The ‘Bandung spirit’ lives on in the new multipolar world 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
Thursday 14th Nov 2024 Resist despair: learn from struggles in the global South ROGER McKENZIE argues that facing Trump’s victory and global crises requires looking beyond failed Western organising models to successful resistance movements in the developing world
Thursday 31st Oct 2024 Brics – the genie is well and truly out of the bottle With the recent meeting in Kazan providing a glimpse of freedom for the global South, we must develop local, regional and international networks that can apply meaningful pressure on those who could steer this new grouping awry, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Thursday 17th Oct 2024 Making Black History Month meaningful again ROGER McKENZIE argues that Black History Month has been sanitised, losing its original purpose of empowering black people through knowledge of their history and struggles to actually go out and fight the battles of today
Tuesday 15th Oct 2024 CND conference charts the path for a new peace movement ROGER McKENZIE reports on how peace activists in Britain are uniting diverse struggles against war, climate change and racism to build a powerful force for global justice in an era of deepening conflict
Thursday 03rd Oct 2024 From Memphis to Mandela: Bill Lucy’s lifelong fight for dignity and justice ROGER McKENZIE pays heartfelt tribute to the legendary trade unionist who championed black workers while forging powerful alliances across colour lines, reshaping the US labour movement
Thursday 19th Sep 2024 From the IMF to Brics: the emerging multipolar order and the imperialist backlash New alliances like Brics are forging a multilateral world as the global South nations assert their true independence after almost a century of nominal sovereignty under the reality of crushing economic servitude, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Sunday 15th Sep 2024 Radhika Desai’s Marxist lens illuminates the path to a post-capitalist future ROGER McKENZIE explores how the political economist’s work on geopolitical economics and involvement with the International Manifesto Group offer crucial insights into global power shifts as US hegemony fades
Thursday 25th Jul 2024 From Obama to Kamala, ‘diversity’ without progress is pointless Having black capitalist politicians in leadership positions shows that capitalism is able to accommodate racial diversity, writes ROGER McKENZIE — but if the world still starves and burns, so what?
Thursday 18th Jul 2024 Islamist terrorism in Xinjiang ROGER MCKENZIE uncovers a history of extremist violence ignored by Western media, contextualising the security measures which have been seized on to allege ‘a genocide’ is being carried out by China
Thursday 11th Jul 2024 Farewell to a generation of Caribbean pioneers As the last of his family’s Windrush elders pass away, ROGER McKENZIE reflects on migration, courage and the ongoing struggle against racism in Britain, from the Rwanda plan to ‘stop the boats’
