• Basil Abia

Peter Obi's campaign for president points to new possibilities for a politics that represents Nigeria's poor and working classes.

• P. Anyang’ Nyong’o

Africa's political liberation and economic emancipation can't be one-country affairs, but pan-African combined with international solidarity.

• Pablo Pyrluka

The challenge presented by Argentina: What is the best way to deal with global fiscal pressures in a local context of high expectations and public demands?

• Sabrina Fernandes

Lula's challenge in Brazil: To be successful with proposed reforms, he’d need to take back the anti-systemic appeal stolen by the far-right.

• Edwin F. Ackerman

Mexico’s president has a mandate for radical change, but this change must be negotiated within a context of limits produced by the neoliberal period itself.

• René Rojas

While Chileans have defeated the post-authoritarian neoliberal regime, they face major obstacles on the road to a post-neoliberal social democracy.

• Hilary Goodfriend

Xiomara Castro’s leftist government must create capacity for self-determination in a state vulnerable to US pressure and constructed to serve monopoly capital.

• Camila Osorio Avendano

The left's win in Colombia signals that after more than six decades of war, people just want to live with dignity and in peace.

• Chérif Keïta

There is a remarkable connection between Mali and South Africa, dating back to the liberation struggle, and actively encouraged by the author’s work.

• Yunxiang Gao

Yunxiang Gao’s new book takes a fresh look at connected lives of African American and Chinese leftist activists, artists and intellectuals after World War II.

• Nigel Gibson

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has highlighted the narrowness of the crude anti-imperialist positions that are silent about the actual invasion of an independent country.

• Andile Zulu

Approaching local elections, beyond its spectacles of defiance and never-ending episodes of controversy, what do the politics of the Economic Freedom Fighters have to offer?

• Niall Reddy

Assuming today’s socioeconomic crisis benefits the Left is folly. That will only happen if we have the political vision to make class the fault line of social polarization, and for that we need to face the challenge of constructing a new party.

• William Shoki

Scholars Archie Mafeje and Cedric Robinson challenged Eurocentrism. Their ideas are becoming more widely known. They're the focus of AIAC Talk this week.

• Danê Jaheem Sosaba

The new film about Brazilian revolutionary Carlos Marighella is one dimensional. It should not distract from Marighella's legacy.

• Baba Aye

On the second anniversary of Nigeria’s African Action Congress party, it is time to take stock of its track record and political prospects.

• Omolade Adunbi

The last 20 years of liberal democracy in Nigeria have been marred by crises. The next election should be the Left's target.

• Benjamin Fogel
• Sean Jacobs

South African politics urgently needs an injection of electoral energy from the left, that speaks in a language that resonates with voters, rejects chauvinism and embraces democracy.

• William Shoki

The emphasis on identity and difference act to temper the radical potential of South Africa's youth. They need an education on class politics.

• Sa’eed Husaini

Omoyele Sowore was the presidential hope of Nigeria's more active left. He fared abysmally. What next for progressive electoral politics in Nigeria?