Around 50 Million Years Ago, Africa was an Island. So How Did Primates Get There?
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Around 50 Million Years Ago, Africa was an Island. So How Did Primates Get There?

ByNicholas R. Longrich

Humans evolved in Africa. But primates themselves appear to have evolved elsewhere – likely in Asia – before colonising Africa. At the time, around 50 million years ago, Africa was an island isolated from the rest of the world by the ocean – so how did primates get there?

Robbing the Soil – Part 1: Commons and Classes Before Capitalism
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Robbing the Soil – Part 1: Commons and Classes Before Capitalism

ByIan Angus

The rise of industrial capitalism was accompanied by a complex transformation of rural society wherein most people were separated from the land, and land was concentrated in the hands of a tiny minority. It happened in different ways and at different times in different parts of the world, and is still going on today.

I Write What I Like: Steve Biko’s Legacy of Black Consciousness and Anti-Capitalism Revisited
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I Write What I Like: Steve Biko’s Legacy of Black Consciousness and Anti-Capitalism Revisited

ByHeike Becker

In the new student movements taking place in South Africa, the legacy of Steve Biko, who was murdered by the apartheid regime on 12 September 1977, have become important again. A look at the life of Steve Biko.

WalmartLand: How US Stores Colonizing Mexico are Displacing Local Culture
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WalmartLand: How US Stores Colonizing Mexico are Displacing Local Culture

ByTamara Pearson

Foreign corporations have a lot of freedom in Mexico, and they are backed by trade agreements like NAFTA and USMCA that were created within very unequal power dynamics. As an activist put it succinctly, “This is nothing less than a cultural conquest.”