The War at Home

Chairman Omali Yeshitela, Uhuru 3 Put State on tTrial in Fightback Against Bogus Charges

April 13, 2024 UNAC Editor Attacks on the Movement, Black Liberation Movement, Peoples' Movements, Racism, Reparations, The War at Home, US Hypocrisy, War on the Poor

by Penny Hess, published on Uhuru Solidarity, March, 29, 2024 We are known as the Uhuru 3! In yet another political attack by the U.S. government against the African Liberation Movement, African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) Chairman Omali Yeshitela and two members of the Party’s Solidarity Front are currently under federal indictment and facing 15 years in prison on the[…]

Government’s “New Math” Rips Off Social Security Beneficiaries $6,200 Annually Since 2,000

April 13, 2024 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Economics, The War at Home, US Hypocrisy, US Politics

By John Pottinger, published on Socialist Action, March 27, 2024 Yes, this article is talking about the so-called “Entitlement” that ordinary working people pay out of their wages week in and week out. Only the low wage earners pay relative to their full wage while higher wage earners pay against a portion of their wages consistent with the wages of[…]

Bar the War Criminals From King Day Celebrations

January 15, 2024 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Racism, The War at Home

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 10, 2024 Most Martin Luther King birthday celebrations are tawdry displays of political cynicism and cooptation. The people must recapture the day from war criminals and their Black misleadership puppets The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929. His birthday became an official federal holiday in 1983[…]

Southern Human Rights Organizing and the Amazon Workers Struggle

December 25, 2023 UNAC Editor Labor, The War at Home

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, December 20, 2023 Jennifer Bates is an organizer with the BAmazon Union , the effort to organize Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama. BAmazon Union is affiliated with the Retail, Wholesale & Department Store Union (RWDSU). I spoke to Ms. Bates at the Southern Human Rights Organizers Conference (SHROC) which was recently[…]

Largest Union Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza

December 16, 2023 UNAC Editor Israel, Israel-Palestine, Labor, Palestine, Protest, The War at Home

by Rose Lemlich, published on Left Voice, December 2, 2023 The UAW International union has joined calls for a ceasefire and is exploring how to divest from Israel. This is a step which should inspire union activists to take up the fight to bring their union into the fight against Israel’s attack on Gaza and the struggle against imperialism. At[…]

Musings from the Margins #4: Black Lackeys, White Social Democrats, Human Rights and Empire’s Decline

December 16, 2023 UNAC Editor International Law, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, The War at Home, United Nations, US Hypocrisy, US Politics

Black Agenda Report Editor and Columnist Ajamu Baraka has thoughts on Black Misleadership, faux Human Rights, the Decline of the Empire, White Social Democrats and other issues. What makes the white supremacy so incredibly dangerous is what I call the psychopathology of white supremacy. It is a racialized narcissistic cognitive disorder that centers so-called white people’s and European civilization and renders the afflicted with[…]

Court Rules Against Voting Rights—Opens Door to Return of Jim Crow Racist Laws

December 13, 2023 UNAC Editor Democracy and Consent, Lawfare, Political Analysis, The War at Home

by Malik Miah, published on Socialist Action, December 6, 2023 A federal court on November 20 issued a decision that would severely curtail enforcement of the Voting Rights Act,(VRA) that could affect voters of color nationwide and will probably be appealed to the Supreme Court. The decision opens the door wider to a return to Jim Crow laws that once[…]

Charges Dropped on the Tampa 5, Students for a Democratic Society Protesters Walk Free

December 6, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Free Speech, Legal Struggles, Peoples' Movements, Protest, Resistance, Statement, The War at Home

Statement, published on Fightback News, December 5, 2023 Fight Back New Service is circulating the following statement from the Emergency Committee to Defend the Tampa 5. The Tampa 5 are proud to announce a great victory: their misdemeanor and felony charges will be dropped! This victory was made possible by months of mobilizations of people across the state of Florida,[…]

Baltimore & Israel: A Global Gang of Colonizers

November 30, 2023 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Militarism, Militarized Police, Occupation, Palestine, Political Analysis, Poverty, Rights of Opressed Peoples, U.S. Aggression

by Netfa Freeman, published on Black Alliance for Peace, November 17, 2023 From Haiti to Puerto Rico and from the Congo to Baltimore, African (Black) people suffer from colonialism. Current atrocities happening to the people of Gaza and the West Bank clearly show the colonial reality of life and death in Palestine. What we see daily in Palestine is a[…]

54th National Day of Mourning Demands: ‘Land Back, from Turtle Island to Palestine!’

November 29, 2023 UNAC Editor Imperial Wars, Indigenous peoples, Native Americans, Rights of Opressed Peoples, The War at Home, US Hypocrisy, White Supremacy

By Workers World Boston Bureau posted on Workers World, November 28, 2023 Plymouth, Massachusetts ~Over 2,000 Indigenous people and their supporters — with thousands more in attendance via live stream — shut down business as usual in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Nov. 23 to commemorate the 54th National Day of Mourning (NDOM). Here — where millions of tourist dollars depend on[…]