Topic: Thinking Politically
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Accomplices Not Allies – Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex
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The ally industrial complex has been established by activists whose careers depend on the “issues” they work to address. These nonprofit capitalists advance their careers off the struggles they ostensibly support. They often work in the guise of “grassroots” or “community-based” and are not necessarily tied to any organization.They build organizational or individual capacity and power, establishing…
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Reading the Mess the Democrats Have Made
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Democrats have emerged since Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016 as a party of liberal authoritarians intent on imposing their political hegemony. Nothing is out of bounds. Democrats are determined to stand a candidate in 2024 whose senility has been publicly on display for the past two years. The party hierarchy has already declared Biden will…
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What went wrong with the Communist Movement in India: Answers to a Layperson’s Questions
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A lot of ordinary people in India – both women and men have a lot of respect for the communists and communist movement. It is based on their direct knowledge from interactions with the communists in trade union movements and other social and political movements. They are also impressed by the personal integrity of most…
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FBI Attacks The Black Liberation Movement…Again
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The Black is Back Coalition issued this call to their 14th annual national conference to be held in St. Louis, Missouri on August 12 and 13. On July 29, 2022 the U.S. government initiated a watershed assault on the African Revolution headquartered in the U.S. with an attack on the home of the Chairman…
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A Geopolitical European Union?
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On taking office as President of the EU Commission in 2019, Ursula von der Leyen said she wanted to create a ‘geopolitical Commission’: “We have enormous tasks ahead of us: Brexit, climate change, 5G expansion, the rise of protectionism, and the reform of the European asylum system – to name just a few. To manage…
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It’s Time for the Left to Assert Itself in the Mainstream Media
It’s Time for the Left to Assert Itself in the Mainstream Media –Kim Scipes Donald Trump is about as useless as a tastebud on an anus. Anyone who has paid attention to the verdict in the E. Jean Carrol case and/or the CNN “townhall” on May 10 in New Hampshire knows that Trump is…
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DOJ Indictment Against The APSP Is An Old Tactic
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Federal indictments against the African People’s Socialist Party are part of a long history of attacks on Black leftists. In the recently-announced Department of Justice indictment against members of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) the United States Department of Justice claims that the Russia foreign intelligence service “weaponized” the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by…
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THE DOJ IS USING “FOREIGN AGENTS” ACCUSATIONS TO REPRESS BLACK LIBERATION ORGANIZERS
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On July 29, 2022, Omali Yeshitela and his wife, Ona Zene, awoke at 5 o’clock in the morning to the sound of flash grenades and drones, as heavily armed FBI agents stormed into their home searching for evidence of organizational ties to the Russian government. Yeshitela is the 80-year-old chair of the African People’s Socialist…
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Erasure vs. Sumud: How the Nakba Came to Define the Collective Palestinian Identity
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On May 15, 2023, the Palestinian Nakba will be 75 years old. Palestinians all over the world will commemorate the tragic occasion, known as the ‘Catastrophe’, when nearly 800,000 Palestinians were made refugees and nearly 500 towns and villages were ethnically cleansed of their inhabitants in historic Palestine between late 1947 and mid-1948. The depopulation…
