Liberia and China

Deported To Liberia, Again

Natalia Cintra & Tosin Durodola | Africa Is A Country | 21st October 2026

Liberia has agreed to take in over a thousand US deportees, many of whom are not Liberian and have legal protection from removal to their home countries. History is repeating itself: the state of Liberia began in the 19C as a project of the American Colonization Society, founded 1816, under which freed and free-born black people were deported from the US or illegal slave ships against their will (1,500 words)

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The Most Successful Political Party

Paul Mason | LitHub | 21st October 2026

Truly "communist" or not, the Communist Party of China has one hundred million members and the aim of "running the strongest state on earth by 2049". If it succeeds, the Party will write the history of the times we are currently living through. This is just one of many reasons "we should stop treating the history of communism as a finished episode, without relevance to the choices facing us today" (1,300 words)