Class struggle is such a universal and constant phenomena that at all times, men act in relation to the necessities of life in relation to their modes of production and in relation to their present and future interests. After all, hasn’t Religion chosen and taught this form of struggle by setting good against evil, truth against falsehood, justice against injustice, solidarity against selfishness? . . . Read More The post The Believer and the Class Struggle appeared first on Hood Communist ..read more

A proper contextualization of Socialism of Islam by Dr. Mustafa Sibai. . . . Read More The post The Socialism of Islam: Beyond “Islamic Socialism” appeared first on Hood Communist ..read more

notifications fall from the top of the screen  when i watch the weekly jummah livestream,  anxiety pushes my breathing beyond its limits  when i throw my face into buzzing masses . . . Read More The post OCD Vlog #7, or last week’s Dhuhr appeared first on Hood Communist ..read more

The legacy of the Hobyo Sultanate and its resistance against colonialism remains an inspiration to many. It is a reminder that the people of Somalia are capable of overcoming even the most difficult challenges. . . . Read More The post Remembering the Resistance of the Sultanate of Hobyo appeared first on Hood Communist ..read more

The settler projects in Libya were created with the express purpose of replacing one people with another, replacing indigenous society with an Italian “Fourth Shore.” The violence that paved the way for the settler period continued on into the years of settlement. . . . Read More The post Fascist Imaginations & Colonial Realities: Italy’s Settler Project in Libya appeared first on Hood Communist ..read more

Although I was born in America, I am certainly not an American because America defined my African ancestors as three-fifths of a human being in their original Constitution. Also, it has been our experience as an African people of the diaspora living in America that the freedom, justice, and equality promised to its citizens in the U.S. Constitution was never intended for us; but for Whites Only. I am a Pan-Africanist Revolutionary. I labor in a Revolutionary Party (All-African People’s Revolutionary Party) founded by Kwame Nkrumah, Ahmed Sekou Toure, and Amilcar Cabral. Stokely Carmichael (aka ..read more

i have been locked by the lawless. Handcuffed by the haters.  Gagged by the greedy.  And, if i know anything at all, it’s that a wall is just a wall  and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.  i believe in living  i believe in birth. i believe in the sweat of love  and in the fire of truth. –Assata Shakur, “i believe in living.” Opening On the brisk morning of April 1st 2021 at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) office in Washington D.C., a protest was on the rise as Indigenous livelihoods, histories, and futures . . . Read More The post Redrawing Aesthe ..read more

“Yoko is as important to me as Paul and Dylan rolled into one. I don’t think she will get recognition until she’s dead. There’s me, and maybe I could count the people on one hand that have any conception of what she is or what her mind is like, or what her work means.” John Lennon In the middle of rolling my wheelchair from one room to another, Yoko Ono suddenly entered my brain. Immediately i began to wonder when i first became familiar with her. Similar to Winnie Mandela, Amy Jacques Garvey, Shirley Graham DuBois or Mama Zondeni Sobukwe, . . . Read More The post In Defense of Yoko Ono appear ..read more

Although he was a prolific professional running back in U.S. football during the 1960s and early 70s, most people today will remember African (Black) Orenthal James (O.J.) Simpson as being either the person who was framed for, or got away with, the June 1994 murders of his European (white) ex-wife Nicole Brown-Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. I grew up in the same depressed San Francisco, California, U.S. neighborhood as O.J.  As a nine year old child I remember chasing O.J. down in front of Kezar Stadium 1971 for an autograph only to be quickly dismissed for a couple of . . . Read Mor ..read more

Leaving New York City and approaching the Lincoln Tunnel, there is a large mural with the old adage, “Nothing Is Impossible.” As i stared into the slight gaudiness of the font and semi-bright paint job, i silently disagreed, as at the moment, everything feels impossible.. It begins with night 1 of 2. As a person who used to skateboard and was heavily into skate culture (and particularly loved the Bones Brigade and folks like Steve Olson) primarily in my teens to early/mid 20s, i was excited to attend a conversation/presentation/Q&A with Rodney Mullen and Tony Hawk. On the day of . . . Read ..read more