Military coups in Niger and other Sahel countries represent broad, discarded sections of the population. Now, France and other Western countries are pushing for a military intervention in Niger, however, the people cry ‘La France, dégage!’ (‘France, get out!’).
Efemia Chela delves into African LGBTQ+ histories, the colonial origins of repressive legislation, and solidarity opportunities between people of diverse genders and sexual orientations to fight against inequality experienced by all.
The United States is calling for a military invasion of Haiti to repress a popular insurrection and maintain the neocolonial system. The world must oppose this intervention.
Professor Issa G. Shivji explores the process of worldwide capitalist accumulation across several centuries alongside the emergence of grand narratives of nationalism and Pan-Africanism.
Since the 1804 Haitian Revolution, the United States and Western countries have repeatedly intervened in the country to repress popular movements and impose a neocolonial system. We are witnessing this pattern once again as a popular insurrection in Haiti is met by the US and its allies arming the illegitimate government and planning a military invasion.…
Since the formation of the Alliance of Sahel States, the new confederation comprised of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger appears to show an initial anti-imperialist character.
Joanita Najjuko and Crystal Simeoni argue for greater inclusion of women and girls in macro-level economic decision-making and centring valuable yet unpaid care work in our economies to bring about feminist economic justice.
Africa will not achieve universal energy access without a fundamental shift in its status in the global economy. Brian Kamanzi explores the current energy landscape.
Thailand’s deep state – an entrenched alliance of the military, monarchy, and big capital – has shaped the nation’s political landscape since the Cold War. Despite successive coups and judicial interventions, democratic and progressive forces continue to resist.
No amount of Israeli propaganda has been able to convince billions of people around the world that the violence is a righteous rejoinder for the 7 October attack. Visuals from Gaza show the disproportionate and asymmetrical nature of Israel’s violence over the past seventy-five years. A new mood has taken root amongst billions of people in…
Decades of IMF interventions have locked African nations into cycles of debt, austerity, and economic dependency, stifling real development while reinforcing neocolonial control over the continent’s financial sovereignty.
Most states are constrained due to external pressures that thwart economic policies which would benefit society over private capital and wealthy bondholders, who extract the immense social wealth produced in poorer nations. Our dossier no. 67 – Dependency and Super-Exploitation: The Relationship Between Foreign Capital and Social Struggles in Latin America (August 2023) – uses the…
‘The West is in danger’, warned Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, at this year’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland. While Milei blamed ‘collectivism’ and social democratic policies, in reality the West is in danger due to its inability to come to terms with its slow demise as the dominating bloc in the world. Unable…
