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[Charles Brooks/Brooks Blackboard @_CharlesBrooks]

Are the 2024 elections building a false sense of comfort?

"...The idea that the overwhelming fear of another Trump presidency can somehow be remedied or absolved w/ the simple cast of the vote has deepened a false sense of comfort in electoral politics."

https://t.co/bXvSideC7m

[Sovereign Media @sov_media]

HOW THE WEST PUNISHED ZIMBABWE FOR TAKING BACK STOLEN LAND

In an explosive interview, former pastor and Pan-Africanist Joshua Maponga broke down how the West economically strangled Zimbabwe after the nation reclaimed its stolen indigenous lands.

Zimbabwe’s independence was shaped by the 1979 Lancaster House Agreement, under which Britain was expected to fund the redistribution of land from white settlers to the country’s indigenous Black population.

But the former coloniser reneged on this promise in the 1990s, forcing President Robert Mugabe’s government to take the repossession of white-owned farms into the hands of the state and return land to Zimbabwe’s indigenous Black population.

As noted by the interviewer, Sovereign Media's Ahmed Kaballo, Western-dominated economic institutions sanctioned Zimbabwe “to the hilt,” with Maponga adding that investment in Zimbabwe “remains the big red flag.”

Maponga also confronted the deep-seated colonial trope used to justify the theft of African resources.

“The propaganda says, when a Black man takes the land away, he does not know how to use it,” he said.

Highlighting how Western media systematically attributes agricultural success exclusively to white ownership, Maponga added:

“The only time the land is useful, it is when it’s in the hands of the white people.”

And as Zimbabwe continues to be punished for daring to defy Western hegemony and reclaim its sovereignty, Maponga called for the dismantling of the myth that Africans are incapable of managing their own wealth.

[Charles Brooks/Brooks Blackboard @_CharlesBrooks]

The price and the range in prices for a ticket to tonight’s game is just ridiculous 👇🏾

The dollars coming in from the latest “price gouging” will be just another day’s take in the sports political economy.

Today it’s the NBA. In a couple days it’ll be the World Cup

[Charles Brooks/Brooks Blackboard @_CharlesBrooks]

The price and the range in prices for a ticket to tonight’s game is just ridiculous 👇🏾

The dollars coming in from the latest “price gouging” will be just another day’s take in the sports political economy.

Today it’s the NBA. In a couple days it’ll be the World Cup

[Charles Brooks/Brooks Blackboard @_CharlesBrooks]

A political discussion that gets into a wide range of issues - Rockhill’s recent book, “Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?”, a critique and analysis of capitalism/ruling class, imperialism, systems of power, how intellectual and cultural production has been weaponized…

Marxism v. Communism!? ft. Gabriel Rockhill https://t.co/EtIMekG3K5 via @YouTube

[Charles Brooks/Brooks Blackboard @_CharlesBrooks]

BPM interviews and clips from Saturday’s celebration

Assata Shakur Tribute Recap: Exclusive Interviews w/ Angela Davis, Commo... https://t.co/303DnO8ZJ1 via @YouTube

[Charles Brooks/Brooks Blackboard @_CharlesBrooks]

@AfricanaCarr

[Charles Brooks/Brooks Blackboard @_CharlesBrooks]

This video, Black Unity: Breaking the Chains of Oppression” takes you back to the first African Liberation Day event in 1972 in San Francisco.

https://t.co/69bMCiQqVR

When Black people attended ALD events in SF and across the country to show their solidarity with the African liberation movements, in a demonstration of their political consciousness and identity.

54 years later we are reminded of the struggle and fight against imperialism in ‘72, continues today.

The video clip opens with, “The same white ruling class that denies us our human rights also exploits our brothers and sisters in Africa. We have a common oppressor, whether in South Africa or Philadelphia, whether in Mozambique or Alabama. We suffer from the same oppression and exploitation. A common oppression demands a common solution…”

[Charles Brooks/Brooks Blackboard @_CharlesBrooks]

@Queen_primis He found a pop - place of peace

[Sovereign Media @sov_media]

'YOU CAN'T HAVE PEACE UNTIL EVERYBODY'S EQUAL'

This week, Africans across the continent and the diaspora commemorated African Liberation Day, a reminder that political independence alone is not true freedom.

“You can have peace and be enslaved.”

