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Marco Rubio's speeches invoking a shared Western civilization are part of the ideological consolidation of fascism, mobilizing racial solidarity to defend a declining capitalist order. We want allies who can defend themselves so that no adversary will ever be tempted to test our collective strength. This is why we do not want our allies to be shackled by guilt and shame.
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Lula's narrow runoff victory over Flávio Bolsonaro preserved Brazil as one of the last bulwarks against the far right in Latin America, a victory achieved through extraordinary popular mobilization Brazil held its ground, one of the last bulwarks against the advance of the far right in Latin America. The veteran Lula pulled it off, winning the runoff with 64,256,232 votes against the 59,826,041 cast for the far right, represented by Flávio Bolsonaro: 51.79 percent versus 48.21 percent.
Behind French uprising: Impact of de-colonialization in Global South
By Julia Wright October 19, 2026 Julia Wright sent the following, lightly edited message regarding protests happening in France on October 17, 2026. It also gives a good explanation of the importance of the immigrants in the movement, both today and in 1968. Students in France demonstrate for better schools. We know the police state does not select the dates of its oppression against us without design.
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The protests spreading across Spain, India, France, Chile, and other countries share a common root in the global neoliberal order of austerity, privatization, and deregulation. The current protests against economic distress and deteriorating social and material conditions in several countries stem from one issue: the global neoliberal order.
A Decade in Review: Situation-Awareness-Based Agent Transparency and Human-Machine Teaming
Abstract Over the past decade, the Situation awareness-based Agent Transparency (SAT) framework has become a foundational model for the design of effective human-machine systems. As machine autonomy increases, the opaque nature of artificial intelligence can impede collaboration. The SAT framework addresses this challenge through a three-level structure—Perception, Comprehension, and Projection—that clarifies an agent’s reasoning and intent for human partners.
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The late Dr. Johanna Fernández left an awesome intellectual and activist legacy that includes her 2010 documentary film “Justice on Trial: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal.” Global peace and justice communities lost a warrior queen on July 30, 2026, when Dr. Johanna Fernández, associate professor of history at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, joined the ancestors. She had been suffering from non-small cell lung cancer, which is particularly painful in its late stages.
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"54 years after his assassination by the Zionist entity, Ghassan Kanafani’s career, politics, and dedication to the Palestinian Liberation struggle remain instructive for anti-imperialist struggle in the face of murderous repression." Originally published in Scalawag. On the morning of July 8, 1972, a car bomb exploded outside of a house in Beirut. 36-year-old novelist, editor, and poet, Ghassan Kanafani, was killed, along with his 17-year-old niece, Lamees Najim.
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Johanna Fernandez touched many lives through her scholarship, activism, and belief that people themselves can change history and be "the ones we've been waiting for." When I heard of the passing of Johanna Fernandez, my heart was filled with sorrow and profound gratitude. Sorrow for the loss of a relentless supporter of justice and truth.
when the body becomes a voice
By Julia Wright March 13, 2026 Capitol police, assisted by pro-war U.S. Senator Tim Sheehy, forced Marine Corps veteran Sgt. Brian McGinnis out of a Senate hearing where he was protesting the U.S.-Israeli war of aggression against Iran, breaking his arm on the way out and arresting him, charging him with assault. McGinnis, who is running in North Carolina for the U.S. Senate on the Green Party ticket, was active with the 2024 Freedom Flotilla.
Minnesota 9 — now say their names: pastor, lawyer, journalists and resistance leaders | Black Agenda Report
No Deaths. No Injuries. No Deaths. No Injuries. No Property damage. Unlike 16th Street Church blast blowing 4 little Black girls to bits. No Deaths. No Injuries. No Deaths. No Injuries. No Property damage. Unlike lil white supremacist snake slithering into Mother Emanuel and massacring 9 worshippers. No Deaths. No Injuries. No Deaths. No Injuries. No Property damage. Unlike anti-Semitic shooter slaughtering 11 congregants Tree of Life synagogue. No Deaths. No Injuries. No Deaths. No Injuries. No Property damage.
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The Democratic Party is useful only to the oligarch class, who give them orders. Doing anything that serves the people is never on the agenda. They will not address the ICE violations of law and human and civil rights. The Trump administration focuses relentlessly on immigration enforcement as a political tool. That focus isn’t surprising considering that an important goal of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement is to Make America White Again, or rather more white than it is now.
