As the ‘NRx movement’ plots to replace democracy with corporate-feudal dictatorship, Britain must pursue a radical alternative of local food security and genuine wealth redistribution to withstand the coming upheaval, writes ALAN SIMPSON
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Walter Rodney: the revolutionary who explained African exploitation
Walter Rodney: the revolutionary who explained African exploitation
The Guyanese scholar’s groundbreaking work revealed how Europe deliberately underdeveloped Africa while using its resources and people to fuel Western capitalism, writes ROGER MCKENZIE
By making Personal Independence Payments harder to access, Labour is creating another barrier for those already struggling with soaring care costs, workplace discrimination and prejudiced employers, argues RUTH HUNT
With Labour abandoning its base through welfare cuts and warmongering, a genuine progressive alternative is urgently needed but must avoid any whiff of Trump infatuation syndrome and national populism, argues ANDREW MURRAY
Ways of opposing the increasingly repressive measures from the British state against protesters will be discussed at the Arise Festival. BEN HAYES reports
The controversial legislation now threatens even more vulnerable people after the committee stage stripped away the key High Court safeguard that convinced many MPs to support it, writes Dr CAJETAN SKOWRONSKI
While the West celebrates Duterte’s extradition, the selective application of international law reveals deeper geopolitical motives behind the prosecution of a leader from a poor, exploited nation, argues KENNY COYLE
Despite appointing staunchly pro-Israel officials and approving billions in arms sales, the Trump administration faces a public increasingly viewing Palestine through a human rights lens, writes RAMZY BAROUD
I AM in the final throes of writing a new book. It will be called The Rebirth of the African Phoenix: A View from Babylon.
The new book, which will be published in May by Manifesto Press, widens the scope of my last one, African Uhuru, which was primarily focused on the importance of black communities of resistance in Britain.
This one looks forward to the rebirth of Africa as one of the defining aspects of the remaining three-quarters of the 21st century following centuries of humiliation and exploitation.
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China’s huge growth and trade success have driven the expansion of the Brics alliance — now is a good time for the global South to rediscover 1955’s historic Bandung conference, and learn its lessons, writes ROGER McKENZIE
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