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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. 

In January 2024, Makerere University in Kampala hosted a two-day conference to reflect on 40 years of neoliberalism in Uganda. Writing on the conference, Serunkuma reminds us that, 40 years on, Uganda remains an epicentre of neoliberalism - or what he terms the 'new colonialism' in Africa. Consequently, neoliberalism and its many ills must remain at the forefront of scholarly and activist discussion and analysis.

Pascal Bianchini interviews Ahmed Salem El Moctar, also known as Cheddad, who was a leader of the Mauritanian student movement in the early 1970s, as well as an underground activist with the Kadihines movement. Cheddad recounts his activism in Mauritania during the late 1960s and 1970s, providing insight into the period's school movements, strikes, and the fight against neocolonialism. He offers insight into the complexity of Mauritanian post-independence politics, the significance of the Kadihine movement, and the National Democratic Movement.

The connection between Israel and apartheid South Africa has been repeated and disputed since October last year, but this is not new argues Graham Harrison. The comparison of Israel to apartheid was debated in the 1970s over a denunciation of Israel’s removals, settlements, walls and border-posts crisscrossing the occupied territories. Harrison teases out some of the similarities, and important differences, in the relationship between two states, and two chosen people.

In his long-read, Husam Osman Mahjoub delves into the UAE and Saudi Arabia's influence in Sudan, emphasizing its impact on the war and democratic aspirations. He outlines the intricate relationships and interventions in Sudanese affairs, highlighting the pivotal roles played by both countries. Mahjoub discusses historical events and diplomatic maneuvers that shaped the region and its conflicts, shedding light on the complex dynamics. His analysis underscores the urgent need to address the UAE's involvement in supporting the RSF militia to halt the ongoing war in Sudan.

Last year, for the first time on roape.net, members of ROAPE’s Editorial Group offered some of our favourite radical reads from 2022, new and old, fiction and non-fiction. Here again, in what we hope will beome an annual offering, Editorial Group members provide a list of books that have served to educate, shock, move, and inspire over the last 12 months, in our 2023 offering of ROAPE's best reads for African radicals. Five of the ten books listed are available as free downloads.

South African human rights activist and academic, Salim Vally, discusses the Israel-Palestine conflict, asserting that it originates from 75 years of Israeli settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing. He calls for African support for Palestine against Israel's military-industrial complex, backed by Western imperialism. Vally also criticizes the shifting positions of African countries on the conflict and explores the parallels between the Israeli regime and South African Apartheid.