Press Release Of the Spokesman for the Libyan National Popular Movement about the refusal of the Tunisian Authorities to allow Dr. Mustafa Zaidi, the Movement’s Secretary of the Executive Committee to enter Tunisia to participate in a meeting dealing with the Libyan crisis. Translation by Dr. Salem Zubeidy Dr. Mustafa Zaidi, Secretary of the Executive…
Category: AFRICA
The Current Predicament of Libya: Civilian Protection vs International Control
Editorial Comment: The following paper was delivered at “Truth Against Wars“, hosted by the Alba Malta North Africa Coordination Committee on December 1, 2018. Dr.Salem Zubeidy Internationalist 360° Introduction Libya, since antiquity, was always coveted by invaders and the only period of self-determination and stability that the country ever witnessed was the 42 years of…
US Led War in Somalia: US Africa Command Airstrikes Allegedly “Against Terrorists”
Abayomi Azikiwe Airstrikes, military occupations and the failure to realize the economic potential of the Horn of Africa Somalia has been the focus of oil and natural gas exploration. This coupled with its geographically strategic location on the Indian Ocean and near the Gulf of Aden, which is one of the most lucrative shipping lanes…
Truth Against Wars: Alba Malta North Africa – December 2018
AGAINST IMPERIALISM AND NATO WARS ALBA MALTA NORTH AFRICA IS ORGANIZING AN EVENT ON NATO WARS WITH A FILM DISCUSSION Film discussion ” Everything Will be forgotten” ? Special Guests : Italian journalist Marinella Correggia, Dr Salem Zubeidy, analyst from Libya and former Ambassador of the Socialist Arab Jamahiriya to Brazil, and Dr George Saliba,…
US Military Says it Has a “Light Footprint” in Africa. Documents Show a Vast Network of Bases.
Nick Turse The U.S. military has long insisted that it maintains a “light footprint” in Africa, and there have been reports of proposed drawdowns in special operations forces and closures of outposts on the continent, due to a 2017 ambush in Niger and an increasing focus on rivals like China and Russia. But through it all, U.S. Africa Command has…
Current Leaders are an Obstacle to the Unification of Africa
Horace G. Campbell When the African Union (AU) met in Accra, Ghana in 2007, there was one item on the agenda: implementation of the plans for the full unification of Africa. Progressive Pan Africanists such as Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem had campaigned all over the continent and within the global African family for the acceleration of the…
Ghana’s Women Workers Face Challenges Amid Broader Capitalist Crisis
ANWO Uhuru Talib Sankofa, a brother previously associated with the All African People’s Empowerment and Development Project’s (AAPDEP) Washington state tour to end infant and maternal mortality, recently sent me a report from Ghana, where he currently resides. His report highlights the plight of women workers in Ghana, which resulted in more discussions between him…
‘Long Live Peasant Women! Long Live Feminism!
Tanya Wadhwa “We understand that capitalism is the main source of inequality and that many forms of violence emerge from these inequalities.” On November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, a global peasant women’s meeting in Sri Lanka culminated with a clarion call to end patriarchy and violence against women,…
Cuba’s First Military Doctors
Don Fitz Cuban Doctors Provide Vaccinations in Senegal in 1973. By Roel Coutinho – Roel Coutinho Guinea-Bissau & Senegal Photographs (1973 – 1974), CC BY-SA 4.0, Link. Cuba’s deployment of military doctors to Africa in the 1960s was a secret, known only at the highest level of government. In fact, accounts of these hidden efforts…
Feminist Movements, Women Activists Take on Patriarchy in the Global South
Monica Sabella Global Meeting of Women Articulation, organized by La Vía Campesina, an international peasant movement began on November 22. (Photo: Vyshakh T/ Peoples Dispatch) From the deserts of Kenya to the Honduran jungles, feminist leaders in the Global South countries are leading the way in progressive social development which is setting a tone of…
MED 2018: Italy’s Double Standards Towards NATO and Russia
Marinella Correggia Internationalist 360° The 4th edition of the MED Dialogues 2018 was held in Rome on the 22-24 of November, organized by the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the luxurious hotel Parco dei Principi. Among other conferences, we want to highlight two meetings to…
“Resist Patriarchy, Resist Capitalism”: Global Peasant Women Meet in Sri Lanka
Tanya W and Vyshakh T Global Meeting of Women Articulation, organized by La Vía Campesina, an international peasant movement began on November 22. (Photo: Vyshakh T/ Peoples Dispatch) The ‘Global Meeting of Women Articulation’, participated by peasant women leaders from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe, aims to reflect on different challenges faced by peasant…
