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130 years after Adwa, 50 years after Soweto, Africa remains at a crossroads. In the face of imperialist resurgence, divisions, and the disarray among the youth, our duty is clear: to organize, reflect, and fight. June 16 will not be a mere commemoration, but a call to rebuild militant and conscious pan-African forces. Africa lacks neither courage nor memory. It needs a vision for the future. ✊🏾 @azizfall9 @asmbaraza @AfricansRising @congofriends @lenschain @ProudSocialist @TrustAfrica

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The price will first be paid by the peoples themselves: the precarization of labor, the erosion of national sovereignty, economic dependency, the extraction of strategic resources, and the weakening of social states. The primary beneficiaries will be major financial powers, multinational corporations, and oligarchic structures capable of transforming crises into instruments of accumulation and profit. The losers will be workers, countries of the Global South, popular classes, and all nations reduced to the role of consumer markets or reservoirs of raw materials. Capital does not fundamentally seek human equilibrium; it seeks perpetual expansion. And when a system can only sustain itself through the sacrifice of entire populations, the issue ceases to be merely economic — it becomes civilizational. The essential question, therefore, is that of the alternative. Should humanity accept a world in which a handful of financial centers determine the destiny of nations, or should we strive to construct a model grounded in popular sovereignty, collective control over strategic resources, social justice, and cooperation among free nations? Technological and economic progress only acquires legitimacy when it empowers peoples rather than deepening their dependence. The economy must once again become an instrument serving human development, rather than humanity serving the imperatives of capital accumulation. The challenge of our era is not simply to criticize extractive capitalism, but to rebuild political and economic structures capable of protecting populations, securing sovereignty over national wealth, and restoring human dignity to the center of development. Without such a transformation, globalization risks becoming nothing more than a faceless empire.

Elon Musk is the planet’s richest person by far, worth $839 billion as of Forbes’ annual World’s Billionaires list. He also ranks among the least philanthropic billionaires. Sure, Musk has transferred $8.5 billion of Tesla stock to his charitable foundations (1% of his net worth)—but nearly all of it is still sitting there idle. Only an estimated $500 million, or 0.06% of Musk’s vast fortune, has ever been disbursed to those in need. His lack of giving raises a question: What would our billionaires ranking look like if the world’s most generous people had never donated a dollar to charity? forbes.com/sites/mattduro…

@ngama_obed An essay of extraordinary power, thank you obed for being the next generation of Marxist revolutionary literature @AfricansRising @azizfall9 @congofriends

🔥 ESSAY 🔥 CAPITAL AGAINST THE PEOPLE Global capitalism is not a neutral system. Behind the rhetoric of democracy, development, and globalization lies a brutal reality: the plundering of African resources, the exploitation of workers, cultural domination, and the destruction of popular sovereignty. in this Marxist and pan-African political essay, I analyze the modern mechanisms of imperialism through a materialist and historical framework inspired in particular by the works of Karl Marx, Samir Amin, Frantz Fanon, Kwame Nkrumah, and Aziz Fall. Key themes: ▪️ the domination of multinational corporations; ▪️ the role of the IMF and the World Bank; ▪️ economic neocolonialism; ▪️ the exploitation of African labor; ▪️ media and ideological manipulation; ▪️ the question of African sovereignty; ▪️ class struggle in the African context; ▪️ popular and Pan-African resistance movements. This essay is also a reflection on: ✊🏾 revolutionary consciousness, ✊🏾 the emancipation of peoples, ✊🏾 African intellectual reconstruction, ✊🏾 and the need for a sovereign political project in the face of global capital. Combining geopolitical analysis, Marxist critique, and Pan-African commitment, *Capital Against the Peoples* aims to be a tool for consciousness-raising, political education, and struggle. Read the full French version: drive.google.com/file/d/12aCl_Z… Read the full English version: drive.google.com/file/d/1tLg1G0… #CapitalAgainstThePeople #PeupleNoirMagazine @congofriends @PascalMuteba @asmbaraza @africa_csc @AfricansRising @azizfall9 @ProudSocialist @sheilakamuzinzi @MutemiWaKiama @theblacklist @TiborPNagyJr @SommetLome @CedoMadubedube @SocialistGhana @partisocialiste @CommunistsKe @papasalif

Karl Marx wrote in *Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right* in 1844 that ‘religion is the opium of the people.’ When pastors become the mouthpieces of those in power and endorse constitutional changes that run counter to the interests of the people, they no longer serve God, but rather the preservation of an oppressive order. A nation dies when its altars become the spiritual offices of the regime. @AfricansRising @congofriends @sheilakamuzinzi @Judicaelle_ @KatangaCynthia @ProudSocialist @TrustAfrica @PatrickMbeko

