This Sunday on Uhuru Radio: Ludo de Witte, Author of “The Assassination of Lumumba”

THIS SUNDAY, 11AM EST on Uhuru Radio

THIS SUNDAY, 11AM EST on Uhuru Radio

Hear an exclusive interview with Ludo de Witte, the author of “The Assassination of Lumumba.”

De Witte’s acclaimed book provides a powerful look at the U.S. and Belgian plot to capture, torture, and murder Patrice Lumumba, leader in the African independence movement and Congo’s first democratically elected head of state.

A beloved leader amongst the African masses, Lumumba played a leading role in the struggle for the liberation of Africa and all of Africa’s resources. 51 years after the assassination of Lumumba, the Democratic Republic of Congo remains under foreign domination, with over seven million Africans killed in US proxy wars over the past 10 years.

Nyabinga Dzimbahwe, Agitprop Director of the the African People’s Socialist Party and host of “Africa Live”, will interview Ludo De Witte, author of Assassination of Lumumba, this Sunday (January 29, 2012) at 11AM EST on Uhuru Radio!

Harper and Shawn Alteo Jr: The Necolonial Dance

Shawn Alteo, chief Indian comrador in Canada, playing dress-up with Stephan Harper

The Canadian whitestream press has been abuzz lately with the meeting between Canada’s good Indians (aka the neocolonial band council and AFN sellouts) and Canada’s white power establishment, currently headed by Prime Minister Stephan Harper. Mohawk Nation News shines the light of truth on this meeting and what it means for our people.

Mohawk Nation News. Jan. 25, 2012. That dance between Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his top Indian CEO, Shawn Atleo, at the phony First Nations Summit in Ottawa sends the same old “we’re-gonna-get-dem-Injuns” message.

This was the first public face-to-face meeting of Harper and his 400 corporate Injuns in Canada. Their job is to continue the illusion that Canada is a legal country while helping the corporation make money from the extraction of Indigenous resources. 

Rumours of Sison’s Return and NPA Integration in AFP are Baseless and Ridiculous

PRESS RELEASE
CPP Information Bureau
21 January 2012

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today issued the following statement:

Information from supposed military sources that there are negotiations for the integration of New People’s Army Red fighters into the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) ala-MNLF (Moro National Liberation Front), and offers for NDFP Chief Political Consultant Jose Ma. Sison to join the Aquino cabinet are completely baseless and ridiculous.

There is information that certain anti-Aquino elements of the ruling classes within and outside the AFP, specifically those identified with the previous regime, are trying to sow dissension among military officers by circulating false and incredulous claims that the ruling Aquino clique is leaning towards the side of the CPP-led revolutionary forces.

Korea Resilient! Socialism in Democratic Korea

This article originally appeared on the blog Return to the Source (R2TK). While I often disagree with much of the analysis put forward by that blog’s author, his work is worth engaging and discussing. In this case though they have done an excellent job at dispelling the many myths about the DPRK put foward by supposed leftist forces, such as the International Socialist Organization, who objectively stand with imperialism and white power against the oppressed peoples of the Earth.

It is with that in mind that I post the below article which examines the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, which just last month saw the death of its leader Kim Jong Il.

Imperialism in Crisis; African Internationalism on the Rise

African Socialist International Chairman Omali Yeshitela gives the keynote address at the 2012 African People’s Solidarity Committee National Conference, January 8, 2012 at the Uhuru House in St. Petersburg, FL.

Is it Nothing to You? Another Hero Falls: Ricky Lavallie: 1960-2012

By Kevin Annett. Kevin, who I had the pleasure of meeting in April, is a white Canadian and former clergyman of the United Church of Canada. He was run out of the Church, which went so far as to pay off his wife to divorce him and take his children away, for daring to expose the crimes of the church and state in the system of Indian residential schools. Since then Kevin has been tireless in his efforts to bring to light the crimes against the colonized, especially the role of the major institutional churches.

Ricky Lavallie is dead.

He was a 51 year old native man, and was the sole witness to the murder by three Vancouver policemen of another key aboriginal activist in our network, Johnny Bingo Dawson.

The sudden death of Ricky Lavallie on January 3 has wiped out the last of my original core supporters among urban native people in Vancouver and Winnipeg. Our original nucleus of the Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared (FRD) has been extinguished.

Keystone is Dead but Our Struggle Continues

It seems that for now the Keystone Pipeline, which would have taken oil from so-called Alberta’s mammoth tar sands straight to their compatriots in Texas, has been killed for now by comprador-in-chief Obama. Assuming he keeps his promise and manages to survive his reelection bid this coming fall the Keystone project seems to now be permanently on hold. Obama though has always represented the interests of imperialist white power and parasitic capitalism, so the possibly of him reversing his stance is entirely within the realm of possibly. His array of wannabe Republican presidential opponents have condemned his decision and have vowed to relaunch it should they be elected. Likewise, the whitestream labour movement has also moved to condemn the comprador-in-chief, saying that he presented the formation of numerous jobs.

