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October 09, 2024

Africa

‘Cobalt Red’ exposes horrors of corporate mining in the Congo

By ERWIN FREED “There is a frenzy taking place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a manic race to extract as much cobalt as quickly as possible. This rare,...

Kenya: The exemplary struggle of young people demanding the fall of the Ruto government

Kenya is a country with just over 50 million inhabitants and bathed by the...

The Gambia maintains ban on female mutilation

After an intense campaign in the streets, the parliament decided to maintain the legislation...

S. Africa’s ‘unity’ government: A recipe for more austerity

By JAMES MARKIN As expected, the results of the May 29 general election in South...

Kenya: William Ruto suppresses demonstrations, pays debt, sends troops to Haiti

Kenya has been very visible in the world press in the past few weeks....

Kenya: William Ruto suppresses demonstrations, pays debt, sends troops to Haiti

Kenya has been very visible in the world press in the past few weeks. Two facts have stood out. One is the new wave...

One Year of the Cataclysmic Civil War in Sudan

By BRIAN CRAWFORD For one year Sudan has been engulfed in conflict. There are approximately 15,000 dead, with widespread plundering and rape, combined with displacement...

Workers Show the Way in Angola with the General Strike

By: César Neto Introduction After 48 years in power, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) has become a pro-imperialist and bloodthirsty dictatorship. The...

Guinea-Bissau is Facing a Dictatorial Regime!

By Cassacá-64 On December 3, 2023, the President of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, issued a decree dissolving the ANP (National People’s Assembly)...

Burkina Faso: Students Mobilize and Police Storm University

By César Neto Since February, students at the Joseph Ki-Zerbo University in Ouagadougou, the country's capital, have been mobilizing against a law that regulates student...

Egypt: The Impact of the Situation in Gaza

Elections will be held in Egypt next December. The current president, General Abdelfatah al-Sisi (in power since 2013 when he overthrew the Muslim Brotherhood...

Niger: Class Independence and Anti-imperialist Struggle to Stop the Coup

By: Wilson Honorio da Silva, from the Formation Secretariat of the PSTU Brazil At the end of July, Niger, the second largest country in West...

Angola: MPLA and UNITA feel the heat with youth and popular sectors in the streets

The world economic crisis, the pandemic, and the war in Ukraine has further weakened Angola’s semi-colonial economy. It fell to the colonial administrator, João...

A Predictable and Therefore Avoidable Tragedy in Sudan

The bourgeois media never tires of writing about the probable complications of the conflict in Sudan. They just don't write about who is--both directly...

Guinea-Bissau: UNTG-CS belongs to the working class, not to the coup plotters!

The National Union of Workers of Guinea-Bissau (UNTG), which is the largest trade union in the country, was created on May 18, 1961, as...

Sudan: Serious risk of civil war and the involvement of neighboring countries

On Saturday April 15, an armed confrontation broke out between the Sudanese Army and the RSF (Rapid Support Forces) paramilitary groups. On one side...

Stalinism and Pan-Africanism – Part V

In previous articles of this series, we discussed the national struggles of colonial and semi-colonial peoples, particularly on the African continent, including the creation...

The genocide in the Belgian Congo and the struggle for reparation

The genocide carried out by the Belgian king resulted in the death of eight to ten million Congolese. By Cesar Neto Belgium is a small country,...

Angola | MPLA Once Again Commits Election Fraud to Stay in Power

The government, like other dictatorships, tries to present itself as a democracy to the international community. By: CSP-Conlutas, Brazil As expected, the MPLA (Popular Movement for...