Described by the Chicago Police Department as “more dangerous than a thousand rioters” in the 1920s Lucy Parsons: A Lifelong Anarchist Lucy E. Parsons – The Anarchist Library
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Feminism and the Mass Movements: 1960-1990
Donna Goodman The decade of the 1960s saw rebellions and uprisings that lasted until the mid-1970s and resulted in the overthrow of formal segregation, the rise of a formidable antiwar movement, the lasting impact of the women’s liberation movement and the end of many stultifying conservative cultural conventions. The decades of right-wing and neoliberal reaction,…
International Dimensions in the Resistance to the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism
Abayomi Azikiwe Beginning in the early decades of the 15th century, the African continent faced an unprecedented onslaught where human traffickers and colonisers sought to conquer the people for the purpose of labour exploitation, strategic territorial advantage and the plunder of natural resources. Prior to this period, Western Europe had not been the centre of…
Nkrumaists Must Challenge the Consolidation of the Busia-Danquah Political Ideology in Ghana
Zaya Yeebo The author argues that the failure of the Ghanaian Left to build on the legacy of Kwame Nkrumah is giving a good opportunity to the centre-right ruling party to develop and cement its neo-liberal ideology. On Monday, 7 January 2019 Ghanaians have been offered a unique opportunity to celebrate another holiday. The New…
Poverty Criminalized in “Shackland” South Africa
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford 21 Jan 2019 Twenty-five years after the end of apartheid, 5.2 million South Africans live in urban shack settlements that are unfit for human habitation, said anthropologist Kerry Chance, author of the new book “Living Politics in South Africa’s Shacklands.” The South African government, under “the…
Reflections on the 60th Anniversary of the Convening of the First AAPC Conference in Accra
Abayomi Azikiwe After more than six decades since the gathering of the first All-African People’s Conference (AAPC) in Accra, Ghana on 8-13 December 1958, renewal of revolutionary Pan-Africanism is needed on the continent and globally. At that time Ghana was the fountainhead of Pan-Africanism where the previous year the Convention People’s Party (CPP) and its…
Pan-Africanism Conference Charts Course Towards a Socialist Continent
The hundreds of delegates who met in Ghana held discussions on five major themes that are of prime importance in the struggle against capitalism and imperialism Delegates from 60 countries took part in the conference that was held in the city of Winneba in Ghana. Photo: Nina Fideles/Brasil de Fato Prasanth R. The third Pan-Africanism…
Unite or Perish: A Pan-African Cry
Kwame Nkrumah remained committed to the fight against capitalism and its effect: the underdevelopment of Africa. On the occasion of the commemoration of his 109th birthday, we should revisit his call for a united continent. Adjei-Gyamfi Yaw How good and pleasant it would be before God and man to see the unification of all Africans….
Fred M’membe: The Progressive Socialist Wave Has Dawned on the African Continent
Lusaka Times The 2021 presidential candidate of the Socialist Party, Fred M’membe was recently in Ghana where declared that a progressive wave has dawned in Africa. Speaking at the Founder’s Day celebrations in Winneba, Ghana on Friday, September 21, 2018, Dr M’membe declared that Dr Kwame Nkrumah’s socialist revolutionary ideas were on the resurgence, and…
Thomas Sankara: A Film by Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda
Liberation School-AfroMarxist Leader of the Burkinabe Revolution, Thomas Sankara was a Marxist and Pan-Africanist revolutionary who became president of Burkina Faso in August 1983 at the age of 33. Transcription: Burkina Faso, formerly known as Upper Volta, is one of the poorest nations in the world. It won its independence from France in 1960. In…
Who Was Kwame Nkrumah, Leader of the First Independent African Country?
Rute Pina Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum in Accra, capital of Ghana / Nina Fideles “We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world! Our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa.” With those words, African political leader Kwame…
Ghana: Pan-African Activists Remember Slavery at Africa’s Largest Slave Trading Post
Rute Pina More than 400 people from 50 countries are taking part in conference in Winneba, Ghana / Nina Fideles Activists from 50 countries gathered on Thursday to remember the forced dispersion of black people – also known as African diaspora – at Africa’s largest slave trading site. The group met at the São Jorge…
