Luqman Nation

Temporary Covid Relief Doesn't a Messiah Make & More on The Bread and Roses Strike

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

Royal Racism? How Are You Surprised.

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

From Rodney King to George Floyd, Politicians Still Demonize The Oppressed Rising Up To Avoid Dealing With Racist Terrorist Violence

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.

FBI Testimony On Jan 6 Doesn't Come Close To The Scope of The Reality of Racist Terrorism

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 Gives Us Candles, A Moment of Silence, and a Tweet, But No Real COVID Relief

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.

The Black Demand for International Proletarian Solidarity Is The Achilles Heel of The System

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.

The Cruzes Are The Archetype of the Elites - And Why We're Internationalists

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.

Third World America Suffers Under Privatization and Capitalist Greed

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.

The Neoliberal Nightmare Continues Under Biden, But History Should Informs Us What WE Have To Do Now

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.

Pizzagate: The Lie That Fueled QAnon And That Helped Fuel The Fascist Attack On The Capitol

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

Neera Tanden Gets A Pass On Her Years Of Abusive Vitriol Toward Progressives

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.

Ever Wonder How So Many People Accepted Lynchings? Look At What's Going On In Congress.

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.

A History of US Presidents Being Prejudential - Interview with Author Margaret Kimberly

We recognize and celebrate the one year anniversary of the publishing of a very important book written by our comrade and friend, Margaret Kimberly - 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 preserve it to commemorate a truly prescient publication a year ago today!! Follow Luqman Nation on ...

A History of US Presidents Being Prejudential - Interview with Author Margaret Kimberley

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 preserve it to commemorate a truly prescient publication a year ago today!! Follow Luqman Nation on...

Amazon Caught Ripping Off Drivers Wages And The Constitution-Loving Hypocrites Throw A Hissy Fit

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.

Don't Organize To Be Better Capitalists, Organize To Get Rid of Capitalism!

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

GameStopGate Is Another Example of Why The Market Isn't Free And Why Capitalism Must Die

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. More lessons in this than I had time to get into, but I hope you get the idea, that capitalism mu...

Inauguration Poem Is American Exceptionalism Propaganda Disguised As Black Girl Magic

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 Fireworks of the Inaguration Cast A Cold Shadow Over The Despair Of The People

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.

Our Support of Capitalism Feeds The Political Oppression We Hate

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.

We're Paying For Letting The Fascists And The Media Define Antifa

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.

Thoughts On Impeachment And Capitalists Protecting Their Profits From The Trump Train Wreck

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.

We're Not REALLY Concerned About Fascism and Insurrection (correction: WWI meant as WWII)

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

Who Was Really Behind The Capitol Insurrection - And Where Do WE Go From Here

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

We Told You The Violence You Saw At The Capitol Was Coming

Liberals Celebrate Black Votes Saving Their Behinds, But Have Already Gone Back To Brunch That We Pay For But Can't Join In

All these celebrations about Black people saving an election, the Senate, Congress, democracy, the country, the world mean nothing when liberals go back to brunch while our fight continues.

Kamala Harris And the Rip-Off Of Representational Politics

Representation matters for boosting self-esteem in children. Adults need to look beyond the window-dressing and analyze the politics behind the identieis.

The Empire Doesn't Change In the New Year Just Because the Date or the Administration Changes

Happy New Year! Nothing changes just because the date has changed. So the thing that needs to change is that YOU need to get to work.

Our Hope For 2021 Doesn't Lie In Politics - It's In The Streets

We need to face the political realities of the day to be properly prepared for the struggle ahead. And the struggle is where our hope lies.

Trump Attacks Dems From The Left While The Dems Crap On The Left & Us

No, Trump isn't sincere about helping people. His demand for a bigger relief check is an attention-seeking strategic ploy. But the Democrats are so bad at their own strategy that they left themselves open for Trump to do this. And they didn't have to, if they weren't so busy crapping on the progressives in the party, and ultimately you and me.

We're Swimming In an Ocean of Money In The Richest Nation In The World, And We're Going Broke, Hungry & Homeless

These people are playing in our faces with all this money they're throwing around to everyone and everything else, while holding this paltry $600 for you and me hostage, and calling it "significant" while patting themselves on the back for ripping us off again. Somebody explain why we're not in full on pitchfork and torch mode yet!

Russian Hacking Claims Are A Political Atttack On Already Struggling Americans

Russiagate 2.0...or is it 3.0...is being deployed against already struggling Americans who the politicians that created the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression are using to deflect people's anger away from them. And I'm not just talking about Trump.

The Electoral College - The Rich Landowning White Men's Compromise That Needs To Be Abolished

There are really no more valid reasons to keep the Electoral College. But Trump supporters who think the election was stolen from their fuhrer are not allies with us in this fight to do away with it.

