Racism

Statement of Workers’ Voice/La Voz De l@s Trabajadores on the current situation at the US border 23 September 2021 Our party stands in solidarity with immigrants from Haiti who are being brutalized by the US capitalist regime, and with the people of Haiti suffering the most recent and acute crises impacting their country. Open the […]

By Wilson Honório da Silva (PSTU-Brazil), translated to English by Carlos Jara Exactly 16 kilometers separate two stories that serve as signposts of the depths of the racial abyss that exists in North American society, of the violence that haunts and destroys Black lives, and also of the strength of the protests and rebellions “from […]

Revolution is a Process  Huey Newton on Revolutionary Strategy and Consciousness By James Markin Founded in 1966, the Black Panther Party (BPP) remains a shining light in the history of the US left. Deeply based in the black nationalist tradition of Malcolm X, the BPP also took inspiration from the ideas of Karl Marx, Vladimir […]

The impressive wave of protests unleashed by the murder of George Floyd in the United States not only crossed the borders of that country – impacting on a new world reality – but it offers particularly exciting episodes, typical of hot periods of history.

On Monday, May 25, George Floyd, 46, was strangled to death by a police officer on suspicion of having used a fake card at a convenience store in Minneapolis, USA.

A group of ten soldiers shot dead a Black man with 80 bullets in Rio de Janeiro on Abril 7, 2019.

Whilst disliking criticism of being racist Zionism’s new “Jewish nation-state” law, passed on 19 July in the Israeli parliament (the Knesset), declares Israel an exclusively Jewish state. The law, passed by 62-55 with two abstentions, specifies that “Israel is the historic homeland of the Jewish people” and claims the unique right to exercise self-determination in […]

In the trial, on Wednesday 1/24, there is nothing at stake that directly affects our class. Yes, there is a fight between big-hungry sharks that used to swim in the same pool and now devour each other to later return to hunt us. Our quilombo cannot be divided by settling scores between lords and foremen.

The organizations and movements gathered in CSP-CONLUTAS’ Congress and the Meeting of the Americas Labour Network make a call to the Back movement around the world to join the building construction of the March of the Periphery and Black November 2017.

According to the Amazonas State Secretary of Penitentiary Administration, a conflict between criminal factions, on1st of January, was responsible for a mutiny which lasted for 17 hours and caused the death of at least 56 inmates, in the Anísio Jobim Penitentiary Complex (Compaj), in Manaus. Four days later, 33 prisoners were murdered in the Monte […]

On the previous articles, we discussed the context in which the Black Panthers arose. We outlined the debates opened in 1965, when the group was founded, such as the questioning of racialism and pacifism, and the gradual (but always contradictory) movement’s approaches with class positions. In the last article, we also talked a little about […]

  The stories of the main symbol and the most notorious slogan of the Black Panthers deserve to be known. Even though they are previous to the foundation of the group, both of them are related with Stokely Carmichael (1941-98) who, years later, also became one of the principal names associated with the Panthers.

By Wilson Honório da Silva (National Education Secretariat of PSTU – Brazil) and Américo Gomes (National Leadership of PSTU).   In the previous article we draw a line of the decade before the foundation, in October 15th of 1966, of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, rising some questions specifically regarding the change of perspectives […]

The police agencies attacks against minorities in the United States does not seem to end; cases of abuse and death of blacks and Latinos in the hands of the police are daily.

After the Dallas police shooting, the reactionary forces in this country are trying to shift the national rhetoric and public perception of social violence in the United States. To directly counter and weaken the Black Lives Matter movement, and to break the solidarity it is gathering from working class sectors, a new bogus and dangerous […]

The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded 50 years ago, on October 15th, 1966. In order to celebrate this and reflect a little about the trajectory, political perspective and legacy of the group, which until nowadays is one of the main references of the Black movements worldwide, we shall publish a series of articles, […]