Browsing: Global South

In a striking critique, Shaeed Bolsen (@shahidkbolsen on X), founder of @MiddleNation_, challenged the Western narrative of superiority based on material wealth. He noted that the…

Libya gained independence from Italy on December 24, 1951, becoming the first country to do so through the United Nations. Yet many analysts argue that it…

Was Syria’s Bashar al-Assad the latest target of a Western-engineered regime-change agenda against Global South governments? That’s what many are thinking after the lightning seizure of…

On 7 December 2023, one of Britain’s finest anti-colonial poets, Benjamin Zephaniah, passed away at 65, leaving behind a revolutionary and anti-imperialist legacy. He used his…

Afro-Caribbean revolutionary and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon is perhaps the most influential anti-colonial thinker of his time. He died on this day, December 6th, in 1961. His…

Jokes often contain more than a hint of truth. US president Joe Biden just gave a classic example during his visit to Angola. Thinking he was…

In an exclusive interview with the UK’s Daily Mail published 22 October 2024, newly-elected Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch said her experiences in Nigeria, where she…

This Washington Post Editorial Board headline says everything one needs to know about the hypocrisy of the West, including that of so-called human-rights advocates. The International…

Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro (1926-2016) died on this day, 25 November. He was a crucial figure in the international struggle against Western imperialism. An internationalist…

Pan-Africanist organiser Malcolm X (1925-65) warned of the dangers of Africans in the US getting sucked into the country’s political duopoly, bouncing between Democrats and Republicans.…