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He had a history of healing. History of showing up to rooms, sometimes surgically Masked. He had a history of healing. History of showing up to rooms in PPE: Personal Protective Equipment. He had a history of healing. History of showing up to rooms monitoring vitals: heart rates, blood pressure, oxygen saturation. He had a history of healing. History of showing up to rooms and helping turn battered bodies away from lurking bed sores. He had a history of healing.
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When political energy is channeled into opposing a figurehead, that energy is diverted from the work of building the popular power needed to challenge the empire he merely leads.
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From the front lines of the Black Power movement to a Georgia prison cell, the life of Imam Jamil Al-Amin represents a continuous thread of resistance and the state's relentless retaliation against it. Originally published in Black Alliance for Peace. To speak of Imam Jamil Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown) is to speak of a life lived in courageous chapters.
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“There is and always will be, until every Black man, woman, and child is free, a Black Liberation Army.” Born enslaved in the United States, Assata Shakur died free in Cuba. As the tributes and plaudits to this fierce and uncompromised Black revolutionary roll in, we want to remember Shakur through her own words. Shakur’s Assata: An Autobiography, written in Cuba and published in 1988, remains a classic text of the Black struggle and should be required reading at this time.
Settler Colonialism in Light of F. Fanon: Algeria yesterday, Kanaky today... (Part 1) | Black Agenda Report
As settler-colonial violence escalates from Kanaky to Palestine, Fanon’s century-old warnings are critical today—capitalism’s genocidal expansion demands revolution. Originally published in Saïd Bouamama's blog. The year 2024 marked the centenary of the birth of Amilcar Cabral, a Guinean and Cape Verdean thinker who remains largely unknown for his contributions to national liberation processes and struggles.
Settler Colonialism in light of F. Fanon: Algeria yesterday, Kanaky today... | Black Agenda Report
As settler-colonial violence escalates from Kanaky to Palestine, Fanon’s century-old warnings are critical today—capitalism’s genocidal expansion demands revolutionary violence in return. Originally published in Saïd Bouamama's blog. The year 2024 marked the centenary of the birth of Amilcar Cabral, a Guinean and Cape Verdean thinker who remains largely unknown for his contributions to national liberation processes and struggles.
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Poetry as a Unifying Weapon
My first encounter with poetry was a haiku by my father. He would say to me, “You can write them, too.” After his death, I finally ventured into writing those short poems and realized they were all about breath, how we breathe the world in and out, in moments of inter-being. When Eric Garner and George Floyd were blood-choked to the point of being definitively deprived of breath — poetry became a legitimate weapon, enabling us as a death-bound people to breathe, whatever the pressure.
We know who the heroes are - a poem
By Julia Wright January 22, 2025 In memory of Aaron Bushnell and the others who self-immolated in protest over the genocide in Gaza to let us know that the fires the empire lights elsewhere come home to burn.
We know who the heroes are - a poem
In memory of Aaron Bushnell and the others who self-immolated in protest over the genocide in Gaza to let us know that the fires the empire lights elsewhere come home to burn.
Opinion: We can, and must, do more to protect students in higher education from the risks of long COVID
Opinion: Lost educational days and other long-term harms are putting pressure on this generation, impacting their well-being and academic success. Author of the article: Julia M. Wright, Mark Ungrin, Mark Ungrin, Ryan Tennant Published Dec 09, 2024 • Last updated 11 minutes ago • 5 minute read You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. COVID-19 has disrupted education for a generation of college and university students.
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Rising prices and state repression prompt strikes and demonstrations. The Caribbean Island of Martinique is classified as an overseas department of France but it is treated like a colony, lacking any voice in its own affairs. Social unrest has flared up again prompted by hyperinflation and the heavy-handed tactics utilized by security forces under the control of Paris. Due to its colonial dependency, the rate of rising prices in Martinique far exceeds that of the colonial power in France.
Unburdened by Palestine: Shedding Black liberalism for anti-imperialism | Black Agenda Report
Liberals are demanding that Black people in the U.S. put aside our long tradition of anti-imperialism to support Kamala Harris and sacrifice Palestine in the process. Originally published in Mondoweiss. Symbolism is a necessary means for laundering imperialism. Not only does it bribe the people with amorphous “progress” but it pits struggles in opposition against those that would otherwise be in harmony.
Bread, circuses and assassination attempts in the U.S. - an essay
Minutes after the murder of George Floyd, Derek Chauvin said to a passerby that “he was too big, too excited, certainly high on something.” The police officer’s defense was early on that he, white and supremacist, was the only victim that day.
