Unless former colonial powers are held accountable for their past injustices, they are likely to find new ways to perform the same old looting and coercion
Good news is coming from West Africa: last November landlocked Chad announced an immediate end to all security and defense ties with former colonial ruler France. The surprise announcement came just hours after the French foreign minister met Chadian President Mahamat Déby.
With this decision, Chad joins a growing list of former French colonies rejecting Paris’ influence and kicking out its troops. OnDecember 26 France handed over the first of its military bases to the Chadian army in Faya-Largeau. Paris will also evacuate troops from two more bases: in the capital N’Djamena and in the eastern city of Abeche.
In a pointed statement, Chadian Foreign Minister Abderaman Koulamallah declared, “France must henceforth consider that Chad has grown up” and is a “sovereign state.” This rebuke reflects a broader wave across Africa, especially in the Sahel, where countries like Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso have already cast off French influence.
France’s role in the Libyan tragedy
The last decade saw French domination of former African colonies waning. A new generation of African leaders began to question their countries’ unequal ties to France, with Paris overexploiting their natural resources, leaving them to poverty and corrupt regimes Paris sustains with little tolerance for dissent.
Libya, another African country, is a good example of French intolerance of any challenges to their hegemony. Under the late leader Muammar Gaddafi, Libya played a leading role in creating the African Union, pushed for a unified African military and more continental economic integration. Paris believed that Gaddafi’s aspirations, given his continental popularity and Libya’s vast financial resources, were a threat to its influence across Africa.
Libya is still in chaos in 2025 and the jihadi militia wars caused by his killing still spread across Africa
Practical solidarity: In the face of the world of the state, the bosses and the horrors of their wars, we stand in solidarity with the condemned comrades of Revolutionary Struggle, Pola Roupa and Nikos Maziotis, who through the ranks and action of the organization Revolutionary Struggle, fought steadfastly and uncompromisingly on the side of the class oppressed by the violence and terror of economic exploitation, poverty and political extermination in the sweatshops of wage slavery.
With consistency and dedication to the struggle for social revolution, the comrade and comrade took on the political responsibility of their participation in the organisation, as befits guerrilla dignity and revolutionary consistency.
October 2010
They did not review and they defended politically, one by one, the 18 armed and bombing actions undertaken by the Revolutionary Struggle, one by one, on high-important symbols and infrastructures of the state and capital, from 2003 to 2018, achieving significant blows to the correlations of domination:
Ministries – of Economy and of Employment -, Evelpidon Courts, Police Departments, Police Officers and riot police, Minister of Public Order, US Embassy, Stock Exchange, Bank of Greece – branch of the European Central Bank – office of the International Monetary Fund in Greece, banks – Citibank, Eurobank -, up to the attempted escape of comrade Nikos Maziotis and other prisoners from the Korydallos prison by helicopter (hijacking), which was personally undertaken by comrade Pola Roupa.
Judicial Power – Repentance – Double Prison:The state bi-historically maintains to the end its practices of war of attrition and subversion, against its armed political enemy, the militant(s) who attacked it by all means, challenging and shaking its imperium in practice.
“Justice” as a pillar of state violence and terrorism, assumes the regime’s role of “punishing” not only the class oppressed and undisciplined, but also the execution of the total “punishment” of the armed political enemies of the state and capital, constantly upgrading the criminal arsenal and the “maximum security” prisons and imprisoning the struggling comrades with heavy sentences.
At the same time, it acquits cops/killers/nazis, child rapists, politicians, big businessmen-businessmen, etc.
And when the time comes for the release of the militants from the “penitentiaries of democracy”, the dirty role is taken over by the judicial councils which, in the case of political prisoners, are intended to damage their political choices and revolutionary conscience by extracting “statements of repentance”.
DEFINITIVE RELEASE OF COMRADE POLA ROUPA
On 17 November 2023, comrade Pola Roupa was released from prison with restrictions until 2032.
One month later, the mechanisms of the terrorist state, with an appeal by the deputy prosecutor of the Chalkida appeal court against her release, tried to put her back in prison.
Honduras has threatened to expel United States troops, retaliating against incoming President Donald Trump’s plans to carry out mass deportations of refugees and asylum seekers entering the US from Central America..
Nov 8, 2024 Honduras: the end of a cycle? Twelve years on from a military coup, first female president was inaugurated after a landslide win… The 2009 Honduras coup was a watershed not only for Honduras but for Latin America as a whole. 10 years of heavy US backed military repression in favor of the narco-state of the oligarchic elite was continually resisted by 90% 0f the population.. . … Honduras: World Bank Backs Death Squads and Displacement.. Heather Gies | TeleSUR | 2015
The Honduras threat to reconsider military ties marks a significant moment in Latin American ties with the US, say experts.
