tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-366674152024-03-16T20:51:15.469+02:00AFRICA'S SOCIALIST BANNERCommentary and analysis to persuade people to become socialist and to act for themselves, organizing democratically and without leaders, to bring about a world of common ownership and free access. We are solely concerned with building a movement of socialists for socialism. We are not reformists with a programme of policies to patch up capitalism.African Socialisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12479354621859167598noreply@blogger.comBlogger4143125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36667415.post-20175090836188487822024-03-15T19:24:00.002+02:002024-03-15T19:24:49.915+02:00Chad: No such thing as a free lunch? The republic of Chad is a landlocked country in Africa. From 1900 to 1960 it was a French colony. Following independence civil wars and dictatorship followed. Idriss Déby ruled as President until his demise in 2021 when General Mahamat Déby, his son, took power. Over a third of Chad’s eighteen million population live in extreme poverty.World Bank Date has only 11.3 per cent of hallblithehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103491398870023498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36667415.post-89509573135484111722024-03-13T19:31:00.010+02:002024-03-13T19:31:54.438+02:00DRC-Rwanda crisis This is taken from The Conversation.‘In the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),South African, Burundian and Tanzanian troops are fighting against the Rwandan army, which has deployed in support of the rebellion by the March 23 Movement, or M23.Soldiers from South Africa and Burundi, as well as from the United Nations peacekeeping mission, have recently suffered casualties. In hallblithehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103491398870023498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36667415.post-6626020500369329152024-03-08T15:14:00.001+02:002024-03-09T07:34:46.439+02:00Nigerian women Further to this post from SOYMB, 5 March, comes news that women in Nigeria are being targetted to become more capitalism friendly and contribute toward the profits of Nigerian capitalists.‘The World Bank, formed at the 1944 Breton Woods Conference is meanwhile concerned that women's rights and gender equality need to progress at a faster pace. Lest anyone think that this organisation’s hallblithehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103491398870023498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36667415.post-36299312041844641662024-02-28T19:59:00.000+02:002024-02-28T19:59:38.882+02:00Africa's digital divideWhatever one thinks about the content of the World Wide Web, it’s a valid opinion to think that not all the content available on the Internet is of a positive nature, nevertheless the Internet is an important resource of modern liafe. In comparison to the rest of the world, Africa, as a whole, appears to be at at a disadvantage in being able to use the assets that the Internet provideshallblithehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103491398870023498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36667415.post-30975149952080272212024-02-20T17:50:00.002+02:002024-02-20T17:50:34.969+02:00Foul play in Guinea It is reported that, ‘Guinea’s military rulers have dissolved the West African nation’s government, which had been in power since July 2022. The presidency’s spokesman, General Amara Camara, announced the decision on 19 February without providing any specific reasons.The presidential decree, read by General Camara in a pre-recorded video published on social media, said a new government hallblithehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103491398870023498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36667415.post-67452259780864842762024-02-14T13:17:00.005+02:002024-02-14T13:17:47.475+02:00Senegal :Anti - Democracy protests The Socialist Party of Great Britain and its Companion Parties within the World Socialist Movement has always aimed for the transition from Capitalism to Socialism to occur through the democratic process and not through violent revolution.It is considered that are seventy two countries in the world which qualify as democracies.https://worldpopulationreview.com/hallblithehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103491398870023498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36667415.post-10525719259323244062024-01-17T13:02:00.002+02:002024-01-17T13:02:25.152+02:00 South Africa: Who’s exploiting who? A total of 28-million South African citizens, or 47% of the population, rely on social grants. [welfare payments].ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa hailed the governing party’s efforts to “tackle poverty head on”.He was referring to the monthly R350 social relief of distress grant government introduced in 2020 which about 10-million people receive and other social grants such as old age pensionhallblithehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103491398870023498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36667415.post-20454374450091375802024-01-16T19:49:00.001+02:002024-01-16T19:49:22.541+02:00 Another Suez Crisis The Suez Canal was completed in 1869. It cut the journey distance from Britain to the Arabian sea by five thousand five hundred miles. To paraphrase the People’s Front of Judea, what has capitalism ever done for us?, it has fulfilled its historic function to lead to the means for a socialist system of society to replace