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Being Against Capitalism Isn’t Enough

Mike Beggs/ Ben Burgis/Bhaskar Sunkara8 October 2026

Socialists need more than a critique of capitalism. We need a concrete account of how a socialist economy could work — and make ordinary people’s lives better. Adapted from The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World by Mike Beggs, Ben Burgis, and Bhaskar Sunkara (Verso, 2026). Get a copy of the book with free […]

EURIPIDES, WOMEN AND SLAVERY: GENDER TRANSGRESSION IN ANCIENT GREECE

Jonathan Nancy6 October 2026

Jonathan Neale writes: We start with a theatre, and two moments of astonishing gender transgression. One happened in a theatre on a hillside in the center of Athens on a spring day in late March of 431 BCE. The second happened there sixteen years later, in March of 415 BCE. Both took place as the audience […]

The afterlives of Biko: Remembering Mbongeni Baninzi

Ashwin Desai1 October 2026

But they/They would have Me/They would haveYou/Believe/That Steve Biko is Dead/You and I…We know better. – Millard Arnold On September 25, 1977, Steve Biko was buried. Beaten to death by the apartheid state. Spawning a new language of struggle and cajoling new subjectivities into being, Biko’s Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) influenced a generation. What happened […]

Be Vigilant

Vashna Jagarnath17 September 2026

What the Murder of Women Reveals About the World We Have Made Eight women’s bodies have now been found in Ekurhuleni, and the police have told women to ‘be vigilant’. Women keep returning to those words because they are an assault on the value of our personhood. We hardly need to be taught vigilance. Most […]

The Biko Inquest: ‘We carry our history with us’

Ashwin Desai11 September 2026

THE ROAD FROM LIBERATION TO DISILLUSIONMENT Reflecting on detention during apartheid and Steve Biko’s enduring influence, Ashwin Desai connects the past to anxieties about corruption, political radicalism and South Africa’s democratic future. ‘Our pains will petrify when our gestures no longer make sense. But our tears, brother, who will take them on himself?’ – (Edmond […]

Lessons of 1976: ‘Be united to face the common enemy’

Noor Nieftagodien10 July 2026

On 30 June 2026, a few hundred people marched through Soweto as part of the broader campaign of xenophobia that in recent weeks has swept across some parts of the country. In the same month, the country marked the 50th anniversary of the historic 1976 uprising, when tens of thousands of Black students nationally mobilised against […]

Western Hemisphere: A History of the United States Written by War

Eric Toussaint13 April 2026

As the United States and Israel launched, starting on February 28, 2026, a new large-scale military aggression against Iran and Lebanon, while continuing the genocide in Gaza against the Palestinian people and the annexation of the West Bank, it is important to analyze, from a historical perspective, the policy of the United States in the […]

Zionism, anti-Semitism and eugenics

Terry Bell31 March 2026

The conflation of the religio-nationalist ideology of Zionism not only with Judaism and the nation state of Israel, but also with antisemitism, continues to be widely promoted. Yet the terminology and the manner of its use grew out of the pseudoscientific racism that flourished in the 19th Century. This came in response to the humanist […]

On ‘wartime Pan-Africanisms’ and insurgent geographies – An interview with Lazare Ki-Zerbo

ROAPE22 October 2025

Burkina Faso’s streets and classrooms have long been laboratories of revolt. From the 1916 Bani-Volta anti-colonial war to the 2014 uprising that toppled Blaise Compaoré, Burkinabè politics pulse between civic defiance and military power.

Revolutionary anti-Zionism: a discussion with Moshe

Vashti Fox12 September 2025

Moshe Machover is the only surviving founding member of the revolutionary anti-Zionist organisation Matzpen. Matzpen influenced a generation of both Israeli and Palestinian opponents of Israel, and leaves an important theoretical legacy for socialists today. Vashti Fox interviewed Machover about his life, the history of Matzpen and its theoretical insights regarding Zionism and colonisation.