In this short excerpt from the conclusion to his recently published book, Military Marxism: Africa’s Contribution to Revolutionary Theory, 1957-2023, Adam Mayer urges the importance of returning to and learning from Africa's Military Marxists. According to Mayer, Marxist analysis that disregards the central role of armed violence to national liberation and social emancipation is ill advised, self-absorbed and detached from the lived realities of struggle and resistance on the continent, both historically and today.

In this review of Adam Hanieh's recent book, Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market, Amina Adebisi Odofin draws its connections to the Nigeria Delta, Palestine, and the global system of exploitation. The violence of extraction, Odofin argues, is not limited to oil fields or ecological degradation. The violence of extraction extends to the erasure of entire futures, including the future of life itself.

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.

Ludo De Witte, author of The Assassination of Lumumba  reviews Stuart Reid's recently published book The Lumumba Plot, which has been heavily promoted in the UK and the United States. De Witte argues that although Stuart Reid, the editor-in-chief of Foreign Affairs, provides some new information on the dynamics of this complex crisis, the real dynamics and internal coherence of the Congolese crisis remain hidden.

ROAPE’s Ray Bush reviews a major new volume on the politics, practice and legacy of Lenin. In a highly original volume, the editors, Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichorn and Patrick Anderson, have assembled contributions including love letters, fiction and political treatises which affirm the significance of Lenin’s contribution to understanding and engaging in revolutionary moments. Bush commends a breathtaking array of contributions each animated by the desire to undermine the horrors of militarised, genocidal late capitalism.