Abayomi Azikiwe

Imperialist wars, growing income gap undermine U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals

This year, the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals were scheduled to reach certain objectives in reducing poverty and improving living…

July 9, 2015

Call for mass actions to stop Saudi bombing of Yemen

July 6 — The Pentagon-backed and -coordinated bombing campaign has killed thousands and wounded thousands more in Yemen since the…

July 9, 2015

Bombings kill more in Yemen as hunger, thirst spread

Warplanes deployed by the Saudi Arabian monarchy, the Gulf Cooperation Council and their allies, all backed by U.S. imperialism, are…

July 6, 2015

Septima Clark and the role of civil rights education in South Carolina and beyond

Since the massacre of nine African Americans at the Mother Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, we have reviewed the legacy…

July 4, 2015

Sixty years after Freedom Charter, South Africa struggle continues

Events that took place on June 25-26, 1955, in Kliptown, South Africa, represented a turning point in the national liberation…

June 30, 2015

Yemeni peace talks sabotaged in Geneva

After nearly a week of discussions in Geneva, Switzerland, United Nations talks to end the fighting in Yemen have adjourned…

June 28, 2015

Charleston massacre and the legacy of Denmark Vesey

The racist attack on the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston was a planned and premeditated assault on…

June 23, 2015

African Union overshadowed by attacks on Sudan

A concerted campaign to disrupt the African Union Summit held June 7-15 in the Republic of South Africa used charges…

June 21, 2015

Talks stall as Saudis bomb Yemeni cities

In the first announced attempt to reach a political settlement, United Nations talks began June 15 — with the Ansurallah…

June 18, 2015

Can U.N. talks bring peace to Yemen?

June 8 — Even though peace talks are slated to begin on June 14 in Geneva between the major parties…

June 13, 2015