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Mozambique: Another African semi-colony sets the continent on fire

Mozambique: Another African semi-colony sets the continent on fire

By César Neto Mozambique is located in southeastern Africa, bathed by the Indian Ocean, and was a Portuguese colony until 1975. After independence, a civil war ravaged the country from 1977 to 1992. A quarter of the economy is based on agriculture, with 80% of the population engaged in subsistence farming. According to data collected […]
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The Gambia maintains ban on female mutilation

The Gambia maintains ban on female mutilation

After an intense campaign in the streets, the parliament decided to maintain the legislation protecting women and girls. By: Marcel A victory for women’s rights in The Gambia was achieved last Monday, July 15, 2024, when parliament voted to uphold the ban on female genital mutilation (FGM). With 34 votes in favor and 19 against, […]
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S. Africa’s ‘unity’ government: A recipe for more austerity

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 Africa were cataclysmic for the governing African National Congress (ANC). The party of Nelson Mandela fell to its worst result ever, receiving just about 40% of the vote, down from over 57% in the last elections. One cause of this […]
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One Year of the Cataclysmic Civil War in Sudan

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 and famine. Human rights organizations and journalists describe horrific scenes of people caught between two equally brutal military forces. What was visited upon the Darfur region 20 years ago is […]
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Workers Show the Way in Angola with the General Strike

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 imprisonment of activists is frequent. Three activists who went to support a demonstration of motorcycle cabs on September 16 last year have been imprisoned ever since. Incidentally, they were […]
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Guinea-Bissau is Facing a Dictatorial Regime!

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) in violation of Article 94, No. 1 of the Constitution, which prohibits the dissolution of parliament for twelve months after elections. Thus, with the President’s attempt to dissolve Parliament, we […]
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Burkina Faso: Students Mobilize and Police Storm University

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 advancement, graduation, and grading. The law brings the country’s university regulations in line with European standards. Promulgated in 2009 during the dictatorship of Blaise Compaoré, this law was never fully […]
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Egypt: The Impact of the Situation in Gaza

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 government of Mohamed Morsi), has announced that he will run for a third term. He is doing so in the midst of a deep economic and social crisis in the country […]
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Niger: Class Independence and Anti-imperialist Struggle to Stop the Coup

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 Africa and one of the poorest in the world, was shaken by a military coup that deposed Mohamed Bazoum who was elected in 2021. General Abdourahmane Tchiani, known as Omar […]
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Angola: MPLA and UNITA feel the heat with youth and popular sectors in the streets

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 Lourenço, to dictate harsh economic measures to save the banks and the big foreign companies. UNITA, the well-behaved opposition party that gets along quite well with the dictatorship, is playing the […]
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A Predictable and Therefore Avoidable Tragedy in Sudan

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 and indirectly–responsible for it. According to them, it seems that everything happens by chance. We want to develop another line of reasoning. By Ashura Nassor and Cesar Neto First, we argue […]
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