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The winner of ROAPE’s Ruth First Prize, awarded annually for the best article published by an African author, is Dr James Musonda. His 2023 article, “He who laughs last laughs the loudest: the 2021 donchi-kubeba (don’t tell) elections in Zambia”, is available to read here....
Posted: Wed, Nov 13, 2024 10:18am PST
In every child, we can see a universe in which a great deal of potential, creativity and energy is invested, which needs good conditions such as trust, love, recognition, freedom and adequate stimulation in order to develop.
This also includes individual learning at one's own pace and a lot of creative play, preferably without being judged from the outside....
Posted: Sat, Nov 9, 2024 8:24am PST
On the antizionist counter info site launched this year (& targeted by Marco Rubio)...
Posted: Sat, Nov 9, 2024 5:40am PST
Discussion from Haiti Liberté contextualizing recent clashes between non-state armed groups in Haiti....
Posted: Fri, Nov 8, 2024 1:00pm PST
understanding appelist strategies and practices, and criticizing the groups and individuals who implement them...
Posted: Thu, Nov 7, 2024 6:57pm PST
German Bundestag bans public funding to any organization that boycotts Israel, or questions the right of Israel to exist. The resolution was supported by a broad coalition that included the Greens and the "liberal" Free Democrats....
Posted: Thu, Nov 7, 2024 9:30am PST
Post-election advice from It's Going Down....
Posted: Thu, Nov 7, 2024 9:22am PST
War, inequality and dictatorship: The critical issues excluded from the 2024 election...
Posted: Fri, Nov 1, 2024 10:08pm PDT
No matter which of the two big-business candidates for US president takes office, Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, the frontal assault on the social right to high-quality public education will escalate....
Posted: Fri, Nov 1, 2024 8:00pm PDT
Speaking in Michigan on Monday, former President Bill Clinton justified the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza, openly advocating the targeting of civilians and collective punishment against non-combatants, both of which are war crimes....
Posted: Fri, Nov 1, 2024 3:53am PDT
Anonymous Submission to North Shore Counter-Info...
Posted: Thu, Oct 31, 2024 12:36am PDT
The Brics Summit on Wednesday adopted the Kazan Declaration, a comprehensive document that reflects the collective vision and goals of the BRICS nations - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the declaration has been approved by all member nations and will be distributed to the United Nations as a key expression of global multipolarity....
Posted: Thu, Oct 24, 2024 7:36pm PDT
Left parties in India protested the export of weapons to Israel, accusing Narendra Modi’s government of complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. India has facilitated the recruitment of thousands of Indian workers for low-paid jobs in Israel, following the ban on Palestinian workers from occupied territories since the war began. Despite opposition from left parties and civil society, the government calls these jobs a “golden opportunity” for Indian youth....
Posted: Thu, Oct 24, 2024 4:10pm PDT
Under Moroccan occupation, renewables projects are being used to reinforce dominance...
Posted: Thu, Oct 24, 2024 2:05am PDT
An open letter calling on activists and organisations in Aotearoa and so-called ‘Australia’ hosting talks with Vijay Prashad, to rescind or cancel his invitations to these events. Explains the objections to Prashad's politics both briefly & in detail....
Posted: Sun, Oct 20, 2024 10:19am PDT
German manufacturer & major contractor with the IOF is attacked....
Posted: Fri, Oct 18, 2024 11:58pm PDT
Why are the most progressive Democrats so committed to war and genocide? Because ultimately, regardless of whether they are Democrats or Republicans, their commitment is to US capitalism and their commitment is to the US empire. That’s the project that Democrats, Republicans, the ruling class of this country and the colonial state of Israel defend.
They are going to be perfectly okay signing off on bills to continue a genocide, because ultimately, it’s [about] the protection of capital, US...
Posted: Fri, Oct 18, 2024 3:06pm PDT
To professionalize the death work traditions of hoodoo is to render it useless and impractical for many communities on the margins and to erase practitioners who have been “experts” of its secrets and sacredness from generation to generation....
Posted: Fri, Oct 18, 2024 5:00am PDT
'A liberated Palestine means a liberated Middle East. A liberated Middle East means capitalism really faces a crisis[...] & they're unleashing the full violence of their extraordinary power to ensure it doesn't.'
Video: 6m 14s at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dBy4-6pn1M...
Posted: Sun, Oct 13, 2024 9:40am PDT
On Wednesday, the Socialist Equality Party hosted a live-streamed discussion to mark the one-year anniversary of the Gaza genocide, analyzing the historical roots of the US-Israeli rampage in the Middle East and advancing a socialist strategy to stop it....
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2024 4:47pm PDT