Abayomi Azikiwe

Libya faces further imperialist intervention

Three years after the massive eight-month bombing campaign against Libya was carried out by the Pentagon and NATO, divisions within…

March 27, 2014

African women fight for land & equality

In Africa women have been in the forefront of movements toward national liberation, social and environmental justice, and gender equality.…

March 22, 2014

African workers, youth strike against poverty

From Central Africa Republic, Egypt and Kenya to South Africa Although escalating instability and threats of civil war have dominated…

March 19, 2014

Neocolonial regime in Libya faces war over oil exports

On March 19, 2011, the United States and allied NATO war planes began a massive bombing campaign against the North…

March 16, 2014

French president visits Africa as U.N. proposes more troops

A proposal submitted to the 15-member U.N. Security Council on March 3 calls for the deployment of an additional 12,000…

March 5, 2014

Detroit meeting opposes bankruptcy plan

Detroit -- A standing-room-only audience at Central United Methodist Church participated in an Emergency Town Hall meeting March 2 in…

March 4, 2014

South Africa miners’ strikes, poverty and upcoming elections

National elections will be held in the Republic of South Africa on May 7. The ruling African National Congress, after…

February 20, 2014

Malcolm X and global Black struggle

In March 1964, Malcolm X announced his official departure from the Nation of Islam. He had spent 12 years working…

February 19, 2014

Mandela, the ANC and the African-American struggle

With the death of Nelson Mandela on Dec. 5, 2013, the impact of his life and political work was recognized…

February 17, 2014

Fifty years after ‘war on poverty,’ class divisions widen

Some five decades after President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a “War on Poverty,” class divisions inside the U.S. are widening.…

February 14, 2014