Over 900 dead, Lessons for Africa INTRODUCTION With the death toll now over 900 in the wake of the collapse of the textile factory in Bangladesh, there are newspapers and financial newssheets all over the world decrying this event as a ‘disaster’ and the ‘deadliest industrial accidents ever.’ However, the sweatshop conditions for billions of workers around [...]

And A Licence To Lie Is Hollywood’s Gift A full-scale invasion of Africa is under way. The United States is deploying troops in 35 African countries, beginning with Libya, Sudan, Algeria and Niger. Reported by Associated Press on Christmas Day, this was missing from most Anglo-American media.

LONDRES – Hay que adorar el sonido de un caza jet Mirage 2000 francés por la mañana. Huele como… un delicioso desayuno neocolonial en salsa Hollandesa. Digamos salsa de cenagal.

An Exchange between Colonel Tom Davis and Nick Turse On July 12th, TomDispatch posted the latest piece in Nick Turse’s “changing face of empire” series: “Obama’s Scramble for Africa.” It laid out in some detail the way in which the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) has, in recent years, spread its influence across that continent, establishing bases [...]

El 15 de junio, tres meses después de que empezara el bombardeo de la OTAN en Libia, la Unión Africana presentó al Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas la postura africana sobre los ataques –en realidad, el bombardeo de los agresores imperialistas tradicionales, Francia y Gran Bretaña, acompañados esta vez por Estados Unidos, que inicialmente [...]

On 14 October, President Barack Obama announced he was sending United States special forces troops to Uganda to join the civil war there. In the next few months, US combat troops will be sent to South Sudan, Congo and Central African Republic. They will only “engage” for “self-defence”, says Obama, satirically. With Libya secured, an [...]

Diez millones de personas en el cuerno de África sufren hambruna Más de 47 millones de hectáreas de tierras se han vendido en todo el mundo, según el Banco Mundial 30 millones del total son terrenos de África, aunque este organismo internacional admite que la falta de transparencia de las transacciones podría elevar las cifras. Organizaciones [...]

It was ten years ago in September 2001 at the World Conference against Racism (WCAR) when the collaboration between the anti-racist forces of the world and the anti-colonial forces came together in Durban. This WCAR brought the issues of racism, reparations and the oppression of the Palestinian peoples to the centre of the international agenda. [...]

The tragedy of hunger again becomes current news from the food emergency in the Horn of Africa, but famines are a silent daily reality. Worldwide, more than a billion people, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), have difficulties accessing food. A famine with political causes and responsibility. Africa is a ravaged land. [...]

El drama del hambre toma de nuevo actualidad a raíz de la emergencia alimentaria en el Cuerno de África, pero las hambrunas son una realidad cotidiana silenciada. En todo el mundo, más de mil millones de personas, según datos de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO), tienen dificultades [...]