Global South

A conference of the African Union in Addis Ababa agreed the other week to set up a five-nation regional task force to combat the Islamist terror army of Boko Haram, which is tearing apart Nigeria and Cameroon and now has its sights set on Chad.

"The ideological deficiency, not to say the total lack of ideology, within the national liberation movements — which is basically due to ignorance of the historical reality which these movements claim to transform — constitutes one of the greatest weaknesses of our struggle against imperialism, i

A special edition of Charlie Hebdo is on sale. Emboldened by the hypocritical speeches that characterised last Sunday’s international solidarity rally in Paris, editors of the rag-sheet claimed three million copies would be on sale for the next one week.

Colonialism is often understood as a system of domination reincarnated throughout history in manifold forms and manifestations. The question of what makes a political system explicitly colonial, and not – for that matter - simply exploitative, is hereby central.

The two books under review study the economy within the parameters of social change. Amin takes a Marxist, historic view of the system’s “grow or die” imperatives in developed and emerging nations. Marx, however, lived and wrote during the Industrial Revolution.

Police violence and racial profiling of young Black men in the United States have been highly publicised for decades.

An impression is forming that the South African government is hostile to global business thanks to its recent cancellation of a few bilateral investment treaties (BITs).

'While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.'
Thomas Sankara

Hundreds of thousands of people in Burkina Faso have forced the longtime imperialist-backed leader, President Blaise Compaore, to resign amid mass demonstrations and rebellions in several cities across the West African country. Compaore took power in a French-supported coup on Oct.