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The Avocados of Wrath

8 May 2023 - by GRAIN

“This little orchard will be part of a great holding next year, for the debt will have choked the owner. This vineyard will belong to the bank. Only the great owners can survive, for they own the canneries too... Men who have created new fruits (...)
What African Governments Must Fight for at COP27

25 October 2022 - by Africa Climate Justice Collective

We the African People: In solidarity, stand as women, men, youth, peasants, social movements, community- based and civil society organisations as a united front against the multi-dimensional crisis that is prevailing in our continent. Noting (...)
Launch | Right to Say NO Information Pack

23 February 2022 - by Womin

Communities across Africa are organising to STOP large destructive extractive activities. They are saying NO to mega hydro dams, industrial food plantations and large-scale fishing, fossil fuel opens in a new windowextraction, false technology (...)
Nigeria: Extraction-driven devastation: an interview with Nnimmo Bassey

28 April 2021 - by Nnimmo Bassey, ROAPE

In early 2021, anti-extractivist struggles won two major legal victories against Shell Oil’s operations in Nigeria. These wins represent decades of community organizing on the part of Niger Delta activists and residents. ROAPE’s Lee Wengraf (...)
Energy transitions and colonialism

2 November 2020 - by Hamza Hamouchene

Any talk about green transition and sustainability must not become a shiny façade for neocolonial schemes of plunder and domination—a view from North Africa. The year 2020 has seen an unprecedented oil price crash, causing a shock to the fossil (...)
Oil, protest and mass solidarity in Mauritius

20 October 2020 - by Ramola Ramtohul

How an environmental catastrophe catalyzmajor anti-government mobilizations in Mauritius. auritius has a reputation for stability and the quality of its democratic politics. Massive protest action is relatively uncommon in the country. But the (...)
Pandemics: prevention before cure

8 September 2020 - by Michael Roberts

There is now firm evidence of a strong link between environmental destruction and the increased emergence of deadly new diseases such as Covid-19. Indeed, increasing numbers of deadly new pandemics will afflict the planet if levels of (...)
Belgium’s colonial crimes in the Congo. A duty to remember

17 June 2020 - by Eric Toussaint

Thanks to the Black Lives Matter mobilizations against racism in general, and racism against black people in particular, becoming an international phenomenon more and more people are seeking to know the truth about the dark past of the colonial (...)
Extractivism and resistance in North Africa

23 November 2019 - by Hamza Hamouchene

Northern African countries are key suppliers of natural resources to the global economy, from large- scale oil and gas extraction in Algeria and Tunisia, to phosphate mining in Tunisia and Morocco, to water-intensive agribusiness paired with (...)
Mining conflicts multiply, as critics of “extractivism” gather in Johannesburg

14 November 2018 - by Patrick Bond

The World Social Forum’s “Thematic Forum on Mining and Extractivism – critical not only of the mining house Lonmin but of its international financiers and buyers. This is the moment for a profoundly critical standpoint to take root, unhindered by (...)
How Kabila and the mining giants went from best friends to adversaries

6 November 2018 - by Claude Kabemba, Pascal Kambale

A new mining code has created a rift between mining multinationals and government. For much of this year, two of the most powerful forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been engaged in a tense standoff. President Joseph Kabila, (...)
Once upon a time there was a popular government that wanted to do away with the export-oriented extractivist model

22 August 2018 - by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet

Large popular mobilizations resulted in the creation of self-organized committees in the neighbourhoods, workplaces, universities and several higher education schools; this has led to the constitution of a people’s government. It has just held (...)
The method in the madness: Uganda’s budget 2018 is divorced from reality

19 June 2018 - by Mary Serumaga

The report of the Auditor General (AG) for 2016–2017 is another catalogue of systemic theft, embezzlement and wastage of public goods. In this, it is similar to audit reports going back at least two decades. It appears that incompetence as much (...)
Bio-piracy: the sale of Uganda’s lakes to investors

7 June 2018 - by Mary Serumaga

The fishermen of Kabarole District appear to have blown the whistle on an audacious act of bio-piracy. They brought to the attention of the authorities that they were being barred from access to the 53 crater lakes that they have fished in from (...)
Land-grabbing and the Financialization of Agricultural Land

28 May 2018 - by Mary N. Taylor

On the occasion of the publication of the report Transnational Corporations and Land speculation in Brazil by Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos (Network for Social Justice and Human Rights), Mary Taylor of LeftEast spoke with Fábio Pitta, (...)
European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) launches a peasant agroecology manual on how to phase out the use of pesticides

22 May 2018 - by La Via Campesina

Europeans are fundamentally questioning the use of pesticides. In 2017, more than one million citizens signed the European Citizens’ Initiative « STOP Glyphosate », which aims to ban glyphosate marketing in the EU, reform the pesticide (...)
As World Bank signals end of extraction finance, CSOs call for end to its other fossil fuel funding

10 April 2018 - by Bretton Woods Project

World Bank Group (WBG) President Jim Yong Kim announced at December’s One Planet Summit in Paris that the Bank will cease project lending for ‘upstream’ oil and gas projects after 2019. SUMMARY WBG announced it will end finance for ‘upstream’ (...)
Mozambique forced to restructure after debt default

27 March 2018 - by Abayomi Azikiwe

Economic growth proves unsustainable for the Southern African state of Mozambique in present world situation due to financial implications that have been going on for some time now. Since 2014 many energy producing emerging states in Africa (...)
Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline: Not in Our Interest

23 March 2018 - by Collective

In December 2016, an announcement was made of a nearly 5000 km Nigeria-Morocco offshore gas pipeline which at today’s prices will cost an estimated 20 billion US dollars. In reality, the actual costs will likely be much higher. This pipeline (...)
Seed Freedom and the Future of Farming

26 February 2018 - by Vandana Shiva, Joris Leverink

In an era of climate change, rejuvenating and regenerating the soil through ecological processes has become a survival imperative for the human species. Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned Indian scholar, environmental activist and author of (...)
New Evidence of Africa’s Systematic Looting, From an Increasingly Schizophrenic World Bank

5 February 2018 - by Patrick Bond

A brand new World Bank report, The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018, offers evidence of how much poorer Africa is becoming thanks to rampant minerals, oil and gas extraction. Yet Bank policies and practices remain oriented to enforcing foreign (...)
TuNur in Tunisia: Another case of energy colonialism

10 November 2017 - by Hamza Hamouchene

A familiar ‘colonial’ scheme is being rolled out: the unrestricted flow of cheap natural resources from the Global South to the rich North, maintaining a profoundly unjust international division of labour. While fortress Europe builds walls and (...)
Understanding feminism in the peasant struggle – A “popular peasant feminism”

14 August 2017 - by La Via Campesina

“A really important part of being women in La Vía Campesina is to identify ourselves and our various struggles” emphasized speakers at the start of the V Women’s Assembly taking place in Basque Country on 17 and 18 July 2017. The peasant women (...)
Canada’s hand in Tanzania mining fraud

4 August 2017 - by Yves Engler

The Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold’s African subsidiary, Acacia Mining, is embroiled in a major political conflict in Tanzania. With growing evidence of its failure to pay royalties and tax, Acacia has been condemned by President Magufuli, (...)
Colombia: Free Madre Tierra (Mother Earth) from capitalism and put cities in the service of the people

29 May 2017 - by Eric Toussaint

Bogota, 2600 m altitude, 7.5 million inhabitants. Sunday 30 April, Daniel Libreros, facilitator of the ecosocialist movement, Camila C. (23) and John F. (24), members of CADTM in Colombia picked me up at 8:30 a.m. at the city centre hotel to (...)