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Two US Parties, One Imperial Policy

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford

02 Mar 2021

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Margaret Kimberley · Two US Parties, One Imperial Policy

“We should not expect any fundamental alteration” in US foreign policy under President Joe Biden, said Ajamu Baraka, national organizer of the Black Alliance for Peace, at a joint webinar of the US Peace Council and the Venezuelan section of the Committee for International Solidarity and Struggle for Peace. “Both of these imperialist parties are committed to the same fundamental agenda: to maintain and expand US global colonial capitalist hegemony,” said Baraka, in a talk entitled, “The People’s Struggles and the Emerging Situation in the United States.”

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