Spear staff

Over 3.5 million known cases of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, have been reported in the United States, making up over a quarter of the more than 14 million known infections worldwide.

“What is the State? It is a repressive organization. It is the police department. It is the army, the navy, the court system. The State emerges in human society at that juncture when it is split between those who have and those who ain’t got.”

HAITI—African people have been resisting colonial slavery and colonialism ever since the first white man stepped foot on our national homeland over 600 years ago.

“This is an institution founded in blood, the blood of black people!” These words, spoken by Chairman Omali Yeshitela of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP), echoed through downtown St. Petersburg, Florida on Friday morning, June 12, 2020. 

What the South African media has been referring to as "gender-based violence" is another symptom of a broken society as a result of colonialism and the rise of capitalism. We can’t solely blame the perpetrators of these crimes without examining the underlying issues or causes of these social ills that are inherent in colonial domination. 

Delbert Orr Africa died on Monday, June 15, 2020, after a two-year battle with prostate and bone cancer.

The African People’s Socialist Party’s (APSP) San Diego Unit was the first organization to hold a local demonstration in solidarity with George Floyd and the Minneapolis uprising.

Typically in the month of June, we see mass parties and parades across the world celebrating the “liberation” of LGBTQIA+ individuals in what they deem Pride month. A few days before so-called Pride month this year on May 25, George Floyd was brutally murdered by Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin, spurring mass African resistance around the world. 

A video of the murder of Rayshard Brooks went viral overnight, sparking public outrage from the African community in Atlanta and beyond.