Spear staff

Colonized people are 100 times more likely to die in California, the world’s fifth largest economy, than in Oceania where the mean Gross Domestic Product ranks 183rd globally. Out of California’s population of 39.5 million, slightly below the Oceania population of 42.67 million, 3,700 have died from COVID-19. The COVID-19 death toll in the Pacific Islands is 121 lives.

BISSAU (Xinhua)—As of May 7, 2020, Guinea-Bissau reported 89 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the country's total number of confirmed cases to 564, Tumane Balde, spokesperson of the Interministerial Commission of COVID-19 Prevention and Control, announced.

“The latest overall COVID-19 mortality rate for Black Americans is 2.4 times as high as the rate for Whites and 2.2 times as high as the rate for Asians and Latinos,” a new study released on May 20 by the APM Research Lab revealed.

This COVID-19 crisis has done more than any other previous crisis to expose the uselessness of African neocolonial governments.

Editor's Note: The Burning Spear newspaper online is publishing this economic development plan from the comrades of the African People’s Socialist Party in Azania (South Africa) led by Azania (South Africa) Party Chair Tafarie Mugeri. The Azania-based comrades are building Thuthukani, a project of the Party’s mass organization, the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) in the townships where colonized and impoverished African workers are forced to live on our own stolen land.

“As millions of civilians in conflict-scarred nations teeter on the brink of starvation, famine is a very real and dangerous possibility,” World Food Project (WFP) chief David Beasley told the United Nations Security Council, according to the UN News on April 21.

While the world is caught in a dervish of COVID-9 pandemania, the U.S. has used the first four months of this year to administer more airstrikes in Somalia than it did during the entire presidency of Barack Obama.

“I’m happy to report you stayed classy, San Diego.”  That is how San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer addressed the community as local beaches and parks reopened on April 27.  That class, however, was San Diego’s white ruling class. 

“Are you trying to kill us?” This is the question raised by Demetrius Young, a city commissioner in Albany, GA, the center of the COVID-19 outbreak. The state of Georgia has begun to ease its lockdowns and allow some businesses to open up as of April 24.