Africa

by Irvin Jim, NUMSA General Secretary
Socialist Revolutionary Workers’ Party Vows to Resist South African Government’s Privatization Move
06 Feb 2019
The new party insists that transition to renewable energy must be driven by the working class, not for capitalist profit.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
DR Congo Post-Election: An Interview with Maurice Carney
30 Jan 2019
The Congolese people succeeded in forcing President Kabila to allow elections to choose his successor, but Kabila still rigged the vote.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
“BAR Book Forum: Tavia Nyong’o’s Afro-Fabulations”
30 Jan 2019
Nyong’o’s book seeks to “articulate the power of the critical and creative fabulation” of black social life.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio, Week of January 27, 2019
29 Jan 2019
MLK Fought for Workers’ Rights
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
New South African Party to “Overthrow Capitalism”
29 Jan 2019
Irvin Jim, leader of South Africa’s largest union, told a People’s Forum audience in New York City that the newly formed Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party is not “another refor
Mary Serumaga
Bio-piracy: the Sale of Uganda’s Lakes to Investors
26 Jan 2019
The fishermen of Kabarole District appear to have blown the whistle on an audacious act of bio-piracy.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Anti-imperialist Dilemma: What If the US is “Right” About the Election in DR Congo?
23 Jan 2019
The US may, for once, be doing the right thing in the Congo, although undoubtedly for its own imperial reasons.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Poverty Criminalized in “Shackland” South Africa
21 Jan 2019
Twenty-five years after the end of apartheid, 5.2 million South Africans live in urban shack settlements that are unfit for human habitation, said anthropologist Kerry Chance, auth
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Code Talking: UN Security Council on War and Peace in DR Congo
16 Jan 2019
Congolese President Kabila wants to shut out the apparent winner of last month’s elections in favor the of the second place finisher, who appears to have accepted the deal.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Harri Englund’s’ “Gogo Breeze”
16 Jan 2019
In rural Zambia, an elder named Gogo Breeze investigates his listeners’ grievances and renders public service at a small privately-owned radio station.