05 Dec Militant Philosopher of Third World Liberation
Trevor Ngwane reviews a new book on the life and struggles of Frantz Fanon. The book, he argues, rescues the kernel of Fanon’s thought from hostile detractors and mistaken adulators...
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04 Dec Afriques en Lutte et RoAPE
In this blog the co-ordinator and editor of Afriques en Lutte, Paul Martial, explains the background to French involvement in Africa and the origins of their radical initiatives and the...
04 Dec The Meanings of Solidarity
In this exploration of solidarity Graham Harrison seeks to go beyond the stultifying formality of cultural relativism and the universalisms of liberalism and social justice. He suggests that more...
04 Dec The Enlargement of the Global South to the EU
In this article, Vassilis Fouskas explains the current debt crisis in Greece and seeks to open a dialogue with the developing countries of the Global South (Africa, Latin America, Asia),...
03 Dec Hooks Down! Anti-Apartheid Activism and Solidarity among Maritime Unions in the United States and Australia
Workers involved in marine transport (on the waterfront and at sea) have a particularly long and deep history of interest in and solidarity with fellow workers across the proverbial seven...
02 Dec Tributes to Sam Moyo
Sam Moyo, who died in car accident in India on 21 November, was a longstanding member and contributor to ROAPE and co-founder and Executive Director of the African Institute for...
02 Dec Africa Beyond the West: BRICS and the Global South
David Simon has put together this compilation of reports from the JSAS and RoAPE First Biennial Conference, Southern Africa Beyond the West, held in Livingstone in August 2015. We have...
01 Dec Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong
Abiodun Olamosu and Andy Wynne review Africa: Why the Economist Got it Wrong. They argue that the book provides a critical review of the recent economic history of Africa. ...
01 Dec Planetary Natures Conference
In this brief report Elisa Greco looks at the main themes of the Planetary Natures conference (Binghamton University, 9-11 July 2015) that looked at how capitalism depends on appropriations of...
29 Nov Radical Agendas #1: South Africa
The first essay in our special issue on Radical Agendas in South Africa argues that the liberation struggle that culminated in 1994 and saw the emergence of a formally democratic...