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Western arms supplies to Ukraine prevent peaceful solutions
Margaret Kimberley, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report, was invited to brief the United Nations Security Council on May 20, 2024, as a civil society representative. The subject of the meeting was weapons supplies to Ukraine as a threat to peace and security.
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The resistible rise of the far right in Europe
In France, the far right is likely to be the leading political force in the European elections of 9 June 2024, and probably the second (or third) force in the European Union. A relatively large number of far right parties are now on the winning side in national elections, and are even taking part in national governments.
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The slow-motion execution of Assange
The ruling by the High Court in London permitting the WikiLeaks publisher to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point.
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Punched, choked, kicked: German police crack down on student protests
Germany’s students, labelled ‘terrorist sympathisers’ for protesting against Israel’s war on Gaza, say their right to free speech is under attack.
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The mutiny at Dominica, 9 April 1802
As a Black army of mercenaries from Kenya, Barbados, Jamaica, and elsewhere arrives to continue the West’s colonial project in Haiti, we remember the history of the 1802 mutiny of African soldiers at Dominica.
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The liberation of Kanaky: Resisting France’s brutal colonial overlordships in the Pacific
We Palestinians know what it is for people to choose to ignore the context that leads to our struggle. Indigenous and native people have always been right to challenge colonisation. We are fighting for a world free from the racism and the theft of resources and land that have hurt and harmed too many indigenous peoples and our planet.
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Dossier No. 76: The New Cold War is sending tremors through Northeast Asia
This dossier looks at how the U.S.-led New Cold War against China is destabilizing Northeast Asia, focusing on the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan Strait, and Japan.
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League of imperialist criminals denounces the International Criminal Court
Prosecuting the war criminals, halting the genocide, and preventing the further escalation of a third world war are tasks inseparably connected with the fight for the revolutionary transformation of society under the leadership of the working class, which will replace capitalist barbarism with socialism.
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Keep on rockin’ in the free world: The Twenty-First Newsletter (2024)
On the evening of 14 May, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken climbed onstage at Barman Dictat in Kyiv, Ukraine, to pick up an electric guitar and join the Ukrainian punk band 19.99.
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New Caledonia: Kanak revolt against French colonialism
To understand the current uprisings in New Caledonia, one must look back at the history of colonization and violent repression of the islands by France.
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National Endowment For Democracy continues to weaponize human rights
The latest example is its pressing for release of John McCain pallbearer from Siberian jail while it ignores a socialist arrested by the Ukrainian intelligence services and another socialist who was murdered.
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Ianir Milevski (ed) “Marxist Archeology Today: Historical Materialist Perspectives in Archeology from America, Europe and the Near East in the 21st Century”
Archeology has always been a political science. Since its inception the field has attempted to trace our lineage as a species along the lines of identity, territory and culture. Though often portrayed as a discipline slightly closer to the hard sciences than historiography, it is much closer to its distant cousin in the social sciences than towards anything resembling an empirical practice.
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Assange victorious in High Court
The threat of immediate extradition has been lifted in today’s ruling against the U.S. government, reports John Rees from the court.
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The inexorable rise of the Belgian Workers’ Party
European Parliament elections in Belgium are once again taking place in the shadow of national parliamentary and regional elections. One could, therefore, expect similar results in both sets of polls.
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Ukrainian communist Dmitri Kovalevich: Ukraine has become a private mercenary company of NATO to fight against its opponents (Interview)
According to Dmitri Kovalevich, the United States controls all decisions in Ukraine, not only military but also economic. “It is not the Ukrainian [military] command that decides where to advance, what to undermine, what to shell; Ukrainian soldiers are acting on the advice of Western instructors,” he said, referring to the actions of the Ukrainian armed forces.
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Menace on the menu: The financialisation of farmland and the war on food and farming
Between 2008 and 2022, land prices nearly doubled throughout the world and tripled in Central-Eastern Europe.
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The Global South in the Arctic North: Indigenous nations struggle for sovereignty
Indigenous nations fight for sovereignty in the Arctic regions of North America and Europe. Connecting their struggle to Palestine, they are resisting NATO militarization — as the US Army pledges to “regain Arctic dominance”.
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For the defense of the Alliance of Sahel States
To the African masses at home and abroad, oppressed and tormented by the imperialists for centuries and yet steadfast in your struggle. We, the Coalition for the Elimination of Imperialism in Africa, urge you to stand strongly behind the Alliance of Sahel States which, at this moment in our history, represents the model for Pan-Africanism and therefore the path towards the total liberation and unification of Africa.
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Forget securitisation of the academy, we are now fully militarized
Dutch Universities are waging war on their own students and Palestine activists.
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An interconnected whole–an interview with Mark Duffield
ROAPE interviews Mark Duffield about his life and work.