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Black Alliance For Peace
AFRICOM Watch Bulletin #40
15 Jun 2022
The latest Black Alliance for Peace AFRICOM Watch Bulletin provides analysis of the U.S. Southern Command and includes an interview with Ahjamu Uni, organizer with the All African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP).
Gerald A. Perreira
Leaders of the Americas and the Caribbean Miss Historical Opportunity to Deal Blow to US Imperialism
15 Jun 2022
The U.S. excluded Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela from the recent Summit of the Americas held in Los Angeles. While there was widespread condemnation against the U.S., only six heads of state had the courage to decline the invitation. An opportunity to strike a blow against U.S. imperialism was lost…
Mark P. Fancher
The Soweto Uprising’s Unfinished Business
15 Jun 2022
Worldwide outrage over the killing of Soweto youth protesting on June 16, 1976 was a turning point in South African history. But the end of apartheid was not the end of racist oppression or corporate domination. What should have been a revolution was betrayed by corruption and the cynical politics…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Habiba Ibrahim’s “Black Age”
15 Jun 2022
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Habiba Ibrahim. Ibrahim is Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington. Her book is Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life.
Pan-African Community Action PACA
No COINTELPRO in DC
15 Jun 2022
April Goggans is an organizer with Black Lives Matter in Washington DC. After years of FOIA requests she has been granted a hearing to determine if the Metropolitan Police Department are required to reveal the extent of surveillance conducted against her. COINTELPRO is not just a program of the…
Maurice Carney
A Quarter Century of a Western-backed War of Aggression Against the Congolese People
17 Jun 2022
Rwanda and Uganda have carried out attacks against the Democratic Republic of Congo for the past 25 years. Their aggressions are carried out with the backing of the U.S. and European nations who aid their theft of Congo's resources.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Flashbacks of wild Boers storming Capitalist Hill
15 Jun 2022
Flashbacks of wild Boers storming Capitalist Hill
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Democrats Aren’t the Only Game in Town for Ethiopian American Voters
15 Jun 2022
Teddy Fikre is an Ethiopian-American independent candidate for Congress in Virginia. He discusses the challenges that his community faces in advocating for their homeland through U.S. electoral politics.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Trend Toward a Multipolar World is Defined by Class Struggle
15 Jun 2022
The emerging multipolar world is the result of struggles for national sovereignty and self-determination, which are connected with the world wide class struggle.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EXCERPT: On the Pan-American Congress, José Martí, 1889
15 Jun 2022
José Martí’s account of the 1889 Pan-American Congress offers lessons for last week’s failed Summit of the Americas.