By BO Staff Writer The following statement was previously published on the Black First Land First website and is now reissued by Black Opinion: Black First Land First (BLF) condemns the cowardly actions of the United States (US) yesterday to force Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to step down via the imposition of sanctions on six …
By BO Staff Writer This article was originally published on Brasil de Fato Radio. MST leader, João Pedro Stedile speaks on the presidential race between Workers’ Party’s Fernando Haddad and far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro. After votes were counted last Sunday and confirmed a second round between Brazilian presidential candidates Fernando Haddad and Jair Bolsonaro, the member of …
By BO Staff Writer The following statement was first published on the Black First Land First website and is now reissued by Black Opinion: BLF supports Venezuela’s rejection of United States (US) interventionism, as announced by President Nicolas Maduro at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) this Wednesday. To this end we note the apt invocation …
by Gregary Elich Long-roiling factional conflict within Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF political party exploded last week in a military coup that quickly seized control of the government and state media. The coup was led by Commander of Zimbabwe Defense Forces Constantino Chiwenga, who is closely aligned with former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa. Emboldened by President Robert Mugabe’s declining mental …
By Carlos Aznarez May 22, 2017 The imperialist plan to inflame the most fascist sectors of Venezuela’s opposition to turn the streets of Caracas and other points of the country into something similar to the first days of the terrorist invasion in Syria, is still functioning at full throttle. Day after day, war tactics unleashed …
By BO Staff Writer The British Labour Party indicates its proposals for public ownership as it struggles to return to the Left, which it abandoned many decades ago. What we find interesting is how substantially similar to the Malikane proposals the ideas of the Labour Party are. It’s patent to us that those ethical and …
By Rachael Bothroyd Rojas This article was originally published on the venezuela analysis website. Since April 4th, opposition militants have been carrying out targeted acts of violence, vandalism and arson, as well as deliberately clashing with security forces in an attempt to plunge the country into total chaos and forcefully remove the elected socialist government. …
By Khaya Sithole In 1915, General Louis Botha led the invasion of Namibia. Beyers Naude was born and James Hertzog established the national party’s propaganda machine – Naspers. In 1915, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) started auditing Naspers. In 2017 the South African Constitution turned 21 years old. President Jacob Zuma called for South Africa to implement radical …
By BO Staff Writer The chief executive officer (CEO) of Bank of Baroda’s South African unit, Sanjay Agarwal, died from a heart attack last week. The Bank of Baroda took over most of the banking functions of the partly Gupta-owned businesses under the Oakbay stable, after the white-owned South African banking cartel unlawfully shut down …
By Rachel Aviv This story was originally published on the New Yorker magazine website. Albert Woodfox was one of three of the Angola 3, he was in solitary confinement longer than any American in history. Last summer, five months after being released from prison, Albert Woodfox went to Harlem. It was there, in 1969, during …
