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INTERVIEW: The Problem of Haiti is the Same as Latin America: Gerard Pierre-Charles, 1983
15 Jan 2025
Despite selling out Haiti, former Haitian leftist Gerard Pierre-Charles’s 1983 diagnosis of the imperialist assault on current movements still resonates today.
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ESSAY: Unconscionable Costs, Ronald V. Dellums, 1983
08 Jan 2025
The late Ronald V. Dellums shows us how to fight against the Pentagon-inspired madness of military spending and nuclear proliferation.
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POEM: Reflections after the June 12th March of Disarmament, Sonia Sanchez, 1982
18 Dec 2024
“I have come to you tonite not just for the stoppage of nuclear proliferation, nuclear plants, nuclear bombs, nuclear waste, but to stop the proliferation of nuclear minds….”
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INTERVIEW: France and the Colonial Roots of Black Citizenship, Maboula Soumohoro, 2021
11 Dec 2024
“How do you fight racism in a land where racism obviously exists, the far right is ascendent, but race is not accepted as a category?”
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ESSAY: Can Negroes Afford To Be Pacifists? Robert F. Williams, 1959
04 Dec 2024
“Non-violence is a very potent weapon when the opponent is civilised, but non-violence is no match or repellent for a sadist.”
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ESSAY: The Prospects for Fascism, Manning Marable, 1981
27 Nov 2024
Manning Marable reminds us that US fascism is institutional and normalized. The parallels of his 1981 essay with the present are obvious – US fascism remains ascendant.
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ESSAY: Revolution and the Negro, CLR James, 1939
20 Nov 2024
Haiti’s Battle of Vertières reminds us that resistance is not futile, that victory will come.
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ESSAY: Why I Won’t Vote, W. E. B. Du Bois, 1956
06 Nov 2024
“I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no "two evils" exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.”
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SPEECH: Everybody is Quiet But the Nationalist Party, Pedro Albizu Campos, 1950
30 Oct 2024
Hardly a “floating island of garbage,” Puerto Rico remains a colony, treated like trash by the US. Read this ledger of the cost and crimes of the US colonial project.
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POEM: The Earth Is Closing On Us, Mahmoud Darwish, 1995
23 Oct 2024
“Where should we go after the last frontiers? Where should the birds fly after the last sky?”