it. Whilst of being of benefit to Capitalism through the hallblithehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103491398870023498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36667415.post-84908291174305524362024-01-12T19:27:00.005+02:002024-01-12T19:27:54.725+02:00Cameroon: IMF make poor poorer.Twenty per cent of the population of Cameroon live in extreme poverty.https://worldpoverty.io/https://worldpoverty.io/‘President Paul Biya announced in his annual end-of-year address that prices of petroleum products in the national market will certainly increase.The leader said on Sunday (Dec. 31st) that despite a cut, the subsidy remained a heavy burden on public coffers.It cost the state hallblithehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103491398870023498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36667415.post-11174646148994085732024-01-04T08:09:00.001+02:002024-01-04T08:09:47.590+02:00Reformist Band Aids v. the Socialist Scapel Indrajit Samarajiva says of Band Aid’s charity anthem “It’s not just that these lyrics haven’t aged well. They were never good at all.'' With which we can agree, unlike his superficial critique: “I mean, this is all wrong. It does snow in Africa, although not a lot.”In a short article titled Band aids for poverty ( July 2003) we observed:'Almost 20 years ago Bob hallblithehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103491398870023498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36667415.post-20196304425630894102023-11-02T19:12:00.003+02:002023-11-02T19:12:37.747+02:00Kenya's misfortune Kenya was a British colony from 1888 to 1962.The king and queen of Britain are enjoying a holiday known as a royal tour in Kenya. Spoiler alert; no apologies for Britain’s previous exploitation of that country were made.Does SOYMB include readers who are royalists, i.e. those who, in the twenty first century, support the UK capitalist state, and are happy to be known as hallblithehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103491398870023498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36667415.post-56934264178727995142023-10-31T14:34:00.001+02:002023-10-31T14:34:40.169+02:00Nigeria victim of fraud shock Was Nigeria the victim of a 419 fraud, or advance fee fraud?We’re shocked, shocked we tell you to find that an African country appears to may have been the victim of a scam. Our faith in capitalist enterprises seeming not to be models of virtue, rectitude and probity in their dealings with capitalist states has been deeply shaken. To take advantage of a government like that goes far hallblithehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103491398870023498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36667415.post-18780407326013221062023-10-28T20:08:00.002+02:002023-10-28T20:08:45.238+02:00Workers have no country 'Recalling the struggle of South Africans and the ruling ANC against an apartheid state that was defeated only three decades ago, Ramaphosa said in a video shared on his X account on October 14, that South Africa has always pledged solidarity with the Palestinian cause.'Foreign Minister Pandor made a similar sttement last year: ‘As South Africans, we find similarities in our past withhallblithehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103491398870023498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36667415.post-54313613339753989582023-10-20T12:00:00.001+02:002023-10-20T12:00:16.022+02:00Republic of Congo higher fuel costs due to IMF ‘In the Republic of Congo, diesel prices have risen by 25 percent in October, marking another increase following a hike in January. Similarly, since July, the pump price of gasoline has also surged by 25 percent.Authorities in Brazzaville attribute the soaring fuel prices to recommendations made by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2019 under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF), whichhallblithehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103491398870023498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36667415.post-91942314198338125852023-10-19T12:18:00.001+02:002023-10-19T12:18:37.303+02:00Guinea-Bissau: Unpaid bill punishment. Electricity turned off. It’s reported that ‘The lights went out in Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau, after a Turkish energy company cut off power supplies over an unpaid debt of $17 million, Economy Minister Suleimane Seidi announced on 17 October.According to the official, the state-owned Electricity and Water Company of Guinea-BisIt’s reported that ‘The lights went out in Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissauhallblithehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103491398870023498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36667415.post-59614028662996447972023-10-18T18:48:00.001+02:002023-10-18T18:48:11.904+02:00Sudan. 'Humanitarian nightmare' happening Whilst the world is focused on the horrors in the major conflagrations presently taking place in the world which are affecting thousands of innocent children and adults, there are other ongoing frightful events taking place.