By Henry C.K. Liu The protracted history of the Chinese socialist revolution started 94 years ago in 1919 on May 4, when 5,000 students from Beijing University and twelve other schools held a political demonstration in front of Tiananmen, the focal point of what is today known as Tiananmen Square. The demonstration sparked what came…
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UN Silent on US – CIA – NATO Crimes : Long History of War, Coups, Color Revolutions and Genocide
By Shenali Waduge UN silent on US – CIA – NATO crimes but goes after Third World nations and leaders The former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in an interview in 1998 summed up exactly what the US thinks of the UN : “The UN plays a very important role. But if we don’t like…
The Black Man’s Burden
By Garikai Chengu So much has been said of the “white man’s burden:” namely, how the collapsing American Empire and bygone British Empire have shouldered the burden of civilising Africa and driving the global economy for centuries. The opposite is true. The fact of the matter is that not only was Western civilisation invented by…
Chris Hani (1942-1993) Honored in South Africa on 20th Anniversary of His Assassination
South African Communist Party leader and ANC military commander made enormous contributions to national liberation Chris Hani (1942-1993) By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° On April 10, 1993 the racist in South Africa struck killing Chris Hani, the-then General Secretary of the South African Communist Party and commander of Um Khonto we Sizwe (Spear of the…
A Massacre for a Moral Martyr: ‘Person’ versus ‘Population’ in Humanitarianized Afghanistan
By Maximilian Forte Massacred by “Good Intentions”? On April 7, 2013, the BBC reported this awful story, one of a long string of such NATO airstrikes on areas with civilian populations in Afghanistan: “Eleven children have been killed in a Nato air strike in eastern Afghanistan, officials and witnesses say. At least one woman was…
Letter from Hugo Chávez to Africa
Late Venezuelan president’s letter to the participants of the Third Africa-South America Summit, Equatorial Guinea, February 2013 Hugo Chávez Frías Caracas, February 22, 2013. Brothers and Sisters, Please receive my most fervent Bolivarian greeting of unity and solidarity, filled with all my joy and hope for the progression of this long-awaited Third Summit of Heads…
What It Means To Be Independent
Innocent Katsande Pan-African News Wire It was after a protracted period of colonial brutality that Africans began to demand their freedom from European settlers. The indigenous people had always resented foreign occupation, in some countries political pressure was enough to achieve independence. Unfortunately not all countries were that lucky. In Zimbabwe a 14-year war had…
Tribute to Chris Hani on the Twentieth Anniversary of His Assassination
By Carlos Martinez Pan-African News Wire 10 April 2013 marks the twentieth anniversary of the tragic assassination of Chris Hani, a legendary freedom fighter and one of the most courageous and talented leaders of the anti-apartheid struggle. Although he was only 50 at the time of his death, Hani’s contribution to the struggle was that…
Allegations Resurface Surrounding the Role of MI6 in the Assassination of Patrice Lumumba
Abayomi Azikiwe Congolese leader was overthrown, kidnapped and executed by imperialists forces in 1960-61 A recent letter to the London Review of Books has opened back up discussions about those responsible for the assassination of revolutionary Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. Lumumba, a charismatic and popular organizer during the 1958-1960 period, captivated the hearts and minds…
From Afghanistan to Syria: Women’s Rights, War Propaganda and the CIA
Julie Lévesque Women’s rights are increasingly heralded as a useful propaganda device to further imperial designs. Western heads of state, UN officials and military spokespersons will invariably praise the humanitarian dimension of the October 2001 US-NATO led invasion of Afghanistan, which allegedly was to fight religious fundamentalists, help little girls go to school, liberate women…
MI6 Murdered Patrice Lumumba
Ben Quinn British spies admitted helping to organise the detention and execution of the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1960s, a peer has claimed. Congo’s first democratically elected prime minister was abducted and killed in a cold war operation run by British intelligence, according to remarks said to have…
“NATO only yields destruction, insecurity and misery. It must be abolished”
Appreciated for the rigor and the accuracy of his analysis, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya (*), age 30, has emerged as one of the best scholars on NATO. His articles, which have been translated into many languages, have acquired an international audience and, today, his book “The globalisation of NATO” has become a reference guide. In 400…
Chinua Achebe, 82, Brought Anti-Colonial African Literature to the World
His novels and essays revealed the impact of the West on culture and society Chinua Achebe By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease are perhaps the best known novels not only to emerge from Africa but the entire world. The author of these classic works which embodied a clear…
Saint Hugo of America
Editorial Comment: I was deeply inspired by this declaration. It comes at a time when many millions grieve the passing of a great man whist on the other side of the world a current pope is chosen whose past included collusion with a fascist dictatorship and a multitude of crimes against the poor and the…
Libya: Two Years After Imperialist Military Intervention
