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Benjamin Woods
Social Democracy Will Not Save Us
16 Nov 2022
The author makes the case that liberalism is a dead end and that socialism is the only tool for Black liberation.
Benjamin Woods
Advancing Black Liberation Through Economic Justice
19 Oct 2016
by Benjamin Woods Black America has always revered education as a stairway to progress, but the data show that “education has not created social mobility for Black people, and it has done little to…
Benjamin Woods
Class Struggle and National Liberation in the Movement for Black Lives
30 Mar 2016
by Benjamin Woods The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) must recognize the dynamic relationship between race and class in Black America – contradictions that “can only be resolved through explicit,…
Benjamin Woods
Six Lessons #BlackLivesMatter Can Learn From Amilcar Cabral
08 Jul 2015
by Benjamin Woods The emergent Black Lives Matter mobilization is nearing the juncture where it will grow into a true mass movement for liberation, or take some other fork in the road.…
Benjamin Woods
The Pan-African Cultural Revolution
01 Apr 2015
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South Africa’s Unfinished Revolution
01 Oct 2014
/*-->*/ A Review by Benjamin Woods Nelson Mandela’s rise South Africa’s presidency did not constitute a revolution, but simply a transition to nominal Black electoral political power. A new party…
Benjamin Woods
South Africa’s Unfinished Revolution, A Review by Benjamim Woods
01 Oct 2014
/*-->*/ A Review by Benjamin Woods Nelson Mandela’s rise South Africa’s presidency did not constitute a revolution, but simply a transition to nominal Black electoral political power. A new…
Benjamin Woods
Who and What is “The Left”?
15 Jan 2014
by Benjamin Woods The “Left” resurgence in the U.S. is less than it’s cracked up to be. Not so long ago, luminaries like Bill de Blasio and Elizabeth Warren would have been, at best, referred to as…
Benjamin Woods
A Few Thoughts on Django Unchained
09 Jan 2013
by Benjamin Woods There is no mystery to the appeal of Quentin Tarantino’s blockbuster film. “The enthusiastic response that Django has provoked from Africans demonstrates the desire for art that…
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Human Rights, Neo-liberalism and Mass Incarceration
14 Nov 2012
*/ by Benjamin Woods If African Americans are – finally – prepared to fight their way out of the current crisis, they “must develop a set of tactics, strategies, and objectives to improve…