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Maurice Bishop and the New Jewel Movement projected a North-South relationship outside the bonds of global neocolonialism

Maurice Bishop and the New Jewel Movement projected a North-South relationship outside the bonds of global neocolonialism
PV October 14, 2021
By Owen Schalk  nearly ten years later  look at me here analysing  still distraught and debating  sympathising synthesising  regretting and remembering  and time  just passing  “Nearly Ten Years Later (For Grenada)” by Merle [...]
Posted in WorldTagged Anti-imperialism, Colonialism, Grenada, Maurice Bishop

Going for Gold: Neocolonialism and Canadian mining in Africa

Going for Gold: Neocolonialism and Canadian mining in Africa
PV September 6, 2021
By Owen Schalk  Much of West Africa continues to be dominated by the mechanisms of global neocolonialism.  This neocolonialism is political (see the French hand in the murder of Burkinabé president Thomas Sankara, or the American role in the coup [...]
Posted in Canada, WorldTagged Africa, Canadian Foreign Policy, Imperialism, Mining

“Be Fascinated”: On the legacy of Robert Fisk

“Be Fascinated”: On the legacy of Robert Fisk
PV December 9, 2020
By Owen Schalk  I first read Robert Fisk’s Pity the Nation in the summer of 2017. I read it while working an unsurprisingly drab office job, the demands of which were so tedious that I often waited giddily at my desk for the next fifteen-minute [...]
Posted in CultureTagged International Solidarity, Progressive journalism, Robert Fisk

Norman Bethune: forgotten in Canada but more relevant than ever

Norman Bethune: forgotten in Canada but more relevant than ever
PV November 12, 2020
By Owen Schalk Henry Norman Bethune was an accomplished surgeon, a communist internationalist and a forgotten hero of Canadian history. As a member of the Communist Party of Canada he fought with anti-fascist forces in Spain and later volunteered [...]
Posted in CanadaTagged Anti-fascism, Anti-imperialism, Healthcare, International Solidarity, Norman Bethune

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