Interview with two anarchist ex-Black Panthers about their involvement in the civil rights movement, the Panthers and the relevance of anarchism to black struggle.
Indigo K. Sams will become president and CEO of the Center for Creative Arts in February, after 17 years with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis, where she is a vice president.
The state tried to frame George Edwards and lock him up for life. His fellow revolutionaries tortured him and tried to kill him.They didn’t know whom they…
Interview with two anarchist ex-Black Panthers about their involvement in the civil rights movement, the Panthers and the relevance of anarchism to black struggle.
This week in history: May 24-30
23 May 2021
Peres and Bill Clinton in 1996
On May 29, 1996, the Likud Party, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, won a narrow victory in the Israeli general election, ousting Labor’s Shimon Peres. The election dealt a blow to illusions that the Jewish and Arab masses could achieve peace and social progress within the framework established by imperialism in the Middle East.
The election took place under conditions of great tension, with polls indicating large swings in the popular mood in response to a series of traumatic events the previous months. Following the assassination of Peres’s predecessor, Yitzhak Rabin, the previous November, and the discrediting of the Zionist extreme right wing, Labor called early elections, its overwhelming victory seemingly assured.