Since August 1, tens of thousands of people have trooped out onto the streets across Nigeria in nationwide #EndBadGovernance protests against hardship and hunger.
Place: Africa
Nigel Gibson’s Preface to Frantz Fanon: Combat Breathing
The original impetus behind writing Frantz Fanon: Combat Breathing was the Black Lives Matter movement that exploded across the world after the 2020 police murder of George Floyd.
South Africa: Hanging On
Cyril Ramaphosa presides over a corrupt administration in a weak and stagnant economy and a society with extreme poverty and inequality. South African capitalism is a basket case. How long can it hang on without a massive reaction from its people?
The Struggle for Sudan
Khalid Mustafa Medani discusses the repression of the Sudanese Revolution of 2018-19, and the origins and dynamics of the devastating civil war between the two counterrevolutionary military factions.
Launch statement of Zabalaza for Socialism
Launch statement of Zabalaza for Socialism (ZASO), a new eco-socialist, feminist, and anti-racist organization in South Africa, which aims to unite the left and contribute to building a mass movement for socialism in response to the crisis and failures of capitalism in the country.
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The Surveillance State and the Color Line
John Clarke recommends Oliver Kearns’ book “The Covert Colour Line,” on racism as the foundation of US and British intelligence agencies.
A Sudanese Dream
In the face of the nightmare that Sudan is going through these days, we have a dream...
What’s Wrong with Ukraine’s Wartime Diplomacy in the Global South
In the month of the first anniversary of Russia’s illegal and brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine, president Volodymyr Zelensky held a speech at the European Parliament, where he declared Russia to be “the biggest anti-European force of the modern world”[1]. By . . .
A Revolutionary Way of Doing Politics Is Taking Shape in Sudan
Sudanese activist Muzan Alneel discusses four years of the Sudanese Revolution and the crucial role played by neighborhood Resistance Committees.
Laurent Schwartz: The Vicissitudes of an Internationalist
The first of an occasional series of articles on the lives of figures of the French left.
For more than a decade, from 1936 to 1947, Laurent Schwartz (1915-2002), the famous mathematician, was a Trotskyist in France, though that was only one . . .
Exodus to the Ukraine-Poland border: “They turn us away because we’re black!”
Many Africans fleeing the war in Ukraine claimed on social media that they had been rejected at the Polish border because of their skin color.
The IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report: A Green-Syndicalist Analysis
Since publication of its first assessment report in 1990, the IPCC has borne witness to the ever-worsening problem of anthropogenic climate disruption, together with what amounts to humanity’s suicidal failure to address the factors threatening collective destruction.
Nigeria: #EndSARS, Workers’ Power, and War
In October 2020, millions in Nigeria marched for two weeks in a revolt that shook the world. From Badagry to Yola, youth and workers rose in unity against the barbarism of police brutality and bad governance. Raising radical slogans and . . .
South Africa
“The Masses Are Not Protected”
Post-Apartheid Symptoms of Morbidity
Everyone’s focus is on trying to save what is dying in South Africa. Few are paying attention to what is struggling to be born.
Will Africa Be the Last Oil Frontier?
In the wildlife preserves of the Okavango Delta—home to 200,000 people and spanning parts of Namibia and Botswana—a Canadian oil company is drilling for oil over the fierce opposition of indigenous people, activists and environmental experts.
Reflections of an Anti-Imperialist after Ten Years of Debate
An Interview with Gilbert Achcar
What does it mean to be a left anti-imperialist today? Stephen R. Shalom interviews Gilbert Achcar.
Reflections of an Anti-Imperialist after Ten Years of Debate
What does it mean to be a left anti-imperialist today? Stephen R. Shalom interviews Gilbert Achcar.
Western Imperialism and the Role of Sub-imperialism in the Global South
An examination of the significance of BRICS countries as “sub-imperial” powers in the context of global capitalism and imperialism.
A Year of Revolt
Last year a wave of militant protests spread across North Africa and West Asia, in a sustained, historic series of popular struggles. Emma Wilde Botta reviews “A Region in Revolt: Mapping the Recent Uprisings in North Africa and West Asia” edited by Jade Saab.
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