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On Thursday, July 22, 2010 the police in London, England in the African community of Brixton, in broad daylight raided the Mosque of the Nation Of Islam. The international counter-insurgency of white power has used the decades old "war on drugs" as an excuse to wipe out and attack any notion of African people struggling for self-determination. This is the excuse, a search for a "marijuana farm", the police used in this attack on the NOI in Brixton in an attempt to criminalize any organizational effort for black freedom. The African Socialist International Stands in Solidarity with the Nation of Islam to fend off these attacks by the criminal British government who along with the U.S. Government sees virtually the entire Islamic world as "terrorist." But the U.S. and Britain are the real terrorist. HANDS OFF!! NOI-BRITAIN!

The African Socialist International (ASI) strongly condemns the heinous murder of 47-year-old Floribert Chebeya Bahizire - an activist known and respected throughout the Congo for his opposition to the disastrous human rights in Congo - and his driver Fidele Bazana, whose body is still not found. Chebeya and Bazana were assassinated by the repressive regime of President Joseph Kabange Kabila and Police Chief, John Numbi. This double murder occurred on the night of the June 1, 2010 in Kinshasa, Congo.

On June 23, 2010, a Poor Peoples’ March was held at Dallas City Hall as part of a fight to save recreation and senior centers in the African communities.

On April 19, 2010, Clevonta “Tae” Reynolds was shot and killed by an off-duty Houston police officer in Arlington, TX. It was just nine days after Tae’s 18th birthday.

Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) veteran Peter Molotsi (81), died yesterday following a long illness, the party said. Molotsi had been one of only two remaining members of the original national executive committee when the party was founded in 1959, PAC spokesperson Lehlohonolo Shale said today.

Lynne Stewart is a 70-year-old white woman, a lawyer and breast cancer patient who on July 15 of this year was given a 10 year sentence to prison.

According to syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts Jr, and the Department of Health and Human Services, “9.5 percent of blacks (about 3.6 million people) and 8.2 percent of whites (about 16 million people) reported using some form of illicit drug in the previous month. Yet, though there are more than four times as many white drug users as black ones, blacks represent better than half those in state prison on drug charges.”

NEW YORK - The Iroquois Nationals, the national lacrosse team of the Indigenous Iroquois nation, on July 17, exhausted all efforts, short of denouncing their sovereignty, to enter Britain on legally issued Haudenosaunee passports from the Iroquois Confederacy, their own government.

African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC) stands in solidarity with the Iroquois’ struggle to declare their sovereignty.