Trump’s plan could affect hundreds of thousands of people from Honduras, a country long occupied by significant US military bases.
US soldiers and border patrols fire tear gas at migrants, part of a caravan of thousands traveling from Central America en route to the United States, from the US side of the border fence between Mexico and the United States in Tijuana, Mexico, November 25, 2018 [Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters] in 2019 Trump ordered 5,200 active-duty US military troops to be deployed to the southern border along with helicopters, heaps of razor wire, and other “emergy” equipment.
Here’s what’s at the heart of the dispute between the world’s biggest superpower and its smaller neighbour, why it matters and what this means for ties between the countries.
Spain to legalize thousands of migrants over next 3 years — Spain will legalize about 300,000 undocumented migrants a year starting in May the country’s migration minister said Wednesday. The policy is aimed at expanding Spain’s aging workforce and allowing valuable and welcome migrants to work- España legalizará a miles de migrantes en los próximvauable os 3 años Nov 20, 2024MADRID (AP)
What has Honduras said about US troops?
In her New Year’s message, Honduras’s President Xiomara Castro threatened to reconsider the country’s military cooperation with the US if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.
anarcomuk.uk/2025/The following interview was carried out by comrades from the Československé anarchistické sdružení – CAS a Czech Internationalist Anarchist Group.
1)Please introduce yourself briefly to the readers of our magazine. Are you from Ukraine, where you were born and spent your youth? Hi. My name is Vadym Yakovlev, I’m Ukrainian queer writer and journalist and […]
The following interview was carried out by comrades from the Československé anarchistické sdružení – CAS a Czech Internationalist Anarchist Group.
1)Please introduce yourself briefly to the readers of our magazine. Are you from Ukraine, where you were born and spent your youth?
I was born in Odesa, the largest southern multicultural city in Ukraine, a few months before the collapse of the USSR.
My mother is Ukrainian and my father is Russian.
Their fathers were military. My father worked in a factory. With the collapse of the USSR, the factory was closed, and my father lost his job. It affected my family and my childhood.
At home my relatives spoke Russian and Ukrainian, so I never focused on issues such as national identity. My family was an unhappy international family that lost a lot with the collapse of state communism in Ukraine.
I guess all of that influenced me a lot in my search of my true political views and my desire to do something that can have influence on society.
2)You left Ukraine, what led you to this decision?
On the one hand, I could no longer work in Ukraine because of my political beliefs.
The Ukrainian intelligentsia, journalists and artists as a community with the beginning of the war decided to become privileged elite propagandists in the service of the state.
I didn’t want to be a propagandist, so I lost the opportunity to publish my articles. And if you publicly express in Ukraine the views I have, authorities can put you in the jail.
Awakening from the propaganda matrix is like being a conservative: you’re frequently disgusted with society and where it appears to be headed.
But unlike a conservative, you’re disgusted by actual problems instead of imaginary nonsense.
Also unlike a conservative, your problem is not with relatively new societal developments like recent immigration waves and LGBTQ acceptance; your problem is with abusive dynamics which have been plaguing civilization for centuries. Capitalism. Imperialism. Militarism. Settler-colonialism. Genocide. Plutocracy.
Exploitation. Consumerism. Many rightists warn urgently that our society is on the verge of plunging into a nightmarish authoritarian dystopia, but if you’re truly unplugged from the indoctrination of the empire you understand that the dystopia is already here, and has been for a long time.
Durante el 2024, hubo varias imágenes que marcaron la cobertura de Mongabay Latam. Hay imágenes esperanzadoras, como las fotografías de especies reintroducidas a su hábitats, las de los colectivos que se forman para proteger los ecosistemas y las de las nuevas especies y aplicaciones de tecnología para monitorear la naturaleza.
Este material periodístico es de libre acceso y reproducción. No está financiado por Nestlé ni por Monsanto. Desinformémonos no depende de ellas
También, hay fotografías que muestran las amenazas a los bosques y a los pueblos indígenas, los crímenes en contra de los defensores de la naturaleza, los impactos de las industrias extractivas y del cambio climático, y las víctimas de la ola de incendios que afectó a varios países sudamericanos.
Este es nuestro resumen del año en 20 fotografías.
Jaguar que fue reintroducido a la vida silvestre. Foto: Andrea Reyes/Jaguares en la Selva
La imagen muestra a uno de los dos jaguares que la Fundación Jaguares en la Selva liberó exitosamente. En Oaxaca, en el sur de México, esta organización creó el Santuario del Jaguar Yaguar Xoo. Allí, un grupo multidisciplinario tiene en marcha un programa para que félidos que han sido rescatados puedan retornar a su hábitat.