Ban Colonialism and Apartheid – Not Raza Studies!

A statement from the Raza Press and Media Association on the resent banning of number of important works by indigenous North American authors (both Chicano and Indian) by the white power government of Arizona. The RPMA is associated with the indigenous-Chicano revolutionary nationalist organization Unión del Barrio.

Last week the Tucson Board of Education capitulated to the Superintendent of Education John Huppenthal of Arizona, in an attempt to erase, censor and alter the content and character of Tucson’s educational curriculum.

By dismantling Chicano/a Studies and banning books such Occupied America, by Rodolfo Acuña, Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years, by Rethinking Schools, and Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire, among other books, the Tucson School Board stood on the side of apartheid white rule over the needs and interests of the majority Raza/Indigenous people of that city and of that state.

Asian Dub Foundation – Naxalite

For all my comrades who will be in Ottawa this weekend taking part in the protests in front of the Indian embassy as part of the International Week of Solidarity with the People’s War in India!

Demonstration Outside the Indian Embassy in Ottawa this Coming Saturday

From the Revolutionary Communist Party of Canada.

For a second consecutive year, an International Week of Solidarity with the People’s War in India will be held from January 14 to 22. Various actions will happen in several countries to support the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and the popular revolution against imperialism it currently leads.

Here in Canada, the Revolutionary Communist Party is calling for a rally outside the Indian Embassy in Ottawa, on Saturday, January 21 at 1pm. The rally will show our solidarity with all those who are fighting for freedom and the emancipation of our millions of brothers and sisters in India. We will loudly condemn the complicity of the Canadian imperialist state in aiding India in the brutal suppression of the aspirations of the people. We will also take the opportunity to honour the memory of Comrade Kishenji, a leader of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), who was recently tortured and murdered after being lured into an ambush.

Gathering at Optimiste Park

A Primer on India’s Naxalites: Who Are They and What Do They Want?

As I have already mentioned twice in the last week, going on right now is the International Week of Action in Support of the People’s War in India organizing by the International Committee in Support of the People’s War in India. Please take some time to check out this article by Rita Khanna, a small primer on the Naxalite struggle, as well as other resources already posted by myself and others and which will be posted throughout the rest of this week.

Lal Salaam!

The Naxalites: India’s Red Tide

The Speed of Dreams would like to encourage all of its readers to take a look at International Week of Action in Support of the People’s War in India (this week, January 14 – 22) being organized by the International Committee in Support of the People’s War in India. For more than 40 years the brave men and women of the Naxalite movement have struggled against imperialism, semi-feudalism, semi-colonialism and bureaucratic comprador capitalism. While many groups have dropped out, today the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Naxalbari continue to fight. Just by watching, sharing or liking a video like this can help to spread the message of the Naxalites to many, many people. As revolutionaries it is our job to humanize the demonised. Lal salaam.

Drugs Oppress the People Every Day

I recently moved back to Bermuda and ever since I can’t this track out of my mind. This is because Bermuda in recent years has seen an explosion in the lumpen drug economy, especially the horizontal violence that often goes hand-in-hand with it. This horizontal violence is now spilling over and impacting the masses of working class Bermudians, primarily Africans, and the colonial state is using it to justify greater repression of drug related offenses (which already carry hefty penalties on the Island). So like I said, I can’t get this song out of my mind…

How Nonviolence Protects the State: An Interview with Peter Gelderloos

An interview with Peter Gelderloos, the author of the must read activist text How Nonviolence Protects the State. Gelderloos book is available through The Speed of Dreams E-Book & Pamphlet Repository here.

A New Storm Against Imperialism: Mao on the Assassination of MLK and the Black Revolution

The following appeared in Peking Review, April 19, 1968, pp. 5-6. In it Chairman Mao Zedong touches on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., as well as the great African rebellion that it sparked within the borders of the U.S.

However though, Chairman Mao’s analysis was not perfect, as he expressed the sentiments that the masses of African people in the U.S. and the white working class have the same interest in overthrowing capitalism. These kinds of sentiments, expressed by radicals of all nationalities, are unfortunately not based on sound historical materialist analyses. They completely ignore the material interests of the white working class in actually maintaining the imperialist system of exploitation and colonization. The very existence of the white working class, much less the entire capitalist system, is built on Native graves, beaten African slaves and an Asia forcibly addicted to opium.