Biden and His Paternalistic Disrespect of Black Political Leaders and The Voters They Represent - CLEAN VERSION

The entire audio of the meeting between Joe Biden and the leaders of Black political organizations is indicative of the paternalistic, disrespectful, and condescending "relationship" between Biden and the Black people who dragged his half-dead carcass across the 270 finish line in this election. Nobody should be surprised, but the depth of disrespect is contemptible. But maybe not worse than the submissiveness to it from these "leaders."

Media Already Isn't Holding Anybody Accountable for Anything; And Biden's Plan To Save The Economy, Not You, From Coronavirus

The media won't even hold Republican voter suppression accountable, how are they going to hold Biden accountable? And if you thought Biden's COVID-19 plan was about saving you from coronavirus, think again.

Biden's Defense Pick Gives Black People A Seat At The Table of Imperialism - We Should Excuse Ourselves From The Meal

Biden's choice for Secretary of Defense shows the ideological weakness of the immature and empty demand of "representation" in the positions of power in a capitalist, classist, racist, imperialist system. A Black face upholding the hegemony of US imperialism isn't progress for the Black masses.

Dems Capitulate On Leaving People Hanging & The Anti-BDS Campaign Is The Latest Separation of Black People International Liberation Struggle

The Democrats' terrible political strategy cost us dearly, and the anti-BDS rhetoric from Raphael Warnock is the latest in the campaign to separate Black Americans from international liberation struggles.

The Real Voter Fraud, and The Real Black Power

Sure voter fraud happens. But not in the way Trump wants to admit. And the real Black power that the legacy of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark left to achieve all power to the people, and not the Black buying power of Black Capitalism that today's celebrities hijack the movement toward liberation for.

Being Principled In Struggle Means Never Having To Delete Social Media Posts

Democratic politicians who won't stand up to the smear campaign against BDS and those who support Palestinian liberation do not deserve the support of the people who expect them to stand up for them.

Barack Obama Steps Fully Into His Role Of Movement Crusher for the Democratic Party

Mr. Snappy Slogan for Hope and Change We Didn't Get steps fully into his role as the Crusher of Movements of the Masses that threaten to challenge the neoliberal corporatist hegemony of the Democratic Party by a base that is younger and frankly tired of the party's representational lip service.

The Collusion of Islamaphobic Egomaniacal Nuclear Superpowers Against Iran

The Islamaphobic egomaniacal nuclear superpowers of the US and Israel colluded to target an Iranian scientist in a brazen and disgusting act of aggression that could have only have been conceived by Islamaphobic egomaniacal leaders of nuclear superpowers - and the EU nations that are complicit with them - intent on maintaining their dominance.

A Little TruthGiving About This ThanksKilling Holiday

If you're going to keep the tradition to gather with family (but not THIS year), at least spend it learning the truth about the history that is covered with this cornucopia of lies.

Warnock Is Learning That A Principled Stand on Faith Against Imperialism Requires Choosing Whom He Will Serve

A few thoughts on the sticky situation Raphael Warnock in Georgia finds himself in, between his faith and imperialism trying to win an election inside the empire.

What Are We Going To Do About The Other Cars On The Trump Train When He Finally Leaves The Station

Yes, yes Trump is the main attraction in the horror show that was his administration. But what about all the enablers who cheered, and back-slapped, and sucked up, and just followed orders of his along the way? What about them?

In An Imperialist System, The Smallest Move Toward Less War Is Progress - It Shouldn't Be

Yes, it's great that Trump has ordered 2,000 troop out of Afghanistan. But that still leaves 2,500 there, and troops in Iraq, and he is still planning to allocate more billions for more war hardware. Only in an imperialist system where war is profitable would any tiny move that falls far short of actually ending war is seen as a win. It shouldn't be this way.

Don't Let Liberals Make Georgia's Brad Raffensperger A Hero

While Georgia recounts, let's set the record straight about Brad Raffesnsperger and the record of voter purges and suppression the GOP Secretary of State is a part of. Let's not make him a liberal hero just because he decided to stand up for something now.

The Anger Isn't Over A Stolen Election, It's Over Losing Power

The MAGA crowd can claim that they are protesting an allegedly stolen election, but what does assaulting Black and antifascist demonstrators and militias carrying firearms to demonstrations have to do with stealing an election? Unless...the election isn't the actual issue, but anger at the power they feel is being taken from them, and the people they believe is taking that power, is the REAL issue. Because it is the real issue.

Happy Veterans Day To The Veterans Of The Revolutionary Struggle for People's Liberation

Where Were YOU When the Empire Changed The Guard?

People will be asking this question for years to come, "Where were YOU when Biden won the election?" Where The Luqmans were is not only important in answering that question, but it is also an indication of where we'll be and what we'll be doing for the next four years, because it's what we've been doing for the last four. How about you?

These GOP Trump Defenders Today Laid The Blueprint For Him Years Ago, So You Shouldn't Be Surprised By Any Of Them

Three GOP icons and Trump apologists who no one should be surprised continue to defend him.