Luqman Nation

The long history of solidarity among Asians with the Black struggle should inform us of the need to continue and return that solidarity today; and how the Paris Commune still influences movements in the struggle for justice today.

Yes the COVID relief bill was needed, but temporary solutions to systemic problems don't make a messiah. And the history of women in the labor struggle continues with the Bread & Roses Strike

How are people surprised that the colonialist royal family are raging racists?? HOW??

Senate Democrats staying silent and letting Senate Republicans disparage oppressed people STILL rising up against police terrorism in those BS hearings on the 1/6 fascist attack on the Capitol, on the anniversary of the beating of Rodney King, was a grave sin of omission.

The long history of white supremacist terrorism in the US is directly connected to the racist terrorism at the US Capitol on Jan 6, and the everyday terrorism against Black, Brown, and other marginalized people on a regular basis.

Biden's COVID memorial ceremony was touching. And still doesn't come close to the kind of response to COVID that we need from this administration.

What made Malcolm X and Claudia Jones so dangerous to the system, even though they were continents apart? The Black demand for international working class solidarity they championed. That is still a threat to the system. And so are we.

Ted and Heidi Cruz are typical of the elite mentality that plagues us all. And the history behind why we Luqmans are internationalists. We were taught well.

The rugged individualist privatization of Texas's utility infrastructure and services, and the American exceptionalism of Kroger's capitalism have created massive suffering for people in the failed third world state of America.

Of course Biden kicked progressives in the back in his first town hall, but the question on policing was a pivotal moment for why we need to understand the contribution of Huey P. Newton and what he and Bobby Seale gave us with the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in how to fight this continuing battle of racist police terrorism.

Where did QAnon come from? Pizzagate, a lie about a pedo ring in Washington that some Progressives fell for too.

We told you the Democrats could not be pushed to the "left." Letting Neera Tanden anywhere near a cushy job in the Biden administration lets you know just where their loyalties lie. And it's not with the people. And that includes Uncle Bernie.

Yes, the way members of Congress have made excuses for the worst of the Trump coalition today is indeed a reflection of how it was possible that so many people accepted lynching, slavery, Jim Crow, and other racial violence. Even as they proclaim that they didn't participate, they were still very much complicit. Congress is showing you how right now.

We recognize and celebrate the one year anniversary of the publishing of a very important book written by our comrade and friend, Margaret Kimberley - Prejudential, Black America and The Presidents! We did this interview with Margaret a year ago as a video, but technical issues dogged us and we thought we'd lost it! But here we were able to salvage the audio and we're glad to have been able to pre...

Of COURSE Amazon has been stealing off its employees' wages & tips! And how the alleged Constitution-loving hypocrites threw a hissy fit about an election that wasn't stolen from their Dear White Supremacist Leader, while ignoring the voting rights denied others for centuries, and that still are.

While GameStopGate has people rallying for regular people to be allowed the same access to the market as the capitalists who control it, history tells us that what they REALLY fear is if we unite and fight against the entire system. Why not let's do that instead? Support Luqman Nation on Patreon at Patreon.com/Luqmannation

Sadly I only had 10 minutes to talk about this and couldn't even address the fact that paying off student loans and being able to afford surgery is only possible in this country through a fluke of investing luck, but the basic principles behind the "free market" and the way the game of investing is absolutely rigged against everyone but the rich was made crystal clear in this issue with GameStop....

Amanda Gorman's poem "The Hill We Must Climb" is typical empty American Exceptionalism rhetoric presented as hope without substantive structural change by a young Black poet laureate in a spiffy yellow Prada coat.

The opulence and empty rhetoric of Joe Biden's & Kamala Harris's inauguration and the massive fireworks display to cap the event cast a cold shadow over the continued poverty, homelessness, and struggle of the people mere blocks and a very few miles away from the seat of US and global power.

While the system of capitalism is ultimately the problem and should be our focus, we should also look at how we support the same system, which only turns around and oppresses us with our own dollars.

I've got a bone to pick with progressives who decided that they had to distance themselves from "Antifa" because they were squeamish about throwing hands to fight fascists. When you let your enemies define who and what your allies are, you lose every time.

How will impeachment play out? I'm betting vegan cheese on the outcome. And every gravy train runs dry; the capitalists have scraped the bottom of Trump's.

If we were really serious about fascism and insurrection, we would be impeaching a whole lot more politicians than just Trump.

Wednesday was neither organic nor spontaneous, and it isn't' the end. The question is, what are WE going to