people hold office. Now that DSA and other leftists are winning elective office, the contradictions of Black politics are becoming more and more acute.
NSPM-7 is perhaps the most dangerous policy that many don't know exists. A domestic counterinsurgency mechanism that criminalizes anti-fascist organizing as terrorism.
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"hand ‘em another $350 billion to fight Communism?" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Memories of a sovereign Venezuela collide with the reality that it is now a U.S. vassal state.
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“It is perfectly clear that the war of aggression waged by Morocco against the [Western] Saharan people is a purely colonial war.”
The Democratic Party establishment's continued support for Israel's genocide is not just a moral and political liability but also an economic one,…
Black is beautiful woke up a generation, and it is time for another awakening that abandons American identity and embraces African authenticity.
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The House just voted to permanently fuse the U.S. and Israeli military industries. While this may be interpreted as Israel seizing control of the…
The Trump administration has accelerated its attacks on leftist organizations and individuals while also justifying its genocidal siege of Cuba with…
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FIFA and the USA are nothing more than corrupt institutions who rig, renege, and rationalize the fact that neither adheres to their own purported standards - whether it’s the so-called Declaration of Independence or a so-called commitment to “respecting all internationally recognised human rights and shall strive to promote the protection of these rights.” The US and FIFA have, once again, rendered the beautiful game into an ugly exemplar of white “supremacy,” colonialism, and abject hypocrisy. This hypocrisy is exactly why we called for a Boycott of this World Cup and why we continue to educate and mobilize the masses to this effect. Fascism and Football are a terrible combination as the US and FIFA have once again proven.
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John Parker is Coordinator of the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice in Los Angeles and a candidate for a congressional seat in California’s 37th District.
