Djibo Sobukwe

2 weeks ago | blackagendareport.com | Djibo Sobukwe |Roberto Sirvent |Abayomi Azikiwe |Austin Cole

This piece was originally published in Black Agenda Report in 2017. Malcolm X understood that “oppressed peoples must commit themselves to radical political struggle in order to advance a dignified approach to human rights.” What’s needed is a bottom-up mass movement for People(s)-Centered Human Rights, a “political project in the service of the oppressed” that “names the enemies of freedom: the Western white supremacist, colonial/capitalist patriarchy.” Social revolution is the only solution.

Jul 9, 2024 | blackagendareport.com | Margaret Kimberley |Djibo Sobukwe |Joe Lauria |Gerald Horne

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the founding of NATO, we reprint W.E.B. Du Bois’ 1949 powerful testimony against the US militarization of Europe and the world. In late summer 1949, W. E. B. Du Bois testified before the US Congress against the Mutual Defense Assistance Act (MDAA). The MDAA was a direct result of the founding of the North American Treaty Organization  (NATO), a military pact for collective defense of the US and Western Europe against the Soviet Union.

Feb 20, 2024 | blackagendareport.com | Margaret Kimberley |Essam Elkorghli |Mark Fancher |Djibo Sobukwe

Essam Elkorghli reviews the book, Everyday Politics in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya by Matteo Capasso, which discusses the history and politics of Libya in the decades leading up to the 2011 uprising and subsequent NATO intervention. On the 17th of February 2024, few Libyans commemorated the 13th anniversary of the NATO-led regime change that led to the destruction of Libya.

Nov 15, 2023 | popularresistance.org | Djibo Sobukwe

Above photo: The New Arab. Some Aspects Of A Racist Imperialist Ideology In Africa And The Americas. Colonized people must be in solidarity with the oppressed and by definition, that means being anti-zionist.

Aug 1, 2023 | blackagendareport.com | Julia Wright |Roberto Sirvent |Djibo Sobukwe

The late Glen Ford would probably refer to events in Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, and elsewhere as the “blowback” from France’s colonial past. “Decolonization,” Frantz Fanon once wrote, “is always a violent phenomenon.” It is a “program of complete disorder.” And its violence and disorder, Fanon might add, takes place simultaneously in both the metropoles and the colonies, in the centers of colonial authority and the insurgent territories at the margins of the world.