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The United Nations has finally said what the world has always known but too many have been too cowardly to declare: the transatlantic slave trade was the gravest crime against humanity. And yet, predictably, shamefully, and disgracefully, the United States and the United Kingdom could not bring themselves to stand on the right side of history. Let that sink in. The very nations that built their wealth, power, and global dominance on the backs of stolen Black bodies, on rape, torture, forced labor, family separation, and generational dehumanization, refused to fully acknowledge the magnitude of their crimes. The United States didn’t just participate in slavery, it perfected it. Chattel slavery in America was not incidental. It was industrial. It was theologicalized. It was codified into law and culture. It was a system so brutal, so comprehensive, that its aftershocks are still killing us today through mass incarceration, economic inequality, healthcare disparities, and state-sanctioned violence. And the United Kingdom? An empire that colonized the globe, trafficked millions of Africans, destabilized nations, extracted resources, and then had the audacity to “abolish” slavery, only to compensate slave owners while leaving the enslaved with nothing but trauma and poverty. And now, when the global community dares to tell the truth, they hesitate. They abstain. They object. Why? Because truth demands accountability. And accountability demands repair. The United States claims it opposed the language because it fears a “hierarchy of crimes.” That’s not a serious argument, it’s a deflection. You cannot rank atrocities while standing on top of one. You cannot sanitize history while benefiting from its brutality. You cannot rebrand slavery as “job training,” strip it from textbooks, ban its teaching in classrooms, and then pretend your objection is about fairness or intellectual integrity. This is not about language. This is about refusal. Refusal to apologize. Refusal to repair. Refusal to reckon. It is the same spirit that resists teaching accurate Black history. The same spirit that dismantles DEI. The same spirit that gaslights descendants of the enslaved while continuing to profit from their oppression. This resolution was not radical, it was restrained. It was not punitive, it was truthful. And even truth was too much. So let the record reflect: When the world moved toward justice, the United States and the United Kingdom stood still, clutching their myths, protecting their comfort, and exposing, yet again, that their commitment to “freedom” has always been conditional. History is watching. And so are we.

REMEMBERING SÉKOU TOURÉ Today, we remember and honour the great Pan-African leader, Ahmed Sékou Touré, on the anniversary of his passing. Sékou Touré, who led Guinea and fought tirelessly for the unification of Africa under socialism, joined the ancestors on 26 March 1984. Before serving as the first president of the Republic of Guinea, Sékou Touré was a militant trade unionist who developed a heightened class analysis through his direct engagement in workers' struggles. He rose to prominence in the Democratic Party of Guinea (PDG), a local section of the broader Le Rassemblement démocratique africain (RDA), a Pan-African party across West and Central Africa that fought for independence from colonial rule and Pan-African unification. As the president of Guinea, Sékou Touré worked on many occasions to unify with other African states. Guinea was a founding member of the Union of African States, also known as the Ghana-Guinea-Mali Union, after the countries that attempted to unify. Guinea was also a member of the socialist anti-imperialist Casablanca Group, which strived to push African countries away from neo-colonial rule while supporting anti-colonial movements such as the independence fighters of Algeria. As Guinea borders the similarly named Guinea-Bissau, Sékou Touré allowed Amilcar Cabral's African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde to use the Republic of Guinea as a sovereign base in their struggle. Sékou Touré was also close with a number of Pan-African icons, some of whom lived for many years in Guinea, including diaspora-born freedom fighter, Kwame Ture, and South African revolutionary singer, Miriam Makeba. Thank you so much for your invaluable contribution to the struggle for a liberated, unified, socialist Africa. Rest in power, Ahmed Sékou Touré! @VoxUmmah @venanalysis @qiaocollective @ProgIntl @KawsachunNews @OrinocoTribune @blkagendareport @SoberaniaPod

Eric Cantona: ❝Immigration has done more for this city than billionaire tax dodgers ever will.❞ 📍Manchester, England

@mtracey Nothing Christian about this madness.

Pete Hegseth, at today's Christian Prayer & Worship Service at the Pentagon, prays for Almighty God to "pour out your wrath" and "break the teeth of the ungodly." He begs the Almighty to sanction "overwhelming violence" against "those who deserve no mercy"

