By Farah Jasmine Griffin This article was originally published on The Nation website. Aretha Franklin is a singular figure in American culture. Her musical gifts were monumental. A child prodigy, she seemed to have emerged, like Athena, fully formed at birth, her talent already developed. Smokey Robinson recalled first hearing her sing when she was …
By Oupa Lehulere This article was originally published on the Khanya Journal website. In this article Oupa Lehulere argues that Cronin and his party comrades are using Marxism to defend the interests of white monopoly capital. Lehulere critiques their attack on Malikane and shows how their attack on Malikane is in defence of white monopoly …
By BO Staff Writer The following article was first published on the Review of African Political Economy website under the title ‘Against the Odds: Rawlings and Radical Change in Ghana‘: Ghanaian activist and socialist Explo Nani-Kofi describes his involvement in a period of radicalisation in Ghana in the 1970s and 1980s. The period found its …
In honour of the revolutionary contributions of Queen Nzinga who died 353 years ago Black Opinion is reissuing the following statement published on the Black First Land First blog on 17 December 2015. December 17, 1663 is the death date of Queen Nzinga (Nzinga Mbande). On this 352nd anniversary of her death BLF takes the …
By BO Editorial Collective CHAPTER 22 of the BLACK AGENDA on nationalisation and socialization of the mineral and natural resources calls for democratizing the economy through nationalization of 100% of the commanding heights. This will translate into direct ownership by the people. In this context the state will only regulate the people’s collective ownership. Let’s …
By BO Staff Writer Black Opinion republishes this short and incomplete biography of one of the leaders of the June 16, Black Power uprising. The young heroes of the uprising, inspired by the Black Consciousness movement, had the country on standstill and fought diligently for liberation of black people. We republish this short biography in …
Featured Image: black radical Trinidadian thinker, CLR James By BO Editorial Collective CHAPTER 6 of the BLACK AGENDA on black socialism, which is inspired by the ideas of black consciousness, calls for a total overhaul of the anti-black system – while centralizing black interests, experiences and aspirations – and replacing it with a system that is …
Sierra Leone suffered a brutal decade long civil war between 1991 and 2002. At the wake of the civil war there were child soldiers, mass rapes, torture, cutting of limbs and up to 300 000 people killed. The main actor in the …
Earlier Published by The Daily Vox – Mbali Phala http://www.thedailyvox.co.za/launch-black-first-land-first-movement-voxes-blf/
Featured image: Mpho Matsitle (author of Celibacy and other little cute things), Andile Mngxitama (Sankara Publishers), Mbe Mbhele (author of Crazy father and other very short lies) at Rutanang. Click link to download: Sankara – Tlokwe Pamphlet
