Self-Determination

Modernisation Does Not Mean Capitalism

September 18, 2026 Vijay Prashad, The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Strategize! Capitalism, Global South, Modernization, Self-Determination, Socialism

In 1960, the US economist Walt Whitman Rostow published The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto. The subtitle revealed the book’s purpose. Rostow did not merely describe economic development; he offered an ideological weapon for the Cold War. All societies, he argued, travelled along the same road, beginning in ‘traditional society’, passing through the ‘preconditions for take-off’, ‘take-off’, the ‘drive to maturity’, and eventually arriving at the ‘age of high mass consumption’. At the end of this road stood the United States itself: its social, cultural, and political institutions appeared as the model for the rest of the world.

Ireland, Scotland, And Wales Independence Parties Pledge Cooperation

September 17, 2026 Ana Vracar, BreakThrough News. Strategize! Economic cooperation, Independence Parties, Self-Determination, United Kingdom (UK)

Leaders of pro-independence parties in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales met in Cardiff on Monday to sign a memorandum of understanding laying out a plan for strengthened cooperation. The document commits Sinn Féin, the Scottish National Party (SNP), and Plaid Cymru to deepen exchanges on renewable energy, economic policy, and, notably, “supporting the right of each nation to determine its own future.” “For the first time ever, people across these islands have First Ministers in Scotland, in Wales, and in the North of Ireland who are all committed to independence from the United Kingdom,” the memorandum states.

Resistance Needs No Justification

August 5, 2026 Masar Badil, Orinoco Tribune. Strategize! Colonialism, Gaza, Hamas, Palestine, Self-Determination, Sovereignty

Since Al-Aqsa Flood, a large part of the international discussion has focused on condemning the Palestinian resistance, while the Zionist settler-colonial project has largely escaped genuine scrutiny. This article poses a different question: Why is the resistance constantly expected to justify itself, while colonialism is rarely asked to justify its very existence? Through this lens, the article examines asymmetric warfare, calls for the disarmament of the resistance, the Palestinian people’s right to determine their own course, and the political and strategic impact of October 7.

Community Control DC: A People’s Platform For Self-Determination

March 13, 2026 Pan-African Community Action, Black Agenda Report. Create! Community Defense, Governance, Participatory budgeting, Self-Determination, Washington DC

The political landscape in Washington, D.C., is ever shifting. Late last year Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that she would not be seeking reelection for a fourth term, leaving a mayoral vacancy in DC for the first time in over a decade. DC Councilmembers are experiencing a shake-up with At-Large Councilmember Anita Bonds stepping away from a bid for reelection and the resignation of At-Large Council member Kenyan McDuffie, as he plans to run for mayor.. As the city inches toward an active election campaign season, Black and working class communities in D.C. hold little power over their institutions of health, education, and safety.

Cuba Has A Self-Sufficiency Plan To Combat US Strangulation Attempt

February 7, 2026 TeleSur, Orinoco Tribune. Resist! Cuba, Economic Blockade, Self-Determination, Trump Administration

The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, addressed the complex energy situation that the country is facing, resulting from the tightening of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States. At a press conference on Thursday, February 5, he noted that the country has adopted a strategy to expand the use of its own energy sources and rely less on imports. The president explained that since December 3, when the US naval blockade against Venezuela began, Cuba has not received a single drop of fuel, a situation that impacts public health, the economy, transportation, electricity generation, and the daily subsistence of the country.

Xizang’s Leap From Serfdom To Socialism With Chinese Characteristics

January 1, 2026 Arnold August, Friends of Socialist China. Educate! China, Self-Determination, Serfdom, Tibet, Xizang

“Tibet” has long been shrouded in mystery and misinformation. But the reality before 1951 was stark. Under a feudal theocracy, about 5% of the population were serf-owners, while at least 95% were serfs. I will never forget the film about a mother, a grandmother, and a small child, all born in the cowshed of a serf-owner. They lived there as the fourth generation under such conditions. After 1951, Xizang underwent significant changes, notably the rapid expansion of transportation. Yet, the event that remains most vivid for the people we spoke to is the abolition of serfdom on March 28, 1959.

Bulletin On Domestic Militarism And Repression

August 16, 2025 Karen A. Johnson, Black Alliance for Peace. Resist! Community Defense, Domestic Occupation, ICE, Self-Determination, State Repression

The strategy is clear, as well as the desperation. Domestic repression in the U.S. colonial/capitalist core is imperative to support the aggressive militarism abroad, the periphery, in the form of wars of aggression, political subversion, economic sanctions, and genocide that have become the consciously and intentionally chosen tools of a rapacious U.S. based global ruling class—a ruling class that is unable to rule in the old way. Yet, it's more than willing to blow up the world and sacrifice millions of people to maintain the predatory material basis for its white supremacist class rule. The irreconcilable contradictions of the neoliberal order that produced the dramatic swing to the right represented by the warmongering of the Obama administration and later succeeded by Donald Trump and Joe Biden, confirmed for the Black Alliance for Peace that its analysis that predicted an inevitable dependency on force and violence by the U.S. rulers domestically and globally was essentially correct.

