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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.
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LETTER: For George, The Seventh of August Movement, 1971
16 Aug 2023
A letter commemorating George Jackson speaks to the origins of Black August.
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ESSAY: Why Africa Must Unite, Kwame Nkrumah, 1963
09 Aug 2023
Sixty years ago, Nkrumah told us why it was important that Africa unite. Today, his message and roadmap for Pan-African unity is needed more than ever.
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INTERVIEW: France’s Colonial Past and Blowback, Glen Ford, 2015
02 Aug 2023
The late Glen Ford would probably refer to events in Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, and elsewhere as the “blowback” from France’s colonial past.
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SPEECH: French Nuclear Tests in the Sahara, Tawia Adamafio, 1960
26 Jul 2023
A reminder of when Accra was at the center of struggles against nuclear imperialism. African people have always been at the forefront of peace and sanity.