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African Liberation Day
Kenyan socialists and leftists raise international revolutionary flags during a forum for African Liberation Day Africa Liberation Day 2026: The renewed struggle for sovereignty and liberation

African Liberation Day was commemorated across Africa by movements and organizations calling for the defense of sovereignty, stronger organizing, and deeper international solidarity.

Forging a new Pan-African path: Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré, and the Land of the Upright People

As coup attempts against the anti-imperialist government of Burkina Faso increase, Pan Africanism Today calls on progressive forces to demonstrate solidarity with the revolutions across the Sahel.

Hundreds mobilized against NATO in Dayton

Anti-imperialist organizations hold “People’s Assembly for Peace and Justice” in opposition to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly

African Liberation Day Niger African Liberation Day 2025: Unity, resistance, and revolutionary Pan-Africanism

Marches, music, panels, and declarations commemorating African Liberation Day organized by movements across the continent highlighted the spirit of resistance and unity.

Why we must reclaim African Liberation Day: A call to revolutionary Panafricanism

Congolese researcher and activist Kambale Musavuli writes on the need to reclaim the revolutionary origins and present of African Liberation Day

The Pan-African path to full liberation

African Liberation Day was established to honor the anti-colonial struggles of the African peoples and nations for independence, a fight which continues today with different contours

On African Liberation Day, there is renewed focus on struggle against capitalism and imperialism

May 25 is African Liberation Day, marking the founding of the Organization of African Unity in 1963. 60 years later, the struggle against colonialism and neo-colonialism is not complete

Unity is an imperative: reclaiming African Liberation Day, 60 years on

African Liberation Day marks the founding of the Organization of African Unity in 1963. While the idea of ‘liberation’ has since been removed in letter, and even in spirit, from official commemorations of the day, radical forces have held onto it in their fight against capitalism 

Socialists in Ghana honored liberation leader Kwame Nkrumah on Founder’s Day

The Socialist Forum of Ghana celebrated the life and achievements of Ghana’s national liberation leader Kwame Nkrumah despite ongoing efforts by the ruling elites to discredit his contributions

African Liberation Day: Historical Perspective for Pan Africanism Today

Justice Henaku discusses the political, historical, and cultural importance of African Liberation Day for the people on the African continent, of the African diaspora and across the world.

The clarion call of African Liberation Day

May 25 is celebrated as African Liberation Day, marking the formation of the Organisation of African Unity in 1963. We look at the history and legacy of the day

African Liberation Day: The enduring struggle against colonialism and capitalism

What is African liberation? How did our ancestors fight for it? How far have we come to realise it today? These are some of the questions that loom on 25 May each year for the African people, and its diaspora.