🚨ROAPE Volume 52 Issue 185 is out now! Revisiting cracks and crises in capitalism's edifice Issue Editor: Reginald Cline-Cole https://t.co/uEtomRXllz

Can strikes save Nigerian universities ? Chinenye Cynthia Izuchukwu looks at this question by examining the strikes through Marxist and conflict theory lenses, drawing from lecturers’ voices and highlighting the erosion of public education https://t.co/7mv3YjzHtg

Emmanuella Otubuah writes a solidarity letter to Mumia Abu-Jamal — Black Power activist, journalist & icon of the anti-death penalty movement — whose courage after 40+ years behind bars still inspires a new generation. https://t.co/pAwbbQa7T9

Day 2 #OSAE Tunis conf #Development, War and Agriculture in the Arab Iranian Region Rethinking the Agrarian Question panel with among others @maxajl @OSAE_MARSAD @ROAPEjournal

Emmanuella Otubuah writes a solidarity letter to Mumia Abu-Jamal — Black Power activist, journalist & icon of the anti-death penalty movement — whose courage after 40+ years behind bars still inspires a new generation. https://t.co/pAwbbQa7T9

Congrats to Zohran Mamdani, The first African mayor of New York City!!! Now let's build the resistance against Wallstreet, the #Oligarchy and the political establishment. #Socialism #NYC

Shaun Milton reviews Saima Ndahangwapo’s new book Defending the Investment about uranium mining in Namibia, arguing it makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the history of decolonisation in Africa. https://t.co/qwkZYQxavi

Marion Ouma reviews International Political Economy and the Global South: Perspectives from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East as a timely volume challenging the dominance of Western narratives. https://t.co/xZqyf3DEib

In this thought-provoking blog based on his new book Adam Mayer argues that African Military Marxism influenced the emergence of entirely new political systems in Africa, challenging the notion that Western democracy is the ultimate political model.

ROAPE’s Pascal Bianchini interviews #Malagasy historian Harilala Ranjatohery on Madagascar’s Gen Z revolt: the Youth-led protest for water and electricity grew into a nationwide movement for systemic change, backed by trade unions, that toppled #Rajoelina https://t.co/2HTfDXRSlg

https://t.co/chKZM8fLx9 Fikir Haile highlights ways the current government of Ethiopia differs with its predecessor in their engagement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and explains how the previous government resisted the neoliberal pressure.

Sacolo Bafanabakhe outlines the historical processes of political, economic & social failure in #Eswatini that have led the Communist Party of #Swaziland to declare 2025 the Year of Mass Mobilisation for the Insurrectionary Seizure of Power. https://t.co/9iO4TLhn7b

“Should Burkinabè militarily be considered a necessary ingredient of African revolution, or merely a parenthesis in the long quest for popular sovereignty understood as mass autonomy?” Highly recommended interview with Lazare Ki-Zerbo on “wartime panafricanisms” and much else.

For the 38th anniversary of Thomas #Sankara’s murder, Amber Murrey speaks with Burkinabè geographer Lazare Ki-Zerbo, who explains how a “political geography of insubordination” shapes Burkina Faso’s historical struggles and today's wartime Pan-Africanism.

For the 38th anniversary of Thomas #Sankara’s murder, Amber Murrey speaks with Burkinabè geographer Lazare Ki-Zerbo, who explains how a “political geography of insubordination” shapes Burkina Faso’s historical struggles and today's wartime Pan-Africanism.

In 1980s Burkina Faso, #ThomasSankara dared to imagine a different Africa — one built on equality & freedom from imperialism. Yet his #socialism project proved too weak to last as Jean-Claude Kongo and Leo Zeilig discuss in this piece: https://t.co/1tmDwxykM1

This week, we remember Thomas Sankara — 38 years since his assassination, yet his anti-imperialist pan-african vision for justice burns brighter than ever. Read: “The international forces arrayed against Sankara were too much.” #ThomasSankara #BurkinaFaso

In her review of "Community Policing in Nigeria", Chinenye Cynthia Izuchukwu sheds light on how Nigeria’s police has always only served the ruling class. She says the book offers a needed model of community-policing for #Nigerians reeling from #EndSARS https://t.co/Zig7qudSbt

In her review of "Community Policing in Nigeria", Chinenye Cynthia Izuchukwu sheds light on how Nigeria’s police has always only served the ruling class. She says the book offers a needed model of community-policing for #Nigerians reeling from #EndSARS https://t.co/Zig7qudSbt

“Between the workers and the bureaucrats, Nyerere hesitated before he ultimately stood with the latter. We lost the workers.” In #ROAPE185, Issa Shivji reflects (in convo with Liu Ye) on the hopes and contradictions of Ujamaa and African #socialisms. https://t.co/JRJzSfU1FW