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I can no longer hold my tongue seeing the utter lies being spread about Britain, our history of migration, and how this country was built into what it is today. For those so deeply buried in fake news, manufactured outrage and billionaire‑funded propaganda, I’m going to lay out the truth – and exactly why you’re being fed all this poison. Britain was never a sealed white island. From Roman times there were African soldiers stationed on Hadrian’s Wall and living in British towns, people from across the empire walking these roads nearly 2,000 years ago. Through the Middle Ages and Tudor England you still find Black people in the records – sailors, craftsmen, servants, musicians – even Black musicians at the royal court and Africans being baptised, marrying and being buried in English parishes like anyone else. This isn’t some modern experiment; it’s older than half the castles people visit on their bank‑holiday tours. As Britain went out into the world, the world came here. Sailors and traders from India, Yemen and beyond were arriving in British ports from the 1600s. Some of those men were practising a new faith to most Britons at the time, praying quietly in boarding houses near the docks while they worked brutal shifts in the engine rooms of British ships. Over the centuries, more people from North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia passed through and settled, bringing their languages, foods and beliefs into port cities that were far more mixed than today’s nostalgia merchants like to admit. After two world wars, the truth is simple: this country asked the Commonwealth to come and rebuild it. People from the Caribbean, Africa and South Asia didn’t sneak in; they were recruited. They came to drive buses and trains, staff the NHS, work in mills and foundries, clean offices, run corner shops, open takeaways and small businesses, and yes, build prayer spaces and community centres alongside churches and temples in the neighbourhoods everyone now pretends were always “traditional” and “unchanged”. They did the work that kept Britain going while being told to go home, refused housing, and treated as permanent outsiders. And what have they been paid back with? Scandals where people who’ve lived, worked and paid taxes here for decades get told they don’t belong. Policies designed to make life so hostile that some give up and leave. A media that uses their names, accents, clothes or places of worship as props in endless scare stories. The message is always the same: you might toil for this country, but you will never fully be of it. So when you hear that “Britain was white until recently” or that the country has been “overrun”, understand that you don’t arrive at that belief by accident. You get there because your history has been deliberately ripped out and replaced with a comforting myth: that “real” Britain is white, homogenous, and constantly under siege from people who look, speak or pray differently. Now look at when this myth has been turned up to max volume. Wages frozen. Housing a sick joke. Energy and food prices out of control. Public services hacked to pieces. At the same time, the number of people hoarding unimaginable wealth at the top has exploded. Funny, isn’t it, how every front page is about boats and “swarms” and “our culture”, and almost never about the landlords, hedge funds, private equity and offshore trusts quietly buying up your city and your future. That’s because this isn’t just prejudice; it’s a strategy. If you’re sitting on a mountain of wealth, the last thing you want is ordinary people – of every colour and background – realising they have the same problems and the same enemy. Much safer if the factory worker is furious at the new family down the road. Much safer if the person who can’t see a doctor blames the nurse with an accent instead of the minister who cut the funding. Much safer if a man who can’t afford his rent spends his rage on the woman in a headscarf at the bus stop instead of the billionaire who owns half his city. Racist rhetoric, religious dog‑whistling, all of it, exists to break solidarity. It turns neighbours into enemies and stops people seeing that Black, brown and white working‑class communities have far more in common with each other than any of them will ever have with the people flying in on private jets. It keeps you so busy policing skin colour, passports and prayer mats that you never get round to asking why your kids can’t afford a home, why your parents can’t get a hospital bed, why you’re working harder and standing still. The real story of Britain is this: a crossroads, not a fortress. Africans on Hadrian’s Wall. Black people in Tudor courts and city streets. Sailors, traders and workers from South Asia, the Middle East and beyond in the ports. Caribbean, African and Asian workers rebuilding the country after the war, staffing surgeries and hospitals, driving cabs, running shops, cooking food, teaching kids. Today’s multi‑ethnic, multi‑faith working class is not a glitch; it is Britain. It built this place and it keeps it running. If you’re genuinely angry about what’s happening to this country, good. You should be. But aim it where it belongs. Britain was never pure, never untouched, never “theirs” to take back. The people ruining your standard of living are not the ones risking their lives to get here, or the ones whose names you struggle to pronounce. They’re the ones buying politicians, owning media outlets, writing the story of this country so you never learn your own – and never realise who is standing beside you.

@RKelanic @medialens After banning working from home, Trump has brought it back for US troops.😀

NYT: Iran’s missile and drone attacks have driven U.S. forces from U.S. military bases, “forcing many American troops to relocate to hotels and office spaces throughout the region.” U.S. can’t defend its own bases from Iran. So why keep them? “Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable, with the ones in Kuwait, which is next door to Iran, suffering perhaps the most damage.” ‼️ Stating the obvious, but this is really bad, folks. @defpriorities nytimes.com/2026/03/25/us/…

Slavery “When Britain abolished slavery in its colonies in 1834, it made sure slave owners, NOT the enslaved, were compensated” Prof Lwazi Lushaba

“I think it’s questionable whether either in America or Britain we have a democracy…You’ll never have democracy while big business buys both parties and expects a pay off whichever one wins.” ~ Tony Benn

Steve Hanke of John Hopkins University (on Al Jazeera): Since the war Iran’s currency has appreciated 6%. Inflation has reduced. The mainstream media is not reporting this because they are controlled by Western intelligence agencies.

Blaming Corrupt Leaders For Africa's Underdevelopment Is a Cover For Western Exploitation Sri Lankan economist and social scientist; Dr. Howard Nicholas challenges the tired Western narrative that blames Africa’s condition on “corruption” or “laziness,” arguing instead that the continent’s underdevelopment is the result of deliberate obstruction. Speaking on The Breakdown With Sandra Babu-Boateng, he frames Africa’s so-called “resource curse” as something far more calculated: its vast natural wealth makes it a threat to established global powers, who have historically worked to block its path to industrialization. According to Nicholas, a fully industrialized Africa would not just transform its own economies, but fundamentally reshape global power dynamics—something the current geopolitical order is unwilling to allow.

"They don't want to see us unite, all they want us to do is, keep on fussing and fighting..." ~ Bob Marley

Rtd US Col Lawrence Wilkerson on Al Jazeera: Netanyahu thinking of using nuclear weapons to stop Iran.

"The poor man built the world the rich man destroys it." — Bob Marley

"We are failing because we're willing to do everything for money but not willing to do anything for our people."

"You measure a people's potential for liberation based on how different their culture is from their oppressors." Amílcar Cabral

“Education does not cure stupidity; it arms it.” —Nicolas Gomez Davila

“In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience.” ~ Stokely Carmichael aka Kwame Ture

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❝The future belongs to the people, and step by step or in a single blow, they will take power, here and throughout the world.❞ — Che Guevara