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High school mobilization: popular neighborhoods at the forefront

Ulysses Rabaté8 October 2026

Ulysse Rabaté, a political science researcher at the University of Paris-8 and co-founder of the Quidam association for popular education, considers that high school mobilization already represents a tipping point in contemporary French political life. Let’s say it right away: the movement of high school students that has crossed the country in recent days is impressive. Its […]

SPAIN UPDATE: Mass mobilisations for housing rights over the weekend. A clamour for a general strike. Sanchez to call early election.

Jorge Martin8 October 2026

[This is a follow up of the previous report about the explosion of anger after the eviction of 87 year old Maricarmen in Madrid, and the political consequences, which you can read here: https://www.facebook.com/jorge.martin.1917/posts/pfbid0gycZWVVqkNrKrTduaZCJN7yDGNMHW7WA9daGSVc6sBsPyNMEkraXJyM9aMYZyCcWl ] Over the weekend there have been mass demonstrations across Spain, the largest one being in Madrid on October 3, with […]

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 […]

Rage as Refusal: What punk can teach SA about resisting polite authoritarianism

Ali Ridha Khan6 November 2025

From Rage Against the Machine’s Hall of Fame speech to Bob Vylan, Hyphen and Mudrat, a new grammar of protest is traveling the globe. South Africa—where struggle soundtracks have long carried politics—should listen for its beat again. South Africa knows the sound of refusal. It’s in the toyi-toyi, the chant, the ululation at the picket […]

Metamorphosis of the revolutionary intellectual

Admin28 October 2025

Without repeating the cliché, let me sincerely say that that this is a great opportunity for me to converse with my fellow intellectuals in honour of Harold Wolpe. May I thank Wolpe posthumously for giving us an excuse for self-reflection.

Behind the Youth Revolt

Roland Ngam22 October 2025

The number of mostly spontaneous mass protests in Africa has grown exponentially since the start of the 2010s and yet, it still has not registered in many decisionmakers’ minds that a sea change is afoot in our political economy. Africa has the youngest population in the world. A rapid acceleration of quality service delivery is required to make Africans unite behind some kind of social contract and yet, nowhere is there any sign of the urgency that is required. This explains the growing anger that wee see in the population.

Don’t Call It a Gen-Z Revolution

William Shoki20 October 2025

Across continents, a familiar figure has returned to the streets. In Nepal, young protesters brought down the government after years of corruption and stagnation. In Morocco, the leaderless collective “Gen Z 212” filled city squares with chants against state extravagance and everyday neglect. In Madagascar, students and unemployed workers facing water shortages and rolling blackouts forced the president to dissolve his cabinet. The world’s media quickly offered a tidy headline: Gen Z is rising.

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