Reflecting on Hard Work and Success: A New Year’s Message from the Director-General LLCO.org This past year has been marked by an assortment of setbacks and victories. However, this New Year we are focusing on one accomplishment of which we should all be particularly proud. In the first months of 2018 we collectively set a …
The Leading Light on African Liberation Day 2018 Jacob Brown, edited by Kwame Twumasi LLCO.org LLCO Ghana at the African Liberation Day program on May 25, 2018: Look at this World Map detailing the Human Development index in 2018 (1): See where are the lowest development indicators? Africa and the Indian subcontinent! This is what …
What We Strive For LLCO.org 1. We want Communism. We want a world without poverty, exploitation, oppression, ecological destruction, or political borders that divide people. We want a world where production is managed collectively and scientifically to provide equal benefit to all humans while rehabilitating our natural ecosystems. We want a global society where the …
Corrupt Politicians, and the need for Youth Leadership Leading Light Comrades in West Africa LLCO.org Politicians in a neocolonialist false “democracy” are voted to power as a result of the promises they make to the electorate. Most promise to help develop their communities so that their people will have decent lives. The masses rightfully expect …
Review of Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Part 3/3 LLCO.org Read part 1/3 here. Read part 2/3 here. “Capital was constantly in motion from the metropole to some part of the dependencies, from colonies to other colonies (via the metropoles), from one metropole to another, and from colony to metropole. But because of the …
Review of Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Part 2/3 LLCO.org Part 1/3: https://llco.org/review-of-walter-rodneys-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa-part-13/ Part 3/3: https://llco.org/review-of-walter-rodneys-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa-part-33/ In order to understand why Africa is so impoverished and powerless today, one has to examine the history of power and economy. Development, underdevelopment and power are intertwined. Africa today is a product of its past, just as …
Review of Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Part 1/3 LLCO.org Part 2/3: https://llco.org/review-of-walter-rodneys-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa-part-23/ Part 3/3: https://llco.org/review-of-walter-rodneys-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa-part-33/ Walter Rodney was a writer and activist who was influential in the anti-imperialist, the Black Power, and socialist movements across the Black and African worlds. In 1980, Rodney was assassinated in his homeland of Guyana by a car …
Reparations demanded for eco-destruction of Africa LLCO.org At a forum in Burkina Faso’s capitol Ouagadougou, African Union officials have demanded billions of dollars in compensation from the countries of the First World. The AU officials demand reparations for the damage done to their continent by climate change, pollution, and ecological disasters caused by the First …
Africa in Crisis: Hundreds of Millions Lack Access to Water, Suffer from “Sick Water,” and Food Shortages LLCO.org Africa, especially West and Central Africa, is in crisis. According to a recent UNICEF report, more than 155 million, roughly 40 percent of the population in West and Central Africa, lack access to potable water. This region …
[Again on] The High Cost of Living in the Third World LLCO.org It is considered an intuitively self-evident idea among most people in the developed nations, whether they are intellectuals or otherwise, that the difference in income between those nations and the underdeveloped ones can be explained away by noting that the costs of living …