The World Social Forum鈥檚 鈥溾 convened from November 12-15 here in Johannesburg, just after .
Africa
The World Social Forum鈥檚 鈥溾 convened from November 12-15 here in Johannesburg, just after .
Lee Wengraf鈥檚 Extracting Profit shows in great detail that Africa is poor, not because of any innate inability of Africans to raise themselves up, but because Africa鈥檚 poverty is necessary for corporate profit, writes Alan Broughton.
Egyptian-French Marxist academic Samir Amin passed away aged 86 on August 12. The man who introduced the concept of 鈥淓urocentrism鈥 was, writes Nick Dearden, one of the world鈥檚 greatest radical thinkers.
Last October, four聽US soldiers 鈥 including two commandos 鈥攚ere killed in an ambush in Niger. Since then, talk of US special operations in Africa has centred on missions being curtailed and troop levels cut. But these claims are already being questioned, writes Nick Turse.
Ian Angus, editor of Climate and Capitalism, takes a look at six new books of interest to ecosocialists 鈥 聽from pro-corporate 鈥渆nvironmentalism鈥 to the struggle of indigenous peoples in Latin America and the scramble for Africa鈥檚 natural resources.
For the past 26 years, Ethiopia has been ruled by an authoritarian government. The party in government is the Tigrayan People鈥檚 Liberation Front (TPLF) 鈥 a very criminal group.
The military intervention that the United States political and Pentagon establishment never talked about is suddenly in the news after a joint patrol comprising 12 US troops and 30 Nigerien soldiers was attacked by a small group thought to be an ISIS affiliate known as ISIS in the Greater Sahara (ISIS-GS).
The incident itself was little mentioned until US President Donald Trump 鈥 after two weeks of silence on the matter 鈥 offended the family of soldier La David Johnson in a characteristically insensitive condolence call to his widow Myeshia Johnson.
Peasants across Africa are intensifying their struggles against land grabs and other harmful policies that promote industrial agriculture. At a recent international conference organised by the world鈥檚 largest peasant movement, Via Campesina, African peasants had opportunities to share their experiences of struggle and to learn.
鈥淚t is amazing to see how linked our struggles are,鈥 said Nicolette Cupido from the Agrarian Reform for Food Sovereignty Campaign (FSC) in South Africa.
Twenty civil society groups from across Africa have released the statement below in support of protests in Morocco and other North African countries against growing state repression, resource theft and imperialist expansion. They call for respect for people鈥檚 rights and just development. The statement is reported from .
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South Africa is at crossroads, facing its biggest upheavals since independence in 1994. Globally, since the 2008 Great Recession there are growing explosive class and social conflicts due to the deepening crisis of capitalism.
Zimbabwe is facing elections next year, with the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union - Popular Front (ZANU-PF) government likely to be returned despite its huge unpopularity.
The 93-year-old Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe鈥檚 first and only president, plans to seek re-election for another five years. But there is a bitter scramble within his party to find his successor. The scramble is purely for power 鈥 policy is irrelevant to the struggle.
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