Abdel Khaliq Mahjoub

Luxemburg to Mehring: You "saved everything of value which still remained of the once splendid culture of the bourgeoisie...Every line from your pen has taught our workers that socialism is not a bread and butter problem, but a cultural movement, a great and proud world-ideology"

"Spiritual creativeness demands freedom. The very purpose of communism is to subject nature to technique and technique to plan... Its highest goal is to free finally and once for all the creative forces of mankind from all pressure, limitation and humiliating dependence." Trotsky

@Joe__Bassey ***Mwalimu Nyerere famously retorted…….

If he has such powers why doesn’t he send his ‘missiles’ the way of imperialists who are exploiting Africa, carrying out massacres, including using child forced labour shackling the continent in slavery? Maluku Nyerere famously retorted, when told a Mghanga possesses ‘mti’ power to summon victims to appear on his magical water basin & harm them to clients orders: ‘Kama unauwezo huo, aniitie John Vorster na Ian Smith, niwatoboe macho’ - if he is endowed with such powers ask him to summon Ian Smith & John Vorster I poke their eyes blind’ Paraphrased….. The rest is history, the Mghanga didn’t pitch with his water basin; Ian Smith, John Vorster & their heirs were taken out of power by a combination of worker struggles & armed guerrilla warfare!

In Uganda 🇺🇬, a man was charged for practicing witchcraft. During a court session, he allegedly summoned a swarm of bees, leading to widespread panic and the temporary suspension of proceedings last week.

The catch: can capital in the imperialist epoch, be apportioned cleanly by nation state? My contention, France harvests where it didn’t sow, capital of non-colonial capitalist nation states accrue surplus nonetheless: US is apportioned the lion’s share, Germany, largest European economy likewise the biggest share accruing to Europe, it is in that context that Scandinavian countries get their share; reason Germany, even if we excluded their vehemence to Russia are the most strident when it comes to AES kicking out France: akin to the African wild dog they hunt in packs, share prey in à competitive but in accord with the ways of the wild: benefits accrue in accord with each nation capital’s sinews!

Some days I wonder if European countries like Norway can just call their extended cousins in France and say: “hey guys, it is okay to leave Africa alone. We have no colonies, no military bases in Africa, no puppet regimes to maintain, no currencies to control we are not broke. If we can do it, you can do it too.”

To William Ruto imperialist powers are a coveted bridegroom, licence to escape the drudgery & poverty of urban slums & forsaken villages for the lucky belle who can just fit the magical Cinderella shoe; Ruto is willing to undergo excruciating surgery to modify his feet to fit the magical shoe, be whisked away from Africa, the chosen belle. Some may argue with Hague cases implicating him on crimes against humanity still active, hanging over him like anecdotal Damocles sword: murder, disappearances, ejection of peasants from their land, room for manoeuvre is limited; that the Willy imperialists are pulling him by the nose. But again as an archetypal bourgeoisie of relative recent ascent from petty bourgeoisie; all about him is lumpen proletariat: I do you in, I fail you do me in, no opening for human solidarity, it is rule of the jungle, longest talons, sharpest teeth wins: did you notice how the imperialists upscaled him to Africa’s G7 representative, supplanting Cyril Ramaphosa; who must have quipped: ‘ Pakacha likivuja nafuu kwa mchukuzi’ - À leaking basket, brings relief to the porter’ - The African ruling national bourgeoisie is getting exposed for what it is, as capitalist contradictions intensify in the capitalist major centres, cascading to its periphery dependence’s with vengeance; we shall see if they will survive the sea voyage in salt waters infested with ‘wanyama wakali, tena wale wa hatari: papa na nyangumi…’ (credit Tanzanian musicians, paraphrased).

When the imperialists looked for a military to use in Haiti, they came to Ruto and he gave them one. When the United States came for Kenya’s health data, Ruto didn’t hesitate: he signed and agreed. When the British army molested, killed, and maltreated Kenyan women while destroying several hectares of land during training, Ruto did nothing. When the French wanted a foothold in Kenya through a five-year renewable partnership covering maritime security and intelligence sharing, he gave them the go-ahead and immunity from Kenyan law, all under the pretense of military cooperation. Ruto is a Western puppet who is not after the interests of the people but those of his masters and his own selfish interests. With time, many Kenyans will realize this.

After the Berlin Conference of 1884, where Europeans arbitrarily drew boundaries across Africa and allocated our lands to themselves, they unleashed armies of “missionaries” with tons of bibles and mirrors as well as khaki-clad and gun-touting Rambos who numbed our brains, distracted lots of our ancestors with stories of salvation, mirrors and after life as they butchered our people, grabbed our lands, rare earths and turned us into their slaves. Ultimately, we ended up holding glossy pamphlets, MoUs and wearing their suits like mascots in this picture, while the European holds, owns and and controls our lives, countries, lands, and wealth. Shame on you, @WilliamsRuto, and all the African mascots gathered in Nairobi for the Africa Backwards Summit!

