Africa

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For a cultural and academic boycott of the UAE: An open letter in solidarity with the Sudanese people

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.
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Sudan: How imperialism fuels war and mass violence

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

Gilbert Achcar — The movement of the Moroccan youth is but the latest manifestation of the regional crisis revealed by the 2011 Arab Spring.
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From protest to power: Lessons from Kenya’s Gen-Z revolt

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.
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Counterrevolution, gold, and global impunity: The UAE’s subimperialism in Sudan

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.
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Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré: conservative anti-democratic despot or anti-imperialist hero?

Rahmane Idrissa dissects the myths and realities surrounding Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré.
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South Africa: Can the SACP help rebuild a democratic, militant left?

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

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.
South Sudanese people queue to get on board a boat after fleeing fighting in Sudan, 8 May 2024.

The structural roots of Sudan’s ongoing devastation

Muzan Alneel — The brutality of the current war in Sudan is the result of decades of conflict and repression.
A miner shows a bag containing coltan in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Critical minerals and genocide in the Congo

What’s behind the sudden surge in interest in rare earth minerals? Phil Hearse investigates.
Newsapaper stand in Nottinghamshire, UK April 2025.

Trump tariffs and US imperialism

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.
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Western Sahara: Colonialism, labor and imperialist complicity

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.

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