United States imperialism and militarism breeds instability in Africa

Training exercises coordinated by the Pentagon take place again on the continent

Bunge la Mwananchi (People´s Parliament) supports and welcomes the position taken by both MERCOSUR and UNASUR against the unilateral sanctions by the government of President Obama and the United States Congress against the People of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, punitive measures which ar

Boko Haram is the excuse for US/UK military intervention in Nigeria.

On February 12, 2015, South African President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma delivered his sixth State of the Nation Address (SONA 2015).

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.