Around the world – Page 26 – Struggle

Mass rally in Niamey backs Niger’s military leaders as ECOWAS-led intervention looms

August 9, 2023 Tanupriya Singh

Approximately 30,000 people gathered in Niger’s capital of Niamey on August 6, as the country faced a looming threat of military intervention led by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regional bloc. However, […]

Atomic bombs: Oppenheimer, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the USSR

August 8, 2023 Stephen Millies

“Oppenheimer” has become a Hollywood blockbuster. The movie’s main character is the liberal, cultured, physicist and war criminal, J. Robert Oppenheimer. For obvious reasons, it hasn’t been shown yet in Japan, where there are thousands […]

Niger: Old Europe on trial

August 7, 2023 Geraldina Colotti

Gold, silicon, oil (reserves estimated at 2 billion barrels), and above all, uranium are essential for both French nuclear power plants and atomic bombs. Strategic raw materials for imperialism, which needs to consolidate its domination at […]

Thousands rally in support of Niger’s coup leaders as Western-backed ECOWAS threatens military intervention

August 5, 2023 Pavan Kulkarni

The military junta which took power in Niger last week warned on Monday, July 31 that France might militarily intervene with authorization from the ousted government’s foreign minister to restore Mohamed Bazoum to the presidency. Thousands have mobilized to […]

African states support Niger sovereignty in the face of imperialist attack and collusion of stooge African governments

August 5, 2023 Black Agenda Report

Reaction to the coup in Niger is a litmus test which determines who is truly supportive of self-determination for African nations. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is urging Nigeria to invade neighboring Niger, […]

Chronicle of the third seizure of Lima

July 29, 2023 Julieta Díaz Lozano

In total more than 100 thousand people mobilized throughout the country, calling for the resignation of the coup leader Dina Boluarte in Peru. Again there were arrests and injuries. In spite of a gigantic repressive […]

Africa is burning! DRC In environmental crisis

July 27, 2023 Jody Roumain

“No matter what they say now about highways and hospitals and penicillin, whatever was done in those colonies was not done for the natives. And the Belgians may not know this, but the natives do. […]

Filipinos say NO! to dictatorship and economic misery

July 26, 2023 Stephen Millies

More than a hundred Filipinos and their allies rallied outside the Philippines consulate in New York City on July 23. They were protesting Philippines President Ferdinand Bongbong Marcos Jr. The rally was one of many […]

Solidarity in New York with the people of Peru

July 25, 2023 Stephen Millies

Twenty thousand people marched into Lima, the capital of Peru on July 19. They are demanding an end to the illegal regime that has crushed democracy and killed over 80 protesters. Thousands more have been […]

Peru: Social movements demand resignation of unelected president

July 24, 2023 Al Mayadeen

The National Unitary Coordination Platform of Struggle (CNUL), composed of several Peruvian social movements, called for a new march on Saturday to demand the resignation of de facto President Dina Boluarte. The platform of social […]