Being in Cuba shifted everything I thought I knew. I saw the cruelty of the U.S. blockade firsthand: trash piling up, days without power, people who can’t flush toilet paper because of our government. But I also saw something I didn’t expect: Cuban people who don’t hate Americans. They know who their enemy is, and it’s not us. Now I carry the responsibility to tell the truth about Cuba. . . .
US Imperialism
Castro, Cuba, and Pan-African Commitments
Today as the United States tightens its blockade, imposes destabilizing oil embargoes, and works tirelessly and systematically to strangle the Cuban people into submission, we are called to remember what Cuba gave to Africans when it did not have to give. The same internationalist spirit that sent Cuban troops to Angola and doctors to the Congo, Jamaica, and Venezuela demands that we meet this moment with equal resolve. Solidarity is not a sentiment. It is a practice, and Cuba practiced it for decades at enormous cost. The least we can do is raise our voices, organize our communities, and struggle for an end to the blockade now. . . .
Evidence that the Empire is Crumbling
One day soon, capitalism will join communalism, slavery, and feudalism, as former systems of dominance in the world. And the people’s of the planet will have their time to shape scientific socialism in the ways needed. For African people that will manifest itself in the creation of one unified socialist Africa. For others, it may look different, but all of this work will serve the purpose of advancing socialist construction for the following stage of human development i.e. world communism, and so on and so on. Kwame Ture could not have provided a more accurate example of this when asked about why he moved from Black power to Pan-Africanism. . . .
Remembrance & resistance are collective, personal, material
The plantation is alive and well, it is a key tool and context of the war against African peoples in the u.s., the Caribbean, and globally. If we don’t tap into our historical, political, terrestrial, and ancestral memories of this fact, we fail to understand what we are up against, we allow their assaults to break our spirits, and we lose the recipes for resistance. . . .
From the IndoPacific to the Hudson: US War Games in Korea, IOF Trained NYPD & ICE Terrorism in NYC
On August 15th, six cities across the US marked the 80th anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonialism with a national day of action for the US Out of Korea campaign, organized by Nodutdol, an organization of Korean diaspora and comrades organizing for a world free of imperialism, and for Korea’s re/unification and national liberation. The Black Alliance for Peace is a proud endorser of the campaign and partner in the struggle to oppose eighty years of US occupation – US Out of Korea! . . .
“Crime”, The Trojan Horse For Colonial Control
Within the United States, the discourse on crime functions as the engine of domestic imperialism, particularly over the African/Black internal colony. The bipartisan commitment to “tough-on-crime” policies has systematically normalized the criminalization of poverty and Blackness, creating a populace conditioned to accept ever-more repressive measures. The tragedy is not just a figure like Donald Trump’s brazenness, but the Democratic Party’s decades-long failure to dismantle the very systems that enable it. . . .
Local DC Organization Explains Trump Takeover of DC As a War Against Working Class Communities
In Trump’s address he made pointed calls for cities, such as Chicago, New York and Los Angeles to bring crime under control, implying a desire to enact similar measures in these same cities. This along with a declaration that “this is liberation day” echoes and appropriates the language of developing movements on the left who seek to resist these latest advancements of fascist repression in the U.S. The language calls to mind other federal crackdowns on organizers through the use of RICO charges and anti-terrorist legislation, which precede the Trump Administration. . . .
U.S. trying to set fire to the Caribbean
They would do well to take a look at the fate of those who at various points decided to make themselves willing pawns of the US in its drive for global domination. They are on the road of Saddam Hussein and Manuel Noriega and they may come to find out, like Zelensky of Ukraine, that the US will use you and discard you when it no longer has uses for you.
The people of the Caribbean cannot allow the US and its lackeys to set fire to our home. . . .