South Africa is sitting on a tinderbox, says Irvin Jim, General Secretary of the country’s largest trade union NUMSA. The solution is to foster a spirit of solidarity which will have to come from people’s struggles and movements.
Continue readingSouth Africa will not move into the light until the social value of access to electricity is affirmed.
Continue readingFormer president Lula is in the lead in the polls ahead of the first round of elections in Brazil to be held on October 2. These elections will be transformative for Brazil and will have ramifications across the globe.
Continue readingWith no national force with the vision and power to offer an emancipatory alternative to politics that turns neighbors against each other, the country is on a knife edge.
Continue readingThe health of all people is being sacrificed to Big Pharma profits and rich countries’ saber-rattling sanctions. Meanwhile, other countries are capable of meeting the world’s vaccine needs.
Continue readingBehind rolling power cuts loom deep-seated socioeconomic issues worsened by the rich countries of the world.
Continue readingBy the middle of the last century, the West had shrunk so much that several newly independent countries made the decision to align themselves neither with the West nor the Soviet bloc.
Continue readingAn interview with Dr. Fred M’membe of the Socialist Party.
Continue readingAn interview with Kwesi Pratt Jr., a journalist and leader of the Socialist Movement of Ghana.
Continue readingMassive spending by states on military production and destruction is a criminal waste of resources. The priorities of humanity are the fight against inequality and poverty.
Continue readingNATO’s war in Libya was its first major military operation in Africa, but it was not the first European military footprint on the continent.
Continue readingFor non-alignment to be effective, it cannot be restricted to transactional relationships or mere moral posturing.
Continue readingIn recent years, the region has experienced a new wave of progressive governments. The idea of regional integration has, therefore, returned to the table
Continue readingAs the United States escalates its new cold war against Russia and China, there is now an urgent imperative to reject this cold war mentality of wanting to divide the world along old acrimonious lines.
Continue readingAs countries in the Global North push to escalate the war in Ukraine, the Global South has overwhelmingly pushed for a perspective of dialogue and peace. Roger McKenzie and Vijay Prashad reflect on the need to create a fresh Non-Aligned Movement.
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