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Israel, as a settler colony, perceives Palestine as ‘empty land’, empty of people, culture, history and a future. Busani Ngcaweni argues that Palestinians are denied an identity and have become dis-membered, without a home, state or nation. There are striking similarities, Ngcaweni explains, between Israel’s ideology of racial subjugation by a ‘God-chosen people’ and apartheid South Africa’s belief in racial and religious superiority over an inferior black race.

Since its establishment in 1974, ROAPE has persistently opposed all forms of colonisation and imperialism, fighting for the liberation of oppressed people. Recently, the organization has expressed its support for the Palestinian struggle against Israeli oppression, aligning with Nelson Mandela's statement that freedom is incomplete without the freedom of Palestinians. ROAPE denounces the ongoing violence in Gaza, encourages participation in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and calls for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire.

Rama Salla Dieng explains that the current genocide in Palestine is a feminist and reproductive justice issue. The ultimate goal of Israel - and the Western powers that support this settler colonial and Apartheid state - is to render impossible the social and societal reproduction of Palestinians, and eventually to lead them to their physical death.

Yusuf Serunkuma writes that Israeli’s occupation and murder of Palestinians in Gaza today is the British in Kenya, India, and Zimbabwe, Germany in Namibia, the French in Algeria, and the Americans in Vietnam. Notions such a democracy, or the so-called Universal Declaration of Human Rights, have been exposed, once again, as a sham and a lie, revealing nothing but western self-interest–which captures neither our realty nor aspirations.

ROAPE stands in solidarity with Palestinian people as they struggle for freedom, justice and equality. As a journal that is committed to liberation of colonised people and social justice, and with our historical analysis of apartheid in South Africa and continued levels of post-colonial oppression throughout Africa, we understand the tactics of terror and apartheid that the Israel state deploys to intimidate, maim, and kill Palestinians under occupation and within Israel itself. 

ROAPE's Ray Bush introduces Volume 51 Issue 181 of the journal, a special 50th anniversary issue on imperialism and Africa. The role of imperialism in undermining African sovereignty and independence has been a recurrent theme in ROAPE since the journal's first issue editorial back in 1974. Here, Bush interrogates what imperialism is, how it may have changed over time, and with what consequences.

Dismantling Green Colonialism has received much critical acclaim since its publication with Pluto Press in October 2023. Here, while acknowledging the usefulness of such a volume in the current climate and highlighting several must-read chapters, Max Ajl sees a missed opportunity in how the book is framed by its co-editors, Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell. Shorn of a broader anti-imperialist politics, among other issues, Ajl argues that the edited collection loses its political edge and is unable to help address the problems it identifies.

After ten years working on the Review of African Political Economy’s website, Leo Zeilig reflects on the struggles, history and analysis that has been published on the platform. The website has proclaimed loudly for a radical agenda on the continent and has been resolute in supporting struggles of communities and working people fighting for justice and liberation.  As he steps away, Leo shares his reflections on ROAPE and the website.

 This article by Navid Farnia delves into the ongoing struggle for national liberation on the African continent in the context of deepening relations with China and the challenges posed to the western-dominated world order by multipolarity.

This article by Farwa Sial examines the West's new development strategy towards Africa, which mirrors the "white elephants" of the 1970s with its focus on expensive and unproductive infrastructure projects, as an effort to counter the Belt and Road Initiative and the continent’s growing ties with China.