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The Revolutionary Foundations of Our Americas

Our first step is to recognize that working class Black/African and Brown peoples of Latin America, the Caribbean, and within the U.S. have a common enemy that seeks to exploit and dominate the region. Our joint struggle is to defeat this enemy by attacking its various forms of domination – (neo)colonialism, patriarchy, capitalism, and imperialism. . . .

Anti-West protests in Kinshasa the capital of Congo

How Imperialism Engineered a Failed State in the Congo

Let’s start with the fundamental truth: the Congo’s current condition is no accident. When journalist Benedicte Kumbi Ndjoko says “In Congo, globalized capitalism creates permanent chaos,” he’s describing a system functioning precisely how it was designed, a system where the West gets rich by keeping the Congo poor, destabilized, and open for plunder. The modern Democratic Republic of Congo is not a country that collapsed, it is a colony deliberately organized for extraction and exploitation. This should be one of the wealthiest and most powerful nations on earth. It holds the minerals that power our phones, electric cars, and the . . .

APEC Summit Brings More US Troops to Perú Amid National Strike

As the contradictions of the US backed neoliberal coup regime continue to heighten and the masses of Perú see their material conditions worsening as executives of transnational corporations and government officials plot on selling off their lands and resources, the struggle against the neocolonial Peruvian state and the interests it serves will continue. The Peruvian poor and working class can plainly see what the state prioritizes and when they rise up, they find themselves tear gassed and shot at by US/EU/NATO trained and funded armed forces. . . .