Restoring the Land Rights of the Garifuna African People of Honduras

Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu The Garifuna people are being dispossessed of their lands to the extent that they do not even have enough lands to cultivate food The age-long severe oppression of descendants of West African slaves in the South American nation of Honduras has yet to receive wide attention. The Garifuna African people in Honduras are…

Abahlali baseMjondolo Continues the Struggle for True Freedom

Peoples Dispatch AbM members at the UnFreedom Day protests. Photo: AbM South Africa held its first democratic elections post apartheid on April 27, 1994. While the day is observed as ‘Freedom Day’, movements including Abahlali baseMjondolo have used it to highlight the continued repression and inequality faced by poor communities in the country April 27…

Britain at War: Provoking the Consequences

Christopher Black On the 19th of May, the Financial Times quoted the British Minister of Defense, Ben Wallace, stating that the West could face the threat of full-scale war with Russia and China by the end of the decade and proclaimed defence preparation a paramount task for Western countries. One has to wonder what universe Mr….

Lie, Cheat, and Steal: The CIA’s Disastrous Scientific Legacy

Owen Marshall Seena Mavaddat As the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) marks its seventy-fifth anniversary, it has made conspicuous efforts to rebrand itself as a progressive force for scientific and technological change. Facing the retirement of its notoriously “pale, male, and Yale” Baby Boomer cohort, it has awkwardly adopted the language of neurodiversity and intersectionality…

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…

On the Long Path to Reparations

Cira Pascual Marquina Jesús “Chucho” García is an intellectual and activist, and the author of several books, including Afrovenezolanidad e inclusión en el Proceso Bolivariano [Afro-Venezuelanness and Inclusion in the Bolivarian Process, 2018]. He is also a founder of the Network of Afro-Venezuelan Organizations and a member of the National Decolonization Commission. In this interview, García talks…

Freedom Libraries: Liberating Minds for Action against Oppression and Exploitation

John Graversgaard Mileston, MS: June 1964. Community Center Construction, Freedom summer 1964. Mileston Summer volunteer carpenter, Jim Boebel, and a local resident post a shotgun watch at the community center against a fire bomb threat by local whites. Threats were common that summer and local men took turns guarding the community every night. The civil…

Toxic Contagion: Funds, Food and Pharma

Colin Todhunter August 18, 2021. A day like no other? For, on this day seed systems, farmer-managed seed systems and farmers’ rights on the African continent came under direct attack by a body that should be their primary custodian—the African Union (AU) | Source In 2014, the organisation GRAIN revealed that small farms produce most of…

Led by China and India: The Global South is Trying to Fix the UN

Ramzy Baroud In anticipation of next month’s United Nations Security Council talks on reforming the inherently archaic and dysfunctional political body, China’s foreign policy chief, Yang Yi, stated his country’s demands. “The reform of the Security Council should uphold fairness and justice, increase the representation and voice of developing countries, allowing more small and medium-sized countries to…

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…

Kerala’s Kudumbashree: A Model to Emancipate Women

25 years ago, in May 1998, the Left Democratic Front government of the Indian state of Kerala started the Kudumbashree program as part of the State Poverty Eradication Mission. The program aimed to socially and financially emancipate women by providing them employment opportunities and space to enter decision making bodies. Today, 25 years on, the…

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….

UN Secretary General and Quisling Media Renew Push for Foreign Military Intervention in Haiti

Kim Ives UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres traveled to Jamaica on May 15 to try to convince Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness to head a UN-sponsored multinational intervention into Haiti. UN Photo: Jermaine Duncan Trying to cast the Bwa Kale movement as ominous The U.S. and Canada have renewed their pressure on the United Nations…

Desperation at the US Border

Natalia Marques Migrants are interviewed as they wait in the La Plaza bus terminal in Brownsville, Texas (Photo: The Party for Socialism and Liberation) Thousands of migrants, driven by economic warfare waged by the US, find themselves in conditions of despair at the southern US border There is a humanitarian crisis at the southern border…

“Independent” Ukrainian “Kill List”: Run by Nazi Junta, Backed by NATO and Washington

David Miller Late last year, my name was added to a blacklist published online by the Ukraine Center for Countering Disinformation. I joined over ninety others deemed to be “speakers who promote narratives consonant with Russian propaganda.“ These included Manuel Pineda and Clare Daly, both leftist Members of the European Parliament (MEP); Also counted are people…

Nicaragua: What We Learned About Agroecology

Rick Kohn As part of a seminar course at the University of Maryland, students travel to Nicaragua to see firsthand how the country has confronted the challenges of hunger and poverty and achieved food self-sufficiency. At the University of Maryland’s College of Agriculture, we have developed a seminar course titled “Sustainable Agriculture and Environment in Nicaragua” offered…

UNSC Arria Meeting “Freedom of Religion in Ukraine: Persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church”

Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at Arria-formula meeting of UNSC members “Situation with freedom of religion and belief in Ukraine: persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church” Introductory remarks We welcome all participants of the Arria -formula meeting of UN Security Council member states that we called to draw attention to an unprecedented situation. The canonical…

South Africa, the ICC and the Global Arms Trade

Abayomi Azikiwe South African President Cyril Ramaphosa And Russian Federation Counterpart Vladimir Putin Washington continues to pressure African states over their relations with the Russian Federation and the war in Ukraine. Two international issues have surfaced which are further aggravating diplomatic ties between the United States and the Republic of South Africa. The Brazil, Russia,…