PART ONE: “Two, Three, many Vietnams”: National Liberation and the Rise of the Third World (1945 – 1991) Asia, Africa and Latin America in the Early Years of the Century With the exception of Latin America, and several noteworthy cases… Read More ›
South Africa
Numsa withdraws support for ANC in South Africa
South Africa’s biggest trade union has announced that it is withdrawing its support for the ANC ahead of next year’s election – a big blow to the governing party. The 330,000-member National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) said… Read More ›
Mandela ended political apartheid in South Africa, but economic apartheid continues
by Krissy Clark South Africa has declared ten days of official mourning for Nelson Mandela. As people reflect on his legacy, it’s important to remember that his struggle against apartheid was a fight against a system of political and economic oppression. … Read More ›
African National Congress Statement on the Death of Nelson Mandela
A Nation Mourns: the Passing of Cde Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela 5 December 2013 Comrades and friends, The Mandela family, Fellow South Africans, “In the life of every nation, there arise men who leave an indelible and eternal stamp on the… Read More ›
Leonard Peltier on the Passing of Nelson Mandela: Apartheid Still Exists in America
COLEMAN, FLORIDA – Leonard Peltier, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, who has been imprisoned for the past 37 years, issued statement on the passing of former South Africa President Nelson Mandela. Peltier is serving a life sentence in the U.S…. Read More ›
R.I.P. Nelson Mandela (1918 – 2013)
Today we mourn a great loss for humanity – the passing of Nelson Mandela, a hero of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa and the father of the modern South African state. As a member of the African National… Read More ›
Illicit financial flows have made Africa ‘a net creditor to the world’
by Mark Tran Report challenges traditional thinking that the west is pouring money into Africa through aid without receiving much in return Africa lost up to $1.4tn in illicit financial flows in 1980-2009, far exceeding money coming in over the same… Read More ›
Nelson Mandela, in his own words
Fight Back News Service is circulating some quotes from the icon of the South African anti-apartheid movement. The following quotes are from Mandela’s 1990 speech at a Johannesburg rally to re-launch the South African Communist Party. Nelson Mandela: The ANC [African… Read More ›
White South African Govt Minister Says Blacks Have No Claim to South African Land
AFRICANGLOBE – South Africa’s deputy agriculture minister Pieter Mulder gave the hornet’s nest of land ownership a sharp political poke in the Country’s Parliament this week. He suggested that Black “Bantu-speaking” people had no historical claim to 40 percent of South… Read More ›
South Africa’s ruling party endorses anti-Israel boycott
Senior members of South Africa’s ruling party have endorsed a boycott campaign against Israel, with former South African deputy president Baleka Mbete calling Tel Aviv ‘far worse than apartheid South Africa’. During an international conference hosted on Sunday by the… Read More ›
South Africa: Marikana Killings a Wake-Up Call, Says Union Founder
by Jay Naidoo South Africans need calm heads to examine what caused the slaughter of 44 workers and police officers at the Marikana mine. The judicial commission of inquiry appointed by President Jacob Zuma may present the facts. But we… Read More ›
Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Bush, Blair should face trial at the Hague
By DAVID STRINGER LONDON (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu called Sunday for Tony Blair and George Bush to face prosecution at the International Criminal Court for their role in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq Tutu, the… Read More ›
At Least 30 Killed as South African Police Open Fire on Thousands of Striking Miners
South African police opened fire at striking miners at the Marikana platinum mine, killing at least 30 protesters. The incident became the bloodiest industrial dispute in South Africa in the 20 years since the end of the country’s Apartheid regime…. Read More ›
Uganda’s Oil: A Bonanza Beckons
Hope and peril for the Great Lakes A DETERMINED push by Western wildcatters and big oil companies from fast-growing Asian economies such as those of China and Malaysia may change the fortunes of several countries in remoter and trickier bits… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 