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President Donald Trump talks to reporters as Richard Grenell, president of the Kennedy Centre Board of Trustees, listens as he visits the John F Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts in Washington, March 17, 2025
TRADE unionists of African descent from the continent and across the diaspora came together on Monday to plan the fightback against US President Donald Trump.
The online meeting, organised by the Global African Workers Institute, saw around 50 leading trade unionists calling for working-class unity to counter the attack on civil and workers’ rights unleashed by Mr Trump since his return to power in January.
Chairing the meeting, international president of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists Rev Terry Melvin said the actions of the Trump administration must be seen as “part of the rise of authoritarianism in the US and across the globe.”
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
The West’s dangerous pesticide dumping in Africa is threatening biodiversity, population health and food sovereignty, argues ROGER McKENZIE
ROGER McKENZIE expounds on the motivation that drove him to write a book that anticipates a dawn of a new, fully liberated Africa – the land of his ancestors