Spear staff

Marilyn Mosby is a militant 35-year-old tough-talking prosecutor who has dared to do something no other prosecutor has done since the rash of police murders has been pushed to public view by the resistance cascading over the U.S. since the August 9, 2014 police murder of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

Uhuru Movement and Black is Back Coalition organizers descended on Baltimore immediately after the police murder of Freddie Gray, armed with banners calling for "Black Community Control of the Police (BCCP)," "Know Your Rights" cards and The Burning Spear newspaper.

In early May 2015, when a video circulating on the internet exposed two Israeli settler colonial police beating Damas Pakada, an African in the city of Holon, the masses of African people, angered by this evidence of their everyday humiliation and oppression, rose up in a series of mass protests against police violence in major Israeli cities.

Weeks of speculation of a neck-and-neck, hung parliament and an impossibility of an overall majority by a single party in the British elections have finally passed.

The African Socialist International condemns the killing of innocent impoverished African workers just on allegations that they are not from South Africa or they can't speak Zulu properly.

The African petty bourgeoisie, under the ANC's leadership, has surrendered to white imperialist rulers, of which Cecil John Rhodes, the founder of DeBeers, is an historical part.

When black parents encourage their children to turn themselves in to the police, because of some colonial understanding of morality or white ruling class law, we become an arm of the State.

In 2012 Shantel Davis was 23 when she was shot once in the chest after she struggled with the cop who chased her down. She later died. In the days following her murder, rallies and protests erupted in the black community in her defense.

The mass events of expressing people's will in Ferguson have barely calmed down, when the fire of struggle got lit in Baltimore, where many US citizens are undergoing repressions by law enforcement officers.