On the night of July 14, 1967, Geraldine Pointer (then Robinson) was helping Martin Sostre close the Afro-Asian Bookshop on Jefferson Avenue. The two met and started dating the previous year, soon after he opened the city’s first Black revolutionary bookstore. Sostre eventually opened two more stores, including the East-West Bookshop which Pointer managed. In the early morning of July 15th, plainclothes police and FBI agents raided the store on Jefferson and arrested the two, scapegoating Sostre as the cause of the city’s recent uprising.  

Geraldine Robinson became one of the first Black women political prisoners of the Black Power era, yet her struggle remains virtually unknown today. Any dedication to the excavation and dissemination of Martin Sostre’s legacy must also acknowledge the importance of Geraldine’s struggle and the enduring impact of state repression on her and her family.
— Read on www.martinsostre.com/geraldine-robinson-pointer

As early as seven years after the end of World War II, war crimes investigators, mostly from Western countries, charged the United States with genocide due to its indiscriminate attacks on civilians in the Korean War, including, notably, use of biological weapons (BW).
— Read on www.thecanadafiles.com/articles/canada-releases-70-year-old-document-that-accuses-us-of-genocide-biological-warfare-during-korean-war

This essay draws attention to Magee’s lifelong struggle against the carceral state, his analysis of its functioning, his strategies for abolition, and his unique understanding of the entanglement of the categories “slave” and “citizen” within a democracy deformed by its historical and contemporary expansive carceral system.
— Read on inquest.org/slave-rebel-or-citizen/

This is part two of a two-part discussion on two of Joy James’ recent books. This part of the discussion is focused on Contextualizing Angela Davis: The Agency and Identity of an Icon
— Read on millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/i-do-not-have-to-apologize-for-reality-joy-james-on-contextualizing-angela-davis-the-agency-and-identity-of-an-icon

The concepts of self-sacrifice, asceticism, and security awareness were crucial to Yahya Sinwar’s philosophy of resistance. The revolt that culminated with October 7 was the direct application of his political thought.
— Read on mondoweiss.net/2024/07/the-philosophy-of-hamas-in-the-writings-of-yahya-sinwar/

Women have historically been excluded from formal land rights in the Indian subcontinent. For its rural population, land remains the most prevalent …

Is women’s access to land path dependent? Evidence from Punjab (Pakistan)

An alphabet soup of political and military fronts – such as the ADFL, FDLR, RCD, and MLC – catapulted the region into resource wars. Reserves of coltan, copper, and gold as well as control over the border roads between the DRC and Uganda that link the eastern DRC to the Kenyan port of Mombasa made these armed groups and a few powerful people very rich. The war was no longer only about the post-colonial consensus, but also about the wealth that could be siphoned off to benefit an international capitalist class that lives far away from Africa’s Great Lakes.

Fascinatingly, it was only when Chinese capital began to contest the companies domiciled in Australia, Europe, and North America that the question of labour rights in the DRC became a great concern for the ‘international community’.
— Read on thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/congo-dossier/