🚨ROAPE Journal, Volume 53 Issue 187 is out now! The South African Communist Party: liberation, socialism and state power in South Africa Issue Editors: Janet Cherry and Peter Lawrence 🇿🇦 mailchi.mp/913887ebf450/roap…

In this blog, Jeffrie Quarsie invites us not to dismiss the claim that France is sustaining the Jihadist terrorist insurgency in the Sahel, which it once promised and failed to suppress. He points to France’s self-interested and treacherous role in the region. roape.net/2026/06/12/is-fran…

Introducing an open access special issue on reparations & global health, @Liepollo9 argues that if the 19th century was the era of abolition & the 20th century of decolonisation (however incomplete), then the 21st century must be the era of repair. roape.net/2026/06/10/the-bod…

A reminder that ROAPE is looking for two affiliates to join the journal’s Editorial Working Group for a year starting from September 2026. Please apply by 9 June - all details are in the post! roape.net/2026/05/12/roape-e…

An incredibly powerful celebration of an amazing working class militant - David Hemson is rightly remembered alongside Biko, First, Slovo (and his politics was so much clearer and more resolute).

In this obituary, Jabu Nala-Hartley remembers leading South African labour militant, trade unionist and socialist David Hemson. ROAPE's Peter Dwyer interviewed David in 2024 - the link to those videos is also available in the post. roape.net/2026/06/03/honouri…

ROAPE's latest issue 187 is now out, a retrospective on the South African Communist Party to mark its 100th anniversary x.com/ROAPEjournal/status/20…

Shops looted, police stations ransacked, roads barricaded, buses damaged, lorries burnt. The artisanal miners of Lualaba and Haut-Katanga provinces—the cobalt and copper heartland of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)—are angry. @roapejournal mronline.org/2026/05/30/the-…

🚨ROAPE Journal, Volume 53 Issue 187 is out now! The South African Communist Party: liberation, socialism and state power in South Africa Issue Editors: Janet Cherry and Peter Lawrence 🇿🇦 mailchi.mp/913887ebf450/roap…

To mark the 100th anniversary of the South African Communist Party (SACP), Peter Lawrence and Janet Cherry introduce ROAPE’s special issue 187, which focuses on the role of the SACP in the post-liberation government led by the African National Congress. buff.ly/YNyljjj

Anew imperialism stalks the Third World. It shares an unquenchable thirst—for our labor, our land, our minerals, and our water—with the old. If colonization depended on the political strategies of divide and rule, the imperialists no longer have to rule today. Instead, they rely on local elites eager to aid their peoples’ exploitation in return for a share of the spoils, a process sanitized with the language of investments, trade deals and partnerships. Analysis: theelephant.info/opinion/202… @africasacountry @AnyangNyongo @BettyGuchu @wmnjoya @Udadisi @ROAPEjournal @m_ogada @ReginaldOduor @samar42 @jacobin @LaiborK @jonas_bens @AmbreenaManji @RadleyBen @jkobuthi @realoyungapala @johngithongo

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Fanon emphasises the importance of education, not merely for the masses, but also for leaders. He insists that political leadership must be educable, and that educators themselves must be open to being transformed in the process (Fanon [1961] 2004, 138). These passages offer a compelling, poetic glimpse into the emancipatory possibilities of a socialist future grounded in collective labour, accountability, and mutual education. Analysis: theelephant.info/analysis/20… @ROAPEjournal @CiruMuriuki @KatieSandwell @alexdpking @gndmediauk @wmnjoya @Udadisi @samar42 @ReginaldOduor @Farida_N @jacobin @jkobuthi @realoyungapala @johngithongo

Kenya and France signed 11 bilateral agreements during Macron’s visit. A nuclear energy plant. Modernized transport. Sustainable agriculture. Investing 700 million euros at Mombasa port. And the defence cooperation agreement ratified alongside the summit grants French troops operating in Kenya legal protections equivalent to diplomatic immunity. Reports indicate approximately 800 French soldiers had already arrived in Kenya before parliament formally ratified that agreement. Before any formal vote. Are we witnessing a partnership of equals, or a quiet concession of our national sovereignty?" Read Analysis: theelephant.info/reflections… @marcusolang @Sahansame93 @m_ogada @WMutunga @ObyObyerodhymb @ROAPEjournal @CiruMuriuki @KatieSandwell @alexdpking @gndmediauk @wmnjoya @Udadisi @samar42 @ReginaldOduor @samar42 @Farida_N @jacobin @jkobuthi @realoyungapala @johngithongo Photo: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg

Writing for roape.net, Espérant Mwishamali Lukobo and Sara Geenen argue narratives that portray artisanal Congolese cobalt miners as violent criminals or illegal invaders of industrial concessions make things worse, reinforcing the marginalisation and insecurity that mining communities already face. roape.net/2026/05/27/the-min…

In our latest blog, Heike Becker introduces a new edited volume for Voices of Liberation @HSRCPress, which covers the militant life and legacy of Namibian liberation leader Andimba Toivo ya Toivo (1924-2017). roape.net/2026/05/22/andimba…

Africa faces a growing crisis of resource-driven warlordism all along the Sahel line from the Atlantic to the Horn. Sudan, and the newly formed Alliance of Sahelian States (AES) have been hit particularly hard, with Nigeria not far behind. But the crises in the Greater Rift/Nile Valley Basin, taking in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Mozambique and Uganda/South Sudan have also been a long-running sore. How can the international community break this cycle of resource-driven conflict? Analysis: theelephant.info/analysis/20… @NativeLandgrab @millybabalanda @ChidiOdinkalu @roapejournal @NnimmoB @jkobuthi @realoyungapala @johngithongo Photo (Natasha Mayers / Flickr)

The politics of hunger in Africa is not a new script. It is the old ‘white man’s burden’ on repeat, tracing back to the 19th century colonial legacy of a civilising mission imposed upon non-Western peoples, a mindset famously articulated in Rudyard Kipling’s 1899 poem. It justified external intervention and resource exploitation, entrenching the belief that non-Western peoples in general, and Africans in particular, are incapable of addressing basic issues such as food security. Analysis: theelephant.info/analysis/20… @hermit_hwarang @Roapejournal @ReginaldOduor @wmnjoya @jkobuthi @realoyungapala @johngithongo

"Global South said yes. Global North said no — or said nothing, which in diplomatic language means the same thing." Priyanka Sharma on the Ghana-led UN resolution naming the transatlantic slave trade a crime against humanity. Via @ROAPEjournal