While international actors discuss governance and reconstruction, Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel has no intention of ending its military occupation, says RAMZY BAROUD
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Recalibrating the Panthers ideals and struggle
ELAINE BROWN speaks to Angus Reid about the Black Panthers, Huey Newton, the legacy and how it is being carried forward today
NEW CHAPTER: (L to R) Elaine Brown today; The Black Panther, affordable housing complex for former prisoners designed by MWA Architects
[(L toi R) Courtesy of E Brown and courtesy of MWA Architects]
NICK WRIGHT continues his series analysing the trends in European politics
We have the alternative economics, histories of our struggles and the confidence to change the world
General Federation of Trade Unions assistant general secretary HENRY FOWLER reports on the final day from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
Capitalism has exploited — and polluted — our natural resources for too long, it’s time we treated our rivers as living beings, writes MIRIUM GAUNTLETT, LIAM SHAW and ROX MIDDLETON
Treating the Clacton by-election as a joke risks reinforcing the Reform leader’s claim to be the victim of an out-of-touch Establishment, argues JOHN McINALLY
MPs and others called for the urgent release of tortured Palestinian doctor, Hussam Abu Safiya, held hostage by Israel and reportedly near death, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
“HERE I am,” says Elaine Brown. “I’m 79 years old. I weigh 114 pounds. I couldn’t kick anyone’s ass. And people walk around, scared of me. Cracks me up!”
She was appointed to lead the Black Panther party by the founder, Huey Newton during his exile in Cuba, from 1974 to 1977.
“The greatest effort that black people in America ever made for liberation was the Black Panther party,” says Brown. “You can go back to Nat Turner, you can come forward to the Nation of Islam, and none of them were talking about dismantling the scheme.”
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