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Statement from the Afro-American Committee Against Genocide, 1982
01 Nov 2023
In the 1980s, African Americans understood the war on Palestine as one of genocide.
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EULOGY: Bloody Neo-Colonialism…, Amiri Baraka, 1983
25 Oct 2023
In this eulogy for dub poet Michael “Mikey” Smith, Amiri Baraka asserts the need for Black and Third World mass organization against the ravages of neo-colonialism, imperialism, racism, and…
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ESSAY The Creation of a Zionist State, African American Solidarity Committee, 1973
18 Oct 2023
The latest intensification of the attack on the Palestinian people demonstrates that Zionism is white supremacy’s last stand.
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ESSAY: West Africa in Evolution, Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1961
10 Oct 2023
The current political turbulence in France’s former colonies in Africa can perhaps be understood as the continuation of an unfinished project of decolonization.
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EDITORIAL: Haiti Had Its Sandino, Jean Lamonthe, 1929
27 Sep 2023
Remembering Haitian resistance “Caco” fighter Charlemagne Peralte, demonized by the U.S. occupation forces as a “bandit,” the same label given to Nicaraguan freedom fighter, Augusto Sandino.
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ESSAY: The Question of Compensation: A Third World Perspective, Norman Girvan, 1972
20 Sep 2023
Where are multinational corporations in discussions of reparations? The late Jamaican political economist Norman Girvan provides an answer.
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SPEECH: Last Words to the Nation, Salvadore Allende, 1973
13 Sep 2023
The September 11, 1973 overthrow of Chile’s Salvadore Allende offers lessons to Haiti, and the radical world.
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MANIFESTO: Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female, Frances Beal, 1969
06 Sep 2023
Revisiting Frances Beal’s Black feminist theoretical tour-de-force.
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EDITORIAL: Joanne Little: American Goes on Trial, Freedomways, 1975
30 Aug 2023
To mark the last days of Black August, we reprint below Freedomways’ 1975 editorial about Joanne Little, a Black woman indicted for killing her white prison guard and would-be rapist.
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SPEECH: Imperialism is the Arsonist of Our Forests and Savannas, Thomas Sankara, February 5, 1986
23 Aug 2023
Thomas Sankara, radical leader and martyr of Burkina Faso, understood that the problem of ecological destruction was rooted in capitalism and imperialism.