The international anti-apartheid movement deservedly occupies an important chapter in the history of the struggle against white supremacy and imperialism. People of all generations and

Kali Akuno, the co-founder of Cooperation Jackson, recently wrote that “we have a little less than two years before the neo-confederates and neo-fascists install a

We learned of the brutal armed attack on Radio Ada, Ghana’s oldest and best-known community broadcaster on 13 January 2022 . This attack endangered

Released On: 15 Jan 2022Available for over a year https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct2g92 Voiced by Ben Arogundade and presented by Noo Saro-Wiwa. Producer: Bairbre Flood The last writings

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I talk with April Zhu and Stoneface Bombaa about archiving lost/erased histories of resistance in Kenya through the production of podcasts and radio in Sheng, the

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In this fourth discussion of Fanon Today: Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth (Daraja Press, 2021), Nigel C Gibson (editor) and Firoze

Alissa Trotz is Professor of Caribbean Studies at New College and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. She is also affiliate faculty

This is the third set of interviews / discussions with contributors to Fanon Today: Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth, edited by

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This book launch is a conversation between Andrés and Brian Murphy.

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You may recall that I spoke to Mostafa Henaway last May about the scale of infections and deaths due to Coronavirus, affecting migrant workers, frontline

I speak with Dr Rene Loewenson, a Zimbabwean epidemiologist and director of Training and Research Support Centre. After teaching for a decade at the University of

Access to health technologies (vaccines, medicines, diagnostics, PPE, ventilators etc) depends on the ability for distributed local production. Nationalism and protectionism on these technologies has

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I spok with to Samir on Wednesday 20 January 2021 at 11:00 am EST. Samir Shaheen-Hussain has been involved in anti-authoritarian social justice movements –

Sylvia Tamale, author of Decolonization and Afro-Feminism, will be discussing her new book with Charmaine Pereira, writer and feminist scholar in Abuja, Nigeria. In this

Firoze Manji interviews Kali Akuno on Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi

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I speak to Dr Saerom KIM and Professor Chang-Yup KIM about how Korea has been dealing with COVID-19 Saerom KIM, MD, Ph.D., MPH, is a

Emem Okon is a feminist activist, grassroots mobilizer, gender specialist, social change advocate, pan-africanist and a development practitioner who has successfully led grassroots campaigns in

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Paul Christian Namphy works on the nexus between water / sanitation / hygiene (WASH), the health sector, and community involvement, in Haiti. Formerly in the

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Susan Nakacwa writes: “I am a Ugandan journalist and currently working with GRAIN. Currently, my passion is in researching, documenting and making the case for

Desmond Cole is a Canadian journalist, activist, author, and broadcaster who lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of The Skin We’re In,

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We ask, is rebellion an expression of the fundamental nature of humans that seek freedom and emancipation, and ways of defining and inventing what it

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Mostafa Henaway is a longtime community organizer at the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal which organizes with precarious im/migrant workers for their status, workplace dignity

Blair Taylor is program director of the Institute for Social Ecology, a popular education center for ecological scholarship and advocacy founded in 1974. He holds

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Arun Kundnani lives in New York and writes about racial capitalism, Islamophobia, surveillance, and political violence. He is the author of The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia,

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I speak with Phyllis Bennis, director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, about the changes to economic and political life

I speak with Kin Chi Lau and Sit Tsui Jade Margaret. Kin Chi Lau is Associate Professor teaching Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong;

I discuss the radical pathways out of the global crisis with Ashish Kothari. Ashish is founder-member of Indian environmental group Kalpavriksh, taught at the Indian

I interview Kavita Krishnan on what a democratic approach to the pandemic would look like. Kavita Krishnan is Secretary of the All India Progressive Women’s

Ozlem Goner is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Staten Island. She earned degrees in Political Science and

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I interview Lionel Zevounou , Amy Niang and Ndongo Samba Sylla on the Declaration signed by hundreds of African intellectuals in Africa and in the

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Amrit Wilson, author of Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain published by Daraja Press, is a writer and activist on issues of race and

Afsar Jafri joined GRAIN in January, 2019 and is Asia regional staff based in New Delhi. With over 20 years of work on agriculture and

I speak with Eriel Deranger. She s a Dënesųłiné woman (ts’ékui), member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and mother of two, coming from a

Joshua Sealy-Harrington is a doctoral candidate at Columbia Law School and lawyer at Power Law. His research interrogates the complex relationships amongst law, identity, and

I speak to Joan Kuyek, a community-focused mining analyst and organizer living in Ottawa. She was the founding National Coordinator of MiningWatch Canada from 1999-2009

