A Pan-Africanist analysis of the United Nations requires that the institution be assessed through a dialectical materialist lens, through the positive and negative aspects of its historical development and current reality. The question is not simply whether the UN is “good” or “bad” in the abstract, but rather: under what conditions has it served as a terrain of struggle for the oppressed and to what extent should African peoples place trust in the United Nations today. . . .
Opinion Pieces
The WNBA, Cunningham, Kanter & When DEI is Ok
Make no mistake about it, these attacks against trans athletes in women’s sports, has nothing to do with protecting “little girls.” The attacks are really a part of a larger agenda to homogenize the U.S. as a Judeo European Christian society centered around supporting international capital’s continued dominance over the entire planet. . . .
Don’t Hate the Playa, Hate the Game
China’s tremendous economic growth and international influence have led the U.S. ruling class and its policy establishment to turn to propaganda, asserting that China is a menace and an existential threat to American security — a claim that is nothing more than believing the moon is made of cheese. What has actually happened is that China, a country developing socialism based on its own particular historical characteristics, has bested America’s capitalists at their own game. . . .
Declaration of a Zone of Peace
We are witnessing a reorganization of the right wing and neo-fascism in the region, manifested in governments and political forces that align their policies with the interests of U.S. imperialism. The United States has significantly reinforced its military presence in the Caribbean and the Latin American Pacific with ships, fighter jets, and special forces. In various ways, this military expansion has been particularly pronounced in Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Panama. . . .
An African-Centered/Black Socialist Look at the European State as it Shows Itself Through the 501-C-3 System
Seeing the 501©(3) apparatus as a State-like structure helps us to examine their activity as a part of the larger capitalist-racist mode of production focused on accumulation and private property, which the name “nonprofit” helps to mystify. It also helps us see how in creating activity for Left/Black activity in these very fractured categories: arts, housing, east neighborhood or west neighborhood, that it circumscribes our activity in ways very different from what CFI or the Canary Mission are working on and away from what NSPM-7 and the Cuban report are making illegal for the Black/Left. . . .
Testimony Before the United Nations Decolonization Committee – Colonialism’s Detrimental effect on Public Health
As a medical doctor, I have an ethical responsibility to identify the conditions that place populations at risk of disease, disability, and preventable death. In Puerto Rico, many of those conditions are rooted in a colonial relationship that denies Puerto Ricans full sovereignty over the policies that govern their healthcare system, economy, infrastructure, and future. . . .
Exposing the anti-Cuban Revolution Scum in Florida
With their willingness to support the suffering of the Cuban people, and by willing to follow the lead of criminal thugs like Marco Rubio and Trump, the so-called exiles in Florida have demonstrated for the last 67 years that they only care about themselves and their ability to make money. They have made it plain that they will support racism and terror to protect their economic interests. . . .
The Problem with Black American Identity
‘Black’ is not a national identity. It is the name imposed on us through genocidal violence. ‘New Afrikan’ nationhood is an African anti-colonial project internal to the Amerikkkan settler state. To identify as ‘Black American’ is to fold Black resistance into a project of anti-Black world making. . . .