Washington DC Wakes Up Packed With Federal Agents And National Guard

August 16, 2025 TeleSur, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Domestic Occupation, Homelessness, Self-Determination, State Repression, Washington DC

Since Wednesday night, hundreds of federal agents and National Guard members have been patrolling the streets of Washington, D.C., after President Donald Trump placed the city’s police under federal control. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) set up checkpoints in several areas of the city and increased patrols in shifts covering 24 hours a day. On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said 19 agencies were part of a task force created by Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Peruvian People Reject Neocolonial Boluarte Coup Regime

August 16, 2025 Clau O'Brien-Moscoso, Black Agenda Report. Resist! coup, Dina Boluarte, Peru, Self-Determination, US Imperialism

On July 28th, Perú celebrated its 204th anniversary of the independence of Peru from Spanish colonial rule. Inside Congress, the most unpopular president in the world, Dina Boluarte, gave a five-hour-long speech in which she claimed, among other things, to launch an array of infrastructural projects to boost the economy. The scenes outside were a vastly different world. Protestors, delegations of farmworkers and families of martyrs and victims from the south, organizations representing neighborhood unions and others gathered in the center of the city to hear the message of ousted President Pedro Castillo, from the Penal Barbadillo prison, where he is a political prisoner held under pre-trial detention since December 7, 2022.

United Kingdom Endorses Moroccan Control Of Western Sahara

August 16, 2025 Maxine Betteridge-Moes, The Canary. Educate! Morocco, Occupation, Sahrawi, Self-Determination, United Kingdom (UK), Western Sahara

In June, just weeks before home secretary Yvette Cooper proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist group, the UK government reversed longstanding policy by endorsing Morocco’s autonomy plan over Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony that has been under illegal occupation for 50 years. In a joint communique signed by foreign secretary David Lammy and his Moroccan counterpart, Nasser Bourita, the UK said the 2007 autonomy plan – which gives the indigenous Sahrawis self-governance under Moroccan sovereignty – was “the most credible, viable and pragmatic basis” to end the years-long conflict between Morocco and the Polisario Front, the political-military movement representing the Sahrawi people.

End The Colonial Occupation Of Washington D.C

August 14, 2025 Black Alliance for Peace, Popular Resistance. Resist! Colonialism, Militarization, NationalGuard, Police, Self-Determination, Trump Administration, Washington DC

President Donald Trump’s recent announcement to deploy the National Guard to Washington, DC, framed as a crackdown on crime, marks a dangerous escalation in the federal government’s militarization of one of the spaces of the Black/African internal colony. On August 11, Trump declared, “We’re taking our capital back,” while signaling an unprecedented federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department. This move, under the pretext of public safety, follows his March 2025 executive order establishing the “Safe and Beautiful” task force, led by Stephen Miller, an architect of white nationalist immigration policies. The initiative has accelerated mass surveillance, aggressive policing, and the criminalization of Black/African and working-class communities, particularly in Southeast DC.

Colombia Labels US Military Ops ‘Aggression’ In Latin America

August 11, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. Resist! Colombia, Destabilization, Drug Trafficking, Gustavo Petro, Latin America, Self-Determination, Sovereignty, US Imperialism, US Military Intervention, Venezuela

Through a message posted Sunday, August 10, on social media, Colombian President Gustavo Petro reaffirmed his strong support for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. This followed recent threats from the Trump administration against the Venezuelan government, which is trying to link Maduro with drug trafficking, and the discovery by Bolivarian authorities of arsenals of weapons belonging to terrorist groups linked to the extreme right. Petro emphatically declared that “Colombia and Venezuela are the same people, the same flag, the same history.” He emphasized that “any military operation that is not approved by our sister countries is an aggression against Latin America and the Caribbean.”

One Democratic State Campaign For Palestine

May 2, 2025 One State Campaign. Create! Israel, One Democratic State, Palestine, Self-Determination

In recent years, the idea of a single democratic state in all of historic Palestine has re-emerged as the best solution to the conflict, and it has begun to gain increasing popular support. This idea is not new; the Palestinian national liberation movement, both before and after the Nakba, embraced it, including the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), until its engagement in peace negotiations in the late 1980s, culminating in the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993. The Palestinian leadership envisioned this agreement as a transition to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the territories occupied in 1967.

Community Struggles For Self-Governance In The Global South

April 29, 2025 Shrishtee Bajpai, Resilience. Strategize! Democracy, Development, Global South, Self-Determination

Are we really free? With this seemingly straightforward yet provocative question, Vijay Dethe from Pachgaon village in the Chandrapur district of Maharashtra, India, opened several philosophical and political questions. Vijay belongs to Dalit community and works with the Gond adivasis (indigenous peoples in India) and other marginal communities of Pachgaon towards self rule and overall governance in the village. He further added “the ones who destroyed their forests, polluted their waters, are now telling us what ‘vikas’(development) is! Do they really know what ‘development’ is!?”

Thousands March For Welsh Independence; Who Can Blame Them?

April 27, 2025 The Canary. Resist! Independence, Self-Determination, United Kingdom (UK), Wales

Over 6,000 people marched through the streets of Barry on Saturday 26 April, calling for Welsh independence. The March for Independence, organised by YesCymru and AUOBCymru, brought people together from across the country in a powerful show of unity and hope for a better future. Since 2019, thousands have taken part in independence marches across Wales – in places like Caernarfon, Merthyr, Wrexham, Bangor, Swansea, Carmarthen and Cardiff – and now Barry, Wales’s largest town, has made its mark on that journey. Barry has a proud political legacy, including a key role in the Cymru Fydd movement for Welsh self-government in the 1890s. Saturday’s march built on that tradition, with a new generation taking up the call for change.

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