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The work of this Bolivian women’s group illustrates the long arc of Indigenous resistance to colonialism.
After the abolition of slavery, Britain paid millions in compensation – but every penny of it went to slave owners, and nothing to those they enslaved. We must stop overlooking the brutality of British history.
In June 2021, three activists were charged with criminal trespass before a London court. They had peacefully climbed up the scaffolding of the UK Houses of Parliament to hang a ten-metre tall letter – calling for honest acknowledgement of the harm and human cost of slavery and colonialism. You can arrest activists, but you cannot arrest the truth.
On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, the author relies on Mahatma Gandhi’s defence during his 1992 sedition trial to make a case for the abrogation of the colonial-era law, as well as similar other laws that are used to stifle citizens’ democratic rights.
Internal Facebook documents made public by whistleblower Frances Haugen, a former employee, show that the leadership of Facebook repeatedly prioritised profit over social good. Facebook’s algorithms polarised society, promoted hate and fake news because it drove up “engagement” on its platforms.
Alongside efforts to reclaim control over Mexico’s natural resources, the Lopez Obrador government is also planning to recapture control over its Central Bank.
It’s no small horror that, on this planet of ours, humanity continues to foster two apocalyptic forces, each of which — one in a relative instant and the other over many decades — could cripple or destroy human life as we know it. That should be sobering indeed for all of us.
African nations might have produced a patent free vaccine that would have benefitted the whole world. Instead they purchased patented vaccines which enriched pharmaceutical corporations outside of the continent.
Report of a webinar hosted by the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP): “AFRICOM at 13: Building the Popular Movement for Demilitarization and Anti-Imperialism in Africa.” It featured voices from countries most affected by AFRICOM, including internationally-known activists for liberation.
Otro Beta is a cultural project that seeks to bring the Venezuelan barrio youth away from the dead-ends that capitalism imposes on them. It aims to incorporate them into the new horizons of personal and collective development that the Bolivarian Revolution has opened up.
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