**Mau Mau-affiliated media** A radical Black & Asian-led Black Power socialist anti-(/neo-)colonial movement based in the heart of whiteness - london, england
These aren’t normal times anymore in the west & Britain. Enough is enough. continuous deaths of our ppls directly as a result of the farright Tory state must mean we quickly intensify the
#blackradical
#socialist
#classstruggle
.
#CovidCrisis
NOT ‘race and class’ but *class is race*; young black comrade here explains perfectly how black power socialism / black liberation is liberation for everyone.
#BlackRevolution
#June13thMovement
In 1963 Black Power leader Robert F Williams got Chinese leader Mao Tsetung to support the Black liberation struggle in the usa. Mao was the first global leader to do so.
Albert Einstein: "The separation of the races is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it."
We denounce the kidnapping of Ahed and Bassem Tamimi by the colonial occupation. We demand their release and release of ALL Palestinian political prisoners from the colonial occupation jails.
“European opulence is literally scandalous because it was built on the backs of slaves .. and the corpses of the Negroes, the Arabs, the Indians, and the yellow people. This we decide not to forget.” - Frantz Fanon, 1961.
#thread
#BlackPower
#BlackRevolution
#BlackYouth
History was made today in Ldn: Militant independent black working class youth-led history, in the face of an formidable array of forces railed against them from the govt, to the fascist,from left /
#BLMUK
to wellknown celebrities.
“No religion will ever make me forget the conditions of our people in this country, (…) No God, no religion, no nothing will make me forget it until it stops, until it’s finished, until it’s eliminated. I want to make that point clear.” - MalcolmX
Sundanese poet Abdel Wahab Yousif, one of the 45 ppl drowned off the Libyan coast after a death squad shot at their boat. Libya was destroyed by uk, USA & France and their death squads in 2011 and have kept Libya in a state of ruin ever since. Solidarity to Yousif’s family 🙏🏽❤️.
#thread
on how much of a nasty colonialist racist
#PrincePhilip
was. Remember this guy was a leading figure in the Brit state and armed forces for generations. Here in 1987 he calls Chinese ppl ‘slitty eyes’.
In 2003 100,000s of schoolchildren in England walked out in protest of the impending USA/Brit colonial war on Iraq. They walked out spontaneously and many clashed w police. It’s an amazing legacy that should inform the current protest movement for
#Gaza
,
#Palestine
.
#HueyNewton
, founder & leader of the Black Panther Party: “Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.”
“When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.” Many happy returns Frantz Fanon, born OTD in 1925.
“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.” - Assata Shakur.
“The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba - yes Cuba too.” - MalcolmX
“We’re not gonna fight racism with racism, we’re gonna fight racism with solidarity. We’re not gonna fight capitalism with black capitalism like some of these punks in the city of Chicago want to do, we’re gonna fight capitalism with socialism.” - Fred Hampton.
Why Maurice Bishop was killed. The Black-African Caribbean anti-colonial socialist revolution in Grenada was giving leadership to the Black revolution in the usa.
“My life represents a struggle. I’m not the first and I won’t be the last. One thing is paramount, I have always struggled for justice & equality for everyone but in particular for the New Afrikan nation … I became a prisoner of war of the US govt.” - Mutulu Shakur, April 1986.
#PeterTosh
was cutout from the Bob Marley
#OneLove
movie cos he was anti-colonial and anti-Israel and refused to play in Israel. Ziggy Marley apparently is also married to a raving pro-Israeli nutter.
“The day will come when history will speak. But not the history which will be taught in Brussels, Paris, Washington or the United Nations but which will be taught in the countries which have won freedom from colonialism and its puppets.” - Patrice Lumumba, born OTD in 1925.
A courageous woman and friend of the oppressed. We are sorry that you have left this plain. Sinead O’Connor / Shuhada’ Sadaqat, you made an important contribution in so many ways.
1972, black children at the Black Panther Party free food program at Laney College. Self-organisation, practicing socialism with dignity and militancy.
Leila Khaled born
#OTD
in 1944. Leading Palestinian, Arab & global anti-colonial socialist revolutionary. We suggest everyone read her book: My People Shall Live.
#GretaThurnberg
wearing a Keffiyeh gets assaulted by a racist, Greta is surrounded by her comrades who are all in open support of Palestine, and end up chanting en-masse “no climate justice on occupied land!” Respect ❤️.