@TiborPNagyJr This statement lays bare the full extent of Western imperialist arrogance toward the Congo. The problem is not merely that Tshisekedi has disappointed Washington; the problem is that a U.S. official considers it normal for the United States to “choose,” support, or endorse the leader of a sovereign African people. From a Marxist perspective, this confirms that the great powers never defend democracy for the masses, but rather their geostrategic and economic interests on the periphery of the global capitalist system. The Congo, rich in cobalt, copper, coltan, and other strategic resources, remains trapped in a neocolonial order where local comprador bourgeoisies often serve the interests of international capital at the expense of Congolese workers and the masses. When Thibor Nagy says “How wrong I was,” he does not regret the suffering of the Congolese people; he regrets above all that the ruling regime failed to meet American strategic expectations. This is the essence of imperialist hypocrisy: supporting regimes as long as they guarantee market stability and access to resources, then speaking of democracy or disappointment when contradictions arise. The true emancipation of the Congo will come neither from Washington, nor from Paris, nor from international financial institutions, but from a break with neocolonial dependence, from real economic sovereignty, and from a popular organization capable of regaining control of national wealth for the benefit of the working people.@azizfall9 @congofriends @PatrickMbeko @luyatu_elm @AfricansRising @MutemiWaKiama @ProudSocialist

Aziz Fall’s work stands out as a rare moment of clarity in a world searching for its bearings. Through *Memories of the Future of the Lighthouse Captive*, he does not merely recount events but deeply examines historical trajectories, colonial legacies, and contemporary illusions. What stands out most is his ability to link memory and vision: understanding the past not as a burden, but as a lever for rebuilding a sovereign future. In an African context still marked by structural dependencies, his message resonates as a call for an intellectual and political awakening.✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿 @azizfall9 @congofriends @AfricansRising @MutemiWaKiama @ProudSocialist @TrustAfrica

I see some activity under the name of AFRICA FORWARD, and as an African, I feel entitled to say a few words about the hypocrisy of this conference or forum or whatever it is… We must highlight a major ideological contradiction espoused by @EmmanuelMacron : on the one hand, he claims to break with the narratives that have historically denied Africa’s place in history; on the other, France continues to organize frameworks for cooperation where relationships remain structurally unequal. This tension reveals less a break than a reconfiguration of discourse to support the continuity of interests. The hypocrisy therefore lies not only in the words, but in the gap between political declarations and economic realities. We speak of partnership, but the material conditions still reflect a profound asymmetry. The emphasis on the diaspora and youth functions here as an ideological superstructure: it mobilizes the imagination without transforming the economic foundations that produce dependency. A dialectical reading requires us to look beyond appearances: what is presented as cooperation is in reality riddled with contradictions between class interests and between dominant and dominated nations. The real alternative does not lie in better integration into this system, but in: * the construction of self-reliant economies, * sovereign control over resources, * and a transformation of the relations of production for the benefit of the African masses. Without this, “Africa Forward” will remain a slogan, but not a project of liberation. @azizfall9 @congofriends @AfricansRising @asmbaraza @kambale @ProudSocialist @TrustAfrica @KenyaPower_Care @sheilakamuzinzi

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The noblest fight is this one, in front of a humanity without a sense of humanism these figures are lamps that we should follow. Go in peace valiant. @azizfall9 @theblacklist @theblacklist @adh_uae @AfricaSexWork @AfricansRising @UAFAfrica @Sheilaakandinda @MutemiWaKiama @TheKingCenter @congofriends

The growing tensions with Iran today remind us of a disturbing truth: the elites never pay the price in blood, but the people do. Young people sent to the front lines, civilians caught in the crossfire, nations destabilized these are the real costs of geopolitical ambitions. To the Black, Arab, African, and oppressed peoples of the world, every imperial war is an extension of a global system that has historically thrived on exploitation, chaos, and the fragmentation of sovereign nations. @congofriends @AfricaSexWork @AfricansRising @ProudSocialist @MutemiWaKiama #nomorenotrump #BlackHistoryMonth

Dubai had neither our land, nor our rivers, nor our people, but they had one decisive thing going for them: a vision of statehood. While here at home the African Union organizes speeches, others organize power, and still others organize partnerships with the great powers that murdered yesterday and fan the flames today. The alternative is clear: break with extractive economies, invest in industry, science, and sovereignty, and build states that serve their people, not foreign interests. @azizfall9 @congofriends @AfricansRising @theblacklist @MutemiWaKiama @CREAWKenya @kuminaidoo @AfricaSexWork

