resource extraction
Miners in Georgia rally against corporate exploitation

Miners and residents of Chiatura, Georgia, are rising up against Georgian Manganese, demanding solutions to the community’s socioeconomic and environmental crisis

The Rwanda-backed M23 offensive: a battle for Congo’s resources

The Congolese people struggle for peace and sovereignty amid escalating imperialist aggression over their national resources.

The Congolese people proclaim: the Congo is not for sale!

A new dossier by the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research examines the Congolese vision for freedom in light of the unfettered extraction of the DRC’s resources

M23 attacks continue in DR Congo against refugee camps, health centers

Mineral extraction is the key to understanding the longstanding violence waged by Rwandan and Ugandan backed paramilitary groups in the DRC

ECOWAS says “no option taken off the table,” including the use of force, to address coup in Niger

As an emergency ECOWAS summit on the situation in Niger closes, ECOWAS orders the activation of its standby force

Why lithium power politics are playing out very differently in Chile and Bolivia

The people of Bolivia and Chile imagine a different kind of extraction: one that is controlled by those who live by the resources and one that does not destroy the earth.