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Three years ago, Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso broke with the old regional order and formed the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). Since then, mainstream coverage has largely portrayed their governments through the language of military juntas, coups, and instability. But on the ground, a much bigger political transformation is underway.
In our new mini-documentary, BT’s Nairobi correspondent Nicholas Mwangi explains how the AES emerged, why its governments broke with France and the old regional order, and the changes now underway in security, agriculture, infrastructure, and control over natural resources, despite the enormous historical, security, and geopolitical challenges facing the region.
Watch the full documentary on BT's Youtube channel. Link also in bio.
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I had an opportunity to sit down for an in-depth conversation with Comrade President @Sungu_Oyoo on @LibMindsPod. We spoke about extensively on Kenyan politics, history, poetry, his journey & his bid for the 2027 presidency.
🔗: youtu.be/yUmVAk2Oszo?si=djsP…
#LiberatingMindsPodcast
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(new book) @gchelwa and I are really happy to give you How the International Monetary Fund Strangles Africa. It's our short book that lays out in great detail how the IMF and its allied agencies (such as Transparency International) work together to undermine the sovereign rights of African states and of the African continent to seek development. The IMF's development policy is the underdevelopment of Africa.
Having laid this groundwork, Grieve and I turn at the end of the book to the institutional imperatives for an African development agenda.
Get the book at @inkanibooks - inkanibooks.co.za/product/ho…
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Writing for roape.net, Espérant Mwishamali Lukobo and Sara Geenen argue narratives that portray artisanal Congolese cobalt miners as violent criminals or illegal invaders of industrial concessions make things worse, reinforcing the marginalisation and insecurity that mining communities already face.
roape.net/2026/05/27/the-min…
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Building a socialist state is not merely about taking power; it is about the long, difficult task of resuscitating a society from the backwardness imposed by capital. The path is slow, but it is the only way to an orderly human future.
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Socialism Is Slow to Mature: The 21st #Newsletter (2026). In this, @vijayprashad discusses 6 points that serve as a baseline to develop a theory of the concept ‘slow to mature’.
📢Do read and write to us about your ideas of this concept.
thetricontinental.org/newsle…
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Marxism is one of the most intellectually powerful methods ever developed for understanding capitalism. – A. J. Horn / Simplifying Socialism
mronline.org/2026/05/02/what…
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"Theory becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses. It is capable of gripping the masses as soon as it becomes radical. To be radical is to grasp the root of the matter. But, for man, the root is man himself."
— Karl Marx, 1843
Happy birthday, old man.
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Unprecedented warming and shifting rainfall in the Sahel are placing immense pressure on agriculture and pastoralism, deepening hunger in countries trapped in neocolonial underdevelopment. Learn more:
thetricontinental.org/dossie…
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WCK Migori, in conjunction with @UkomboziLibrary and the Forum for Civic Participation in Governance held consultative sessions with women artisanal miners from Aora Jope mining site in Awendo, Migori County on the social justice dimensions of the activities.
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The blockade against Cuba has seen the US repeatedly trample international law. The blockade violates the United Nations Charter and several other treaties, and has consistently been repudiated by the UN General Assembly.
Learn more: thetricontinental.org/newsle…
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143 years since Marx passed away.
"The worker becomes poorer the more wealth he produces."
Record profits. Record hunger. Wars for markets and minerals. Public systems gutted.
His scalpel cuts deeper every year. The task remains unfinished.
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🚩 On Feb 12, as part of the All-India General Strike, 600,000 workers downed tools and almost 100,000 participated in street actions in South India’s largest state, Karnataka.
Read Pavan Kulkarni’s riveting account of the strike ⬇️
peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/…
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Proud of our @inkanibooks republication of Govan Mbeki's Peasants' Revolt, one of the great Marxist texts on southern African people's history. Needs to be read and re-read. With an introduction by Solly Mapaila, General Secretary of the @SACP1921. Get it here: inkanibooks.co.za/product/pe…
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The 60+-year US war on Cuba.
The United States has radicalized its blockade and attacks on Cuba, going to the point of seizing oil tankers bound for the Caribbean island and cutting off all supplies of fuel. Cubans have vowed to resist, as they have done for over 60 years, facing and defeating all sorts of efforts to sabotage, assassinate, destabilize and undermine their revolutionary, socialist project. Here's some notable elements of the six-decade US war on Cuba.
#LetCubaLive
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"Kimathi tuwie radhi, bado tunaishi kwa magoti"
#KimãthiDay #Dorphanage
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Join us this year for Red Books Day on February 21, 2026, marking the 177th anniversary of the publishing of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Look for more details: redbooksday.org/
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Meanwhile, on @LibMindsPod, we are back with a fresh episode. I headed to Ngong and caught up with @artbywama, an accomplished fine artist, visual storyteller, art teacher & community organizer.
📹: youtu.be/g8YgEtenn-s?si=2-vp…
#LiberatingMindsPodcast #Dorphanage #WamaArts
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Michael Parenti (1933-2026) died today. He has, as his son Christian said, 'gone to the Great Lecture Hall in the Sky'. A socialist from early into his life till the very end, Michael Parenti wrote in a feisty way and spoke bluntly the truths that were not always easy to digest in a wretched capitalist system. He was a fierce critic of imperialist wars and suffered the consequences of this because he could keep and then hold academic jobs even in liberal states such as Vermont.
The toughest test for all of us came when the USSR collapsed, and it was in this period that Michael Parenti played an important role in the Battle of Ideas, fighting the reactionary Western media and the intellectual cowardice of his peers. His books on Yugoslavia's destruction earned him terrible attacks, which he brushed off as the necessary price you pay in this struggle. In the midst of it all, Michael wrote 'Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism' (1997), a rebuttal to the anti-Marxist and anti-Communist blather that had begun to infect the world. The book remains an essential tool to fight against the ridiculous anti-communist historiography that demeans the great achievements of the workers' movements.
He spent the last period of his life within himself, which was a loss to the rest of us, and now his departure leaves us without that anchor which he provided.
Michael Parenti. Comrade. Our Red Flag dips in your honour.
