US Blocks Angola’s Membership of the United Nations Exactly fifty years ago, on 23 June 1976 the United Sates (US) for the fifteenth time vetoed Angola’s application for membership of…
Remembering Walter Rodney 46 Year On On 13 June 1980, a 38-year-old prominent Marxist scholar, activist and author, Walter Rodney, was killed by a state-planted bomb in Georgetown, Guyana. His…
Fidel Castro: We Must Defend Our Country – Denouncing US Bay of Pigs Aggression On 19 April 1961, the Bay of Pigs Invasion became a failed military landing operation on…
The 1966 Traitorous Coup D’état in Ghana On 24 February 1966, a coup d’état occurred in Ghana, codenamed “Operation Cold Chop”, overthrowing President Kwame Nkrumah while he was visiting China…
Fidel Castro: An Act of Solidarity in Angola Exactly 65 years ago, 4 February 1961, was the beginning of the Angolan War of Independence, called the “Dia do Início da…
Angola Defeats Counter-Revolution: Lessons for South Africa “Imperialism manoeuvred to sabotage our independence to divide the country, persistently trying to disrupt the MPLA through the infiltration of agents, attempts at…
The Bureau of State Security (BOSS) vs. the Anti-Apartheid Struggle On 19 November 1970, the head of the apartheid Bureau of State Security (BOSS), General Hendrik Van Den Bergh, briefly…
Oliver Tambo: Racists Humiliated (Oliver Tambo, President of the African National Congress of South Africa, spent two weeks in the People’s Republic of Angola as a guest of the Popular…
Beginnings of the Northern Front in Angola On 7 October 1987, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) dispatched two companies totalling 200 men and women to the area between Angola’s Uige, Cuanza…
Chile’s Salvador Allende Leads the Popular Unity Coalition to Victory On 4 September 1970, Salvador Allende was elected President of Chile, as the leader of the Popular Unity Coalition. He…