The United National Antiwar Coalition will host an educational conference call on Feb. 24 to discuss the current situation in the West African state of Mali. France invaded Mali on Jan. 11 supported by the United States, Britain and other NATO members. Under the guise of carrying out a humanitarian mission to prevent so-called “al-Qaeda” [...]
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U.S. anti-war movement to discuss imperialist aims in Mali
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Abayomi Azikiwe February 22, 2013 » Add the first comment.
1963 mass struggles advanced civil rights
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Abayomi Azikiwe February 20, 2013 » Add the first comment.
In 1963, despite the tremendous campaigns aimed at breaking down legalized segregation and national oppression that had been going on for eight years, the demand for federal civil rights legislation remained stalled due to Southern segregationist influence, Northern indifference and political avoidance by the John F. Kennedy administration. Nonetheless, by the spring of this momentous [...]
Detroit activists use lawsuit to demand: ‘Show us the debt!’
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Abayomi Azikiwe February 14, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Detroit, Feb. 14 — A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit was filed today on behalf of David Sole, a retired City of Detroit employee and a co-founder of the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Shutoffs. The suit was filed because the City’s Law Department failed to release documents that Sole requested [...]
Rosa Parks honrada en Detroit
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Abayomi Azikiwe February 13, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks nació hace 100 años, el 04 de febrero de 1913, en Tuskegee, Alabama. Nació en el sur segregado, donde los/as afroamericanos/as eran sometidos/as a diarias humillaciones dirigidas a mantener el sistema de explotación y opresión nacional que surgió de la esclavitud y del fracaso de la Reconstrucción. A principios del siglo [...]
French imperialism moves deeper into Mali
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Abayomi Azikiwe February 12, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Since Jan. 11, when France launched bombing attacks and a ground invasion into the resource-rich African country of Mali, Paris has declared that the intervention in its former colony is limited and that it will leave in April, after the establishment of a regional force from the Economic Community of West African States. However, several [...]
Claudia Jones defied racism, sexism and class oppression
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Abayomi Azikiwe February 6, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Professor Carole Boyce Davies of Cornell University has continued unearthing the life and political legacy of Claudia Vera Jones (1915-1964), a leading figure in the communist and Black Liberation movements between the 1930s and 1960s. Following Davies’ previous work entitled “Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones” (2008), her book [...]
France, U.S. escalate imperialist intervention in Africa
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Abayomi Azikiwe February 5, 2013 » Add the first comment.
On Feb. 2, French President Francois Hollande visited Mali, claiming victory over insurgent groups that had taken control of the central and northern regions of this vast West African state. He visited the capital of Bamako and the cities of Sevare and Timbuktu. Hollande wanted to appear as the savior of the Malian nation from [...]
Rosa Parks honored in Detroit
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Abayomi Azikiwe February 2, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born 100 years ago, on Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Ala. She was born in the segregated South, where African Americans were subjected to daily humiliations aimed at maintaining the system of exploitation and national oppression that grew out of slavery and the failure of Reconstruction. In the early 20th [...]
Egyptian President Morsi imposes state of emergency
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Abayomi Azikiwe January 30, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Mass demonstrations mark second anniversary of uprising, dozens killed Jan. 28 — Hundreds of thousands of Egyptian youth and workers took to the streets on Jan. 25 to commemorate the second anniversary of the uprisings that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak. On Jan. 26, after a court verdict in Port Said that sentenced 21 residents [...]
The future of Africa & the struggle for socialism
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Abayomi Azikiwe January 25, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Excerpts from a talk by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of Pan-African News Wire and WW contributing editor, at the Nov. 17-18, 2012, Workers World Party conference in New York. See video at youtube.com/wwpvideo. Despite claims by the capitalist governments internationally and their apologists in the corporate media, the world economic crisis is worsening. The financial institutions [...]
