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A deep dive into the many sharpening contradictions in de-colonized Africa

In American Slavers, Sean M. Kelley surveys the relatively unknown history of Americans who traded in slaves in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Let us stop celebrating coups aimed at furthering the interests of a few military elites as acts of anti-imperialist resistance.

Genomics analysis indicates that at least 800,000 years ago breeding individuals sank to as few as 1,300

The 4-week old turmoil in the West African state of Niger is taking a curious turn that no longer allows a binary vision of “neo-colonialism and imperialism” versus “national liberation”.

Agroecology and biodiversity are the “only viable solutions” to climate change, environmental degradation and attempts to “break away from imperialistic and extractive production systems”.

Racism against people of Arab and African descent in France has become almost banal, something that takes place and no longer raises an eyebrow. The killing of Nael was absolutely explicable — the result of general social toxicity towards minorities.

“Earth or Death!”  — Hugo Blanco (1934-2023)

Bringing back proletarian internationalism one May Day at a time