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As the world watches the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a thorough reading and understanding of Frantz Fanon's writings around colonialism, revolution, and psychology are critical to the struggle for Palestinian liberation, and liberation for us all. Originally published in Africa is a Country. For Europe, for ourselves, and for humanity … we must work out new concepts and try to set afoot a new man.
A Pan-abolitionist view on Julian Assange’s release
By Julia Wright June 29, 2024 As freedom fighters who have seen many wars, from Vietnam to Algeria, from Palestine to Kanaky, we do not take the good news that comes our way lightly. First, because we fought and put our lives on the line for it. Second, because there is always a dark lining to a silver cloud. Third, because good news of a battle won, if treated correctly, can lead to a victory if we stay sober and do not get too heady.
A Pan-abolitionist view on Julian Assange’s release
As freedom fighters who have seen many wars, from Vietnam to Algeria, from Palestine to Kanaky, we do not take the good news that comes our way lightly. First, because we fought and put our lives on the line for it. Second, because there is always a dark lining to a silver cloud. Third, because good news of a battle won, if treated correctly, can lead to a victory if we stay sober and do not get too heady.
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The international liberation struggles of colonized people in nations like Haiti, Palestine, as well as Indigenous nations on land stolen by the U.S., are inextricably linked to the struggle for the liberation of New Afrikan people. Amerika has never dealt with its original sin of Colonial Genocide and Structural Settler Racism. Instead, it has moved to placate, pacify and co-opt New Afrikan/Black folks into its own structural system of oppression and neo-colonialism.
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There is a close connection between the Pan-Africanist Movement and the current struggle to end the genocide in Gaza Originally published in News Ghana.
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The violence unleashed by Zionism and US imperialism can only be combated through mass organized political activity united in a commitment to toppling these forces. Originally published in Black Alliance for Peace. To simply denounce the brutal mass arrests, narrative lies, misinformation, and violent repression at Emory University, the University of Georgia (UGA), the Atlanta University Center (AUC), and elsewhere in response to the students’ movement for Palestine would not be enough.
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We can no longer… “Behind every great fortune there is a crime.” —Honoré de Balzac I’m not a nuanced Negro Complicating, Contextualizing, centering, Unpacking, drilling down Inter-sectionally into the weeds beneath capitalism’s ‘Hood … Yet, point blank, full stop— I say: We can no longer Afford the rich … We can no longer Afford the rich … And their Wars of the Week! Their bloodletting beheading babies; blistering bodies like hotdogs on exploding hospital grills! Their turning the world’s...
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Campus protests in solidarity with Palestine have been met with brute police force and condemnation of the participants. Their mobilization is a threat to the political system, which cannot operate as the ruling class would like if large numbers of people engage in active dissent. “As the ICJ is saying, there’s a possibility of a genocide happening. And we’re seeing our government continually sending more and more weapons, 2,000 pound bombs that are being dropped on whole neighborhoods.
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The United States Congress and administration agree to allocate over $95 billion for wars around the world. Originally published in Fighting Words. While the administration of United States President Joe Biden seeks to avoid any substantive discussion on the genocide taking place in the Gaza Strip, mass demonstrations and other forms of dissent over the White House’s foreign policy is expanding exponentially.
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The recent leak of a New York Times memo reveals its unethical journalistic practices and the organization's commitment to upholding the state line on support for Zionism. Originally published in Ramzy Baroud. The New York Times coverage of the Israeli carnage in Gaza, like that of other mainstream US media, is a disgrace to journalism. This assertion should not surprise anyone. US media is driven neither by facts nor morality, but by agendas, calculating and power-hungry.
Colleges and Universities Collaborate With The State To Silence Pro-Palestine Protests | Black Agenda Report
On campuses across the country, students and faculty are finding various ways to take action against the unfolding genocide in Gaza. In response, colleges and universities operate in collusion with the state to repress that resistance. As we have seen over the past few months, colleges and universities across the United States have shown a dangerous willingness to punish their students for speaking out for Justice for Palestine on their campuses.
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The United States relented and abstained from voting on a UN Security Council resolution requiring Israel to abide by a two-week ceasefire. Popular pressure forced this small step. Organized campaigns against Biden’s re-election created a political crisis which threatened to delegitimize Zionism and the U.S. state itself. The Biden administration deserves no praise for abstaining from a United Nations Security Council resolution which demands that Israel observe a two week long ceasefire in Gaza.
