February 20, 2024
Rather than looking out for hi-tech solutions, Wallace insists that we should learn from the international peasants’ movements such as La Via Campesina in its call for food sovereignty and resistance against global corporate trade and food regime.....
February 20, 2024
....Internationalism in the Black American community, in particular, has been critical, not least because of the potency of white supremacy on these shores. Historically, international alliances have allowed us to construct a countervailing power against our domestic foes. You see that, for example, with regards to the Haitian Revolution from 1791 to 1804, which ignites a general crisis of the entire slave system, not least in the Americas, which can only be resolved with its collapse....
February 20, 2024
To the Editor: I never thought that I’d live to see this day: a full, front-page article that exposes the realities of Palestinian life under Israel’s military rule....None of it is news to Palestinians living in the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem or within Israel. Nor is it news to many thousands of your Jewish readers, like me, who have visited Palestine and closely followed what is happening on the ground.....
February 20, 2024
News articles have emphasized the fact that border encounters for March and April were at the highest level since 2000, but the differences between now and then are rarely mentioned. The number of Border Patrol agents has nearly doubled since the early 2000s, the agency’s budget has tripled, and most of the 650 miles of barriers now at the border were constructed after 2000. The total monthly border apprehensions may be similar, but migrants have much less chance of eluding today’s outsized enforcement apparatus....
February 20, 2024
"And so when we take these things into account, it underscores the necessity, the obligation, of internationalizing the struggle and -- not seeing 74-75 million people voting for Trump in November 2020 as some sort of aberration, but as an abomination -- that it is, that calls for more stringent measures, more stringent measures that I'm afraid to say, are now being bogged in the U.S Congress..."
February 20, 2024
In this interview, Horne goes so far as to argue for the migration of Black people from the U.S., abroad because, "given the dangerous turn" things have taken here, "we're going to need people to mobilize on our behalf" from overseas, "in case things get more precarious"....
February 20, 2024
There are several important lessons to note from Washington Bullets....The first is the importance of collective struggle in breaking free from capitalism....The other lesson is the lengths to which the capitalist state is willing to go in order to destroy the chances of socialism and a radical redistribution of wealth and power...
February 20, 2024
Sumaya Awad, a Palestinian scholar and activist based in New York City: "Seeing a growing movement of unabashedly anti-Zionist Jewish groups is an important and inspiring reminder that these groups are building on a long legacy of Jews who, long before Israel established itself as a settler-colonial state, rejected Zionism and rejected Israel’s ethnic cleansing project... "
February 20, 2024
In the early 1600s, new settlers, were uniting across class and even religious lines, and what united them was their “whiteness”. The settlements had become a kind of joint European enterprise. Religious differences, that had so hampered the Spanish invasions, fell away as the white invaders came together “to bludgeon indigenes and batter Africans”.
February 20, 2024
"....activists ought to be clear-eyed about the limitations of regulatory interventions. While there is certainly utility in digital media and tech reform, antitrust legislation and similar policy courses are insufficient for large-scale social transformations that characterize Marxist aspirations..."
