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ANC veteran: ‘An anti-nazi patriotic war is not an interimperialist war’

15Jul

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Africa, South Africa

ANC veteran: ‘An anti-nazi patriotic war is not an interimperialist war’

Posted by: John Phoenix Seven decades of revisionist rot are revealed in the anti-Russia stance being taken by so many communist parties today. Alexander Moumbaris Subscribe to our channel It is shameful to note that while large sections of the oppressed masses around the world instinctively side with Russia in its bid to cleanse Ukraine of Nato-backed fascist forces, many representatives of parties that ought to be heading those masses have mischaracterised Russia’s special operation as an ‘imperialist invasion’. Their failure to understand either imperialism or the nature of the present conflict is having serious consequences for the unity and action of the world communist movement, and these consequences can only get worse as the imperialist drive to war against ...

South Africa – The unfinished liberation struggle

13Jul

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Africa, South Africa

South Africa – The unfinished liberation struggle

Posted by: John Phoenix “We do not agree to this marriage of convenience to consolidate white monopoly power over the economy and the means of production. This is a grand coalition between the ANC and white monopoly capital” – Julius Malema – Commander in Chief of the Economic Freedom Fighters -Speech to the South African parliament June 2024. The general election which took place in South Africa on 29 May 2024 marked another stage in a 30-year process of degeneration of the African National Congress. From a position of being nearly unassailable in the years following the formal ending of the old apartheid state in 1994, the ANC’s electoral support has dwindled to the point where it is now in what the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters, Julisu Malema, has called a...

US military completing withdrawal from African base

6Jul

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Africa, USA

US military completing withdrawal from African base

Posted by: John Phoenix The morale of American troops pulling out of Niger is “mixed,” a US general has said FILE PHOTO: A US Air Force C-17 Globemaster aircraft during landing. © AFP / Jung Yeon-Je The withdrawal of American servicemen from Air Base 101 in Niger is almost complete, US Air Force Major General Kenneth Ekman has said. A farewell ceremony dedicated to the departure of the last C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft from the base, located next to the international airport in the capital, Niamey, is scheduled to take place on Sunday, Ekman told Reuters via video link on Friday. "The government of Niger will assume control of former US areas and facilities” after US troops depart from the West African country, he stressed. The new gove...

24Jun

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Africa, Egypt, Human Rights

REMEMBERING THE RABAA MASSACRE

Posted by: John Phoenix On 14 August 2013, the Zionist Sisi army stormed a sit-in at Cairo's Rabaa square and slaughtered more than 1,000 people who were protesting against the removal of the country's first democratically elected President, Mohamed Morsi. Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian opposition had been demonstrating outside the Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque in Cairo for 47 days when security forces attacked at around 6am on 14 August 2013. Security forces shot indiscriminately into the crowd, set fire to the tents people had gathered in and threw tear gas into the masses. People were shot, burnt alive and suffocated with tear gas. Security forces blocked the entrances so that ambulances couldn't get in to treat the wounded. Despite the fact that the p...

British blowback and the killing of the US ambassador in Libya

19Jun

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Africa, Libya

British blowback and the killing of the US ambassador in Libya

Posted by: John Phoenix Inevitably and tragically the United States has once again experienced a blowback of a policy not of its sole provenance. On the evening of 11th September 2012 the American ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, was killed in Benghazi alongside three other Americans apparently during demonstrations against an internet video clip defaming the Prophet Muhammad, the Islamic religion’s last prophet. His killing was also on the heels of the announcement that al-Qaeda’s second in command, Abu Yahya al-Libi had been taken out by an American drone. The ambassador is officially said to have died of asphyxiation after an armed group stormed the compound of the American mission. Currently the finger of blame points ...

