Combatting the zombie myths about nonviolent struggleby Ian SinclairMorning Star28 November 2023 There is widespread ignorance on the Left about what is called civil resistance (AKA nonviolent struggle). Let’s start with first principles. In her essential 2021 book Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs To Know, Harvard University’s Professor Erica Chenoweth defines civil resistance as “a […]
Socialist Party Leader Fred M’membe Has Been Arrested Numerous Times by Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema. He Received the Helicopters As a Reward for Allowing U.S. Corporations to Plunder Zambia’s Copper Wealth The Biden administration has gifted Zambia with four state-of-the-art high-performance Bell helicopters, valued at approximately $80 million (1.5 billion kwacha), alongside a comprehensive three-year […]
Recent deals between US Secretary of State Tony Blinken and African heads of state promise eye-popping profits for US mining multinationals and fewer protections for African laborers “toiling in subhuman conditions” to drive the digital revolution. The US Africa Leaders Summit held this December in Washington DC provided a platform for the Biden administration to advance its agenda across the African continent. With topics ranging from COVID-19 to climate change to “closing the digital divide,” to “strengthening democracy,” Washington’s agenda […]
Kit Knightly Last week we wrote about the new “polio outbreak” reported in the UK and around the world, and how it was likely yet another constructed narrative designed to sell yet more vaccines. After all, it was reported that the market for polio vaccines had “stagnated” through 2021, and the first-ever vaccine granted approval …
Because of Zambia’s Copper and to Thwart the Chinese On April 25, the U.S. government announced that U.S. African Command […]
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As Zambia’s huge copper deposits—a key component in clean energy electric vehicles and batteries—make the country richer and richer, its […]
From left to right: Vijay Prashad, Fred M’membe, Diego Sequera, and Erika Farías in Caracas, 2019. Photograph taken by Yeimi Salinas. On 12 August 2021, the people of Zambia will vote to elect a new president, who will be the seventh person elected to the office since Zambia won its independence from the United Kingdom […]
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Surkh Gul with her daughter.
“My family’s water well has dried up,” 18-year-old Surkh Gul said.
“Ours too,” echoed 13-year-old Inaam.
A distressed Surkh Gul lamented: “We have to fetch water from the public well along the main road, but that water is muddy, not fit for drinking. I get bottled water for my two-year-old daughter. At least someone in the family should stay healthy.”
While few Canadians could find Zambia on a map, the Great White North has significant influence over the southern African nation.
A big beneficiary of internationally sponsored neoliberal reforms, a Vancouver firm is the largest foreign investor in the landlocked country of 16 million.
The new law has set off a debate in Zambia and beyond.