Talk of ‘wanawake wamefunga vibwebwe’, @Farida_N has effectively taken her head cloth & tied it on her waist, a declaration of war. Bottom line, African youth & working people are on their own: African leaders on the main are compromised, their jaws busy chewing juice bones to notice dire straits Africa is at: Somalia, Sudan, DRC others harvesting bitter fruits of unequal nation relations, capitalism unraveling in real time: reversal of social programs, youth unemployment, death on high seas trying to access surplus of their labour that accrued to Europe; those few who question the status quo are eliminated or are forever kept busy fighting fifth columns: terrorists, economic sabotage.

The nation that arranged the poisoning of Toussaint Louverture of St Domingue ( Haïti) for demanding the end of slavery and the liberation of his people in 1803; that assassinated Ruben Um Nyobe, the Cameroonian independence leader hunted down and killed in 1958 by French forces before independence was even formally granted, that had Felix Moumie of Cameroon, poisoned in Geneva by his intelligence in 1960, that orchestrated the assassination of Sylvanus Olympio of Togo by soldiers of his colonial army in 1963, that armed and protected the man who murdered Thomas Sankara in 1987 and sheltered him for decades, that supported the destabilisation that led to the overthrow and death of Modibo Keita of Mali, that printed millions of fake currency to destroy the Guinean Franc after 8 failed assassination attempts at Sekou Toure because he stood his grounds and demanded independence, that stood behind the forces that removed and destroyed Patrice Lumumba, coordinating with Belgium and the CIA to ensure Congo’s most visionary independence leader did not survive his own government, that massacred at least 100,000 Malagasy people, 250,000 Cameroonians, 1.2 million Algerians between 1955 and 1962 simply because they demanded their independence. The president of that nation, less than half a century after committing such atrocities stood before a room full of African heads of state in 2026 and declared itself the true Pan-Africanist. And not one of them stood up.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Not one said: you cannot use that word: not here, not with that history on this continent. Not a single one had the dignity to say what any person with an elementary knowledge of what Pan-Africanism means and what France has done to those who practiced it would have said immediately and without hesitation. It is the equivalent of a Nazi leader standing before a Jewish assembly and announcing that Germany is the true defender of the Jewish people. There are words that carry such historical mass that no political convenience, no diplomatic ambition, no funding arrangement justifies allowing them to be stolen and worn by those who spent generations trying to destroy what those words represent; Pan-Africanism is one of those words. And it was surrendered in that room without a fight, by men who were supposed to be there representing us. France is not even a formidable power anymore. It cannot impose its will on its own European neighbourhood. Its economy is strained, its global influence is null, its African military presence has been expelled. It intimidates no one who has chosen not to be intimidated. And yet these boneless, prideless, senseless humans we call Africa leaders sat and applauded this humiliation ritual. What breaks me is knowing that every generation, without fail, produces its quota of leaders who will trade the dignity of their people for a photograph with a western head of state, for a seat at a table that was never set for them. They dress it up as pragmatism and call it diplomacy. But it is the oldest and most contemptible transaction in the postcolonial playbook: the surrender of collective dignity for personal visibility. And these are days, I will not pretend otherwise, where I genuinely wonder if we will ever be free.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Not because the struggle is not real or the people are not capable, but because freedom requires leaders at the decisive moment, and every decisive moment seems to find us represented by spineless, glory-hunting, photograph-chasing men who would sell the graves of their own predecessors for a handshake with those that tried to erase their people. Every generation inherits the fight for freedom but also produces the cowards who auction it.

🚨 China may have just discovered a natural particle accelerator more powerful than anything humans have ever built. Scientists detected gamma rays above 100 TRILLION electron-volts coming from deep inside the Milky Way. That’s roughly 100x more energetic than particles produced by the Large Hadron Collider. The source? A violent binary star system where a neutron star or black hole appears to be accelerating protons to unimaginable energies. Meaning nature may already be running cosmic-scale physics experiments far beyond our technology. The deeper implication: The universe may contain hidden “PeVatrons” — natural engines capable of generating the highest-energy cosmic rays in existence. And we still barely understand how they work. Question: If space itself is creating particle accelerators beyond human capability… what physics are we still missing? Follow for more future science before it hits mainstream.

@Farida_N The Young Elsyee Hyena had gathered so many Old Forest and Savanna African Antelopes in Nairobi, including wobbling crabs 🦀 😫. Because the old Antelopes are daft, the young clever Hyena has secured a meals for itself and it's cubs after the Sahelian Antelopes drove it away.

@Farida_N This big fat win-win lie..you host an army that has a pattern of abuse and a colonial agenda, including documented abuse on children and you grant them full immunity, where's the reciprocity? These puppets do not care about the citizens.