In this powerful scene from Peter Brook’s 1968 documentary drama film Tell Me Lies, Pan-African revolutionary Kwame Ture explains that real freedom means liberation from injustice, exploitation and foreign domination.

Ture appears to be playing himself in the film, and the words he speaks are consistent with the politics he dedicated his life to: Revolutionary Pan-Africanism built on a socialist path of development.

There’s an important lesson here for Africa today. While the 21st century may appear more “peaceful” than the era of anti-colonial wars and liberation struggles, true liberation remains unfinished. African countries may have flags, anthems and formal independence, but key sectors of the economy remain dominated by foreign interests. Institutions like the IMF and World Bank, alongside the constant presence of foreign militaries, continue to shape and constrain the continent’s future.

[Diaspora Pa'lante Collective @diasporapalante]

"An independent and socialist Puerto Rico, free from U.S. colonialism, is crucial in resisting U.S. hegemony over Latin America and the Caribbean...

We must intensify our opposition to fascism and work to build Our Americas into a Zone of Peace." 🇭🇳🇨🇺🇵🇷

[Charles Brooks/Brooks Blackboard @_CharlesBrooks]

Along with the 1972 ALD speech by Walter Rodney in San Francisco, this piece in Black Agenda Report also includes a brief history and context behind the formation of the first African Liberation Day events in 1972.

Reading Rodney’s speech again is a reminder of its continued relevance 54 years later; our political identity, the power of media propaganda to build tightly held illusions, the reminders that the imperialism and neocolonialism in 1972, is still with us in 2026.

He told the gathering in SF, “…The struggle is international — and black unity must be international because we are the world’s most authentic international people. We live on every continent, through no choice of our own…”

 https://t.co/V4GasfJyKc

[Charles Brooks/Brooks Blackboard @_CharlesBrooks]

When Africa calls, Cuba answers 👇🏾 #AfricanLiberation

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Jeremy Corbyn drops a massive historical bombshell. He confirms it was actually Cuban forces that dealt the fatal blow to the apartheid regime.

He reveals Cuba's victory at Cuito Cuanavale completely broke the apartheid army, forcing them to negotiate. The West hides this truth!

[Sahel Revolutionary Soldier @cecild84]

When Ibrahim Traore came to power 3 years ago, all of Burkina Faso’s 🇧🇫 15 industrial Gold mines were firmly under foreign control by as much as 80% in most cases.

Today, 6 of the country's 15 Gold mines are now majority owned by Burkinabe companies, with a further 3 under direct state control.

He is not telling Africans that they will see progress in 4 years or in his next term, he is showing them tangible progress now.

That is a leadership that delivers. A leadership of actions not words.

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

This is pure McCarthyism.

The US government is persecuting prominent left-wing anti-war voices for daring to challenge the empire's murderous, illegal blockade of Cuba.

This comes at a time when numerous reports say the US military is preparing for a potential war on Cuba.

[Charles Brooks/Brooks Blackboard @_CharlesBrooks]

@ados_strong @BlackHockeyClu1 They missed the mark with this DuBois documentary

[All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) @AAPRP]

Cuba stood with Africa during liberation struggles, and Zimbabwe stands with Havana against sanctions, blockades & imperialist aggression. Solidarity is a historical duty and shared resistance. The siege on Cuba must end. 🇨🇺✊🏿🇿🇼
https://t.co/8yWuqYgfum

[All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) @AAPRP]

PLEASE JOIN US TODAY FOR OUR VIRTUAL AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY INTERNATIONAL WEBINAR. POLITICAL UPDATES FROM KENYA, GUINEA-BISSAU, CUBA & PALESTINE. CULTURAL PRESENTATIONS FROM MOZAMBIQUE, ZAMBIA & TRINIDAD. STILL TIME TO REGISTER @ https://t.co/h4UGKkYEoA

[Venezuelanalysis @venanalysis]

Plenty of justified anti-imperialist rage today in Venezuela. This video is from a rally in Plaza Bolívar (Caracas) in the afternoon. Fair to say that Trump and Rubio are not the most popular figures

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

BREAKING: Tens of thousands rally in Havana in defense of Raúl Castro.

Cubans are accusing the US of using the indictment as "pretext" for a military attack. They say they don't want a conflict, but they're willing to fight to defend the country.

🎥@ldejesusreyes