Dan Cohen On November 13, 2020, commanders from the United States and Morrocan militaries met to plan annual joint exercises. The following day, 1,000 Moroccan soldiers and 200 vehicles stormed into the Guerguerat border crossing – a key highway in the occupied Western Sahara that connects Morocco to Mauritania, built in violation of international law….
Category: FRANCE
As Macron Courts the Far-Right, France Launches Crackdown on “Islamo-Leftism”
Alan Macleod France’s Minister for Higher Education, Frederique Vidal, has sparked a nationwide controversy with her announcement that the government is attempting to stop the spread of what she called “Islamo-leftism” in universities. Part of the process, she said, would be for the state to decide “what is academic research and what is activism and…
Haiti: Black Despots and White Rulers
Jemima Pierre The horror story in Haiti since 2004 is not really about despotic Black government, but is the consequence and crime of global white rule. “Moïse is the product of a broader system blocking Haiti’s democratic path and sovereignty, a system that is built and maintained by the white rulers of the world.” The…
DRC: Kabila and Tshisekedi, A Coalition in Peril
Friends of the Congo The deal between former President Joseph Kabila and his coalition, Front commun pour le Congo (FCC) and current President Felix Tshisekedi and his Coalition, Cap pour le changement (CACH), has come to a predictable head. The country is in gridlock due to the internecine battles of the two coalition partners. The…
“Independence or Nothing”. Venezuela Will Always Stand by its Saharawi Brothers
Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein The first responsibility lies with Spain, which in the throes of Franco’s regime, abandoned the territory that had been its colony, agreeing to surrender it to the Alawite monarchy and allowing Morocco to occupy it despite the fact that it has belonged to the Saharan people since ancient times. Thus, Spain turned…
Islamophobia and Imperialism in France
Nicholas Ayala Recently, the Western world was horrified by the brutal killing of French teacher, Samuel Paty. The teacher was targeted because he previously showed images of the Prophet Muhammad to his students. Depiction of the Prophet in Islam is known to be highly offensive. The attack was horrific and was rightfully denounced. However, brought…
No to the Embargo Against the People of Mali
After months of demonstrations to denounce the duplicity and inefficiency of the French military presence against the jihado-terrorist separatists and against corruption and the rigged election of the presidential power, the Malian army ended the popular street mobilizations by arresting President IBK (Ibrahim Boubacar Keita) and obtaining his resignation which was demanded in the streets….
LCP Calls to Overthrow the Murderous Regime and its Foreign-Supported Political System
LCP calls to overthrow the murderous regime and its foreign-supported political system A Statement by the Lebanese Communist Party August 7th 2020 Beirut- Lebanon The Lebanese Communist Party (LCP) believes that the national catastrophe which occurred after the destruction of Beirut’s port and many neighbourhoods of the capital, and resulted in hundreds of martyrs and…
Haiti and Bastille Day
Stephen Millies Final battle of the Haitian Revolution. July 14 is Bastille Day. On that date in 1789 tens of thousands of poor people in Paris attacked a hated prison called the Bastille and began the French Revolution. The continual intervention of poor people in the cities and countryside — particularly in Paris — drove…
French Communist Youth Leader: “When the Lockdown is Over, We Will Have a Whole World to Reinvent”
Muhammed Shabeer Mouvement Jeunes communistes de France (MJCF) or the Jeunesse Communiste (JC) is a member of the World Federation of Democratic Youth(WFDY). Interview with Léon Deffontaines, general secretary of Mouvement Jeunes Communistes de France (MJCF) France has been going through turbulent times marked by widespread protests from organized and unorganized sectors of the working…
The Hitler-Stalin Pact of August 23, 1939: Myth and Reality
Jacques Pauwels In a remarkable book, 1939 : The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II, the Canadian historian Michael Jabara Carley describes how, at the end of the 1930s, the Soviet Union repeatedly tried, but finally failed, to conclude a pact of mutual security, in other words a defensive alliance, with…
France Has Assassinated 22 African Presidents Since 1963
Takudzwa Hillary Chiwanza Presidents like Thomas Sankara who denied being under France’s influence were eliminated from the planet, with France playing a big role in that grisly assassination. For African leaders who boldly stood up to the unending imperialist tendencies of the former colonial powers, this has generally been met with death. And France has…
