Mozambique

Carnation Revolution

When ‘the future was now’: Prefigurative politics and Portugal’s Carnation Revolution

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.
Africa placard rally

The state of Africa in the new world (dis)order

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.
Protestors burn a Frelimo flag. Shorn of its former radicalism, Frelimo was embroiled in one corruption scandal after another. But its continued control of the Electoral Commission has ensured that the provinces and the capital, Maputo, would stay in its hands.

The Mozambican people enter the political realm

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.
Police barricade during a demonstration on the corner of Eduardo Mondlane and Amílcar Cabral avenues in Maputo, two of the main leaders of former Portuguese African colonies´ independence. November 7th, 2024. Image © Marilio Wane.

The crisis of African liberators

Marílio Wane — As Mozambique nears 50 years of independence, its ruling party clings to power amid political turmoil, contested elections, and growing public discontent. Is this the beginning of a new struggle for liberation?
Mozambique riots

Mozambique: A new revolution, this time without revolutionaries — How rigged elections sparked a historic uprising

Michel Cahen — The largest protests in Mozambique’s history have erupted following contested October 2024 elections, marking a dramatic shift in the country’s political landscape.
Mozambique

Mozambique on the brink: Post-election crisis and youth-led uprising for change

Boaventura Monjane — Mozambique is at a critical juncture, with post-election discontent revealing deep-rooted flaws in its political system.

Portugal: 40 years after the Carnation Revolution

By Jorge Costa

Reminiscences of Nelson Mandela and the US anti-apartheid movement

Ike Nahem at the memorial for Soweto martyrs.

BRICS lessons from Mozambique

Floods in Mozambique have worsened.

By Bobby Peek

(Updated Sept. 8) Raj Patel: Food rebellion -- Mozambicans know which way the wind blows

Democracy Now! on September 8 spoke to Raj Patel about the protests in

Mozambique's `recolonisation'

Frelimo poster for its third congress in 1977.

Southern Africa: The liberation struggle continues

[The following is the editorial in the latest edition of AfricaFile's At Issue Ezine, vol. 12 (May-October 2010), which examines the development of the southern African liberation movement-led countries. It has been posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission.]

By John S. Saul

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