“We need revolutionary change in this country,” said Ajamu Baraka, the veteran human rights activist who ran for vice president on the Green Party ticket and is currently organizing the Black Alliance for Peace. The Democratic Party has been “the main impediment for us developing the kind of radical, oppositional politics and consciousness that we have to build,” said Baraka, an editor and columnist for Black Agenda Report. “Most of our community understand where the Republicans are coming from, but it has been the Democratic Party that has been the source of ideological confusion” in Black America.
"(Don’t) 'Say his name!'" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Somalia remains a laboratory for imperialist military attacks and interventions intended to prevent the formation of a stable and secure state.
While China and Russia honor their historic defeat of fascism, the West has revitalized it. The doctrine of exceptionalism serves as a modern justification for genocide and imperial aggression.
The rhetoric of crime prevention has always served to enforce colonial order. Today, this same logic drives the policing of Black neighborhoods as a form of urban pacification.
A federal crackdown in Washington, D.C., is escalating a bipartisan war against the Black working class. This assault, enabled by local Black misleadership, exposes the colonial nature of policing.
