“Without Africa, there will be no history of France in the 21st century.”—Former French President Francois Mitterand Recent events in the African nation of Mali mark a turning point in a secessionist crisis in the North that threatens to destabilize the entire...
A CIA timetable and a report by the Wall Street Journal, both released on Nov. 1, have revealed the extent to which the CIA was involved in responding to the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and the agency’s massive presence in the country. The attack...
For 10 long years, the people of Afghanistan have been living under a brutal U.S./NATO occupation. Is the brutality and destruction of the last decade really in response to the September 2001 attack, or about killing “terrorists,” or about “democracy,” or some other...
On July 1, an article titled "Libya and Syria: When Anti-Imperialism Goes Wrong" was published on the North Star website, signed by "Pham Binh of Occupy Wall Street, Class War Camp." The article argues that imperialist interventions in Libya and Syria are justified...
All political movements are built on certain points of unity, implicit or explicit, which bring together disparate organizations and individuals for a common cause. Although the imperialist bombing of Libya has entered its fourth month, the anti-war movement appears...
Editor's note: This article was originally published on Liberation News. Introduction The leaders of 14 capitalist powers in Europe plus the United States met for a conference in Berlin 126 years ago to decide how all of Africa’s land and vast resources would be...
For 500 years, Portuguese colonialism was built upon the slave trade and the systematic pillaging of its African colonies: Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Sao Tome e Principe, Angola and Cape Verde. Marxist historian Walter Rodney summarized Portuguese’s colonial rule in...
The Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan has become the scene of a bloody conflict. Estimates of the casualties vary widely, with the country’s interim president estimating up to 2,000 deaths. As many as 275,000 people have fled the conflict areas, hoping to make it...
"So when the ships landed here at Omaha [Beach], an unimaginable hell rained down on the men inside," President Barack Obama said as he spoke in Normandy on June 6th, the 65th anniversary of "D-Day." This was certainly true. On that day in 1944, U.S., British and...