#Gaza
#Palestine
“Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, every is WAR.” - Sinead O’Connor / Shuhada’ Sadaqat, RIP.
“What happens to a black man in the USA today happens to the black man in Africa. What happens to the black man in the USA & Africa happens to the black man in Asia and to the man down in Latin America. What happens to one of us today happens to all of us.” - MalcolmX, 1964.
Street art in Birmingham currently: “when I was young there were two things I really wanted to see: a free South Africa and a free Palestine.” - Benjamin Zephaniah
“It is impossible for capitalism to survive, primarily because the system of capitalism needs some blood to suck….As the nations of the world free themselves, then capitalism has less victims, less to suck, and it becomes weaker and weaker” - MalcolmX
Comrade Mutulu Shakur: veteran of the Revolutionary Action Movement, Republic of New Afrika & Black Liberation Army leader, fighter and political prisoner of 36yrs passes on to the ancestors. We stay loyal to your path.
Walter Rodney encouraged “guerrilla intellectuals”, applying revolutionary theory to the grassroots. That’s what Rodney did resulting in the colonial state banning him from Jamaica and the connected ‘Rodney Riots’ in Oct 1968.
“In Mississippi we need a Mau Mau. In Alabama we need a Mau Mau. In Georgia we need a Mau Mau. Right here in Harlem, New York City, we need a Mau Mau.” - MalcolmX, 1964.
“We look upon ourselves not as a dark minority on the white American stage, but rather we look upon ourselves as a part of the dark majority who now prevail on the world stage.” - MalcolmX, Jan 24 1964.
Full-on Intifada in Colombia right now; glory and love to the martyrs and their families, all victories to the native, black, socialist, communist and anarchist forces that comprise the resistance.
#ColombiaResiste
Our lovely comrade & brother
#BenjaminZephaniah
passes onto the ancestors at 65yrs as a result of a brain tumour diagnosed 8 wks ago. Son of Africa, son of Jamaica & Barbados, son of Handsworth grassroots & resistance.
A human with endless love & creativity, courage & humanity.
“I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice, & equality for everyone, and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation.” - MalcolmX
Benjamin Zephaniah was a product of and totally loyal to the black-led grassroots resistance esp of the uprisings of 1979-1981. Here he pays homage to St Paul’s in Bristol which conducted one of the most intense uprisings against racist police.
Working class youth of Djibouti, east Africa, march in solidarity with
#Gaza
,
#Palestine
. ALL African revolutionaries have ALWAYS been united with Palestine.
#thread
Communist-led Vietnamese victory over the third(usa) imperialist occupation in as many decades happened today 45yrs ago, the socialist north and the Vietnamese ppl finally liberated and reunified the entire country.
“I’d rather be dead than let someone walk around my house or in my neighborhood shooting it up, where my children are in the line of fire. Either they’d die or I’d die.” - MalcolmX
“Caucasoid, Mongoloid & Negroid—there’s no such thing. These are so-called anthropological terms that were put together by agents of the colonial powers, in order to justify the European domination over the Africans and the Asians.” - MalcolmX
“There’s only one way to be a first-class citizen. There’s only one way to be independent. There’s only one way to be free. It’s not something that someone gives to you. It’s something that you take.” - MalcolmX
When it was very difficult to do so in the 1990s and at the height of her fame, Sinead O’Connor openly supported the right of Irish people to use the armed struggle to expel the Brit colonialists.
#OTD
in 1925 Malcolm Little was born. Later to become MalcolmX, one of the greatest fighters and martyrs against white supremacist racism and a leader in the global Black Revolution.
We congratulate our black grassroots in France for inspiring the world into what anti-colonial struggle looks like in the ‘west’. Here our sisters stand united & militant against racist police brutality.
#JusticePourNael
“The revolution will put you in the driver's seat / The revolution will be no re-run, brothers / The revolution will be live” - Gil Scott Heron. Born 1 April, 1949.
Thread! 🧵 The real role of the Queen/UK Monarchy: The death of Elizabeth Windsor has prompted an establishment-led frenzy of monarchism across Britain, with wall-to-wall sycophantic TV and radio coverage..
“We declare our right on this earth to be a man, to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.” - MalcolmX, 1965
Congratulations to MAS in Bolivia for winning the elections, a very important slap-back against the imperialist coup. Our comrades must prepare for the counterrevolution.