Macron is more Pan African than the burgeoning youthful African population, that cares least, is not beholden to imperialism’s Berlin Conference borders? ‘Ukistaajabu ya Musa utayaona ya Firauni’ -Thunderstruck by prophet Moses’s exodus predicaments, behold the Pharaoh’s- Recolonisation of Africa, touted by oligarchy representatives of imperialism: infamous American mercenary warlord, Erik Prince; US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio aren’t as far fetched as cursory analysis will suggest. Today, Kenya is prostrating, bending backwards to accommodate a declining imperial power on retreat Africa ambitions; tomorrow the same class of ruling African national bourgeoisie, clueless, spineless will surrender without firing a shot to an expedition of adventurers, offer their people to join the expedition as cannon fodder to conquer & enslave recalcitrant Africa of the youth bulge. The only force that is capable of stopping the barbarians at the gate, is an independently organised proletariat, armed with Marxian perspective by its vanguard party; steadfastly, with exceptional heroism holding fort Africa from the marauding barbarians. Failure, the future is bleak!

It is quite satisfying to watch the antelope loudly proclaim its friendship with the leopard. But the entire savanna knows, that this friendship has never existed anywhere but in the mind of the predator searching for a more comfortable way to feed, and that of a prey so foolish it has mistaken the beauty of those spots for something other than the last thing it will ever see.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​.

Rulers & ruled aren’t one & the same: bar proletarian democracy, the twain shall never meet! Kenyans deserve empathy: a country that set in motion Africa’s revolt against imperial domination, firing the first shots at a then omnipotent imperial power, an empire where the sun never set, all without an iota of international solidarity! Kenya finding itself straddled by Africa’s most unapologetic, overt lackey of imperialism, William Ruto ; is living through a nightmare!

Kenyans owe Africa an Apology

Please someone tell me how the hell did we even get there? How did Macron get Ruto to agree to organizing the France-Afrique summit? When I say most African leaders, sorry dealers are sellouts, this is what I mean. Pfff

While the US was at war with Native Americans, they killed all their animals to starve them to death, and they died of starvation. They gave $5 for every Native American head brought in, including children's heads. Official institutions and buildings were filled with Native American heads; hills were made of human heads. Yet, they couldn't subdue the Native Americans. Saying they would negotiate and withdraw, they gave blankets as a gesture of goodwill. Because the blankets were contaminated with infectious diseases, nearly 70 million Native Americans, young, children, elderly, and pregnant women, died from infectious diseases. They deported the remaining Native Americans to Canada, and only apologized as a state (I think in 2010), that's all. Scalping is also not something Native Americans do. They deceived people with cowboy movies for years. When the US talks about the Armenian genocide, please remind them of this atrocity. #brutality #cruel #genocide

Macron has the audacity to call himself and France "the true panafricanists." This is the same France that clung to colonial control for decades, installed puppet regimes, exploited resources through the CFA franc system, maintained military bases across the Sahel, and treated African countries as its backyard. After being humiliatingly kicked out of Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and others for neo-colonial plunder, now Macron is in Kenya smiling and signing secret new deals. Real Pan-Africanism is African-led, for African benefit. Not a French president lecturing us while pushing updated colonial arrangements. Africa does not need self-proclaimed "panafricanists" from Paris. We need leaders who put their own people first. France is not Pan-African. It never was.

@ErikSchreiber5 Ndumakuwili…. Lula’s type inevitably finds itself in the grip of a vice with no where to turn…

Lula's recent lovefest with Trump reveals all his former criticisms of the fascist to have been nothing but hot air. Lula is legitimizing criminal American wars and auctioning Brazil's natural resources off to the highest bidder. #lulabrasilfeliz #Trump wsws.org/en/articles/20…

THE DANGER CANNOT BE UNDERSTATED! READ THE WSWS ON HOW TO FIGHT! --- Trump’s “America First” Counterterrorism Strategy: A blueprint for dictatorship - World Socialist Web Site wsws.org/en/articles/20… ... actual armed organizations such as ISIS and al-Qaeda are placed in the same category as those who oppose fascism and advance left-wing, socialist or anarchist political views. The document mentions “left-wing” terrorism, extremism, radicals or threats repeatedly, while making no reference to “right-wing” or fascist terrorism. The word “fascist” appears only in the term “anti-fascists.” This is the language of political proscription. The document’s promise that “counterterrorism operations will be executed apolitically” is immediately contradicted by its own content, which defines “violent left-wing extremists” as one of the three principal threats facing the United States. The political character of the document is underscored by the role of Sebastian Gorka, Trump’s deputy assistant and senior director for counterterrorism. Gorka, born in Britain to Hungarian parents, served in the British Territorial Army from 1990 to 1993 and later moved to Hungary, where he became involved in right-wing nationalist politics. In 2007, he helped found the New Democratic Coalition, a Hungarian nationalist party formed with former members of Jobbik, an openly antisemitic and neo-fascist organization.

"There is nothing more improbable, impossible, and fantastic than a revolution the hour before it breaks out, and there is nothing simpler, more natural, and self-evident than a revolution after it has fought its first battle and won its first victory." Rosa Luxemburg, 1905