Alexander Mezyaev Libya 360° March 19 is the date the NATO intervention against Libya was launched two years ago. This day in 2011 NATO started combat actions against the Arab Jamahiriya under the pretext of complying with the United Nations Security Council resolution N 1973. It was illegal for the resolution allowed “to take all…
US Drone and Surveillance Flight Bases in Africa Map and Photos
Public Intelligence The following map and photos depict current and future locations used by the U.S. military for launching drones and surveillance flights throughout Central and North Africa. The map is not complete and reflects available information from open sources. Similar to drone bases in Pakistan, a Washington Post article from 2012 quotes a senior…
Chávez’s Legacy, African Solidarity and the African American People
The Bolivarian Revolution reaffirms linkages with oppressed around the world By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° President Comandante Hugo Chavez Frias passed away on March 5, 2013 in the capital city of Venezuela, Caracas. Chavez will be remembered for his efforts in the transformation of Venezuela and Latin America away from the dominance of United States…
‘There is No Turning Back’
We salute a great freedom fighter, Comandante Hugo Chavez Frias Gerald A Perreira Libya 360° Revolutionaries throughout the Americas and the Caribbean owe a great debt to Hugo Chavez. His selfless struggle for the advancement of the masses of poor and oppressed in Venezuela, and throughout the Americas and the Caribbean, occupied him 24/7. Like…
Gladio B: The Origins of NATO’s Secret Islamic Terrorist Proxies
Tom Secker At the end of WW2, as the Allied forces withdrew from continental Europe, the American Office of Strategic Services and the British Special Operations Executive left some paramilitary and intelligence units in place in the host countries. These so-called ‘stay behind’ secret armies had been used successfully against the Axis powers during the…
Hugo Chávez Frías: An Unforgettable and Victorious Permanence
Maximilian Forte Unforgettable Hugo Chávez Frías passed away from the pain and struggle of this world on March 5, only to become a permanent part of a constellation of revolutionary heroes. This morning, on March 8, Chávez will be laid to rest in a manner that will leave him on permanent display for millions of…
Hugo Chávez, Dream Maker
“Chávez“ By Eva Golinger Most of what you read or hear in mass media about President Hugo Chavez is always negative, his faults exaggerated, his discourse distorted and his achievements ignored. The reality is quite different. Hugo Chavez was beloved by millions around the world. He changed the course of a continent and led a…
Remembering the Libyan Jamahiriya
Alexander Mezayev Muʿammar al-Gaddāfī June 1942 – 20 October 2011 Libya was a self-sufficient, prosperous state which collapsed two years ago. It is appropriate to remember the dramatic events and what it resulted in. First of all, it was a new type of war, a virtual revolution and the United Nations Security Council’s resolutions were…
From Black Power to Black Consciousness
The Comparative Imagination On the History of Racism, Nationalism, and Social Movements George M. Fredrickson UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley · Los Angeles · Oxford © 1997 The Regents of the University of California Preferred Citation: Fredrickson, George M. The Comparative Imagination: On the History of Racism, Nationalism, and Social Movements. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press,…
The Hidden History of Black Soldiers’ Resistance
Breaking the Chains: Revolutionary Black History Throughout U.S. history, Black people have called out the contradiction of being sent to kill and die in the U.S. military supposedly for “freedom” and “human rights,” while being denied them at home. Legendary boxer Muhammed Ali famously explained his refusal to fight in the Vietnam war: “No Viet…
Fidel Castro: “We do not struggle for glory or honors, we struggle for ideas we consider just”
DEAR compañeros, I deeply appreciate the noble gesture of the people electing me as a deputy to Cuba’s National Assembly of People’s Power. The time I take for my comments today will not be long, nor will the period in which I occupy this honorable seat as a deputy be long, and not because of…
Venezuela’s Chavez to Africa – South America Summit: We Must Unite
The letter was read out yesterday by Venezuelan foreign minister Elias Jaua to the sixty-three countries at the III Africa – South America Summit (ASA), which is taking place in Equatorial Guinea. (MINCI) Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez in an open letter has urged countries of the South American and African continents to unite into a…
Everywhere is War : European Warlords Strike Again – This Time in Mali
Gerald A. Perreira Until the philosophy that holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned Everywhere is war* Anyone listening to the imperialists and corporate media reports/analyses of what is taking place in Mali, will be left feeling confused. But we know that confusion and commotion are an integral…
Libya: Torture, Murder, Terror, the Deep State and Gladio
Editorial Comment: “You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force…the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security.” – Vincenzo Vinciguerra The Gladio Strategy of Tension The following article, written by Sibel Edmonds on…
Action that began the Angola People’s Struggle
Alicia Céspedes Carrillo FEBRUARY 4, 1961 marked the beginning of the armed struggle of the Angolan people against Portuguese colonialism. After World War II, with the aftermath of destruction and social uncertainty in Europe and around the world, progressive decolonization was a fact and this reality was embodied in the Charter of the United Nations….
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