As I sit reflecting on this Thanksgiving holiday I can’t help thinking that few things rival Amerikan hypocrisy.
While a huge national memorial sits in Washington, DC in memory of the Jewish Holocaust, Amerikans celebrate a national holiday called Thanksgiving
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Rodney Reed, another innocent Black man, is set to die at the hands of an uncaring criminal (in)justice system.
It’s not a system that doesn’t care because of being broken, but one that doesn’t care about the truth and never
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Book Review: Maoism and the Chinese Revolution by Elliot Liu
by Tom “Big Warrior” Watts and Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Tom: When asked if I would like to collaborate with my dear friend and comrade, Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, in writing a
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Aramark, an Indiana-based food vendor that made the Forbes list and was named by Fortune 500 as the 27th largest employer, is a textbook case of capitalist corporate profiteering.
At the profit end, with contracts in venues ranging from sports
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[from Socialism and Democracy, 27:1 (March 2013); published text at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08854300.2012.760266]
Introduction
Virginia’s prisons claimed 22 years of my life. Those years were not kind or gentle. The last 14 were spent in extreme solitary confinement, in Virginia’s
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For Juneteenth (June 19th) 2019 the New Afrikan Black Panther Party (NABPP), and its mass organization the United Panther Movement (UPM), organized a People’s Barbecue at Westside Park in Newark, NJ where the NABPP is headquartered.
The six-hour event,
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Under the leadership of Chairman Shaka Sankofa Zulu the New Afrikan Black Panther Party and its mass organization the United Panther Movement, has been organizing “No Prison Fridays” protests in Newark, NJ since April.
These mass rallies which quickly grew
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This past April a politically astute Native American historian, Tom “Big Warrior” Watts, was banned from Facebook for supposedly posting anti-Semitic hate speech.
The alleged hate speech was a reply he’d posted to a meme
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An Interview with Comrade Rashid by Marquis Winston of Kite Line Radio (2018)
Marquis: What was the intent of the authorities to move you to Florida? Did they see it as disconnecting you from the contacts you had in Texas?
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It’s been some years since I’ve been able to communicate through radio outlets. This on account of a series of transfers between various states’ prison systems—from Virginia to Oregon, then Texas to Florida and back to Virginia—as reprisals for my
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