By Raúl Antonio Capote, on September 25, 2026
illustration: Adano
As detentions of Cubans in the United States increase, the voices most critical of Havana remain silent; no politician—and almost none of the so-called influencers—is speaking out to denounce the abuse. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on September 18, 2026
Leaders of BRICS member/partner countries at the 18th BRICS Summit, in Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi on September 13, 2026. Photo: Press Information Bureau
The New Delhi Declaration, the outcome of the summit, reiterated the demand for reform of the United Nations, international financial institutions, and the multilateral trading system.
The 18th BRICS Summit, held in New Delhi on September 12–13, occurred amid an exceptional intensification of international contradictions. Wars in West Asia, unilateral sanctions, tariff barriers, and the weaponization of finance and technology have exposed the fundamentally unequal character of the imperialist-dominated international order. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on September 11, 2026
Jiang Zhaohe (China), detail from Liumin Tu (Refugees), 1943.
Capitalism depends on precarious migrant labor to discipline workers, deepen division, and extract wealth. While weaponizing anti-immigrant rhetoric to obscure the neoliberal destruction of public services and social welfare. (more…)
August 27, 2026
His Excellency Narendra Modi, M.D., Prime Minister of India and Chair of BRICS;
Her Excellency Dilma Rousseff, M.D., President of the New Development Bank (BRICS Bank).
We, members of social, labor, cultural, student, and scientific movements, in light of the extremely severe and total blockade imposed by the United States on the Republic of Cuba—which causes widespread damage to the standard of living of the Cuban population, affects their basic food supply, the operation of its hospitals and daycare centers, as well as public and domestic lighting (more…)
By Robin- Lee Francke on August 20, 2026
Father Michael Lapsley addressing delegates. Foto Bill Hackwell
Father Michael Lapsley, the Cape Town priest who left for Havana, Cuba, earlier this month, has returned and called for the world to stand together with the Cuban people. (more…)
By Mirko Casale on July 24, 2026
Cuban and Angolan troops, members of the MPLA, gather for a weapons training in San Vicente, near Cabinda (Angola), in 1976.
In 1948, a system of racial segregation was officially established in South Africa, through which the indigenous African population was marginalized by laws imposed by a white minority descended from European settlers. (more…)
By Saaliegah Zardad on April 23, 2026 from Cape Town South Africa
Angolan freedom fighters, foto: transcend.org
Why South Africa’s Freedom Month calls for recognizing Cuito Cuanavale as shared African and Global South heritage under the NHRA and UNESCO frameworks
April in South Africa (SA) carries a particular weight. Freedom Month is the annual moment of collective remembrance that anchors our democratic identity around 1994: the unbanning of liberation organizations, the release of political prisoners and the long walk to the ballot box. As a heritage practitioner, I am compelled each year by what our official commemorative narrative omits: the external geographies where apartheid’s military power was confronted, contained and ultimately defeated. Chief among these is a small town in the south-eastern interior of Angola, whose name every South African should know, but does not.
It is called Cuito Cuanavale. (more…)
March 23, 2026
Lula at CELAC
The Colonize Hemisphere talk emerged as a central theme when Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva delivered a forceful speech at the CELAC-Africa High-Level Forum in Bogotá on March 21, 2026. Before heads of state and delegations, Lula issued one of his sharpest critiques of US foreign policy in recent years. (more…)