In this week’s segment, we hear about how the Black mayor of Buffalo, New York targeted Black and Latinx communities to raise revenue with traffic citations which resulted in a civil rights lawsuit challenging the practice. But first, we discuss the recent election in South Africa with a representative of the South African Communist Party. The African National Congress (ANC) lost its parliamentary majority and must now form a coalition government without jeopardizing its history of fighting for the liberation of African people.
Faced with the blockade of vital oil routes, the extreme dependence of modern agriculture on fossil fuels foreshadows not only high prices but also a food shortage capable of generating global social…
Free trade deals, water contracts, and military training programs are quietly binding one Latin American government after another to Tel Aviv.
Recent killings at the hands of federal agents have fueled protests across the US, including a nationwide day of action on July 18.
The human rights groups’ suit came as the Trump administration vowed to destroy the International Criminal Court entirely.
The fight for the ballot has always been tied to a wider war against Black political power, against workers, against the people paying for empire abroad and austerity at home.
