The Balkanization Of Sudan And The Redrawing Of The ME And N. Africa

ANNEX: THE ATLANTIC MAP OF THE “NEW MIDDLE EAST” Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya Sudan is a diverse nation and a country that represents the plurality of Africa through various tribes, clans, ethnicities, and religious groups. Yet the unity of Sudan is in question, while there is talk of unifying nations and of one day creating a…

The Goal Patrice Lumumba Sought To Achieve

Source: Patrice Lumumba, The Truth about a Monstrous Crime of the Colonialists, Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1961, pp 105-115. Written: by N. KHOKHLOV, Izvestia Special Correspondent Transcribed: by Thomas Schmidt. The whole of mankind now sees the Belgian colonialists as vicious plunderers. The myth that the former Belgian Congo was a model colony has…

Amilcar Cabral: National Liberation and Culture

This text was originally delivered on February 20, 1970; as part of the Eduardo Mondlane (1) Memorial Lecture Series at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, under the auspices of The Program of Eastern African Studies. It was translated from the French by Maureen Webster. When Goebbels, the brain behind Nazi propaganda, heard culture being discussed,…

Amilcar Cabral: The Weapon of Theory

Amilcar Cabral 1966 The Weapon of Theory PDF Address delivered to the first Tricontinental Conference of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America held in Havana in January, 1966. If any of us came to Cuba with doubts in our mind about the solidity, strength, maturity and vitality of the Cuban Revolution, these doubts…

Collected Speeches and Writings of Patrice Lumumba

(1958) Patrice Lumumba, “Speech at Accra” On December 11, 1958, 34 year old Patrice Lumumba, president of the Congolese National Movement, spoke at the Assembly of African Peoples, an international Pan African Conference sponsored by Kwame Nkrumah, the Prime Minister of newly independent Ghana.* His remarks appear below.* Two years later Lumumba would become the…

Asia, Africa and Latin America: The Tide of the People’s Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Struggle is Irresistible

Asia, Africa and Latin America The Tide of the People’s Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Struggle is Irresistible [This article is reprinted from Peking Review, #4, Jan. 21, 1966, pp. 16-18.] THE First Afro-Asian-Latin American Peoples’ Solidarity Conference came to a successful conclusion in Havana on January 15. It adopted a resolution, firmly supporting the Vietnamese people’s struggle…

Amilcar Cabral: Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories…

Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children. We should recognize as a matter of conscience that there have…

Amilcar Cabral: Freedom Fighter

Amilcar Cabral, 1924-1973 Carlos Pinto Santos Translated by John D. Godinho WHEN IT ALL HAPPENED… 1924: Amílcar Cabral is born on September 12, in Bafatá, Guinea. – 1932: Moves to Cabo Verde. – 1943: Finishes secondary schooling in Mindelo, on the island of São Vicente. – 1944: Obtains a job at the National Printing Office,…

Hugo Chavez Interview With RT

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who was in Moscow for talks on cooperation between Russia and Venezuela, gave this exclusive live interview to RT, where he discusses everything from ideology to internationalism, to his own political role. Simultaneous translation in English.

Haile Selassie’s Address to the United Nations

Haile Selassie By Haile Selassie Spoken to the United Nations General Assembly on October 6, 1963. This speech is typically credited as the inspiration for Bob Marley’s hit song “War”. The translation is that provided by the United Nations, running concurrent with his speech. Twenty-seven years ago, as Emperor of Ethiopia, I mounted the rostrum…

Depleted Uranium A Global Threat

  International Petition to Ban Uranium Weapons Depleted Uranium Weaponry Ban 141 states support Depleted Uranium Ban Campaign Against Depleted Uranium International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons

Eyes of the Rainbow: Assata Shakur Documentary

“Like most poor people in the United States, I have no voice. The Black press and the progressive media, as well as Black civil rights organizations, have historically played an essential role in the struggle for social justice. We should continue and expand that tradition. We should create media outlets that help to educate our…