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Nov 7, 2024 | 
inthesetimes.com | Bill Fletcher
The election has proven to be a disaster not only for the Democratic Party, but for progressives more generally. Republicans have the Presidency, the Senate, the Supreme Court and, likely, the House of Representatives. The fundamental issues at play are inflation, revanchism, racism and misogyny, and MAGA forces have begun what they believe to be their final offensive against everything on the Left.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
logosjournal.com | Bill Fletcher
The February 2022 suspension of actor Whoopi Goldberg from The View after she apologized for her remark, to the effect that the Holocaust had not been about “race,” epitomized several layers of the problem in disentangling antisemitism IN THE USA from the phenomenon of systemic racist oppression. It further epitomized the field of tension that exists between US African Americans and Jews.
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Dec 17, 2023 | 
znetwork.org | Bill Fletcher
The Man Who Changed Colors is a murder mystery revolving around race, justice, revenge, Cape Verdean Americans and evolving relationships. It is set in 1978-79 in the aftermath of the 1974 Portuguese Revolution and Cape Verde’s independence from Portugal in 1975.
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Dec 16, 2023 | 
inthesetimes.com | Bill Fletcher
The Man Who Changed ColorsBy Bill Fletcher, Jr.Published by Hard Ball Press (2023) $17.00356 pagesAvailable at www.hardballpress.com979−8−9850979−6−2 The Man Who Changed Colors is a murder mystery revolving around race, justice, revenge, Cape Verdean Americans and evolving relationships. It is set in 1978-79 in the aftermath of the 1974 Portuguese Revolution and Cape Verde’s independence from Portugal in 1975.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
newsbreak.com | Bill Fletcher
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
therealnews.com | Bill Fletcher
In 1979 a socialist revolution under the leadership of the New Jewel Movement took power in Grenada. For the next four years, the Caribbean island nation engaged in a daring experiment of popular sovereignty and democracy, tackling questions of education, inequality, and hunger head-on. But the revolution didn’t last. Weakened by infighting and eventually deposed by a US military invasion, the Grenadian Revolution met its end in 1983.
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Nov 3, 2023 | 
znetwork.org | Bill Fletcher
Ihave seldom felt compelled to write a review or an essay after reading a book. I am often inspired, saddened, or reflective after finishing a book, but normally I don’t feel compelled to publicly think through issues that emerged for me in the course of reading someone’s work. Zohra Drif’s Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter left me in a very different place.
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Oct 7, 2023 | 
znetwork.org | Bill Fletcher |Carl Davidson
Over the years, all of us on the Left have been engaged in a wide variety of mass movements —antiwar, labor, environmental, civil rights, women’s and gender rights, and more.
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Sep 2, 2023 | 
znetwork.org | Bill Fletcher |Jerry Harris
Having an analytical framework to understand the key relationships that define the social conditions and political battles we face can guide us in formulating our strategy and tactics on every level—from local to global. How can we determine what are the main class and social conflicts in today’s world? We know there are multiple struggles in every country, and between countries. But what are the key relationships that define the social conditions and political battles we face?
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May 25, 2023 | 
globaldiasporanews.com | Bill Fletcher
Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Bill Fletcher, Jr. —Walking into the Baltimore, Maryland Convention Center on April 22nd, I was uncertain as to what expect. The much publicized and fifth “State of the Black World Conference” had been underway for two days.
