The US acted as midwife to South Africa’s apartheid system, said Dr Gerald Horne, author of “US Imperialism and Anti-Communism vs Liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela.” Horne, a professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston and possibly Black America’s most prolific living political writer, said the US Carnegie Corporation formulated “the blueprint” for South Africa’s apartheid system, imposed in 1948 as “a combination of neo-slavery and Jim Crow on steroids.”
At a time when propaganda almost totally obscures history, Dr Campbell provides an overview of China’s road to – socialism?
This week readers discuss lead-poisoned water in Newark and the the imperialist attack on Syria. We share your letters for “
An exploration of how to simultaneously act on and under radars of all kinds.
This novel puts the “too often secreted issues of intraracial classism and colorism” up front and center, along with Black cop contradictions and color-coded witnesses.
How can a union tolerate three or four different “tiers” of workers, with different pay scales and rights, and then call for “solidarity”?
