Kate Quinn

Tweeting about Kanye West and Wireless whilst your military bases are used to help murder civilians in the Middle East. Wild.

Pope says do revolution in the imperial core

*Rastafari in Jamaica #BadFriday

Free Them All #FreeThemAll

194 pages documenting killing of Palestinian professors &systematic destruction of universities in #Gaza. This doesn’t include the slain students & primary schools. Text book #scholasticide that should’ve shaken every uni to its core, but they brutalized their students instead.

To mark the recent passing of Rupert Roopnaraine, one of Walter Rodney’s closest comrades in the WPA of Guyana, ROAPE’s @LeoZeilig delivers an honest obituary reflecting on his life, political commitments, and the complexities of his legacy. roape.net/2026/03/27/rup…

@wcchen My MA student (&talented jazz musician) Luke Bacchus researched Count Ossie for his diss & future PhD, interviewing folk in 🇯🇲 & piecing together fragmentary archives: exciting new generation giving Ossie the credit he deserves, musically & in the history of Rastafari

In 1998, browsing a record shop in Madrid, I came across a beautiful display celebrating the 25th anniversary of Grounation by Count Ossie and The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari. It was a pleasant surprise, and sobering to realise that this epic work, originally released as a groundbreaking triple album in 1973, was being more lovingly celebrated abroad than at home in #Jamaica. That paradox, however, is itself part of Count Ossie’s story. Born Oswald Williams 100 years ago on 26 March 1926, Count Ossie established a Rastafari community at Rockfort near Wareika Hill on the east side of #Kingston in the early 1950s, where many of the city’s musicians first encountered the #Rastafari movement and its powerful rhythms. His legendary jam sessions up in that hilltop compound drew an extraordinary roster of talent; Skatalites players Roland Alphonso, Don Drummond, Johnny Moore, Lloyd Knibbs; all absorbing the nyabinghi pulse that Ossie was keeping alive. His contribution to #Jamaican music begins at the very root. Count Ossie’s drummers performed on the first commercially released single to integrate #Rastafarian traditional music with popular music, the Folkes Brothers’ groundbreaking “Oh Carolina,” recorded for producer Prince Buster in 1959. That fusion of African drum traditions with contemporary Jamaican sound was not merely a stylistic flourish; it was the seed from which #ska, #rocksteady, and roots #reggae would flower. Grounation, the first ever reggae triple album, combined Rastafari consciousness with deep spiritual jazz, a sprawling and raw cultural statement comparable in ambition to Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On. Co-led with tenor saxophonist Cedric “Im” Brooks, the album recreates a Rasta grounation, or gathering; chanting, drumming, and Bible readings in praise of Emperor Haile Selassie I. Count Ossie’s importance in bringing Rastafarian music to a wider audience is matched only by #BobMarley’s promotion of the faith internationally in the 1970s. That a Madrid record store in 1998 understood this better than Kingston ever officially acknowledged remains one of reggae history’s quiet injustices, and a reminder that true pioneers are often most visible from a distance.

In all actuality billions need to read this.

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To mark the birth of Walter Rodney (23 March 1942), we share an article from ROAPE’s special issue 186 on Frantz Fanon by @chinchukwudinma and @baindukallon examining the shifting imprint of The Wretched of the Earth on Rodney’s anti-imperialism. roape.net/2026/03/23/the…

As the world marks the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, we remember the fearless comrades who were killed at Sharpeville on this day in 1960. Thousands of Black South Africans came together in a peaceful protest against the “pass laws” that controlled every aspect of their lives under apartheid. The protesters’ plan was to march to the Sharpeville police station without their passes in an act of civil disobedience. What unfolded was a brutal act of state violence, when police opened fire at close range on a crowd of protesters who were singing and dancing while demanding an end to restrictions on where they could work, live or travel. Sharpeville revealed the truth of apartheid to the world, but more importantly, it demonstrated that ordinary people, when united, have the capacity to challenge the systems designed to silence them. In the days that followed the Sharpeville Massacre, demonstrations against the killings spread across South Africa and the world. The leadership of the African National Congress (ANC), including Nelson Mandela also burned their passes in solidarity with the people of Sharpeville. As protests spread across the world, the United Nations Security Council and General Assembly for the first time condemned the killings and called for an end to apartheid. Read more about the significance of the Sharpeville Massacre and how it resonates with the Palestinian struggle at our new blog. Link in bio.

