Nota del equipo editorial: Esta es una traducción del artículo “Study, fast, train, fight: The roots of Black August“, puede encontrar la versión original aquí. Introducción En agosto de 1619, africanos esclavizados tocaron suelo en el primer asentamiento inglés...
Esta es una traducción del artículo “George Jackson: Black Revolutionary“, puede encontrar la versión original aquí. Nota del editor El siguiente artículo fue escrito por Walter Rodney para un número de 1971 de Maji Maji, la revista trimestral del ala juvenil del...
A day celebrating Black liberation utilized for white supremacy Editor's note: This article was previously published on Liberation News in 2012. What we now know as Memorial Day began as "Decoration Day" in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. It was a...
This is the second of a two-part series on Liu Liangmo. You can find the first part here. Introduction Liu Liangmo’s story is as remarkable as it is unknown. An anti-imperialist, pro-Communist Christian, with a significant relationship to the Black Liberation Movement...
Editor's note: The full text of Claudia Jones' famous 1950 speech, "International Women's Day and the Struggle for Peace," delivered at a rally and published in the March 1950 issue of Political Affairs, the monthly magazine of the Communist Party, USA. The...
This is the first of a two-part series on Liu Liangmo. You can find the second part here. Introduction Liu Liangmo (1909-1988) was a prominent Chinese anti-imperialist, religious leader and, from 1942-1945, columnist for the Pittsburgh Courier—at that time the...
Editor's note The following article was written by Walter Rodney for a 1971 issue of Maji Maji, the quarterly journal of the youth wing of the Tanganyika African National Union. The text is held at the Robert W. Woodruff Library in Atlanta, Georgia, under the...
Introduction In a recent book on the ongoing relevance of Walter Rodney’s work, Karim F. Hirji notes that, “as with scores of progressive intellectuals and activists of the past, the prevailing ideology functions to relegate Rodney into the deepest, almost...
Introduction In August 1619, enslaved Africans touched foot in the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States. The centuries since witnessed the development of a racial system more violent, extractive, and deeply entrenched than any other in...