Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by WALD Alan
INTRODUCTION: As we enter a new political landscape following the election of Donald Trump, resistance to Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza and its bellicose military actions in the region takes on a greater urgency than ever before–even as political repression on US campuses intensifies.
The (…)
, by WALD Alan
“…the anti-Semite is inevitably a negrophobe.”
—Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, 1952
Written in Honor of Noam Chomsky
Safety Through Solidarity:
A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism
By Shane Burley and Ben Lorber.
Brooklyn: Melville House, 2024. 375 pages. $19.99 (…)
, by MIAH Malik
A revealing article was published in the San Francisco Chronicle on June 9. Justin Phillips, an African American columnist reported on “anti-Black racism” in California. He said that many African Americans in the state don’t see California as racist toward them, but is mainly a problem elsewhere (…)
, by HUDIS Peter
The rise of a new McCarthyism in the United States and elsewhere in the Western world, fueled by the drive to quell criticism of Israel over its genocidal war against Palestine, is producing an unprecedented level of suppression of free speech and expression — both inside and outside of the (…)
, by REICH Robert
Not until now have major donors so brazenly used their financial influence to hound presidents out of office
The core problem is that one of the major jobs of today’s university presidents is to solicit money.’ Photograph: Will Oliver/EPA
Amid accusations of plagiarism and continuing (…)
, by MIAH Malik
THREE YOUNG PALESTINIAN men have been shot near a university campus in Vermont, after a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy was stabbed to death in Illinois in October, raising alarms against rising Islamophobia in the country.
Critics say the mainstream media coverage and the political (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
How do American leftists and progressives understand the issue of race [1] and racism? While economic analysis, social class, and the role of the police, that is, the American capitalist system, explains much, they do not explain everything. Race and racism play a power role. Racial statistics, (…)
, by MIAH Malik
“With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces ‘colorblindness for all’ by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in her dissenting opinion in Students for Fair Admissions v. (…)
, by MIAH Malik
So much for the “color blind” society proclaimed by the Supreme Court in its ruling June 30 to outlaw affirmative action policies at public universities. The same day, but under the radar of the mainstream news media and public, the unelected body with lifetime terms made its full objective (…)
, par SHABAZZ Rashad
Black police officers can have bias against Black people – and act on it.
Once again, Americans are left reeling from the horror of video footage showing police brutalizing an unarmed Black man who later died.
Some details in the latest case of extreme police violence were gut-wrenchingly (…)
Review of His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice By Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa Viking, May 2022, 428 pages.
I PARTICIPATED IN the popular uprising for racial justice after George Floyd was murdered by a white Minneapolis cop on May 25, 2020. I (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Racist remarks by three member of the Los Angeles City Council and the head of the Los Angeles Federation of Labor—all Democrats—sent shock waves across the country and led to demands that the council members resign. Even President Biden, then about to make a campaign trip to California to (…)
, by MARONEY Eric
Review of Elite Capture. How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else) by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. Haymarket, 2022
An oft-cited survey conducted by Monmouth University in the summer of 2020 cataloged substantial support for the Black Lives Matter Movement. At the time the survey (…)
, by MIAH Malik
He was inspired by the racially-motivated massacre in New Zealand by right wing terrorist Brenton Tarrant in 2019 and white supremacists in the United States.
Federal officials said they are investigating the case as a racially-motivated hate crime.
Black people have known white terror for (…)
, by MIAH Malik
Following a deadlock on the Judiciary Committee, the United States Senate confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the 116th justice of the Supreme Court on April 7. Jackson will become the first Black woman to serve on the court since it was established 233 years ago.
The vote was 53 to 47, (…)
, by MIAH Malik
California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) filed a lawsuit against Tesla Inc on February 9, accusing the company of entrenched racism in its Californian factory.
The DFEH’s lawsuit is a powerful indictment of racism at Tesla. Filed on behalf of more than 4000 former and (…)
, by MIAH Malik
Winning her second gold medal on February 18, 18-year-old Chinese-American Olympian Eileen Gu (also known by her Chinese name Gu Ailing) is the first “action-sports” athlete to win three medals at the same Olympics.
“My name is Eileen Gu,” she told journalists, “and I’m the best half-pipe (…)
, par SHEPPARD Barry
Three recent trials involving murderous white nationalists were occurring at the same time in the United States.
One was the Wisconsin trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, who brought an automatic rifle to a Black Lives Matter protest of a police shooting of an African American that left him a (…)
, by MIAH Malik
It was expected. The judge was clearly on the side of teenager Kyle Rittenhouse, the white vigilante from Illinois.
Kyle Rittenhouse shot his victims while they protested for justice for Jacob Blake, who was paralysed from the waist down by a police shooting. Image: Wikimedia Commons
The 12 (…)
, par MUDDE Cas
Demonstrators in the US must fear not only police brutality but also rightwing vigilantes.
Kyle Rittenhouse – the armed white teenager whose mother drove him from Illinois to Wisconsin to allegedly “protect” local businesses from anti-racism protesters in Kenosha, whereupon he shot and killed (…)
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