Ajamu Nangwaya

The controversy surrounding the 19 May unveiling of a bust of Jamaica’s first national hero and Pan-Africanist Marcus Mosiah Garvey on the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) ha

Why is the reparations movement in the Anglophone Caribbean not putting capitalism on trial in its campaign to force British imperialism to provide financial compensation for its industrial and agricultural capitalists’ enslavement of Africans?

March 21 was the 57^th anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre that was carried out by the South African apartheid regime against protesting Africans in 1960.

Police violence against the working-class

The collapse of the Grenadian Revolution on 19 October 1983 [1] should be carefully examined for the lessons that it might offer to organizers in the Caribbean who are currently organizing with the la

“In evaluating Walter Rodney one characteristic stands out. He was a scholar who recognised no distinction between academic concerns and service to society, between science and social commitment. He was concerned about people as well as archives, about the workplace as well as the classroom.

“The spirit of Black August moves through centuries of Black, Indian and multi-cultural resistance. It is an emblem of the spirit of freedom.”- Mumia Abu Jamal

On 1 August 1838, enslaved Africans in the British Empire won their emancipation from slavery. Emancipation Day is now commemorated throughout the Anglophone Caribbean as a public holiday or national observance. Emancipation was not a gift from Britain or White abolitionists.

The police are very brutal in their policing of the African working-class in Jamaica. However, oppressive conditions tend to give birth to resistance.

June is Gay Pride Month and it is a good time as any to bring attention to the 35^th anniversary of the 1981 bathhouse raids in Toronto, which gave rise to the queer liberation movement in Canada.