Let’s Ride

Unity performing Let’s Ride featuring Stic.Man of Dead Prez. This track is from Unity’s debut EP Audio VeVe Part I. Check it out!

Long Live the Haitian Revolution!

On this day Novemeber 29 in 1803, the leaders of the Haitian Revolution joined together to sign a preliminary proclamation of independence for “St. Domingo.” Formerly a colony of France, the new republic soon after took the name of Haiti, after Ayiti (land of high mountains) the ancient Taíno name of the land.

The revolution Haiti marked one of the first major victories in the struggle against imperialist white power, colonialism and parasitic capitalism. As the fist successful workers revolution in the world, the Haitian Revolution has long served as a powerful inspiration to colonized African and Native peoples (who were still there, still are and who took part in the revolutionary struggle) as well as other oppressed peoples around the world struggling for their freedom and independence.

LONG LIVE THE SPIRIT OF JEAN JACQUES DESSALINES!

VICTORY TO THE AFRICAN & NATIVE REVOLUTIONS!

KOUPE TET! BOULE KAY!

UHURU!

Some Advice on Basic Movement Discipline

As a follow up on my previous post Some Advice on Basic Movement Security, I have put together an outline of basic movement discipline that I think any good Native or African revolutionary should follow in order to become a better revolutionary and to help construct a serious revolutionary movement. It is derived from the Rules of Party Disicipline of the African People’s Socialist Party.

Any member of the revolutionary movement who:

1. Does not consciously strive to elevate his or her political understanding has broken  discipline;

2. Does not strive to unite our movement with the masses of the colonized has broken discipline;

3. Reveals internal business without authorization has broken discipline;

4. Discusses another member negatively to non-members has broken discipline;

Penny Hess Speaks on White Power & Proletarian Internationalism

Penny Hess is the Chairwoman of the African People’s Solidarity Committee and author of Overturning the Culture of Violence (available at Burning Spear Marketplace). She is speaking at A Day in Solidarity with African People, Saturday, November 12, 2011 in Philadelphia.

As part of the DSAP campaign the Uhuru Solidarity Movement has been attempting to raise 10,000$. They have reach 9,000$ and need help getting that final 1K. Check it out here.

Celebrate Legal Victory, Brace For Greater Struggles for the Free Distribution of Land

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) joins the broad masses of peasants and farm workers of Hacienda Luisita in their celebration of the Supreme Court’s November 22 decision revoking the stock distribution option (SDO) scheme of Cojuangco-owned Hacienda Luisita Inc. and paving the way for the distribution of HLI’s remaining 4,900-hectare plantation. At the same time, the CPP calls on the peasants and farm workers to further strengthen their unity and brace for bigger struggles.

The Supreme Court decision which was made public yesterday marks a turning point in the legal struggle of the peasants and farm workers of Hacienda Luisita against the SDO, a scheme used by the Cojuangcos since the late 1980s to evade land reform. Besides revoking the SDO, the SC also compelled HLIto pay the peasants and farm workers the amount of P1.3 billion, corresponding to the area of land sold by HLI in the past years, including those which have been turned into a residential enclave and a portion of the Subic-Clark Expressway. While ordering the distribution of land, the SC also recognized the HLI’s “entitlement to just compensation.”

Revolutionary Democratic Front Statement On the Death of Kishanji

Condemn the Cold-Blooded Murder of Maoist Leader Kishanji

The following statement was originally published by the International Campaign Against War on the People in India:

We strongly condemn the cold-blooded murder and planned assassination of Kishanji alias Mallojula Koteswara Rao, Politburo Member of CPI (Maoist) in Burishol forest area, Paschim Midnapore District, Jangalmahal, West Bengal on 24 November 2011. At the time of this murder Kishanji was dealing with the process of peace talks through the interlocutors appointed by the Chief Minister of West Bengal Ms. Mamata Banerjee. Such a heinous crime should be condemned by all justice loving people.

According CPI (Maoist) statement issued to the media on today, Kishanji was arrested and tortured and then brutally killed. This murder looks much similar to that of Azad’s in July 2010, when Azad was brutally tortured and killed while he was dealing with the Union Government’s offer of peace talks through union Home Ministry appointed interlocutor.

The End of American Thanksgivings: A Cause for Universal Rejoicing

A look at the history of American Thanksgiving by Black Agenda Report executive editor Glen Ford

Nobody but Americans celebrates Thanksgiving. (Canadians have a holiday by the same name, but an entirely different history and political import.) It is reserved by history and the intent of “the founders” as the supremely white American holiday, the most ghoulish event on the national calendar. No Halloween of the imagination can rival the exterminationist reality that was the genesis, and remains the legacy, of the American Thanksgiving. It is the most loathsome, humanity-insulting day of the year – a pure glorification of racist barbarity.

We are thankful that the day grows nearer when the almost four centuries-old abomination will be deprived of its reason for being: white supremacy. Then we may all eat and drink in peace and gratitude for the blessings of humanity’s deliverance from the rule of evil men.

Mallojula Koteswara Rao Presente!

Revolutionary poet and Maoist sympathiser Varavara Rao addressing a rally of activists of the Association for Protection of Democratic Rights. At left is grieving Deepa Rao, niece of Maoist leader Kishenji.