I saw this at the Financial Times. British establishment journalists have been indoctrinated—starting young at elite private schools—with the views needed to oversee the propaganda system Many have literally never had an independent thought. What they do is spout received wisdom So when someone probes one of their ideas it falls apart because they’ve learnt it by rote - there has been no conscious processing of information. They believe something, but don’t know why. They’ve just heard some authority say it The top echelons of British journalism industry are, consequently, some of the most unimpressive people on the planet. Anyone capable of independent thought - and critical analysis outside the confines of establishment shibboleths - is filtered out very early

Coming soon and not to be missed!

Block the straight of Hormuz for a week and the world goes mad but block the Rafah crossing for years, preventing the entry of food and humanitarian aid into Gaza and nobody bats an eye. It’s not hard to see that this world values markets, profit and capitalism over human lives.

It’s exhausting having to challenge the relentless barrage of hate and misinformation from politicians and pundits about Muslims. For them, it’s become a lucrative industry. For us, it’s the safety of our family and friends being put at risk.

The UK government is desperately trying to hide this from you. They are literally putting up tarps on the fences of RAF Fairford so the public can't see the massive stockpile of US 2,000lb bombs being prepared to drop on Iran.

🚨After 29 hours, our electrical system is fully operational again. In Latin America, it can take weeks to restore national electrical grids. The fact that Cuban electrical workers accomplished this in such short time is a testament to the tenacity, and ingenuity of our people.

Oh it gets worse! The 93-year-old executioner of Lumumba is Etienne Davignon. He was the foundational architect of EU foreign policy. Davignon Report that became the basis of Common Foreign and Security policy. The butcher of Lumumba - whose sin was to nationalize natural resources to keep it for the Congolese people - WROTE the foreign and security policy of EU. In case you’re wondering why EU is cheerleading the genocide of Palestinians and attacks on Iran.

🚨 The trial of PSC Director Ben Jamal and Stop the War vice-chair Chris Nineham has concluded today and the judge will announce his verdict on April 1st. Defence barrister Mark Summers KC said the case was a “ludicrous invitation to criminalise legitimate protected political speech about the misuse of state power against people’s civil liberties." He described their actions in the run up to the 18 January 2025 Palestine protest as nothing more than those of civic organisations engaging in political campaigning in a democracy. The police imposed conditions which had created widespread public criticism. On previous marches this had led to compromise with the police, but in this instance the police rejected that approach. Letters in support of the protest signed by members of Jewish organisations, Holocaust survivors, journalists, judges, politicians and others were disregarded. Mr Summers emphasised that Chris and Ben were both highly respected movement leaders with a long and extraordinary record of successfully organising some of the biggest demonstrations ever seen in this country. These were all managed in cooperation with the police and in accordance with conditions, even when there was disagreement about them. The court heard again how officers in the control room and on the ground were operating in complete ignorance of the flower delegation plan announced from the stage - that a small group would walk to the BBC to lay flowers or if stopped by police, lay them at the feet of police. This was a sensible, symbolic proposal to go some way towards achieving the original objective of the protest. It could only have succeeded with police permission and was not an unlawful intention. At the police cordons the delegation clearly understood they had been permitted to proceed through police lines, being told on one police bodycam “You’ve got to filter through.” There was no communication to the contrary and no reason to to believe that the police were instructing them to do something unlawful. Met Commander Slonecki acknowledged in his evidence that existing police conditions were subject to ad hoc changes on the ground as necessary. On the incitement charge against Ben Jamal, Mr Summers said that he “engaged in the very opposite of inciting people into a criminal breach of the conditions imposed by the police”. His criticism of the repression of the right to protest by the police was entirely legitimate and not an encouragement to break the law. The flower delegation represented “legitimate grievances channeled into a powerful, lawful act of political expression and symbolism.” Mr Summers ended by saying that the incitement charge was “utterly hopeless and you must acquit”.

BREAKING: Étienne Davignon, 93 year old coloniser and former EU supremo, has been charged with complicity in the murder of Patrice Lumumba. This is genuinely huge news. Great news. "Every day for the thief, one day for the owner" - African proverb.