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RECENTLY declassified files linked to the assassination of US president John F Kennedy more than 50 years ago include a secret FBI dossier on civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
The tendentious document portrays a “wholehearted Marxist” whose Southern Christian Leadership Conference was heavily influenced by the Communist Party USA.
This tawdry compilation of tittle-tattle about a brave campaigner, who was shot dead for leading anti-racist struggles in April 1968, alleges that he was addicted to “drunken sex orgies” and suggests that he was a “slow thinker” who could only make statements with help from others.
PAUL BUHLE recommends an eminently useful book that examines the political opportunities for popular anti-fascist intervention
We are experiencing a wave of organised, often deadly violence targeting migrants from other parts of Africa — but the poorest South Africans reject this hatred, staying true to the spirit of Ubuntu and Pan-African unity, reports NIGEL BRANKEN
PAUL BUHLE agrees that a grassroots movements for change in needed in the US, independent of electoral politics
At the very moment Britain faces poverty, housing and climate crises requiring radical solutions, the liberal press promotes ideologically narrow books while marginalising authors who offer the most accurate understanding of change, writes IAN SINCLAIR