Mallojula Koteswara Rao, aka Kishenji - a leader of the Naxalite movement and a key figure in the People’s War - has been killed. The Speed of Dreams extends its heartfelt condolences to Kishenji’s family and comrades, as well as to the people of India to whom he had dedicated his life.

Telugu poet and Maoist sympathiser Varvara Rao Friday alleged that top Maoist leader Kishenji was tortured before being killed in a fake encounter and demanded a white paper from the West Bengal government.

“Kishenji was subjected to inhuman torture as his body bore marks of several injuries and he was killed in a fake encounter 24 hours after being nabbed. I demand a white paper on the killing,” Rao told reporters at the state secretariat.

Reparations in Action! Help the USM Meet Its Goal

This fall the Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM) held its A Day in Solidarity with African People campaign. The USM is a mass-based organization working under the leadership of the Uhuru Movement and designed to build up material support for African, Native and other colonized peoples’ liberation struggles from within the white community.

The goal of the campaign was to both raise the consciousness of white people of the need to break with their own imperialism to which they have historically been tied (including white workers), as well as to raise $10,000 to help carry out the activities of the Uhuru Movement. So far the campaign has been a great success, raising $9,000 towards the goal, meaning we need to get just $1,000.

The following is an appeal from those of us in the USM to help us meet our final goal.

Mumia Abu-Jamal: Some Who Feel No Reason For Thanksgiving

Mumia speaks on why there is no reason for colonized people to be giving thanks this holiday weekend.

Thanksgiving: A National Day of Mourning for Indians

By Moonanum James and Mahtowin Munro. Mahtowin Munro (Lakota) and Moonanum James (Wampanoag) are co-leaders of United American Indians of New England.

Every year since 1970, United American Indians of New England have organized the National Day of Mourning observance in Plymouth at noon on Thanksgiving Day. Every year, hundreds of Native people and our supporters from all four directions join us. Every year, including this year, Native people from throughout the Americas will speak the truth about our history and about current issues and struggles we are involved in.

Why do hundreds of people stand out in the cold rather than sit home eating turkey and watching football? Do we have something against a harvest festival?

Of course not. But Thanksgiving in this country — and in particular in Plymouth –is much more than a harvest home festival. It is a celebration of the pilgrim mythology.

According to this mythology, the pilgrims arrived, the Native people fed them and welcomed them, the Indians promptly faded into the background, and everyone lived happily ever after.

The truth is a sharp contrast to that mythology.

On The Line and Tactics of the Nepal Maoist Movement

An analysis of the ongoing struggle in Nepal by the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Naxalbari. The CPI (ML) Naxalbari, along with the Communist Party of India (Maoist) is waged a people’s war against the Indian government.

The political situation in Nepal is quickly building up to a dangerous climax, dangerous for the Nepalese new democratic revolution and the international proletariat. The ruling classes, backed by the expansionist India and the US imperialists, are arrogantly pushing for a counter-revolutionary attack or, at the minimum, a reactionary consolidation. They are strident in their demands to liquidate all the gains made by the people through the great people’s war. The terms set in the ceasefire agreements with the United Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) [UCPN(Maoist)], earlier Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) [CPN(Maoist)], are wilfully violated.

A Rotinonshón:ni Observation of Occupy Wall Street

Normally I can’t stand Indian Country Today, and have even joined the call issued by Brenda Norrell of Censored News (an excellent independent indigenous news source) to boycott them because of their endorsement of the rape of mother earth, and because of their joining in the war being waged still by the FBI against veterans of the first wave of the Red Power Movement. However, as they say, even a broken clock is right twice a day, and this would be just such an instance.

The children of the West (Americans) are fighting amongst themselves (again) over distribution of a wealth that does not belong to them, a wealth derived from Indigenous lands. The opportunity to redefine wealth based on a more realistic view of the earth and an understanding of man’s place may be now.

There is a very old Iroquois prophecy called the The Two-Headed Serpent.

Stuart Myiow of the Mohawk Traditional Council of Kahnawakeh told this prophecy, as did our ancestors. He’d say, “This is the Two-Headed Serpent Prophecy. We must remember this prophecy was told to the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy before the coming of the white man with his church and state [and the dispossession of the authority of women], so any rational person should contemplate what the next state of the prophecy is.”

Omali Yeshitela On The State and the National Question

As part of my on going series examining the national-colonial question I am presenting the following presentation made by Chairman Omali Yeshitela at the 2006 Conference to Build the African Socialist International.

I want to talk about the question of the nation. Many of us have never even considered the question of a nation and what does this mean. There has been an element of struggle and controversy around this question for a very long time.

The contemporary use of the term nation is something that has come out of Europe. There is obviously a tendency among human beings for social organization to grow larger and more complex. It moves from family to tribes, clans and what have you. Now we’re talking about this entity that is called the nation.

In Europe, the 19th century was characterized as a period of nation building. What we now know as Europe was essentially this territory of warring bands of tribes constantly at each other’s throats who defined themselves essentially in relationship to each other. What began to change that is Europe’s moving out of Europe and engaging in what we call the slave trade and colonialism.

Dark Girls: Preview

Dark Girls is an upcoming documentary exploring the effects of deep-seated psychological colonization of standards of beauty within the African community, particular the situation facing dark skinned women.