The Suez Canal and the British empire’s need for the Balfour Declaration

19Jun

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Africa, Egypt, United Kingdom

The Suez Canal and the British empire’s need for the Balfour Declaration

Posted by: John Phoenix For the average British pro-Palestinian human rights activist, the Balfour Declaration, published ninety- five years ago today on the 2nd November 1917, is only mentioned in passing in their publications or agitations. For them, the declaration seems to have drafted in, one autumn day most likely alongside the brown and crimson leaves for then to triumphantly and jubilantly land on Lord Balfour’s, the British foreign secretary, desk. For them, it is more convenient to strongly imply that the Palestinian predicament began when the young United Nations partitioned Palestine on the 29th November 1947 or when the British Empire’s Palestine mandate officially ended on 15th May 1948. For them, the fact that up to 400,000 Palestinians under the Empire’s watch w...

The US chose this country to become its proxy in Africa. Will it be better off?

7Jun

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Africa, USA

The US chose this country to become its proxy in Africa. Will it be better off?

Posted by: John Phoenix Kenya’s president is taking a risk by siding up to NATO By Dr. Westen K. Shilaho, scholar of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg FILE PHOTO. US President Joe Biden stands with Kenyan President William Ruto during an arrival ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House on May 23, 2024 in Washington, DC. © Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images President William Ruto was elected Kenya’s head of state in August 2022 and since then he has maintained his country’s relations with the West, especially Britain and the US. He has visited these countries two and four times respectively since his inauguration, and hosted Britain’s King Charles on the monarch’s first official visit abroad after his coronation. Ruto...

NATO brings death to Libya a decade after its barbaric intervention

1Jun

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Libya, NATO

NATO brings death to Libya a decade after its barbaric intervention

If the country’s infrastructure hadn’t been destroyed in the bombings of 2011, the dams may have held By: Eva Bartlett People walk past the body of a flash flood victim in Derna, eastern Libya, on September 11, 2023 © AFP Just over a decade ago, Libya was in the news, with Western leadership celebrating the murder of Muammar Gaddafi, following a months-long NATO bombing campaign, all in the name of protecting the Libyan people. Now, the destroyed North-African country is back in the news after a devastating hurricane and flooding. Hurricane Daniel hit northeastern Libya on September 10. Subsequent extreme flooding has caused the deaths of a reported 3,252 people, according to Libya’s health ministry as of September 17, with the UN r...

Payback time, Your Majesty: Will the British Army be brought to justice for its actions in Africa?

1Jun

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Africa, United Kingdom

Payback time, Your Majesty: Will the British Army be brought to justice for its actions in Africa?

Posted by: John Phoenix While countries around the world are increasing their military cooperation with Kenya due to its strategic location, the UK’s position is becoming precarious due to the crimes of its soldiers FILE PHOTO: A soldier and a Kenyan man employed to play an 'insurgent' take part in a simulated military excercise of the British Army Training Unit in Kenya. © TONY KARUMBA / AFP In August, the Kenyan government launched an inquiry into allegations of misconduct by the British Army Training Unit Kenya (BATUK), whose soldiers have been accused of murder, sexual abuse, and damaging land. It’s the first time the British Army’s activities are being examined in such a way since 1963, when Kenya gained independence from the UK. The inquiry is led by ...

British soldier ‘rapists’ leave behind children in Kenya

1Jun

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Africa, Human Rights, United Kingdom

British soldier ‘rapists’ leave behind children in Kenya

Posted by: John Phoenix UK servicemen previously based in the East African country have reportedly abandoned the offspring of their victims FILE PHOTO: Women in Kenya's Samburu region carry wood in October 2023. © Gerald Anderson/Anadolu via Getty Images British soldiers have been accused of raping thousands of Kenyan women while training in the East African nation over decades, with the alleged rapists reportedly leaving behind dozens of children that they fathered. Mixed-race children continue to be born in remote villages of the central Kenyan region where the British Army Training Unit (BATUK) trains its troops, about 200km (124 miles) north of Nairobi, CNN reported on Monday. At least 69 of the children were allegedly born as a result of rape allegedly...