Africa

Victory to Zimbabwe!

More than 100 people marched and rallied in New York City on Sept. 17 in defense of Zimbabwe; the country’s…

September 22, 2016

Lessons of the 1976 Soweto Rebellion

On June 16, 1976, students in the Southwest Townships (Soweto) outside of Johannesburg, South Africa, stayed home from school to…

June 12, 2016

African liberation struggles drove Portugal’s April 1974 revolution

It was April of 1974. A popular folk song serving as a secret signal to the captains in Portugal’s Armed…

June 3, 2016

U.S. sanctions aim to starve Zimbabwe into submission

President Barack Obama’s administration, utilizing the Office of Foreign Assets Control, announced on March 2 the extension, for another year,…

March 25, 2016

Unable to prevail through ground war, U.S. bombs Somalia

On March 7, the Pentagon announced it had killed 150 members of the al-Shabab [“the youth”] guerrilla movement in a…

March 17, 2016

Zimbabwe diamonds, El Nino and the economic crisis in Southern Africa

The Zimbabwe ministry of mines announced in the capital Harare on Feb. 23 that all but one of the firms…

March 14, 2016

Ebola cases reappear in Liberia, Guinea

Regional and international health officials emphasize that the Ebola virus disease crisis is not over, as three new cases have…

December 2, 2015

African forces conduct military exercises

A military exercise by 5,400 troops from various African Union member states in South Africa is aimed at creating a…

November 5, 2015

U.S. transnationals seek greater profits in Africa

The U.S. State Department opened a conference in Libreville, Gabon, on Aug. 24 to promote trade between Wall Street and…

August 26, 2015

Emigration and war: Capitalist media suppress the obvious

The reports about tens of thousands of desperate refugees scrambling out of the Middle East and North Africa, trying to…

August 15, 2015