We are led to believe that progress begins with computer science, and I have always been against this Western education. But here in Egypt, we calculated the stars, built pyramids aligned with Orion, and practiced medicine and engineering thousands of years ago. Progress did not begin with silicon. It began with African thought. @MutemiWaKiama @azizfall9 @congofriends @AfricansRising @theblacklist @amwaafrika @sheilakamuzinzi @AfricanArchives @MutebaMPascal1

The African Union will never cease to surprise us, but in reality, nothing is surprising. @theblacklist

The African Union is not a "failed state". It is the product of an African sovereignty neutralized, domesticated and maintained under guardianship in a fundamentally imperial international order. What some call his failure is not an anomaly. This is a logical consequence. We cannot build a liberation institution on a global architecture designed to organize addiction. The African Union was born in a world where the real levers of power - financial, military, technological and monetary - remain concentrated in the hands of powers that have historically throured on the subordination of Africa. It is therefore not the African Union that is "weak". It is his margin of sovereignty that is deliberately strangled. For more than a century, the principle has remained the same: prevent the emergence of an autonomous center of African power. Yesterday by direct colonization. Today by debt, military bases, asymmetric economic agreements, extroverted monetary mechanisms and the capture of elites. The faces have changed, the logic is intact. We speak of foreign "interventions" as if they were neutral. They are not. They are instruments of control. Because a sovereign Africa disturbs. It disrupts supply chains. It disturbs the implicit racial hierarchies of the international system. It disturbs the political economy of a world that has been structured on extraction without consent. The African Union thus operates in an area where African sovereignty is symbolically tolerated but materially fought. The real scandal is therefore not his alleged impotence. The real scandal is the normalization of a system where Africa is allowed to exist as a territory, but not as a power. The question is not whether the African Union has failed. The question is whether she is allowed to succeed.Because in the current imperial order, a united, sovereign and strategically independent Africa would not be.

In Bois d'ébène, the black body is counted, weighed, chained, renamed. He has no name, no right, no voice. It is wood: a commodity, an exchange value, a line in a register. Violence is not accidental: it is necessary for the system. In The Truth about the Spell case, the channels have changed shape. The black body is no longer sold, he is suspected. He is no longer piled into the hold, but locked in a judicial story already written. Before the evidence, there is prejudice. Before the truth, there is condemnation. These two films tell one and the same historical continuity. When slavery ceased to be profitable, control changed its face. Black has never ceased to be a problem to be managed: yesterday economic, today security, judicial, media. What was once called "triangular trade" is now called racial profiling, mass incarceration, two-speed justice. The scenery evolves, but the logic remains: dehumanize to govern. Black History Month is not a folk celebration. It is an autopsy of the historical lie. It is a reminder that history has not stopped with abolition, that it has reconfigured itself. Watching Ebony Wood and The Truth about the Spell Affair is to understand that freedom has never been given, it has always been challenged, refused, taken back by force. And as long as the dark truth disturbs the established order, it will continue to be denied, criminalized, buried. But it will not disappear. @azizfall9 @AfricaMovements @KPL_Women @theblacklist @AfricansRising @AfricaSexWork @AfricanArchives @congofriends

"The transatlantic slave trade was not an exception to European values, it was their very embodiment @AfricaMovements @ThisIsAfricaTIA @AfricansRising @jmkikwete @KPL_Women @MutemiWaKiama @azizfall9 @congofriends @Fridays4FutureU @FemaleDame @sheilakamuzinzi @AfricanArchives

Born into a world that speaks to me of progress, civilization, democracy, fraternity... Yet these words were written above floating mass graves (the seas, the oceans). In the holds of slave ships, there were no human rights, no universal values, and certainly no fraternity. There were only black bodies piled up, broken, renamed ebony wood to make the crime manageable. Black History Month is not a comfortable memory but an indictment. Proof that black history has never been repaired and recognized: it has been exploited, then whitewashed. Today's inequalities are not a failure of the system, but they are the system. The accumulated interests of an ancient crime, still active, still denied. Remembering is not crying. Or observing. It is naming the guilty, refusing to forget, tearing out the truth, and finding redress. Until slavery is relativized, justice will remain confiscated. @azizfall9 @KPL_Women @AfricaMovements @amwaafrika @AfricansRising @congofriends @theblacklist @AfricanArchives @sheilakamuzinzi @MutemiWaKiama @UtuNaUzalendoKE @MapinduziKE

We do not ask white people acting in bad faith to recognize Black history as if, in order to assert ourselves, one category of humans must allow itself the luxury of being a committee or superstructure that affirms or denies, but we inform them that an essential part of human history is linked to Black people because they are the givers of knowledge. Knowledge is a slight Black civilization. To deny it is to continue symbolic violence. @AfricansRising @azizfall9 @AYICC @sheilakamuzinzi @ngoger33 @congofriends