Africa

Chad: Resistance to the coup, opposition to France

May 2 — U.S. and French imperialism have competing interests in how an ongoing crisis in Chad is resolved. They…

May 5, 2021

Chad’s president’s death upsets imperialists

Idriss Déby, president of Chad, died April 19 in the Tibesti mountains, weapons in hand, as Chad troops fought an…

April 28, 2021

Imperialist countries create global vaccine apartheid, prolonging pandemic

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, the scale of inequality under capitalism has come sharply into focus.…

April 26, 2021

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