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Mirrorless. Unshaven. Compressed spine from Sitting shiva in South Florida for blind eyes. For three monkey mouths and ears in throes of Spiritual death Sitting shiva in South Florida for Shrieks of joy stolen by a desert aircraft carrier of F-16 reign. Assassin of children. Bulldozer of dreams cadaver dogs tear from bloody limbs of loved ones lost to a skunk water oasis.
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The peoples of this world will never see true liberation and peace until we are free of the shackles of U.S. and Western colonial domination. Originally published in Black Alliance for Peace. Gaza dramatically stripped away the murderous hypocrisy and deadly intransigence of U.S. and Western imperialism’s commitment to maintaining global hegemony by “any means necessary,” including using the weapon of genocide.
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From the era of Malcolm X to the present, progressive forces have supported the Palestinian and Arab struggles against Zionism and imperialism. Originally published in Fighting Words. 19th century theorist and educator Edward Wilmont Blyden (1832-1912) viewed the struggle for African redemption as being comparable to the Zionist movement, then in its infancy.
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New York Democrats are fueling the panic over a fictional crime wave to increase surveillance and police presence in NYC. New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul and New York City’s Democratic Mayor Eric Adams continue to use policing to stoke the crime panic of their own creation. They’re wrong to do so and they’ve been wrong for a while now.
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War criminal Bassackwards Tribe Not now, nor have I ever been a Member of remote-controlled, Battery-operated, black bourgeois Judas Quisling skin folk stratum … Not now, nor have I ever been a Member of the black bourgeoisie’s Strong-arm Williams- Thom-ass Clarence-led Bassackwards Tribe … Got 0 love for Bassackwards Tribe militantly Toasting—drunkenly saluting— Atomic Aunt Jemima blowing up every anguished UN plea for Ceasefire! 0 love for Bassackwards Tribe shrieking Wildly for Raytheon’s...
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Internationalism is the path toward Black liberation. Black people must resist the push to silo our movements and move in this spirit of Rosa Parks - with fearless integrity. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”[1] Rosa Parks' fearlessness against racial injustice, and her desire to be remembered as "a person who wanted to be free," is part of a long radical tradition of struggle for Black freedom.
How To Resist The Deliberate Medical Neglect Of Our Political Prisoners
Above photo: Mumia Health update. The state uses tactics such as medical neglect to slowly assassinate political prisoners like Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Recognizing the Revolutionary Potential of the Abandon Biden/Listen to Michigan Initiatives | Black Agenda Report
It is prudent for Black people to join in coalition with the Arab and Muslim people collectively refusing to support President Biden and connect the struggle for Palestinian liberation to the struggle for the liberation of oppressed people globally. This week, the neoliberal, war-mongering machine known as the Democratic party held its presidential primary in Michigan - a key state that will play a major role in the outcome of the general election in November.
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While revolutionary Black organizations after the Panthers continued to support Palestine vocally, the realities of COINTELPRO and mass incarceration have had a profound impact on the organization and scale of Black resistance inside this country. Originally published in Al Mayadeen.
Academics must work to legitimate expertise (opinion)
You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. We need to think urgently about how we might restore trust in expertise. Mistrust of expertise and authority has been a feature of pandemics in the past, but it can also be spurred by divisive politics. We were already talking about the problem years before the COVID-19 pandemic began.
10 myths, counter-narratives and contradictions vs. the West neocolonialist war in Niger
By Julia Wright September 21, 2023 With all the imperial onslaughts against the Global South, their wars are increasingly fought at the level of disinformation and manufactured narratives to create a climate of smoke and mirrors – the better to cloak the real strategies.
The neocons’ Frankenstein Syndrome in Niger
By Julia Wright September 14, 2023 Mary Shelley, who wrote “Frankenstein,” published in 1819, was an English abolitionist born to radical feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and anarchist political philosopher William Godwin. Not only did she advocate the end of slavery, but in her father’s drawing room she overheard discussions about the beginning and the ending of biological life as evidenced by experiments in Galvanism conducted by two Italians — Luigi Galvani and his nephew, Giovanni Aldini.
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The U.S. is instigating a regional attack on Niger, but the people of that nation are in solidarity with others who will resist any aggression. Originally published in International Movement for a Just World. Millions across the West Africa Sahel region and around the world have loudly objected to the imperialist-instigated threats against the newly installed National Council for the Defense of the Homeland (CNSP) government in Niger.
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