Katu Arkonada Katu Arkonada Following the latest investigations on the network that operates against the Cuban Revolution in different parts of the world, but always under the cover and financing of the United States, we have to write a new chapter of the interference against Cuba using the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF). The CANF…
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U.S. Fighters in the Spanish Civil War: A Left Legacy in the Fight Against Fascism
Roger Bybee Barcelona, January 1937. Photo Agustí Centelles. Miguel Ferguson, !Brigadistas! An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War, ed. Paul Buhle and Fraser Ottanelli, art by Anne Timmons (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2022).| Brigadistas: An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War is a page-turner of a graphic novel, dramatically illuminating the courage and commitment…
SADR Ambassador: “Multipolar System Opens a Chance for Self-Determination”
Yunus Soner Starting in the 20th century, the African continent has largely concluded the process of de-colonization. Almost all countries achieved independence and national sovereignty, and have today advanced to deepening economic sovereignty also by increasingly making use of the emerging multipolar world order. An exception of this trend is the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic….
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…
Polisario Front: 50 Years of Struggles and Victories
Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein May 10, marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro (Polisario), the legitimate representative of the Saharawi people in their struggle for self-determination. Likewise, this coming May 20 people will commemorate half a century since the beginning of…
The Saharawi Struggle: Spanish MEP Idoia Villanueva Ruiz Exposes the Truth
Mohsen Abdelmoumen Spanish MEP Idoia Villanueva Ruiz. D. R. Mohsen Abdelmoumen: You recently denounced the fisheries agreement in place between Morocco and the European Union, which is currently the subject of legal proceedings. What are the reasons for your protest? MEP Idoia Villanueva Ruiz: It is the European, and broadly the international legal framework, that give…
Migration in Europe: Judging History Through the Eyes of the Present
Mabel LLevat How do we open the spaces through which the extreme right wing grows and expands? The refractory treatment of migrants is undoubtedly one of them. An overview of old technologies and new strategies of dehumanization. Many times the networks of activists and allies of the anti-racist struggle echo messages claiming the right of…
Africa’s Forgotten Colony in the Sahara
Paweł Wargan Sahrawi camp. Photo: Pawel Wargan Morocco and its international backers exploit the resource-rich Western Sahara as the Sahrawi people eke out an existence in refugee camps Since 1975, thousands of Sahrawi people have lived in five refugee camps in the Algerian Sahara. They named these camps after cities in Western Sahara: Ausserd, Boujdour, Dakhla, Laayoune, and…
Western Sahara: Africa’s Last Colony
Meriem Naïli Meriem Naïli writes about the continuing struggle for the independence of Western Sahara. Occupied by Morocco since the 1970s, in contravention of the International Court of Justice and the UN. The internationally recognised liberation movement, POLISARIO, has fought and campaigned for independence since the early 1970s. Naïli explains what is going on, and…
Human Rights Groups Hold Unified Protests Across Spain in Condemnation of Melilla Massacre
Sarah Babiker A week after the death of at least 37 people in Melilla, activists and groups take to the streets to support the survivors of the border violence and demand accountability. In the afternoon of Friday, July 1, protests were held in more than 60 cities and towns in Spain, condemning the massacre of…
Massacre of African Refugees in Melilla Ahead of NATO’s Madrid Summit – Coincidence?
Pavan Kulkarni Spain is seeking NATO protection for Melilla, where the massacre occurred, and Ceuta, its other colonial enclave on the North African coast. The NATO Summit has declared irregular migration from Africa to be a threat to the “state security” of its members A key agenda of the Spanish government in the NATO summit…
Statement by New World Mathaba: Brutal Attacks on Africans in Morocco Highlights Crisis in Africa
STATEMENT ISSUED BY NEW WORLD MATHABA: BRUTAL ATTACKS ON AFRICANS IN MOROCCO HIGHLIGHTS CRISIS IN AFRICA On June 24th, approximately 2000 African migrants made a desperate attempt at a mass border crossing, climbing the iron fence separating Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla. Footage of African bodies piled up at the foot of the…
Massacre in Melilla: A Barbaric Crime
Alejandro López 37 refugees dead, hundreds injured in Spanish-Moroccan police massacre at Melilla border Spain’s Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government, working with Moroccan police acting as the European Union’s border guards, have carried out a barbaric massacre at the borders of the Spanish enclave of Melilla in Africa. At least 37 migrants were killed and 150…
The Left and its Deplorable Role in Ukraine’s War
Juanlu González In 1964, Marcuse warned about the loss of revolutionary capacity in the West due to the triumph of repressive measures implemented by advanced industrial societies to silence any kind of intellectual dissent through the media, advertising, propaganda, and the most unbridled consumerism. At that time, it heralded the birth of the One-Dimensional Man,…
Gas Wars Expand: Algeria Threatens Energy Supply to Spain
Yoselina Guevara Algeria is threatening to cut off gas supplies to Spain as part of its rivalry with Morocco. If this threat were to materialize, it would be extremely dangerous for the energy stability of the Iberian Peninsula, but it would also scupper plans to turn Spain into an energy supply center for the European…
Polisario Front Suspends Diplomatic Relations with Spain
Algiers, 10 April 2022 (SPS) – The Polisario Front has decided to suspend its contacts with the current Spanish Government, following the position of Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on the issue of Western Sahara. “The Polisario Front has decided to suspend its contacts with the current Spanish Government until it dissociates from the instrumentalization…
Spain Abandons Former Colony in Western Sahara Endorsing Morocco Domination
Abayomi Azikiwe Spain has announced that it has endorsed a proposal by the Kingdom of Morocco to designate the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) as an “autonomous” region within the North African state. Former United States President Donald Trump in 2020, recognized Moroccan control over the Western Sahara in an attempt to strengthen relations between…
Spain’s Spy Agency Backed 2017 ‘ISIS’ Attacks to ‘Scare’ Catalonia Before Independence Referendum
Benjamin Norton The aftermath of the August 17, 2017 terror attacks in Catalonia, organized by an informant for Spain’s top spy agency Spain’s ex police chief said the National Intelligence Center (CNI) facilitated 2017 “ISIS” attacks to “scare” Catalonia before an independence vote. The leader of the terror cell was a CNI informant. A blockbuster…