June 1, 2024
What is “Red Africa”? Through an extended treatment of Kevin Ochieng Okoth’s Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Verso, 2023), Vijay Prashad and Mikaela Nhondo Erskog illuminate the potential for a reinvigorated socialist politics in Africa. In turning away from Afropessimism and Decolonial Studies, the authors catalog the on-the-ground realities at play in pan-African and Marxist social movements today.
June 1, 2024
The Myth of Black Capitalism, Earl Ofari Hutchinson reflects on the relevance of his work more than fifty years after its initial publication. Even despite the promotion of wealthy Black individuals as model capitalists and COVID recovery schemes purported to help Black entrepreneurs, “Little had changed except the desperation of countless numbers of near penniless, distressed Black small business owners.”
May 1, 2024
As dangerous trans-Atlantic crossings between Africa and Europe continue to rise, Hannah Cross examines the roots of the ongoing crisis. The discussion around migration, she notes, “overlooks the imperial role of Europe and the United States over borders, migration regimes, regional (de-)integration, and national development projects within Africa.” The solution, therefore, can only be found through genuine liberation and autonomy across the continent, rather than internationally imposed mechanisms benefitting the powerful in the Global North.
April 1, 2024
In this review of Immanuel Ness’s Migration as Economic Imperialism, Torkil Lauesen illuminates the links between the migration of labor to theories of equal exchange, which have traditionally focused on international trade. These connections, Lauesen writes, relate to transfer of labor power from the periphery to the core, and the concomitant exploitation of vulnerable workers from the Global South.
March 1, 2024
Christian Noakes is a worker and freelance writer. He received a Masters in Sociology from Georgia State University. Born out of oppressive conditions of the Black experience under white supremacy,… READ MORE
February 1, 2024
Benjamin Selwyn is a professor of international relations and international development at the University of Sussex. He is the author of The Struggle for Development (2017), The Global Development Crisis… READ MORE
January 1, 2024
Aratrika Bose is a PhD scholar in Gender Studies from CHRIST University, Bangalore, and is currently pursuing her thesis on the intersections of homosexuality and compulsory heterosexuality in modern India…. READ MORE
January 1, 2024
For my fifth-grade teacher, who handed me a book � But what could I have known–dumb�and white and 10-years-old in�that springtime of Bull Connor�and Bombingham? � That year, Mr. Shimazu… READ MORE
January 1, 2024
Oscar Feo Istúriz is a professor at the University of Carabobo and the Bolívar-Marx Institute of Advanced Studies, both in Venezuela. He was also coordinator of the health commission in… READ MORE
