Racism

Africans in the U.S. are a Colonized People: A Comment on the Indictment of the African People’s Socialist Party

May 4, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Action!!, Anti-War, Free Speech, Racism, US Hypocrisy

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, May 3, 2023 Red Scares, McCarthyism, COINTELPRO, “Black Identity Extremists” are all indicative of how the colonized are treated by the state. “America is just as much a colonial power as England ever was…what do you call second-class citizenship? Why, that’s colonization. Second-class citizenship is nothing but 20th (century) slavery. How you gonna[…]

Why Americans Are Shot At The “Wrong House”

April 29, 2023 UNAC Editor Gun Violence, Police Brutality, Racism, U.S. Aggression, White Supremacy

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, April 26, 2023 People in the U.S. venerate its violent history, support violence committed by the state, and remain very racist, yet express shock when individuals kill and maim. In recent days there have been widely reported stories about individuals in the United States who were shot because they were in the “wrong” location. The most[…]

McCarthyism Resurges!

April 26, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Black Liberation Movement, Censorship and Propaganda, Lawfare, Racism

Radical U.S.-Based Organizations Condemn U.S. Indictments of African People’s Socialist Party Members by Julie Varughese, published on Towards Freedom, April 20, 2023 Activists on the left, as well as radical U.S.-based organizations, came out yesterday against the indictments of three members of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP), one former party member, and three Russian nationals for allegedly attempting to[…]

US Hands Off the Antiwar Movement and the African People’s Socialist Party

April 25, 2023 UNAC Editor Breaking News, Censorship and Propaganda, Featured, Free Speech, Racism, Russia, Statement, White Supremacy

Statement by the United National Antiwar Coalition The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) condemns the indictment of Omali Yeshiteli, chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) and other members for expressing their views on Ukraine. The indictment charges them of “conspiring to covertly sow discord in U.S. society, spread Russian propaganda and interfere illegally in U.S. elections.” This indictment[…]

Indictment of African People’s Socialist Party Is a Racist Assault on the Black Liberation Movement

April 22, 2023 UNAC Editor Lawfare, Racism

Statement by the Black Alliance for Peace, April 19, 2023 The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) unequivocally condemns and opposes the recent indictment of four members of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP), alongside three Russian nationals. The unsealed indictment states that on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, a federal grand jury in Tampa, Florida, levied charges of “conspiring to covertly[…]

Netanyahu’s Anthology of Errors, Fabrications & Falsehoods

March 28, 2023 UNAC Editor Israel, Zionism

Asa’ad AbuKhalil, published on Consortium News, March 3, 2023 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new book, Bibi: My Story, is an interesting and entertaining read for anyone who is comfortable with his or her own racism and with demonizing subject populations as inferior people. If you don’t care about human rights violations and if you are a champion of war[…]

U.S. Systemic Racism: From Slavery to George Floyd and Tyre Nichols

March 15, 2023 UNAC Editor Police Brutality, Racism, The War at Home

by Malik Miah, published on Socialist Action, March 9, 2023 Tyre Nichols, 29, was murdered by police in yet another modern-day lynching in Memphis, Tennessee on January 7. The city is nearly 70 percent African American, including a Black female police chief. What was unexpected and a surprise to many is that the five police officers were all African American.[…]

Why Rage Against the War Machine is So #AntiwarSoWhite

February 13, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Protest, Resistance, The War at Home, Trumpism, US Politics

by Jacqueline Luqman, published on Black Agenda Report, February 8, 2023 I’m looking at this Rage Against The War Machine rally that is being organized by the Libertarian Party and I am genuinely confused about how folks on the left are involved in this at all. Oh, I understand the need to revive and mobilize a strong not just anti-war[…]

Colonial-Capitalist Fascism and Its Deadly Outcome

January 31, 2023 UNAC Editor Climate Change, Police Brutality, Racism, The War at Home, War on the Earth, War on the Poor, White Supremacy

Statement by Black Alliance for Peace, January 30, 2023 The State Murder of Tortuguita in Atlanta and Tyre Nichols in Memphis Are Inextricably Linked The cold-blooded assassination of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, also known as Tortuguita, Spanish for “Little Turtle,” is a reminder that fascism in the United States cannot be reduced to the political intentions of avowed white nationalists.[…]

MLK: Beyond Vietnam to Ukraine

January 18, 2023 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Censorship and Propaganda, Militarism, Ukraine

by Rick Sterling, published on LA Progressive, January 16, 2023 n April 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered an eloquent and stirring denunciation of the Vietnam war and US militarism. The speech titled “Beyond Vietnam” is relevant to today’s war in Ukraine. In the speech at Riverside Church, King talked about how the US had supported France in trying to[…]