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Africa
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Pharma companies “drowning in vaccines” while millions of unvaccinated suffer and die
By Dan O’Rourke A recent headline on a prominent African news outlet read “Africa needs a billion Covid…
Ethiopia: New war offensive amid worst global famine
By Per-Åke Westerlund—Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (our sister organisaton in Sweden) The war in Ethiopia has entered a third phase…
Climate catastrophe and Covid spurs human catastrophe in the Global South
By Robert Cosgrave The Covid crisis, reflecting the existing global inequalities of capitalism, hit the Global South, particularly…
Africa & Covid-19: Capitalism driving a continent into the abyss
By Serge Jordan, International Socialist Alternative (the international socialist organisation to which the Socialist Party is affiliated to)…
Nigeria- World’s poverty capital- Interview with Nigerian Socialist
Nigeria has been named as the world’s “poverty capital” in 2018. The country has over 80 million extremely…
Africa: Ebola crisis spreads
The news that the United States is to send 3,000 troops to Liberia to build isolation hospitals, while Sierra Leone has implemented a national lock-down to try to contain the Ebola virus underlines how serious the epidemic in West Africa has become.
The tragedy of Rwanda 1994
Twenty years ago, nearly a million people were massacred in Rwanda. At the time, it went largely unreported. But it was a direct legacy of a century of colonial rule – the French state, under ‘socialist’ president, François Mitterrand, complicit in the genocide.
