Africa

Shawn Hattingh — South Africa faces a staggering unemployment crisis. In the face of this, some community-based movements are experimenting with projects such as communes.

Hossam el-Hamalawy — Today, when it comes to political repression in Egypt, Hosni Mubarak is a human rights activist compared to Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.

Ethan Woolf argues that the UN’s endorsement of Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara legitimises occupation and sacrifices Saharawi self-determination for geopolitical convenience.

We, the undersigned workers and members of academic and cultural institutions, condemn the United Arab Emirates' role in creating, funding, and prolonging the counter-revolutionary war in Sudan.

Jonathan Lefèvre and Tony Busselen examine how Sudan’s civil war is rooted in imperial exploitation, foreign interference, and competing regional powers.

Gilbert Achcar — The movement of the Moroccan youth is but the latest manifestation of the regional crisis revealed by the 2011 Arab Spring.

William Shoki — The moral clarity of the youth uprising is not in doubt. But clarity alone is not power. A movement capable of naming injustice must also be capable of transforming it.

Husam Mahjoub — Sudan today is not only a battlefield between two militarized factions. It is a graveyard of regional and international hypocrisy and a case study in subimperialism.

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.