‘The armed conflict in Sudan between the military and rival paramilitary groups has killed up to 9,000 people and forced over 5.6 million others to flee their homes in hallblithehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103491398870023498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36667415.post-68337656613506549462023-09-24T20:22:00.000+02:002023-09-24T20:22:35.566+02:00Rainbow nation: dream v. reality Once upon a time‘ A democratic state . . . industry and trade shall be controlled to assist the well being of the people . . the land re-divided amongst those who work it. . . The police force and army. . . shall be the helpers and protectors of the people. .. . . a national minimum wage . . . the right to be decently housed . . . free medical care . . . Slums shall be demolished . .. ‘ (hallblithehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103491398870023498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36667415.post-21131849455512493002023-08-02T13:08:00.002+02:002023-08-02T13:08:54.404+02:00Nigeria: Capitalism NOT a 'glorious dawn'.1000 Nigerian Naira equals £1.03‘Nigerian President Bola Tinubu addressed the nation in an evening broadcast on Monday, acknowledging the economic hardship caused by the removal of a subsidy on petrol.He however said the country would save "trillions of naira" yearly by scrapping the subsidy and that the money would be used to implement reforms that would help boost the economy.Ending the hallblithehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103491398870023498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36667415.post-37806547281739422242023-07-20T15:22:00.001+02:002023-07-20T15:22:12.038+02:00Kenya protests soaring cost of living Kenyans are experiencing the effects of both capitalism and the futility of trusting in ‘leaders’. The soaring cost of living has led to protests with extreme violence resulting, according to the United Nations human Rights Office, in protesters deaths and injuries. To protect its power, and those of the asset owning class, the State will always initially resort to those members of the hallblithehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103491398870023498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36667415.post-48984383688824743792023-07-20T00:34:00.001+02:002023-07-20T00:34:19.170+02:00Namibia & poverty Namibia is a a country in Southern Africa. Its population is over two million eight hundred thousand. Twenty six per cent of its population live in extreme poverty. The most deprivation occurs in the the rural areas.https://worldpoverty.io/maA report in the Namibian would appear to indicate that almost half of Namibia’s population are living in poverty or extreme hallblithehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103491398870023498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36667415.post-13388834615661598602023-07-16T14:52:00.000+02:002023-07-16T14:52:15.967+02:00Nigeria: Food shortage/state of energency Nigerians experienced an almost twenty five per cent increase in their food bills in May.Following on here from a post on poverty in Nigeria, 5 July, it is now reported that:‘A state of emergency has been declared in Nigeria as a result of food shortages and surging prices, with the country’s government announcing a range of measures to address the crisis.On Thursday, it was announced that hallblithehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103491398870023498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36667415.post-48654464860663864532023-07-05T15:16:00.000+02:002023-07-05T15:16:07.005+02:00Poverty in Nigeria The World Poverty Clock is a tool used to track poverty progress worldwide.‘Nigeria has the awful distinction of being the world capital of poverty, with 71 million people living in extreme poverty today (World Poverty Clock, 2023) and a total of 133 million people classed as multidimensionally poor according to National Bureau of Statistics data.About 828 million people will wake up every hallblithehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103491398870023498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36667415.post-64237277626753521102023-06-08T18:48:00.000+02:002023-06-08T18:48:36.498+02:00'ARRESTING PUTIN WOULD BE RISKING WAR WITH SA AND RUSSIA, SAYS NTSHAVHENI' 'Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said South Africa had no intention of arresting Russian President Vladimir Putin after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against him' Eyewitness News, 8 June).Were any of SA's first three presidents put on trial for supporting another dictator, Mugabe of neighboring Zimbabwe? Mbeki during his tenure hallblithehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103491398870023498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36667415.post-49733853976838257922023-03-22T08:37:00.004+02:002023-03-22T08:37:47.378+02:00Death to Homosexuals MPs in Uganda have passed a controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill, which would make homosexual acts punishable by death.All but two of the 389 legislators voted for the hardline anti-homosexuality bill.Fox Odoi-Oywelowo and Paul Kwizera Bucyana, opposed the new legislation.Ugandan MPs pass bill imposing death penalty for homosexuality | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardianajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36667415.post-58798716423381395462023-03-15T10:27:00.004+02:002023-03-15T10:28:51.747+02:00Rwanda and UK Complicity M23 rebels are perpetrating summary killings and rapes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – and they are doing it with the backing of the regime of Rwanda’s president, Paul Kagame. That was the conclusion of Amnesty International.A recent 235-page UN report on the DRC includes aerial footage as well as photographic and video evidence, showing how Rwanda has been ajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.com0