Africa

Rahmane Idrissa dissects the myths and realities surrounding Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré.

Brian Ashley — The South African Communist Party’s decision to stand candidates represents a potential step in re-conquering working-class independence.

Rehad Desai — The stakes are clear: either the people take control of their resources and democracy, or imperialism and its local agents continue to drain the lifeblood of the nation.

Muzan Alneel — The brutality of the current war in Sudan is the result of decades of conflict and repression.

What’s behind the sudden surge in interest in rare earth minerals? Phil Hearse investigates.

Gillian Hart — Beneath the turmoil of Trump’s tariff blitz lies a battle between technocrats, ultranationalists and anti-imperial populists, all vying to reshape, or destroy, US global power.

Isabel Lourenço — This year marks 50 years since Morocco’s illegal occupation of Western Sahara: a colonial occupation sustained by a repressive military apparatus, a deliberate policy of demographic substitution, and a web of international complicity.

Raquel Varela and Roberto della Santa provide insight into the workings of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution, recognising it as the culmination of a number of processes, most significantly, the anticolonial uprisings that were shaking the Portuguese empire.

Baba Aye — Working-class people and youths of Nigeria have waged struggles of great significance over the last twenty-five years.

Will Shoki — Africa today stands at a crossroads, caught between internal crises, shifting global power dynamics, and the slow unraveling of the post-liberation political order.

Phil A Neel — Asia’s ascent and the gradual decline of the wealthiest countries’ investments in Africa do not represent the decay of US hegemony, but instead its strengthening through the agglomeration of new, subimperial power centers.

Rehad Desai — A potted history of Mozambique’s ruling party is required to help fully grasp why the country is unravelling, creating an uprising of discontent.