Angola

Lenin, Amílcar Cabral and Palestine

Carlos Lopes Pereira, former member of the Secretariat of the liberation organization led by the late Amílcar Cabral and contributor…

February 17, 2024

Amílcar Cabral – African Marxist liberation leader – murdered 50 years ago by agents of Portuguese colonialism 

The author, a former member of the Secretariat of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde…

January 20, 2023

Cuban solidarity combats the pandemic from Italy to Angola

What country can always be counted on to show international solidarity and provide concrete aid in a crisis? The people…

April 15, 2020

African liberation struggles drove Portugal’s April 1974 revolution

It was April of 1974. A popular folk song serving as a secret signal to the captains in Portugal’s Armed…

June 3, 2016

After third court victory, Woodfox still not free

Forty-three years in solitary confinement is 43 years too long. Albert Woodfox, the last imprisoned member of the Angola 3,…

June 17, 2015

Another legal victory for Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox

Albert Woodfox, one of the Angola 3 political prisoners, has spent 42 years in solitary confinement in Louisiana. On Nov.…

February 5, 2015

Court rules for Albert Woodfox, now let him go!

Forty-two years in solitary confinement is 42 years too long. Albert Woodfox should be released now from a Louisiana prison.…

December 17, 2014

Free Albert Woodfox now!

“I thought that my cause, then and now, was noble. They might bend me a little bit, they may cause…

March 14, 2014

Herman Wallace: Revolutionary

Taken from an Oct. 10 column posted at ­prisonradio.org. The long and tortured life of Herman ­Wallace, of the famed…

October 30, 2013

Hundreds attend funeral to honor political prisoner Herman Wallace

New Orleans — Amid tears as well as laughter, family, friends, comrades and former Black Panthers at the Tremé Community Center…

October 14, 2013