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…

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…

Sudan: War Has Arrived

Reem Abbas “Dad and Anda.” Courtesy Reem Abbas © 2023. The bullet which triggered the start of the war was fired close to our home. On a morning during Ramadan, I was on holiday. In two days I would be starting a new job, and I was taking the opportunity to sleep in late that…

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…

Violations Mar Sudan’s Ceasefire, Paramilitary RSF Occupies Communist Party’s Office

Pavan Kulkarni A market in Khartoum that was destroyed in the fighting. Photo: Ayin Network “The occupation of our party office is a part of the ongoing attempts by the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces to silence the voice of the democratic forces that opposed this catastrophic war,” SCP spokesperson Fathi Elfadl…

Interview with Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki: Different Lessons Learned from China and the West

As Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki revisits China after almost 18 years, he talks to CMG’s Zou Yun about two important and very different life lessons learned from the West and China in this “Leaders Talk” exclusive. The Western developed nations have been slapping sanctions on Eritrea as they want to carve up Africa into centers…

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…

Who Does Francia Márquez Work For?

Misión Verdad Following her tour in Africa, the vice president of Colombia, Francia Márquez, publicly thanked tycoon George Soros’ Open Society Foundations for the funding and logistical support of her high-level diplomatic visit to South Africa, Kenya, and Ethiopia. Over the last few days, controversy has grown around Márquez’s remarks, which, in the Colombian political…

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…

Sudan: Breaking the Chains of Indifference

Khalid Abiah The significance of ending the ongoing war in Sudan cannot be overstated, and represents more than just an end to violence. It provides a critical moment for the international community to follow the lead of the Sudanese people. They say that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good…

Towards the Extinction of the Sahrawi Homeland

Guadi Calvo In December 2020, just days before the end of his presidency of the United States, Donald Trump paid his last great tribute to the Nazi regime in Tel-Aviv by recognizing the sovereignty of Morocco over the territories of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in exchange for Mohamed VI, the Moroccan king, betraying…

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki in China

Ann Garrison Eritrea can chart an exciting new development path through mutually respectful collaboration with China. Any doubt that a new multipolar world has emerged in the Horn of Africa should have dissipated last week with Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki’s trip to China. President Xi Jinping rolled out the red carpet for Afwerki and his delegation and…

It’s the Time of Nkrumah!

Adnan Akfirat Oh people, oh humanity, hear and know: Africa is being liberated! We know that imperialism has darkened the fortunes of the land of the black skinned. Our pearl-toothed brothers and sisters are determined to overthrow the hegemony of US imperialism. European imperialism, on the other hand, is watching its feet in Africa in…