Topic: Thinking Politically
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Green Social Thought Endorses “Black People’s March” in Washington, D.C. and “Days for Reparations to African People”
Green Social Thought Endorses “Black People’s March” in Washington, D.C. on November 4 November 4, 2023, marks the 15th Annual March on the White House sponsored by the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations, co-sponsored by an Anticolonial Free Speech Coalition that was formed last July. This year the “Black People’s…
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A Coup and a Catastrophe: the Politics of the Battle of Chile 50 Years on
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11 September 1973, saw a military coup which did not just overthrow the elected Chilean government but unleashed savage repression, which left 30,000 workers dead and countless others tortured, maimed, without work and hungry. One of the aims of the coup [was] to fragment and dismember one of the most insurgent working classes on the…
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Humanitarian Imperialism Created the Libyan Nightmare
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We came, we saw, he died,” Hillary Clinton famously quipped when Muammar Gaddafi, after seven months of U.S. and NATO bombing, was overthrown in 2011 and killed by a mob who sodomized him with a bayonet. Libya, once the most prosperous and one of the most stable countries in Africa, a country with free healthcare and education,…
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Remembering Salvador Allende and the Chilean Counterrevolution
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The reality, however, was that, contrary to the prevailing explanations of the coup, which attributed Pinochet’s success to U.S. intervention and the CIA, the counterrevolution was already there prior to the U.S. destabilization efforts; that it was largely determined by internal class dynamics; and that, even without the help of Washington, the Chilean elites found…
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How the American Invasion Unleashed Jihad
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It’s easy to look at the political forces today in the Middle East and assume that political Islam has always been dominant, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. In the 1940s and 1950s, the Iraqi Communist Party was one of the most powerful actors in Iraqi politics; at its height, it was a…
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The Politics of Degrowth
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Finally, degrowthers recognize that the most fundamental human need is for a habitable planet. They are more sober, more clear-eyed than most on the Left in recognizing that facing up to the multiple environmental crises will require much more than nationalization of the energy sector and investments in renewable energy and electric vehicles (EVs). It…
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Radicals Stop Hiding: Support The Uhuru Movement Against FBI Repression
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On Tuesday, April 18, 2023, the dominant corporal expression of white power in the world, known collectively as the United States of America, made a formal declaration of war against one important expression of the collective will of Africa and African people to be free when it attacked three members of the Uhuru Movement. (…)…
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SearchSearch Search… New Evidence US Government Killed Malcolm X
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On July 25, a news conference was held that included a formerly publicly unknown eyewitness to the assassination, Mustafa Hassan, as well as Malcolm’s daughter Ilyasah Shabazz, and civil right attorney Ben Crump, concerning the lawsuit. Hassan provided new information about the police role in the assassination. At the time of the assassination Hassan was…
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Socialist Gym Rats Fought to End Slavery in America
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t would be strange if today the Gold’s Gym franchise began training paramilitary units across the United States — and even stranger if they were fighting for the Left instead of the Right. But at the beginning of the Civil War, the German Turner gyms did precisely that.
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Ousted Niger President Calls For U.S. Intervention In Own Country
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The ousted Nigerien president Mohamed Bazoum has asked for U.S. help to defeat the military junta that seized power. As a key argument, Bazoum brought up that earlier this year, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Niger “a model of resilience, a model of democracy, a model of cooperation.” The ousted President did not make a single…
