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Reporting on the recent ROAPE workshop, Laura Mann writes that capitalism is a moving target. In its current globalised and financialised form, capitalism has a tendency to extract value not just from labour but from the broader long-term health of host economies, making societies the world over profoundly troubled.

The Review of African Political Economy is convening a series of three workshops in Africa in the 2017-18 period to explore Structural Transformations in Africa today: interventions from the Left. The workshops will help link analysis and activism in contemporary Africa from the perspective of radical political economy; consider whether a new politics is emerging from sites of contestation in Africa and reflect on lessons which might be drawn for the continent from revolutionary historical transitions.

For roape.net Heike Becker interviews the German scholar and activist of Southern Africa Reinhart Kössler. Reinhart unpicks the frustrations of national liberation, the reproduction of the same patterns of inequality and social cleavage in the new states, Germany's colonial genocide in Namibia and solidarity and activism in Europe.

With the launch of our our new website we reflect on how the Review of African Political Economy was established in 1974. ROAPE was founded with the aim to ‘examine the roots of Africa’s present condition’ and problems such as inequality and dependency. Yet, the Review did not seek to promote scholarly research for its own sake, but instead sought to engage with the actions required for transformation.