Slavery and Prior Accumulation in Venezuela

Cira Pascual Marquina Enrique S. Rivera is a historian, journalist, and documentary film producer. He teaches at UCLA, and his recent book, The Untold History of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery Revolution (2021), focuses on the 1795 anti-slavery rebellion in the west of what we now know as Venezuela, but it also examines the origins of…

Economy Must Be ‘at the Service of Life’: Resisting Debt and Neocolonialism in Africa

Tanupriya Singh An image from the music video ‘IMF’ by Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 (Knitting Factory Records) featuring Dead Prez’s M1, directed by Jerome Bernard and produced by Duck Factory A dossier and accompanying discussion hosted by the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research interrogates the vicious cycle of debt rooted in neocolonial extraction that…

The Splendor of a Thousand Suns: Hiroshima and Imperial Forgetfulness

Gonzalo Armúa Underwater atomic test carried out at Bikini Atoll in 1946. Photograph: United States Government Navy Joe Biden’s visit to Hiroshima in the framework of the G7 once again brings to the surface the cynical memory of an empire that 78 years ago unleashed the power of “a thousand suns” on a defenseless population….

The Roots of Cowardice of Today’s Subaltern Intellectuals

Yusuf Serunkuma Yusuf Serunkuma slams the cowardice of intellectuals today, who display self-censorship and contentment with the status quo, in contrast with an earlier generation of activists and subaltern scholars. Serunkuma argues that this did not happen overnight, rather it has taken years of manufacturing conformity and consent. There is a less discussed component about…

A Fraternal Hand: The American Tradition of Socialist Democracy and Chinese Socialism

Carlos L. Garrido There is a glaring paradox at the core of the American project. On the one hand, it proclaims its national self-determination with the values of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, right to revolution, and to a government of, by, and for the people. On the other hand, the rights to life, liberty,…

Charles III Coronation Ignored Imperialism, Colonialism, Genocide, Trauma, Deadly Colonial Legacy & Palestine

Dr Gideon Polya Perhaps billions around the world saw at least part of the coronation of King Charles III  and marvelled at the pomp, the pageantry and the glorious choral music.  The colourful military uniforms and the final parade of thousands of British and Commonwealth military forces testified to past  imperial glory. However the lavish…

Canada’s Hypocrisy: The Blood on Trudeau’s Hands in Palestine, Yemen and Beyond

Karl Fluri Fellow comrades of the revolutionary struggle. It is with great outrage and indignation that I report to you the treacherous and criminal actions of the Canadian government. Once again, we find ourselves facing the grim reality of Canadian imperialism and its destructive impact on the world’s oppressed peoples. From Palestine and Yemen to…

Safeguarding Humanity Against Fascism

Document adopted at the International Anti-Fascist Forum in Minsk, April 22, 2023  Minsk, Republic of Belarus Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War April 22, 2023 We, the participants in the International Anti-Fascist Forum from the countries of Asia, America and Europe, have gathered in Minsk to say a firm “No!” to war…

The US Has a Child Labor Crisis. Lawmakers are Trying to Make it Worse.

Natalia Marques Packers Sanitation Services Inc., one of the largest sanitation companies for the meat processing industry was fined $1.5 million in February for hiring over 100 children in hazardous labor, cleaning equipment such as “skull-splitters” and “razor-sharp bone saws.” (Photo: US Department of Labor) Iowa just passed one of the most extreme pro-child labor…

How Canadians Lost Medicare

Dr. Susan Rosenthal Ontario’s Bill 60 has delivered a death blow to public medicare. The provincial medical system will no longer operate as a public service but as a profit-taking business managed by the private sector. While defenders of public medicare blame Conservative Premier Doug Ford, British Columbia, Quebec, and Saskatchewan are going down the same road. If we hope…

Even After U.S. Empire’s Vileness is Exposed, its Agents Uphold the Cult of NATO

Rainer Shea There’s an explanation for why even after the United States has been exposed a thousand times over as a perpetrator of war crimes, and its ruling institutions have betrayed its own people by engineering horrors like the Ohio chemical spill, there are still actors who uphold the lies that let it continue committing…

Russia and the Struggle Against Neo-Colonialism: The End of the Western Dictate

On February 16, the Valdai Club hosted an expert discussion, titled “Russia and the Struggle Against Neo-Colonialism: The End of the Western Dictate?” The problem of global equality and the right to development is one of the key issues in modern world politics and economics. The gap between North and South, between the collective West…

Margaret Kimberley: An Objective Look at U.S. Foreign Policy

John Rachel of the Peace Dividend Project interviews Margaret Kimberley, renowned journalist and peace activist. Margaret Kimberley is Executive Editor and Senior Columnist of Black Agenda Report. Her book, “Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents” was published in 2020 by Steerforth Press. She is a recipient of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromising Integrity in…

USA: Memphis Cops Indicted in the Beating Death of Tyre Nichols

Abayomi Azikiwe Memphis Activists Block Highway To Protest Tyre Nichols Death The brutal execution was fully captured in a police video camera mounted on a neighborhood pole. Five African American Memphis police officers assigned to the notorious special unit known as the Scorpions, have been charged with second-degree murder and other crimes which resulted in…

$70+ Billion for a Failing Warplane: A Dubious Canadian Project

Barbara Waldern Demonstration by the Hamilton Stop the War Coalition in Burlington, ON, on January 8, 2023 as an event of the cross-Canada set of actions to protest the F-35 program. It disrupted MP Karina Gould, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development at her levee at the Art Gallery. [Photo by Graham Paine of…

No Amount of Truth Can Stop the World’s Most Powerful War Machine Fueled by the Lies of its President

Scott Ritter In fulfillment of his solemn, constitutionally-enshrined obligation, the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush, on January 28, 2003, stood before the rostrum in the chambers of the United States Congress and addressed the American people. “Mr. Speaker,” the President began, “Vice President Cheney, members of Congress, distinguished citizens and fellow citizens, every year, by law…

Why Africa Remains Behind in the World: Amilcar Cabral Revisited

Takudzwa Hillary Chiwanza “This alternative — to betray the revolution or to commit suicide as a class — constitutes the dilemma of the petty bourgeoisie in the general framework of the national liberation struggle.” An obstinate fact that prevails in our epoch is how Africa seemingly remains perpetually behind in all facets of existence. Prosperity…

Heading to Africa Once Again, the West is Trying to Revive Neo-Colonialism

Vladimir Danilov The year 2022 has come to an end and it has become a symbol of universal “de-Westernization.” The criticism of the West is growing everywhere not only for its unwillingness to resolve the Middle East conflict between Palestine and Israel and to reach an agreement on the nuclear dossier with Iran, but also…