Spear staff

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.

"We know who the looters are and it ain't no poor black people in Baltimore!" - Omali Yeshitela ST. PETERSBURG, FL -

Prior to the April 3 Good Friday planting of the Spring Crop in the 5th Ward Community Garden, AAPDEP members worked diligently to ensure the entire planting process would go smoothly as planned.