by Asad Ismi and Krisin Schwartz
For 500 years, capitalism has subjected the earth's peoples to permanent crisis of endless war, massive poverty, environmental degradation and economic instability. Capitalism has been built through slavery, imperialism, colonialism and neocolonialism. More than a billion people have been killed by capitalism making it the greatest crime committed against humanity.
Capitalism IS the Crisis is written by Asad Ismi and produced for radio by Kristin Schwartz, the team that did the indispensable radio documentaries The Ravaging of Africa and The Latin American Revolution.
Racial capitalism is insidious and malleable, and can adapt to nearly any political context.
To read In the Wake is to read a love letter to Black people in the everywhere of this world.
Mutual aid tends to expose the reality that people lack what they need, while also creating spaces to meet those needs and build a shared analysis.
Hubert Henry Harrison was a Black intellectual inferno, a warrior in the cause of a race- and class-based politics.
Israel has accelerated its plans to exploit Africa’s many political and economic opportunities, especially as the continent is now an open ground for renewed global attention.
