The West still traps the global South in debt For all the talk of the rise of the developing world and the decline of the West’s malignant power over it, we still haven’t seen a ‘can’t pay, won’t pay’ rebellion over ballooning Third World debt, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Features | Tuesday 10th Oct 2023 Labour Party Conference 2023 ‘We are looking at compensation for slavery and colonialism’
Thursday 05th Oct 2023 Modern-day slavery is growing Forced and unpaid labour are spreading across the globe, from the garment trade to cleaning to construction — we need to stop turning a blind eye, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Thursday 21st Sep 2023 Is the Caribbean even ready for Brics? These rich islands still have close political and economic relationships with the nations that enslaved them — is it any wonder truly independent nations in Africa are considered for Brics first, asks ROGER McKENZIE
Monday 11th Sep 2023 ‘The enemy worked from the darkness’ Two Chilean refugees, JUANI COLQUE and SYLVIA VELASQUEZ, tell Roger McKenzie how they experienced the US-backed coup on September 11 1973 that installed the brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet
Sunday 10th Sep 2023 Drinking on the pitch at Lords ROGER McKENZIE recalls a formative experience for black Britain, watching the West Indies beat England half a century ago — and the ‘explosive’ situation that led to fans drinking on the pitch with the players
Thursday 24th Aug 2023 The Gladstones’ apology for slavery is the beginning of a hard conversation After abolition in 1883, the famous family received the largest payout of all from the Slave Compensation Commission — now the process needs to be reversed, argues ROGER McKENZIE
Thursday 10th Aug 2023 Africa: uprisings against Western exploitation are inevitable Direct colonial rule may have ended in the last century — but how did anyone expect the rampant appropriation of Africa’s resources by the West to continue unchallenged, asks ROGER McKENZIE
Thursday 27th Jul 2023 Now is not the time to abandon the Sandinistas Returning from Nicaragua, ROGER McKENZIE asks why many progressives in the West feel qualified to denounce the Nicaraguan movement that is in a daily struggle against US imperialism
Thursday 13th Jul 2023 Fighting climate colonialism is a global necessity The ecological crisis caused is already hitting the global South harder than the regions where the capitalists responsible live — anyone disrupting ‘business as usual’ should be applauded, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Thursday 06th Jul 2023 Mariam and Ashok Dhawale: organising in the millions Representing a combined membership of around 25 million workers and women in India, the two leaders spoke to ROGER McKENZIE about how all organising must begin face to face at the grassroots
Thursday 22nd Jun 2023 Black Britons have fought multiple ‘hostile environments’ ROGER McKENZIE explains how the Windrush scandal is rooted in a long history of legal and social opposition to black people living in Britain, but each time, political organisation has beaten racism
