Ruth Maclean’s article, like countless others in Western media, took place in an Africa without leaders, without public health officials or activists.

The tradition of Caribbean intelligentsia insists on a grounding with the massive against the elites.

By gradually driving occupied populations from their land and concentrating them into dense and fractured pockets, both South Africa and Israel thwart political autonomy and true democracy.

Prison and war abolition are up against the exact same profiteers, politicians, and pundits, as well as many of the same people “serving” as soldiers, police, and guards.

The sheer brutality of human bondage created an overwhelming fear among whites of the enslaved’s capacity and desire for retribution.