Last week nine Black men were charged with the alleged 1973 Black Liberation Army assassination of police sergeant John V. Young in San Francisco. Charged were former Black Panther Party members and supporters Harold Taylor, 58, of Panama City, Fla.; Francisco Torres, 58, of Queens, New York; Richard Brown, 65, …
Another article about last week’s bust that seems to be unavailable at the url where it originally appeared – so it’s getting mirrored too: The Next Battle of the Social War: Nine Black Panthers and state repression January 23, 2007 should be a day that lives in infamy within the …
This excellent article by Wanda Sabir gives the background to last week’s arrest of nine former Black Panther Party members and supporters is from the San Francisco Bay View, whose site seems to be down at the moment, so i am mirroring it here. i should point out that i …
Kikuyu are rounded up for internment and interrogationduring white Kenya’s “Operation Anvil”, April 24th 1954 The dirty war Britain fought to maintain its control of Kenya was tantamount to genocide. The entire Kikuyu nation (the largest national group within Kenya) was considered to be under the sway of the Mau …
Mexican authorities recently released a report on the government’s use of violent repression to crush its opponents during the 1960s-80s. The full report has now been posted on the Web site of the National Security Archive.
Zolo Agona Azania is one of many Black revolutionaries who have spent most of their adult lives in prison, punished for their politics by the racist American “just us” system. I have been in touch with Zolo for some years now, and have been privileged to publish a pamphlet of …
I can remember when some radical anti-racists were still willing to argue that “human rights groups” like B’nai B’rith Canada should be considered allies. Their staunch Zionism, chummy relationship with the police, and other political misdeeds were of interest only to “sectarians.” Well, those days are long gone, for as …
The following just arrived in my email box – as you may have noticed i have been out of town for over a week, and thus have not been able to keep up my regular blogging. My apologies for letting the ball drop – the context for the below is …
Earlier this year, as many readers of this blog surely know, there were several heated crises within a larger standoff between First Nations people, the Canadian government, and settlers in the Ontario town of Caledonia. The Native people had been (and are still!) standing their ground in a “reclamation” of …
Robert Seth Hayes, who has been a political prisoner held by the United States for over thirty years, was recently denied parole for the fifth time. He cannot appear before the parole board again for another two years. He was refused based on the purely political – as opposed to …