Spear staff

U.S. president Barack Obama’s trip to Viet Nam in May 24, 2016, was part of another attempt by the U.S. ruling class to win China’s neighbors to unite with the U.S. strategic goal of encircling and containing China. 

We were taught that the Fourth of July marks the day on which U.S. colonial settlers adopted the Declaration of Independence and eventually defeated a tyrannical and undemocratic British government that unfairly levied taxes against European settlers of U.S. colonies. We’re taught that this bestowed upon them “certain unalienable rights” and a representative government.

However, we––colonialized peoples––should recognize the holiday as another colonial ploy devised to impose a distorted and disturbing narrative upon us.

ST. PETERSBURG––The Tampa Bay Times released an article Tuesday, June 28th titled, “St. Petersburg committee will invite Uhuru leader's input to replace mural he tore down 50 years ago.”

This piece discussed Chairman Omali Yeshitela of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) and the the Uhuru Movement, ripping a anti-African mural from the walls of St. Pete’s City Hall 50 years ago on December 29, 1966.

That date in 1966 marks what could be the first time the world saw the slogan “black power” actualize.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on June 20, 2016,  that there would be no charges filed in the death of African teen Kendrick Johnson.

The DOJ stated that they “found insufficient evidence to support federal criminal charges."

Kendrick was murdered and his body later found in Lowndes High School gym in Valdosta, GA on January 11, 2013.

WEST PALM BEACH, FL––Florida prosecutors charged officer Nouman Raja, a Southeast Asian, with manslaughter on June 1, 2016 for shooting Corey Jones, an African man on October 18, 2016.

Corey pulled over on the off ramp of I-95 after having car trouble when Raja pulled up in an unmarked vehicle.

Corey was outside of his vehicle and on the phone with a tow truck company. The audio from the phone conversation recorded the whole incident.

ST. LOUIS, MO—The African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) and Uhuru Movement were among the enthusiastic participants in the June 5 and 6th National Black Political Leadership Conference held in this city by the Universal African People’s Organization (UAPO). 

UAPO is headed by its President General Zaki Baruti, a long-time organizer, activist and influential leader in the St. Louis area and a member of the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations (BIBC).

BIRMINGHAM, England––The African People’s Socialist Party was first in Birmingham in 1983. We traveled there as part of a European and United Kingdom-wide tour to promote the outcome of the World Tribunal on Reparations for black People in the U.S. that was held by our movement in Brooklyn, New York in November 1982.

When we went to Birmingham, we went as African Internationalists, not Pan-Africanists. Nevertheless, we thought it possible to work with self-declared Pan-Africanists despite our ideological differences.

LOS ANGELES, CA––I had the profound honor of participating in the California Statewide Conference of the Association of Raza Educators (ARE) at the Santee Education Complex on May 21, 2016.

Founded by Union del Barrio, a Mexican liberation organization with which our Party has had a very close fraternal relationship for more than 30 years, ARE is comprised of public and charter school educators, university professors, students and community allies committed to using education as a tool for liberation.

U.S president Barack Hussein Obama endorsed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in a web video that Clinton released on her YouTube channel on Thursday, June 9, 2016.

He said in the video “I don't think there's ever been someone so qualified to hold this office.”

U.S president Obama says this only eight years after saying Clinton wasn't right for the position. An Obama campaign ad from 2008 says, “She'll say anything and change nothing.”