What is the Future of Pan African, Black Nationalist Movements?

By Saaed Shabazz

Black Press USA - July 8, 2014

The deaths of Chokwe Lumumba, Amiri Baraka, Jitu Weusi and most recently, Elombe Brath raises critical issues and questions on the status, direction and future of Pan African and Black Nationalist movements inside the United States.  The modern-day drum, now known as the text message, continued for hours May 19, announcing the passing of Mr. Brath, described by Empress Phile Chionesu, convener of the historic 1997 Million Woman’s March, as “a true champion of African liberation, who lives his Blackness – walks and talks his Blackness like a robe of honor.”  Pam Africa, the Minister of Confrontation for the Philadelphia-based MOVE organization and coordinator of the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal said drummers and chanters outside of Harlem’s famed Abyssinian Baptist Church set the tone for Mr. Brath’s home going memorial. “But, the most important thing was the young people who were out there chanting “Elombe, Elombe,” she said, adding, “That shows us that the spirit of his work continues,” said Ms. Africa.

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Africa: Imperialism's New Strategies

By Ama Biney

AllAfrica - 3 July 2014

A review of 'Divide and Ruin: The West's Imperial Strategy in an Age of Crisis', by Dan Glazebrook, published by Liberation Media, 2013

Dan Glazebrook's volume demonstrates that the infamous imperialism of the past has not disappeared but has instead adopted new strategies to obscure its intentions, such as proxy wars and media-based indoctrination. These tactics must be exposed and imperialist resisted
Individuals on the 'left', or those who prefer the characterisation 'progressives', 'radicals' or 'activists' are conscious of the fact that the imperialist leopard never changes its spots. Though it may appear to do so, the change is illusionary.
Hence, the collection of articles in this new and slim volume reveal that since 2008, when 'things were not looking good for imperialism' (p. vii) with the onset of the capitalist economic crisis, it has meant that imperialism has resorted to reconfiguring strategies of domination and control over the planet's resources and to eliminating governments and people that fail to demonstrate subservience to the whims and interests of empire.
As Glazebrook argues, 'The truth is that Empire's strategy is far more insidious than in the days of Bush and Blair. Imperialism today no longer swaggers onto the world stage in a cowboy hat declaring its determination to launch "crusades" on behalf of the "haves and the have mores", to use the memorable phraseology of George W. Bush; its strategy today is a lot more cunning' (p. viii). In short, imperialism has shifted to wars by proxy - whether it be in Libya or Syria, which as the author claims, 'is also a sign of vulnerability and weakness' (p. viii).

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