Global South

The mainstream media including Reuters, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), and The Independent among others reported on 22 February 2019: Incident of death and injury at Venezuela’s border with Brazil.

On receiving the news of Samir Amin’s death, one of the first thoughts that struck me was that two of my greatest mentors have passed this way: tumours discovered quite suddenly.

The United Sates has “officially” recognised a self-proclaimed president of Venezuela as the country’s president while the rightists are trying to create chaos on Caracas streets.

Like many African countries, Zimbabwe’s economy needs sustainable resuscitation.

Introduction: On “revolutionary ruptures” and “contradictions”

In mainstream literature of international affairs, the place of intellectualism is relationally linked to foreign policy, war, democracy, terrorism and at times even the media, which is the interlocutor of the intellectuals perceptions that are packaged as news to the society.

That was the proclamation of the Declaration of Rights of the Working and Exploited People [[i]].

Defending the sovereignty of Cuba and other states throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, Diaz-Canal emphasised that the nations within the region had a right to adopt the political and economic system of their choice. 

He was a prodigious researcher and publisher issuing over 40 books, hundreds of articles and papers dealing with the relationship between the colonial, semi-colonial and neo-colonial territories and the imperialist states. 

The year 1982 began with a revolutionary upheaval in Ghana: a group of young and radical military officers—some retired, others still in service—appeared to have seized power!