Para enseñarles a comportarse como jaguares, el santuario cuenta con dos simuladores de vida silvestre: terrenos deliberadamente aislados de cualquier contacto humano que recrean lo mejor posible todas las condiciones del hábitat en que los felinos serán reintroducidos. El objetivo es que aprendan a cazar y a sobrevivir por ellos mismos. Ahora, los especialistas trabajan para reintroducir a su hábitat a otros dos jaguares y a tres pumas.
Esta es una de las 67 pistas de aterrizaje clandestinas usadas para el transporte de droga en las regiones peruanas de Ucayali, Huánuco y Pasco. Mongabay Latam y Earth Genome las detectaron usando inteligencia artificial e información satelital de fuentes oficiales. La mayoría de los aeródromos ilegales están dentro y alrededor de comunidades indígenas, reservas para pueblos en aislamiento y concesiones forestales. 31 pistas se concentran en la provincia de Atalaya, convertida en una de las más violentas de la Amazonía. Además, el análisis indica que para abrir las 67 pistas, se deforestaron al menos 46 kilómetros de bosque.
With the fall of the Assad Regime, Turkiye let loose its jihadi SNA hordes on Shebha/Tal Rifaat ,f orcing 100,000 refugees to flee again, crucified Manbij and area, and advanced on towards the anti ISIS symbol of Kobani, just across the Euphrates River.
Rojava defiant as artillery, drones strike Kobani -Turkish occupation large-scale attack on Tishreen Dam – FAILED
Convoys transporting concrete fortifications intended for the establishment of a US base arrived today (Thursday) in the northern Syrian citry of Kobani, a Kurdish militia stronghold located near the Turkish border. . Kobani has become a symbol of Kurdish resistance against the terrorist organization ISIS.
The Turkish dictator Erdogan financed, protected and trained the Al Qaeda HTS in Idlib and knew for months ahead of the planned breakout which ended up toppling the 50 year old Assad Regime.
Despite economic mayhem at home Turkey spent 2023 boosting HTS in Idlib, and especially arming the SNA, its large network of Islamic terrorist mercenary militias.
The SNA ‘head choppers’ are multiple militia left overs financed by Turkey, and originally by Arab states and the US in the Syrian civil war. These militias include ex Al Qaeda, ISIS and worse and have been settled in the Kurdish and multi ethnic homelands invaded, with western silence, and ethnically cleansed by Turkey in Afrin, Sabha, Serekineye strip, and Al Bab..
The SNA militias receive minimum wages from Turkiye and survive by looting, extortion, kidnappings and western aid.
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The resistance against the Turkey’s backed mercenaries is continuing. A YPG veteran Karim Franceschi stated: «The deployment of SDF elite units has shifted the momentum. Turkey’s backed SNA forces are in full retreat. Heavy casualties, key axes collapsing. The liberation of Manbij is now imminent.».
Turkiye has worked to train, arm and coordinate them and used them as attack dogs against the hated Rojava Revolution with its communal, horizontal organisation and women’s emancipation SNA ideology, the exact opposite of SNA ideology.
In December 2024, as the Assad regime finally fell apart. Erdogan took the opportunity to let loose his SNA mercenary terrorists to loot and destroy the Shebha enclave, which was just a giant isolated internal refugee camp of Kurdish families expelled from their homes and lands by the Turkish invasion of Afrin in 2019.
A column of Rojava SDF defenders broke through Turkish controlled territory and rescued over 100,000 people from Shehba in convoys, attacked day and night on the way and welcomed into the AANES revolution, though thousands more were, murdered, abducted or enslaved.
On 7th December, the same day that the Assad family fled Syria after 54 years in power, pro-Turkish puppets heavily attacked Manbij, symbol of the Rojava Revolution which was saved for the 3rd time from the rampaging Turkish backed SNA jihadis..
The revolutionary population of the 100k strong multicultural town were congratulated on their ongoing heroic resistance on three fronts, led by Manbij Council Defense Forces and the SDF
With the fall of the Assad Regime, Turkiye let loose its jihadi SNA hordes on Shebha/Tal Rifaat , crucified Manbij and area, and advanced on towards the anti ISIS symbol of Kobani, just across the Euphrates River. .
Street executions a SNA/ISIS/AlQaeda take Manbij city.
With Turkish/NATO drone and heavy artillery support the SNA militias began conducting heavy attacks against SDF positions near Tishreen Dam, but met strong resistance by the SDF, especially the women’s YPJ brigade and have so far failed to cross to nearby Kobani despite repeated ongoing battles and damage to the dam itself.
Meanwhile in Kobani defenders arrived from throughout Rojava following the general mobilisation call by the Democratic AANES administration, and the city again became a beehive of military and social preparation
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