North Africa

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

Torture, show trials common in neocolonial Libya

A video released last week showing the beating and torture of Saadi Gadhafi is not an anomaly in contemporary Libya…

August 15, 2015

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

NATO launches the Trident war exercises, threatens Russia, Africa and Middle East

This article by Manlio Dinucci appeared in Il Manifesto on June 16. We republish it here with the author’s permission.…

June 18, 2015

Instability in Libya and Tunisia caused by U.S., NATO

Just two days before the 59th anniversary of Tunisia’s national independence from France in 1956, gunmen took over the Bardo…

March 30, 2015

NATO opens its curtain of war on two fronts

Sept. 4 — The Summit of Heads of State and Government of the 28 states of NATO opens today in…

September 4, 2014

From Gaza to the Bronx: We charge genocide

This article is dedicated to the honor and memory of the Four Little Footballers: Mohammed Bakr (11), Ahed Bakr (11),…

August 12, 2014

100 years later — what caused World War I?

On June 28 just a century ago, Gavrilo Princip, a 19-year-old patriot from the oppressed nation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, assassinated Archduke Ferdinand…

July 11, 2014

Migrant struggle in Europe reveals global crisis

Two incidents on European territory this week demonstrate how the deepening global economic and political crisis affects the international working…

June 8, 2014

Africa labor in motion

Workers are striking in both the private and public sectors in Egypt and students are demanding jobs in Tunisia. While…

March 31, 2014