Africa

Popular protest shakes former French colony Mali

Tens of thousands of Malians in the capital Bamako came out in the streets July 10 for three days of…

July 22, 2020

COVID figures reveal stark contrasts

June 29 — No country boasts louder of its success than the United States. This is the most powerful capitalist…

June 29, 2020

South African Communist Party supports Extraordinary China-Africa Summit on Solidarity against Covid-19

The South African Communist Party (SACP) issued this statement on June 19. The South African Communist Party (SACP) welcomes the…

June 26, 2020

Toppling a mass murderer

It seems that in Britain, similar to here in the U.S., the ruling class has made sure to sing the…

June 19, 2020

The viral debt trap

The International Monetary Fund is giving itself a pat on the back for approving “immediate debt service relief” to 25…

April 20, 2020

Call for cancellation of Africa’s public debt

Workers World received this petition from Fallou Guéye, a member of the Assembly of African Workers/Confederation for Democracy and Socialism…

April 17, 2020

Editorial from Zimbabwe praises U.N. call to end sanctions

The Herald, Zimbabwe’s largest newspaper in Harare, the capital, published the following editorial on March 27 commenting on the COVID-19…

April 3, 2020

March 21: A significant date in global working-class history

March 21 is a profound day in the history of workers’ struggles against colonialism and imperialism. On that day, two…

March 24, 2020

Anti-apartheid protest by Youth Against War and Fascism, 1976

YAWF was the acronym for Youth Against War and Fascism, the youth organization associated with Workers World Party. Founded in…

February 13, 2020

Black labor: From chattel slavery to wage slavery, Part 1

By Sam Marcy The following is excerpted from Chapter 2 of  Marcy’s “High Tech, Low Pay: A Marxist analysis of…

February 11, 2020