Africa

Capitalist greed confronts physics — and loses

The Ever Given, a Panamanian-flagged, Taiwan-operated, Japanese-owned, German-managed, Indian-crewed Ultra Large Container Vessel (ULCV), blocked the Suez Canal in the…

March 29, 2021

10 years ago U.S.-NATO forces demolished Libya

Ten years ago, on March 19, 2011, U.S.-NATO forces began the air and sea bombardment of Libya. The war was…

March 19, 2021

Sharpeville massacre: A turning point in the anti-apartheid struggle

The following article first appeared on the front page of the April 1, 1960, issue of Workers World. The original…

March 19, 2021

Malians demonstrate against French military presence

By Carlos Lopes Pereira The author writes regularly on African events for the Portuguese Communist Party. This article was published…

February 5, 2021

Elliott Abrams, fire your own president; you couldn’t fire mine in Venezuela.

The writer was the director of international relations in Venezuela’s presidential office and the country’s ambassador to Nicaragua. Currently, he…

January 25, 2021

Trump y Somalia

El presidente saliente dio otro paso público engañoso el 2 de diciembre: ordenó a los 700 soldados estadounidenses restantes que…

December 16, 2020

Trump and Somalia

The outgoing president took another deceptive public step on Dec. 2: He ordered the remaining 700 U.S. troops out of…

December 7, 2020

Black Lives Matter – from Nigeria to the U.S.

As a Nigerian-American, I was very disappointed in myself for my lack of knowledge about #EndSARS protests in Nigeria that…

November 11, 2020

From Texas to Nigeria, end police brutality!

Houston Hundreds of people gathered near Wazobia African Market on the southwest side of Houston on Oct. 14 to protest…

October 23, 2020

Trump, ‘Get your hands off Somali refugees!’

Before being admitted to the hospital for coronavirus infection, Donald Trump spent the last two weeks on yet another vile…

October 6, 2020