Patriarchy is the single most life threatening social disease assaulting the male body and spirit in our nation. Yet most men never think about patriarchy, what it means, how it is created and sustained. bell hooks explains why ending patriarchy is necessary to liberate men from emotional crippling. . . .
Liberation Archives
The Bay Of Pigs Invasion, 65 Years Later
65 years ago, Cuba defeated a U.S. military invasion in just three days. Today, the empire is trying again with oil blockades, regime change threats, and a media campaign for war. The playbook hasn’t changed. Cuba is still standing. . . .
In a White man’s prisons: Walter Rodney, decolonization, and abolition
In 1971, Walter Rodney wrote a moving tribute to Black revolutionary and political prisoner George Jackson, whom many would call a forefather of the modern abolitionist movement. In this writing, Rodney accurately connects prisons in the US to the long and racist legacy of prisons throughout the colonized world. . . .
The Believer and the Class Struggle
Class struggle is such a universal and constant phenomena that at all times, men act in relation to the necessities of life in relation to their modes of production and in relation to their present and future interests.
After all, hasn’t Religion chosen and taught this form of struggle by setting good against evil, truth against falsehood, justice against injustice, solidarity against selfishness? . . .
An Open Letter From Assata Shakur
I have been a political activist most of my life, and although the U.S. government has done everything in its power to criminalize me, I am not a criminal, nor have I ever been one. . . .
Eduardo Mondlane and the Role of Intellectuals
“The intellectual by the virtue of his training, is useful to any society, whether capitalist or socialist, and needed particularly by revolutionary parties/organizations. But to be really effective he must be purged of his reactionary ideas which would do harm to the struggle.” . . .
A Stand Before the United Nations
Mariam Makeba, one of the greatest African entertainers to ever grace this earth, spoke before the UN in 1963. Here are her remarks. . . .
Apartheid and Patriarchy
The following text was reprinted from “Ideas and Action” Bulletin 126, published in 1978 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. It is a very colorful look into a little slice of life under apartheid, touching lightly on how those material conditions interact with patriarchy. Migrant workers are employed in jobs which pay low wages – in public works, railways, mining, refuse collecting, brick yards, docks, steelworks and even grave digging. In 1974, of the men I knew, those who were employed by some city council as cleaners or park hands earned between 30 and 35 rand . . .