Two years ago, Donald Trump won the Republican nomination, and then the Presidency of the United States, against all expectations. It was an unmistakable sign of the crisis gripping the […]
White supremacy is the mother’s milk…of America… Charleston (Listen to this on Prison Radio) By MUMIA ABU-JAMAL A young white man, barely at the age of his majority, walks into Charleston’s most…
In December and January, I visited Ghana, Togo, Benin and Burkina Faso. The next few posts on this blog will be drawn from the notes I made on that visit. […]
Part Three of “Once Were Communists,” a series of four articles by Terry Coggan It is a “guiding principle” of Marx’s historical materialism that “at a certain stage of development, […]
Just as a glass prism differentiates sunlight into its component colours, corresponding to the different wavelengths, the Ebola crisis ravaging three West African countries has produced three distinct responses, corresponding […]
A review of This non-violent stuff’ll get you killed – How Guns made the Civil Rights Movement Possible, by Charles E Cobb, Jr. Basic Books, New York 2014. ISBN 978-0-465-03310-2 […]
This week’s Militant tells the story of Herman Wallace, who spent almost his entire life fighting a frame-up murder conviction from within the Louisiana prison system. Wallace was released from […]