I speak with Asad Rehman about climate justice, the importance of internationalism, and Organising in the time of Covid-19 Asad Rehman is the executive director

I speak with Yasser Munif. He is a Sociology Assistant Professor in the institute for Liberal Arts at Emerson College where he teaches courses about

I will be discussing with Dalit poet Chandramohan S his new book – Love after Babel, published by Daraja Press https://darajapress.com/publication/love-after-babel-and-other-poems. This comes out at

I speak with Ajamu Dillahunt on the impact of COVID-19 on people in North Carolina, racism and the struggle of organising in the time of

I speak with two activist members of the Alliance of Middle Eastern and North African Socialists about organising in the time of Covid Frieda Afary

I speak with Mahmoud Zwahre who is a Palestinian grassroots activist and academic. He is living in Al Ma’sara village, 10 KM to the south

Consistent with the island’s history of medical internationalism, Cuba has sent medical brigades to many countries to combat the virus. A brigade of 52 doctors

I speak with Eurig Scandrett & Ros Walker, both active trade unionists in Scotland, UK. Eurig talks about the pandemic reaching Britain whilst UCU was

I speak to Gacheke Gachihi from the Mathare Social Justice Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. Gacheke spoke to us a couple of weeks ago, and we

I speak to Joël E. Vorbe from Haiti. He is a member of the National Council for the Rehabilitation of the Disabled (CONARHAN), an entity

Nick Dearden talks about a debt jubilee. As director, Nick Dearden manages the staff team and resources on behalf of Global Justice Now’s members. He

This is such a terrific interview and analysis of the conditions of rural people in India, that I decided to re-post this interview here. I

I talk with Coumba Toure and Lamin Mohammed about Covid19 in Senegal and in Africa. Coumba is, writer, story-teller, member of the African Feminist Forum

I speak with I speak with Sandew Hira, penname of Dew Baboeram. He is director of the Institute for Scientific Research (IISR) in The Hague.

I interview Cesare Ottolini, global Coordinator International Alliance of Inhabitants, Italy, is a former squatter, engaged since 1977 in global / local struggles for the

Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar, Researcher and Professor of Sociology at Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. She has done research about indigenous

I talk to Silvia Ribero about the role that industrial food systems give rise to viruses such as swine flu, Covid19 etc.  What are the

I spoke with Boaventura Monjane on the situation in Mozambique. He has a degree in journalism (Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo). His journalistic – and analysis

We spoke to Kali Akuno of Coorperation Jackson about what the distribution of Covid in the USA tells us about the nature of racism and

I spoke with Lyn Ossome, Senior Research Fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Makerere University, in Uganda. She received her PhD in

Nathan Banda heads the health and safety project of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU). The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions is the primary

Ruth Nyambura is a feminist political ecologist and activist from Kenya working on the intersections of gender, economy and ecological justice. Ruth is a founding

Rob Wallace, is author of Big Farms Make Big Flu (Monthly Review Press, 2016). He is an evolutionary biologist and a visiting scholar at the

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I talk with Andries du Toit: Director: Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of Western Cape. Food in the time of the

Today (Saturday April 4, 2020) I spoke with Alexssandro Robalo from Cabo Verde, an island country spanning an archipelago of 10 volcanic islands in the

I spoke with Elimane Kane, Founder and Chairman of LEGS-Africa (www.legs-africa.org), a pan African think tank based in Dakar. Elimane is a Governance and Development

We as the Women’s League of Abahlali baseMjondolo see the need to express our pain and fear, and our deep disappointment and anger at the

TODAY April 2 at 1pm (GMT+1) Nnimmo Bassey is a Nigerian architect, environmentalist activist, author and poet, who chaired Friends of the Earth International from

We discuss the impact of the COVID19 epidemic on the Algerian uprisings with Hamza Hamouchene, a London-based Algerian scholar-activist, commentator, researcher, and a founding member

Sally Kane talks about the role of community radio stations in the USA. Sally Kane is Chief Executive of the US National Federation of Community

Alyxandra Gomes Nunes, Brazilian, 48 yrs old, is based in Salvador da Bahia, the state where the majority of the population is black. She is

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You will find here both video and audio versions Interview with S’bu Zikode, founder of Abahlali baseMjondolo about situation of COVID-19 on the day that

Kali Akuno is a co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson and co-editor of Jackson Rising: the struggle for economic democracy and black self-determination in Jackson,

An enlightening discussion with Gacheke Gachi from the Mathare Social Justice Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, about the situation facing shack-dwellers in the face of COVID-19.

Tariq Mehmood’s new novel is uncompromising but hopeful in its portrait of the impact of the war in Afghanistan on a northern city in Britain,