The Sun Is Setting On Imperialism, Never To Rise Again

Pan-African News Wire 100 Years Since the Birth of Kim Il Sung (1912-1994): Founder of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea One hundred years since the birth of Korea’s legendary anti-imperialist fighter and communist leader, Comrade Kim’s example and writings are as relevant as ever. The fifteenth of April this year marks the 100th anniversary…

Kwame Nkrumah : Neo-colonialism, The Last Stage Of Imperialism

Kwame Nkrumah 1965 Introduction The neo-colonialism of today represents imperialism in its final and perhaps its most dangerous stage. In the past it was possible to convert a country upon which a neo-colonial regime had been imposed — Egypt in the nineteenth century is an example — into a colonial territory. Today this process is…

Malcolm X Returns In An Inspiring Exhibit

Jeff Gerritt Michigan and Detroit have little to remind them of their ties to arguably the greatest American leader of the 20th Century. Malcolm X — born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Neb. — spent much of his youth in the Lansing area, where his family moved when Malcolm was 4, and later in Detroit, the…

Why The West Killed Lumumba

Later this year, the Belgian Parliament is due to report on the murder of the Congo’s first prime minister after independence, Patrice Lumumba, in January 1961. The circumstances of Lumumba’s death have been shrouded in mystery for 40 years, but as the Congo’s vast mineral wealth is once again becoming a focus for imperialist rivalries,…

Revolutionary Ruptures And The Pace Of Change In 2012

Progressives must brace for intensified struggles in 2012 because people in all continents are seeking alternatives beyond neo-liberal domination. The current European struggles will sharpen the struggles in Latin America and Africa. Horace Campbell Links added by Libya 360° INTRODUCTION From time to time in the history of society one event or a series of…

Kwame Nkrumah: African Socialism

Paper read at the Africa Seminar held in Cairo at the invitation of the two organs At-Talia and Problems of Peace and Socialism. Published: by Peace and Socialism Publishers, Prague, 1967, in a volume titled “Africa: National and Social Revolution”; Transcribed: by Dominic Tweedie. Kwame Nkrumah, 1967 The term “socialism” has become a necessity in…

Resistance And Revolution: Fanon’s Legacy

The damnation of the world’s majority that Frantz Fanon spoke about did not end with the withdrawal of formal colonial rule. It continues in the razor wire transit camps, detention zones, rural pauperisation and in shanty towns, writes Nigel C Gibson. Nigel C Gibson When I was asked by Dr. Keithley Woolward to address the…

Dr. Marimba Ani : Yurugu

Yurugu – Dr Marimba Ani Speaks with Listervelt Middleton on ‘For The People’ about her anthropological study into the past, present and future of the Europeanization of the planet and its effects. YURUGU – African Philosophy Playlist

President Hugo Chávez Frías Speech to the UN General Assembly September 28th 2011

TRANSCRIPT: Hugo Chavez, September 28th 2011 Caracas, Venezuela September 26th, 2011 Your Excellency, President of the General Assembly: Honorable Representatives of the Peoples of the World: Ladies and Gentlemen: I address these words to the United Nations General Assembly, to this great forum where all the peoples of the earth are represented, to express Bolivarian…

President Hugo Chávez’s Address to the People of Venezuela

By: Hugo Chávez Frías Hugo Chávez Frías President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela 30 June 2011 “I put my hope on time. Its huge womb holds more hopes than past events, and future events shall be superior to the past ones.” Simón Bolívar. Time and its pace; time and its mandates; time and its…