Our Struggle for Reparations: Recognitions, Apologies and Other Stories

Sungu Oyoo Prisoners from the Herero and Nama tribes during the 1904-1908 war against Germany. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository In this phase of the struggle for reparations, our generation is unapologetically pointing out historical facts and demanding reparative justice. At a future date, African people will again demand for reparations relating to…

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 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,…

Liberia and the Challenges of US Imperialism

 Djibo Sobukwe For those who are concerned about the US interference and its debilitating colonial and neocolonial impact on Africa, the study of Liberia is instructive. As professor Niels Hahn argues in his book, Two Centuries of US Military Operations in Liberia, Challenges of Resistance and Compliance: “Liberia is the country in Africa where the United…

Liberal Democracy in Africa

Nicholas Mwangi March 20, 2023 saw major street protests held in Kenya, Tunisia, and South Africa. The latter was aimed at a total shutdown of the economy and the resignation of President Cyril Ramaphosa amidst the energy crisis and load shedding. The protests were led by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party. In Kenya and Tunisia, the…

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…

Conditions Are Maturing for the Final Defeat of Neo-Colonialism

Friends of Socialist China co-editor Keith Bennett spoke at the Global Conference on Multipolarity, held online on Saturday April 29. The conference, which was jointly convened by organizations from China, Türkiye, Russia, Brazil and elsewhere, and coordinated from Moscow, was addressed by more than 120 speakers from over 60 countries. Addressing the theme of neo-colonialism, Keith…

Haiti, Hunger, and US Prison Imperialism

James Patrick JordanUS deportees in Haitian prisons. (Photo: Jacob Kushner/Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism) Imposing coups, forcing fake elections, denying asylum claims, and kidnapping a president aren’t enough subjugation for the US to carry out against Haiti. US built prisons are a death trap for thousands of people in that country. Three prisoners in the…

Migration in Europe: Judging History Through the Eyes of the Present

Mabel LLevat How do we open the spaces through which the extreme right wing grows and expands? The refractory treatment of migrants is undoubtedly one of them. An overview of old technologies and new strategies of dehumanization. Many times the networks of activists and allies of the anti-racist struggle echo messages claiming the right of…

The Fight Against Neo-Colonialism in the Political Discourse of South Africa

Vadim Balytnikov Neo-colonialism … meant few African countries could independently embark on any political and economic development route…The Western powers never envisaged independent African countries to decide their own development paths; rather, they sought to create dependent client states which could be manipulated according to the … requirements of … Western countries. Kgalema Motlanthe, former…

Nicaragua on the Fight Against Contemporary Neocolonial Practices

STATEMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT OF NICARAGUA AT THE FIRST MEETING OF THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF THE FORUM OF SUPPORTERS OF THE “FIGHT AGAINST THE CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES OF NEOCOLONIALISM.” “FIGHT AGAINST CONTEMPORARY NEO-COLONIAL PRACTICES” Comrade, Denis Moncada, Minister of Foreign Affairs Moscow, March, 2023 Sisters and Brothers, Comrades, Friends, 1. From our Nicaragua, Worthy and Blessed,…

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…

The Existence of the Poor Must Be a Fight Against Social Injustice and Political Oppression

Robert Lodimus The world proletariat suffers from the injustice of the oligarchic clans that have been robbing the banks of common wealth for thousands of years ©Benjamin Petit/AFD “If you are neutral in a situation of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” – Desmond Tutu Writing has become for us this restless…

Neo-Compradors: The Leftist Foot Soldiers of Imperialism

Sammy Ismail A review of James Petras “NGOs: in the Service of Imperialism” “NGOs: In the service of Imperialism” by James Petras scientifically unpacks imperialism in contemporary communities of the global south. Prompted by the premise that capitalism, and by extension imperialism, is constantly evolving in an effort to perpetuate itself. James Petras takes neo-compradors…

How NATO Exploits the Crises it Creates

Rainer Shea Maidan The North Atlantic Treaty Organization represents the stage of capitalism where the imperialists, after making nuclear annihilation a possibility, have taken advantage of this horrific reality that they themselves engineered. The equivalent has happened with Covid-19, in which the IMF has used the pandemic as a pretext for imposing further austerity measures onto 81…

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…