Africa

Musawenkosi Cabe
In South Africa, channelizing Marx Towards Building a United Front
09 May 2018
“The union understands that it will have to go beyond theory and mobilize the working class.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
ANC Tried to Purge Winnie Mandela
08 May 2018
Winnie Mandela, the political activist and former wife of Nelson Mandela who died last month at age 81, “became a target for her unwavering support of the ideas contained in the Freedom Charter,” s
This Is Hell
World Bank's Rankings Reward Dispossession, Land Privatization, Corruption, Environmental Devastation as Good For Business
02 May 2018
Tanzania recently made some seed saving a crime. Liberia lifted its requirements for trading companies to file environmental impact statements.
Dennis Webster
Rural Workers Mobilized in South African General Strike
01 May 2018
“’Land and the hunger for land’ is uniting rural and urban workers.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
“Free Mumia” is a Strategy, Not a Slogan
30 Apr 2018
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Peace Means Building a New World
30 Apr 2018
“We need a peace movement of a new type,” said Dr Anthony Monteiro, the Philadelphia-based Dubosian scholar.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Windrush and Britain’s Crimes Against Black People
25 Apr 2018
“The Windrush generation their children have the right to live and work in Britain.”
R. Divya Nair
Reflections on The Pan-Afro-Asiatic Civilizational Complex
25 Apr 2018
“The encroachments of European traders, missionaries, explorers, planters, soldiers, and especially scholars and teachers, represented not civilization but rat
David Sheen
African Refugees Get No Reprieve from Israel’s Racist Rage
25 Apr 2018
“Netanyahu has claimed that the non-Jewish refugees -- about half Christian and half Muslim -- pose a threat to Israel’s “national identity.”
Patrick Bond
‘New Imperialism’ Debate Suffers from the Omission of Subimperialism
25 Apr 2018
“The immense needs of their own populations do not drive their policy orientations.”