“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.
Despite the dangers it presents, the crisis in Ukraine is ripe for satire.
The human rights industrial complex attacks the Cuban government with a dubious petition.
The high covid death toll in this country is a result of capitalist austerity policies.
Many African nations refrain from condemning Russia's role in the Ukraine crisis.
The word "whataboutism" is used to silence and insult opponents of U.S. imperialism. It should be embraced as a means of revealing what is too often kept hidden.
