WSWS—King was in any case a figure of fundamentally different character—a mass leader in the genuine sense, and one whose political evolution brought him into increasingly direct conflict with American capitalism and imperialism. The movement he led was marked by a deep internal contradiction between the conservative aims of its middle class, mainly clerical leadership and the revolutionary strivings of the masses.
Ajamu Baraka
Ajamu Baraka
AJAMU BARAKA is an editor and contributing columnist for the Black Agenda Report. He is the Director of the North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights and serves on the Executive Committee of the U.S. Peace Council and leadership body of the U.S.-based United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC).
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PLUS: Ajamu Baraka's evaluation of Jesse Jackson
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AJAMU BARAKA—Evidence of collusion continues to surface, not between Trump and the Russians, but rather between intelligence officials in the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign. The latest revelation of this evidence was reported by John Solomon in “The Hill, ” a Washington insider publication. According to Solomon, former FBI attorney Lisa Page gave testimony to the House Judiciary committee that seemed to confirm the partisan intentions of Peter Strzok and other high officials in the agency.

