Georgi Dimitrov’s ‘‘United Front: The Struggle Against Fascism and War’’ and its Value for Our Moment

Turner Roth Introduction In a period of increasing tensions, where world powers, caught in the systemic compulsions of our contemporary capitalism dominated by the United States axis, draw closer to forms of world-historical conflict, a third world war being that thing which may if it comes to pass seal the fate of the human species…

Marginal Benefits & the Functionalism of Conflict in Africa: Case Studies of State Responses to Pan-African Political Leaders

 DaQuan Lawrence Deposed Congo Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, hands manacled, sits in the bed of an army truck under guard of Congolese soldiers after his arrival at Leopoldville (Kinshasa) airport, Dec. 2, 1960, one day after his arrest by troops loyal to Col. Joseph Mobutu. Lumumba was executed the following month. This is believed to…

Proletarian Political Revolution: Myth and Reality

Workers League An essential element of the lexicon of Orthodox Trotskyism is the concept of the proletarian political revolution. From 1933, Russian revolutionary leader LD Trotsky (co-leader with VI Lenin of the October Revolution of 1917) and his supporters called for a proletarian political revolution in the then Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), after conservative…

Fighting for the Russian World and All Humanity

Gennady Zyuganov The crisis of the liberal model of running the world was inevitable. I warned of its results and alarming challenges that would fill the new century twenty years ago. My book “Globalization and the Destiny of Humankind” which was published at the time has been translated into many languages. It provided a detailed…

Imperialist Hegemony and the Class Struggle in Africa and the Diaspora

Abayomi Azikiwe Kwame Nkrumah And Haile Selassie Note: The following solidarity statement was prepared and delivered in part to the African Liberation Day program organized by the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party, (A-APRP-GC) under the theme “Pan-Africanism: Waging Class Struggle in Africa and the Diaspora, Fighting for the One United Socialist Africa!” on Sat. May 27,…

African Unity and the New Cold War

Abayomi Azikiwe Imperialism extends its destabilization efforts against China and Russia across the continent Note: These remarks were made by the author at the Pan-Afrikan Society Community Forum (PASCF) Afrikan Liberation Day webinar held on Sat. May 27, 2023. The event was hosted by PASCF organizers in Britain under the theme of “Acknowledging Our Shared…

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…

The Complexities of De-dollarisation in Latin America

Saheli Chowdhury De-dollarisation marches on inexorably on the global scale, and Latin America is not outside its ambit. To analyse the situation on the ground, The International spoke with Diego Sequera, Venezuelan geopolitical analyst and editor of the news and investigative reporting outlet Misión Verdad, who discusses the de-dollarisation processes in Latin America and the…

Eurasian Heartland Rises to Challenge the West

Pepe Escobar President Xi Jinping telling President Putin at the end of their summit last March in Moscow that we’re now facing “great changes not seen in a century” directly applies to the new spirit reigning across the Heartland. Cue to the China-Central Asia summit last week in Xian, the former imperial capital, where Xi…

Unity is an Imperative: Reclaiming African Liberation Day

Tanupriya Singh All-African People’s Conference held in Ghana, 1958. African Liberation Day marks the founding of the Organization of African Unity in 1963. While the idea of ‘liberation’ has since been removed in letter, and even in spirit, from official commemorations of the day, radical forces have held onto it in their fight against capitalism…

Imperialism and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan and Libya

Abayomi Azikiwe After 60 years, the African Union, the successor to the Organization of African Unity, faces monumental challenges in the contemporary period Note: These remarks were prepared for and delivered in part at a webinar in honor of the 60th anniversary of the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the predecessor 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…

Closing Remarks at African Liberation Day 2023: We Must Win

All African People’s Revolutionary Party (AAPRP) Below are remarks offered by Debora Soares da Gama of the AAPRP Central Committee at the conclusion of the 2023 African Liberation Day International Webinar on May 25, 2023. Her remarks call for a strong focus on political education, organization and revolutionary optimism in our journey toward defeating neocolonialism…

Africa Liberation Day: We Are Not a Truly Free People

PAIS Africa Liberation Day commemorates the establishment of the Organization of African Unity on May 25, 1963, which later became the African Union in 2002. The day serves as a symbol of African unity, freedom, and independence from colonial rule. But we are not truly free from the yoke of colonial and imperial masters. Even…

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…