Geography

HOUSTON—Comrade Comandante Fidel Castro, leader of the Cuban Revolution has died. He was 90 years old and passed away in his beloved Revolutionary Cuba in the town of Santiago.

Fidel, captured and on trial, in October 1953 for his role in the failed military attack on the Moncado Barracks in his statement to the court and the people begin his own eulogy by proclaiming, “Condemn me, it does not matter. History will absolve me.”

WBPU Black Power 96.3 FM Radio is participating in #GivingTuesday - November 29 - when people give to the causes they care about. The station aimsl to raise $5,000 on #GivingTuesday to finish building the broadcast tower and to purchase additional equipment to get on air. Text BLACKPOWER to 33923 or go to blackpower96.org/donate to give.

APEDF is raising funds for the Uhuru Jiko Community Kitchen and is calling on people to give generously to a goal of $60,000 and also to aid in the search for a location for the kitchen in Oakland, CA. Visit www.uhurujiko.org to donate and spread the word.

LONDON—Tanzania, like the rest of African countries, is facing hardship with a GDP of $45 billion in 2015 and about 70 percent of the population living on less than $2 a day. 

It is a vastly agricultural country where in 2015, according to Deliotte’s Tanzania Economic Outlook 2016 at deloitte.com, “the agricultural sector contributed 29 percent of the GDP, compared to 28.8 percent in 2014. This was the largest contribution, surpassing all other sectors.”

Donald J. Trump, billionaire, reality celebrity and Republican won the U.S. presidential elections on November 8, 2016 and will become the 45th president of the United States.

The defeat of Democrat Hillary Clinton has come as a blow to imperialism as many can be seen on colonial news crying after the election results. 

As the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) has always explained, elections are nonviolent contests for control of the State between different sectors of the bourgeoisie.

Uhuru Pies Oakland new head baker, Ngoyi Folayan introduces a new product to this year’s offering: Uhuru Sweets in a Jar, a spice cake with cinnamon cream cheese butter-cream frosting. 

For more than 30 years, the Uhuru holiday pie sale has been a progressive holiday tradition in the San Francisco Bay Area, bringing social justice to the holiday table.

Members and supporters of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) from around the world will converge on our headquarters in the city of St. Petersburg, Florida to participate in the Party’s Plenary from January 7-9, 2017.

The Party Plenary takes place yearly between our Congress, the highest body of the Party, which takes place every five years. The next Party Congress will be held in 2018.

We are opening up our Plenary to friends of our Party and urge you to join us at this critical time in the history of the Party and our struggle. 

WASHINTON D.C.––U.S. president Barack Obama gave a speech at the White House the day after Donald Trump was elected as president of the U.S. on November 9, 2016.

Obama's speech was an attempt at damage control to convince people that the U.S. imperialism isn't the most vulnerable than it's ever been.

Cleveland, OH—Today marks the 2nd anniversary of the murder of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was callously murdered by killer cop Timothy Loehmann while playing in a playground with a toy gun.

Tamir was gunned down seconds after the killer pigs arrived at the playground in response to a 911 call stating that “a black male was sitting on a swing and pointing a gun at people.”

Immediately after arriving to the playground, Loehmann murdered young Tamir, shooting him twice.

White people’s grand jury went on to support the murderer of Tamir.