Africa

Even as we celebrate the release of Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah in late September, it is also our duty as revolutionary socialists to keep exposing the horrors of the Egyptian carceral state and to solidarize with the thousands of other political prisoners who continue to languish in its dungeons.

By Cesar Neto Introduction A clear wave of struggles is shaking Africa. Initially localized in sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya, Ghana, Mozambique, Angola, and Madagascar), these struggles are now spreading northward with mobilizations in Morocco. These struggles are all explosive and radicalized, and they lack class leadership. Tired of paying for the capitalist crisis, Moroccan youth are […]

— Unified Socialist Workers’ Party (PSTU-Brazil) Inflation, unemployment, and attacks on wages have sparked protests in Angola against the neoliberal government of João Lourenço of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). The MPLA has been in power for 50 years. At the end of July, a taxi strike in Luanda sparked a […]

By JAMES MARKIN In early May, a small number of the white Afrikaans-speaking ethnic minority departed South Africa. According to the South African outlet, News 24, their departure from Oliver Tambo International Airport was silent, “without fanfare.” The departure of this small group has invoked mockery and derision of the  “Amerikaners” in their native South […]

By César Neto Introduction The artisanal miners of South Africa, often of foreign origin and called “zama zamas,” were punished for “illegal” mining by being forcibly trapped in an abandoned mine where they were left without access to food and water. As a result of the government’s attempt to force them out of the mine […]

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 […]

By César Neto The West African Country of Ghana experienced an important process of struggle during the month of September and the first days of October, and everything indicates that it will continue throughout this month. The reason for the demonstrations are the lack of jobs, inflation, and pollution caused by artisanal mining, also known […]

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, silvery metal is an essential component to almost every lithium-ion rechargeable battery made today. It is also used in a wide array of emerging low-carbon […]

Kenya is a country with just over 50 million inhabitants and bathed by the Indian Ocean. Like any semi-colonial nation it suffers and struggles against the global crisis of capitalism, including those that occured in 2008-2009, 2019, the Covid epidemic, the food crisis as a result of the war in Ukraine, and as if that […]

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, […]

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 […]

Kenya has been very visible in the world press in the past few weeks. Two facts have stood out. One is the new wave of mobilizations against the government of William Ruto and the other is the sending of soldiers to repress in Haiti. In this article, we week to explain Kenya’s intricate game of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]